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been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

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inheritance cycle (eragon novels) by christopher paolini

The Inheritance Cycle (Novel Series, 2001)

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if your weird enough with the homies you can break all boundaries of platonic/romantic love and make a third, more evil thing

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whatever *explodes like a whale carcass*

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tshirt that says "i fought a dragon and all i got was PREGNANT"

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thinking more about authorial insecurity in fiction... it truly is frustrating to me when an author is clearly ashamed of their own premises, or is preemptively responding to imagined criticism. this is where you get a lot of unfunny humor about how stupid genre conventions are and how Unrealistic fantastical/speculative elements are. like ultimately the reason that authors undercut and overexplain their own works is because they're insecure about audience reaction and want to get ahead of the haters by proclaiming that they're Not Cringe. this will not work because I, the ultimate hater, will eventually find them and make one million posts about how much I despise irony poisoning

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i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he'd like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar "listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek" like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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In this episode, we get a tantalizing glimpse of another book.

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Let's check in with Roran and see how the siege of Aroughs is going!

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In this episode, Paolini is in his canal era, and Amanda has a horrific realization.

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In this episode, we explore racism with owls and meet the queen of the werecats.

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You don’t have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off. And while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the baby’s soft cartilage head into something a little more modern. It might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but let’s see where the dog is going with this.

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In this episode, we meet more cats from the musical Cats and reckon with the beauty standards of the mid 2000's.

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there are so many books in this beautiful world. many of them bad