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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! 🎃🍬
#boo!#did I scare you?#good!#cult of the lamb#cult of the lamb bishops#cotl heket#cotl sozo#Heket x Sozo#hezo as i like to call it#art#digital art#my art
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Do you have any opinions on Scholomance?
I do! I like it a lot. I really enjoyed all three books, blitzed through them easily and was much more excited to see how the plots unfolded than I'm used to these days, as a jaded adult, and I also really appreciated them as works of craft.
Especially the first one, I spent the whole time being all 'wow!' at how simple it was. So easy to read, but no waste. You really need to know what you're doing, to get that kind of pared-down elegance of form to work and still fit so much content in.
Like these are dense, there's a fantastic stylistic minimalism that allows El's character all the space it needs to breathe by making absolutely every other thing and person in the whole novel also do character work for her, which is exactly where the first person voice shines.
Also great use of character perspective to make the pacing feel really natural, so the fact that the first book takes three weeks, the second book takes one year, and the third book is like. Five or so incredibly stressful days spread out over the course of a few weeks? Doesn't feel imbalanced.
I actually got distracted from the story a few times by noticing the strength of Novik's technique. 😂 This is a me problem, in itself it's the opposite of distracting. Very low-profile.
I think the Scholomance is a great example of how far you can go in specfic when you aren't cringing from the label 'derivative,' because the Scholomance books feel very fresh ad clean specifically because nothing in them is concerned with standing out as 'original,' whatever that's supposed to mean, only with being well-executed and suitable to its task.
Hm, maybe that's where Liesel was born, the intersection of the efficient narrative style and the vast proportion of the story that concerns the maximization of utility and the instrumentalization of persons by themselves and others, and the forces that incentivize these behaviors. Or maybe she's just the narrative counterweight to Orion 'Head Empty' Lake lmao. How's that for a principle of balance, Galadriel?
I really did enjoy how beautifully it was laid out, over and over, in dozens of shades of humanity, how no matter where you go in an exploitative system almost everyone is being driven by the same survival instincts.
Because I don't think I've ever seen made so cleanly clear why you just can't expect any person or small group of people, no matter their level of goodwill or status, to unmake one of these systems from the inside; how it's not a matter of people being bad but of every single person being very...small.
And then not retreating into the idea of a person who is Big coming and breaking the cruel system from the outside as some kind of panacea, because 1) that is terrible, even if it's necessary and done in the best way possible and 2) that's not a sustainable answer to anything. Getting a balance between the protagonist being able to effect change and not subscribing to the great man theory of history can be really tricky!
Also did I mention, I love El, and I love most of the cast, even the dreadful ones. How am I going around with this many feelings about Li Shanfeng who doesn't appear until the actual climax?
The romance murdered me a bit, but it took up no more space than it absolutely needed to do its job, and I respect that. Also I appreciated Orion as a love interest; Novik has a slight record at this point of a version of that style of male love interest who's like a caricature of Mr. Darcy but old, which was shaping up to be my least favorite thing about her body of work.
...Orion is kind of like if you took the human king from Spinning Silver and gave him an alignment flip come to think of it, so he's not coming out of nowhere. Lmao.
Which reminds me (re: romance character typing) I've heard Novik didn't want it to be known she was astolat, which this series has renewed my sympathies if so. Because if I were a published novelist I wouldn't want people going 'you know, that resolution was really emotionally satisfying! reminds me of that fic she wrote where optimus prime and megatron get stuck in a hole underground and hatefuck about it.'
I don't even like Transformers. That fic almost made me cry. Actually I suspect it reads better if you don't like Transformers because I'm sure it does not give a shit about canon.
Anyway, whoever pointed out that one of the things El has going on is she's Enoby (and we're going to sit down and explore what the true reason to put your middle finger up at preps is, and what are some constructive ways to channel that socioeconomic wrath, and what it means that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism) was right and I'm not entirely over that either.
Fucking love El's mom as a character. Spectacular level of parent relevance and usefulness. A+.
Aadhya and Liu are also characters who fucking delivered.
Re: minimalism though, I laughed at the start of The Golden Enclaves when I realized that none of the enclaver characters who'd gotten development in the the first two books were from London, the enclave El was theoretically shooting for when we met her.
#ask#hoc est meum#Anonymous#scholomance#my sister's biphobia made an appearance when i was reading the second book and tried to tell her about this thing i was enjoying#still mad at her about it#anyway though#good!#wish i could ask novik what she was thinking by making a single-cell abortion work as human sacrifice#like is it just because magic works on intent so if you think the newly fertilized egg#that you couldn't know about without magic#is 'your baby which you are killing'#then it is?#for purposes of hole in reality making?#or does this story have a spot where its politics sharply reverse and human life begins at conception#spoilers#scholomance spoilers#especially in the reblog#lakjfaldkfs seanan mcguire has granted this rambled Circulation oh dear
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@ canucks Help us send Boesersson to #NHLAllStar❗️
#canucks admin ur just like us#Good!#brock boeser#elias pettersson#vancouver canucks#no but honestly imagine if we get our 5 guys in
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do you know how hard it would be to be patricks enemy - its easy to piss him off, he runs hot, his fuse is short - but he lets shit go, just as quick. you'd have to really break his heart, be someone so fucking fake you make his skin itch just to be around you, so against being honest he wonders if you're even real or if you're just a puppet.
#poppy speaks#thinking of being the love of his life in college and then breaking his heart for some reason#maybe your parents make a choice for you in who you should date and you just - go along with it#live your plastic life with him in some big city#after so callously breaking up with patrick. like leaving him with tears in his eyes begging you to tell him#how to fix it#and u just say 'you cant. you're too immature patrick. you need to grow up'#OH THATD PISS HIM OFF. break him.#meeting him again years later#because your stuffy boring husband has gotten into tennis or something#anyway face to face w patrick zweig again#and oh hes just as intense and all consuming as he was back then.... oh......#and he just looks at you like you're dirt#“for someone desperate to grow up you look fucking miserable.”#GOOD!#but oh no.... he still wants u
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after watching Daniel’s post race interview I’m delighted to welcome 2016 Daniel Ricciardo BACK, calling out his team of their fuck ups
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#good!#New Zealand#Aotearoa#haka#it was ridiculous that the prior record was held by the French of all people
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4'11 Minthara. Send Tweet untagged Tumblr post.
#Blighted posts#Love how Drow are so lil in canon (yours can be whatever height you want dw about it just have fun okay nothing else matters)#Just... little angry chihuahuas bossing everyone around#Good!
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Really seems like there’s a lot of dragons in this one, boys.
#a lot of times the dragons are an option#these seem very required#good!#let’s watch the release trailer ten more times today?#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#datv#da:tv#dragon age 4
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When you think you're all macho camping, bbqing, fishing, rowing but the fag will always be with you
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I'm excited for Korean BLs this week. Jun & Jun, give me my dads! Why R U? give me the sister getting pushed off a small curb. And Love Class 2, give me the love!
THEY ARE GOING CAMPING!
THEY ARE GOING SHOPPING!
THEY ARE DOING DUMB COUPLE SHIT!
Korea, you really stepped it up this second season!
#love class 2#love class#love class 2 spoilers#korean bls#this second season is much more enjoyable to me than the first#good!
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TW blood violence gore
Another commission piece for Max, but getting her shit rocked by dust!sans LMAOOOOOOOO
#all commissions i've gotten for max are her suffering in some way#good!#undertale#blood#gore#undertale au#max#oc art#dusttale#dust sans
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#.txt#GOOD!#hybe has been getting away with shady shit for far too long and i'm glad it's starting to blow up in their faces#hybe#bts
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“i feel like i have another 5 years in me” m*x is about to retire before lewis does
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kevin day really is the people’s princess and isn’t that so beautiful
HE REALLY IS do you remember when anya taylor joy went viral for saying she doesn't cook nor drive herself to places and someone quoted it calling her the people's princess. thats literally kevin to me i think this person is truly telling interviewers that he ubers himself everywhere and only orders takeout. the literal princess from princess and the pea
#thinking about that poll he won on landslide#finally we've been reinvindicated my acolytes i do remember how uncommon us the kevin day feminizers were back in the day#but now it is everywhere all the time#good!#asks#kevin
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