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chiropteracupola · 28 days ago

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so my planned Term End Reward was going to be downloading another biggles (you wouldn't download a biggles &c &c) but have just realized I could do latin american revolutions lockdown with the happy return / beat to quarters & sharpe's devil & crucible of gold.

[pained grimace] I'm Going To Have Such Fun.

#news from the cupola #em is posting about sharpe #em is posting about temeraire #have only read the End of btq before because I was looking for bush leg information. which it does not Have.#zebra mussels for c.s. forester too.#oh hey interesting that devil iirc is the one in which Bernard Cornwell Acknowledges The Gays and crucible of gold is also the one #wherein granby canonically gay reveal. thiunking about that.#where's that post that goes 'reading for pleasure implies the existence of reading for pain' because that's what I'm here for.#I don't trust cornwell or forester with this but I Slightly trust naomi novik and I have hopes #hopes of more cameos from historical figures...#wanting to hear mention of tomasa titu condemayta is a reach beyond all reasonable reason but there are Less Obscure people #whom I'd be equally excited about...

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