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what's the post about the competent lieutenant fantasy genre??? i just read wolf hall and luv'd it and am curious tehe

EXCELLENT QUESTION

it is this post on the thrilling newly coined microgenre whose name i slightly misremembered, BUREAUCRAT FICTION. best captured in its appeal, for me personally, in this requirement:

should include at least one scene where the protagonist is unironically applauded-perhaps for the first time in their life-for filling out a form really good.

this was an excellent, even life-changing discovery, revealing to me an interest i have always unknowingly had, and i hope op doesn't mind me suggesting that one transformers fic as an addition to the canon

#im right though. theres a lot of sexy catharsis about how much better he is at generating the staff roster than anyone's ever been.#box opener #peachpulpeuse #ive read everything on that list except the hilary mantell novels and enjoyed them ftr #however. i suspect HotE does not hold up after the first read #though i haven't actually tried to reread it im just basing on the fact that reading HotE was a rollicking good time and i only got one pag #into the sequel before feeling secondhand embarrassment on behalf of the author so strong that i had to get up and pace around the room #so buyer beware you may have a corny but rollicking time... Once #im sure id also enjoy thomas cromwell rpf but i started the first one at a life moment when i was not possessed of the attention span #that i usually need to start a new never-before-seen book where people have a lot of artistically grim sheep tragedies right off the bat #i'll get there sometime though.

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