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[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[viscari-a]

Choi is more representative of the old bureau while Jaekwan is representative of current bureau. More specifically, Choi is representative of the old bureau’s ideal. I would even go so far as to say that Choi is meant to represent an ideal agent, ignoring the bureau entirely. and it’s a bit amusing bc Soleum sees Choi so strongly as “old bureau agent” to the point that he mischaracterizes actual Choi. Meanwhile, the fandom maybe seems to see him as representative of the current bureau??? Which to me is pretty inaccurate especially since he’s thought about or mentioned multiple times his strong dislike of the quantification of people and the weighing of the value of someone’s life. Like that’s a current!bureau thing that Choi actively has an issue with !

maybe I’ll end up being wildly incorrect but I think Choi is in the bureau bc it’s the place that matches his interests best, even if he disagrees with a lot of things. The bureau has a highly highly flawed method but does try to destroy darknesses and save people. Daydream recycles darknesses and tries to keep them alive. the Church actively creates darknesses. Of the three, only the bureau tries to destroy them.

this isn’t to say the bureau is good. Honestly the bureau is just as inhumane as Daydream or Church. This is purely to say that the bureau matches Choi’s interests the best (the bar is in hell) and provides him the most opportunity to do what he wants to. Idk maybe I’m absolutely crazy but I don’t think Choi is all that attached to the bureau itself. I think he’s there for ppl he’s made attachments to and the benefits that it gives him.

[nat-20s]

gotta be honest I think a REAL juicy dynamic is when someone has a True Love and a Soulmate and they are two different people

[nat-20s]

see this person is the love of my life I would follow them anywhere every day is brighter for having them in it. and THIS bastard shares a soul with me we'll find each other in every universe and understand each other in ways no other living being could. neither of us are particularly thrilled about this

[rianarchy]

shen yuan’s true love is luo binghe (bingmei vers)

shen yuan’s soulmate is shang qinghua (xiang fei)

[withoutzeuzey]

“What are you afraid of?”

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[adventures-in-instant-ramen]

[thisisrats]

Anyone ordered fem!Diavolo?

[k0ushii]

more animal masks

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

[mumb1er]

.😔😔

[achello1]

I love Tianlang Jun so much. Why are you reading smut fanfics of your son and his teacher. Why are you encouraging your nephew to cuck your son. Why are you so normal about your limbs falling off. Character of all time. Please continue

[foralittlewile]

There are SO many ways humans and Eridians compliment each other, and I don't even think some were intentional. For example: Lots of fan content I've seen has been kind of thoughtlessly projecting humanity's heat seeking behaviour onto Eridians. Reading the biology document, however, has made me infer something — Eridians love the cold.

They sleep at night, even in the absence of a light cycle, because that's when the temperature drops. Unlike humans, they don't use blankets. They don't try to preserve heat. They want to cool down faster, because because that's what their body needs shut down and rest! They RELAX in the cold!

Not only that, but their version of breathing is a constant influx of cool air. If they're without that coolant for even a few minutes, they're in serious trouble, and after half an hour, they're dead. Unlike us, they're at constant risk of overheating.

But not while they have a source of cold nearby. Like, for example, a human who lives at a fraction of their temperature.

On the Hail Mary, Grace spends a lot of time pressed against Rocky. Their temperature differences are extreme enough that xenonite can't entirely halt the heat transfer, so it's pleasantly warm. He feels like a cat curling up by the fire. It's relaxing. Of course, he also feels a little bad that he's draping his freezing raincloud of a body all over Rocky, but he figures Rocky puts up with the unpleasant cold okay.

Except: Rocky is chasing the cold just as much as Grace is chasing the heat.

Grace's muscles unwind with a constant heat press. Rocky relaxes with an endless source of peaceful, relieving cooling. What a funny quirk of biology, Rocky thinks, that being so incomprehensibly opposite to each other is so pleasant. What a lovely quirk of fate, that they've been given the opportunity to learn that through each other.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

"The last time any human touched Ryland Grace was an act of horrific violence"

Well... Yes and no.

The last time Ryland Grace was CONSCIOUS of any human touch was when he was knocked out. Absolutely true.

But the last human contact he would have had was Yao and Ilyukhina. Who were told that he was scared about panicking during launch and asked to be sedated. Who did all the pre flight checks before the Hail Mary launched. Who would have carefully, gently carried Grace to his bed in the dormitory, made sure he was secure, and initiated his coma procedure.

There would have been love there. Remember Ilyukhina throwing her hands high and saying "welcome to crew!" Remember Yao saying how he hoped Grace would say yes. Remember how much the crew trusted Grace, Stratt's First Officer, the guy who helped them so much, and was so kind to them, and was the one who they entrusted their preferred methods of suicide to. Who thought they were wonderful and brave.

They would have tucked him in. Maybe brushed his hair out of his face. Maybe said something kind to him before initiating their own coma procedures.

Ryland Grace doesn't remember, of course he wouldn't. But the last human touch he ever had was full of love.

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[insomniac-arrest]

This felt so good to read.

[clockworkspider]

I do read Kim Soleum as being at least a little bit in denial not about his own feelings but about the depth of Baek Saheon's feelings towards him. Yes, he has a massive blind spot when it comes to named characters, but also... a fundamental part about Kim Soleum in any ship is that... he's uh... emotionally unavailable.

It's not even a matter of EQ or commitment issues it's just that he's always... planning to leave... He never saw himself as part of this world.

I think he's pretty aware of how much Yongyong and the agents cares for him. He even take advantage of it when it suits him. And he cares about them. He cares about people so so much but he cannot do the one thing they expect of him which is to stay.

Ironically I think this makes it less guarded with Braun, because Braun is a darkness KSE doesn't expect equal reciprocation between them to begin with. Braun will not care for him the same way people do, but Braun will always be there, until KSE has to leave, and then Braun will be just fine, because Braun is Braun. And meanwhile he'll deliver the best show for Braun.

If KSE have to unpack his current role in Saheon's life, that's... a lot, probably even heavier than Bronze's offer to make the Bureau his home because, well, Bronze and Choi already have a home they're just asking him to join them. He could think of it as charity towards him, even. But for Saheon, who left his own home behind, who has no one else, to view Kim Soleum as only one as important as himself. That's... a lot... That's a lot a lot!! I really don't think he's ready to unpack all that!!

[proximally]

hes happy. something is wrong‼️(og post)

[d0gtoothjones]

there may have been a slight miscommunication

[mizeliza]