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game where you live in a nice big house with everything you need, all yours, rent-free. on the condition that you keep the house fed. interact with the neighborhood, none aware of the alive house situation. branching paths depending on which characters you feed to the house. and the house IS romanceable

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i got hit by nightmare lightning but im ok

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whoaaa congrats on the offers!! knew you could do it.

i will patiently await thatorchia's return...

thank youuuu!!! some weird legislation got passed with new hires in my state system so stuff is taking a little longer than expected, but im still really hopeful :)

and rest assured I'm chipping away at it! i love this fic with my whole heart and never want to put out anything that I don't feel is ready for the light of day

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fic or no fic, it is always snowleek sunday. when you are snowleek.

so true bal. sorry everyone else sometimes snowleek sunday is watching love island US and folding socks. thems the breaks!

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biggest L i've had to take from morning people is that the hours between 5 - 9 am really do have 7x as much time in them than the ones between 9 pm - 1 am and you can get your whole day's worth of shit done by noon

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we'll jump off that bridge when we get to it

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the saint of awe ⭐️

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ouffff im sorry ive been absolutely terrible at responding to asks/comments!! i see them and I am kissing you consensually on the forehead

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hate when I'm trying to just take a normal drink but it turns out I'm thirstier than I thought so I end up gulping it down like a goddamn cartoon characer. the indignity of water lust.

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I will simply never understand people who say they don't like Nona or call the plot of Nona the Ninth uninteresting. I saw someone describe the book as "cold" and I've been turning that over in my head because?? did we read the same book?? Nona is about love and warmth and about finding those things in the coldest of places and knowing that when things are bleak and dark you will always have love to fall back on. Nona is the soul of a misused, abused and ancient planet who was never treated right, even by the people who claimed to love her, but she doesn't know that! she has endless, unlimited capacity for love!

she is perhaps the only character in the entire series who will never experience the horrors of love because her love is pure and uncomplicated and limitless.

Nona is the soul of a planet, and yet she is so human. She is so desperately human, she wants to live and love, and she is terrified of the idea that both could be taken from her. Alecto loves John but Nona loves everyone.

She is the soul of a planet who wanted nothing more than to love and be loved, and now for the first time in her vast and ancient life, she is a six-month-old who loves and is loved by people who didn't even know who she was! they took her in because she was in the body of their friend, and then when she was nona, they loved her for her, without forcing any of their demands or expectations onto her!

And she contrasts so beautifully with Harrow. Nona, who never knew who she was until right at the end, who didn't have access to her memories of those who used and abused and emptied her, is the opposite of Harrow, who is 200 dead children, who has always known she is 200 dead children.

Harrow and Alecto are chained in so many ways -- Harrow metaphorically, and Alecto physically. Harrow's body is the memory of 200 souls, and Alecto's body is a prison for the soul of the entire earth. Neither lives for themselves and neither is free. And yet Nona, who is both of them, is free. She is the love that couldn't be taken away.

And I could talk forever about the importance of the world that Nona exists in, and how crucial it is for the story that we see her friends and what their lives are like, and how important it is that the reader is confronted with the reality and the cost of John's empire. The book places so much emphasis on the value of these regular human lives, directly contrasting the first two books, in which impossibly ancient beings simply do not care about average humans.

Nona is six months old and she cares about everyone, and for the first time in the earth's ancient life, everyone cares about her, and doesn't expect anything in return for it.

God I love Nona so much.

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y’all ever read a fanfic that you cannot believe an author just wrote for free?? what an honor it is to read a piece of someone’s soul they shared out of nothing but love for a piece of media. what a privilege it is to be allowed their talent because you share an interest!!

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thank you for ur service (not unfollowing me)