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People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

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Fran Lebowitz on writing

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(crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts

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idk i’m just a house cat don’t ask me

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hate to say it but im a "it gets better" truther. it does. i swear to god it fucking does.

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i love that song so much i need to crush it up and snort it until i overdose

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You wanna come over and just go to sleep?

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The thing that really gets me about the Locked Tomb series is that from a worldbuilding perspective it’s YA catnip. Like any other author would have started it out from someone low ranking in the cohort, maybe falling in love with a rebel or vice versa, introducing parts of the world slowly. There are even houses to sort yourselves into! It’s perfect! That would have been a good story in and of itself! However Tasmyn Muir started in the deepest depths of the equivalent of death cult Amish territory from the POV of someone trying to escape and join the terrible death army, and it works. It’s like if you started explaining the concept of Star Wars with a clone from one of the tanks in Palpatine’s lair. Obsessed with her as an author.

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can't stop thinking about tamsyn muir's choice to present her deep, morally and politically complex science fantasy world with a central web of magic, secrets and lies reaching back ten thousand years through the eyes of three characters who:

1. tune out and start thinking about hot women whenever the magic system or worldbuilding are being explained

2. experience hallucinations on a daily basis, have brain damage and are being deceived and misled by their peers, authority figures, themselves and God

3. don't know who they are, have spent their entire life in one place and are, on all levels but physical, six months old

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i love the way the way the locked tomb does gender. like gideon is butch, undeniably, but also can you really be gender non conforming when there’s no real image of gender to conform to in the first place? palamedes and pyrrah aren’t NOT trans in nona; their souls are trapped in different bodies, and those bodies ARE the wrong gender but also that’s literally the least of their problems. ianthe is pretty firmly in the box we would label “femme” and she’s simultaneously the princess of ida and a tower prince. but that’s also the least of her problems she’s literally puppetting a dead body around. nona experiences dysphoria about her body (harrow’s body and the barbie body) but that’s because she’s literally the soul of a planet trapped in a meat prison. any shaped meat prison would be bad.

like i wouldn’t call the locked tomb a “post gender” world, but they seem to all basically have the attitude of “i don’t have time for gender right now we’re trapped at the murder mystery dinner party from hell and someone stole god’s sperm we have bigger problems”

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i'm sorry "It was like the time Pyrrha had let Nona smoke a cigarette and Nona had accidentally eaten half." ???????? NONA.

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sorry i didnt respond to ur text ... i read it three times and then i got scared

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reblog if you think polyamorous people are really fucking cool actually

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sorry i got overwhelmed and uh. exploded. give me 2-4 business days to regenerate and then i can text u back

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why were you put in a psych ward

I was creative and ahead of my time

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went to bed on the phone with my qpp (they fell asleep before me so then i looked thru their writing on tumblr & put on preachers daughter)