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radiolab: (comes on the radio)
me: wow this dolphin language stuff is cool! i should start listening to radiolab again!
radiolab: (eerie music) (dramatic music) but will we ever really ...... communicate (bing bong whoosh)
me: MMMMM never mind

Edit to add: Immediately after this I was subjected to about twenty minutes of David Sedaris being acidically unpleasant. Time to go relisten to Amnesty instead,

boglins

I’m listening to the Goblin Emperor audiobook again while I finish knitting my dad’s Christmas present, because this book is comfort food for me. It’s slow, and sometimes long periods of time go by between moments of connection between the characters, but those moments really feel earned because of it.

Also, the beginning of this book from Csevet’s perspective is Wild. You’re a member of the generally scorned profession of couriers, and you’re sent to tell the new emperor he’s emperor; he shows up barefoot, mussed and harried by his awful cousin, commandeers your return airship, and then INVITES YOU UP TO SEE THE SUNRISE

AND THEN LEANS IN AND DROPS FORMALITY TO ASK FOR YOUR NAME

and it really just. keeps going from there.