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Rereading all systems red and the first 2 chapters are strong contenders for funniest intro to a book series. Jumping straight to action, and mb is giving us absolutely no info about anything. Who are those people? Some weird hippies it's not important. Why are they here? Mb does not give a shit. What is this planet? Fuck if it knows. Here is a small paragraph that fucking states everyone's relationship status like a wiki article that we are never gonna get back to. Ugh there are hostiles that keep us away from our media #our media.

the eggbetha romcom novella that exists in my mind is so good btw. the plot doesn’t matter dunk is stuck dealing with some altercation at raventree hall, bloodraven is probably involved. egg is a marriage-aged teen at this point (so like. 16) and he starts off whining to dunk about how he doesn’t understand why the mere presence of a pretty woman can make dunk act so differently 🙄 smh can you keep it in your pants. dunk threatens to clout him in the ear, you know the drill. then they meet lord blackwood’s teen daughter and egg leaves that interaction looking like this emoji 😵‍💫 contemplating many things about himself he didn’t know up until that point and dunk is like “:/ man i think i don’t like this girl. she was kinda mean to you [clueless]” egg sighs wistfully “yeah…”. and it’s a whole thing because she’s a lady and he’s supposedly just some dirty little squire boy. egg gets so in character roleplaying this dynamic that at the end he’s like oh nooooo how will lord blackwood ever let me marry his daughter and someone has to remind him. then he’s like oh yeah. yayyy problem solved 👍 the end

and I don't think asoiaf is necessarily a secretly ~hopecore~ series like it is very clearly a brutal story and setting but that brutality is done with intention and ultimately makes it clear that the narrative greatly values hope, and honor, and kindness, and optimism, and fantasy, even in the face of severe adversity. but Game of Thrones the show is absolutely dripping with disdain for those things. it doesn't come off as subversion it genuinely feels like a total mockery. rewatching scenes in hindsight makes the superiority complex so blatant, the villain and """anti-hero""" favoritism utterly transparent. it takes such a meaningful story and warps it into something juvenile at best. at worst it's like. actually hateful.

My dad read me stuff like the lord of the rings and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and Sherlock Holmes as bedtime stories when I was a kid and I dunno what sort of effect that had on my development but whatever it did I think I’m making it everyone else’s problem

Reading chapter books one chapter a night to his kids was I think also an excuse for my dad to read some books he’d never gotten around to reading by himself. Did he know how sexual the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series can possibly get? No. We learned that together as a family.

ancient peoples loooved a flood narrative it was kinda like their beatles

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

it's a good thing mensah is already married with kids by the start of all systems red because can you imagine trying to make a new longterm relationship work when you have to explain to potential partners that murderbot will be there. no not romantically or sexually. but it is there.

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

Shakespeare is like this

obsessed with the way martha wells refuses to write an overarching plot for murderbot. every new book you think okay this is the one where she introduces the grand corporate conspiracy and recurring cast of corporate villains that set the premise of her next few books and instead she's like no actually i think i'll just put secunit in a Situation again

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

reblog game tell me a girl character youre obsessed with (men you headcanon as women are not allowed)

I’m sick and tired of found families we need more found toxic workplace environments

god we used to fucking have mercy and augustine in our book series