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they call him chuck harm because of how they chuck him in harm's way

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New silt

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ignoring the implications for a moment this line is so funny to me. girl get up just take an ibuprofen and you'll be fine. oh wait you just destroyed every ibuprofen in the area didn't you.

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One of my favorite character archetypes is “person who already had their story before entering the current narrative and was so irrevocably changed by it that they are completely different from their past” because when we meet them we don’t know their past and they have their quirks and mannerisms and you think to yourself “aw that’s pretty cute that saying they just said”. But then you see their backstory and you see how Not Them they act, and you see how the people they used to know act, and you realize that those mannerisms you know and love come from all sorts of different people that no longer live. The tragedy of it all is so captivating

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chris traeger never would have survived the covid-19 pandemic

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secret worlds the amazing devil is the most homoerotic song to be sung by two people of different genders

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jenny from thebes. the album of all time

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chapter 9-12 commentary

chapter 9

in which sabriel learns that the charter is maybe messed up, sees the Dead trying to invade the house, and decides to call the river

cozy study!

love the image of sabriel holding the leg of the dragon desk as a tiny child

do charter marks not work if written? or is it like getting the current of Death to calm down for you (there has to be the will for it to happen for it to happen)

(attached to "the loss of consciousness involved in sleep suddenly seemed very appealing") mood

i think it's so funny that mogget calls sabriel "ma'am". he does not give a shit and he's not even pretending to but he's still calling her it anyway

why can't mogget say anything about what's happening to one of the great charters? is it a gimmick to keep the reveal about the charters also being bloodlines a secret for longer? is it part of his binding? is it (as i suspect) both?

nix's writing style is very utilitarian. it's not at all "beautiful writing", but it gets the job done and mostly works for the book. i have mixed feelings on it (mostly that i wish we could have a little more character internality)

(attached to "'coils within coils' remarked Sabriel") mogget has a line in lirael that goodreads tells me is "coils within coils. fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots". maybe nix is reusing this unintentionally but i'd like to think that mogget is intentionally quoting sabriel

"even death did not mean an end to slavery and despair" is nearly identical to a line from the first chapter of gideon the ninth

chapter 10

the only annotation i made on this chapter is highlighting "if she was Abhorsen, who was her father? Had he too once had a name that was lost in the responsibility of being Abhorsen?" (the answer to that last question is yes)

also it's always been a headcanon of mine that mogget made the map that is in some (maybe all?) editions of this book

chapter 11

can mogget die? do the nine bright shiners have spirits? there's a line that mentions the ground looking like "the grey river of Death— the river their spirits would cross into in a few short minutes" spirits plural. except mogget is not technically a human or an animal (the only things i am 100% sure have spirits). so i have questions

who made mogget's collar?

chapter 12

stilken mentioned!!!

mogget calling himself when he's collared "captive in a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape" is extremely trans coded. something something something the idea of having your body be only one thing being physically repulsive and also the concept of queering the monstrous

his embrace of sabriel as he's about to pluck her eyes out is so weirdly intimate

more sabriel fanartists should remember that she has "tiny tattoo-like scars" all over her face from mogget trying to murder her

sometimes i get viscerally reminded that sabriel is EIGHTEEN. my dear if you are getting scars you should be getting scars from picking at your acne and doing silly inconsequential things, not cauterized burns from your insane free magic cat getting loose and trying to murder you

decided to reread sabriel because i’m on a plane and need something to do, + have been wanting to do an annotated reread for a while. will update with commentary 👍

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A quick Mogget to practice with new Procreate brushes. Reading the Old Kingdom books for the first time and I love him.

This is a lil quick and dirty, forgive me.

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if any of the people following my sabriel reread liveblog post were wondering about the lack of updates over the past couple days: i am still very much reading the book, but i've been busy with some pretty major life things and haven't had time to post anything. if i do some reading tonight i should have four chapters to post commentary about tomorrow

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genuinely save me

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One of my hobbies is listening to the tma q&a with jonny and Alex and clipping out bits that I'm like, this is just martin and Jon bickering. The girls are fighting. This conversation could happen in season 5 and I would not bat an eye.

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Chen Chen

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girls will say "I know a spot" and then bring you to the place. this has always been the place. you were always walking towards this moment. there’s nothing left to hold on to. there’s nowhere left to go. there’s no need to worry any more.

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life advice from the mountain goats:

- lie to the cops

- watch for the signs and learn how to read

- let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light, play really loud music all hours of the night

- do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive, do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away

- life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

- steal what you need

- bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by

- read all about it on the wikipedia page

- don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light, and stay alive, just stay alive

- make it through this year

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Find the Ranger(s) LOL