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Can America's well-financed, highly-experienced, heavily-armed war machine hope to prevail against a numerically insignificant, poorly-armed, American teen movement?

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
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Episode 2743: I Watch the World Go Round and Round and See Mine Turning Upside Down

Impractical weapons can actually be good if they impress your enemy so much that they're too afraid to fight you.

If that doesn't work, though, you're screwed. And rightly so.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Well, I'm not sure why it's happening here, but I'll take it! Whatever is actually going on causing Kylo to get rid of that lightsaber has to be something quite important. We wouldn't get a whole page for it otherwise.

I still think he should stay stuck here on this shipwreck, but he's at least getting a little smarter about things. Not that smart though; throwing away a tool like that while he's stuck? Bad idea. Lightsabers can cut things, they can burn or melt things, they can provide a little bit of light: they actually make decent survival tools when you get a little creative. Sure, you can chop your hand or arm off if you're not careful, but the same can happen with other survival tools.

I suppose the question is what's going to rescue Kylo. It'd be great if he was stuck here, but the plot still has a ways to go judging from the page count. Something's going to pick him up eventually before the movie ends.

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Seven books new to me. four fantasy, one horror, one ostensibly non-fiction, and one romance. Three are series. Yeah, there does seem to be a shortage of science fiction.

I had a bunch of stuff come in just after the cut-off time for these. Next week will look very different.

Books Received, February 14 — February 20


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I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder (May 2026)
3 (7.3%)

In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir by Francis Fukuyama (September 2026)
5 (12.2%)

A Divided Duty: An October Daye Novel by Seanan McGuire (September 2026)
14 (34.1%)

Wickhills by Premee Mohamed (September 2026)
16 (39.0%)

Hallowed Bones: A Sons of Salem Novel by Lucy Smoke (October 2026)
2 (4.9%)

Falling for a Villainous Vampire by Charlotte Stein (October 2026)
6 (14.6%)

I Am the Monster Under the Bed: A Novel by Emily Zinnikas (September 2026)
14 (34.1%)

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

Cats!
34 (82.9%)

The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

Feb. 20th, 2026 09:10 am
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A successful businesswoman has the opportunity of a lifetime offered to her, only to have an old friend greatly complicate matters.

The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

All Regulations Are Written in Blood

Feb. 19th, 2026 12:10 pm
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PCs are field agents in charge of finding and dealing with arcane occupational safety violations. That six-sided summoning pentagram? Flagged. That storeroom where the universal solvent is next to the lemonade? Flagged.

That deadly-trap-filled dungeon abandoned by its creator when the maintenance fees got too high? Red tagged.

This isn't the same as my recent FabUlt campaign. That was about discouraging the worst excesses in a world run by oligarch mages and there weren't really regulations. This would be set in a regulatory state, and would be more an exploration of normalization of deviance.

Slow Gods by Claire North

Feb. 19th, 2026 08:52 am
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Against the gleefully hypocritical, exploitative Shine, the very gods themselves contend in vain.


Slow Gods by Claire North
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Episode 2742: Everyone Hears Us, But They All Seem to Ignore Us

If there's anything that still seems mysterious from past adventures or encounters, feel free to bring it up whenever you get the opportunity. Ask NPCs about it. Seek information. Somebody might know.

And if you do ever get an explanation, it will be so satisfying to have it! And it shows your GM that you're interested in their worldbuilding.

Secret GM tip: If players do this, just tell them anything to get them to shut up.

aurilee writes:

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This part of the scene is definitely not helping matters. I'd been pretty sure Han and Leia were together, so Han touching Kylo's face like this is really weird. Like, what on earth are the writers thinking, kinds of weird. Okay, maaaaaybe it'd be alright if Kylo was actually like 15 years old instead of just acting 15 it'd make sense. But that'd still need Han and Leia to be Kylo's parents, which feels implausible at the moment. Maybe that's due to the ghost and/or delusion thing I'm distracted by, but there's not much else to visually indicate there's a relationship of any kind beyond adversarial for Kylo and pretty much everyone else in the movies.

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The Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Campaign, a bare-bones old-school tabletop roleplaying game by designer Luke Gearing.

Bundle of Holding: Wolves Upon the Coast
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Only witches hunt demons, all witches are women, and Uroro cannot be defeated by any woman. Uroro feels entirely safe, right until the world's first male witch defeats him.

Ichi the Witch, volume 1 by Osamu NIchi & Shiro Usazaki (Translated by Adrienne Beck)
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