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trying my hand at en plein air

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I feel ill

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

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every Iranian I know is texting each other asking “Have you heard from your family/friends? Are they okay?” like god what a fucking week

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one thing I don’t see being talked about AT ALL is how a weird number of posts from the “YaYy Israel is LiBERatIng IrAn!” pro-war dumbasses seem to have the symbol or flag of the Pahlavi Shah. The reign of the Shah was also bad??? Just because the Shah let people wear miniskirts doesn’t negate the fact that his reign saw significant repression and torture of political dissidents, corruption, etc. Like, there’s a Reason the 1979 Revolution happened, it wasn’t just done on a whim.

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I can want both the Israeli government AND the Iranian regime to explode, I contain multitudes

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i'm sorry to say this but the opening scene of the goblin emperor reads a bit like a sold to one direction fanfic

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so i finished the tomb of the dragons

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Holy shit was The Tomb of Dragons a fucking ride. I read the entire book within twelve hours of it being deposited onto my e-reader app and the only reason it took that long was because I had to bathe and sleep in between. Like, it is going to be a massive disruption to the fandom and its shipping and it's jossed pretty much every fic written in the aftermath of Grief of Stones, but it is good and gripping and it manages to tie up loose ends that I hadn't really realized were loose. I really, really liked it.

I have additional spoilery thoughts on why I think certain things happened in the book, which I'll put after the read more.

So I ended up getting spoiled on a very certain plot point last week when I checked to see if there were any pre-release reviews from people who'd been given an ARC and like, while I definitely get how people are going to be upset that Cehelar and Pel-Thenhior did not, actually, get together, I was actually pleasantly surprised by their dynamic in the book? Like maybe it's just because I was already spoiled that the ship wasn't happening, so I had come to terms and was able to accept what Katherine Addison gave us, but it is exceedingly clear that just because they're not in romantic love doesn't mean they don't love each other because it is really fucking clear that they do. Iäna is Thara's truest goddamn friend in the world, even more than Anora, and their friendship burns clear and intense and bright. I really love all their scenes together. Forgive me for being Homestuck on main, but they're moirails, y'all.

Also, I really did enjoy Captain Olgarezh as a character and Thara's slow burn crush on him, culminating in the thee-ing, hand-holding, and given-naming in the last scene. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes next for them, both in fanfic and (hopefully!) in further books to come, which it does seem like Katherine Addison has laid the groundwork for. And honestly, given the direction that it looks like she's taking Thara and the way it ends with Thara on the road again, making Hanu the love interest instead of Iäna makes a world of sense. Because we all love Iäna but he's not leaving Amalo, not when he has his opera house and his community, and it would strain credulity for the archprelate to be able to endlessly find new short term jobs in Amalo for Thara to do now that Tomasaran has his old one.

(Like it says in the acknowledgments that Tomb of Dragons was a hard book to write and I get that. In some ways Katherine Addison wrote herself into a corner with Grief of Stones in terms of being able to continue telling the kind of stories she wanted to with Thara and Tomb of Dragons was her way of writing him out of that corner. Like the way Grief of Stones ends, you can see the character arc she probably initially intended for Thara, where he mentors Tomasaran through her first cases and eventually comes to fully accept the loss of his gift and ends up retiring to stay in Amalo with Pel-Thenhior—but I suspect she had trouble making that actually work with Thara in a way that felt true to his character, probably because he would rather die than retire. Hence her making sure that he can't stay in Amalo or even go back to visit for now and creating Hanu as someone who can go on the road with him. And hence him being able to get his gift back.)

Anyway, apart from all that, I was so fucking pleased to see Maia and Csevet show up again and get all those little glimpses of him coming into his own as an emperor after a year on the throne. I hope that we do get another book where Thara and Hanu reach the Untheileneise Court and we see even more Maia and also hopefully Csethiro too. And that eventually all Thara's friends from Amalo show back up again, because they're all great and he really does need to get better at accepting people care about him. Get loved, idiot.

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alright apparently the tumblr crowd isn't pleased with the tomb of dragons. l + ratio + you don't get it like I do i loved the tomb of dragons

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Thara: dear emperor you will not BELIEVE the shit that has happened

Maia: dear Celehar

Maia: what the fuck dude

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Liam Gerrard, the perfect Thara Celehar, cannot do Csevet Aisava. Kyle McCarley, the perfect Csevet Aisava, cannot do Thara Celehar. Tragic!

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I am absolutely delighted by Thara’s little crush on the captain

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I was finally able to check out the audiobook for The Tomb of Dragons and we have very quickly taken a RADICAL shift in the narrative

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"Adaine will outlive her friends" "Fig as an Archdevils will outlive her friends" wrong, all their friends die and they demand to go to hell. They spend their afterlives in the Bottomless Pit surrounded by moshpits. Adaine swings by once a week for movie nights. She livestreams their funerals and they rank their eulogies.

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