Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Let's! Get! DANGEROUS!

Toby has managed to navigate the wilds of the Kingdom of Prestor John, smacking down The Habitation of the Blessed in round three of the BSC Book Tournament and proceeding to the quarterfinals, where it's An Artificial Night against Elizabeth Bear's Chill. Bear and I have been enthusiastically attacking each other on Twitter in anticipation of this match (I have predatory dinosaurs, she has balrogs and the forces of logic), and now it's finally here!

You have what you have to do.

Go ye forth, get thee funky, and vote like your life depended on it! Which, given the number of monsters we have merrily marching around here, it just might. Toby has smacked the crap out of three challengers in three different bouts. This is your chance to help her smack the crap out of challenger number four, and proceed to the semifinals, where she can begin to merrily swing her sock full of butter* at challengers from different brackets.

(*Sock full of butter: makes a great bludgeoning weapon, and when you're done, you have a sock full of nicely softened butter, ready to be turned into cookies. Everybody wins! Except maybe the people you hit with the sock full of butter.)
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I seem to be #7 to vote! Can't tell you what the score is, it needs Flash which I don't have here.
Yay!

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Evil is good, but Bear is a friend; I shall encourage people to vote fairly. :)

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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Yes.
You have 82% of 45 votes at the moment. Kicking some serious butt with that butter sock.
BUTTER SOCK IS GO.
Toby's got 82% of the 45 votes so far. AAN is going all the way! It's my favorite Toby book to date.
Aw, yay.
You have the upper hand for now, Banana!
CURSE YOU, MASHER!

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TOBY SMASH.
Is the sock lined with plastic? I'm not sure I want to eat cookies made with lint-covered butter...
Yes.

And you only get cookies if we win.
The problem of this type of contest is that eventually you have to choose between 2 books you are a big fan of.

I am referring of course to Malazan Empire Bracket where we have The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin against Geist by Philippa Ballantine. Ironically they are both authors I discovered through podcasting.

In the Westeros Bracket I am firmly in Toby's camp
I shall bat my eyes endearingly if I make it to the semifinals.

yellowblackhaze

6 years ago

maverick_weirdo

6 years ago

Go, Toby, go!

Mmmm....sock full of butter....
Nummy dairy.
I suspect Toby would approve of helpers with multiple IP address. Why do I say that? Because if, while she battled her latest foe, Oberon popped in and smacked the foe, she would be pleased. Yes, I just cast myself as Oberon. Because I can!
Heh.
Voted! And re-tweeted! :)
Yay!
I gotta say - the comments alone make the post. =)
It's fun!
I just finished An Artificial Night (which at points nearly had me crying at work *again*), and if she can survive *that*, she can take on anything. Go Toby, go!
Hee.
So, I just wanted to let you know that the title of this post cracks me up. Go Darkwing Duck!

It's also appropriately timed because today is the release of the newest Disney Afternoon Vinylmations, the Ducktales ones. There will be a Darkwing Duck set, but I don't know when they're releasing that one.

I also don't know if you even care. lol but hey, Disney. Darkwing Duck. You never know. :)

Also, am finally caught up on all the Toby books. Amazing. I love you.
AWESOME. I do, indeed, care.

And I love you, too.
Toby has managed to navigate the wilds of the Kingdom of Prestor John

I'd like to read that book. Just sayin'.
I guarantee you there will be crossover fanfic someday.

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

I want you to know I am now picturing Toby in DW's mask and hat.
Noted.
10:20pm
458 votes
Toby ahead with 65%
Woot!

palmer_kun

6 years ago

483 votes as of 11:22AM UTC - Toby is still ahead with 65% of the vote.
Rockin'.
Obviously I just cast my vote, but I can't get the Darkwing Duck theme out of my head now. Waaaaaugh!
Sorry!
Yay cookies!

*goes to vote*
Hee.