#ALSO ALSO- so absolutely delighted at how many Grizzled Older Legendary Mentor tropes that usually male roles fill

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Jian is an insufferable brat. unfortunately i love him dearly and want desperately for him to find a happy life. even more unfortunately everyone in the world wants him very dead and its not even for the insufferable brat thing!

#Universe Ends Posts #the art of prophecy #the war arts saga #i... truly it is impressive how closely my journey about jian mirrored taishi's #at the end was she was like 'oh he actually grew up a bit'- i was EMOTIONAL #he DID grow up a bit! he learned some lessons! he's gonna become such a great man some day! #and also he is SO annoying and i Love Him Deeply #also shout out to this book for having such a toxic yuri dynamic in it #Sali and Qisama.... there is NO way this works out well for you two but bless your gay lil hearts i hope it does #ALSO ALSO- so absolutely delighted at how many Grizzled Older Legendary Mentor tropes that usually male roles fill #that were instead given whole heartedly to Taishi #including the string of lovers who are varying levels of still-in-love-with/attracted to her #iconic. no one is doing it like her. tough old bitch refuses to die a humiliating death #genuinely there's so many good fuckin characters in this book #and somehow i am invested in Each One i want Xinde and Meehae and Pahm to have satisfying arcs!!! #gonna be Thinking About Them a lot for the next few days