Liberty Reads

all these excellent books come from some random penguins house?

The Vales "raising" Victor to be an absolute menace and then unleashing him upon the world was actually a marketing strategy to sell more of their shitty self help books to people whose lives Victor has ruined

I just think we all deserve massive home libraries and a couple swords, as a treat

The worst characters are the ones were you only get like three pieces of lore about them but the lore is so fascinating and hits your brain at just the right angle to have you behaving like a feral dog in front of your conspiracy theory cork board

I really, REALLY, don't know what I would do without books.

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

Also lovely that he wrote about trees that way in his daily life, too.