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Not really an ask, just wanted to say thank you for your WoK liveblogs. I was emotionally all twisted up in knots while reading RoW, and wanted a break but couldn't tear my thoughts away from Stormlight, so I found your liveblogs (I've read them years ago but I'd mostly forgotten them) and your flailing about Kaladin in WoK was super cathartic. I think I can continue now without sobbing or throwing the book. (So far RoW is super good! If you intend to liveblog it, I'll totally read them!)

awww, thank you!!! that was such a fun project, and I still sometimes reread them myself and just laugh at how dramatic my reactions were! I’m so glad you enjoy them, too!

I am not sure if I’ll be liveblogging RoW. I want to, for tradition’s sake!, but with 2020 being...2020, I’m just not sure I have the time or energy. I haven’t really managed to do anything creative all year, so... I will most likely give it my best shot, but I have no idea when I’ll be starting. I’m sure I’ll post an update when/if I do!

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Megan Reads Alphabet Squadron

Anyway, the real reason I came over here was because I wanted to cross-post the newest liveblog: AlphabetSquadronMadeMeCry.Livetweet. 

PART ONE: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1143413573374230529

PART TWO: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1143402616925220864

If you read no Star Wars books in your lifetime, that’s fine, but if you ever wanted to try one and didn’t know which one: PICK THIS ONE. Alexander Freed is really good at words and he’s really good at characters and he’s REALLY good at Star Wars. This book is a fantastic exploration of survivor’s guilt and defection and control and decisions, choices and family and plans gone awry. It’s a story about pilots that just so happens to be set in the Star Wars galaxy. It’s full to the brim of heart and soul. I cried a lot. You can enjoy my tears at the links above, but be warned--as always--that there are spoilers ahead.

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Megan Reads Oathbringer

Parts 1 through uh... Last? 13? I think? can all be found on my normal blog because I forgot I have a liveblog blog.

Read Them Here!

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Oh, hey, it’s been A HOT MINUTE since I did anything over here.

I blame twitter.

ANYWAY, since the last post on here is someone asking about the rest of the Oathrbringer liveblog, I shall link to that first.

Then I’ll try to remember if I’ve missed anything else.

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Did you stop after part 7 of your Oathbringer live blog? I can't find the rest and I want to relive the rest of the book! Thanks and the first 7 sections have been great.

I mean.

Thanksgiving happened?

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Megan Reads Oathbringer (part 1)

Me: okay but I don’t remember the back half of WoR, I should really, really finish the reread before starting… Also me: okay, buuuuuuuuuuut…………….what if I just…………..start

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There are a few relevant points of information:

Tags: Megan reads OB and Oathbringer spoilers. (I’ll also have housekeepers on there, like Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive, and Oathbringer, but those first two are the important ones.)

Everything will be under a readmore.

Above the readmore will be the page numbers covered in that liveblog, so you’ll know how far I’ve gotten (and that way, if you’ve read that far you’ll be okay to read the lb).

There's…going to be a lot of swearing? I have learned that I have no control over my language when I get overly emotional and I feel like I’m going to spend a lot of this book overly emotional. I would like to apologize in advance, and while I promise to try to keep my swearing to a minimum, there might be more than a few bad words.

Shameless self-promotion for the previous two liveblogs: WoK and WoR.

I’m pretty sure that’s all the important bits. Enjoy!!

Part One encompasses pages 1-90 (subsequent parts)

Keep reading

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listen, where the fuck did the Illusive Man get all this Collector tech, I BLEW IT ALL TO TINY PIECES IN HELL AT THE END OF GAME TWO WHAT THE FUCK

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aaaaawww Jacob has a girlfriend!! It’s the Hawke science lady! that’s so cute aahh

also “I get that.” “Nah, you don’t. The Normandy is your one, true love.” 

Don’t call me out like that, Jake, please.

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omg the scientist lady is Hawke’s VA and it’s weird

she’s not allowed to be anyone except Hawke, okay.

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what is this with all my friends getting injured!?

Jacob’s gonna be okay, right???

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I’m actually genuinely curious--is that scene different for Sheps who can’t use sniper rifles?

like, a biotic Shep--can they even equip sniper rifles? Or can they equip it, they just aren’t ““trained”“? is it more of an RP thing? I actually don’t know, since I pretty much exclusively play Infiltrators. But I’m genuinely curious as to how that scene works if your Shep sucks at sniping.

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I’m sorry, ACTUALLY HIS IDEA FOR A GOOD DATE WAS TO ASK ME TO MARRY HIM AND THEN HAVE A SNIPER CONTEST TO SETTLE ONCE AND FOR ALL WHO REALLY IS THE BEST SHOT THIS FUCKING NERD

shooting beer cans off the top of the Citadel.

my one true love.

why are we like this.

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hi, yes, hello, Garrus’ idea of a good date is breaking 137 regulations telling him he can’t take me up to the very top of the Presidium so he can ask me, essentially, to marry him.

this. nerd.

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omg I have emails from EVERYONE that are all like “pls come see me next time we’re on teh citadel thx”

I guess I’ve advanced the plot enough for everyone’s next cutscene of dialogue to ping.

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me: I’m gonna read!

also me: *turns on Mass Effect*

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Listen, I love the Battle of Hoth, but this chunk of book just keeps going forever.

I swear to god, every time Luke is saying goodbye to his dudes before a space battle, it’s SO GAY. The bit with Biggs in the last book and now Han, I just….ugh. so gay.

THE MOST GAY: “The young commander began to walk away as memories of exploits shared with Han rushed to his mind. He stopped and looked back at the Falcon, and saw his friend still staring after him. As they gazed at each other for a brief moment, Chewbacca looked up and knew that each was wishing the other the best, wherever their individual fates might take them.”

THE. MOST. GAY. THING. TO EVER HAPPEN. IN STAR WARS.

GOD LOOK AT THEM

Even with Chewie there to be like “yeah, those bros...no homo-ing their best wishes through long, lingering glances.....just dudes being pals.....”

Listen, minus the incest, Han, Luke, and Leia is a really great canon ot3 and you can’t stop me from saying that.

Also gay, but now with robots!!: “Artoo whistled and tooted a good-bye, then turned to roll down the ice corridor. Waving stiffly, Threepio watched as his stout and faithful friend moved away. To an observer, it may have seemed that Threepio grew misty-eyed, but then it wasn’t the first time he had gotten a drop of oil clogged before in his optical sensors.” 

Gay robots with bad syntax: what more could you possibly want from this series?

“But above all this activity and noise a strange sound could be heard, an ominous thumping that was coming nearer…” Listen, I know I use too many commas in my writing, but would it kill them to put a comma after their conditional clause??

Oh god. Okay, here we go: 

“There must have been a dozen of them resolutely advancing through the snow, looking like creatures out of some uncharted past. But they were machines, each if them stalking like enormous ungulates on four jointed legs. Walkers!”

There is so much happening here i cant even decide where to start. Ungulates???? The exclamation point on the one word paragraph. Dinosaur and ungulate similes within two sentences of each other.

Ungulates though.

The next paragraph is even wooorseeee:

“With a shock of recognition, the officer identified the Empire’s All Terrain Armored Transports. Each machine was formidably armed with cannons placed on its foreside like the horns of some prehistoric beast. Moving like mechanized pachyderms, the walkers emitted deadly fire from their turnstile guns and cannons.”

Listen, my dudes, are they ungulates, dinosaurs, or elephants? You have to pick one.

“For a moment, Luke thought of some of the simple tactics a farm boy might employ against a wild beast.” Whatever works for you, babe.

“whoea” is not a spelling I’ve sen before, but you do you, my man.

I love that Rebel is capitalized every time. Lends authority and…idk weight? to the organizaion?

!!!! Rogue Two has a name?? His name is Zev!? Who knew…

Every time they refer to lightsabers as “laser swords” I both die a little inside and laugh uncontrollably.

“Luke dropped hard to the snow and became unconscious.” I’m not sure what it is about the phrasing of that that’s so damn amusing, but…became unconscious. Sure.

I feel like the Hoth bit of the movie takes way less time than it’s taking here in the book. Not that I’m complaining–I love the battle of Hoth–but it feels…slow. The pacing is off. And I’m wondering how much of that is because visuals are so much quicker than words…

Anyway, I’ve an essay in me about how certain stories are better suited to certain mediums, but today is not the day for that essay.

I’m...really glad that they eventually standardized that the droids are referred to by their numbers in narration and their phoenetic spellings only in dialogue. Because every time I see “See-Threepio” written out, I die a bit. It’s so ridiculous.

and by “eventually” I mean “by the time they got around to the Force Awakens novelization and not a moment sooner.” 

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OKAY, so I’ve actually been reading a lot and just storing a bunch of liveblog on my phone and then being too lazy to convert it from my phone notes to coherent liveblog, but it’s about time. Here ya go--crazy shit keeps happening on Hoth, I s2g...

Imperial Probe Droid….all caps like that….for..reasons?

Honestly you don’t have to call it a “Wampa Ice Creature” every time. One, it’s not a goddamned proper noun wtf is this capitalization and two, we got it. We understand. We know the wampa is an ice creature. You can stop reminding us.

Aaahh Ghostbi-wan Kenobi showed up to teach Luke how to force pull the lightsaber. I like it cause yaaa moar obi wan, but it sorta detracts from Luke’s awesome figure-it-out-on-his-own moment…

I loooove that the book keeps stressing that Han isn’t an “"Official”“ officer in the Rebellion, so teeechniiiically he can’t be giving people orders and stuff. He does it anyway tho…

Other peeps volunteered to go out after Luke, it wasn’t just Han. Aaahh I love that everyone in the Rebellion loves Luke. My sunshine boy. Aaaahh!!

"his plug-shaped body”

I’m genuinely curious: what shaped plug was Glut imagining here? Because I always saw R2 as more trashcan shaped than anything else…

“His internal timing mechanisms knew he had waited here a long time.”

…This is like that taller than a tall man metaphor. I suppose we can say that Donald really got the hang of emulating George’s style.

sensorsearch is not one word? Or…I guess? I…why this.

“Artoo began to operate the miniature computers inside his barrellike metal body, taking only moments to juggle numerous sets of mathematical computations, and climaxing his figurings with a series of triumphant beeps.”

Oh god okay so.... 1. computers and computations in the same sentence is overkill. 2. climaxing maybe not the word i would have gone with…

“A silent prayer, often spoken on an erst-while world called Alderaan, crept into Leia’s thoughts.” NOW I’M SAD FOREVER KTHXBYE

The surgeon droid is Too-Onebee, but his assistant is just FX-7?? Consistency is not our friend…

The probe droid has murdered like…eight people by this point. Yeah, the probe droid.

“The mammoth Imperial Star Destroyer…was larger and even more ominous than the five wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyers guarding it.”

Yeah, you meant Superstar Destroyer on that first one….

(also they are all wedge-shaped.)

In a black cloak and concealing black headgear" there he is, the bipedal dark lord of the sith…

“who loomed above him like a black-robed omnipotent god.” I mean, most gods are omnipotent, but thanks for clarifying. You haven’t told us if he’s bipedal yet though. What if he’s grown a third leg between books and you’re not telling us!?

“The Avenger, one of the Imperial armada’s wedge-like Star Destroyers, hovered like a mechanized death angel in the sea of stars outside the Hoth system.”

Let’s just appreciate everything about that sentence….

mechanized death angel in a sea of stars