Reading notes, week 43

Oct. 26th, 2025 06:00 am
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Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. With excellent cats! And I like the little lizard more than in earlier readings, too.

The Puzzle Lock by R. Austin Freeman. I thought this would be a novel but it was a collection of short stories; the first (eponymous) one excellent, the rest rather more meh.

Asterix in Lusitania by Didier Conrad and Fabrice Caro (the link is to the French Wikipedia page but I read it in Dutch). Fun! Very much in the spirit of Goscinny and Uderzo.

Also oodles of fanfic which I can’t be hedgehogged to chase down and link (went down a rabbit hole doing Yuletide research).

Index of reading notes is here.

Alphabetical Fic Meme

Oct. 25th, 2025 05:09 pm
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I can never resist a fic-related meme, so of course I had to do this one I've seen going around lately:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

For each letter, I've just picked the one that comes first alphabetically. I will note that this leaves a couple of my stories out of consideration entirely because they start with non-letter characters. But never mind those, let's se what the alphabet gives us.

A - After the World (Good Omens (TV)/Disco Elysium, Aziraphale, Crowley, Harry du Bois (sort of))
B - Back from Outer Space (Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher/Ford Pines)
C - Captive Audience (The Good Place, Vicky, Janet)
D - The Dad Joke (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Frisk)
E - Earthly Pleasures (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
F - Fail Until You're Good Enough at It That It Starts to Look Like Hope (Disco Elysium, Harry du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi)
G - Galactic Peace Never Solved Anything (Farscape, John Crichton)
H - Hair Today, Gun Tomorrow (Blake's 7, Jenna Stannis, Jarriere, Jarvik)
I - I Could Give All to Time Except (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale)
J - Just a Few Bonecalls (Undertale, Sans/Toriel, Papyrus)
K - Keep One Place, Just for Us (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, Crowley)
L - The Last Stop on the Tour (Doctor Who/Once Upon a Time, Clara Oswald, Emma Swan)
M - Maybe This Time (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Missy)
N - The Natural Attraction of Opposites (physics anthropomorfic, electron/positron)
O - The Observer Effect (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Gabriel, Beelzebub)
P - The Pale, the Sea, and the Shore (Disco Elysium/Our Flag Means Death, Lena, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach)
Q - A Question of Interior Design (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
R - A Re-Examination of the Origins of the Doctor Myth (Doctor Who, OCs)
S - Save the Date (Doctor Who, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, multiple Doctors)
T - That Thing They Say About the Road to Hell (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale, hints of Aziraphale/Crowley)
U - Uncommanded and Unforbidden (Good Omens (TV), Aziraphale/Crowley)
V - Vaster Than Empires (Doctor Who/Farscape, Zotoh Zhaan/Jabe)
W - Waning (The A Capella Version) (Farscape, Stark)
X -
Y - You (Gravity Falls, Stan Pines, Ford Pines)
Z - The Zombie Master, or PGP of the Living Dead (Blake's 7, Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Vila Restal, Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby, Soolin)

That's 25 letters represented out of 363 fics. You'd think by now I'd have written something starting with X, but no.

And, man, that's an interesting list of fics. I suppose it does actually represent my fic-writing range pretty well? Certainly there's a good mix of fandoms (with that period where I spewed forth insane numbers of Good Omens fics accurately represented). And quite a time span, too, with a couple of things I wrote just this year, and a few I wrote decades ago in what feels like an entirely different world, when I was an entirely different person and fandom was, you guessed it, entirely different. Or at least very different, anyway.

Is it too early for Christmas?

Oct. 25th, 2025 07:08 pm
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Of course it is: the clocks don't go back until tonight. But if you are prepared to stretch a point, and can play BBC Sounds, you may be interested to learn that this evenings Loose Ends features Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden singing I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.

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"Legends And Lattes" by Travis Baldree

I really enjoyed this - it was recommended to me by Eldest Offspring and it reminded me of Joanne Harris' "Chocolat" a bit; found community building, bit of magic, lots of lovely descriptions of food. It was an actual paper book, so my eyes and wrists got tired, but it was good and amazingly I was able to read something entirely new by a new-to-me author.

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Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Eight works new to me. Three fantasies, two horror, two SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG. One of the SF books is pretty horrory, so maybe that should be three fantasies, three horror, one SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG.

Books Received, October 18 — October 24

Poll #33761 Books Received, October 18 — October 24
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46


Which of these look interesting?

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Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
5 (10.9%)

Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
26 (56.5%)

Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
3 (6.5%)

The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
5 (10.9%)

Outgunned by Riccardo ​“Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
4 (8.7%)

And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (34.8%)

Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (17.4%)

A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
23 (50.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
35 (76.1%)

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Audiobook read by Steven Pacey

This is a revisit via Audible. I was surprised to note that I first read this (in dead-tree format) in 2009 or 2010. I was tempted to the Audible version because the reader is Steven Pacey, who is excellent, and indeed the quality of the reading keeps you engaged throughout. It’s a long book and, in truth, is only the first part of the story as the trilogy is really one long story split into three nooks. This one introduces all the characters and the political set up. The characters are all flawed in some way. Logan is an engaging character but when the ‘berserk’ is on him, he’s The Bloody Nine, and would kill his own grandmother if she got in his way, but he’s still my favourite character. Or maybe he shares first place with Glokta, once the golden boy of the Union army but after a spell in the enemy’s prison he’s a mangled wreck who lives with constant pain. But one thing the enemy’s torturers taught him, is how to be a effective inquisitor. He’ll get a confession from anyone, guilty or innocent. An excellent listen.

My 2009 review of the whole trilogy

Joe Abercrombie – The Blade Itself; Before They Are Hanged; Last Argument of Kings.

Wow... just WOW! I make no excuses for this trilogy taking from mid October to Mid December to read because it's big, it's densely packed and it's fascinating with a broad sweeping plot, a cast of complex characters and cataclysmic action. Like life it's not tidy, and like life nobody's perfect – even the heroes. In fact, perfection is far from the state any of this bunch of assorted misfits achieve and there are no heroes, though at times people do heroic things. Yet at other times they run away.

So, take a bunch of assorted people who barely know each other and like each other even less and throw them together for great purposes and at the end of the day you have a bunch of cohesive comrades? Yes? Well, actually no. At the end of the day, they might have achieved things, but they still hate each other and don't like looking in the mirror much.

So – first things first – or maybe second. This isn't really a trilogy, it's one huge book split into three volumes. Don't think you could pick up book 2 or 3 without reading book one. How many pages? 422 + 570 + 695 (1600 give or take a few and the first one was a trade paperback so at a rough word count I'd say something like 250k per book).

How many main characters? Well Abercrombie adds a few as we get into each new book, but for starters we have three, starting with Logen Ninefingers, the Bloody Nine, berserker barbarian. Logen is a humane, intelligent, uneducated warrior who will kill his enemies at the drop of a hat, but when Ninefingers takes over he'll kill anyone in his way – and that includes his friends, too. Then there's Glokta, once the Golden Boy of the Union, master swordsman and brave colonel in the Union army, but a few years on the receiving end of the masters in the torture chambers of Gurkhul soon changed him into a twisted cripple, living in constant pain, whose purpose in life is now to inflict pain on others in the name of the King's Inquisition. If you're guilty Glokta will make you confess. Actually, if you're innocent he'll make you confess, too. His latest swathe of victims may well have unearthed major corruption in the government, but if he exposes it he's pretty sure that he'll be the next body found floating in the harbour. Then there's Jezal dan Luthar, the Union's current Golden Boy, but if this is the best the Union has, it might as well give up now when the barbarians in the north attack at the same time as Gurkhul in the south. Luthar can swing a sword a bit, and he turns a pretty leg in a uniform, but he's never seen real action and would probably sprint a mile if he did.

As the books progress we get a series of additional characters unfolding which include Byaz, a master mage with a power complex and a determination to steer the Union to victory even if it kills everyone in the way – including the Union's own citizens. Ferro, carrying demon blood in her veins and a raging desire for vengeance over the Gurkhish which has consumed all she ever was or might be. The Dogman, left leading the Northmen's resistance in Logen's place against their new king who is bent on cutting the heart out of the Union and slapping down the resistance from his own people. Hard! Colonel West, honest soldier from common stock who has risen because of his talent, but he has a temper which will get him into trouble if he's not careful, especially with his sister, Ardee, a wilful, bored fish out of water, perpetually drunk and none too discrete with her favours.

And this is all there is to save the Union. Can they do it? Maybe they can, but there's a price – a terrible price. Good deeds have terrible consequences. Quests come to nought. Sieges bravely defended depend on money from shady sources, blackmail. The least trustworthy prove their resilience and the most trustworthy fail. Last minute rescues don’t exactly save anyone.

To say this is a dark work is an understatement of the word dark, but it's not without its quirky twisted humour and its sympathetic characters, foremost amongst these being Glokta whose world-weary commentary exposes wry humour and a deep intelligence. Despite his job and his willingness to detach body-parts from innocent men with rusty pincers, he may be the most honest and honourable soul in the hierarchy of government – which might not be saying much, but it might have to be enough.

It may have taken me two months to read 750,000 words of the 'First Law' trilogy, but it was worth it and I highly recommend it to anyone who's got a strong stomach. The Guardian quote says it's 'Delightfully twisted and evil,' and I reckon that's spot on the money.




 
 
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High school student and semi-professional tarot card reader Danika Dizon assists her PI mother to look for a missing person... a teen who vanished after Danika gave her a tarot card reading.

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Editor’s note: This article is part of the SFWA Presents: Get to Know… series, which includes informational pieces about SFWA programs, committees, and initiatives, and also interviews with the SFWA volunteers who work to support their fellow writers in the industry.

One of SFWA’s most accessible member services is our Writing Dates Program, a weekly online co-working writing date with a different host every session. It runs on Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. PST in the Nebula Zoom (a.k.a. the Airship Nebula), and the sessions are open to all SFWA members and attendees of the Nebula Conference. You do not need to be a SFWA member or Nebula attendee to be a host.

We chatted with the Writing Dates Program Team to learn more. This interview features insights from team members C. J. Lavigne and Kristin Osani, with Meagen Voss providing editorial input.

SFWA’s Writing Dates Program has been running since the 2020 virtual Nebula Conference. How did the idea for Writing Dates come about, and what were those first sessions like in terms of member response and momentum?

Kristin: I think it was Mary Robinette Kowal who originally started them (C. J. can correct me if I’m wrong). The 2020 virtual Nebula Conference was such a fantastic weekend. I know a lot of us didn’t want it to be over, so that may have been the impetus. C. J. started helping out as a volunteer with those initial ones. Then Meagen Voss and I joined a few weeks later (I missed the first few sessions because of the time difference), but they were immediately popular and well-received because so many of us were in need of community at the start of the pandemic—and still are! We have a solid group of regulars who have been attending ever since and have been gaining more each year.

C. J.: It was absolutely Mary Robinette; I offered to lend a hand a couple of weeks in, then kind of inherited the tech support role, which spread out to the Writing Dates team. We had enthusiastic regulars from the get-go—some of them are still with us, and they’ve been logging in weekly for the past five years and counting. 2020 was a really uncertain summer for a lot of mysterious reasons I’m sure no one remembers, and I think a lot of us were looking for some stability in our schedules, not to mention new writing friends. We had a lot of cheerfully awkward getting-to-know-yous and some great enthusiastic host authors (some of whom, again, have come back repeatedly).

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What brought you to this SFWA volunteer role? How has your experience in the publishing industry shaped the way you support and connect with other members through Writing Dates?

Kristin: I first volunteered for SFWA at the 2020 virtual Nebula Conference, which is where I initially met C. J. and so many other wonderful folks, so when I started attending the writing dates and noticed C. J. would hang out by herself during the mid-date break while the rest of the attendees split off into the breakout rooms, I ended up staying in the main room to chat with her (and also because she was a familiar face and I am a shy introvert), and then ended up asking if she’d like help running the dates from there. My professional writing career really only took off after getting involved with SFWA and the writing dates specifically because I had that community around me to keep me going when things got tough (and things are always tough in this industry), so I’d say it’s more the writing dates and the friends I’ve made through them that have shaped my experience in publishing rather than the other way around.

C. J.: Hah, I sound sad here! OK, yes, I am an introvert, but to be clear, “C. J. would hang out by herself during the break” means “C. J. stayed in the main Zoom room to welcome latecomers,” haha. So I appreciated Kristin’s company. And, yes, I first started volunteering for SFWA in 2020 because I was attending the Nebulas for the first time, and I always volunteer if I’m looking to get to know people. Professionally, I had signed my first novel with a small press, it was just coming out, and I was looking to get to know folks in the industry. Since then, some of us have built professional connections outside of the writing date in any number of ways, forming critique groups, speaking together on conference panels, writing each other’s cover blurbs, attending each other’s events, and talking up each other’s works. I agree with Kristin; the core writing date group has really shaped my experience of the community and industry, and made it really welcoming.

How would you describe the purpose and structure of Writing Dates to someone new to SFWA?

Kristin: The structure is 15 minutes of chat and introductions, 45 minutes of muted concentration time, 15 minutes in breakout rooms for more chats, and a final 45 minutes of muted concentration time. And that’s it! It’s very casual. We also have an unofficial extra half hour at the end of the dates to just hang out and socialize. We’re there to support each other and hang out, and maybe get a word or two written (or do taxes, or admin work, or whatever it is you need to do to make way for writing at some point).

C. J.: Yup, that’s it. I like to tell people this is the most casual event SFWA runs, whether they’re attending or being a host author. It’s just chatting and writing! No expectations, no competition, no recordings, no pressure to share.

What are the host’s responsibilities?

Kristin: Mostly it’s just to facilitate the chat and introductions during the first 15 minutes. The host generally will introduce themself, tell us about their work and perhaps what they’re currently working on, and then go around and have participants introduce themselves (if they want to). And that’s it! Some hosts ask an icebreaker question like “What’s your favorite fantastical creature?” but that’s going above and beyond. Hosts CAN keep track of time if they’d like, to let us know when it’s time to write and when our mid-date break is, but the Flight Crew (the group of volunteers who help with SFWA’s online events, including the three of us) is used to being the timekeepers by now.

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How do sessions accommodate different writing styles and genres?

Kristin: We welcome all writing styles and genres! Like I mentioned before, some folks even use the 45-minute concentration blocks to get other tasks done. It’s your time; we’re just there to support you, however you choose to use it!

C. J.: We’ve definitely had graphic novelists, creative nonfiction writers, mystery writers, and other folks host the event. Anyone with an interest in speculative topics is welcome, and people are working on all kinds of projects.

What do participants typically gain from attending Writing Dates, creatively or professionally?

Kristin: Friends, community, support, validation, the chance to meet other authors working towards the same goal. A lot of people report they are more productive during these dates than usual, so a boost to motivation and word count as well!

C. J.: I feel like the importance of making friends really can’t be overstated—not “networking” in some calculatedly artificial way, but just hanging out with people and talking about writing, but also life and video games and pets and whatnot. It’s a fantastic group.

Does the Writing Dates Program influence your own writing practice in any way?

Kristin: Oh, absolutely. They’re early Monday mornings for me (I live in Japan), so they really jump-start my week.

C. J.: Kristin and a couple of other folks in spread-out time zones are heroes for logging on in the middle of the night or at the crack of dawn. For me, I find it’s helpful just to remember to touch base once a week—I’m the kind of writer who tries to work on projects daily, but life gets busy, and if things are overwhelming, I’ve still set aside those two hours on Sunday.

Can you share a memorable moment or success story from a Writing Dates session?

Kristin: Lots of our regulars have worked on pieces during the writing dates that have gone on to be nominated for and even win awards!

C. J.: I don’t want to single anyone out, but for sure, so many regulars (including me and Kristin) have published work that they produced during these sessions, and some have been on major award lists or are now award winners. I’ve cheered myself hoarse for our Writing Dates folks! I love it.

What feedback have you heard from participants about how Writing Dates have influenced their work or habits?

Kristin: Overwhelmingly positive. People tell us all the time how productive they are during the dates. And more than just word count, people have made friends and even found critique partners through them.

C. J.: I think the best feedback is that people just keep coming back.

What would you say to someone hesitant to join because of time constraints or uncertainty?

Kristin: You don’t have to come every week, and you don’t have to come at the very start of the event or stay for the whole thing. Just show up when you can, if you can, even if it’s only for the last five minutes.

C. J.: Did I already say it was the most casual event? The most casual event! Come, go, do what you can.

If you could shape the future of Writing Dates in any way, what would that be?

Kristin: Honestly, just that they’ll go on forever! Maybe a couple other sessions at times more friendly to folks not in North America, though that all depends on volunteer availability.

C. J.: Kristin in particular has worked very hard to support folks in varied time zones, and that’s something we have our eye on if opportunities arise. For the future of the current Writing Date Program, though, I just hope people keep feeling connected and keep logging in.

Huge thanks to our Writing Dates volunteers for making this program a supportive and creative space for fellow writers.

To join the Writing Dates Program, please visit https://events.sfwa.org/upcoming-events/. You don’t need to register in advance, but you must be logged into your SFWA account or Nebula membership to access the Zoom link on the events page.

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C. J. Lavigne is a Canadian SFF author. Her urban fantasy novel In Veritas (NeWest Press, 2020) was a finalist for the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction and the 2021 Crawford Award, and was the Book Publishers Association of Alberta 2021 Speculative Fiction Book of the Year. Her short fiction has appeared in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, PodCastle, and other publications, and her novella The Drowned Man’s Daughter was released by NeWest Press in September 2025. She is generally busy drinking coffee, petting the cat, and being a full-time media studies academic. Find her online at www.cjlavigne.com.

Author photo of Kristin OsaniKristin Osani (she/her) is a queer fantasy writer who lives with her husband in northeastern Japan, where she works as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator when she’s not wordsmithing, working on nerdy cross-stitching, or cuddling her two cats. She has translated games like The Kids We Were, Voice of Cards, and Triangle Strategy, and has also edited manga for Kodansha USA. Her original fiction has appeared in FlashPoint SF, The Arcanist, and Beyond the Veil: Supernatural Tales of Queer Love (Ghost Orchid Press, 2022). Her debut novella, The Extravaganza Eternia (Ghost Orchid Press, 2024), is a semifinalist in the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards. You can find her on Bluesky @kristinosani.bsky.social or on her website at kristinosani.com.

Author photo of Meagen VossMeagen Voss is an Open Source community manager for the Wagtail CMS project by day and a speculative fiction and romance writer by night. She has tried her hand at most jobs in publishing and decided that doing the tech was her thing. Her journey into content management nerdery began with a WordPress site in the early 2000s, and now she is supporting publishing software that helps non-profits and other groups doing good in the world. When she’s not coding or writing, you can find her staring at waterfalls and hiking around the mountains of North Carolina.

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The August 2023 Nightmares Underneath Bundle featuring The Nightmares Underneath, the old-school horror-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Chthonstone Games.

Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)

Update

Oct. 23rd, 2025 02:27 pm
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Yesterday I went to Llandudno for my annual check up with the oncology team. People may remember that I had a mastectomy in 2022 following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Getting there is a minor irritation - it involves a taxi to the station (£7) a train to Llandudno (£5) and then another taxi to the hospital (£9). Then I repeat the performance to get back, doubling the cost. I have done this at various times for five years.

This time, I learn that had I ever asked, I could have scheduled the appointments in Bangor, where I live. A taxi to the hospital does cost £9 (it’s probably gone up) but I can get a bus back which costs me nothing because I have a disabled person’s bus pass covering me for buses in the whole of Wales, plus some trains which I have never got to grips with.

So next time, it will be in Bangor.

The oncologist said he couldn’t feel anything, but I will have to have the usual mammogram, and thankfully that will be in Bangor, too.

In other news

That stomach bug is still showing signs of hanging around. I feel a bit poorly and definitely cold, and I don’t think schlepping to Llandudno helped much.

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner

Oct. 23rd, 2025 08:51 am
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Faraday, Oregon, seems to have a missing persons problem. Its problem is much worse.

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
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This is a repeat of a bundle previously offered in August 2023, featuring "Chthonstone Games horror-fantasy RPG of dungeon incursions from the Realm of Nightmares." which I then described as follows: '...another "old school" fantasy offer in which the idea is to face the adventurers with deadly nightmares, which might be considered 'Monsters from the Id' except that they are real for game purposes and dangerous. But hey, you can kill them and loot their stuff, so maybe it isn't all bad...'

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/25Nightmares

  

Last time I went on to say "I'm REALLY not the target audience for this one, I think. I've pretty much given up on straight fantasy RPGs. Other games have done the dream thing before, and in my opinion have done it better. But as usual your opinion may differ." I really don't see any reason to change that.



A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran

Oct. 22nd, 2025 08:53 am
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A robot muses contentedly on the events that led it to its rapidly approaching doom.

A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran

The Uncle's Story

Oct. 22nd, 2025 09:16 am
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 If, like me, you enjoy 'The Importance of being Earnest' (and even possibly if you don't), this delightful little story by Kalypso will surely please you as much as it pleased me.

 

 

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Not sure that Karthak is going to let you close that subject, buddy…

Please note: These are work-in-progress colors. Vero should get me the final colors soon.

You can talk about this page at The Young Protectors Community here.

(Disqus comments are still at the bottom of this web page!)

Link to preview page (page 30) for $5+ Patrons:

https://youngprotectors.com/typ4/fallen-ch2-page-30/

ANNIVERSARY PATRON THANK YOUS

Your continued support has always been the reason I’ve been able to continue making this comic. And I am especially grateful to our readers who continue to support this comic month-after-month during this time. Thank you for letting me continue to create these pages. Thank you for being the real superheroes of this comic.

And so, I hope everyone will please join me in wishing a very special Woolfpack anniversary “thank you!” to those Patrons who have been supporting our work for a year or more!

I’d like to send out a big thank you to members of the Woolfpack who have been supporting our work for 24 months as of this week (Oct 19-25):

Mikey02, Sasha and Sparkax

(Two years of support! Thank you so much, Mikey02, Sasha and Sparkax!)

I’d like to send out a big thank you to members of the Woolfpack who have been supporting our work for 48 months as of this week (Oct 19-25):

Robert B., Jason M. and Andre P.

(Four years of support! Thank you so much, Robert, Jason and Andre!)

I’d like to give a massive thank you to members of the Woolfpack who have been supporting our work for 84 months as of this week (Oct 19-25):

KnightTek, Anna B., Sandy B., Baltimore M. and Dave T.

(Seven years of support! Thank you so much, KnightTek, Anna, Sandy, Baltimore and Dave!)

I’d like to send a big thank you to Woolfpack members who have been supporting our work for 96 months as of this week (Oct 19-25):

JT, Jun G. and Adrian L.

(Eight years of support! Thank you JT, Jun and Adrian!)

Thank you all so much for your amazing, ongoing support! It’s the consistent support that is what really allows me to continue making this comic. You all truly are superheroes!

(Would you like to make sure this comic continues? Ready to dive even deeper into The Young Protectors world? Learn more about all the benefits of joining me and your fellow readers as part of The Young Protectors tribe on Patreon and then join the fun!)

So!

So! Cory apparently has a bad habit of reading into things. Almo doesn’t seem to want to hear about it. But Karthak isn’t letting it go!

Is the subject really closed for now? And was Cory really just reading too much into that hand holding?

Tune in next week to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

The Young Protectors: Fallen Chapter Two—Page 29

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