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Your boyfriend starts mumbling in Latin in his sleep and it scares the hell out of you but upon translation he’s introducing himself, inquiring on the price of grain, attempting to sell dormice, brainstorming silly Saturnalia gift ideas. In his sleep he somehow becomes a 1st century BC plebeian, of modest means but with a pleasant outlook on mundane life.

It's not "do it for the aesthetic " it's morbid longing for the picturesque you fuck

Madly into Andrew’s sense of humour, when he called Neil a Pinocchio — not just because he was a liar, but also because of Neil’s desperate desire to be a real boy.

my theory for what henry whispered to camilla is "kitten, i'll be honest. daddy's about to kill himself"

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

these books need to come with a warning label

why you should read Realm of the elderlings

- canonical gender fluid/ nonbinary character who is a main part of the plot

- the gays most heartbreaking love story ever told

- depressed main character

-pirates, magic and dragons all in one book

-insane world building,

- sarcastic animal side kicks

- absolutely devastating plot lines if your into that

- complex and extremely imperfect characters

I feel like most people forget Adam is almost as much of a nerd as Gansey, he's just more... covert about it.

film adaptations of classic literature should be low budget and the actors should be a bunch of people i’ve never seen and will never see again. this or die

There's a long scene of Gilgamesh just asking enkidu about how different people are doing in the afterlife, I take it as like moral lessons on how people live their lives but god these two together are so fucking funny "they cannot mend his bones"

gonna have a lot of fun with these

READ THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER PLEASE WHY R THERE ONLY LIKE 4.5 PPL IN THE FANDOM

it's so weird and so beautiful and so intricate and so confusing and so deep and so lyrical and so different to any other book in existence in the best way possible I'm literally begging ppl to read this masterpiece

'This is a love story down to the blade-dented bone.'

finally reading The Spear Cuts Through Water and it's sorta fuckign amazing wow. The only way i know how to show I really really liked a book is to make shitty memes about it but there’s something so ethereal about TSCTW that it’s lowk sorta hard…

Anyway, it's a bit funny that even though it's being told through like 4 perspectives and it reads so much like an old oral fairy tale, it still has the ragtag group of misfits traveling through the land.

funniest thing I've seen all day

Keema:

i know this isn't the point and i understand why the book didn't reveal this to us but i NEED to hear everybody's theories on how keema lost his left arm i'm just nosy like that

there's something sooo special to me about writing that gives narrative weight and time to characters who are just brief flashes across the page, especially the ones that die. like how The Spear Cuts Through Water breaks its main narrative to give the people Keema and Jun cross paths with a voice, from the vendor to the messenger they kill to everyone else, just brief flashes of other lives that matter just as much. And how the Aeneid takes the time with the deaths in the final battles to say that this man was a hero, that this one loved his aged father, and so on. it's just the way that these books acknowledge that every single person has their own history and present, compared to so many books today that treat lives so carelessly

literally every part of this book is insane without context and I love that

The Bowl of Heaven arc did give us some good things

I’m dying at the implication that after Jun and Keema get their godlike powers and have the ability to launch themselves high enough into the air to clear anti siege walls, they still can’t stick the landing. People are watching them achieve these feats of godhood and they just keep landing like 

Jimenez, S (2022). The Spear Cuts Through Water, Del Ray, 445

when they tell you from the start that this is a love story to its blade-dented bone.......

so I finished the spear cuts through water

i have reached the bit in the spear cuts through water where keema and jun start hearing each other's internal narration and the best i can do to express how i'm feeling right now is i need to eat this book which is.

well.

Please read The Spear Cuts Through Water

what is the spear cuts through water about? great question.

your lola said it was a romance but your dad said it is NOT romance. it's about an oppressive regime and the rebellion. the moon is there and so it the water. your lola is telling you the story but you are also watching it in a theater. it's deeply upsetting but also really funny sometimes. it's about redemption and regret. it's about longing. it's also totally gay. it's written in first, second, AND third person. it's absolute chaos but also beautifully structured. 10/10 would recommend.

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS MASTERPIECE????

I FEAR I AM NOW OBLIGATED TO DEDICATE MY LIFE TO THE PROMOTION OF THIS BOOK

sometimes a travelling party is just a sad dude who hears voices in his head, a guy with one arm who won't stop making oaths, a cranky old god, a giant mad tortoise and a severed talking head they keep in a jar

just finished the spear cuts through water, thought i'd jump up on tumblr, see what the talk is about. tell me why no one NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE DEFECT TURTLE THAT STARTED A TURTLE REVOLUTION BY SHARING WITH ITS BRETHREN AN IMAGE/MEMORY OF A PEACEFUL RIVER MORNING

this is how neil describes people that isn’t andrew in his pov

I’ve never seen the show but the idea that Kaz and Nina would not both put their all into pretending to be couple is ridiculous. Like they’d have everyone in their vicinity gagging, probably competing to see who can come up with the most disgustingly sweet cringy things to say to each other, either trying to break each other or break everyone around them and have Matthias and Inej wondering if they should be worried. They’re actors ladies and gentlemen and they take their craft very seriously.

ready for Valentine's Day 💘