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..,..,,so unfortunately she who became the sun is also not quite my genre jam, but!: I Am More Willing To Try Now

More substantially, I am 370 pages into book 4 of Malazan (House of Chains) by Steven Erikson and have been for several months now. There's just so much of it, and after the first hundred and change was spent as an enjoyable Conan-pastiche that was actually having fun with its unreliable narrator and gleeful amorality going back to flitting between a half dozen conventional epic/military plots with three dozen important proper nouns per chapter and the momentum of a drunken snail is a slog. (There is an upper limit to have many thousands of words of graven-voiced monologues about how the empire conquering everyone is for their own good a text can expect me to swallow before it stops being plausible it doens't expect me to believe it, also). In a better word someone would extract Felsin and put her in a smaller book. Preferably a less racist one.

My favorite James Moment(TM) is near the start of book 2 when Violet asks why he’s even here, and James says, probably like 60% sarcastically, “To the victor go the spoils?” There’s so much wrong with him and you CAN see why he’s Like This. It’s great. <3

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Apart from the speed thing, which is more of a personal project management flex, it felt like traveling back in time to like 2002.

Please! Always in the market for new recipes, and-okay 2/3 of those sound delicious, the no soup I'm mostly just curious about.

it’s a queen’s thief modern au epistolary fic in which Gen proposed to business rival Irene in writing and she took it as a joke/affront/outrageous insult and responds angrily, so Gen thinks he’s being very rudely rejected, and they are very antagonistic penpals until they figure out the miscommunication <3

someone just sent me this on twitter too, much appreciated! 🙌 was unaware of this post and it’s a super helpful reference, will keep it saved for anything i draw going forward!