Status Updates From The Hands of the Emperor (L...

“There’s no blasphemy in pointing out the truth. It is blindingly obvious. When you want to share some news, it is to him you look—and when he wishes to talk, it is with you.”
“We have worked together for many years.”
“When you made an overture of real friendship beyond your duty, he responded with elevating your rank as close to his own as possible so that you can be friends.”

ooh my blorbos 🥹

i’m kind of disappointed with Kip's family and friends, to be honest. he literally reformed the entire government and bettered the life of so many and they’re still blaming him for not going home to visit enough, when they never go visit him at all!! and bo one congratulated him!!!
i’m MAD mad.

spLEndID oUFiT kIP

“Tor,” he said again, very softly, “please.”
If he had heaved a stone through a window he could not seen a shattering as complete as what he saw breaking in his Radiancy’s eyes.
Cliopher’s stomach quivered with compassion at the tangled mess of emotions.

oooh my shaylaaaaa 😭

not Cliopher's family trying, not-so-subtly, to get him out of the closet
hahahahaha omg i'm dying

oh, the family and friends. 😭

This is my next audiobook read

I should have gone to sleep hours ago, but I just can't put this book down!!! I'm obsessed.

He let his heart open, imagined the words welling spontaneously, and without quite consciously planning it, said: “When you are no longer sitting on the Lion Throne, I would like to know the man behind the Serenity. As a friend.”

*giggling kicking my feet*

“I have been showing you another aspect of myself this journey. I did not realize until just now that you have been showing me another aspect of yourself as well.”
Cliopher didn’t know what to say.

The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benevolence is that after a while you start to believe your lies. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I do not have them. Oh, no,” he added a little more softly, “it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am not.” 

wow this crashout was so valid!

“Thought of his lord, never failing to do his duty.
Thought of his lord, with no one to joke with him.
Thought of losing that—he could not call it friendship, could he? That implied a kind of equality, and there was no equality possible between the Sun-on-Earth and anyone else.
But call it a relationship, that was permissible.
He suppressed the wish that he dared call his Radiancy his friend.”