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Man remember in voyage of the dawn treader when like. They turned Eustace into a dragon as punishment. In what world was that punishment

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"if you don't have your own conscience, crowdsourced is fine" — amos burton, probably

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My tattoo artist told me his teenage son came out to him as trans by giving him a bunch of blue cupcakes and a greeting card that said "it's a boy!"

"That's cute," I said.

"It was NOT cute!" he snapped. "I thought he was pregnant."

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"the traditionalists are burning up finite resources at a rapid pace to source their lifestyle in the extreme short term" the villain is capitalism once again

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Jammer seeing Evan kill someone and going pretty much silent for the rest of the episode. Jammer seeing Evan kill someone and thinking about why this kind of thing is the reason he left in the first place. Jammer seeing Evan kill someone and being terrified.

Evan seeing Jammers teammate talk about how he mentions Evan all of the time. Evan seeing, over the course of the conversation with said teammate, that Jammer never even mentioned magic all that much to him. Evan seeing his friend, who apparently talked about Evan all of the time without bringing up such a prominent part of who he is, being terrified of the things that Evan does.

Evan asking Jammer if he would tell his team from Roosevelt about the fact that he killed someone. Jammer saying no.

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one of the genius things about the way gideon the ninth (and the locked tomb as a whole) is structured is the way that it continues to emphasize gideon as the pov character. we see the world through her eyes. we interact with characters only as much as she interacts with them. and when she blatantly misses things going on. she has no interest in the politics that are occurring and no basis for any of the existing relationships between the scions of the other houses. her priorities are (1) piss off harrow, (2) let the hot old sick girl flirt with her, and (3) sword. and that is mostly it!!

so especially during the third act, gideon - and by extension, the reader - is hit with WAVE AFTER WAVE of epic climaxes and denouements to plots that she literally was not aware were occurring. she stumbles into the aftermath of a bloody and lethal confrontation between teacher and the second house. she trips into babs’s murder and ianthe’s ascension into lyctorhood. she nearly ruins the crucial pull-back-the-curtain reveal between palamedes and cytherea because she literally tries to run into the middle of it to apologize because she didn’t know that she had been flirting with his almost-fiancée.

when you read the book for the first time, all of these things feel as overwhelming to you as they do to gideon. the uptight military commander is injured and the slightly less uptight military lieutenant is dead?? that prick with the quiff got cannibalized by his evil stick figure bully??? harry potter BLEW UP???

and then you go back to everything on reread, knowing the context for where things will eventually go, and go ohhhhh. all of the information was there the first time. you just never had any reason to care about it. it’s such a brilliant way to hide information in plain sight and play with an unwittingly unreliable narrator

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i cannot be normal about them alsdkfasldkhfajklshfklasdfhjdslfdsj

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Fascinated by this phenomenon

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So glad to see that everyone is coming around to the wonderful world of Sam and Evans friendship because I have been screaming internally about their dynamic since Sam talked down his blood snake in season 1

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oh my god. every time aabria describes them failing at magic, she points out their awareness of how much physics and math would go into making what they're trying to achieve possible. it's literally a lack of suspension of disbelief that's killing the magic. the death of magic is directly tied to becoming jaded and losing your childlike wonder.

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Yeah, for thoses who don't know, Aurora Perrineau who play Eurydice in Kaos, is the daughter of Harold Perrineau, who play Mercutio in THAT Romeo+Juliet adaptation (you know the one)

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Speaking of mountains, I know most people live around sea level, but still, I'm curious

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