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next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

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Top ten moments in media that made me retch violently 😃👍

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I somehow managed to go almost two years without drawing Harrow Nova once, so here she is. featuring Ortus being a Perfect Cavalier and Gideon being a Buff Necromancer

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Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.

#thg #queue

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i am not immune to mb+tellus post fugitive telemetry shenanigans and NEITHER ARE YOU!!!

#murderbot diaries #queue

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i have no clue but I hope the saints in tlt work the same way they do in catholicism I hope there's teenagers praying to gideon the first like "saint of duty, please give me fortitude while I try to do my homework this evening". the saint of duty can't hear you, kid, the saint of duty is trying to murder a nun today

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‘Harrow wouldn’t know how to complement Gideon because she is a wet rat goblin’

Wrong!!! Harrow spits out outrageously romantic compliments as soon as she lets herself not hate Gideon! The first compliment she says to Gideon is how good she is with her sword, the only thing Gideon might have enjoyed more than that is a compliment on her muscles!!

Harrow is the one that said “I can’t conceive of a world without you in it” and Gideon is the one that responded to that super romantic line with “sure you can. It’s just less sexy.” She’s the awkward one! Don’t let her hotness fool you!!

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congratulation tamsyn muir for creating a complex magic system based on "theorems" without ever giving an example of a theorem. she went just as far as she needed to go and then said "i'm not doing this today"

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2023 reads // twitter thread  

The World We Make

Conclusion to the Great Cities duology

the avatars of the boroughs of New York have to stop the cosmic reality-bending entity from destroying their city & possibly the universe once and for all

while a new far right candidate for mayor is fueling its power

amazing audiobook production i love this duology a lot

queer as hell

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He went back to his first morning in Oxford: climbing a sunny hill with Ramy, picnic basket in hand. Elderflower cordial. Warm brioche, sharp cheese, a chocolate tart for dessert. The air that day smelled like a promise, all of Oxford shone like an illumination, and he was falling in love.

#babel #queue

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a little something for the murderbot gift exchange! I often think about what it felt like to Three when it disabled its govmod. what was going through its head? a lot, probably

#murderbot diaries

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I made a Murderbot Animatic for @grammarpedant ! Happy New Year, enjoy the Fugitive Telemetry pain!

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A Murderbot Noir AU as a gift to @vulcan-highblood for the 2023 MBD New Year Gift Exchange! 

More notes on the AU below:

Keep reading

#murderbot diaries #this is so good!!!!!! #queue

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She is though, isn’t she. 

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I cannot conceive a universe without you in it

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And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.

#babel #batqueue