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@peterwestley_ bass-baritone, D2 to D4 (then up to maybe C5 in falsetto). 3.5 years on T, was previously an alto, no formal training but a lot of practice.

@kj_charles BARON WASTELAND for a Gothic. MUCH OF A MARCHIONESS for ... okay mostly I just wanted to get "marchioness" in there.

@garius If text adventures count, there's Choice of Broadsides, from 2010? I can't speak to the historical detail but remember it being quite fun ... choiceofgames.com/broadsides

Look, all I ask for in life is a single player, stpry-rich RPG where I get to rise up from midshipman and command a frigate in Napoleonic era battles along the French coast. Is that really too much to ask?

@scalzi Some standouts for me were Winter's Orbit (Maxwell), Phoenix Extravagant (Lee), The Witness for the Dead + sequel (Addison), the Singing Hills books (Vo), Subcutanean (Reed), multiple Ursula Vernon books, but we are in a legit golden age here.

@seananmcguire Halloumi

Okay: Twitter's algorithm decided to boost yesterday's Very Heavy thread, and my mentions are currently a trauma fountain. I'd like to change that. PLEASE SHOW ME YOUR CATS (or dogs or goats or birds or whatever). JUST PET PICS FOREVER.

This is Not A Good Day for many of us, for a lot of truly excellent reasons. So I have a request: if you're here on Twitter, please show me your cats. Give us a psychic cleanser of a thread, so we can keep going through the difficult parts ahead.

@kj_charles @JoPaice Crushed Oreos make great soil - I wonder if the Golden Oreo version would work for sand? (also hello, long time reader, very rare tweeter, I love your books.)

@UrsulaV @kristadb1 On A Lee Shore by Elin Gregory - starts in 1718, disgraced Navy lieutenant meets dashing pirate captain. (Unrelated: I love your books, mid reread on PALADIN'S HOPE literally right now.)

And finally: If you say “Mistborn” I am legally allowed to hand you over to @kristadb1 who will wrap you in a net and sink you into the deepest part of the Marianas Trench. (Look, I don’t make the rules.)

Okay, gang, I need a book recommendation! PLEASE READ ALL THE TWEETS BEFORE YOU REPLY 1) Please only recommend books you have personally read. 2) Please assume I am capable of typing a search string into Google and do not post “Here’s what I got for “x+y+z” on Amazon.”

@RJGlitter @mostlybree @torbooks @PortalBookshop and I meant to add, will almost certainly be getting Devil You Know in when imports allow, and can order things in if you ask.

@RJGlitter @mostlybree @torbooks @portalbookshop carry Deal with the Devil and are generally lovely (queer indie in York.) the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/deal-w…

@mountain_goats @sandybarronhist For what it's worth, "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds" captures something very true about London, I think. But I guess it's as much about the mythical London in people's heads as the real one, so ...

@sandybarronhist to be 100% real with you some grand vision of how to write about England sits with me, but I've never lived there, and I often feel that to write about a place, one must have lived there

@premeesaurus hello! I just wanted to say that I inhaled BENEATH THE RISING in one sitting and now feel my brain may be leaking out my ears. It's fantastic, thank you so much. 🐙

PS Thank you specifically for "Picture of my Dress" which gets to me for reasons I won't go into here and came exactly when I needed it.

@mountain_goats discovered your music in January, clung to it like a life raft through the rest of the year. Then opened this (from my other half) yesterday! Thank you for everything.

@UrsulaV hello from a random British fan - I'm recovering from surgery right now and trying not to doomscroll, and The Twisted Ones / The Hollow Places have kept me going these last couple of days. Thank you.

@UrsulaV A bee on a thistle.

Can’t really handle pet pics right now. Can you all send me pics of interesting vegetables? Or bugs?

@seananmcguire This is Houdini, who is very large and very soft.

I'm so tired. Please show me your cats.

@UrsulaV Your books are at the top of the list for when the world is too much. I re-read Paladin's Grace yesterday, and it helped a lot. Thank you.

Hey—maybe nobody says this enough, but I love you guys, you know that? Granted there’s enough of you that it’s a sort of abstract love, like trees in a forest, but I love that forest a lot. This would be a lot scarier without you all here on the other side of the screen.

@keefstuart @StirUni @Bruneluni Y inversion for life! I came to console gaming late and learned the ropes from a friend who started out on flight sims in the early 90s. So I'm a second-generation inverter ...

@seananmcguire This is my brother's cat Mango, who is huge and good-natured and loves cheese and is very, very dim.

Today, I want to see your stupid cats. The ones that are basically mold that meows. The ones who can't reason their way out of a paper bag. Bring on the brick-smart kitties!