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"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

Season 1: 

Episode 1: Hera Narrates My Least Favorite Audiobook 

Episode 2: Hilbert Whips It Out (“It” Being Hydrochloric Acid) 

Episode 3: We Use Napalm as Fertilizer 

Episode 4: I Almost Drown in Space [Alt title: I Almost Drown in Starlight, Strangled By My Own Bra] 

Episode 5: Hilbert Makes Me Take a Sick Day

Episode 6: We Find the Hephaestus’s Voicemail [Alt title: The Hephaestus Gets Haunted]

Episode 7: Hilbert Finds Space Plant Jesus (Or the Other Way Around) 

Episode 8: The Quarterly Talent Show Ends with a Bang 

Episode 9: We Get an Ominous Message 

Episode 10: I Make a Nature Documentary [Alt title: My Worst Nightmare is Hairy and Slimy] 

Episode 11: We Talk to Ourselves 

Episode 12: I Smoke My Last Cigarette 

Episode 13: Minkowski Whips It Out (“It” Still Being Hydrochloric Acid)

Season 2: 

Episode 14: We Check Our Voicemail and Send a Call Home 

Episode 15: Hilbert Has the World’s Worst Science Fair Project 

Episode 16: Hera Gets Frankenstein'd 

Episode 17: Minkowski Corrects a Really Weird Typo 

Episode 18: Captain Lovelace Flies the Coop 

Episode 19: Hera Gives Me the Giggles 

Episode 20: Hilbert Whips It Out with Me (“It” Is Not Hydrochloric Acid) 

Episode 21: Minkowski Takes Up Extreme Horticulture [Alt title: We Have Unexpected Houseguests]

Episode 22: Our New Escape Pod is the Bomb 

Episode 23: We Lock Ourselves Out of Lovelace’s Car [Alt title: We Are Shocked by Lovelace’s Terrible Puns] 

Episode 24: Minkowski Gives Hera Tactical Brain Damage 

Variations on a Theme: Lovelace Sees Ghosts 

Episode 25: I Get The Incurable Cough of Doom 

Episode 26: The Crew Fixes Things 

Episode 27: We Almost Lose Our Heads 

Episode 28:  I Talk to Myself (Again)

Season 3: 

Episode 29: The Crew Chills Out 

Episode 30: I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends 

Episode 31: The Hephaestus Gets New Management 

Episode 32: A Loose End Blows Up 

Episode 33: I Have My Last Check-Up 

Episode 34: We Get Our Head in the Game 

Episode 35: The Crew Quacks Up 

Episode 36: Maxwell Cuts the Wrong Wire

Episode 37: The Crew Rides Space Mountain 

Episode 38: Hilbert Finds the Dentist’s Chair from Hell 

Episode 39: I Don’t Push the Big Red Button 

Episode 40: Hera Locks Us Out

Episode 41: Hera Learns the Ways of the Force 

Episode 42: Maxwell and Jacobi Play “Spot the Difference" 

 Episode 43: Reports of Our Deaths are Greatly Exaggerated 

Episode 44: We Try Not to be Monsters [Alt title: I Stage a Mutiny]

Episode 45: The Ship Goes Down with the Crew 

Episode 46: We Don’t Drink to Our Friends' Memory 

Change of Mind: Captain Lovelace Replays the Team-Building Game 

Season 4: 

Episode 47: We Meet an Alien 

Episode 48: We Get the Big Picture 

Episode 49: Lovelace Goes in Circles 

Episode 50: Lovelace and I Unlock the Avatar State 

Episode 51: I Shut Up and Listen 

Episode 52: We Get Locked In (Again) 

Episode 53: Minkowski and I Solve Riddles 

Episode 54: I Talk to Myself (Third Time’s the Charm)

Episode 55: The Crew Gets a Performance Review 

Episode 56: Kepler Gets a New Right Hand [Alt title: I Quit My Job at the Body Snatchers Incorporated]

Episode 57: Minkowski Walks Off the Job 

Episode 58: We Play Hide and Seek 

Episode 59: Jacobi Takes a Shot 

Episode 60: Mr. Cutter Meets with Our Union 

It's real weird how I started my return-to-reading journey with PG Wodehouse (mostly because Ms. Diana Wynne Jones cited him as a big influence…) and I initially didn't really feel a whole lot while reading his books.

Now though, after going through a ton more classic lit, I'm starting to think that it's kind of remarkable that Wodehouse's books don't have, like, a whole lot of racism/antisemitism as far as I can tell despite being written in the early 1900s. Aside from the fatphobia in "A Damsel in Distress", his stories have held up pretty well so far (even if his humour never landed for me). I haven't read the whole series, and I don't really plan to, but it does go to show that… idk… authors could still find success without bigotry even then.

Like, sometimes things really do feel like products of their time and it's nice to say that I've read so-and-so classic book for the first time this year and that I understand why they became popular… but also, a lot of the time I really do think that some of the old classics are bad. Not just in terms of the author's prejudices — I also think that they're boring, their characters have zero depth to them, and the prose is extremely poor. I'm thinking specifically of Narnia (which I revisited for nostalgia reasons), 1984, and The Sign of the Four. I really expected to enjoy those books especially, and just came out of those experiences a hater :/

Brave New World sucks. The prose is fine, and I actually liked the opening chapter as a horror-scifi dystopia. Learning that the author actually believed that he was prophesying the future, though? That killed my interest stone cold dead. Also, I couldn't look past the racism and misogyny.

Lolita is actually incredible character writing. Like, Nabokov makes it SO clear what kind of slimy, deluded coward he was writing from the word go. Every time Dolores speaks and acts, too, she breaks the illusion that she's some fantasy object for the protagonist — she makes poor decisions, yes, but she's also an abused, rebellious midwestern kid who's trying her damndest and her final act on the page is a pure rejection of the main character. I def needed a break after reading this though, it was rough.

Oliver Twist was boring, super Christian, and I read a copy that retained all of the absolutely vile antisemitic stereotypes. Reading behind the scenes, it's nice that Dickens eventually thought better of his depiction of Jewish people after the initial backlash, but even aside from that, I would've disliked the book for the overly religious messaging anyways. I like his prose, though.

Great Expectations was fine, I guess. I don't know that I cared about any of the characters, but Estella was the most interesting out of all of them. I would've liked the book more if we'd gotten her POV, but that would've made it a different kind of book that I don't think Dickens wanted to write.

I've tried to get into Sherlock Holmes but I have a different experience with the stories depending on how they're presented, I think? The audiobooks so far have me wanting to throw Holmes out a window. When I listen to him in a stage play or a radio drama though, I'm suddenly fully bought in on his enigmatic bs. Is what matters to me really all about how his lines are delivered?? Hmm.

Beowulf is uncomplicatedly fun, but I think it'd be epic with music.

The Mabinogion is boring. I can def see how it was meant to be an oral tradition told with music and dancing and audience participation, but as a book it's not worth it lol. Also, Geraint and Enid sucks! Enid, let your man die! All he does is tell you to shut up when you're just looking out for him! Kill him!!!!!!

Frankenstein was weird because the monster doesn't match his pop culture/movie depictions at all. Victor Frankenstein is a fun (the first?!) iteration of a failed scientist running from his problems. Frankenstein's monster though, he talked SO DAMN MUCH. And, while the movies and stuff portray him as a sad & strong baby, book!monster is a lot more ambiguous in his morality. Like. He does kill innocent people on purpose. What he does is wrong and he knows it the whole time, but he's still sympathetic and the reader can easily imagine another path that his life could've taken. Once he started talking, I did wish that he would shut up though, lol. I wonder how he comes off in del Toro's adaptation. Mary Shelley's short stories were also very good.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (unabridged translation) was SO LONG. And it's extremely obvious that it was originally published as a serialized story for young boys. Verne's attention to detail is incredible but also, I get why most translators chose to abridge his stories. Most of the book was just everyone goggling at and expositing about the wonders of the ocean. Which, cool, and it's interesting to read a… scifi (?) story set in the Earth's oceans instead of outer space, but I was expecting a lot more character work, lol. I didn't like the racism in it also.

The Bell Jar and Sylvia Plath's poetry were interesting but still, the racism… plus, the nazi imagery in her poetry is weird. The Bell Jar turning out to be autobiographical is sad as all hell, though. I feel bad for her and it sucks that her abusive husband got to manage her estate and destroy some of her diary entries after.

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (translated by Clarence Brown) was a crazy read with a character voice that I could never replicate. And the female deuteragonist had agency and a personality, too! (Unlike in 1984 lol. God, I hate 1984 and I hate Orwell.)

The Earthsea Cycle was extremely, extremely good. 'A Wizard of Earthsea' was EXACTLY what I wanted in a fantasy novel after coming off of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. I liked the feminist perspective that the series took after that. I've been working through Le Guin's other books, but they don't really hit me the way that the Earthsea series does. Prob bc I'm more into fantasy than I am scifi.