Years ago, I lent out my copy of Goblet of Fire to my mom's friend, who later apologized profusely because she couldn't find it anywhere. A year later, she cleaned out her enormous purse and found the 4-lb tome at the bottom!

Some excellent advice and resources, thank you! (And this is meant kindly and helpfully: remember to use these same resources when pronouncing Arabic names in your Lady Astronaut series, which was my one nit about your excellent narration)

Extra Wizard of Oz vibes

"pay no attention to the ides of March"?

I'd love to read it!

Starting the Butlerian Jihad because an AI tried to tell me how much spice was enough

(In related news, the Justice Department is threatening to prosecute anyone who doesn't enforce such policies too)

So may be the most important lesson here is that, if you want to have a chance at avoiding future fascism or other forms of totalitarianism, is that when it comes to certain populists tactics, of identifying minority groups to dump on and to energise your supporters with, 31/

I witnessed one "clean out" of an underpass WHILE IT WAS SNOWING and people lost their warm sleeping bags, among other things!

Or the 3 sets of silver I ended up with 💀

I got out a clean fluffy towel for her to sit on while she dries, but apparently that's Too Scary™️