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Okay, Perry is the real MVP of this all. If I'm trapped inside this machiavellian gender web I'm taking you with me. Huge bummer that we are getting Mycroft's mindfucked narration.

I love a good creepy rhyme. The standing stones are I think celtic? specifically Irish celtic design.

I just can't get over how pathetic this all is. The secret circle literally cosplaying the Enlightenment and claiming to be above petty disputes only for them all to flip the fuck out over secret love children.

Palmer is continuing to kill me with these chapter transitions. "[He] could destroy everything, but there's too much to gain if it goes right. We have to trust God." -> directly into a chapter titled "Stalin In One Weekend."

This guys fucks. Every horror story should have a guy going "Are you fucking stupid? We are being haunted. Get your shit together."

Genuinely WHY does this guy keep leaving his tent. If he is #soscared why is he sticking his head out to get gobbled?

This really is some divine right of kings horseshit.

This is so fucking upsetting. So the horrific abuse Dominic went through is the source of his personal strength? OK.

The image of Sax lying down to look at flowers is so cute. Real old man hours.

Easton isn't stupid enough to not suspect Thunder of being The Creature.

what if they are nice mole people. what if the scary part of this installment of a horror series is just eastons claustrophobia and the mole people didnt kill/kidnap/eat oscar and they are literally so nice.

I love how reluctant everyone is to go in this spooky ass mine.

He's got a waddle under that bandage I just know it.

Dead wife in the basement? and he's harvesting his botfly larvae from her corpse? but her ghost is possessing the larvae and trying to "come home"?

I wasn't expecting vampires. Given the title & Miss Wilson's profession I was thinking it would be mutant screw worms or something. Hell, it still might be them.

Madame really bent the law into a pretzel :(
Like she straight up bred sex slaves.

I love knowing more than the characters do haha

This shit is genuinely. Okay, but there IS an aristocratic minority attempting to take over the whole world through marriage alliances and subjugation.

Half of the difficulty of getting through this is that the audience Mycroft is addressing is contemporary to his future society and not, y'know, us. The people actually reading it. So many things are implied to be titillating that just aren't and there's things he talks about that he doesn't find buckwild but I do.

This whole thing JEDD plot for masonic control of whole world?

This has just been one "well that seems horrifyingly exploitative" after another.

"My many masters don't always remember they must feed me, that their toil-earned handouts are the only sustenance permitted to we the unfree. But Danaë--this monster from a more barbaric time--always remembers the protocols of servitude."

By this point Robinson's personal views are pretty obvious but "[...] as it seemed perhaps not everyone could be fed, and the cowardly spoke of triage." is pretty explicit lol.

Incredibly pet peeve of me, but its "snipe our ships" not "sniper our ships".

"Reach wouldn't become another Pearl Harbor." Hysterically funny. Why would they care about the USA in a post-national space navy?

I have been saying this whole time that the emergence of the Covenant threat was the only way ONI was going to retroactively justify the Spartan program. SO funny to have that confirmed textually.

I keep waiting for the narrative to condemn what's happening to John & Co but all we've got is Dr Halsey going "Damn this is unethical. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯"

"How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all of the time?"

"Your brain has to trick itself in order to live in time."

Why is it taking me so long to get through the last half of this book? ugh.