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Hoi, tortugitos! I am July, and I am bringing in Kitty Norville, from the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn, as my first character; her canon point is during Kitty Goes to War. She is a werewolf (yes, named Kitty) who moonlights as a late night radio talk show host- or is it the other way around? She has a habit of accidentally getting caught up in a lot of things between her own curiosity and looking into new topics for her show, and is fond of the idea of froufrou drinks when she has the time to enjoy them (this tends to be a rarity due to the previous point). She'll be definitely interested in figuring out what's going on, on the turtle.

A thing I'd like to figure out with everyone is that Kitty makes quite a few references to superheroes-particularly the DCU- which means that canonically she knows a lot of identities. I don't want to trod on any toes here with regards to that, so I would love to try and figure this out with everyone beforehand. To reassure everyone with that, she's not dense enough to try and make those identities public or otherwise if her keeping that knowledge is okayed- she knows (albeit to a lesser extent) that having huge things like that outed isn't fun.

This also intersects with her abilities- as a werewolf, she's able to identify people by scent, so I'll be throwing up a permissions post with regards to that, since again, characters who have multiple identities would need that sorted for sure, since your own unique scent is hard to get rid of!

Hopefully I'll be able to get into the swing of things and enjoy the game with Kitty, since I'm also interested in maybe apping a certain warrior princess and also a certain commander of the watch from the Disc, at some point down the road.

I'd love to get in contact with people over AIM, since it's my primary messenger- I'm fairladypsyche there.

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XD I will never say no to people reading Poison Study but only after they've had proper warnings about the books. The more I play Yelena the more I'm finding I have a love-hate relationship with the series.

But yes I really do want to read more, Pratchett is just one of those authors I have a hard time with sometimes, I don't know why. I tried Color of Magic ages ago and just couldn't get past the first chapter. I might try a G! G! reread and see if I can move onto the other Watch books from there X3

Adding in my $0.02:

The City Watch sub-series is, frankly, my favorite out of Discworld, and... well. The Color of Magic is a first book, and with the least interesting protagonist of Discworld, in my opinion. Plus the City Watch books just get better and better and better. I'd also try Soul Music, if I were you--the Susan Sto Helit and Death sub-series is also fantastic.

...Done with Discworld recommendations now.

When a friend recommended it they said it was the best of the Discworld stuff as well :3

Thanks for the other recs, when I am caught up with my reading I will check into them >>

That's not necessarily a bad thing, though! ~The More You Know~, and all that!

The early books are actually a lot more difficult to read than the later ones! Because the early books in the Discworld are more active parody of outright fantasy than satire of various subjects, The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic can be really hard to get into for that reason.

I actually got started with Men At Arms and never looked back (well, I did, since I read books that came before it, but it would have been a lot harder to get into the series if I started in chronological order).

Absolutely XD

And yeah, I've heard that about them but I usually try so hard to read books in order, or publish order or something. Starting in the middle for a series always makes me kinda go bwuh?

Oh yes, I know how that is!

Thankfully, though, all the various subseries aren't really required reading for the other ones for everything to make sense. Characters pop up in the other subseries at times, or not at all, but if you moved on to reading Men At Arms (since you already read Guards! Guards!) that doesn't put you at a disadvantage, since it's the second book in the Watch subset.

The Discworld series is a very organic one, in the sense that the whole is a world, and all the books take place with their own individual casts, so it doesn't feel artificial to have all these different threads running.

Yeah, I'm getting the sense of that :3 I'll have to peek into it again sometime.