#and also apparently has a really sterile bland lack of a culture
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absolutely mesmerized by the worldbuilding in to gaze upon wicked gods and not in a good way
#every time I run the risk of being drawn into the narrative#I’ll be forcibly reminded that this is a book about fantasy unit 731#but the Japanese have been swapped for ancient romans#literally the Romans#every other culture gets a fantasy name#except this version of Ancient Rome is apparently a monarchy without any baggage about it#and also apparently has a really sterile bland lack of a culture#listen if the Roman Empire had existed well into 20th century#at the height of its power l#it would totally start beefing with the Chinese empire#but I’m#just reading this like….#okay Lindsay ellis has that video about Bright right?#which is a movie that’s also set in an alternate history with magic#and there’s a bit where she goes on a tangent about how a joke about Shrek is accidentally immersion breaking for her#this is how I feel reading about a dude named Antony Augustus#whose got a gun and has been adopted into a hereditary monarchy#that no one is even trying to pretend is a democracy#oh and Antony Augustus has a butler called Dawson#so like does not!Romano Britain exist or something?
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