characters whose philosophy is โif i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until thereโs nothing left of me.โ thank you for everyoneโs attention. falls off stage and dies
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losing the idgaf war badly (I want to be in love and to have someone be in love with me)
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On the topic of Palamedes and Camilla also having messed up lives: while Paldulcie doesn't fit into a lot of folks' conventional ideas of queer romance in sci-fi, their whole love for each other circles back to Muir's point that you can't have shit in Empire and that love will often chafe against form and functioning Empire no matter what. The act of writing letters and attempting to make life better for Dulcie was revolutionary of Palamedes.
It went against planetary politics that demanded house necromancers compete and remain compartmentalized. It was an act that wanted to humanize a woman who was effectively bred to be an art piece of slow death and coddling.
Not to mention the continuous times in the series that Muir makes it seem like the Sixth house maintain some form of lesser place in the empire's hierarchy: like they're running out of genetic material, in Harrow's Marriage AU she mentions how they're often painted in a corner like her house is, The Second House went after their keys because they believed them the easiest to over-power, Palamedes and Camilla had no clue what formal dueling practices were.
Palamedes trying to marry the Duchess of Rhodes screams of the taboo and forbidden that Muir explores in Locked Tomb. I need y'all to wake up and see the sixth house as more than the funky librarians helping out the funky lesbians. They are definitely doing that, but they are so fundamentally crucial to this series.
also not to """woobify""" too much but missed this on first read. They've never seen sunlight that doesn't kill. They both live in a tomb themselves. "Palamedes and Camilla just act like that" no. They are living the weird and traumatizing space empire life like Harrow and Gideon.
For a profession that gets stereotyped as introverted loners I sure do spend a lot of time waiting for ppl to reply to my gd email with the correct gd information
This is like middle school group project but Worse because there's Consequences <- I'm only half joking
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god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldnโt even hesitate
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hello I am still alive and I just reread the truth
GO OFF, FRAN!! Sometimes stories are about 'this system is corrupt. you are inside it without the individual power to overthrow the entire thing. what good can you do' OKAY? THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME
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I am just!!! Very idealistically angry and also very prone to melancholy and despair!!! So yeah I can see why for some it wouldn't be enjoyable or comfortable, to me??? It's like?? Everything.
So much of my daily devotion to Duty and Goodness. So much of my general life philosophy, tbh. Can be summed up by stories like this!!!! All I can do is the task before me to the best of my ability. That's all most of us can do. And that still means something. It's still worth working towards those ideals even if you believe they'll never be fully achieved. Y'know?
Anyway yeah. Stories and idealism are It(TM) for me.
Turns out 1 coffee isn't enought but 2 is TOO many so idk wtf I'm supposed to do now
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Falin with Laois hair: Cute pixie cut!
Laios with Falin hair: HEEEEEEYEEEHYEEEHYEHYEH
Same kind of mfer who complains that in tge Maia doesn't immediately overthrow his throne, or in hote the emperor and kip don't dismantle the empire and instead work to reform it from within (instead of y'know, immediately destabilizing it and ultimately making everything worse for the oppressed)
Also the distinguishing between the use of PLOTS in FICITON to examine various themes vs endorsing things irl. There is nuance there between propaganda and things I 100% would agree with irl. Copaganda is absolutely real, not everything that has cops in it is automatically copaganda. These two statements can and should coexist.
This sure is a webbed site.
Actually that bad vimes take is probably more upsetting than the entire work debacle this morning
Just saw someone call the Vimes books copaganda and I'm??? Like I guess in the sense of our protagonist is a fantasy cop. But also. You've missed the entire point of the books. All institutions are corrupt. Vimes Knows This. That's why he's Like That. His whole THING is strict self watching, the who watches the watchers, the dismantling (ever so slowly) of the oppressive Institutions That Be. No he doesn't overthrow the watch, this is a fantasy series not a manifesto. But like??? Comparing it to copaganda procedural dramas that make a point of justifying abuse of rights and overstepping power when the 'good guys' do it, the very thing Vimes CONSISTENTLY FIGHTS AGAINST??? The thing he acknowledges he and everyone else in any position of authority (cop or not) is tempted to, but which must be entirely eradicated for any sort of justice???
Hm????
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so bitchless they made me bisexual
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Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes