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wednesday night….the thinking man’s friday

'Look at all my stupid little figural bowls,' I say, in the warm, glowing tones of a woman showing off her firstborn child

#I have acquired a cauldron bowl to eat yeti soup and opening the package made me laugh with unrestrained joy #putting it in the cupboard with my leaf bowl and my leaf bowl and my two leaf sauce bowls and my lidded pumpkin bowl (for pumpkin soup)#cooing in admiration #it's MOSTLY leaves over here (I also have two beloved leaf plates)#but I AM amassing a small collection of cauldrons now... cauldron mug for hot matcha lattes #and soup pot I wanted SPECIFICALLY because it made me think of a cauldron....#the cauldron bowl is also just A Really Nice Bowl though which was a lot of my genuine exclamations of delight #good size good heft feels good in the hands v v nice. truly an object of joy thank you cauldron bowl #I am such a sucker for a really nice bowl what can I say #about me

My toxic trait is that I am far more interested in the socio-economic and geopolitical implications of ABO settings than the smut.

For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.

If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.

Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.

All this to say any ABO au set in England or France that doesn't have them united as a singular Anglo-Frank empire is doing it wrong.

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this thread on twitter is fucking killing me

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i am terminally A Sucker for characters who have a towering and generally earned ego about their own ability and absolutely no self-worth about themselves as a person at all. intoxicating combo.

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