#*nuance

why does besnon, the larger* passenger, not simply eat the other one

It's honestly a similar reason I can't get behind hcing JYL as a lesbian? I'm not even a Xuanli warrior I am a softcore Xuanli hater even* but her feelings abt her male love interest are in fact not unimportant and the possibility of their legitimacy shouldn't invalidate criticism of her treatment? I'm trying to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off like Think of the straight women but like, does her having been into a man preclude her being repressed and treated poorly and is that grounds for delegitimizing those feelings when she on page struggles with getting those respected

It looks like Christmas outside

the concept of writing a beautiful curio in one book with what looks like some nuance in respect to his more "conservative"* leanings and connections and then going to book 2 and just leaving out his tribuneship and leaving out the bribery story and leaving out the spinning theater and leaving out the 'volte-face' and leaving out his real political relevance/ambitions and leaving out his death and changing his real life allegiances and ultimately writing a COMPLETELY different character

Hey. Hey. Did you know the European Medicines Agency recommends retinol not be used by women who are or are planning to become pregnant. On account of the fetal damage it may cause. This is TOPICAL, not oral, retinol. So yeah your The Ordinary retinol is poison