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Lords:
* Mara
* https://twitter.com/McaelinL
* April
* https://twitter.com/aprilsaur/
Topics:
* Frog and Toad core
* What would you do with a bonus room in your house?
* My reptile brain is a cat-loving ninja
* If you could submit one thing (a song, a building, a food, an activity, an abstract concept) to the interstellar community of sapient intelligences as your part of The Case For Why The Human Race Is Good And Cool, what would it be?
* How earnest lessons you try to teach your children backfire
* Murder She Wrote is back on prime
* Asafoetida powder
Microtopics:
* The Expanse: bigger than before.
* A developer's guide to cognitive behavioral therapy.
* The various circumstances under which the Frog Fractions DLC hat can be a witch hat.
* Cottagecore vs. Frog and Toad core.
* Cottagecore merged with an old man.
* Embracing Frog and Toad for pride month.
* Finding the bodice rippers with people with dark curly hair on the cover because you can imagine those are light-skinned black people.
* The relative density of the east coast.
* Getting out of California before it's too late.
* A complete dearth of natural disasters.
* Writing an offer letter for a home you want to buy and mentioning your adorable child who just needs a home several times.
* Moving into a space that is twice as big and not knowing what to do with all the space.
* An Austenian fantasy you have been cherishing in your bosom.
* A perfect cosy library with chairs that trap people.
* Installing a ladder on casters so you can ride it around the room every morning in your Belle outfit.
* Coming up with excuses to install the ladder on casters even though you can just reach up and grab every book in your library.
* One of those booths with a fan at the bottom that you fill by ripping a single page out of every book in your library.
* How much extra you can charge for an Airbnb hidden behind a secret bookshelf.
* Going into the Library of Congress to check out Bullfrog's Official Guide to Dungeon Keeper.
* A room full of music production equipment and no internet connection.
* Asking your child to focus at dinner when all the adults at the table have their phones out.
* Saving a cat by applying torque to a falling chair.
* Doing a thing before you realize you've done it and thinking "wow it's a good thing I agree with those actions."
* Deliberately relying on your unconscious mind to do important work.
* Whether Jim and his wife need to get checked for ADHD.
* A teen who can write a hell of a term paper.
* The interstellar community of sapient intelligences.
* The case for why the human race is good and cool.
* Winnie the Pooh.
* Reclaiming the poop.
* Taco Bell's cannon firing nacho cheese chalupas at the enemy spaceships.
* Trying to convey "hygge" without being willing to try to pronounce it.
* Learning about alien cultures by watching Star Trek.
* A five year old explaining to you how T-Mobile are leaders in 5G technology.
* A perfectly sensible reaction to the story of Noah's Ark.
* Learning what fighting is and deciding to fight your mom.
* A book about a child who needs to be reprimanded all the time.
* Shouting "no" and throwing the phone on the floor whenever an ad plays.
* Watching Murder She Wrote every night before bed.
* Jessica Fletcher the serial killer and her nephew Grady, also a serial killer.
* How good Jessica Fletcher would be at breaking up a loud graduation party.
* Predicting when the party next door is going to end by the decade the music is from.
* How to recognize a trap remix of the Murder She Wrote theme from just the bass.
* Tricking your family into playing the Murder She Wrote board game.
* Not needing a wedding ring because your husband got you the Murder She Wrote DVD boxed set.
* Discovering what DVDs are and deciding to put them in the shower.
* Covering the shower drain with the Wii Sports disc because they're the exact same size.
* A bone-dry shower.
* Always shirt-cocking it.
* Baby poop and onions but also kind of floral but also you hate onions.
* Resorch.
* Dried latex from the celery family.
* Boiling your neti pot water to kill the brain-eating bacteria that might pass through the blood brain barrier.
