Julia Elizabeth > Recent Status Updates

“The dead dig wells in the living” just sends shivers down my spine

“Protect yourself, by not googling [what a bezoar looks like].”
Too late I already did and now I want the fancy one in the gold Fabergé egg display

Ooof as fun as the body exhibit sounds, I don’t love looking at a skinless person playing volleyball and wondering if they were a willing donation or an unjustly executed prisoner.

The question about what happens when you die on a plane reminds me immediately of the second episode of Cabin Pressure.
It’s nice to know that airplanes have the same “no one is officially declared dead here because of paperwork” policy that Disney has.

Gonna eat some glitter before I die so that the bacteria party happening in my stomach can be a little more festive

Don’t worry, the law, I would like to be jettisoned out into space when I die to create life on a new planet in a few hundred million years, so I’m not worried about turning myself into a cool skull that sits on my child’s desk.

Can’t believe I was today years old when I learned that you could buy human bones on eBay until someone finally said maybe this isn’t a great idea

The piss memes in the reviews are not an exaggeration fyi

“Be careful not to turn the oppressed into saints” is an insane thing to read that changes your worldview in under an hour

I kept my last name because it just costs a lot to change it and I feel seen by one of the reasons being “it’s just too much to do.”

“I do wish though, that ‘parent’ should not have been turned into a verb. Which I think is the root of the global middle class phenomenon of ‘parenting as one endless, anxious journey of guilt.’”
Damn okay 🫢

“Splintering spike” ah never mind, there’s the prose we almost forgot about

I’m surprised this book is actually doing the “magic isn’t bad or good but subject to people’s morals” than dragon age ended up doing. Alchemised pulls ahead of veilguard in the running. I’m just as shocked as you

By Paracelsus this cannot be happening

Ooo did Morrough take over Lucy’s body already?

Ok I’m absolutely here for Bad Bitch Helena who wants to make an alchemy bomb because she’s fed up with bad leadership decisions

Look no one is more *initially squicked out by pregnancy* than me, but I do appreciate that part of the convo around it is specifically about the lack of choice and bodily autonomy. I get the people who also don’t love the discussion but the critiques that it’s “not necessary in our current political climate” is an insane take. Genuinely, some readers would find comfort in this convo

SO COOL that one of your best friends says “I couldn’t tell the truth and be like you”
Please tell me why you’re friends again?

“Gilded by a golden sunrise”
…. What are we even doing here, man?

I get that it’s The Point that no one has to take accountability except Helena, as The Outsider. But it’s getting exhausting that we’re in her head this whole time and she doesn’t even THINK about this unfairness inflicted by her so-called friends. Can she not get mad at them in her mind even once? Can she not take them to task for their risky behavior that hurts everyone around them even once?

The heaviest deepest groan in the world because Helena is being STUPID and has no self preservation

We’re in the “well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my own weaponized ignorance” phase

Manacles, you say??

How many more times are we going to do the “how did no one know about this” before Helena realizes that people DO they’re just not telling her and the other Youths?

Helena, baby, I know you’re really into this argument with your sad, mean dog but you are deffo gonna get a uti after this encounter. Maybe consider investing in some meds instead of listening to Ferron infodump at you

Cool cool cool but WHY do we have to have purity culture at all?

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh you’re in your twenties and your first time hurts? Really groundbreaking writing here. So glad we’ve kept this trope forever

“Born Sexy Yesterday Helena Marino” understands so much about the human body because healing but doesn’t pick up on the “lead with your hips when fighting” is not exactly a winning strategy

Like, Helena my sweet girl I know you have brain cells in there. How did you not put together that the point was always to kill the spies your resistance has been using to keep control of the story?

Well I don’t know if all the other wars have been about necromancy since we still haven’t explained the other wars with any detail and also we haven’t drawn a clear enough line between magic-magic, alchemy-magic, alchemy-science, and science so I don’t event know why necromancy is an evergreen issue in this land