#once again it’s about the fOILS 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

[ash-and-starlight]

I've been seeing lots of stuff about the radiant emperor series and I've been undecided about whether I should give it a try. So since I've seen you post about it (and make absolutely gorgeous art), what is your favourite thing about it, without spoilers? :)

OUSHDHGSGHD OKAY there are a lot of favorite things but if i had to pick one id say what the literary critics call “nine dimensional fucked up foils blunt circle” like. every character has motivations, plot points or characteristics that mirror other characters in such a poignant way, both blatantly and subtly. i feel like it’s something so woven in the story and the construction of those characters and i don’t think i’ve ever seen a book that does something like this in such a big scale and pulled it off so well?? like queerness/gender/sexuality/sacrifice/relationship with your own body/death/daddy issues/class/ruthlessness/masculine ideals™️/societal norms/the mask vs the real self/war/destiny etc. just pick one of these topics and there will be like at least three characters connected to it and by extension to each other i just. rotating them all in my mind 24/7 squeezing them like squeaky stress toys