it’s charming that in every mxtx novel most of the supporting cast are haters who do NOT want the main couple to get together. they are not scheming to matchmake them they are begging them on their hands and knees saying pleeeeaaase block his number. and they’re right to do it

they treat the happy ending with grim resignation and it’s funny every time

[mxtx supporting character voice] I HOPE JAKEY DIES

god israel's destruction of tyre is like especially depressing tbh like thats one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. people have lived there since the bronze age. there is so, so so much history and world heritage there that's being blown up and destroyed forever because its existence doesn't fit israel's nationalist vision of history.

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally