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READ

I still seem to be taking a break from The Fifth Season, but I did read a book this week: Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer, which is a YA novel, adorable and suspenseful by turns, about an AI and their teenage friends. I was surprised by the ( content note ), but I really appreciated the story's deliberate and thoughtful inclusion of nonbinary characters in particular. Plus, the AI and their friends! Are all so adorable! ( I felt a particular affinity for... )

I also read Masked Ball by Waid, which is another excellent Holmes/Watson fic for the original stories, this one with a fun case to play the pair against.

Retrieved from Impossibility by phnelt is a delightful Eliot/Parker/Hardison first time AU in which Eliot is a cyborg. It is delicious.

Finally, and for me most atypically, I read something like 60k of a WIP on ( an anon meme. )

WATCHED

( Doctor Who through episode 12x05, "Fugitive of the Judoon". )

( Stumptown 1x13, "The Dex Factor". )

I've also rewatched the first two episodes of Leverage with an eye towards participating in the conversation over at the_rewatch_job, although so far I haven't actually managed the participation part, whoops. I really feel like I'm appreciating the show more the second time around, though -- I think having some familiarity with characters already helps a lot with my investment in the shenanigans.

( Cut for US politics. )

But more cheerfully, have Garden of your Mind by sandalwoodbox, a lovely Critical Role vid set to a musical remix of Mr. Rogers!