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@vividly--cynical
Me when I read a book by a famous author that’s a modern classic and everyone says it’s really good and then it’s really good
This tweet means a lot to me.
It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?
when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).
Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.
I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.
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I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like
El : I'm not going to get attached to the freshman in my homeroom
Also El : gather 'round class, who can tell me the mistakes this "mal" made when chalking up this hex ??
Thinking about graduation allies in Scholomance- we're told that those alliances last beyond the school because you owe them your survival, and we see it briefly in The Golden Enclaves- you treat your kid's allies as honored guests, maybe even as if they're family themselves. If I remember correctly El implies she recognizes the word for ally even in languages she doesn't speak, so we can assume it's something other students know as well, even if they aren't language track.
And if you think about it a little- isn't every student in The Last Graduate part of one big graduation alliance? The whole senior class did practice runs and graduation projects together. The entire school trusted their survival and future to El and Orion and Liesel and Liu and every single other student who stayed in their line and group instead of running as every fucking mal in the world streamed past, holding their shields and sharing their healing. And even the class before theirs- the class in A Deadly Education who thought they were doomed and then got to run through an empty, freshly cleansed graduation hall- wouldn't all of them consider El and Orion and the others on the repair mission as allies?
And thinking about it like that adds another layer to the end of The Golden Enclaves- where even in the middle of a fucking enclave war, everyone in her year walks away from their enclave to follow El, trusting and supporting her the same way that Liu and Aadhya do. Because, as the books say, graduation alliances can be the most important relationship of a wizard's entire life, and El is the one who got them out.
And if you think about it like that- that every wizard in a certain age range would see El and Orion that way, if they thought about it- then I think it's part of a minor arc in the series: El starts as someone who is welcome nowhere, and becomes someone who is welcomed everywhere. She isn't welcome in the commune that loves her mother, or her father's family, except for her mother there is nobody who will do anything to help her, even when she's an elementary schooler alone in a yurt screaming in terror- and then she is someone everyone welcomes but only because she's connected to Orion- and she ends the series as someone who people will do anything to help, even walking away from their enclave allies or going into a place in the void that's supposed to fall, who will be welcomed by anyone except for the people making mawmouths.
And also, all the other seniors count as allies to each other, because they all worked together on the plan to graduate- and the Scholomance made sure that all of them did the work- which means all of them have a lot of connections across the globe. Which makes it much harder for any of the new generation of wizards to take the easy but cruel choice, the choice the books are all about rejecting- "I can be safe and have all the things I want, if I do something that has horrible impacts on other people far away from here, outside my community, who I will never see." For the last graduates of scholomance, those far away people are your community, and you have seen them- and now you have other options to be safe, which don't require causing suffering for other people. So that's another way that the one big graduation alliance made the world a better place, in addition to all the other ways it did that, by choosing to reject the systems in place and help everyone, even though it was harder than only caring for yourself.
Balthazar and Ophelia: we don’t know how to connect to our son, he’s barely human, he’s a THING
Gwen Higgins, rolling up her sleeves: the boy has autism, let’s put him in the woods for an hour
Thinking about graduation allies in Scholomance- we're told that those alliances last beyond the school because you owe them your survival, and we see it briefly in The Golden Enclaves- you treat your kid's allies as honored guests, maybe even as if they're family themselves. If I remember correctly El implies she recognizes the word for ally even in languages she doesn't speak, so we can assume it's something other students know as well, even if they aren't language track.
And if you think about it a little- isn't every student in The Last Graduate part of one big graduation alliance? The whole senior class did practice runs and graduation projects together. The entire school trusted their survival and future to El and Orion and Liesel and Liu and every single other student who stayed in their line and group instead of running as every fucking mal in the world streamed past, holding their shields and sharing their healing. And even the class before theirs- the class in A Deadly Education who thought they were doomed and then got to run through an empty, freshly cleansed graduation hall- wouldn't all of them consider El and Orion and the others on the repair mission as allies?
And thinking about it like that adds another layer to the end of The Golden Enclaves- where even in the middle of a fucking enclave war, everyone in her year walks away from their enclave to follow El, trusting and supporting her the same way that Liu and Aadhya do. Because, as the books say, graduation alliances can be the most important relationship of a wizard's entire life, and El is the one who got them out.
And if you think about it like that- that every wizard in a certain age range would see El and Orion that way, if they thought about it- then I think it's part of a minor arc in the series: El starts as someone who is welcome nowhere, and becomes someone who is welcomed everywhere. She isn't welcome in the commune that loves her mother, or her father's family, except for her mother there is nobody who will do anything to help her, even when she's an elementary schooler alone in a yurt screaming in terror- and then she is someone everyone welcomes but only because she's connected to Orion- and she ends the series as someone who people will do anything to help, even walking away from their enclave allies or going into a place in the void that's supposed to fall, who will be welcomed by anyone except for the people making mawmouths.
And also, all the other seniors count as allies to each other, because they all worked together on the plan to graduate- and the Scholomance made sure that all of them did the work- which means all of them have a lot of connections across the globe. Which makes it much harder for any of the new generation of wizards to take the easy but cruel choice, the choice the books are all about rejecting- "I can be safe and have all the things I want, if I do something that has horrible impacts on other people far away from here, outside my community, who I will never see." For the last graduates of scholomance, those far away people are your community, and you have seen them- and now you have other options to be safe, which don't require causing suffering for other people. So that's another way that the one big graduation alliance made the world a better place, in addition to all the other ways it did that, by choosing to reject the systems in place and help everyone, even though it was harder than only caring for yourself.
One thing I'm really loving about the perspective shift between Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat is how Lestat and Louis appear in each other's narratives, through each other's eyes.
Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.
but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.
And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.
Then we see him in The Vampire Lestat, and it's like no. This is the warmest, cutest, sexiest, coolest, most desirable man who has ever walked the face of the earth.
Lestat walks from his hips and Louis from his shoulders
both of them are me
happy pride month where’s the Mary Bennet x Ann Baxter yuri at
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Broken up about JK Rowling's descent into loud, financially-backed bigotry and the resulting souring of a beloved book series from your childhood? Looking to fill the void of stories about wizard school?
Read The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik.
Featuring a magic system with consistent and coherent rules, a diverse cast, and a world that is both dark and incredibly colorful. The school is a shifting eldritch location suspended in the infinite void, invested with monsters that hunt the students through its halls. There are no teachers or professors or adults in sight; the students fend for themselves in sink-or-swim desperation, self-teaching with materials the school provides, building their skills and forming alliances to survive the neverending gauntlet. The protagonist is a budding dark sorceress who chooses On Purpose to be good, equal parts Wednesday Addams and Granny Weatherwax.
I haven't read the third book yet, but I'm incredibly excited to.
Read these books. Forget Hogwarts, the Scholomance is where it's at.