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[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Dead Tired 1



Meet Harold. Harold is a Lich from a time of LitRPGs. He killed Gods. Got bored. Took a 1000 year nap.

Some hapless adventurer opened his tomb/bed and woke him up. He was angry/reactionary and killed the adventurer. Then decided to revive. Merging adventurer with a tigress animal soul.

This created a gender confused butler/maid, who insists on calling Harold his/her Bone Daddy.

Harold endures and gets a witch apprentice. Harold finds out people have been using his phylacteries as power sources, and the world has shifted into a Cultivation world with magic kung fu.

Harold is annoyed. Harold and minions go to deal with it. Harold makes alot of bone puns.

All Hail Harold the Lich, the Bone Daddy!!!

Also there's anthropomorphic grasshopper people learning Magic Hand to pet animals since they have scary bug limbs...

[Paula]

@Diana, yeah, you can't keep them apart

@Iain, haha, what a crazy book. Are you going to read it?

[Diana Stormblessed]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Dead Tired 1



Meet Harold. Harold is a Lich from a time of LitRPGs. He killed Gods. Got bored. Took a 1000 year nap.

Some hapless adventurer opened his tomb/bed and woke him up...."

Just checked and looks like it's not on Libby or Hoopla. Sad.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Me, Nirkatze, Ann-Marie, and RachelG read the books in the Spring, after several other LitRPG series...

They're narrated by Soundbooth Theatre in a similar way to the Dungeon Crawler Carl books... lots of fun...

I'm 9 months behind on GR reviews...

LitRPGs tend to not be on Hoopla/Libby, since they tend to be Amazon/Audible exclusive... altho, if you want to eyeread, you can usually find them on Patreon/Royal Road and download cheap/free...

Here's a Royal Road screenshot from 2 years ago before book 1 was stubbed and turned into an Amazon ebook...

https://web.archive.org/web/202310211...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Han, but maybe to a lesser degree, because yes he’s adorable, but really you can’t have Lee Know without Han. They’re kind of a matching set. My first bias was Hyunjin but Lee Know stalked me and t..."

Those sneaky bias-wreckers 😂

[Yanique, Thread Master]

That's it! We've arrived at the vey end of 2025. How did everyone's reading year go?

Here are our last selections for the year:

Dec 1, 2025 A Beautiful and Terrible Murder (Irene Adler #1) by Claire M. Andrews
Dec 1, 2025 The Scholomance (A Deadly Education/The Last Graduate/The Golden Enclaves) by Naomi Novik
Dec 4, 2025 Hurt of Darkness (Circles in Hell #11) by Mark Cain
Dec 4, 2025 The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle #0.6) by Patrick Rothfuss
Dec 8, 2025 The Inheritance (Breach Wars #1) by Ilona Andrews
Dec 9, 2025 This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7) by Matt Dinniman
Dec 10, 2025 Princess of Dune (Dune #0 Heroes of Dune #3) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Dec 11, 2025 The Fall of Babel (Books of Babel #4) by Josiah Bancroft
Dec 14, 2025 Lady Friday (Keys to the Kingdom #5) by Garth Nix
Dec 15, 2025 The Castle Doctrine (First Story: Daniel Faust #6) by Heather Schaefer (as Craig)
Dec 15, 2025 The Court of the Dead (Nico di Angelo Adventures #2) by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshino
Dec 15, 2025 Hexed in Hawes ( DI Adams #4) by Kim M. Watt
Dec 16, 2025 A Rising Thunder (Honor Harrington #13) by David Weber
Dec 18, 2025 Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger
Dec 18, 2025 Upping the Ante (Chrysalis #2) by RinoZ
Dec 19, 2025 Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
Dec 20, 2025 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Dec 22, 2025 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld #28) by Terry Pratchett
Dec 24, 2025 Robot Farts (Hard Luck Hank #6) by Steven Campbell
Dec 25, 2025 Zero Dwarfs Given (Dwarf Bounty Hunter #4) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
Dec 26, 2025 Witchlight (Witchlands #5) by Susan Dennard
Dec 27, 2025 The Door on the Sea (Raven and Eagle #1) by Caskey Russell
Dec 29, 2025 Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire #2) by Jay Kristoff
Dec 31, 2025 Reign (Stormheart #3) by Cora Carmack

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

So another GR feature is going away... DMs... now there's no way to communicate with other members other than group discussions...

[Narilka]

When are they being phased out? I still see the DM button.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

My guess is January... start of new year, and usually when they do alot of GR maintenance / "upgrades" (downgrades)...

[Virginie]

Timelord Iain wrote: "So another GR feature is going away... DMs... now there's no way to communicate with other members other than group discussions..."

Urgh, that sucks.... I can understand GR not wanting to deal with the increase in unsolicited DMs (I still remember the 3 days I had open DMs AND my face as profile picture... The number of creepy DMs I got was disgusting), but they could have forced the option of friends-only DMs on everyone instead of nuking the feature.

[Saar The Book owl]

That sucks! I mean, what's the purpose of this?

[Saar The Book owl]

There's a petition that you can sign against the decision of GR:
https://c.org/mq7kMc6j26
I've signed it already.

[Narilka]

Iain and I are talking about using Discord as a backup for DMs. If anyone's interested, please post here or in Vagabond.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Or DM us and one another usernames, before GR DMs go away...

If there's enough interest, and in case things ever go nuclear here, then we can make a bare bones FBR discord server as an emergency backup that could be expanded in the future until we find a new platform to meet our threadmaking needs...

I don't think trying to run all our Buddy Reads on a discord server would work as well as our current system here... but things are pretty doom and gloom on r/Goodreads right now, regarding yet another feature removal on here, and possible future feature removals...

[Narilka]

I agree that Discord would be very clunky for running so many BRs the way we do. It would make a nice gathering place as a temporary backup should GRs discussions ever go away so the group could decide on what's next.

[Saar The Book owl]

I must admit that I don't have any experience with Discord.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

It's a multi-feature chat app... you can have friends on there you DM, and servers you join like IRC servers of the 00s and before... there's alot of game communities and fandoms on there...

I have a growing number of FBR people in my friends list on there, now, in case of emergency... and with the app, you can get notifications when people speak to you, depending on how you leave your settings... if you join a bunch of servers, you'll need to disable alot of types of notifications, or you'll get annoyed by them all... I have 99-100% of notifications disabled...

[Paula]

Discord is a good backup just in case

[Diana Stormblessed]

I’ve tried discord but could never figure it out. If the buddy read group moved there I don’t think I’d be able to participate anymore.

[Narilka]

IMO Discord is very similar to MS Teams if you've used that for work. Just without the file storage.

[Paula]

It could be temporary. Storygraph also has a buddy read mode, although i dont know if it would be useful for a lot of BR

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I’ve tried discord but could never figure it out. If the buddy read group moved there I don’t think I’d be able to participate anymore."

We're not seeking to move there... just a backup way to communicate, if Goodreads ever becomes useless/unuseable, as they keep stripping away features, while we pick an alternative...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Paula wrote: "It could be temporary. Storygraph also has a buddy read mode, although i dont know if it would be useful for a lot of BR"

I just saw how Storygraph has Buddy Read mode and you need to specify what part of the book you're at... yea, I'm not 100% sure that would work as well, for generalized vs spoilerific discussions... it seems like Storygraph is planning to add book clubs in the future and Librarything has groups, and Fable has virtual book clubs... basically it'll be a group effort to find an alternative if worst comes to worst... I'm sure r/goodreads would be discussing the same alternatives at that time, to help find the best solution at the time, as alternatives improve over time...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

What's really annoying me, is something with my browser or GR is bugged today, and any time I reply and copy someone's comment, my comment area stays yellow until I post...

[Tammie]

Saar The Book owl wrote: "There's a petition that you can sign against the decision of GR:
https://c.org/mq7kMc6j26
I've signed it already."

I signed the petition too.

[Paula]

My DO IT album will come tomorrow! That's so soon! Last time it was a whole month and this time its only two weeks

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

[Virginie]

Saar The Book owl wrote: "There's a petition that you can sign against the decision of GR:
https://c.org/mq7kMc6j26
I've signed it already."

Signed! Thanks for linking it :)

[Diana Stormblessed]

Paula wrote: "My DO IT album will come tomorrow! That's so soon! Last time it was a whole month and this time its only two weeks"

Yay! I have ATE and Rockstar coming today. I'm now buying everything from before I found SKZ.

[Paula]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Paula wrote: "My DO IT album will come tomorrow! That's so soon! Last time it was a whole month and this time its only two weeks"

Yay! I have ATE and Rockstar coming today. I'm now buying everythi..."

I will buy everything by them eventually, I especially want ATE, Rockstar and 5 star, my faves albums.

And it just just arrived. I am so happy! Like i thought i would only get the Do photos in the photoalbum (like in karma), but the photos of the it album also appeared (but i guess less of them). And the quality is really great, better than the karma one.

And the photocards! I got seungmin's normal one and the lenticular one. My bias! Then i also got a normal Hyunjin and a IN. And the big IN card. I also didnt realize the DIY stuff is basically stickers, but i dont care about that

[Paula]

Talking about albums. My mother just came in and said that if I was finally satisfied buying the albums. And I was like: no...I want to buy more albums. And she said to diversify my music. People who don't know just don't get it 😮‍💨

[Saar The Book owl]

Timelord Iain wrote: "What's really annoying me, is something with my browser or GR is bugged today, and any time I reply and copy someone's comment, my comment area stays yellow until I post..."

I get a message in red that GR can't post my comments. Even liking reviews gives an error. It's working after numerous tries.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Yea the site is barely functional this week it seems... I get the error if I take too long to comment (like more than a minute or 2 it seems)

[Diana Stormblessed]

Paula wrote: "Talking about albums. My mother just came in and said that if I was finally satisfied buying the albums. And I was like: no...I want to buy more albums. And she said to diversify my music. People w..."

Diversity is overrated.

I still need 5 star. Forgot about that one.

[Paula]

So true.

5 star album is soo pretty. I like the dragon design

[Narilka]

This blog post by Chuck Wendig is hilarious: https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025...

The comments are pretty good too.