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Love to witness El conceptualizing magical communism again 😍

I would pay good money for a beautifully illustrated mal encyclopedia!

I'm stress eating for the last mad dash to the end. So happy I can start the last book right away!

El talking about how you need time and energy to be able to *imagine* saving someone else, much else making plans for saving them is why the IRL revolution is having some trouble getting off the ground!

I'm beginning to have a lovely Buffy season 3 feeling about the direction of the book, which is making me nostalgic, but also warm on the inside!

'The workings all fizzled out as I came out through the doors but they hung in the air just long enough to make a fashion statement of *behold your dark goddess variety*'

It's somehow very good to know that magic helps with period symptoms, at least that is straightforward, without any side effects or another price to pay! Pregnancy is not that simple, ofc.

El constantly pulling the Death and Tower tarot cards makes so much sense!

'Artifice is fundamentally about giving the universe a long and complicated story complete with attractive props in order to coax it to accommodate your wishes. I'm really more about shouting the universe into compliance with mine.'

'it wasn't their help, not really. It was the time I had because I didn't have to desperately watch my own back every second of the day. It was the energy I had because I wasn't constantly scrabbling to build mana.' - once again, the looking at how loneliness works on a more pragmatic level