Just Paul, I Guess

first base: psychosexual obsession

Picture this you go to your local grocery store and you see Harrow's "Probiotic" Marrow Soup, and on the canned soup it says: "It's good for the gut"

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

Harrow, Gideon and Ianthe: wow this sucks I wonder what the others are doing

*smacks the locked tomb like it’s a car*: this baby can fit so much grief inside it

also re:people assuming that the thematic implications of tlt are unintentional. this pops up soooo much with the way that social prejudices and strictures are held up within john’s empire. like yes on the surface things are cool and neofuturist and liberal - same sex relationships are normalized! women are political leaders and scholars and swordfighters and revolutionaries! this guywoman calls herself a prince! - but there’s also significant evidence of the continued existence of misogyny, patriarchy, strict gender roles and generally binary gender presentation, etc etc etc. gestures emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn. and it seems that john is not only complicit in these social systems, and not only an active participant in them, but at times even the font and root of them. gestures even more emphatically to everything relating to mercymorn.

Final version