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It's the eyes, chico

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I love the locked tomb series. Only book series that made me go hmmm maybe I should read the Bible.

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absolutely love the no-look pass

#ahsoka #star wars ahsoka #marrok #what a badass #came here for the lightsabers #stayed for the feral lesbians

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Following the #tlt tag is wild. Every other post is like here's a nuanced analysis of scene I do not remember with citations to literary figure I've never heard of and pop culture reference that is somehow also a Bible verse.

#tlt #tamsyn muir #i've read Gideon three times and you still manage to unlock new levels every time i log in #i am in awe

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Wicked the musical is literally only for thirteen-year-old lesbians and people who used to be thirteen-year-old lesbians.

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We see the aviators Gideon wears as anachronistically modern for this archaic world, and Harrow reacts to them accordingly, but we must not forget that they are an ancient artefact, pre-resurrection. For all we feel like they mess with her Ninth image they must actually strengthen it to the other houses. This Ninth cultist is wearing ten thousand year old glasses to block out the light. I dare you to think of something more Ninth than that.

#tlt #gideon the ninth #I died when I finally noticed them on the cover

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#fangs sharpened at claire's #i'm dying XD #ahsoka #shin hati #wolfwren

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There's so much potential in a prologue, but I feel like in practice it's usually more for the author's benefit than the reader's and doesn't actually add anything to the reading experience.

Prologues

I was having dinner with a good friend last night, who is currently working on a redraft of her novel; she's taking a workshop that sounds awesome, but she was nervous about having added a prologue, because she'd heard from the other participants that prologues can be offputting. Apparently one person said that if there's a prologue to a novel they just don't read the novel, which absolutely floored me. (It turned out that people liked her prologue, which is just more proof that once you know the rules and reach a certain level of skill, you can break them with impunity.)

I don't read prefaces to books anymore, because usually they contain brutally detailed spoilers, but I still read the actual book. I doubt I even notice a prologue normally. But I know that a book having a particular element that's offputting to a group of readers also isn't confined to commercial fiction -- a lot of fandom won't read fic in the second person or the present tense, for example.

So I told her I'd put up a poll and report back on the results! Tell me all your thoughts on prologues!

I'm setting it to one day because I'm going to be seeing her tomorrow and I figure I can report back then. :D

#writing #prologue #books #fiction

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I'm calling it now. Dave Filoni gives Shin a redemption arc just to have her sacrifice herself at the end of Season 2 to save Sabine. Gives them plenty of opportunities for Shin and Sabine interact (and capitalize on the fandom) without having to actually commit to a gay relationship on screen.

shin hati — costume design study

ahsoka, ‘dreams and madness’ / jeanne d’arc, albert lynch / i was born for this, alice oseman / l’orléanide, philippe-alexandre le brun de charmettes / bigmouth strikes again, the smiths / ahsoka, ‘fallen jedi’ / joan of arc, princess marie d’orleans / ahsoka, ‘master and apprentice’ / joan of arc, john everett millais

#i hope this turns out to be wrong #but that's such a conscious choice with the armor #still a great aesthetic #great observation by OP #wolfwren #shin hati #joan of arc #armor

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Mark Zuckerberg has many things to apologize for, but one thing he doesn't get nearly enough flak for was making that "interested in men or women" checkbox before it was socially acceptable to be gay. It was like, here, proclaim your heterosexuality on Facebook or risk harassment by actual people who go to your high school!

#facebook #mark zuckerberg #it wasn't enough to just ignore it #you either clicked the right option or you were gay #lesbian

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I keep falling for the same plot twist in sapphic novels. Right at the very end they're like and finally, I'd like to thank my husband. Of course! It makes perfect sense now! The cunnilingus is a lie!

#i'm not saying women with husbands shouldn't write sapphic books #i'm saying the ladies in relationships with other women tend to do it better #and it's often because they let their leading ladies actually have sex with each other #sapphic romance #lesbian fiction #wlw books

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Forget imago tech giving you access to other people's memories/personalities. In this future, women are allowed to have leg hair.

#a memory called empire #arkady martine #truly imaginative #the speculative fiction we deserve #i love arkady martine

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You know Xena loses her sword at least once per fight, right?

ROUND 3: MATCH 2

#i love her #but literally every fight involves hand to hand choreography after she drops her sword

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The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom.

#book quotes #small is beautiful