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not the last @readercon.org catchup, I hope, but the last for a while: Miles to Go: The Vorkosigan Saga at 40, with @ianrandalstrock.bsky.social @katherinecrighton.bsky.social and Meredith Schwartz kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1109607.html

more @readercon.org catchup: Things Everyone Likes But You, with @casella.bsky.social, John Kessel, @karchwrites.bsky.social and Tracy Majka, which was so much fun and which I did actually take thorough notes for: kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1109438.html

resuming the @readercon.org writeups with quite incomplete notes on The Odyssey in 2026 (pre-Nolan movie), with Charlie Allison, @kenschneyer.bsky.social and Sonya Taaffe! kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1109157.html

Readercon homework, part two: booklogging Emily Wilson's translations of The Iliad and the Odyssey, with bonus comments on three other Odyssey translations (two I did not read, and one I read about half of, but grudgingly and with suspicion). steelypips.org/weblog/2026/...

trying to catch up on my blogging before vacation! First, somewhat abbreviated thoughts on Megan Whalen Turner's series The Queen's Thief, which was one part of my Readercon homework. steelypips.org/weblog/2026/...

goopy boys in musicals: thoughts on Oklahoma!, Les Miserables, and Hadestown (three times, including today). kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1108837.html

going to the Hadestown proshot!

okay this felt easy for a hard? I did almost no screenshot markup for it. I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 2nd 2026 (Hard), in 04:55 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by SamA daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!cluesbysam.com

cannot believe I got all greens on this, spending one zillion years running possibilities on a marked-up screenshot was worth it I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 1st 2026 (Hard) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by SamA daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!cluesbysam.com

I've been thinking about how you do the "Nobody" scene in the Odyssey without the cyclops--who is supposed to be reasonably intelligent--saying "yeah right, pull the other one." Tumblr has a suggestion. www.tumblr.com/rosethyme/82...

I'm still sad that Bluesky doesn't let you have multiple gifs, because posting them one at a time did not give the full comedic effect of this squirrel missing the catch and going spinning end-over-end, twice, before finally making it. so here's Tumblr: katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/8199961...

acrobatic squirrelThis squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let....katenepveu.tumblr.com

I'm pretty sure this is a dead steal and entirely sure that someone should buy it so I know it's gone and therefore cannot wist after something entirely out of my budget.

I'm early for an appointment & listening to Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins' pedantic reaction to Nolan's Odyssey, partly about the film's very different moral framework, which reminds me of the poem's omissions: no hint of women war captives in the poem, either. 1/ @instantclassicspod.bsky.social

this is how I found out that Emily Wilson is on here, which is a great way to start the morning (h/t @pameladean.bsky.social )

I'm so mad, that yellow was a misclick. (I removed the time because I mark up screenshots on the really complicated ones, so it is significantly understated.) hopefully this is a good sign for the day! I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jul 19th 2026 (Brutal) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by SamA daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!cluesbysam.com

truly fabulous #Readercon panel Limits of Hope: A Meditation on Fiction as an Activist Force w/@djolder.bsky.social E.C. Ambrose @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social @marissalingen.bsky.social @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social off @sarahgailey.bsky.social Locus speech kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1108681.html

this was a fascinating panel and I look forward to reading/listening to these works!

apropos of today's #Readercon panel on the Odyssey, I swear I didn't schedule this post to come out of my Tumblr queue this weekend: www.tumblr.com/katenepveu/8...

I didn't even have feelings about bog bodies and I was RIVETED by the #Readercon panel on the Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF with @davering.bsky.social @robotleblanc.bsky.social and Sonya Taaffe ! Very much looking forward to the full list from dave. kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1108393.html

what if aliens demanded a list of seven SFF books to honestly represent humanity? I and @grahamsleight.bsky.social @karchwrites.bsky.social @ecbatan.bsky.social had so much fun pitching books under @rwwgreene.bsky.social 's moderation. what's your list? kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1107971.html

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