#lord conall maccon

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Ugh I want more of Lord Conall Maccon

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Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster in her mid-twenties, mostly content to spend her time at home, in libraries, or with her friend Ivy who has unfortunate taste in hats. She’s also soulless, a preternatural whose touch can temporarily revert any supernatural persons to their formerly mortal state.

Alexia and the London werewolf Alpha, Conall, have chemistry built on mutual annoyance. He enjoys someone who will surprise and stand up to him (a limited commodity when one is the Alpha of a pack of werewolves), and she seems surprised when annoying him for fun turns into something more. Professor Lyall is his Beta, a competent and unassuming older werewolf who is a quiet, steady presence. Ivy, Alexia’s hat-obsessed friend, is one of my favorite characters but this isn’t yet the book where she shines. Lord Akeldama is a flamboyant and well-informed vampire who is utterly delightful.

Full Review at Link

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Would anyone be interested in a gail carriger's books' discord server?

please tell me cause i dont want to put in more effort than i have to before exams

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"I hate it when you're right."  Alexia grinned. "Almost as much as when I'm reasonable?" He growled at her. "Possibly more."

Lord and Lady Maccon Prudence by Gail Carriger

[rebuke-me]

please gail carriger i need your assistance

i haven’t read the books in a while but i’m pretty sure that there’s a plot point where werewolves’ hair stays the same as when they were transformed, unless they’re in a godbreaker zone. (i’m mostly sure that alexia had to hold conall’s hand while he shaved to make him human, at least.)

so basically my question is: does hair dye apply to the same rules? can werewolves dye their hair outside of being touched by a preternatural or being in a god-breaker zone?? this has been plaguing me for ages 

@gailcarriger if you’re allowed to answer

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Books of 2019: Heartless by Gail Carriger (Parasol Protectorate #4)

Heartless is the fourth book in Carriger’s series the Parasol Protectorate, therefore summarising the plot without spoilers is nearly impossible... Apologies. But the series itself follows the adventures of Alexia Tarabotti, soulless, as she deals with the supernatural community in London (largely). This series has vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, as well as an inordinate amount of tea, which is possibly the most accurate depiction of English society in this book.

This brings me onto my nitpicky-est  criticism of both this book and the series as a whole. Unfortunately, while this book is set in an steampunk alternate universe London Carriger is trying to emulate British society in the Victorian period. The misrepresentations of that period I can deal with (even when they are supposed to be accurate to the period) and usually where fantasy and reality collide the integration is well done. However, the inordinate amount of Americanisms in the language used by supposedly VERY British characters drives me up the wall. As an native British English speaker these mistakes stand out like a bull in a china shop! They’re incredibly distracting and by book 4 I would expect these to have been removed by Carriger or an editor through research and familiarity with British English colloquialisms and use of grammar. Particularly irritating is when  an article is dropped in a sentence (such as ‘a’ and ‘the’) and occasionally conjunctions when declaring a character is going to do a series of actions. This happens a lot in books and TV that depict British characters from American authors, yet when the premise of the main character is ‘very proper British gentlewoman’ these mistakes are glaring to a British reader. 

I’m also becoming more and more irritated by the behaviour of Conall Maccon, Alexia’s werewolf husband. I appreciate he is supposed to be a gruff, Scottish, and a little uncouth, however, the number of scenes where he deliberately uses sexual activity (usually kissing) to distract, shut up, or otherwise ignore Alexia’s concerns is alarming. Considering Maccon is supposed to be the romantic hero of the novels his behaviour is unacceptable and I’m growing increasingly uncomfortable with the continued romanticism of his actions. 

There are some genuinely likeable characters in these books; Lord Akeldama, Biffy, Ivy, and Professor Lyall to name a few. However, poor actions or decisions from these characters are not excused by Carriger. For instance, the subplot of this book was dedicated to the poor actions of Professor Lyall and Carriger makes a point of demonstrating the immorality of his choices regarding the previous Alpha of the Woolsey Pack. Unfortunately, I don’t think Carriger will address this aspect of Maccon’s character in the last book and this issue will continue to infuriate me when ever his character comes into the book. Carriger seems to want to continue romanticising his sexualised acts to ignore Alexia’s concerns and wishes. 

Putting my concerns over Conall Maccon aside, I do enjoy other aspects of these books. They’re fun, generally lighthearted, and amusing stories with some good characters. I am particularly fond of Lord Akeldama and Professor Lyall, whom despite their flaws are enjoyable characters to read about. While not the most sophisticated plots (I have guessed the plot twists of every book so far), they are entertaining reads. I just wish Carriger would address some of the issues in the book... And learn how to write with British English! If the defining characteristic of your main character is ‘extremely English’, please write their dialogue with British English.

[caduceus-tealeaf]

Bonus:

This is one of the worst-looking things I’ve ever made tbh but I wanted a visual for this post (with some extra characters) so here ya’ go

[lepotagerdeslivres]

SANS ÂME (Le Protectorat de l'Ombrelle - une aventure d’Alexia Tarabotti) de Gail Carriger

Thème : Bit-lit/ fantastique/ Steampunk / époque victorienne /loup-garous / vampires/ automates / fantasy /aventure /série /enquête / surnaturel

   Sans âme est le premier tome de la série « Le protectorat de l'ombrelle » de Gail carriger. Ce roman  raconte les aventures d'Alexia Tarabotti, jeune demoiselle londonienne de 26 ans (considérée comme vieille fille dans la société victorienne), mi-anglaise mi-italienne, originale et énergique qui possède la capacité (peu commune dans cet univers) de supprimer les pouvoirs de tout être surnaturel qui entre en son contact. Eh oui, le roman de Gail Carriger  mêle univers steampunk, univers de vampires, univers de loups-garous et  bonne société londonienne du XIXe siècle, le tout avec un humour très British (l'heure du thé étant toujours le moment le plus sacré).

   Alexia Tarabotti est donc une « sans âme », c'est une « paranaturelle » qui annule les pouvoirs des loups garous, des fantômes et des vampires lorsqu'elle les touche de ses mains. Or ces êtres surnaturels sont intégrés dans la société et ont même des représentants au sein du conseil royal (la BUR société de gestion des surnaturels). D'ailleurs, Lord Connal Maccon, riche comte de Woolsey, directeur de la BUR et mâle Alpha de la meute de loups garous de Londres (le chef),  la trouve sans arrêt sur son chemin et en semble très agacé. Curieuse de nature, Alexia est toujours au bon endroit au bon moment. Ils se rencontrent d'ailleurs au début de l'histoire à un bal, après qu'Alexia ait tué par accident un jeune vampire qui essayait de la mordre.

    La pauvre jeune affamée avait décidée de s'éclipser du bal (trop peu fournit en nourriture à son goût) pour se réfugier à la bibliothèque où elle s'était fait commander un en-cas. C'est à cet instant que le vampire l'avait attaquée et qu'elle s'était défendue. Maccon et son Beta (le second de la meute de loups garous) étaient arrivés à ce moment là, se demandant si au final elle ne l'aurait pas fait un tout petit peu exprès...

Le Duo Maccon/ Alexia qui passe son temps à se disputer est très amusant, les personnages secondaires sont assez recherchés et intéressant, que ce soit Lord Akeldama vampire dandy à l’affût et au courant de toutes les informations possible sur la haute-société londonienne, Ivy la grande amie d'Alexia aux goûts quelque peu douteux, Geneviève Lefoux inventrice française impartiale, le Dewan (représentant loup garou de la reine d’Angleterre), le potentat (représentant vampire), les membres de la ruche vampire de Wesbminster ou le professeur Lyall, machiavélique bêta de la meute de loups garous de Londres. Les systèmes hiérarchiques des surnaturels sont plutôt bien élaborés : les ruches pour les vampires avec leur reine comme seule et unique reproductrice qui ne peux se déplacer que dans un certain périmètre, les meutes des loup-garous qui ont un fonctionnement fusionnel non si éloignées des meutes de loups réelles avec l'alpha, le bêta et le gamma et les vampires et loup-garous isolés qui ont un système encore différent.

En bref, les personnages sont attachants, il y a de nombreux rebondissements. On prend beaucoup de plaisir à avancer dans le récit. C'est une histoire fantastique originale, amusante, surprenante - que la couverture ne met pas forcément en valeur (selon moi). En tout cas, c'est bien plus qu'un roman banal de Bit-lit  (la bit-lit= littérature de vampire): un vrai coup de cœur.

Je le recommande à partir de 15 ans. Au passage, il semblerait que les romans soient adaptés en manga en ce moment...

[ayzrules]

posting all these here in case urstyle does us dirty polyvore-style/something happens to my computer :^)))))))))

was for @forebodinq‘s Battle of the Books challenge on polyvore and i used parasol protectorate series

ok so....1) is alexia, 2) was a collection cover (in <15 items!! what is this witchcraft that I have created), 3) was video game version of parasolverse i think, 4) is conall maccon/akeldama, 5) and 6) IVY IVY IVY (plus tunstell lol), 7) biggest OTP ever biffy/lyall, 8) evilyn/felicty loontwill with quotes I stole from edgy aesthetic pictures or something. 9) is our finishing school gals who are fucking up some picklemen (OT but i swear the picklemen are basically the supernatural KKK omg)

so the fancast is as follows:

Indira Varma as AlexiaTarabotti/Maccon

Amra Cerkezovic as Vieve/Madame Lefoux

Camille Hurel as Ivy Hisselpenny/Tunstell

Linus Wordemann as Tunstell

Richard Armitage* as Conall Maccon

Danila Kovalev* as Lord Akeldama

Tom Hiddleston* as Lyall

Daniel Walters as Biffy

Amanda Seyfried as Evilyn Loontwill

Elsa Hosk as Felicity Loontwill

Teddy Quinlivan (w/ red hair...though the dark hair looks good on her too have you seen! her latest digitals!) as Sidheag

OT but if there was any way teddy/sid would know each other in some twisted modern AU parasolverse...i feel like they would like each other. a lot.

Antonina Vasylchenko as Sophronia

Emma Stone (w/ red hair) as Agatha

Dove Cameron as Dimity

Cillian Murphy as the Duke of Golborne

no lie i only have him there as the POS pickleman because somebody on PV made a good edit of cillian’s head eheheh and it fit well with @vampirkaninchen‘s phenomenal clothing edits im lazy sue me

*not a true fancast because I stalked Gail Carriger’s pinterest boards and they showed up but fite me

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Soulless one

The author's official website also lists a Hungarian language edition by Könyvmolyképző and an Italian language edition by Baldini & Castoldi with "unknown" publication dates. 2011, Germany, Blanvalet ISBN 978-9-0, Pub date, Paperback (in German as Glühende Dunkelheit ("Glowing Darkness") translated by Anita Nirschl).Alexia fights against vampire in London) translated by Yasuko Kawano） 2011, France, Orbit France/Calmann Levy ISBN 978-2-36051-026-9, Pub date 12 January 2011, Paperback (in French as Sans Âme).2010, Spain, Versátil Ediciones ISBN 978-84-9, Pub date 2 November 2010, Paperback (in Spanish as Sin Alma).2009, USA, Orbit Books ISBN 3-4, Pub date 7 October 2009, Paperback.Mabel Dair: actress and one of Countess Nadasdy's drones.Felicity Loontwill: Alexia's half-sister.Evylin Loontwill: Alexia's younger half-sister.Lady Loontwill: Alexia's strict mother has two daughters with her current husband.Caedes: vampire in Countess Nadasdy's Hive. Lord Ambrose: member of the Westminster Hive.Countess Nadasdy: queen vampire of the Westminster Hive.Ormond Tunstell: claviger to Lord Maccon.Squire Loontwill: Alexia's step-father.Siemons: head of the Hypocras Club, a scientist who will stop at nothing to eradicate the supernaturals. MacDougall: an American scientist researching the soul he had a crush on Alexia. Lord Akeldama: an old and flamboyant vampire, Alexia's friend.Professor Randolph Lyall : Conall's beta and friend, also a werewolf.(the Bureau of Unnatural Registry - which keeps tabs on vampires and werewolves in society) a werewolf, Alpha of his pack, who has feelings for Alexia. Lord Conall Maccon: Earl of Woolsey and member of the B.U.R.She is adept in the art of parasol combat. This enables her to turn supernatural beings "human" as long as she is touching them. She has inherited the unusual condition of being a 'soulless' or 'preternatural'. Alexia Tarabotti: The main character she is a spinster, born to an Italian father, Alessandro Tarabotti and a British mother.She must solve the mystery, all while maintaining proper decorum and a delicate social balance. As disappearances in the vampire population of London's high society increase, Alexia becomes the prime suspect. Queen Victoria sends an investigator, Lord Maccon, who is himself a werewolf. The fact that she is "soulless" leaves her unaffected by the powers of supernatural beings which only further complicates her life when she accidentally kills a vampire that had attacked her. Alexia Tarabotti is a woman with several critical problems: she is still searching for a husband, her late Italian father complicates her social standing in a rigid class system, and she has no soul. Soulless is set in an alternate history version of Victorian era Britain where werewolves and vampires are accepted as functioning members of society.

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"Just a moment," he said. "I need a small reminder that you are here, you are whole, and you are mine." "Well, the first two should be patently obvious, and the last one is always in question," replied his lady unhelpfully.

Lord Conall Maccon and Lady Alexia Maccon Changeless by Gail Carriger

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The Custard Protocol series by Gail Carriger

This is a spoiler-free series review of the first two books in the Custard Protocol Series: Prudence and Imprudence. In case you were wondering/confused.

Rating: ★★★★☆

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti.

When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Custard and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves. Faced with a dire crisis and an embarrassing lack of bloomers, what else is a young lady of good breeding to do but turn metanatural and find out everyone's secrets, even thousand-year-old fuzzy ones?

(from Goodreads)

Thoughts

This is such a funny series. It takes place during the reign of Queen Victoria, in a steampunk/supernatural world. This is a parallel universe to our own except with dirigibles or airships galore and vampires and werewolves living in plain sight in high society. The vampires live in hives, with one queen and several drones. They have a great influence in regard to fashion and etiquette. The werewolves live in packs with an Alpha. They have close ties to the military. Both groups are immortal, can’t be out in daylight, and have a big role to play in her majesty’s government. This may seem like quite a complex world to grasp, and it may be so, because this is the third series Gail Carriger has written about this world. The first series was the Parasol Protectorate (with this series main character’s mother as the leading lady) and the second being the Finishing School series (which takes place before the events of the first series), which I have read and reviewed before. You do get the basics of the world in the first book of this series, but if you would like to completely understand this world you should read the other two series as well.

The main character Rue is the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti, the main character from the Parasol Protectorate and Lord Conall Maccon, Alpha to a powerful werewolf pack. She is also the adoptive daughter of Lord Akeldama, one of the most influential vampires in England. Confused yet? As far as I understand it, this arrangement was put into place to make sure Rue would not be partial to one species of supernatural over the other, because she herself in very powerful. She is a Metanatural, meaning she can steal the supernatural shape of anyone she touches, turning herself into a vampire or werewolf while also nullifying the supernatural person in question into a mortal, for a limited time. This ability means she gets to live quite a different life from your normal British aristocratic lady during the Victorian era.

The characters are what makes this story so entertaining. On her airship Rue assembles a crew with some of her best friends, the Tunstell twins Primrose and Percy, whose mother is a vampire queen, and Quesnel Lefoux, slightly irritating and very charming French engineer. Together the four of them get up to some crazy adventures, but nothing that can’t be solved with Rue’s special abilities or a nice cup of tea. Seriously, these people drink tea like it’s the answer to everything. Also, they of course abide by the proper manners of their time-period. It makes me want to start drinking tea with my pinkie high up and speak like a proper lady. It’s hilarious to see how meticulous they are about etiquette and proper dress. They are a great and quirky group that work of each other beautifully. My only complaint is that the two ladies are nicknamed Rue and Prim which constantly makes me think I’m reading the Hunger Games.

I liked both books, but I feel like the second was even better as I had gotten to know the characters and the world a bit better. I realize this series might not be everyone’s cup of tea (see what I did there?), but I hope you will still give it a go. It may very well surprise you. I was not sure about it at first either, but I ended up loving it. I’m very excited to read the next book in the series when it comes out (there are two more in the works). It’s such a hilarious read and really takes your mind of things. It’s light and fluffy and just plain whimsically funny.

//love from L

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This is a book that my moms be saying I should read for a while now. So I finally broke down and.... listened to the audio book. >_>; At first I wasn’t quite sure if I was digging it or not. Cuz everyone is very proper Victorian English, except for Lord Conall Maccon who is in fact Scottish. Which means we do not express our emotions unless we have no way out of it. But I do enjoy the way Gail Carriger writes. I like the metaphors that they use and the flow of their words. Although some of the scenes that were suppose to be emotional or romantic kinda just left me a little confused. I don’t know. Overall I liked it and wouldn’t be against reading more in the series. It’s an interesting world they created. So I’d give it an 8/10 would recommend. #soulless #GailCarriger #book #bookreview #steampunk #fantasy #vampires #werewolf #preternatural https://www.instagram.com/p/B4erdPJhdyE/?igshid=wlptg63p8qo2

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Changeless by Gail Carriger

Series: Parasol Protectorate, #2 Read Time: 4 Days Rating: 4/5

The quote: "You are interested in studying me, aren't you, Madame Lefoux?" "You are a remarkable creature, Alexia." — Lady Alexia Maccon & Madame Genevieve Lefoux

Warning: character death (kinda), period appropriate sexism.

VIEVE! When Vieve appeared I lost my s***. Genevieve Lefoux is fantastic, I loved her in Finishing School (well what I read of it). In that, she was a clever and spunky 10-year-old. But now it's 20 years later, she's all grown up and badass, still dressing in the height of male fashion and still has an almost blackmailable love of hats. Her aunt is still floating around and Vieve has absolutely put her training to good use. Vieve wanted nothing more than to become an evil genius, and she is more than smart and determined enough to do it. So the question remains what exactly is her endgame? Vieve's coding remains spectacular. Accepting of both male and female pronouns, and completely done with hets. Interesting she can also speak for the reader in a similar way to Alexia at times. Now that is of my system on the review proper.

Changeless picks up a few months after Soulless. Alexia wakes up to Conall yelling at someone in their bedroom and then takes off for London. This leaves Alexia to deal with the return of the rest of the pack from India, this leads to a rather amusing confrontation with the pack's Gamma (third in command).  There is a mystery in Central London. It's similar to the preternatural ability possessed by Alexia, it destroys ghosts, and prevents the change in werewolves and vampires. Particularly problematic for vampires as it prevents them from feeding. It's not a stationary issue, it's mobile and it's heading towards the Kingair pack in Scotland. After consultation with the Shadow Council, Queen Victoria wants Alexia to investigate it in her professional capacity. This leads Lady Alexia Maccon and an unexpectedly large entourage to fly to Scotland and investigate.

What follows is essentially a game of whodunnit where the who is more a what. It has some twists and turns and is written in Carriger's humous and female-centric style. Women hold all the card in Alexia's world, broadly speaking through their power is still limited. Alexia in not a typical woman, she is more than once referred to as an eccentric, but there are some societal standards she must abide by and inform us of. The balance of eccentricity and typical is done well. The information is all there to be pieced together if a reader so wishes, seeds of lore are planted for at least the next book if not more than that. The ending was totally unexpected and made me want to kick Conell Maccon in the ball and the ba***rd would deserve that and worse.

Anyone who has read Finishing School is in for a visit from another old friend, Lady Kingair, and a shock of pain. A death I really didn't want to hear of, and it's so flippant but there is a lot if you know the players involved in hurts. Sidhaeg does not remember Vieve, I guess Vieve was 10 but she's a distinctive type. But Vieve has a long term relationship with Lord Maccon. For those who have not read the prequel series (it was published after), it's not a concern, these are just interesting characters. Though I believe events discussed in Changeless are written in one of the Finishing School novels. Most of the characters that we already knew are built upon well, their allegiances and alliances expanded upon. Lord Akeldama and his drones, in particular, are of note here.

Some interesting tid bits.

'Formerly' if the honorific used for a ghost, Beatrice Lefoux is now referred to as 'Formerly Lefoux'. Ghost lore is quite interesting.

Alessandro Tarabotti is apparently much more connected to the word than Alexia has been lead to believe. That has to be relevant.

Seeing the Shadow Council in better depth is good. The dewan is not as powerful as I thought, the potretate is as suspicious as I would have suspected.

"Really sometimes it was simply too vexatious to be a lady living with two dozen gentleman." — No comments really. But could you imagine all that standing when you walk into a room all the time? It would get old fast. And additionally outranks all of them.

"Madame Lefoux did seem to be quite the best sort of ally to have. And, despite her masculine attire, she smelled amazing, like vanilla custard. Would it be so awful if this woman were to become a friend?"

"You really are a woman of many talents, Madame Lefoux, an inventor as well as a milliner?" [...]As you see, the two more often cross paths than one would think." — This is apt for Vieve. And she's not wrong I guess.

"She reflected that this was probably the first and likely last time in her life she would have cause to value the ridiculous fashion society foisted upon her sex" — Love moments like this in steampunk.

"Let us just simply say, that for the time being, that it is most likely not as useful as it was a little while ago." [...] "What did you do?" "Well, you see there was this pot of tea, simply sitting there..." — Biffy and Lyall are a whole thing (there be spoilers in the link and more than you think). It is easy to see why they are Lord Akeldama and Lord Maccon's respective favourites. Both are brilliant and capable.

"No need to raise your hackles and get territorial, old wolf. You find her attractive—why shouldn't I?" — Vieve is not ashamed to say what she wants and to tease. But she does know when she's beaten too.

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Soulless: the manga by Gail Carriger and Art by REM

“Soulless: the manga” by Gail Carriger and art by REM is a paranormal romance manga with a steampunk theme that follows the life of Alexia Tarabotti, one of the soulless (A type of supernatural creature who is closely related to humans but has the ability to turn the supernatural into humans, also described as exorcising the evil or “soul sucking” hence the name soulless) as she attempts to figure out what is happening in the supernatural world after she is attacked by a rogue vampire who supposedly does not belong to any of the hives (groups of vampires led by their respective lead vampire). While she is trying to investigate the matter, things become complicated with her “friend”  Lord Conall Maccon (the alpha of a werewolf pack and head of the B.U.R., aka the Bureau of Unnatural Registry) as he half-confesses his feelings for her. Will Alexia figure out the mystery behind the rogue vampire? Will she get together with Conall? If you’re interested in Victorian history styled stories with beautiful art then I highly recommend you check out this addictive series!

Until we meet again,                          

                            ~Clover S. ♣️

[carrigerpigeon]

‘Ulf’  derives from the Old Norse word for "wolf" (úlfr). Saldalius is Latin for “true wolf”.

So we’ve literally got Mr. Wolf Wolf from Messrs. Wolf, Wolf, Wrendofflip, and Wolf fighting Randolph Lyall, whose first name derives from the Old Norse “ Rannúlfr” which literally breaks down to shield + wolf, and his last name “Lyall” also means wolf. 

So basically the fight in Blameless was Professor Wolf Wolf vs. Mr. Wolf Wolf and Professor Wolf Wolf only won because his Alpha, Lord Wolf Wolf of Woolsey (Conall meaning strong wolf and Maccon meaning son of a wolf), came to fuck Mr. Wolf Wolf’s shit up in a drunken backyard brawl. 

Gail Carriger, everybody.