#else speaks

rereading the Temeraire books for the first time since getting a cat and uh. yeah. the dragons are exactly like if my cat was the size of a building and could argue with me in my language

lmmb is so funny, throughout the vorkosigan books there are a number of references to people turning up dead in a ditch somewhere, and then you remember that miles really did stumble across a guy dead in a ditch at one point, and then that he died trying to retrieve some hidden cookies

I read the alanna: the first adventure graphic novel and the swordmaster is called aram, and then I decided to reread favorite bits of the prose novels and there's a soldier in the tusaine war named aram, and numair's given name is aram, and I had never put it all together before that aram is maybe not the john, but perhaps the henry of the tortall universe

OH I JUST REALIZED THE SKITTLES ARE PART OF THE RAINBOW MOTIF. TASTE THE RAINBOW

starship down is such a good DS9 episode because so much of it is about how kira lives her life in contradictions, especially when it comes to the major religious figure who is also her boss, and then also quark teaches a new alien species how to gamble by defusing a bomb. what's not to love

in sense and sensibility if marianne had died of the fever I think that elinor would have married colonel brandon and they both would have been depressed for the rest of their lives