Raise a glass, or a can (of beer), or a cup (of hot cider), because the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA is officially one year old.

To distract us from this grim milestone we have a new Night Vale episode (featuring Deb, the Sentient Patch of Haze) and TWO Lore Olympus episodes to recap. And they were all…surprisingly sweet! (Well, the second episode of Lore Olympus was sweet anyway. God, Apollo, go AWAY.)

And if a big dose of us fangirlling over Lore Olympus isn’t enough, we also talk about Lackadaisy Cats, which is another one of our favorite webcomics and the test animations for its upcoming short film look amazing.

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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

This week’s outro is Live Stream Theme by Fred Smith. He hasn’t got his music up on YouTube yet, but he’s the creator of the Cock and Bull pub game, which is very fun and you should check out the site! https://www.cocknbull.org/

The hysterical Twitter war Kathryn mentioned was between publishers Melville House and Penguin Random House (well, between the people running their Twitter feeds). Buzzfeed did a write up about it here.

The character from the Lackadaisy Cats webcomic Elizabeth was talking about is Ivy Pepper, and the Welcome To Night Vale weather Elizabeth mentioned is Closer by The Tiny (and yes, this would work perfectly with Ivy as the singer.)

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

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