Okay you've all witnessed my descent into madness over Slow Horses, but seriously, I cannot recommend it enough. A spy thriller with a main character so anti-James Bond that he gets stuck in revolving doors! An unapologetic look at the complete lack of ethics in the security services! A found family story made up of MI5's greatest fuck-ups! Gary Oldman playing the world's most repulsive character! Strong, well-developed, complex female characters! Two calculating, criminal women who have definitely fucked and now despise each other leading MI5!
Go watch it. Seriously, it's so good. It's funny, thrilling and completely fucked up.
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The Wintersea Republic and the Free State: Different Age lengths?
I was going to save this until my Hollowpox reread post, but I’ve hit a snag in my eternal reread and now I don’t know when I’ll share that. This is something I noticed that I didn’t fully realize before. This is specifically about post-Massacre Ages. Pre-Massacre stuff is still currently a Wild West of unknowns.
The Wintersea Republic seems to have consistently had 10-12 year Ages since it was formed. This lines up with the amount of Ages it has had and how long it’s been around for. This consistency is also how Squall establishes the “curse.”
I had always assumed that Ages were consistent among the Realm, so that Nevermoor has also been experiencing these same Age lengths for the same amount of time. This is because at the beginning of the first book we see that their Morningtides align. This is where my theory about Wundersmith deaths or Wunder irregularities causing Eventides at the end of years comes from, because it seems likely that that’s what triggered this Eventide and likely all the ones related to the “curse”.
However, in ch2 of Hollowpox, Jupiter says the following:
“Golders Night,” Holliday echoed, and her expression grew thoughtful. She tapped a finger against her mouth. “There’s a thought… what’s it been, twelve years since the last one?”
“Fourteen, I believe,” said Jupiter. “Spring of Seventeen in the Age of Poets. ”
So, 14 years ago, Nevermoor was in the midst of an Age that was at least 17 years long? Now I'm less sure what triggers Eventides/new Ages, especially in the Free State...
I find it unlikely that the Republic also experienced this same 17 year Age, as the fairly consistent Ages seems to be how Squall establishes the Eventide Curse... HOWEVER..... Morrigan turns 13 in Hollowpox... so this would have been the Age before her, and it might've actually been more like 18 (or 19? I'm bad at math) years long? Maybe Squall did something new the Age before Mog, like tried to take on an apprentice or two before her, or carry out some plan (or study?) with the other cursed children. The abnormally long Age could be balanced out by some of the earlier Ages in the lifespan of the Wintersea Republic being considerably short in comparison.
I would love to hear anyone's own thoughts on this! It's something I realized and now am trying to figure out how it fits with everything because I never really thought about it before.
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Laughter does not, in reality, sound like bells. Undeniably every laugh is different, but bells sound like bells, and while the flowery romantic language makes for pretty (if overused) metaphor, it isn’t often very true to life. Laughter is laughter; bells are bells. Given the choice, the former is most often preferable.
The laugh that she’s been chasing comes always a touch higher than she expects in brilliant surprise, clipped off quick with a cough as Kharish blinks at the ceiling from where the hefty collected works of a prolific Argonian playwright toppling from the shelf above has left her sprawled on the floor with some other chime ringing in her ears.
“Physical comedy,” she says aloud, almost offended. “Really?”
“I didn’t say anything,” Colette insists, crouching to touch her temple, fingertips light, careful. She’s holding her mouth studiously straight, belied by the laugh still lingering at the corners of her eyes.
“I’m wounded.”
“You’re perfectly fine.”
“Physical comedy is so much cheaper—”
“I didn’t say anything! I didn’t say anything!”
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau & Jennifer Garner attended the Apple TV+ "The Last Thing He Told Me" premiere in Los Angeles ✨
April 13, 2023 📆
The first 2 episodes are available on Apple TV+ NOW!
(-> Twitter thread)
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Joan Lowery Nixon - The Ghosts of Now (Especially for Girls) - Apple - 1984
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Me? Oh, yes I get bitches. This is crime and this is punishment. Did you not know? They are close friends. And they lay beside me every night
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