Mod Madness 2024 - Modiac Mania

[Sarah]

Okay I was quiet for the night.

Is Gemini: (view spoiler)[Crosstalk by Connie Willis (hide spoiler)]

[Anna]

Just like two years ago, when we last did Modly Madness guesses, Sarah's guesses are entertaining us/me for *reasons* :)

(Also gonna say sorry here to y'all, I love what Allison and Ryan are doing with mod, but I can't do that, so I'm just being my boring self :P)

[Aga]

Can we ask additional questions about the books?

[Anna]

You can always ask! Whether mod will answer, who knows?!

[Aga]

Haha, that’s what I fear!

[Aga]

And the answer will probably be so cryptic I’ll end up more puzzled.

[Anna]

I kinda want you to ask, just to see how cryptic Allie and Ryan can get with their replies XD

[Anna]

Aga wrote: "And the answer will probably be so cryptic I’ll end up more puzzled."

Haha, exactly, and posted at the same time XD

[Sarah]

Anna wrote: "Just like two years ago, when we last did Modly Madness guesses, Sarah's guesses are entertaining us/me for *reasons* :)

(Also gonna say sorry here to y'all, I love what Allison and Ryan are doing..."

I’m glad someone is getting something out of this. 😂

[Meredith]

Anna wrote: "Just like two years ago, when we last did Modly Madness guesses, Sarah's guesses are entertaining us/me for *reasons* :)

(Also gonna say sorry here to y'all, I love what Allison and Ryan are doing..."

You are far from boring! You're our 🦊-mod!

[Anna]

Aw thank you! ^_^ I just meant that coming up with mock horoscopes is not in my skillset :D so I'm posting with my own account and in my own style, and letting the other two ramp up the mystique!

[Dixie]

May I get a personalized Gemini horoscope please?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

yes! haven't forgotten Kaa either, just a bit of a hectic week

[Meredith]

okay, trying some more....

Sagittarius (view spoiler)[ The Stardust Thief (hide spoiler)]
Capricorn (view spoiler)[ A Spark of White Fire (hide spoiler)]
Aquarius (view spoiler)[ Terminal Alliance (hide spoiler)]

🍝

[Anna]

The mod shack is covered in spaghetti, who's gonna clean it all?!

[Meredith]

Scorpio (view spoiler)[ The Water Outlaws (hide spoiler)]

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

isn't that why people procreate, Anna? spaghetti cleaners?

[Anna]

Our kids aren’t biologically ours, tho, I haven’t had sex with either of my (current) co-mods, to my knowledge? 🤔 Nor given birth for that matter 😂

(Can’t know about future mods.)

edit: Being serious for a moment, kids are yours whether they're bio or not! <3

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

we could probably make up some sort of golem. getting my hands muddy is about as far as I'm willing to commit my body to spawning

[Melanie, the neutral party]

SFFBC wrote: "Don't get exasperated by miscommunication. States of confusion are often transitional. You may be better off focusing on other areas or at least not giving this issue all of your attention. The sol..."

Assuming I read this hint correctly...
Virgo (view spoiler)[ Translation State (hide spoiler)]
Capricorn (view spoiler)[ Translation State (hide spoiler)]
Libra (view spoiler)[ Translation State (hide spoiler)]
Aquarius (view spoiler)[ Translation State (hide spoiler)]

[Anna]

And I've taken steps to ensure that none of my possible futures include things living in my uterus.

[Anna]

lol Mel! XD I love it! XD

[Meredith]

Melanie wrote: "SFFBC wrote: "Don't get exasperated by miscommunication. States of confusion are often transitional. You may be better off focusing on other areas or at least not giving this issue all of your atte..."

I respect this guessing strategy.

[Melanie, the neutral party]

Anna wrote: "Our kids aren’t biologically ours, tho, I haven’t had sex with either of my (current) co-mods, to my knowledge? 🤔 Nor given birth for that matter 😂

(Can’t know about future mods.)"

**covers ears** "TMI!!"

[Anna]

What, all I've said is that the mod shack is a 100% pure and chaste space! ^_^

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

not entirely sure that's what you said and technically in a totally unreal but canon way Ryan and I have a son. oh right. I have a fake son, he can go clean the fake spaghetti off the mod shack

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

(the best part here is wondering which part of this you find to be the red herring)

[Meredith]

Allison wrote: "(the best part here is wondering which part of this you find to be the red herring)"

all of it? 😁

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

*sips tea* oh look, the big Dipper!

[Anna]

Is your toaster on fire again? <_<

[Sarah]

Enjoying this from the peanut gallery 🍿👀

[Aga]

Aghhh, and now I have to come out with some clever questions.

[Sarah]

More spaghetti incoming:

Scorpio: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

Pisces: The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz

Sagittarius: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

Leo: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Taurus: The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu

Virgo: The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

Capricorn:The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Gemini: Version Control by Dexter Palmer

Libra: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

Aquarius: The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

very secret was on last year's mod madness!

[Anna]

I don't blame anyone for forgetting that tho! Ryan did try to reuse one of his by accident XD And I don't even remember all of this year's books, so how could anyone remember all of last year's?!

[Sarah]

no repeats. good to know. lol.

I did forget about very secret. On the other hand, that was one of the ones i was sure was wrong, i was just tired of looking. lol

How about: Aquarius: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway

[Sarah]

is virgo: Astray by Jenny Schwartz

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

"A [spreadsheet] and a plan could tell them a whole heap of things [Anna] wasn’t permitted to literally tell them."

[Hank]

Score Sarah!

[Sarah]

Anna wrote: "I'm about to get some sleep after two nights of nearly none, and to celebrate that, I want to give the tiniest of clues!

Exactly one of the books is by an author who is already on the group shelf,..."

Okay at first i thought the "two" and the "mirror" were clues about the book being gemini. But then later Allison said focus on other signs.

So now i'm wondering if the book is Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman, but i can't for the life of me match it up to sign. And the blurb is not helpful. lol

[Anna]

The Split Worlds series does have mirrors ;)

[Sarah]

I'm going to guess Sagittarius is the repeat author because Ancillary Mod said "give half of yourself" and according to some random website Sagittarius is Half man/half archer. (Yes I just learned that, just five minutes ago.)

And i'm going to double down on Emma Newman regardless of what happened in discord. lol

Sagittarius: Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman

[Anna]

I love that you're googling the signs! XD I have to share this google search I did earlier in the year:

(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

https://i.postimg.cc/YCcVtzgc/0google...

(Not a clue, this book is not in the polls.)

[Sarah]

lolol. Anna, googling the important stuff.

[Anna]

That's why I have the screenshot, it's not something I ever expected to google XD

[Sarah]

Is Scorpio: Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson?

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

The stars, hearing their name, glow differently.

[Meredith]

🍝🎯

[Richard]

The poll entry for cancer is currently on sale on Amazon UK for 99p on kindle.

Goodreads book link below.
Careful now!
(view spoiler)[ The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (hide spoiler)]

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

There are still 2-3 that I'd say are guessable if you follow book releases. And then there are a solid half that I'd be like wowza, you are treasure hunter and/or know the mods perhaps too well, like if you guess them I'd also ask that you please relinquish our social security cards and stop texting our mothers, thank you.