tomarry hot take: I actually don’t think Harry would even come close to defeating Tom in a duel
I think he COULD come close, with extreme levels of training and practice, but that classic “step into DADA and whoop Tom’s ass” scene? guys…I have something to confess.
Tom’s a fucking nerd.
he’s studied and practiced dark magic for years. he’s canonically regarded by DUMBLEDORE as the most brilliant student to ever walk through Hogwarts. Tom would DESTROY him.
imho the real fun of tomarry comes from the subsequent arc of Harry training to defeat him, and then actually coming close, and THEN Tom starts to become intrigued bc who the fuck is this semi-competent little shit?? and why is he now thinking about him all the time??
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I mean I’m salty that they cast the Velaryons as black people and proceeded to reduce Laena’s role even more than what it was in F&B and gave her entire relationship with Rhaenyra to Alicent so-
Like you’re not wrong but there’s valid reasons to call HOTD bad too.
yeah how they treated the velaryons even worse than the books after casting them as Black was easily the show’s weakest point it WAS bad i won’t argue with that. I more so mean when people call the entirety of the show like writing cinematography acting objectively wholly terrible now when everyone was cheering for it last year is weird to me
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Books of 2024: THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES AND OTHER STORIES, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (feat. first daffodils!!)
I've been pining after this one since the hardback released, but I'm more of a paperback person so I Waited, and in my Waiting I missed the seasonal alignment to start reading it (come on: I can't be expected to read a collection with this title any time except at the very beginning of spring, right??). But! Guess what!! Spring is once again Arriving, and things are starting to bud and bloom, and I love that!
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not pictured: breathless by kitty tsui, s/he by minnie bruce pratt, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg, miss major speaks, the persistent desire. most of these i've picked up on and off since june, since most of them are anthologies & i was rereading SBB.
stand out books for me this year were fluids, to be devoured, and minor detail.
fluids & to be devoured hugely inspired me, they kicked off me getting back into reading in general and inspired a lot of my personal writing this year.
otherwise im kinda disappointed in most of the books here... this was my first year really reading this much in a long, long time, and most of what i read were novellas. and i stepped into a new genre, so i was really feeling things out and trying to find my niche. i'm hoping i'll be able to branch out some more with all of the new authors i've been eyeing and i'll find something that will really stick with me.
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Hey its okay, The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness, okay?
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Here we go! A 20K word story for your weekend enjoyment. I tried to remove all the typos from the original publication, and I changed a few things around. Let me know if typos/inconsistencies exist.
Technically a sequel to Trial of the Zora Armor, but I think it can be (at least mostly) read without reading Armor first.
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ok foreigner is over for me on book 11. bren cameron you will always be famous but i opened deceiver and was immediately thrust into a detailed objectively written recap of the intricate politics underlying the last book. the jacket copy doesn’t even catch up with what’s happening in this book until you turn to the right flap. bro who is reading this not for the alien anthropology and family drama
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Case in point about quality/people eating it up, the aforementioned author posted two snippets of her book where the story hasn’t even started yet but there’s a missing word and a typo because she seems to think she’s beyond needing an editor. Mistakes happen but come on. In the first sentence of your dedication? Maybe other people don’t mind but it’s not a selling point for a book to me and believe me, the rest of the book is like that too. Every bit of it I’ve ever seen has had an issue, from typos, to missing words, to character name continuity.
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