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OOK.

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imagine: you're a minimum wage mail carrier. you have to deliver a letter to some guy's house WAY out in the middle of nowhere. the letter tells him he was elected president. the guy didn't know he was running for president. a month later you're secretary of state and directly advising the president on nuclear policy.

this is the plot of the goblin emperor from csevet's point of view.

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Me desperately explaining the themes of reproductive politics and the societal impact of bio-technology in the Vorkosigan Saga to my skeptical mother-in-law, who has just seen the cover of Barrayar: 😅

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“Suit thyself,” said [NAME], and flung herself into the descent with a glad cry like a gull on the wing.

Last Line Tag Game

Tagged by @pennyplainknits - and actually doing this one!

rules: post the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words

Nancy would like to state, on the record - even if that record is just her own mind - that she hasn’t been having bad sex.

And that is 24 - 2+4=6, so @heavenhellandhumanity @jjtaylor @nonasuch @theopteryx @ladyjanelly @rhea314

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hey sorry not to be an asshole but I saw someone say that a sports team posting about pride month was "pandering" and I need you to log off and touch grass because now more than EVER it's important that large institutions (and especially those that could easily be right wing like sports teams) show the fuck up for queer and trans people. especially trans people. so no it is not "pandering" to take a stand for a marginalized group of people that are currently under attack for trying to play sports. be so fucking for real

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They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

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Hey, re: Goblin Emperor and naming conventions - there is a discord that's still pretty lively, I can fish out a link if you'd like? I'm pretty sure someone on there also has a name generator which I can ask about if it would help :)

oh holy shit yes please!

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Today’s favorite customer: very serious nine-year-old who wanted an unabridged Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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currently facing my nemesis: coming up with names for OCs in a secondary-world fantasy setting with very complicated naming conventions

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update: how it’s going

okay. so. hear me out. The Goblin Emperor AU where Maia and Setheris are sent somewhere closer to the coast than Edonomee, thus allowing Maia’s illegitimate pirate aunt to check in on her nephew within the first year or so.

At which point an agreement is reached: Setheris won’t tell anyone that Archduke Maia is spending 8-10 months of the year on a pirate ship, and Shaleän won’t kick his ass.

This gets extremely funny when Maia abruptly becomes emperor and no one can figure out why he’s super confident, in great shape, and clearly spends most of his time outdoors. He keeps forgetting that he’s not supposed to thee/thou the servants, or know how to throw a punch, or be bisexual in public.

Reactions to this are mixed! Csevet is having the time of his life. So is Cala. Beshelar is horrified, but in the opposite way that Dazhis is horrified. Idra thinks Maia is the coolest person alive. The Barizheise ambassador (the only person at court besides Csevet who knows why this is happening) is s w e a t i n g.

Csethiro still kind of thinks he’s an idiot at first, but like. A hot, charming idiot who can swordfight. Unfortunately she’s into that.

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oh agreed re: Shaleän, but l don’t know what the birth control and STD situation is in this setting so I feel like she would strongly caution Maia against knocking anyone up and/or getting the Fantasy Clap

okay. so. hear me out. The Goblin Emperor AU where Maia and Setheris are sent somewhere closer to the coast than Edonomee, thus allowing Maia’s illegitimate pirate aunt to check in on her nephew within the first year or so.

At which point an agreement is reached: Setheris won’t tell anyone that Archduke Maia is spending 8-10 months of the year on a pirate ship, and Shaleän won’t kick his ass.

This gets extremely funny when Maia abruptly becomes emperor and no one can figure out why he’s super confident, in great shape, and clearly spends most of his time outdoors. He keeps forgetting that he’s not supposed to thee/thou the servants, or know how to throw a punch, or be bisexual in public.

Reactions to this are mixed! Csevet is having the time of his life. So is Cala. Beshelar is horrified, but in the opposite way that Dazhis is horrified. Idra thinks Maia is the coolest person alive. The Barizheise ambassador (the only person at court besides Csevet who knows why this is happening) is s w e a t i n g.

Csethiro still kind of thinks he’s an idiot at first, but like. A hot, charming idiot who can swordfight. Unfortunately she’s into that.

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also lol I JUST realized this version of maia knows how to talk to girls

okay. so. hear me out. The Goblin Emperor AU where Maia and Setheris are sent somewhere closer to the coast than Edonomee, thus allowing Maia’s illegitimate pirate aunt to check in on her nephew within the first year or so.

At which point an agreement is reached: Setheris won’t tell anyone that Archduke Maia is spending 8-10 months of the year on a pirate ship, and Shaleän won’t kick his ass.

This gets extremely funny when Maia abruptly becomes emperor and no one can figure out why he’s super confident, in great shape, and clearly spends most of his time outdoors. He keeps forgetting that he’s not supposed to thee/thou the servants, or know how to throw a punch, or be bisexual in public.

Reactions to this are mixed! Csevet is having the time of his life. So is Cala. Beshelar is horrified, but in the opposite way that Dazhis is horrified. Idra thinks Maia is the coolest person alive. The Barizheise ambassador (the only person at court besides Csevet who knows why this is happening) is s w e a t i n g.

Csethiro still kind of thinks he’s an idiot at first, but like. A hot, charming idiot who can swordfight. Unfortunately she’s into that.

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so guess who wrote 2500 words of fic today

okay. so. hear me out. The Goblin Emperor AU where Maia and Setheris are sent somewhere closer to the coast than Edonomee, thus allowing Maia’s illegitimate pirate aunt to check in on her nephew within the first year or so.

At which point an agreement is reached: Setheris won’t tell anyone that Archduke Maia is spending 8-10 months of the year on a pirate ship, and Shaleän won’t kick his ass.

This gets extremely funny when Maia abruptly becomes emperor and no one can figure out why he’s super confident, in great shape, and clearly spends most of his time outdoors. He keeps forgetting that he’s not supposed to thee/thou the servants, or know how to throw a punch, or be bisexual in public.

Reactions to this are mixed! Csevet is having the time of his life. So is Cala. Beshelar is horrified, but in the opposite way that Dazhis is horrified. Idra thinks Maia is the coolest person alive. The Barizheise ambassador (the only person at court besides Csevet who knows why this is happening) is s w e a t i n g.

Csethiro still kind of thinks he’s an idiot at first, but like. A hot, charming idiot who can swordfight. Unfortunately she’s into that.

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you’re so right! what was I thinking

this is unrelated but I also want fic where Maia gets a third set of nohecharei because he’s trying to implement an eight-hour workday across the Elflands and he believes in setting a positive example.

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this is unrelated but I also want fic where Maia gets a third set of nohecharei because he’s trying to implement an eight-hour workday across the Elflands and he believes in setting a positive example.

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okay. so. hear me out. The Goblin Emperor AU where Maia and Setheris are sent somewhere closer to the coast than Edonomee, thus allowing Maia’s illegitimate pirate aunt to check in on her nephew within the first year or so.

At which point an agreement is reached: Setheris won’t tell anyone that Archduke Maia is spending 8-10 months of the year on a pirate ship, and Shaleän won’t kick his ass.

This gets extremely funny when Maia abruptly becomes emperor and no one can figure out why he’s super confident, in great shape, and clearly spends most of his time outdoors. He keeps forgetting that he’s not supposed to thee/thou the servants, or know how to throw a punch, or be bisexual in public.

Reactions to this are mixed! Csevet is having the time of his life. So is Cala. Beshelar is horrified, but in the opposite way that Dazhis is horrified. Idra thinks Maia is the coolest person alive. The Barizheise ambassador (the only person at court besides Csevet who knows why this is happening) is s w e a t i n g.

Csethiro still kind of thinks he’s an idiot at first, but like. A hot, charming idiot who can swordfight. Unfortunately she’s into that.

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