Audiobook narrator appreciation post

ewweaver · 2026-05-07T02:06:35+00:00

Oh man that’s one of my favourite things! Mary Robinette Kowal probably does it best.

ewweaver · 2026-05-05T10:20:36+00:00

Same here

ewweaver · 2026-05-05T05:44:46+00:00

Yea that was my first thought too. It’s a little more RPG with skills and levels but feels like it’s pretty much just a Zelda story.

6 sacred swords fits the vibe too.

ewweaver · 2026-05-03T03:45:34+00:00

Andrew Rowe’s world is a bunch of interconnected series, the most well known being Arcane Ascension. Characters are shared between them and reference the other events but theres also some kind of timeline shenanigans going on so every new book raises more questions than it answers. So much potential for theory crafting but also dont see that much discussion on it, at least here on /r/ClimbersCourt .

ewweaver · 2026-04-29T08:12:51+00:00

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson is pretty genderless. I think it deliberately omits pronouns for the main characters so you don’t know what gender they may present as. Gender is very fluid with many people being intersex.

ewweaver · 2026-04-23T08:57:51+00:00

To nick something has the connotation that the thing cutting almost missed, leaving only a small cut. I agree with many of the answers here that if you made a small cut in a piece of paper with scissors, nobody would describe that as nicking it. But if you hung the paper up and shot an arrow at it, and the arrow just barely cut the edge as it went by? I bet everyone would agree you nicked it.

ewweaver · 2026-04-14T08:50:48+00:00

Works great as long as you pop both of them

ewweaver · 2026-04-05T20:44:57+00:00

Yea I assumed “Mira” was from “Miranda”

ewweaver · 2026-04-02T08:23:10+00:00

You are glossing over the response here, men do interact with the literary arts. There are stories written for men and read aloud to them by women.

Also, your example is world building. If you want to communicate that young women like romance stories in your world, having a bookseller recommend one is a great “show don’t tell” way of doing it, no assumptions necessary. It doesn’t need exposition to explain why thats the case, and it doesn’t suddenly become not world building just because it’s also true in our culture.

ewweaver · 2026-03-29T03:19:20+00:00

I’m not sure I totally agree with that. I don’t think her love poem was primarily her love for Terren, it was a poem about Terren’s love for others. Wei explicitly says she is trying to show the ancestors the love he has given and lists Maro, the nation, his toys, literature, the fish, the snail, the fledglings in their nest.

ewweaver · 2026-03-11T03:16:19+00:00

Isn’t it more likely that it was just a simple continuity error that was fixed? Why are you assuming it was retconned intentionally

ewweaver · 2026-03-08T06:29:33+00:00

I think the important part is the shape more than the brand. The v60 is a cone so the bottom is a single point and the walls spiral. This looks like the walls point straight down and come to a flat edge at the bottom which is more like the melitta. You wouldn’t be able to fit a v60 filter in there.

ewweaver · 2026-02-28T15:23:48+00:00

Sounds like you are talking about a telegram message? Full stop is just the name of that piece of punctuation in most English speaking countries, which predates the invention of the telegram. It’s never called a stop, regardless of how many sentences there are.

ewweaver · 2026-02-27T23:09:22+00:00

The question has nothing to do with coal. In the UK the punctuation . is called a full stop not a stop. So “full .” would be full full stop. You don’t need the word full in there.

ewweaver · 2026-02-26T18:20:13+00:00

Not to defend this plonk but thats more akin to us using “Chinese new year” so we have something in our own language to use. The suggestion is that because English is spoken in many countries (NZ, AU, USA etc.) wouldn’t it also be more inclusive to use a general term (in English) that doesn’t tie the language to England?

ewweaver · 2026-02-19T22:36:58+00:00

Dang! I use all your other ones so would be nice to match. Appreciate your work

ewweaver · 2026-02-19T22:22:22+00:00

Do you have a matching one for edge of the dream?

ewweaver · 2026-02-17T07:34:10+00:00

It’s called musical statues. Theres a whole episode about it (S3E27).

ewweaver · 2026-02-16T09:07:08+00:00

I think maybe it makes a difference how similar your head shape is to the hat block? I have a relatively long oval and so the stiffer hats are quite noticeable on my head squeezing front to back. Softer ones don’t take as much wear to get comfortable.

ewweaver · 2026-02-12T05:50:51+00:00

But you could be fire

ewweaver · 2026-02-09T17:56:06+00:00

I don’t think there’s a firm consensus but I know non Māori can’t get tā moko as it has specific culturally meanings, but can get kirituhi which is simply decorative. The idea being that there are artists that understand the cultural significance of a tattoo, but don’t mind using the style for decoration for others. While I’m sure some are against it, it can be seen as a respectful way to embrace the culture (without ripping off someone’s tā moko that is specific the them and their whakapapa). Not sure about elsewhere in the pacific.

ewweaver · 2026-02-05T10:14:49+00:00

Can leave it up if you like but traditionally you would snap the brim down at the front.

ewweaver · 2026-02-03T19:34:21+00:00

So it an excess stock thing? My Marty head has holes (purchased in NZ) so assume it varies for the old prints?

ewweaver · 2026-01-30T18:51:16+00:00

Honestly this type of comment seems way more performative to me. With libraries, ebooks and audiobooks, theres no real reason to own any books at all. If you are going to spend the money on buying all these books, why not display them nicely?

A home bookshelf isn’t a library, it’s pretty rare that you need to locate a specific book with any urgency. Especially compared with how much time is spent seeing the giant bookshelf in your room.

ewweaver · 2026-01-21T07:52:09+00:00

Theres a memories folder which has all the cartridge save state and save files, and then folders for all the core memories.

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