#like. that's her brother. the birdsong footnote is funny but thats her BROTHER and she cared enough to be able to identify birds from a

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the continuous focus on birds and birdsong in monstrous regiment is one of my fave bits just because we know the only reason polly has all that background knowledge is bc of paul. and even when she has that moment of not wanting to admit that she wants to get paul back partially for selfish reasons she was still the person in his life that paid attention enough to remember everything he loved/knew about birds lol. he's not really haunting the narrative he's just kind of chilling back there but ANYWAY lol polly perks could do antigone

#whenever theyre in a new location polly is always letting some bird info into her description of the setting and its just bc of paul #monstrous regiment #like. that's her brother. the birdsong footnote is funny but thats her BROTHER and she cared enough to be able to identify birds from a #great distance that weren't even native to their country so um that's thee manifestation of weird sibling bonds #the line about the colored pencils is soooo crazy. someone got him some colored pencils and she will love them 4ever #discworld #polly perks #gnu terry pratchett #paul perks #im so tired post diwali workday is killing me but im playing the events of mr behind my eyelids during meetings