growing girl.

hey my name is alia i'm 20 i love to joke around and engage in the Discourse

[darklordreasonable]

In Falcrest, in the Metademe, they condition prisoners just so: permit escape. Offer a rescuer, a collaborator. Slip a key in with the food. Let them come close to freedom, let them feel real triumph—they would not let me this far! This is the crux: give them the taste of victory, the certainty that this cannot be part of the game. And then snatch it away. The collaborator betrays them. The key will not open the outermost door. With enough repetition, most prisoners learn to ignore a key, an open door, a whisper to run. Led out onto the street, they will wait to be returned to their cells. After a time, they begin to teach new prisoners the same.

I just finished reading Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor, and now I am going to scream forever. The easiest way for me to describe it, although I’m sure it’s an entirely unhelpful one for most people, would be ‘it’s like KJ Parker’s Engineer trilogy, except about a third as long, and the protagonist’s a lesbian accountant rather than a straight engineer’

Seriously, the more I consider the comparison, the more apt it becomes.

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[booksandchainmail]

every time tain hu pledges her loyalty to baru cormorant, rated by how gay it is:

BEWARE SPOILERS

(some quotes are condensed to remove extraneous narration)

“I stand for Baru Cormorant.” And the duchess Tain Hu stepped into the circle, hobnailed boots ringing off the limestone cobble, hair shorn, cheeks slashed in lines of red. “My lady, command me.”

8/10, they havent seen each other in three years, the last time they met they were enemies, and now this dramatic sword lesbian just shows up to be baru’s champion in a duel to defend her honor. highly recommended

“The Fairer Hand,” she intoned, and setting her blade flat across her knee, she knelt. “This is my vow: in life, in death, I am yours.”

7/10, “till death do us part” but goth. this is actually literally just really extra marriage vows.

“What command, my sworn lord?” Not even a little mockery in Tain Hu’s voice.

4/10, you can do better than that. gets a few points for following up a conversation about tain hu’s conquests (military and otherwise). also interesting note: tain hu always calls baru her lord, not her lady. idk if this is just a general linguistic thing, but considering she says queen instead of king it seems deliberate.

“You are the Fairer Hand,” she said, “and I am your field-general, oathbound to earn you victory at any price. I will not shrink from that oath.” And then, her cold breaking, her voice raw and rampant: “I rule a small land, poor in wealth and arms; I have no husband and no heirs, no great alliance and no well-made dams, and thus few strengths to offer my lord beyond my cunning and my loyalty. Do not deny me the exercise of those as well.”

9/10, gayyyyy. also, this is a direct mirror to a page before where baru waxes rhapsodic about duchess nayauru. someone is ~jealous~.

“You don’t know that.” Vultjag’s voice dropped. “I vowed to die for you—don’t make a liar of me.”

4/10. tragic foreshadowing/dramatic irony. im so sorry. fuck. 

“Take the throne,” Tain Hu said. “I’m your field-general, sworn to serve. I can’t sit above you.”

2/10, too sad. baru is about to be proposed to by a man. it is gay angst, but still. just talk to each other please.

“What would you have me call you, then? My friend? My sister? You are my queen, or you are not. I swore an oath. When you doubt yourself, you doubt me. Do you doubt me?”

6/10. as a general note, when a woman names you to a position reserved for her consort, she doesnt see you as a sister

“Mm,” Tain Hu said. “Hello. Your Excellence.”

10/10, literally waking up in bed together the morning after, also im pretty sure once you’re engaged to a woman and having sex with her you’re allowed to drop the titles

“Will my death bring advantage to Baru Fisher, my sworn lord?” […] “You owe me nothing. I swore to die for you. So it will be.”

infinity/10

[darklordreasonable]

In Falcrest, in the Metademe, they condition prisoners just so: permit escape. Offer a rescuer, a collaborator. Slip a key in with the food. Let them come close to freedom, let them feel real triumph—they would not let me this far! This is the crux: give them the taste of victory, the certainty that this cannot be part of the game. And then snatch it away. The collaborator betrays them. The key will not open the outermost door. With enough repetition, most prisoners learn to ignore a key, an open door, a whisper to run. Led out onto the street, they will wait to be returned to their cells. After a time, they begin to teach new prisoners the same.

I just finished reading Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor, and now I am going to scream forever. The easiest way for me to describe it, although I’m sure it’s an entirely unhelpful one for most people, would be ‘it’s like KJ Parker’s Engineer trilogy, except about a third as long, and the protagonist’s a lesbian accountant rather than a straight engineer’

Seriously, the more I consider the comparison, the more apt it becomes.

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[lesbiangaara-deactivated2017052]

hey kids if ur parents are abusive, dont be surprised if they suddenly change all their behaviors when u finally move out, if they start acting very nice and never even allude to all those times Before when they were treating u bad. this is a form of gaslighting and if u plan to keep distant from them as an adult, this may well be the defining characteristics of ur interaction w/ them. it’s tough to navigate this, because u will almost definitely wonder: was i abused? listen… when u sit in ur own home someday, maybe w/ a loved one, and things feel good, and the past feels far away, ur abuse was not made up. ur parents really did those things, and whether or not u want to keep them out of ur life or form a new dynamic w/ them, that’s up to u. but never let them make u believe they were always good to u.

[susiethemoderator]

holy shit.

[quaggly]

[bashana-haba-ah-deactivated2017]

I’m not sorry,,

[marisatomay]

Me: I’m against violence Richard Spencer, a Nazi: gets punched in the face Me:

[virtualadept]

If ur arabic ur great If ur arabic and muslim ur great If ur arabic and queer ur great If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful

[virtualadept]

Hey if you’re not arabic can you reblog this? I hardly ever see any positivity towards us and I just wanna spread love to my Arab siblings

[whereisnovember]

[wapiti3]

Garden of the Malmaison 

By Ventenat, É. P. 1757-1808  

Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840  Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928

Publication info A Paris :De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, et se trouve chez l'auteur …,1803-1804. BHL Collections: Smithsonian Libraries

[tempeh-and-athames]

My future bathroom

[syflove]

plants

[cidham]

Abbas Kiarostami

[the-dirtybubble]

[chris-says-no]

@juststonecoldgay

[juststonecoldgay]

FUCK

[southerngamerguy-deactivated201]

I knew it was coming but I still didn’t expect it.

[redrunningfox]

To this day, I will never understand why “Blow” wasn’t released as a single to pop radio.

[sabotagedselfie]

^ Because it’s about eating pussy and in a not so subtle way… 

[zumainthyfuture]

[madness-and-gods]

That carrot sounds really good

[freshiebyoung]

I’ve spent hours trying to play instruments and this guy just whittles up a carrot and kills it

[the-man-who-sold-za-warudo]

smooth carrot for your soul

[odios]

[snorlax]

make way for Du Du Hau

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