#published 2021

Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

Book 4. This book made me understand why so many people love this series. This was excellent. Something in the writing shifted this book that I can’t quite find the words to explain. Partly the descriptions felt more like they are being experienced rather than told, and partly Carl as a character was more open to both the other crawlers and to the reader. Maybe something about narrative construction? I’m not exactly sure.

The plot got me interested immediately in the group project but all your group partners are barely competent vibe of this floor. And then eventually turning into the actually functional group project vibe by the end.

Mordecai being consistently ready to throw hands is very endearing. Nice to see him becoming a character rather than just exposition.

I was vibing with this book for the first half and then suddenly it turned into the Untitled Goose Game and I might have lost my shit laughing. It was just so unexpected yet totally in character for the series.

Carl skyrocketed himself into the spot as my favorite character this book. Loving the plotting against the system and the planned chaos.

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Love Letters (9735 words) by @mysensitiveside Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Pete Lattimer, Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Teachers, Bering and Wells Holiday Gift Exchange 2020 Summary: For the latest Bering & Wells gift exchange! Myka didn't know how she'd gotten herself into all this. But here she was, exchanging emails with H.G., but doing so as Pete, so she would go out on a date with him. What could possibly go wrong?

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A cool AU and Myka getting over her insecurities, which is always cool to witness! Helena/Pete/Myka relations with OTP being as clear as they are in 2x1, one must only open their eyes ;) Definitely a fun read!

Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Women's Association Football | Women's Soccer RPF Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tobin Heath/Christen Press Characters: Tobin Heath, Christen Press, Alyssa Naeher, Morgan Brian, Mallory Pugh, Casey Short Additional Tags: soccer player tobin, Ballet dancer Christen

Summary:

Chicago Red Stars forward Tobin Heath, just trying to hard chill her way through life one day at a time, meets Christen Press, the uptight principal ballerina of the Chicago Ballet Company.

Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

Book 3 of like maybe 7. My favorite of the books so far. It seems to be shifting away from being as heavy on the game info and into more interpersonal issues, which is a good change.

I don’t remember most of this book until the 40% mark, but then the back 60% was the best of the series so far. Moments finally got an emotional reaction from me, which I was really hoping for in this book.

Mordecai was missing for almost all of this book but it was my favorite version of him so far. Not because of his absence, but the attempt at throwing a chair at someone’s head finally gave him some personality.

Carl has become my favorite character. And still enjoying the AI nonsense. We hate Bea in this house.

I think the end fight would be more impactful for readers who find the fighting aspect of these books more interesting. Meanwhile I got very invested in the two sentence mention of Agatha the shopping cart lady.

Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Think this was the 6th in publishing order, but per recommendation, I read it as the 5th book. This was fun! Murderbot does a murder mystery, deals with station politics, and is figuring out how to work “real” jobs and deal with colleagues. I enjoyed the interpersonal interactions happening in this. Also, how Murderbot really toes the line of the rules and leans into being passive aggressive.

As usual with Murderbot, parts of this book definitely made me emotional. The bit with the bots at the end. Oof.

Also, I was busy so tried to audiobook this. Then went back and re-read it in ebook. Glad I went back to reread, because I missed a lot of foreshadowing when just listening.

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AO3 link and details: The Matter at Hand (14900 words) by @tigrecat Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer Additional Tags: Fluff, Smut, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: In which the effects of an artifact lead to some forced proximity, and some forced proximity leads to… well, just read it.

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It's fluffy! It's funny! It's cute! It's hot!

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AO3 link and details: La Petite Mort (21972 words) by @tigrecat Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer Additional Tags: Artifact made them do it, (well kind of), Fluff, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content Summary: Will the arousing effects of an artifact and the power of Pete be enough to finally get Myka to make a move on H.G.?

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Sweet and sexy, with all the emotions and awkward communication around the artifact situation.

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I've had this submission form open for several days on three different devices, because every time when I went to copy the link I got caught up rereading passages over and over again. Take from that what you will!

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