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God this is so stupid. I don’t know if I will end up finishing this one 🤷🏻‍♀️

lol it’s kinda what Emma deserves for thinking she knew better

Okay more graphic than I was expecting. What was I expecting, really, when the book advertises a “penis guillotine” 🫣

Ummmm……she just bit him on the neck as if that was an extremely normal thing to do. And she is not a vampire. What in the hell

Gee, I don’t know if running an Epstein trafficking ring containing 13 year old kids is really the feminist fantasy I was looking for 🫩

So it looks like this paternity thing only applies to royals and nobles. Noble husbands are required so that daughters can claim noble blood for succession. I’m gonna try not to think too hard about this

Does a construct like “virginity” even matter in this world? It just seemed like a convenient way for men to police and control women’s bodies, reproduction, and guarantee paternity

Who was I before I read “The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State”. I can’t stop trying to apply it to this world. Why would the Amarrans even care for a concept like fatherhood or “legitimate” paternity? Surely they would see women’s reproductive power as a divine gift. Who cares who the father is?

So Olerra will have to kidnap a foreign prince for a husband because most of the nobles are dead … but somehow Glenaerys has been holding court and favor with the remaining nobles? Who I presume are mostly women?

In these situations, I often think about how there's whole society of bonobos that are female-dominated not because the female bonobos are physically stronger or anything but because when a male bonobo starts acting sus, a whole group of female bonobos corner him and beat the shit out of him. I feel that we could learn something from this.

It's interesting that even this genderbent pseudo-matriarchy or whatever, physical power is still assigned superior value over the relational. Why did the author make it so that a goddess gives women superior strength and not like....idk witchcraft or something

“Atalius fell in a heap of bent armor and unjustified male ego.” ?? You know there has to be a more elegant way to say this. Why did the editor leave it in?

I feel like I flew through the first half and 3/4 so quickly but now at the end with the last couple of chapters left, I grow tired

Omg Henry Crawford just showed up at Fannys family’s house??? 😱 I was not expecting that. I actually gasped aloud

Can't believe I'm actually enjoying this one.

Henry is a rake

Surprisingly liking this so far. The ever convoluted love dodecahedron is so ridiculously funny. The characters are ridiculous too, with the exception of Fanny and Edmund

I've gotten to the environment chapter and.....yeah, we're fucked

Excellent analysis on the expoitation-expropriation nexus. Perhaps a mid muddy on how to move forward but it did help fill in the outline I had in my head

Maybe I’m reading it in fits and starts but it’s not as exciting as I wished it to be. Well, Ione is back so that’s some drama to look forward to.

Oooh this is kind of an interesting "fake dating/courting" setup. He doesn't want to pretend to court her because....he actually secretly has a bit of a crush on her. I love it!

This world and the narrative style is really growing on me