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New mini episode is up! This time we've definitely covered everything and we will have no need to talk about Temeraire ever again! Featuring hypothetical adaptations, serious Muppet questions, and everybody remembering every character's name perfectly the first time.

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#temeraire #his majesty's dragon #naomi novik #tmctr #tmctr ep #tmctr mini ep #Youtube

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canon romances in good omens be like 🎶 he was a witch finder 🎶 she was a witch 🎶 can I make it any more obvious 🎶

#justice for straight people ok #you deserve better than this! you do! it's out there! #good omens #goingspare rambles #listening to the first cut of gomens ep of tmctr and like #woo #boy

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New episode is up! Alternative titles include “Book Theft: Worse than Murder?”, “Whinny If You Love Dragons” and “It’s a Million To One Chance - But It Just Might Work”

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#tmctr #tmctr ep #teaching my cat to read #guards! guards! #terry pratchett #discworld

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.7.5

His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik (previous episodes here and here)

"Do you want another one?” - catchphrase of Davina McCall (youtube)

John Prescott posting the above meme re. Cabinet Reshuffle (news story here)

UK Cabinet Reshuffle of 2022, otherwise known as Clownfall (wiki)

Mansplain Manipulate Malewife (meme)

William Laurence, Captain Rankin, Jane Roland, Catherine Harcourt, Lily, Emily Roland; characters from His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik

Temeraire (tvtropes) - beware spoilers

The Muppets (wiki)

Jim Henson Company (wiki)

Kermit, Miss Piggy; characters from The Muppets

Blorbo from my shows (meme)

Michael Caine (imdb)

Tim Curry (imdb)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Muppets Treasure Island (1996)

The one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism (youtube)

Jim Hawkins; character from Muppets Treasure Island (and I guess the original Treasure Island, but like, who cares about that)

Gonzo and Rizzo; characters from The Muppets

Statler and Waldorf; characters from The Muppets

Studio Ghibli (wiki)

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

Peter Jackson (imdb)

The Hobbit films (2012, 2013, 2014)

The Lord of the Rings films (2001, 2002, 2003)

Guillermo del Toro (imdb)

The Witcher (2019 - )

Persuasion (2022)

The Neverending Story (1984)

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Princess Monoke (1997)

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

Emma (2020)

Gaslight gatekeep girlboss (meme)

Girlboss (affectionate) - internet tone indicator. The opposite would be Girlboss (derogatory)

If it were not for the laws of this land i would have slaughtered you (meme)

Our Flag Means Death (2022 - )

Don’t forget to like and subscribe - common(ly mocked) sign-off for youtube videos

Lives rent free in my head (internet idiom)

#tmctr #tmctr ref

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.2

Howl’s Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Spirited Away (2001)

Wicked Witch of the West; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Howl’s Moving Castle (audiobook) narrated by Kristin Atherton

“Threatened with aunts” - a reference to Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse (our episode here and here)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Gavin and Stacey (2007-2010)

Rob Brydon (imdb)

Song, John Donne (poem)

Stardust, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Sosban Fach, a Welsh song (wiki, spotify)

Chekhov’s Gun (tv tropes)

“Howl Expresses His Feeling With Green Slime” Howl’s Moving Castle, Chapter 6; Dianna Wynne Jones

Brad Mondo reacts to quarantine haircuts (youtube)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (our episode here and here)

he‘s in the soup! Reference to Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (our episode here and here) 

This post about Dianna Wynne Jones thinking Howl was a disaster

Poor little meow meow (meme)

Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane; M is trying and failing to sum up the entirety of Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers in two minutes of rambling.

M is referencing this post about characters being annoying versus characters committing genocide

Mansplain Manipulate Malewife (meme)

I’ll scream and scream and scream and scream until i’m sick (youtube)

Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Tom Jones (wiki)

Cat Rating

7/10

What Else Are We Reading

Agor y Drws, Cyfres Amdani (website)

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Soul Music, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)

#teaching my cat to read #tmctr #tmctr ref #howl's moving castle #dianna wynne jones

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.1

The Inimitable Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse

The great vowel shift (wiki)

“ “Bertie, we were at school together.”

“It wasn’t my fault.”

“We’ve been pals for fifteen years.”

“I know. It’s going to take me the rest of my life to live it down.” “- The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 17: Bingo and the Little Woman; P.G. Wodehouse

This post

“ “Jeeves,” I said, “those spats.”

“Yes, sir?”

“You really dislike them?”

“Intensely, sir.”

“You don’t think time might induce you to change your view?”

“No, sir.”

“All right, then. Very well. Say no more. You may burn them.”

“Thank you very much, sir. I have already done so. Before breakfast this morning. A quiet grey is far more suitable, sir. Thank you, sir.” “ - The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 16: The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace; P. G. Wodehouse

Downton Abbey (2010-2015)

Jane Austen

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, The Untamed (2019) 

Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993)

Stephen Fry (imdb)

Hugh Laurie (imdb)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985)

Jeremy Brett (imdb)

Fairies Aren’t Gentlemen, amarguerite (ao3)

K. J. Charles

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

“ “You will find Mr Wooster,” he was saying to the new chappie, “an exceedingly pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible.” - The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 5: The Pride of the Woosters is Wounded; PG. Wodehouse

“Just what occurred then I couldn’t exactly say, but the next few minutes were a bit exciting. I take it that Cyril must have made a dive for the infant. Anyway, the air seemed pretty well congested with arms and legs and things. Something bumped into the Wooster waistcoat just around the third button, and I collapsed on to the settee and rather lost interest in things for the moment. When I had unscrambled myself…” The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 10: Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant; P.G. Wodehouse

Lord Peter Wimsey, Bunter; characters from the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series, Dorothy L. Sayers

As My Wimsey Takes Me (podcast)

Dublin Murder Squad series, Tana French

The Once and Future King, T. H. White

The Sword in the Stone, T. H. White

Spats (wiki)

The trial of Oscar Wilde (wiki)

Street smarts! From John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018)

Leverage (2008-2012)

The meat pumpkin (article)

Coco Chanel (wiki) and her collaboration with the Nazis (wiki)

“Take one accessory off” - fashion advice attributed to Coco Chanel (quote)

Temeraire series, Naomi Novik

A Wook:

A Goth:

The Cat Rating

9/10

What Else Are We Reading

Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Nigel Planer (imdb)

Nigel Planer Discworld audiobooks (audible)

Dublin Murder Squad, Tana French

In the Woods, Tana French

Britain After Rome, Robin Fleming

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Beowulf

Next Time On Teaching My Cat To Read

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

The audiobook

#tmctr #tmctr ref

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New episode is up! Alternative titles include: “Aunts: Just Say No”, “Area Man Needs Better Friends”, and “That’s It! You’re Going In The Soup!”

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.6

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Hamlet (1996) - Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh (imdb)

Hamlet (2009) - David Tennant

David Tennant (imdb)

Hamlet (2016) - RSC, Paapa Essiedu

Paapa Essiedu (imdb)

Othello, William Shakespeare

The Lion King (1994)

Withnail and I (1987)

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead (1990)

Gary Oldman (imdb)

Lewis (2006-2015)

Hamlet (2018) - Andrew Scott (youtube)

Andrew Scott (imdb)

Minecraft

Sparknotes

The Trolley Problem (wiki)

Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing (2011) -  David Tennant and Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate (imdb)

Illyria (wiki)

Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Kronborg castle (wiki)

The Minack Theatre (website)

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus (wiki)

The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand

Peredur (wiki)

Richard III (wiki)

The Princes in the Tower (wiki)

This tumblr post about confession

To Be Or Not To Be, Ryan North

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Hamlet, Act I Scene 2

Parks and Rec (2009-2015)

Leonardo Dicaprio (imdb)

But that I am forbid

To tell the secrets of my prison-house,

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,

Thy knotted and combined locks to part

And each particular hair to stand on end,

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine - Hamlet, Act I Scene 5

I have of late, but

wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth - Hamlet, Act II Scene 2

This post

To thine own self be true - Hamlet, Act I Scene 3

Malvolio - Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. - Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 5

The difference between comedy and tragedy is listening to the women - this post

King Lear, William Shakespeare

The Muppets

Statler and Waldorf

Gonzo and Rizzo

Ian McKellen (imdb)

Patrick Stewart (imdb)

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - Hamlet, Act V Scene 2

House of Finwe (wiki)

Metaverse

The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Would that be fucked up or what? (meme)

Manic pixie dream girl (trope)

Queer Lit, Manchester (website)

The Mandalorian (2019 -)

The Cat Rating

5/10

What Else Are We Reading?

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Snowcrash, (1992)

Notes From A Crocodile,

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

What Abigail Did Last Summer, Ben Aaronvitch

The Last of Us (2023 -)

Next Time On Teaching My Cat To Read

The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie

#tmctr #tmctr ref

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.5

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Who Let The Dogs Out, Baha Men (youtube)

Guards! Guards! official synopsis

Monty Python

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Baldrick; character from Blackadder (1983-1989)

Chris Evans (imdb)

Chris Evans is a dorito - Buzzfeed explains here s

I’m not mad i’m just disappointed (tvtropes)

Himbo (urban dictionary)

Drinking your respect women juice (urban dictionary) e

Blackadder (1983-1989)

Thin Blue Line (1995-1996)

Pixar

This scene from Shrek 2 (2004)

D&D

Rose Tyler; character from Doctor Who (2004-) - referencing this post specifically

Beowulf (our episode here)

Square-cube law (wiki)

How To Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

Separating vortices (wiki)

Supersonic shockwaves (wiki)

Reynolds number (wiki)

Greebo, Tiffany Aching; Discworld characters, Terry Pratchett

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I have a duty!”,  The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

Vimes as an urban witch courtesy of this post

Headology, Discworld (wiki)

Klatchian Foreign Legion, Discworld (wiki)

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

Jingo, Terry Pratchett

"There was a clink as Vime's badge was set down neatly on the table.

"I don't have to take this," Vimes said calmly.

"Oh, so you'd rather be a civilian, would you?"

“A watchman is a civilian, you inbred streak of piss”.

Rust's brain erased the sounds that his ears could not possibly have heard." p. 169, Jingo, Terry Pratchett

Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

Rincewind the Wizzard; Discworld character, Terry Pratchett

Swords and sorcery (wiki)

The Mended Drum/The Broken Drum, Discworld (wiki)

Raymond Chandler

"Of all the gin joints in all the world," Casablanca (1942)

Disney

Unable to find the origins of the "x o'clock and all's well" formula but the wikipedia page for "Watchman (law enforcement)" mentions that part of their job was to call out the hour. Also see this scene from Disney's Robin Hood

Robin Hood (1973)

The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis

Aladdin (1992)

Alas, there does not appear to have been a Carry On Robin Hood film (Carry On Robbin'! it practically writes itself!)

Robin Hood (2006-2009)

Errol Flynn (imdb)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (our episode here)

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (our episode here)

Language localisation (wiki)

" "One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior." " Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Lady Sybil; Discworld character, Terry Pratchett

"And Susan was bright enough to know that the phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'. But someone ought to do something, and right now the whole pool of someones consisted of her, and no one else." , p.115, Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Elon Musk Neuralink (wiki)

Mansplain, manipulate, malewife (meme)

You are like little baby, watch this (meme)

Temeraire, Naomi Novik

Star Wars

The Clone Wars (2008-2020)

Coruscant Guard (wiki)

Epistolary genre (wiki)

Kubernetes (official website)

Whine About It (youtube)

The Lion King (1994)

To Be Or Not To Be, Ryan North

Dinosaur Comics

Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus (wiki)

Our planning episode here

Cat Rating

8.75

What Else Are We Reading?

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Daisy Jones and the Sixth, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Sixth (2023)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Shadow and Bone (2021 - )

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Next Time On Teaching My Cat to Read

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

#tmctr #tmctr ref

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New episode is up! In which magically radioactive apocalyptic death-orbs are pondered, our protagonists subscribe to the Jason Mendoza school of problem solving, and the cat saves the day.

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#abhorsen #old kingdom #garth nix #tmctr #tmctr ep #teaching my cat to read #apologies for the belated post #i am having...A Time #but this is a very very good episode and i think you'll enjoy it :)

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An Update

Hello friends, I come before you with news - every single member of our team (except Ro, touch wood, stay safe out there king) has caught covid and we are all Hot Messes(TM), so we will be cutting Season 2 short in order to nap more and cough less. Upcoming episodes will be A Song of Achilles and a mini episode on Dracula that we recorded /before/ Dracula Daily kicked off, which will be a blast from a strange and unknowable past; and then we will vanish into the ether until we’re all sufficiently awake and revitalised to do Season 3, for which we already have a bunch of very exciting ideas.

Hope you enjoy what’s left of the season, wish us luck, and teach your cat to read today!

#tmctr #tmctr update #teaching my cat to read

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Our final episode of this season is up! In which there is a preponderance of malewives, real estate powers are used for evil, and Gothmog wants to be in the room where it happens.

We recorded this before Dracula Daily was so much as a twinkle in tumblr's eye, and so would like to revise our nominations for Gaslight, Gatekeep and Girlboss in light of news from our beloved friend Jonathan: Dracula's clearly gunning for all three.

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New episode is up! In which they don’t even have Texas, we get sidetracked by Mormons, and Watson is delighted by Holmes’s everything.

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#tmctr #tmctr ep #teaching my cat to read #sherlock holmes #a study in scarlet #acd

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Our first ever minisode! In which M gets extra sweary, Eli's hand-turned sewing machine habit gets out of control, and Lotti introduces us to the concept of thornbacks.

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#tmctr #tmctr episode #teaching my cat to read #tmctr minisode #pride and prejudice #p&p #jane austen #austen

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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #2.15

The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Troy (2004)

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

The Aeneid

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (our episode here)

The Achilliad

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

The Lion King (1994)

Boromir’s death, The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien

Baldr’s death (wiki). There are several examples in medieval literature of deaths that are impossible unless specific conditions are met, including Lleu Llaw Gyffes in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.

The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole (our episode here)

Superhell (meme)

Let ‘X’ say fuck (meme)

What Else Are We Reading?

Moon Knight (2022-?)

All Of Us Are Dead (2022-?)

Sasaki and Miyano (2022-?)

Our Flag Means Death (2022-?)

Taika Waititi (imdb)

Next Time On Teaching My Cat To Read

Dracula, Bram Stoker (mini episode!)

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New episode is up! In which Ro commits identity fraud, Troy (2004) is on everybody’s minds, and Eli summons the cat via the power of discussing extreme violence.

Heed the content warnings, folks, this is a rough one.

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