#light the fuse podcast

[yoshifan456]

Listening to the 200th episode of the Light the Fuse podcast rn and they are kinda confirming that there will be a time jump somewhere between DR or FR or in FR itself (McQ was asked about TC filming with longer hair than Ethan has in DR and his answer was "hair needs time to grow" which I find kinda hilarious actually, but also it means that the timejump will happen after his hair is shorter or maybe that he will cut his hair again, for all the trailer breakdowners out there...).

Soooo. Will we get a Benthan cozy cottage montage????

Them forcibly relaxing and drinking tea and watching old movies or listening to abandoned LPs?????

[lensinski]

the official mission impossible podcast

[twelverriver]

Ilsa Faust + being a ghost (or why I think she's still alive)

Fallout Script / Dead Reckoning Part One / Dead Reckoning Part One Soundtrack / Dead Reckoning Part One / Mission: Impossible (1996) / Light The Fuse Podcast: Interview with Christopher McQuarrie / Dead Reckoning Part One

[eldritchqueerture]

I've been told I'm actually insane for this one. Let's see if I can bring it to a close in less than two years this time.

Written with the brilliant help of @morbid248 !!

Summary:

Arthur Lester is dead. The last thing he remembers is the panicked run through the witch’s lair, with John’s voice guiding him in the darkness of the tunnels, and Yorick at his belt narrating his doom. A sharp pain in his abdomen, the blade piercing through his flesh, emerging on the other side, as blood seeps out of his body and lands in heavy droplets on the ground. John’s pained scream, calling his name. Darkness. Then he wakes in a painfully familiar place, with a familiar voice in his head. But there are still promises to keep – promises, whose weight hangs heavy on Arthur’s shoulders. Breaking Kayne’s deal threatens eternal suffering not just for him, but for everyone he’s ever loved; yet how can he find his way not only back to England, but to the right time, the right universe? In this place of wrath and tears, Arthur, and the entity within are forced to reckon with the past and with the future. Old wounds are opened, new knowledge uncovered. Will they light a fuse on the relationship with an old foe, risking everything they've worked for — or perhaps, gain an unexpected ally for the final day of judgement?

[aroaessidhe]

read in january

audio favourites

The Wild Robot Escapes - 4

Network Effect - 4.5

System Collapse - 4.5

Yoke of Stars - 4.25

The Undetectables - 4

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands - 3.5

The Thirteenth Key - 2.75

The Ballad of Perilous Graves - 4.25

Private Rites - 4

Unbecoming - 3.75

The Ten Percent Thief - 3.75

A Magical Girl Retires - 4

Green Fuse Burning - 3.75

The Stars Too Fondly - 3.75

The Wild Robot Protects - 4

Project Hail Mary - 4.25

comics/gns

Girlmode - 3.75

Influenca - 5

Glass Town - 3.75

Witch Hat Atelier vol 13 - 5

Light Carries On - 4

couple other notable medias

woe.begone podcast eps 40-something - 110

flow (the animated cat movie 🥺)

severance s2.01 (need to catch up asap but im staying at my parents)

[thistableforone]

I'm listening to the new light the fuse podcast with tom and chris and I'm absolutely struck not only on the fact that they finish each other's sentences 24/7 but mostly on the fact that they individually don't use the pronoun I when talking. It's always We and Us. chris uses I only when he's complimenting tom. and tom at a certain point talks about writing, so chris's activity. it's like they have one single mind, they spend so much time with one another the lines are blurred.

[aclickbaittitle]

Live blogging of the Podcast Jam's Pilots (Part 1):

First of all, I want to say congratulations to everyone who participated. Making a podcast is hard, making one with a time limit, through the internet, improbable but somehow possible.

1° The Ichorus Rot

I was so excited for this project and it did not dissapoint but went above. I was expecting something like the first few episodes of TMA, where Theodorus would read their findings and that would be it, but the team went ahead and produced a full-on radio play with 4 (?) voiced characters. That's incredible. I felt like I got a great introduction to each characters, and if you asked me to describe the personality of each I could. The sound design is gorgeous (i have so many questions of how they made that happened) and with the incredible soundtrack it puts you right in the setting and most importantly the mood.

It reminded me a bit of Sherlock Holmes, but with the great twist of making the detective a doctor.

There's just this one bit, I do understand the distortion as Theodore is talking into the recorder but it is a bit hard to understand (especially if you don't have headphones). This is just to say, I am asking for a transcript.

2° Beyond Repair

Oh no, doctor AIs. I really like the time they take to describe the ship, the camera/monitor details. Again I am astonished at the fact that this is again like an (radio) audio play.

What used to be canada? (What happened to canada!? Did it fell along with western civilazation, but then why is Italy still kicking?).

Oh shit, the AI has turned against them. Poor AI, I bet it is over worked.

I also really like the concept of a wellness cruiseship, because it allows a nice excuse to really get inside the characters mind.

3° The Garden of Baffling Beats

The audio is a bit low.

Uuu. Recent management change? Interesting.

Hey, give the Baseliks their own article piece, love the detail that they are shy.

Carnivorous cats!? That checks out. The journalist wants to pet them, jeje.

Also, werewolves? I love werewolves!

Really liked all the work that came in building the garden.

Aww, thanks for the shoutout.

4° World Fuse

Dont remember the name of the MC, but I too, repeat my order in my mind and then messed it up.

Aarush, thats their name. Also, Harlequeen August? (That is a statement name).

Yeah Aarush, no one trust the goverment for a good reason. So funny Queen and Aarush just started fliriting (?).

Is Queen an independent detective?

Idk if I like Indigo, but I am very intrigued by her. Aaa, candy is a lawyer. That explains things.

Wow, Queen, Aarush, stop fliritng, it is too funny.

Wait, queen is the fuse? I didnt really payed attention to the first exposition lines.

Aww, this very creepy voice is very protective, that is sweet.

I really like that most of the episode took place in a coffee/flower shop.

5° The Block

I really like the music.

Not gonna light the eq/reverb effects make it a bit difficult to understand.

Also, space, aliens, Tamareans!? Podcasting. I really like how podcasting is taboo in their culture, thats so funny.

Hey princess, stop being so harsh. You are alive arent you, dont matter if it is cartoonish.

Velma, he of the four trails and well known peneaut allergy. That is such a title, love it.

Humanoid form? They have humans!?

I really like the radio/cable format, is great to be able to jump between stories of very different moods.

I like the bear. I will watch the movie.

Ahg, re-runs. Donovan, you are the mentors of mentors.

I do hope they stick around. I did not understood half of it, but I loved it. Did i mention how good is the sound desing and the music. Amazing.

6° Schrödinger's Pledge

Oh good, water desing, its so cool. The sound design is so coool.

Better question, what is a sororety and a fraternity, and do I have those at my college? (I really hope not).

Uuu, they are childhood friends (?) Acuantainces (however you spell that word).

Love that Helen will jump in a pool just because.

Jared is like a good jock ?? Idk, but I like him.

Mentaly disturbed, such a weird way to say it. Oh shit, the ableism.

Her mom was a part of this sororety, thats so interesting.

Uuuuu, its through a line-phone that you contact the dead? So cool.

Also I really like how you could feel the Sority (?) lider walking around the room.

I am curious about how Helen's mom died. Uh, she died in the river and Helen jumps into a pool.

Oh no, poor Helen.

Oh, not her mom, ohhhh. Shes not dead...yet.

Okay, props to whoever desing this. So much water, its amazing.

Ohhh, and back to the begining, really nice circle.

Oh, toxic female friendships! Toxic female friendships!

Whoever sound-design this, please tell me your secrets.

Pagan Dupount, thats such a name. *A legacy must be paid*.

Wait, isnt Dupount also the name of the evil queen in miraculous? (Sorry).

Is Helen now going to be the Queen Bee? Jared is like "I have contacts".

As someone who loves the dark side of academia, I am in love with this. (Even if I still dont understand how fraternities work, like really, does anyone?).

7° Gavin's Window: Lost and Found

Right into the *ambience*.

"Is there a gift shop in the train station?" Asking the good question.

I really like how the sound design pulls you into the rttpg, like normally I dont listen to actual play or d&d stuff, but I think that this is a good getaway for me.

So Gavin is the GM. That is interesting.

Awww, I really like this candle story.

Uuuu, I want to know what Gavin saw. Are they human?

WAIT! POST CREDIT SCENE, POST CREDIT SCENE!!!

[sunnydaleherald]

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[cloaksandcapes]

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We designed a few things for them, including this lighter armor that lets you feel a bit more like a tank in some circumstances.

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Armor (light or medium), rare

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[yoshifan456]

MI8 trailer breakdown pt.2

Then over to the famous black turtleneck. Famous because Ethan wears it in The Shot:

You can see it is a thicker fabric than the black T-shirt and even the little stripes on the shoulder are the same as:

Which means that the Benthan moment happens on this plane (because I think it is a plane). The wall behind Ethan and Benji is the same in the second shot too:

If that is so than the person you can just about see behind Ethan (the little blob of skin colour you can see below Ethan’s chin in the second shot) probably Benji. Or Paris, because I think she is in that plane too.

This means that the Benthan headtouch is not the private moment we thought it was. Although this can still mean that Benji is dying in the headtouch (by that same knife?!!!!!!), which I do not really find a a reasonable theory, because Ethan looks too peaceful in both shots to make me believe that.

I therefore think that Ethan is leaving the group in this scene. Or at least, he is jumping out of the plane first/as the only one?:

Note that he wears the turtleneck in this shot. It is in the trailer placed right after this shot:

Which might be to mislead us into thinking Ethan is in another plane than his team because the team is flying another plane (see later) and that Ethan is in a government funded plane, OR it means that Ethan is actually in this government funded plane somewhere else in the movie and the two turtleneck-shots are not connected. This might mean that he is working together with Sloane in this movie. A sort of ‘desperate times desperate measures’ approach from the both of them.  Maybe after Ethan has convinced Sloane and the gang to ‘trust him one last time’, they work together on this one. This is actually quite feasible, considering Kittridge deflected to the Entity’s side (or Gabriel to the IMF but whaha that's never gonna happen):

So either the whole government is corrupt now or Kittridge did an Ethan and went rogue, and the government/Sloane actually needs Ethan to get the Entity and cover up the fact the Kittridge went rogue. That might be a funny reversal actually, instead of Ethan and the gang going rogue on the IMF the IMF goes rogue on Ethan and the gang (and the government).   

Returning to the Benthan moment, I think Ethan does in fact leave their group at some point because on the arctic we see a solo traveller that can be Ethan:

and a team of four that can be Grace, Degas, Paris and Benji:

Although we also see Grace alone on the icy plains, so that shot of the solo traveller could be Grace too:

Also we see the whole team except Ethan (but Benji is still alive so the Benthanmoment is very not Benji dying) in the cockpit of the same plane (note the grooves in the walls behind them) wearing warmer clothes like sweaters (note the difference between Degas’ T-shirt and Degas’ sweater in this shot and the one with the knife earlier):

The trailer suggests they are looking at the arctic because this is the shot before that:

and I tend to believe them, because the windows of this plane and the idea of the size of the insides match the ones from the grooves-walled plane.

Also, who the hell is flying that plane if they are all in the cockpit? It has to be when already in the air because it’s clothing-wise after the shot with Ethan in the hull (sorry little sidenot).

This also means that the cabin fight in in the arctic, because Degas is wearing his sweater here:

The guys from the Light the Fuse podcast suggested that this cabin is from this guy:

Who was supposed to be sent to a far away station in the arctic because someone stole the NOC-list under his watch. So that’s maybe why Ethan looks at the knife in the plane, which makes it even more clear they are going to the arctic in the plane shot.

Ok so we have discussed three outfits, let’s go to the last one: no clothing at all.

I have studied the few shots we have of the underwear fight in detail and the first thing I need to say is that Ethan has no necklace in every single other frame of this trailer, except when fighting with this nameless man. Not even in the other shot where he has no underwear because he has no necklace in this scene:

That might mean that someone else is wearing a necklace with both or one keys, or that something happened that made him decide to put it on a necklace instead of in his pocket (which, regarding what happened with pickpockets in DR, is actually a pretty logical idea). However, all the times we see the necklace with the key in the underwear fight, it is only a single key that hangs on it:

And I say hangs on it, because in the next shot, you can see two keys, but only one is hanging with the cross right side up:

The other one, is with the cross downwards, which is not how any of the keys on necklaces have worked in DR or the rest of the trailer. I think the clue could be found in this shot:

You can see the two keys again, but I don’t think they are both on the necklace, because if they were, they would have been locked together like the key was on every single frame of the rest of the trailer.

What I think happened, was that the key was broken up in two. Ethan has one on a necklace because of handwavy plot reasons (really the reason is for Ethan to have it on him even while TC could fight in his underwear without the key poking his balls), but someone else had the other half, which the goon stole. He has it in his hands while Ethan throws him against the pipe-thingie and it flies against Ethan’s chest. Which is not really the most fulfilling explanation for the one-or-two-halves-conundrum but it is the best I could come up with.

Whatever happened, I think the goon does have a half of the key or the full key in this shot:

Because that’s why he tries to crawl away from Ethan instead of attacking him. And he has his hands balled in a fist which could mean he is holding something in them. He could be having one or two halves of the key here, I can’t see if Ethan is still carrying one and don’t know if this shot is before or after the knife part. Not too sure about this part, this is mostly guessing (as if the rest isn’t, haha).

But the most interesting part of this fight (besides TC being practically naked) is that the key is definitely split in two, while it hasn’t been in the rest of the trailer. It could be that this fight is after Ethan has opened the case with the Entity, but since that is pretty much the climax of the movie (?) I don’t think that’s too likely.

The last thing I found in the trailer (as a big thing, not just small moment) is almost certainty on what Ethan is screaming in the cave.

But that will be part 3...

[thelonelyrainbowguy]

2024 READING:

❗ read before

⁉️ partially read before

❓ never read before

ETA: I'm going to add 1-5 star ratings for every book I read!

Except animorphs because there are so many they all blur together lol.

⭐️=hated it, stay away

⭐️⭐️=I'm only mildly pissed I wasted time on this

⭐️⭐️⭐️=not my cup of tea, but it's okay

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=liked it a lot! not many complaints, would recommend

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=amazing, immaculate vibes, I will talk about this book to anyone and everyone

Currently reading:

All For The Game - Nora Sakavic ❗

Finished in 2024:

Animorphs 22.5

Animorphs 24

Animorphs 25

Animorphs 26

Animorphs 27

Animorphs 28

Animorphs 29

Animorphs 30

Peter Darling - Austin Chant ❓⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree ❓⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins ❗⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lost in the Never Woods - Aiden Thomas ❓⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Music of What Happens - Bill Konigsberg ❓⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You, Me, and Our Heartstrings - Melissa See ❓️⭐️⭐️

More Than This - Patrick Ness ⁉️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Darker Shade of Magic - VE Schwab ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Gathering of Shadows - VE Schwab ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Conjuring of Light - VE Schwab ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Great Library #1 - Rachel Caine ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Great Library #2 - Rachel Caine ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Great Library #3 - Rachel Caine ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Great Library #4 - Rachel Caine ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Great Library #5 - Rachel Caine ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Everybody Has A Podcast Except You - The McElroys ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult - Maria Bamford ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pageboy - Elliott Page ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wool - Hugh Howey ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In an Absent Dream - Seanan McGuire❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Come Tumbling Down - Seanan McGuire ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Across the Green Grass Fields - Seanan McGuire❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Where the Drowned Girls Go - Seanan McGuire❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Midnight Alley - Rachel Caine ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

NeuroTribes - Steve Silberman ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Emmanuel Acho ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Woman In Me - Britney Spears ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jeannette McCurdy ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finders Keepers - Stephen King ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

End of Watch - Stephen King ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Educated - Tara Westover ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Fragile Threads of Power - VE Schwab ⁉️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

One for All - Lillie Lainoff ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pure - Julianna Baggott ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fuse - Julianna Baggott ⁉️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bravely - Maggie Stiefvater ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Shining - Stephen King ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Girls Like Girls - Hayley Kiyoko ❓️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas ❗️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - Seanan McGuire ❓️⭐⭐⭐⭐

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

At The End of Everything - Marieke Nijkamp ❓⭐⭐⭐

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Arctic Incident - Eoin Colfer ❓⭐⭐⭐

The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

Inkspell - Cornelia Funke ❓⭐⭐⭐

Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke ❓⭐⭐⭐

City of Ghosts - VE Schwab ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tunnel of Bones - VE Schwab ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bridge of Souls - VE Schwab ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Near Witch - VE Schwab ❓⭐⭐⭐

The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle ❓⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks ❗⭐⭐⭐⭐

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

Rebecca Ferguson has been a staple of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise since “Rogue Nation” and this week we talk with her about her journey with the character – including what it was like being cast and where she finds herself in “Dead Reckoning Part One.” Learn whether or not she thought Ilsa and Ethan (Tom Cruise) had ever been romantic, what it took for her to perfect sword fighting and what tips she took away from Tom as she transitioned to producing her own projects. Plus bonus interviews with Greg Tarzan Davis (31:54) and Hayley Atwell (35:03). See “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” only in theatres. Catch up on the entire "Mission: Impossible" film series on Paramount+.

[radical-sky]

Listening to the Light the Fuse podcast today and it’s honestly making me angry? Listening to TC and McQ talk about this movie and how much thought they put into it, but also at the same time how last minute and unplanned all of this was I’m so incredibly disappointed with this movie.

In Haylee Atwell’s episode she’s talking about TC and the car chase, and filming that it’s making me so frustrated because a new character didn’t deserve all of that. I don’t want a new character to steal Ethan’s screen time and ruin what should’ve been a fantastic car chase. Ethan was driving for less than a 90 seconds in this whole great big scene and it’s all just focused so much on Grace and her relationship with Ethan and I want to scream. I don’t like her one bit and this podcast is only making it worse.

They HAD a superb, wonderful, and beloved female lead we did not need her like that with Ethan. I am here for TC focused stunts and islaethan and that is all.

(and I’m also so incredibly disappointed we never got a single awesome stunt with RF and TC and HA got TWO??)

[eldritchqueerture]

Chapter 3. The Three Soldiers

just realized i shouldve called this Chapter Three Soldiers

As always big props to @morbid248 for helping me with this!

Summary:

Arthur Lester is dead. The last thing he remembers is the panicked run through the witch’s lair, with John’s voice guiding him in the darkness of the tunnels, and Yorick at his belt narrating his doom. A sharp pain in his abdomen, the blade piercing through his flesh, emerging on the other side, as blood seeps out of his body and lands in heavy droplets on the ground. John’s pained scream, calling his name. Darkness. Then he wakes in a painfully familiar place, with a familiar voice in his head. But there are still promises to keep – promises, whose weight hangs heavy on Arthur’s shoulders. Breaking Kayne’s deal threatens eternal suffering not just for him, but for everyone he’s ever loved; yet how can he find his way not only back to England, but to the right time, the right universe? In this place of wrath and tears, Arthur, and the entity within are forced to reckon with the past and with the future. Old wounds are opened, new knowledge uncovered. Will they light a fuse on the relationship with an old foe, risking everything they've worked for — or perhaps, gain an unexpected ally for the final day of judgement?

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-07-24

Back in the saddle.

Listening: I am not a huge fan of true crime, not because I find the subject distasteful but because the way people go about it grates on me as an annoying blend of unrealistic fearmongering and misinformed wannabe vigilanteism. I do however also admit that I haven't really engaged with true crime in many years, so I asked my brother to recommend his favourite true crime podcast or whatever and he pitched me on My Favourite Murder.

Starting from E1, I've been through two or three episodes. Mostly my opinions continue to hold true, every now and again one of the hosts says something that is the kind of batshit thing normal people say about crime and it blows a fuse in my head. I will stick to it long enough to form a real opinion.

Reading: Finished Seven Surrenders, on the train back from Zurich, this morning. Once again I immediately want to start the next book, I'll probably buy The Will to Battle after this posts.

The world of Terra Ignota is so engaging to read about, it's big but with a tiny cast, futuristic and archaic. It must have been so hard to pull off these reveals and ideas without them just seeming kind of stupid because on the face of it, they are.

Watching: Nothing, I've been traveling until this morning.

Making: Made a cool tomato/chickpea/coconut curry based on Adam Ragusea's recipe, modified for scale, what I have available and my tastes, which included use canned chickpeas, frozen green beans, swapping tomatillos for small vine tomatoes, and working with my usual spice blends.

Oh, I also completely ignored the step of passing the sauce through a sieve because I've been eating the cheapest prepared bakery sandwiches I can find while traveling for the past week and I feel like I need to eat a lot of whole vegetables this week.

The application of very heavily browned vegetables is a nice trick, and with the addition of sugar and coconut cream makes for a very pleasant and rich flavour even though I kind of overshot the chili heat because I'm still not used to the extra-hot chili powder I have now.

Playing: Nothing, due to The Travel.

Tools and Equipment: I gotta pitch the 1kg or less laptop. I've mentioned Calcite, my personal laptop, plenty of times, but this past week of traveling has really shown how handy something this light is. Calcite complete with my 65W GaN charger and various dongles lived in my backpack as I hoofed it around several cities and it was so light that I barely noticed.

It's worth it to be able to use a full size computer when trying to compare accommodation and travel arrangements on the go, rather than trying to fiddle it out on a phone, but if your laptop weighs much more than a kilogram it can quickly become a slog to carry around.

Calcite is a 13 inch HP Envy x360, but the new 14-inch model and the HP Pavilion Aero 13's are both really good and relatively affordable compact laptops that I recommend frequently to people who want light laptops. Lenovo makes their 13 inch family of thinkpads but they're much more upmarket. If cost is no object there's of course ultralights like the LG Gram, and ultracompacts like the Onemix One Netbook 4.

If we're honest, an iPad would probably fit this role well, but I don't have one of those.

[heroesofprovidenceeternal]

Con Man Coin Master! - EP12 of 20 - Tourist in Terrath

Will Bob be swindled by Menides?!

A greedy Lux bureaucrat, Coinmaster Menides controls the Imperium treasury. Pompous, opulent, and elitist, he is largely responsible for hastening the corruption of Lux culture, profiteering from hollow religious rituals and mandating strangling taxes on its honest people. Worshiping money over truth, he was instrumental in convincing the High Feather to exile Father Geno, inadvertently lighting the fuse of the Imperium Revolution. Hungry for power and prestige, he quietly saps the lifeblood of the Lux people for personal gain and would rather lord over a decaying culture than see his veiled scandals and secret allegiances come to light.

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