Why are people so offended if you don't like Mamdani lmao. He's a fucking politician. Why do I have to be in his fan club? If he ends up being great for NYC, cool. I still think it's stupid to act like he's idk The Face Of The Party when he is literally just a mayor who isn't even one year into his term. Also I live in fucking Tennessee. I didn't vote for him. I never will vote for him. Because I don't live in NYC.

can’t believe I had to read this with my own balls

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

you'd think occasionally men would need to touch other men like this to manoeuvre them out of the way but it never happens

i hope you all think of me not just as your friend but as your mutual who likes your personal post like way too soon after you posted it

the thing about the throwaway lines in ptolemy's gate about bartimaeus taking a lioness's form because manes block peripheral vision and then the brief reveal a few hundred pages later that he was a lion when ptolemy was attacked and killed is that it's obviously devastating but for me it's more about what it reveals about so much of bartimaeus' narration. he doesn't linger on this connection explicitly. the implication is that so so many of the quick comments he makes have extremely similar stories behind them he's not even revealing in the footnotes, not necessarily bc he doesn't remember but because he finds them painful, or embarrassing, or unimportant. fucked up about a character so very old who is mostly willing to explicitly reference his history only for a quick joke or brag, nothing too real