currently reading painted devils | also eeaao, arcane, green bone saga, the goblin emperor, tsoa, time war, a marvellous light, murderbot, writing tropes, etc.
it’s very important when reading The Goblin Emperor to understand that that’s my son. my boy. he’s my little guy. he’s my baby boy and I’m so so proud of him.
“I have been fighting for my career for as long as I have been alive, because I am always worried that being an actor or being a storyteller is not enough. And I’m constantly being proven wrong: it is so enough. And it is so important and valuable not just for artists in the abstract sense, but also me specifically as an artist, to continue making things for people and for myself. That is enough, actually — to do your very best to process your thoughts and try to share with people. Even just to make a good meal is valuable. We start where we are, and these are the tools that I’ve been given, and these are the tools that I can use to make little ripples of impact in the world in this moment in time.”
“I think there are lives that make it easy to be good. Or what most people call good. When you have wealth, status, family, it’s easy to be a saint, it coasts you nothing. I can’t say if you’re a good person or not. But the more I know of you, the more I understand that the world keeps making you choose between survival and martyrdom. No one should fault you for wanting to live.”
very rarely do i finish a book and have an ‘i’m going to think about this for an eternity’ moment, but little thieves! an absolute menace of a main character! the nerd she fell in love with! and they’re both demi! and the exploration of class and gender! and family and forgiveness and redemption! the fact that none of it is a straight road! that there’s constant relapses and questioning and it is not easy to change but it was worth it! and she didn’t have to fundamentally change herself to do it! vanja was allowed to be her troublemaking self and none of her trauma was invalidated because of her reactions! in fact people supported her more when she was honest! they learnt how to see her and she learnt how to see other people and—
Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they’re casting a spell with a verbal component it’s literally more effective than a counter spell.
This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they’re trying to use somnatic components.
Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can’t do anything
