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Sick dude on a horse horse dying uh yeah

Glanton Gang massacres a merchant group of Natives while moving along a cliffside such that they all fall down the mountain bleeding everywhere.

They go into another Mexican town and are treated as heroes for bringing the Native scalps as proof of their chivalrous, valorous, honorable, and no doubt heroic work!

Scalping and barfighting…

The Kid spoke in his Wretched Spanish. lol.

As with The Road, I’m again warming up to McCarthy’s prose style (read aloud, in the audiobook, not reading directly off the page!!!). It’s kind of satisfying in its gritty yet poetic feel.

Judge has killed another kid, and that’s particularly bad despite the previous day the entire gang massacred the native village savagely? Probably implicit that he raped him too tho…

He’s still def interesting…

More traveling along the road in Mexico presumably heading southward, plenty of more gore to highlight the brutality of the frontier…

The story picks up with the focus on the judge. Him and his buddy in Europe, learning customs & languages makes him interesting. He’s like a bizarre super intelligent demon, also HE killed that boy? I didn’t clock that while walking in the rain, listening to the audiobook, lol

Cormac McCarthy loves writing about dirty dusty crusty musty sandy nasty bloody gritty stuff huh

Wow, Vivenna’s Adventure has really been lovely lately! Another plot twist to accompany the other plot twist!

I swear, if Siri actually fucks the god king after all that good stuff about planning and resisting the priests…

Wow! Plot twist! So Vivenna just has nowhere to go now, then. Brutal.

Ouuu shi. Blushweaver Goddess of Anime Body Proportions, calls Siri a slut.

Meanwhile, Siri lies to Bluefingers ab Susebron, and still doesn’t know what happens to each god king upon having an heir.

Ooh shi. No not in that way. You damn pervert.

Vivenna is getting serious. Hamon training arc starts now!!!

Also, everything with the Idrian slums feels very topical. Interesting!

Also also, Idrian royalty comes from the first returned. And Vivenna now knows Clod’s code! And I have a feeling Clod is the body of Shara…Sasha…Shalashaska…whoever that dead person who made Nightblood was. Interesting!!!

Susebron putting his arm on Siri’s shoulder was sweet.

Vivenna also reminds me of Caitlyn from Arcane. That’s the idea of her in my head for the most part. For some reason, though, otherwise, I mostly just take everything in auditorially without much mental visualization. Oh yeah and I somewhat had the image of Nemesis from Fire Emblem for Susebron initially.

Anyway, it’s good rn. Lightsong is investigating!!

Bell Hooks discusses how black women were not identified among the term “women” generally speaking, in society, back since the late 20th century.

In literature, work, and political activism, racism effectively divided women as white women complained about working with “blacks” in factories during WW2 and refused black membership in feminist groups, black women were put under the umbrella term “blacks.“

Ooh, interesting…

Also, Vivenna. LOCK THE FUCK IN ALREADY. USE THE BREATHS! THE BREATHS!

They really got Siri out here doing a nude dogeza. Hashtag! Geeked!

Also, Vivenna going on her mission is cool.

Also, Siri why don’t you just ask your servants to at least pretend to be normal and chat around you if you want them to, lol. The whole point is that they do what you want.

But anyway, it’s good so far. I have a feeling it’s gonna be cool when Lightsong gets off his ass and does stuff lol.

She just would not stop yapping about matriarchy and how it’s not real and how actually our government is patriarchal,

so I just skipped the section and fast forwarded to the bits on sexist progressivism, all the while putting on blast Malcolm X MLK prophet Muhammad and every other 20th century black activist which is fascinating to see.

Hair color changing with emotion is cool and for some reason I don’t think I’ve ever seen that anywhere fiction before.

Also, like in wizards guide to medieval England, Brandon Sanderson has written another likable but still brash male character (the king of Idris) that isn’t just a stupid, annoying tyrant, which I really appreciate.

I’m into it

Interesting power system! No shock since this is Brandon Sanderson, but this imaginative writing is in stark contrast to The Witcher which I’d just finished yesterday, lol.

The concept of what is essentially sensing the world more vividly as a power system is fascinating.

Geralt saying “it seems to me that I fucked everything up” was satisfying, due to Peter Kenny’s vaguely-Scottish Geralt voice.

Peter Kenny is my favorite Witcher character 🔥

Hey! Plot!

So is this entire book just gonna be Geralt trying to get his swords back or what

Mid 19-century German socialists functioned as contemporary economic centrists, Marx says.

He further that said socialists loved to philosophize about “the general human aspects of society” and other such vague, philosophical, intentionally not grounded concepts.

So basically, Marx doesn’t like centrists because they’re functionally conservatives in saying “everyone’s good!“ Including the bourgeois.