Text (shortly after the August Iris moon phase ends)

[gaveitaway]

Hello, fellow Moonblessed! This is the Principality Aziraphale and I have a few subjects I'd like to discuss with you, if you have the time to spare.

One is simply a request for good book recommendations, though I'm also curious if anyone has ever run into books here they were familiar with back home?

The other is particularly for those also blessed by the Iris moon... Have you had any trouble with shocking things? And people? My last phase resulted in my being quite affectionate but it's a bit of a hardship trying to cuddle when you keep accidentally shocking your partner.

[There is a possibility of Crowley threadjacking, forewarning.]

Comments

[tigerpoet]

I haven't found any books I recognize from home here, although I do plan to bring some with the dimensional orbs. It's slow going at a limit of two purchases per month.

As for the books here:

[This is five entire paragraphs of book recommendations from what Atsushi's read in the library, covering a wide array of genre, tone, and intended audience. He includes brief summaries as well as what he personally enjoyed most about the books.

Atsushi reads a lot. It's an author thing.]

[gaveitaway]

Oh this is *precisely* the sort of thing for which I was looking, thank you.

I had heard a bit about these orbs but I'm not as quick a learner as I would like to be when it comes to the technological. They can bring you material objects from home? Many of my own tomes have been signed by the authors and are quite special to me.

[tigerpoet]

You're welcome. The local library is practically a second home to me.

They can! Items you own yourself are certainly possible to acquire. Now I'm wishing that I had gotten my friends to sign their books...

[gaveitaway]

I must admit, I've developed a bit of a preference for owning a book over borrowing other's, but it's certainly a place to start.

Oh? You've also had friends who write?

[tigerpoet]

Writers tend to flock together, in my experience. I don't know how familiar you are with Japanese literature or if you'd recognize their names.

[gaveitaway]

Oh YOU'RE a writer! Well that certainly explains the recommendations in such perfect form.

I have been reading since the very invention of the written word. You may be surprised.

[tigerpoet]

[He'd believe it, being something of a ghost himself.]

In that case, Nakajima Atsushi. Pleased to meet you.

[gaveitaway]

Yes! Sangetsuki? And the novel. About Robert Louis Stevenson? Afraid I'm not very familiar with that one.

Anyhow, it's a pleasure to meet you as well!

[tigerpoet]

That's me! I'm honored that you know of them at all.

[Older than the written word he may be, but that doesn't mean an angel would necessarily care what Atsushi wrote.]

[gaveitaway]

Well, I do own a bookshop back home. Though I specialize somewhat in rare books and prophecy.

[tigerpoet]

It must be a magnificent collection. If only we could have brought all our belongings with us.

[gaveitaway]

I've been lamenting the very same, myself. I can only hope they'll be alright while I'm gone... If I'd known I was leaving, I would have set up extra precautions to protect my things.

[tigerpoet]

Thankfully, most of my books are at the library where I live now, and they're very particular about people damaging those.

It would have been nice to have brought a few biographies along, because people keep asking me things about my fellow authors that I just don't know offhand.

sorry, I temporarily got AC swept!

[gaveitaway]

Yes, libraries due tend to come with librarians to help protect the books. It's just me at my shop.

[Well, him and some passive aggressive magic, should anyone actually try to purchase anything. He prefers it that way over having people working for him anyway.]

I can imagine. I've known a few historical figures over the centuries myself, but I certainly can't remember everything about everyone.

Are they all fellow Japanese authors, your friends?

no worries!

[tigerpoet]

That's the type of spirit that was summoned. I'm sure there are other authors that were transmigrated, too, just not in my library.

[pour one out for his canon point being before he met Lewis Carroll and Arthur Conan Doyle]

[gaveitaway]

Transmigration? Then you're a reincarnated spirit?

[tigerpoet]

I am, yes. We authors were transmigrated to deal with some creatures that have been devouring literature, since normal humans can't go inside of books in order to fight them.