For Alphinaud’s part I’m sorry for slandering our boy yet again but you have to wonder if he said anything off to Ilberd when they worked together. Louisoix’s open mindedness can only do so much to unpick this level of state sanctioned paternalism.

Sharlayan has a diverse enough population that they might not have clocked this about Yda and Lyse upon seeing them, but maybe it came out upon hearing them. Maybe after learning about it they said good on you for leaving that nasty place. You’re not like the rest of them. You’re not as good as us.

Nothing ever directly says Sharlayan has a particular disregard for Gyr Abania, only that they believe themselves superior to every other place on the planet, but it’s simple to figure out that the people who disappointed nyunkrepf were from the highlands.

I know by early endwalker the point was to tell the reader something dystopian was going on, but I want to think about how this BOOK FOR CHILDREN with a colorful cover may have directly affected characters we know, like Lyse and Alphinaud. bsky.app/profile/call...

Things like “when is it right to fight back” get a lot easier to answer when your reality is being subjugated, instead of treating it as a hypothetical

It’s probably never going to be mentioned but it’s interesting to think about in the context of Lyse’s life specifically. She was born in a town right down the mountain from the ark, and grew up mostly in Sharlayan - where children’s books lamented the unsalvageable warlike people nyunkrepf left.

Getting a unanimous “dog” like you guys don’t think this looks a little bit like the Merrill lynch logo?

i'm not saying ilberd should have had a vendetta against a 16 year old but you kind of get why, maybe

Is this a cow or a dog

Idk I mourned her like she died when I hit the antitower because it seemed like she did - like there was little left of her personality, speaking with the mother’s voice - but it turns out she was in there and could come back if only to work and suffer alone

This is taking me out I knew 8 guys like this when I was a freshman in college and, to a man, they had all picked up guitar literally that summer to impress girls

Isn’t this the one with my boy in it? Well. I’ll find out

the catacombs in the lochs near ala mhigo - the floating dust motes really make this. they're animated to float slightly upwards as the light hits them, though you can't see the movement here. really something special. still very pretty without that, though

"they tell you the level of the maps in the item description," you say. why would i read those, i reply.