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AHHHHHH

Just feeling off. Y'know.

Gonna try to finish this book for bookclub which is undoubtedly the worst thing I've ever read and isn't even bad but indulgent and enjoyable it's just BAD. Not a single positive, or even neutral, thing to say about it. It's not haha hater bookclub it's this is literally worth less than the paper it's printed on. And there's like FIVE OF THEM

#i am never forgiving my uni friend for making me read this #mean obvs i will. but holy SHIt #i just want it to be over so i can read smthn GOOD #ive been slogging thru it for Months #ITS SO BAD. #LITERALLY THE WORST THING IVE EVER READ

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you cannot advertise to me in a way that matters.

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#dungeon meshi #marcille donato

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Herstmonceux Castle - ENGLAND

#ive been here!!!!

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losing the idgaf war badly (I want to be in love and to have someone be in love with me)

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On the topic of Palamedes and Camilla also having messed up lives: while Paldulcie doesn't fit into a lot of folks' conventional ideas of queer romance in sci-fi, their whole love for each other circles back to Muir's point that you can't have shit in Empire and that love will often chafe against form and functioning Empire no matter what. The act of writing letters and attempting to make life better for Dulcie was revolutionary of Palamedes.

It went against planetary politics that demanded house necromancers compete and remain compartmentalized. It was an act that wanted to humanize a woman who was effectively bred to be an art piece of slow death and coddling.

Not to mention the continuous times in the series that Muir makes it seem like the Sixth house maintain some form of lesser place in the empire's hierarchy: like they're running out of genetic material, in Harrow's Marriage AU she mentions how they're often painted in a corner like her house is, The Second House went after their keys because they believed them the easiest to over-power, Palamedes and Camilla had no clue what formal dueling practices were.

Palamedes trying to marry the Duchess of Rhodes screams of the taboo and forbidden that Muir explores in Locked Tomb. I need y'all to wake up and see the sixth house as more than the funky librarians helping out the funky lesbians. They are definitely doing that, but they are so fundamentally crucial to this series.

#the locked tomb #sixth house my beloved and dearest #actually you should woobify them all u want. i give u permission

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For a profession that gets stereotyped as introverted loners I sure do spend a lot of time waiting for ppl to reply to my gd email with the correct gd information

This is like middle school group project but Worse because there's Consequences <- I'm only half joking

#the duality of fran #deep sigh. im going home. im done. #tmrw. more sorting out todays messes. neither of which are my fault #and then working on the other project. which is solely mine so nobody else can fuck it up

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god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldn’t even hesitate

#:)))))

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hello I am still alive and I just reread the truth

#otto von chriek #MY BESTIE #discworld

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GO OFF, FRAN!! Sometimes stories are about 'this system is corrupt. you are inside it without the individual power to overthrow the entire thing. what good can you do' OKAY? THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME

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I am just!!! Very idealistically angry and also very prone to melancholy and despair!!! So yeah I can see why for some it wouldn't be enjoyable or comfortable, to me??? It's like?? Everything.

So much of my daily devotion to Duty and Goodness. So much of my general life philosophy, tbh. Can be summed up by stories like this!!!! All I can do is the task before me to the best of my ability. That's all most of us can do. And that still means something. It's still worth working towards those ideals even if you believe they'll never be fully achieved. Y'know?

Anyway yeah. Stories and idealism are It(TM) for me.

#💕💕💕💕💕 #i am stupid big-hearted idiot apparently #i mean that in the best of ways. but still

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Turns out 1 coffee isn't enought but 2 is TOO many so idk wtf I'm supposed to do now

#yes. we are having a stomache ache event. AGAIN. #the duality of fran #tho that might partially be the work fiasco #i am going to do smthn mindless and easy for the last hour of the day #rehouse some records

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#HE WOULD SAY THIS #chilchuck #dungeon meshi

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Falin with Laois hair: Cute pixie cut!

Laios with Falin hair: HEEEEEEYEEEHYEEEHYEHYEH

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Same kind of mfer who complains that in tge Maia doesn't immediately overthrow his throne, or in hote the emperor and kip don't dismantle the empire and instead work to reform it from within (instead of y'know, immediately destabilizing it and ultimately making everything worse for the oppressed)

#the duality of fran #nobody hates leftists more than other leftists #im leftists #also both of those things would not have actually helped the impoverished in either empire #magic underpinnings holding the world together in hote not even considered

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Also the distinguishing between the use of PLOTS in FICITON to examine various themes vs endorsing things irl. There is nuance there between propaganda and things I 100% would agree with irl. Copaganda is absolutely real, not everything that has cops in it is automatically copaganda. These two statements can and should coexist.

This sure is a webbed site.

#its not unique to tumblr. critical thinking is uh. well. yknow. #anyway did you know i endorse irl murder. despite being a strict non violence advocate. bc i like and admire characters who kill. #copaganda is real!!!! not everything with cops in it is copaganda tho!!!!!

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Actually that bad vimes take is probably more upsetting than the entire work debacle this morning

#me a person with ocd and strict rules about self governance and the whole addictive personality thibg #VIMES IS PERSONAL. ok #insane angry abt justice person who is not allowed to go spare