AMOUR DU LOUP

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goewin incredible character for identifying her aunt morgause’s mistake as her having given birth to her own nephew as a political pawn over political independence, & going: but i’m in the clear ^_^ i’m going to use my ethically produced & hegemonically related nephew as a political pawn, which is better

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frankly underutilised how much irving’s intese personal investment into the mage origin warden could serve as the backbone for a grooming framework

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whenever playing a tes game there is a provable moment where you get the 'lets have a test drive with this car' where you kill a random npc, flee from the law & possibly die in the attempt, all in service to stretching your tes muscles

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admittedly a really cutes things about morrowing is that as soon as i booted it for the first time i immediately got a bug. 🥹. that feels so earnestly homey

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im taking any implication that medraut's son might have feelings for his aunt & COMMITTING to it

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i really enjoy a specific type of hetslop & by god is it sloppy

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duncan during the joining in dragon age origins:

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the thing about feeling like writing might be fun again is the equally as true feeling of not having anywhere to pour that energy into due to a lack of a strong enough interest -_-

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did you guys know that the employment market for brutish warriors is FUCKED. no unemployment benefits or severance packages...

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you know an author is italian bc there WILL be a long as fuck sentence. praise to the light. no more anemic short fragments. i used to dream of prose like that

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it's really funny how every companion conversations in dragon age will be bookended by them going 'come, warden, let's hit our 25000 step goal. we still have some 5000 left' or 'let us depart, warden, our cardio exercise is not done just yet'

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my prediction for at least one aemond harrenhal scene is that by virtue of inversion from daemon, we will have the reverse of daemon mourning the imprint of violence on a young rhaenyra's life that is inequivocably shaped by relational proximity as a family vs aemond likely desiring the imprint of patriarchal violence on helaena & imagines it at its strongest point when she is giving birth to a royal heir for a recognised king aemond, likely only for his dynastic satisfaction

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i dont mean to be snobby about it but it is kind of crazy how dwarven characters comparatively get so little attention. ive heard so much of aloth & edér as companions & so far sagani is the one with the most interesting & distinctive questline

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finally gave up & dnf-ed the spear cuts through water. my thoughts here or under the cut -__-

 i gotta be realistic & say im frankly never gonna finish this book, either in paper or audiobook form. i had already found all the things i disliked about this book at about 25% & nothing i read after convinced me otherwise. in summation: i dont mind the framing devices being employed, i even liked the use of italics to jump into the heads of minor characters & hear their outside perspective on the story (though, the tool peaked early, as far as the first 50 pages, & the rest of the time it conveyed just about the same information the prose already had. upon seeing his beloved father being killed a minor character will helpfully remark that it is sad & bad & they loved their father :<! which, thank you! useful addition to the word count!), but despite all the formal glitz, nothing about this felt unique. if anything, there was a hodgepodge of other fantasy features (telepathic animals that serve as quasi-telephones like in one piece, the framing device of a story being told to an audience like in kalpa imperial, the main plot serving to quest over what happened to the moon that was, once, in the sky & now is no more, like the broken earth trilogy) & more than occasional vague gesturing at concepts that meant to suggest texture but all i got waved in front was a short-hand. sure, yeah, whatever, this is a love story. 

on slightly more pedantic complaints, i genuinely disliked how in a story that has the aspiration to be describe an ancient tale there was such a not infrequent inclusion of modern lingo. sure, you could make some arguments that the framing device, but that does not erase my dislike of seeing 'okay' & 'fucking idiot' or any 'fuck' & feel they were a little jarring, a little too afar from the rest of the prose. 

as for more pedantry, i think this book needed the first 30% to be more tightly edited: this goes for slight continuity errors such as 'moonlight glinting off a blade' (what moonlight? the setting's moon, at that point, had fallen & personified on earth, leaving a huge hole), as well as one of the main character's disability being primarily conveyed through dialogue & social stigma, but with no effort in describing how any of his movements, such as rowing a boat, would be affected by missing an arm. it is a bit weird to know that a spear, some types of which are a two-handed weapon, was given to a one-armed man & to not have it brought up how keema is handling that or how his combat style differs from other or even from himself before his amputation. again, i call it pedantry bc by the 35% mark it does improve on what im complaining about, which is why i think its an editing issue that nevertheless persists for an absurd number of pages. 

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there really is not enough appreciation for shortcut ocs. i COULD start this rpg with a new character as god intended, or i COULD put my thing #mygirl in here for the seventeenth time in a row ☝️

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the thing about the winter prince is that its a perfect piece of literature, which is to say very good; & the thing about a coalition of lions is that its very good to expand the universe to make engaging with it with fanfiction very pleasant, which is to say its also very good

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is there a thing water, lemon & sugar cannot fix? many things apparently, including my headache,

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making a new characters for an rpg really is a titanic effort to not end up withe same archetype you always favour but with a fake moustache on this time! which totally changes everything!