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Well that got very dark very suddenly

Literally the moral of the story “The Peasant and the Workman” is that sucking up will get you everywhere in life

I just…I just love unicorns don’t even get me started

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI…these are people who think their “ideas” are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these “ideas” and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story. But they never bothered to learn the craft of writing. Most of them don’t even read recreationally.” (Quoting Julie Ann Dawson)

“If they couldn’t be bothered to write this, why should we be bothered to read it?”

“…they represent the mere debris of a tradition recast in a loose narrative framework by a talented author who was less interested in preserving sources than in producing an effective piece of literature.” Damn it’s only page 16 and this dude is already coming for the Mabinogi

“She wouldn’t use God to ease her guilt when reason screamed otherwise.”

This book is gooood

By this point the story has gotten very boring and I can’t believe I still have over 100 pages left…

“The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.”

Am I going to regret trying to read this

This line seems pretty relevant: “…the unicorns have returned—the unicorns, that you saw the Red Bull hunting and pretended not to see…It is your greed and your fear that have destroyed you.” …”It all seems a bit unfair…What could have been done to save the unicorns? We were afraid of the Red Bull, What could we have done?” …”One word might have been enough. You’ll never know now.”

“The magic lifted her as gently as though she were a note of music and it were singing her.”

“I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.” Prince Lír, a true himbo

Okay granted it’s been a long time since I last read this but how did I never notice this “taste for mongrel” line…is that supposed to mean that Schmendrick is eating gaegogi?! Egad

I feel like I’m reading a textbook. So much political info-dumping.

The buaile houses are sounding a lot like hobbit houses tbh

“What form of communication will be used by our children we can guess at—maybe some form of portable dial two-way radio with a television-window, small enough to be carried in the pocket, on which they can see and speak to friends at any time.” The author wrote that in the early 1960s. It’s so fascinating to read people’s guesses of the future that ended up coming true.

I just want this to be over but it keeps going on and on

The cognitive dissonance of the Jesuit slave-owners trying to act all righteous by insisting on ONLY selling their slaves to fellow Catholics so that the enslaved people can continue to “practice their faith” while simultaneously breaking families apart and treating human beings like dirt is both infuriating and somehow unsurprising.

100 pages in and still not entirely sure who these people are or what exactly is going on

“There’s more of gravy than grave about you!” Noting this down as a sick burn to give any ghosts that decide to visit me this Christmas

This book is such a chore. If it doesn’t pick up soon I’m dnfing

Take a shot every time someone “chuffs.”

So far this feels like Dauntless (from Divergent) with dragons. Haha

‘In a July 7, 2000 interview, Rowling admits “bigotry is probably the thing I detest the most. All forms of intolerance….”’ Well that didn’t age well.

“These were my people, but I still wanted them to go away.”
Painfully relatable.

Can she stop making weird comments about “third-world” countries?