My captaaaaain! I read Hands of the Emperor because of you and I am *obsessed*. It's so... there are books that try to keep you reading because Things Are Happening, but HotE is so quiet with it? It is all of my favorite older relatives telling me stories without all of the context and showing me what they love(d) about their lives and the people in them, and the regrets that they can't *really* bring themselves to regret and this book just loves people so goddamn much that I can't stand it. You start reading and it's so comfortable to pick up and put back down that even the hard emotional moments feel like lightly defined colors but clear brushstrokes and now I am three quarters of the way through the book and I am going to die if I can't get more of my uncle Clioper's slice of life in the government of fantasy 1800s. I shall never be the same.
You put it into words!!! Some fantasy books are really fast paced and chaotic, but HOTE will have you SCREAMING about middle aged men DARING to make small talk and look one another in the eye. It'll have you laughing hysterically about a career burecrat auditing a bank in his home town. And then something totally batshit will happen like a lord mage turning someone into a table and it's never mentioned again. This book makes so tender and happy and also feral. What a read!!
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no one except steven spielberg is brave enough to hold open auditions and chemistry tests these days. no one wants to work anymore everyone just wants to cast twitter white boys of the month when they could be CREATING twitter white boys of the month.
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idk who needs to hear this, but if you're okay with being blasphemous, you need to be okay with your idols being actually religious. if you're not, just shut your mouth and don't stan the idol or better yet, the group. no one needs a toxic fan
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obviously the gavinners are an industry plant, but do we think they're being funded by the government to deliver the whole 'law enforcement' messaging?
i just want to see the gavinners counterculture movement so so badly. apollo would agree with it but he's not cool enough to be in those spaces. i think phoenix is an armchair critic but is only pretending to care about 'musical standards' in order to bolster his haterism. ema is cheerfully throwing herself into toxic online gavinners discourse for sure. i think she has 'acab' in her bio and is living in mauvaise foi about the obvious contradiction. trucy will one day put two and two together about the musical heritage of the gavinners but i don't think the band will still be together by then.
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My family who hates me: "Why won't you sing anymore? I'm disappointed in you for not doing this thing you did for yourself for my entertainment."
Me, spending an ungodly number of hours programming Saros and Solaria to sing my favourite songs from high school choir: "heheheheheheh"
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Me after trying to explain for two days, on and off, that if you delete the first quarter's data, you cannot use the year's total value for an unrelated KPI to figure out what that value might have been: Y'all are draining me on a spiritual level... Where are the cameras? Bring them out! I'm ready!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/WILTY/comments/13bo7ce/series_17_recordings/
Wilty list of contestants, season 17
aka how the fuck did I miss this ? (the post is from 5 months ago)
VICTORIA IS BACK ON
and CHARLIE BROOKER ????
AND IVO GRAHAM!!!!
AND FRANKIE BOYLE !!!!
HELL YES!
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also i have to say. takashi miike has a very distinct style but a very broad filmography, and i never know i’m watching one of his films until it’s 40 minutes in and i’m going what the fuck what the fuck is this
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