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Things I appreciated so so much about The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, in no particular order:

- ✨Women supporting women✨ So many YA books with female leads rely on the I’m not like other girls/not like everyone else, but so much of tgwfbts hinges on the ways that the women in the story inspire and uplift one another and it’s literally so sweet

- A full cast of sympathetic and lovable characters. They are all wonderful and I would protect them with my life. ‘Nough said.

- The dynamic between Namgi and Kirin. This is simultaneously one of the most tragic and hopeful relationships that I have read in a long while and it had me tearing up more than once.

- Mina’s willingness to solve any and all of her major and minor inconveniences with her great-great-grandmother’s knife

#one of the most lovely and brilliant stories i have read in such a long time #the girl who fell beneath the sea #books

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The Girl's Own Paper - Vol. 15 - 1894 - via Internet Archive

#“bubby!” as the little one says

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god i know it’s really awful for sophos but like. the inherent hilarity of being given a gun and the advice that Violence Is The Only Way and thinking ‘this is terrible but at least my friend has given me a secret better option’ and then when you go to find out what it is it’s just. another gun.

#in which sophos is me #queen's thief

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Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

#words

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i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he'd like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar "listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek" like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired

#<3

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I feel like a maiden who's soldier husband just came back from the war.

#a WHAT #JONNY #i felt like a damn sleeper agent #tmagp

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#childhood #<3

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Albert König - View of Palermo at night (1924)

#art #stars

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i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

#words

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big if true (spring)

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a bunch of very simple essek & company doodles 💜

#AH #this makes me so disproportionately happy #art #essek #cr2

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"Per aspera ad astra."

#through the thorns to the stars #words

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This is one of my favorite photos in my collection and I’ve always meant to frame it. It’s so dark and otherworldly, like a little fairy-cat captured at dusk. Ca. 1960s.

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Jude and Cardan

#the folk of the air #art #i love them so dang much

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The thing about Queen's Thief is that the reveals that come with Gen's trickster type, don't just reveal that he is smarter or more skilled than the people around him (or the readers) thought, but also that he is more good than they originally thought. Gen's goodness is a part of the twist.

This is probably most prominent in King of Attolia where his surprising mercy is a huge part of the plot (and his genuine love and friendship). But it happens over and over again.

In The Thief we are led to believe that he is motivated primarily by self-interest and we are surprised by the depths of his loyalty, the generous affection that comes out for the Magus, and by the fact that he is actually primarily motivated by duty and love for his queen/favorite cousin/reigning bestie.

In Queen of Attolia the twist is that his actions which looked like generalized mischief and political power plays actually all spring from love, and that love arose initially from empathy with a girl's loneliness.

Or when he becomes king, and then it's revealed that yes he got what he wanted but actually this is an act of self sacrifice (for the sake of Irene and Hellen and Eddis).

And on and on.

The pettiness and the pride and the mischief for its own sake are all still there, but they coexist with this deep undercurrent of loyalty and duty and love and mercy and kindness. And when push comes to shove that undercurrent will always win out and its that which makes the twists so triumphant and satisfying.

#GEN #queen's thief #mwt

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kristopher shinn

#puget sound #I'm not often homesick but there's something about the ferries...

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2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST