top 5 galbatorix moments
number 5 coming out of his mothers womb and being born and being named galbatorix. and then going about life interacting with the world and nobody suspecting for the first 2 or 3 decades of his life that he might be evil with a name like "galbatorix"
number 4 when he allegedly kicked vrael in the nuts before decapitating him. this one is lower because it couldve been embellishment/propaganda on broms part but idk. seems like something he'd do
number 3 writing straight-up fanfiction for the two twenty-somethings that hes torturing in order to trick one of them to become his vassal
number 2 when he, in the middle of torturing the aforementioned twenty-something year old, decided to host a philosophical/political debate with her and claim the varden was evil for starting a war that would kill assumedly hundreds or thousands of people, and when she rebutted him by pointing out (rightfully) that he could end the war at literally any moment with minimal effort on his part, he does not respond and changes the subject back to torturing her
number 1 when he has eragon and murtagh fight and starts waxing poetic about how fitting and ironic it is that the two sons of morzan are fighting and how smart and brilliant he is, and eragon corrects him saying hes brom's son, not morzan's, and he responds with "well, yeah. Duh. pfft. obviously. i knew that." (he did not know that)
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When he got back to the Post Office, Moist looked up the Lavish family in Whom's Whom. They were indeed what was known as "old money," which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
Terry Pratchett, Making Money
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Hello! I'd like to tell you about a book I wrote. It'll be coming out on Friday the 26th of May 2023.
I'm extremely proud of this one. I'm proud of them all, of course, but I think in this one I let myself get angry for, well, pretty much the whole book to be honest. Previous books in the series have bursts of queer rage, but this one definitely sustained it.
At its heart, it's a book that demands to know just how long we're supposed to do nothing while fascists kill us.
Now, fair warning, it is book 9 in an ongoing series. It won't make a whole lot of sense if you haven't read the previous eight books. I'll get to that at the end of the post, but for now I want to stick with Runes of Fall.
No storm bows to reason.
Quentin's trip to the desert with his chosen family is supposed to be two days of testing the limits of their powers. Instead, a violent storm looms on the horizon, and nothing will alter its course.
The storm has a name: Nate Anderson. Demigod, supremacist, leader of a neo-Nazi Übermensch cabal... and father to Quentin's latest ward, Mel. He means to take her home, and won't let a ragtag group of "inferior" psychics get in his way.
Besieged and outgunned, Quentin is trapped in a no-win scenario. No matter which way he turns, one fateful night will change him forever.
Inheritance is a series best read in order, so if this is the first you've heard of it I strongly recommend that you start with Jack of Thorns, but keep going and I'll let you know how you can grab that for free. First, let me tell you more about it.
In Jack of Thorns, we meet Laurence and Quentin, two men with astonishing powers but little to no control over them. They are both adrift, traumatised, and doing what they can to get by one day at a time. Laurence is struggling to escape a toxic, abusive boyfriend who refuses to accept that their relationship is over, and Quentin spends as much of his time drunk as he possibly can.
Do they start out likeable? Opinion varies. But they learn, they grow, and they put in the work to improve themselves. They do their best, and sometimes they make mistakes, but the Laurence and Quentin in Runes of Fall are a world away from the Laurence and Quentin you first meet.
Heads up, there are some content warnings to take note of. In random order, they are: sexual intimacy, addiction, drug use, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, incest, gaslighting, bullying, coercive control, kidnapping, domestic abuse, bigotry, classism, torture, post-traumatic stress, therapy, violence, peril, and death.
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- AK.
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I've reached Inheritance in my reread, and Nasuada's chapters are as heartbreaking as I remembered 💔
So here are Murtagh and Nasuada in the hall of the Soothsayer.
I'm not quite happy with how this has turned out, but I'm also tired of messing with it, so this is what it looks like for now.
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Just so good for nothing,
inheritance of failure
and broken dreams
and the crushing weight
of feeling unworthy.
I was raised on gender roles
and flawed philosophies,
and the expectation
of living up to nothing more
than obediently reproducing.
I've clawed my way
to the surface slowly,
desperate to be something,
desperate to prove to myself
that I am not a waste,
That my life has valid meaning.
I am more than my resume,
I am more than my upbringing,
I am more than the things
that define me.
I am not
just good for nothing.
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