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everything Seth Dickinson is doing in baru cormorant re gender and lesbianism is so special to me, for ursula le guin “show the society’s traditions and then show how people break traditions” reasons but also for sex reasons. like. I love love love how he portrays cultures outside of the empire doing gender and sexuality differently from the empire, it feels very grounded in historical reality. but I especially love how we see how people inside the empire resist and evade the empire’s strict doctrines of cisnormative heterosexual marriage: third-gendered people pass as man or women to access the empire’s power structures, the rich or connected can get away with more-or-less public gay relationships, people geographically or practically far from the empire’s spies and jails do whatever they want, people like baru who are conditionally allowed into the empire’s power structures are more careful.

also he just portrays lesbian desire really well. ive read too many other unsexy descriptions of tits to not appreciate how baru looks at women and wants them for their strong shoulders and easy confidence and stomachs padded with fat. she’s allowed to want fierce old warrior women and pursue Tain Hu’s old lovers and have fucked up daydreams of sex with beautiful brainwashed Clarified operatives whose consent would be meaningless. he lets her get a little weird with it and i love that about these books

#never in my wildest dreams did i expect the masquerade series to be written by a MAN #but dickinson does such an excellent job with it #i finished Monster earlier this month #and it's eons better than Traitor and Traitor was good #the masquerade #baru cormorant

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Eyelashes frozen shut, thawed with a kiss.

A while back @aurpiment made a comment about Genly and Estraven based on The Kiss, as a concept. And? Fellas, I had to

#shut UP #the left hand of darkness

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Arwen✨

#my wife #lotr #arwen

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harrow as a contestant in a cooking show

#PREV TAGS LMAOOO #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus

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What are everyone’s love languages?

dont worry she can reclaim

#lmfao #the locked tomb #tlt

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it literally drives me insane that so many companies refuse to send rejection emails like it’s disgraceful tbh. you put so much time and effort into putting together an application and they can’t even be bothered tell you via some measly automated message that you didn’t get the job. you’re expected to just infer

#no LITERALLY #i've applied to like 50 jobs in the past two weeks #(ok maybe just like 30) #and i've heard back from exactly 1 #🥲🥲 #i hate you corporate world #die slowly and coldly

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this was really quickly done so not the best quality, but I was relistening to the audiobook and just HAD to draw this scene 👁

#amazing #every new piece of art i see in the tlt fandom makes my brain explode even harder than the last time #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #dulcinea septimus #cytherea the first

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Okay but regarding a TLT adaptation the ideal form is actually a muppet movie BUT the only characters who are muppets are the lyctors. We go into GTN with absolutely no idea it’s not a standard adaptation until we land at Canaan and we meet Dulcinea Septimus and she’s a muppet. (If we’re assigning Muppet actors I’m thinking Gonzo, he’s the best ingenue but I’m open to suggestions.) No one addresses this. We get no more muppets until near the end when Ianthe becomes a lyctor. A pivotal moment, she’s sitting under the ‘you lied to us’ message, blood dripping down her arms and face and also she’s made of felt and just a little guy. The Cytherea Ianthe fight at the end there is brutal and visceral and also borderline very funny. Harrow turns into a muppet momentarily at the end of GTN but is a person in a spaceship full of muppets for the entirety of HTN.

#I am typically very against muppet adaptations #but #this would be very funny and adept i have to admit #the locked tomb #tlt

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COWBOYS ARE FREQUENTLY SECRETLY FOND OF EACH OTHER (2024) orville peck & willie nelson dir. ben prince

#idc in love with him #orville peck

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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

#yeah :')

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There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

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One of my very most favorite things about Silas Octakiseron is that his only social weapon after he runs out of steam being extraordinarily unpleasant to people is just saying "Stop talking to me" and exiting the conversation. That's it

#going to start using these #especially “I brand you heretic��� #lmfao #the locked tomb #silas octakiseron

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"Leave it."

#lotr #lotr art #boromir

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#me and my mutuals #<3

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markzagphoto

#birds

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support your local library!

#i choked on my laugh #palamades sextus #camilla hect #the locked tomb

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give me intense gazes and hand touching

i've never been able to forget this scene of nona and hot sauce 🌶

#crying #nona the ninth #hot sauce #the locked tomb