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unpopular opinion: Vimes is kind of drama queen

Sam “held a burning hot coal until it nearly took the skin off his hand while maintaining perfect calm and eye contact with the asshole in need of intimidation Just Because” Vimes? Sam “sitting on the stoop with a mug of cocoa and a cigar, cautiously aware of every inch of the scene he’s building” Vimes? Sam “could just tear his sleeve to show the mark of the Summoning Dark but instead tears off his whole goddamn shirt” Vimes? A drama queen? Reaching a bit don’t you think

Yep, certainly doesn’t seem to describe Sam “pretends to eat poison as a power move” Vimes. Not Sam “buries an axe in the table in the Rats Chamber” Vimes.

I mean are we really talking about Sam “yes a whole room full of candles with wicks dipped in holy water is the best way to beat this vampire” Vimes, here? Sam “has fought bad guys on top of a speeding train AND a riverboat during a flood” Vimes, really? Definitely Sam “nearly gets shot in the head by a crossbow bolt that shatters his shaving mirror and then uses the bolt to prop up a shard of said mirror to finish shaving” Vimes we’re discussing here?

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Upon re-reading, Ancillary Justice is doing a very funny thing with genre, because Breq is living in a dark political thriller, and Seivarden is in a soppy romance where she is saved from herself by the power of finding a patron worthy swearing clientage to.

Articles written by neurotypicals will be like “ADHD children find the external motivation of the SAW traps is very effective. Here’s how to build SAW traps to maximize their productivity.”

Hey. Stop for a second. Take this moment to appreciate that you don't have to write a paper right now. No one is asking you to write a paper. You don't have to think about the paper or plan your time around the paper. You have the freedom to think about whatever you want. Everything is going to be okay. At least you don't have to write a paper right now

I'm a web serial author, I always have to write a paper :(

I don't have to write a paper, I have to teach others how to write a paper and then grade their paper.

Just started watching Pluribus and this show has reached levels of toxic yuri I would have previously thought impossible. What if we kissed but you're a female version of my hot OC and also you're the reanimated corpse of a woman I don't know and also you're an eldritch abomination from beyond the stars and also you're my dead wife and also you're every human being on Earth and every time I get upset around you, you kill millions of people. And we're both girls.

I love how in Ancillary Mercy we find out Seivarden’s actually like, an action movie hero. Like, leading a commando raid, getting tackled out of third-story windows and brushing it off, etc. We met her and she was just crying and throwing up on herself. Two books later and Ekalu’s like, ughhh she’s so beautiful and so good in bed!! And she’s jumping off a spaceship and infiltrating a station and threatening the lord of the Radch. But don’t worry! She’s still a loser: she calls Tisarwat “kiddo.”

This feels like it's Frankenstein's greenhouse.