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every time tain hu pledges her loyalty to baru cormorant, rated by how gay it is:

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(some quotes are condensed to remove extraneous narration)

“I stand for Baru Cormorant.” And the duchess Tain Hu stepped into the circle, hobnailed boots ringing off the limestone cobble, hair shorn, cheeks slashed in lines of red. “My lady, command me.”

8/10, they havent seen each other in three years, the last time they met they were enemies, and now this dramatic sword lesbian just shows up to be baru’s champion in a duel to defend her honor. highly recommended

“The Fairer Hand,” she intoned, and setting her blade flat across her knee, she knelt. “This is my vow: in life, in death, I am yours.”

7/10, “till death do us part” but goth. this is actually literally just really extra marriage vows.

“What command, my sworn lord?” Not even a little mockery in Tain Hu’s voice.

4/10, you can do better than that. gets a few points for following up a conversation about tain hu’s conquests (military and otherwise). also interesting note: tain hu always calls baru her lord, not her lady. idk if this is just a general linguistic thing, but considering she says queen instead of king it seems deliberate.

“You are the Fairer Hand,” she said, “and I am your field-general, oathbound to earn you victory at any price. I will not shrink from that oath.” And then, her cold breaking, her voice raw and rampant: “I rule a small land, poor in wealth and arms; I have no husband and no heirs, no great alliance and no well-made dams, and thus few strengths to offer my lord beyond my cunning and my loyalty. Do not deny me the exercise of those as well.”

9/10, gayyyyy. also, this is a direct mirror to a page before where baru waxes rhapsodic about duchess nayauru. someone is ~jealous~.

“You don’t know that.” Vultjag’s voice dropped. “I vowed to die for you—don’t make a liar of me.”

4/10. tragic foreshadowing/dramatic irony. im so sorry. fuck. 

“Take the throne,” Tain Hu said. “I’m your field-general, sworn to serve. I can’t sit above you.”

2/10, too sad. baru is about to be proposed to by a man. it is gay angst, but still. just talk to each other please.

“What would you have me call you, then? My friend? My sister? You are my queen, or you are not. I swore an oath. When you doubt yourself, you doubt me. Do you doubt me?”

6/10. as a general note, when a woman names you to a position reserved for her consort, she doesnt see you as a sister

“Mm,” Tain Hu said. “Hello. Your Excellence.”

10/10, literally waking up in bed together the morning after, also im pretty sure once you’re engaged to a woman and having sex with her you’re allowed to drop the titles

“Will my death bring advantage to Baru Fisher, my sworn lord?” […] “You owe me nothing. I swore to die for you. So it will be.”

infinity/10

They’re making a Dorian Gray TV show but they’re making Basil and Dorian siblings. I’m going to commit a murder not only does that erase most of the book but is actually literally homophobic. Basil is in love with Dorian!!! That book was so gay it was used against Oscar Wilde in trial!! I’m going to go to jail for crimes against Netflix

truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

Hey are you offended by the word bitch? I'm going to send you a hate anon, but I saw that you go by she/her and I respect women

don't let anything stop u from being a hater king

nona cow theory

before i read nona the ninth, i saw spoilers that convinced me nona was the soul of the cows john killed. reading the book only further confirmed this

rotating john gaius in my head and how he is both a coloniser and a victim of colonisation and how, when presented with the opportunity to rebuild all of society from the ground-up, chose not to model it after his own oppressed culture, but instead after an aesthetic VERY CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH WHITE SUPREMACY (neoclassicism), and how his daughter is the only thing in his entire, expansive empire that he named in his language in ten thousand years, and how he perpetuates the cycle he himself was a victim of. tearing my hair out tazmuir WHEN I GET YOU

I finished Foxhole Court finally! Very good. The last chapters made me crazy. I Will be reading the sequels

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the butch herself for mascmarch :)

“i hate you” is so overused and means nothing anymore. “i hope your best friend turns your favorite twink into a bathroom stall wisdom-spouting redpilled alpha male” is better. it’s real. its terrifying. it happened to basil hallward.