Rain World Book Club

[balmy flame]

Yeah

Here it is

[rotund gorge]

Ping me when we're starting.

[balmy flame]

Maybe I can call upon Chief Cy to deliver book club from my illness

[earnest cradle]

How much would we be reading anyways

(I am not thinking about reading, bad at that )

[rotund gorge]

I would be reading, but I have things to wash.

[dire root]

I can
if this happens within the next 3 hours
or after the next like 5-6 hours

[worldly sentinel]

I can take up the reading! Maybe we start in 30 minutes?

[balmy flame]

My goat

Book club in 30 minutes

[stone moss]

Would it be fun/feasible if I voiced admin at the start?

[worldly sentinel]

If you like, sure!

[balmy flame]

[stone moss]

cant wait to have ||around 4?|| lines

[balmy flame]

Reader’s first steps

[craggy talon]

Holy shit that's so much

You sure you're not gonna strain yourself??

(I genuinely can't imagine trying to voice even a single character)

[earnest cradle]

||and the lines later on||

[stone moss]

||shhhh we dont talk about that its called job security, the companies dont like it||

[earnest cradle]

||nothing happened to DEB||

[frank schooner]

oh is book club today 👀

[stone moss]

in 15 mins!!

[frank schooner]

[paper steeple]

https://discord.com/channels/291184728944410624/297219247992733696
channel for book club, if bat flies are here that want to join do tell so we can switch it up before it starts

[worldly sentinel]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57666208/chapters/146746408 link to the fic

[paper steeple]

ping

[dense pecan]

My afternoon has become free now, though it may be a bit late

[earnest cradle]

a bit

[rotund gorge]

Just a tad.

[balmy flame]

So I think we’re reading the second half of Void Sea next Sunday?

[worldly sentinel]

I really liked this reading, I felt like the pacing in this fic is really good. (The "failure" part was hard to read aloud tho )

[balmy flame]

The pacing was great

I could feel all the foreshadowing and plots being set

Delightful start

[rotund gorge]

I am running on some hours of very poor sleep and this was most definitely worth it.

[rotund gorge]

Too late, Drymm.

So.

Can we talk a little about the time we start Book Club on, maybe?

Because, I'll be honest, Book Club starts in a pretty rough spot for me.

And a decent chunk of us did say that it was a little late for us to be awake.

Wait, I can poll this.

This isn't going to be the final say, of course.

I just want to see general opinions on it.

[dire root]

This is:
<t:1760284800:t> to <t:1760288400:t> on Sundays
Saturdays around <t:1760299200:t>
Saturdays around <t:1760284800:t> to <t:1760288400:t>
Keep as is
Other

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This will show your time, please account for daylights savings time as these times may change if you or UTC has a daylights savings time)

[rotund gorge]

I should probably have made this a multi-poll.

[rotund gorge]

Input says we move.

It is either universally agreed or almost universally agreed that the current schedule is not viable for most of us.

The problem is now that two of the three readers agree on one vote and the majority agree on another.

[dense pecan]

The solution may be what it was before, just that there needs to be more people willing to read

At the moment the main readers are Cy, Tree and I, and we generally share a timezone

The attendance ability would be very readily remedied of there was more variety of timezones

[frank schooner]

I'm not sure what timezones the current readers are in, but I'm in the UK timezone (currently BST) and would be willing to read if thatd help?

i wouldnt always be available as I often work sundays but I'm usually free by the time that got voted

[rotund gorge]

It is decided. We are forcibly moving Cy and Tree somewhere not America. /j /silly

[stone moss]

lmao

abduction by miros vulture

[dense pecan]

That'd be great!

[frank schooner]

[balmy flame]

[dire root]

By their wording, we can just move you two to canada or Mexico to keep yall close

[balmy flame]

Canada is not far from me at all tbf

[rotund gorge]

Consider: I said America, not specifically United States.

We are moving Cy and Tree off-continent.

[balmy flame]

Uprooted

[craggy talon]

South America

[rotund gorge]

No less America than North America.

[craggy talon]

L

[rotund gorge]

They both have America and begin with a 5-letter word.

[balmy flame]

But I would be an invasive species

Consider the environment

[rotund gorge]

Boring, we're moving you on a private jet.

[balmy flame]

At least I’ll be comfy

[rotund gorge]

We'll get you wine. Somehow.

[balmy flame]

Ridin in style

[rotund gorge]

Probably spray your roots with it.

[craggy talon]

We're putting you in the luggage area silly

[balmy flame]

[craggy talon]

We can't fit a whole tree on the passenger area

You're going in luggage area

😇

[rotund gorge]

Who said in a private jet?

[craggy talon]

Oh!

[balmy flame]

[craggy talon]

[rotund gorge]

God, we're all improv-deprived.

[balmy flame]

Real

[craggy talon]

Who heard had the most theater experience?

[balmy flame]

I need to get back to writing smh

[balmy flame]

Well who here has any theater experience to start?

[rotund gorge]

We're all theater kids at heart.

[balmy flame]

I take great umbrage at that

[craggy talon]

Umbrage?

[rotund gorge]

Resent.

[balmy flame]

I shower regularly so I can’t be a theater kid /silly

[craggy talon]

Why are you all using fancy pants language

[dire root]

I have a half year of theater in junior high

[rotund gorge]

To be frank, only ones I can see potentially having theater experience would be Soul and Cy.

[craggy talon]

And Sylvie apparently

Slyvie, teach us improv theater

[balmy flame]

Really?

[rotund gorge]

Who else would have theater?

[balmy flame]

I suppose I can see it

Wouldn’t surprise me if Jar did it in the past, but we don’t have many flamboyant types here tbf

We’re collectively too introverted for theater

[craggy talon]

What?

Me

I'm right here

Me ✨ fabulous ✨ self is here

Not flamboyant?

[rotund gorge]

Soul because what is it that he doesn't do, and Cy because, well, I don't know, Texan accent.

[craggy talon]

Psh

[dire root]

Uhhh
Stick to other people's lines
Dont add random stuff that goes wildly off-topic
Add on top of everyone else's stuff

[rich fjord]

✨ anxiety ✨

[craggy talon]

(absolutely not flamboyant enough )

[rotund gorge]

The Bookclub™ Texan Accent.

[balmy flame]

You strike me as generally too anxious for theater

[craggy talon]

Also very true

[rotund gorge]

I am a theater kid at heart, probably.

[balmy flame]

Theater is stressful so I can at least respect them for that

[balmy flame]

It’s great

[rotund gorge]

I now remember that one Anxiety X Somebody I Used To Know mashup.

[rotund gorge]

Yes.

[dire root]

Those songs always throw me for a loop on the radio, i never know which one it is until the lyrics kick in

[rotund gorge]

Randomly hearing Cowboyterator was not something I expected, but something I needed.

[balmy flame]

Iterator western when?

[rotund gorge]

"This can ain't big enough for the two of us, Partner." - DEB

[balmy flame]

Actually hear me out

So if the Ancients died out slowly

[rotund gorge]

Law becomes weaker?

[balmy flame]

Eventually the cities would have become so sparsely populated that they would functionally be lawless

Minus some forms of limited mob rule…. Like the Wild West

People would move around to scrounge food where farms no longer make it readily

Maybe they would even flee across the wastes below to escape a particularly brutal gang

[rotund gorge]

Tree.

[balmy flame]

Uh oh

[rotund gorge]

This is basically Cyberpunk.

[balmy flame]

I mean, true

[rotund gorge]

Nah, it isn't, I jest.

[balmy flame]

No you’re actually right

[frank schooner]

youre cooking here i fear

iteratorpunk maybe?

[rotund gorge]

It's more scifi meets western, and Cyberpunk is more capitalist dystopia.

[frank schooner]

biomechanicalpunk?

[balmy flame]

Fantasy and Sci-Fi are literally the same genre with different set dressings

[frank schooner]

basically yeah

[rotund gorge]

The structure of Rain World is, in most interpretations, authoritarian dystopia.

[balmy flame]

And westerns are basically mythology (fantasy) with an emphasis on lawlessness

…like cyberpunk-esque Sci-Fi dystopias

[rotund gorge]

We have reinvented Cyberpunk.

[balmy flame]

✅

[frank schooner]

yeah it's kind of hard to tell how it is for the citizens tbh, all the info we have on them is pov from the iterators

[balmy flame]

Anyway, Ancient Western would be fire

[frank schooner]

(unless theres something in watcher that i haven't finished in which case oops)

[balmy flame]

So we can insert whatever kind of dystopia we want

[rotund gorge]

"This can ain't big—"
"You do know we can feed off neuron flies, right?"

[frank schooner]

true!

[rotund gorge]

"Like, we can just do that?"

"...oh."

[frank schooner]

cue arc of war against the iterator

[balmy flame]

“Well, I was gonna shoot you anyway, so…”

[rotund gorge]

Yeah.

Maybe we take out the body mods and stuff.

We just have bioaugmented bodies using the most primal of weapons.

[frank schooner]

but they're Cool…

[rotund gorge]

Sharp stick and stone.

[balmy flame]

Scug Western is also possible too I suppose if you go far enough forward

Snowy Western

[rotund gorge]

Fair.

It seems that no matter how we go about it, everything be Cyberpunk.

[balmy flame]

But body mods would make for the craziest gunslingers

[frank schooner]

all roads lead to cyberpunk

[rotund gorge]

As in stuff like Sandy and arm cannons, I mean.

[balmy flame]

I can imagine Gerry “16 arms” Jenkins would be a menace in the streets

[rotund gorge]

We have the biopunk aspect.

We don't keep the tech aspect.

Metal rusts.

[frank schooner]

he has the fastest sixteen draws this side of the canyon…

[rotund gorge]

The flesh does not.

Ignore the rot.

[frank schooner]

maybe they use like. synthesised bone and exoskeleton and stuff as plating instead

[balmy flame]

Legend goes that if he misses once, he doesn’t miss a single of the other 15

[rotund gorge]

If he misses them all, he's already reloading.

[rotund gorge]

Maybe...

Hm.

Ancient Western sounds fire.

Iterator Western move aside, we now have Ancient Western.

[balmy flame]

Truthfully, given how poor everyone would gradually become, I can only imagine that they wouldn’t have many expensive weapons floating around

[frank schooner]

all of this because of a single accent

that just means the ones in circulation would be even more coveted

[rotund gorge]

I think, eventually, you return to the sticks and stones.

[balmy flame]

Well an iterator activated late (or having its memory reset?) would surely take on the mannerisms of surviving Ancients

Western Iterator

[balmy flame]

Ture, but guns can be pretty cheap, all things considered

[frank schooner]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but jokes on you I have more!

[balmy flame]

-Larry “900 bones” Johnson

[frank schooner]

Nobody knows how he can still move around…

[balmy flame]

Rumor has it that if he keeps going, he’s going to be too big for the void worms

Or maybe just kinda look enough like one they’ll assume he’s one of them

The short cousin nobody knows

[rotund gorge]

"jerry this one's taking a while i think hes one of us"

[balmy flame]

True ascension

Man, Ancient Western sounds so fun to write smh

[frank schooner]

it is a fire idea

[rotund gorge]

Go. Write.

Make it so.

[frank schooner]

it must be wrought…

[earnest cradle]

How will this affect aerodynamics

[rotund gorge]

Poorly.

[frank schooner]

the number one rule of aerodynamics is to have fun and be yourself

[balmy flame]

But too many other fics

and plague

[earnest cradle]

That's applicable to aviation in general as well

[rotund gorge]

Piotr, no.

We need Aeolian Waves 2, Piotr.

We need Spacefarer saying "Nanomachines, son", Piotr.

[balmy flame]

Nah we’re done with Sci-Fi here

We need “Doric Waves”

About everyone’s favorite gunslingin’ iterator taking on the law

[earnest cradle]

[balmy flame]

Yee haw pardner

[rotund gorge]

Wait.

[earnest cradle]

Why should i do pre-flight checks? The plane flew fine last week, what could have changed?

[rotund gorge]

I will prepare a letter to your girlfriend.

"He was a dumbass."

[frank schooner]

Don't worry about that Piotr. That wing hanging off looks awesome. Air traffic control is going to be soooo jealous

[balmy flame]

I think ATC wants a closer look for themselves. You should make sure to give them a very close view

[earnest cradle]

https://tenor.com/view/top-gun-fly-by-airplane-spill-drinking-coffee-gif-15162895

Why's it so slow

[frank schooner]

i ate all the spare frames

got peckish

[balmy flame]

We need Vulture Top Gun

Scugs fly King Vultures to war against the scavs

Top Gun

[earnest cradle]

Yeah, the flapping? Like a bird, it'll increase the lift!

[frank schooner]

Perfect!

[balmy flame]

“Experimental design”

[earnest cradle]

Passenger warning—This aircraft does not comply with federal safety regulations for standard aircraft

[frank schooner]

regulation shmegulations

[rotund gorge]

Dune Ornithopter much?

[balmy flame]

[frank schooner]

the number one rule of being an aircraft passenger is Dont Worry About It

[rotund gorge]

I haven't seen enough of Dune.

[balmy flame]

Holy fuck it is a thopter

[rotund gorge]

I need more Dune.

[balmy flame]

I need more Dune

[frank schooner]

me in my underwhelmingly small desert

[balmy flame]

God I fucking love Frank Herbert

[balmy flame]

Dune book 4

[dire root]

Aerodynamics?
Air resistance?
Whats that?
I've never heard of this in school

[frank schooner]

im a psychic

[earnest cradle]

Nothing ever happens

[earnest cradle]

Well you solve it by sprinkling a bit more pixie dust onto the airframe

[dire root]

Ahhh

[balmy flame]

What if I weld the jets of live vultures to the airframe?

Surely that would do something?

[earnest cradle]

Depends on which way you install them

[balmy flame]

Should I remove the angry vultures from my plane?

[dire root]

Likely wouldn't compare to a airplane jet engine
Also poor vultures, jetless (you never said the live vulutes were gonna be welded with the jets)

[balmy flame]

They keep firing harpoons at me

[frank schooner]

best put them on every direction just to be safe

[balmy flame]

Good idea

And they can obliterate anything that gets within harpoon range

[frank schooner]

Self defense is very important

[earnest cradle]

VTOL

[radiant forge]

Soulwing

[radiant forge]

Theater Soul is canon actually

[drowsy knoll]

Zeeljod

[exotic stirrup]

Affirmative.
Although I last have been on stage in 2017. But it was a main character role

I only started to draw because I didn’t manage to continue my acting hobby

[paper steeple]

no way I missed the theater talk

[rotund gorge]

Stories people are either theater kids or theater kids at heart.

[drowsy knoll]

I used to play in a band

[earnest cradle]

Nuh uh i did none of this stuff

Not willingly, anyways

[frank schooner]

yeah i was never really a theatre kid

[paper steeple]

6 years of theatre and musicals on the side
was ages ago tho

[stone moss]

id like to play in a theatre at some point, might be fun
but also id need to actually play in a theatre for that to happen

[tulip sphinx]

thats me im a theater kid

[rotund gorge]

Pros of performing: You get to perform.
Cons of performing: You gotta perform.

[stone moss]

Will there be book club tonight?

[dense pecan]

I'm busy this weekend! And certainly will also be busy the next

If anyone wants to host a book club they'll need to organize it themselves

[stone moss]

I just realised theres also formula one tonight so i might not even attend if there is

[paper steeple]

thank god their was no book club today, i was worried for a sec i had missed it

[fleet skiff]

When is the next? Next week?

[balmy flame]

Next week

[plucky niche]

How's the club of books? :3

[balmy flame]

Meeting on Sunday

[drowsy knoll]

[frank schooner]

[rich fjord]

cries

thats when i have dnd i think

[plucky niche]

what are yall gonna read on sunday?

[earnest cradle]

Continuing #1360366531258613760 i assume

I thiiiink from chapter 8 onwards, unsure

[stone moss]

i vaguely remember someone saying "we're going to read the other half" but that severely underestimates the increase in length of the later chapters

[earnest cradle]

Nah we're commited even if it takes 4 hours /j /silly

[topaz perch]

shoutout to bookclub for having better scheduling and attendence than every single ttrpg group ive been in

[balmy flame]

It’s okay, our recent poll changed up the times we usually do it

<t:1761496200:F>

<@&1191913546284544200>

[kind walrus]

BEATEN BY A SECOND

[earnest cradle]

[paper steeple]

BOOKCLUB

(can someone ping me just in case this time, i keep forgetting and i dont wanna miss it )

[frank schooner]

i won't be able to make this bookclub (working) 😔

[stone moss]

[stone moss]

bookclub day

[topaz perch]

https://tenor.com/view/boondocks-gif-19978444

[paper steeple]

https://discord.com/channels/291184728944410624/983136935084187698 Bookclub time

[fair roost]

Goodamnit.

Forgot to ask

[paper steeple]

since it seems like the new time didnt work as well as planned we are moving bookclub back by 5 hours from the original time, hope that works for everyone

yes?

[fair roost]

What days are you usually do this kind of thing?

Every?...

[paper steeple]

sunday

we try to

[fair roost]

Okie

[paper steeple]

also welcome to stories book club
you shall never be able to escape again

[fair roost]

Ehhh, I'm just checking out how it works. We'll see.

[paper steeple]

fair enough

[balmy flame]

I slept straight through the new time

[drowsy knoll]

Lmao, I missed it as I was busy

Hope y'all had fun tho!

[paper steeple]

oh we moved it

noone showed up

i dont think the new time works

[swift bobcat]

That new time would have worked for me if i hadn't forgotten about bookclub today

[stone moss]

I think the new time was very... ambitious 💀

[swift bobcat]

Oh well

[stone moss]

at what time would this be then?

[balmy flame]

In 4 hours from now

I.E. the normal time

[stone moss]

ah i see

[drowsy knoll]

It's a bit too early in the day for me, I'm often busy that time on Sundays

[stone moss]

let's hope formula one is finished by then

[fair roost]

Nope, in two

Also, @paper steeple , just to clarify, I need to stop at the 6th chapter, correct?

[paper steeple]

read all the way up to seven, stop at eight

[stone moss]

i hope i'll be able to join cause formula one exists but if not HA V E F U N : )

[fleet skiff]

I'm confused now.

So, it would have been <t:1761507000> today?

[drowsy knoll]

3h earlier

[drowsy knoll]

[fleet skiff]

With the new time, or the new new revised time?

[drowsy knoll]

<t:1761512400:t> is the new time I guess?

[fair roost]

Uhhhh they are dead it seems.

@paper steeple is offline.

Annnnnd....

[paper steeple]

oh no im here

[paper steeple]

half an hour later!

[drowsy knoll]

I'm silly

Spreading misinfo

[paper steeple]

tho we will probably in the call earlier, we usually always are in a call for ten minutes eariler so everyone can join

[paper steeple]

it was close enough

[fair roost]

Uhhh BTW I probs gonna just listen at the bookclub.
My PC was bricked while I was at work, and I can get it fixed only tomorrow.
I'll still be there, just will probably try and minimise amount of talking.

[paper steeple]

there aint much talking in bookclub anyhow

https://discord.com/channels/291184728944410624/297219247992733696
second try, twenty more minutes till the official start 👀

[stone moss]

Ill probably be late

[worldly sentinel]

@stone moss

[paper steeple]

[stone moss]

F1 is too interesting rn but with any luck ill be there in like 10-15

[paper steeple]

Book Club homework, everybody

chapter nine is the last chapter that has been complete, better get to work

[earnest cradle]

Wow, a whole two chapters?! /silly

[paper steeple]

do your homework kiddo

[earnest cradle]

Alriiiight

grandma

[balmy flame]

My alarm didn’t go off

[stone moss]

bookclub tmorrow?

[fleet skiff]

Today?

[stone moss]

i hope so :D

[fair roost]

UHHHH @paper steeple bookclub or nah?

[paper steeple]

didnt seem like anything was planned for today

tree usually does the planning so you might wanna ask him, might be a little short term for today tho

[balmy flame]

Not today

Tree has to drive back to college and study for a Latin exam tomorrow morning

[earnest cradle]

Damn, latin?

[balmy flame]

I took five classes while working part time because I like to suffer, I assume

[stone moss]

[paper steeple]

Hows it looking this Sunday @balmy flame?

[rotund gorge]

Do we have a fic to read?

[stone moss]

:D

(mine iirc)

[frank schooner]

i may be able to make it, my shift finishes a half hour before so depends if i clock out on time

i will try my best to be there tho o7

[stone moss]

boocklub today right :D

[fleet skiff]

When today?

[stone moss]

not today

#stories-discussion message

times a busy

[frank schooner]

well at least i won't be late

[fleet skiff]

Sad

[balmy flame]

Tree promises Bclub next weekend for sure

[rotund gorge]

Unraveling done by 2026. /j

At this point, Unraveling after GTA6.

[earnest cradle]

Unraveling after half life 3

[balmy flame]

It’s almost that next weekend already huh

[umbral topaz]

Hi

I live again

https://media.tenor.com/ecTOxf6c1HAAAAAj/rainworld-scug.gif

[stone moss]

:D

[balmy flame]

I could do something in like 6-7ish hours I think

[stone moss]

Depending on when (if?) it starts i might no longer be awake so in that case i hope it's fun!

[balmy flame]

Doesn’t seem like anyone else is around and I’m exhausted

I think I’m getting sick again

[rotund gorge]

Ah. Oh no.

[stone moss]

Aw man, hope you feel better quicc

[craggy talon]

Wondering if my fic would show up and I'm not even here lmao

[tulip sphinx]

mine showed up for a while when I'm not in book club

[azure gust]

Still waiting for the Tunic story to make it

[fleet skiff]

What's the tunic story?

[azure gust]

Last year I wrote a short story about Saint meeting the Ruin Seeker (the fox you play as in Tunic). I was listening to the Tunic OST, got fed up there's a criminal lack of Tunic stories, decided to write one myself

It was very well received when I posted it. Also, it's short at around 2.5K words

[fleet skiff]

Ah, okay.

[stone moss]

[polar plume]

Holy peak mentioned

Lebron scream if you love Tunic

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-screaming-lebron-james-yelling-nba-lebron-james-screaming-gif-2259314201606716528

[stone moss]

:D

[dense pecan]

I think it's almost a year since one of the first readings we ever did

I was traveling and had to prop my computer up on a drying rack, I think it might've been for Tabula

I'm reminded that the original purpose wasn't to do readings together, but to share and talk about fics we wanted to read, so we could discuss them together

The readings are wonderful and I don't want them to stop, but I'm afraid it's so difficult to schedule around everyone's workload, and we tend to let this place sit idle

I think we should start talking about the stuff we're currently reading more often, in text, and not focus so much on voice readings, so we can spend more time here discussing what we've found and what we like!

I just found this one: if you must live (just live) by sp1resong. It's short, but very lovely, and it's a small snapshot of Watcher greeting Hunter, at the end of one of his lives

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75418746

[stone moss]

I NEED TO CONTINUE THAT ONE OHHH i completely forgor

From the small bit ive read it was really cool

[tulip sphinx]

do it! read it! it's really good

not wildly long either

[stone moss]

Oh hey is that title a reference to You by keaton henson??? If so epicc

I am reminded of this fic, i think the wroterer is in here too https://archiveofourown.org/works/63513934
Relatively short read, but manages to be very atmospheric and sort of really unsettling

[dense pecan]

I really really liked this one, it reminded me of Sunrise in the Scrapyard just a little bit, in the way that it uses imagery and chooses its narrators

It's genuinely very lovely and very sad, and I'm surprised I hadn't seen it before

It certainly deserves more attention than it's gotten, it only has for comments

[stone moss]

yessss

[stone moss]

bumpies

[topaz perch]

[stone moss]

CONSIDER: new scug called the Reader

instantly summons a bunch of prose about different things when using their ability

things like
"Ah. I see. A red lizard. Whuh oh. Oh no. Nononono. NO WAIT NO NONO N-"

[balmy flame]

New scug called the Writer who insists that they’re writing (they’re not)

[stone moss]

when meeting pebbles he goes like "dude you promised that fic ages ago get out of my chamber right now"

[topaz perch]

😭

[stone moss]

:D new year new book club (this is a lie)

[earnest cradle]

new year no book club /j /silly

[azure gust]

'Ello cultists

Would me tossing a direct link for a story fix the drought in here?

[earnest cradle]

Hm, iiiii don't think so?

[balmy flame]

[craggy talon]

So what's the issue here?

Why the drought?

[dire root]

Lack of coordination
No one says anything on Sunday

[craggy talon]

Aw

[balmy flame]

Been busy

(Rotting on my couch over break)

[stone moss]

WAIT IS THAT A RAMIEL PFP??? i can't believe i hadn't noticed yet

(very off topic oops but also O C T A H E D R O N)

[craggy talon]

Silly

[dense pecan]

Built by an iterator to read the stories they write, the reader can't understand all that they're reading since they've really never left their home. One day they sneak out into the world to experience it firsthand, discovering that it's far more dangerous than previously imagined

[dense pecan]

Deserts are complex ecosystems, adapted to survive off rare and heavy rain. Send it!!

[azure gust]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56498164

[dense pecan]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74154686/chapters/193491861

Here's mine for this Sunday, I'll give yours a look Captain

[stone moss]

Bump!

[polar plume]

Don’t bump me EVER again or I will permanently BAN you/j

[earnest cradle]

Bold words for someone who didn't make the forum /j /silly

[polar plume]

My dad owns Rain World and he can trap you in an eternal Cycle of life and rebirth.

[earnest cradle]

[polar plume]

[craggy talon]

Has Book Club happened yet,m?

[rotund gorge]

Unfortunately not.

[balmy flame]

If we want one, you can always yell at me

I’ve been in my Treefailure era recently /j

[grave summit]

TREEEEEEEEEEEEEE, when book club 💥

[stone moss]

Ok!! TR💥

[balmy flame]

I swear I turned the nefarious machine off

[stone moss]

i suppose i'm just used to it

[balmy flame]

Anyway, who’s down for bclub at <t:1772913600:F>

[azure vortex]

I'd like to take part (if I can remember)

[fleet skiff]

Same for me.

[rotund gorge]

Too late for me.

[grave summit]

I'd be interested

[stone moss]

Bclub tday ::)

[grave summit]

https://tenor.com/view/rain-world-rain-world-rainworld-rw-gif-2561773649723321477

[rotund gorge]

Alternately, I can sleep right now and wake up for it.

[earnest cradle]

That sounds, uh, certainly like an idea

[rotund gorge]

What are we even reading?

[earnest cradle]

Idk

[rotund gorge]

Tree.

What are we reading?

[azure vortex]

Words methinks

[fleet skiff]

Can someone ping me when it starts?

[azure vortex]

Is quiet

[stone moss]

yea...

[stone moss]

is this going to the be happen?

[dire root]

@azure vortex and @stone moss if yall want to do book club, yall should go ahead and hop in a vc and do it yourselves if Tree doesn't respond

@fleet skiff you wanted to be pinged as well

[stone moss]

...true...

what are we going to read then

[fleet skiff]

Is there any specific rules on how that is chosen?

[stone moss]

there's a spreadsheet at least with some things?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nwJrbn5Y69EaystGRnLIULz3xbSlg1tEusCpeiuYYBs/edit?usp=sharing < said sheet

[dire root]

there's normally a vote

[stone moss]

truee

[fleet skiff]

Last one seems to have been a year or so ago.

[dire root]

the more recent ones may have not been pinned

[stone moss]

also it's not very recently updated lmao

[fleet skiff]

There's fics for recommendation

In the sheets

google sheets

[dire root]

yall can read what yall like, it shouldn't matter too much

that it happens at all is more important

[stone moss]

i do remember at least we were reading my fic most recently, but we were at like... chapter 10? i think?

so that's like only really useful if everyone's already read up to that point

[fleet skiff]

Which story is that?

[stone moss]

The Void Sea Doesn't Reach Into Orbit Yet

[fleet skiff]

I think I'm only at chapter 5 for that one.

[stone moss]

yea

we could read the stories chat corpse thing?

[dire root]

that one is good, the first few chapters are a little short, i think the last few are a little bit longer

[stone moss]

Nice

i'm in vc in case people want to join, then we can go from there i guess

[azure vortex]

I'm a bit anxious with vc. I know that sounds dumb.

[fleet skiff]

Only when talking in vc, or just being in one?

[azure vortex]

Talking

[stone moss]

well you don't necessarily need to talk, and there's the text chat

[azure vortex]

Mkay

[dire root]

unless you're reading, you can just be in there

[grave summit]

[stone moss]

(we will be reading this one https://archiveofourown.org/works/77661586/chapters/203406641)

[azure vortex]

Neato

[stone moss]

Are you planning on joining still? cause then we'll wait for you to join before we start

[fleet skiff]

Wait, are you already in a voice channel?

[stone moss]

yea lmao i might not have been very clear on that oops

[fleet skiff]

Well, that does explain something.

[stone moss]

in the Amphitheater

[fleet skiff]

I can't see it, though.

[stone moss]

ah

[fleet skiff]

It might be monk-only.

[stone moss]

hold on

[grave summit]

Platforms?

[stone moss]

<@&1191913546284544200> can someone put @fleet skiff in the amphitheater (that's how this works right)

[grave summit]

We can use that one, it is batfly

[stone moss]

oh i see

[grave summit]

or we can do that lol

[stone moss]

[grave summit]

they should have perms iirc

[fleet skiff]

I'll be back in a moment.

[stone moss]

ominous piotr

[earnest cradle]

uhhhh can i do that?

[stone moss]

Good question, one i cannot answer

[grave summit]

Easiest would be to hop into a batfly vc

[stone moss]

true, let's just do that then

[grave summit]

yipie!

[fleet skiff]

Okay, I'm back

[earnest cradle]

official mod team response to "how do i get a batfly into a non-batfly VC?":

"lol, lmao, get them to get more XP" (lightly paraphrased) /silly

[stone moss]

lmao

[flat rover]

hallo

[stone moss]

We read until chapter 5, so next time we can start from chapter 6 and see where we land

with the obvious hope that this means book club isn't a dead corpse walking lmao (different kind of corpse but still)

[azure vortex]

When time is better of the essence, or course. It's currently midday for me if that helps, though I wouldn't mind meeting earlier.

[stone moss]

For me it's headed towards midnight lmao

timezones, the eternal bookclub nemesis

[flat rover]

i finished chapter 5

https://tenor.com/view/mewgenics-gambit-zodiac-angry-birds-dice-gif-6788767343067230591

so it would be chapter 6

the next one right?

[stone moss]

up to and including chapter 5 i guess would be more sussinct

[azure vortex]

Also, Ch 6 is super short, the rest are about similar length to 4 & 5.

[flat rover]

i was kindoff slow

but is that alright?

[azure vortex]

That's quite alright

[flat rover]

or do i need to improve

[stone moss]

most of the time we just see who wants to read the chapters when the next bookclub happens, so we'll just decide then, it doesn't really matter much

[flat rover]

i made a google doc so i dont forget

[azure vortex]

It may affect how long the meeting goes. Improve however you can if you want to (not saying you have to).

We'll happily enjoy the reads at whatever pace as long as we're enjoying them together.

[stone moss]

Aanyways @after-t13 i updated the spreadsheet as well, so it should be at least sort of up to date now, with whatever i could remember and find in the text channel

[flat rover]

alrighty

till next meeting!

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress-2-tf2-meet-the-pyro-pyro-meet-the-team-gif-11407682666078087918

[azure vortex]

By then my AO3 account should finally be up, and I can give my fair kudos and comments to the work directly as well.

[flat rover]

i may found the hidden gem

[balmy flame]

Oh shit I thought it was Sunday

[stone moss]

For a sec i was like "wait shit was it uh oh oh no"

[balmy flame]

Oh well

My bad

Did it go well?

[grave summit]

Seemed like it? Quite a few people joined

Burgerbox did really well with the first three chapters (I had to go after that)

[stone moss]

I read the first four chapters, then Mrgiggles took over for the fifth since it was late on my end, but it was fun! Went pretty well i think, especially for my first time doing a full reading

[stone moss]

Bclub on sunday this time?

[azure vortex]

I can do that. Depends if others are okay with it too.

[balmy flame]

Sure

[stone moss]

:)

[azure vortex]

I might not be able to make it

[stone moss]

At what time will it start?

[stone moss]

If it starts at the same time ill probably be late

[balmy flame]

I forgor

[stone moss]

it happens

[fleet skiff]

Same.

[azure vortex]

I guess my business didn't end up being an issue...

[stone moss]

should i ping you next time? Like, some time before it's actually supposed to start? Idk if that has any chance to help remember, especially if you're away from discord

[stone moss]

this week?

[balmy flame]

Sure

[stone moss]

[grave summit]

btw, will there be any book club this weekend?

[balmy flame]

Gah yes

<t:1774810800:F>

[grave summit]

nice, i can attend

i'll put it in my schedule

[stone moss]

:D

[stone moss]

[radiant forge]

The ants got him

[rotund gorge]

Nah, it was the termites.

The Other Colony killed them, which is why you don't see them anymore.

But Tree is gone.

[balmy flame]

FUCK

every time man

[stone moss]

What's a good time to do a reminder ping

[balmy flame]

I should probably just make it later on Sunday

[stone moss]

For me it's already late lmao (timezones...)