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seriesofnonsequiturs replied to your post “goblin emperor”
sorry don’t mean to blast your page but OMG THE GOBLIN EMPEROR seriously one of the best worldbuilding fantasy books i’ve read - i also love the biracial dynamics like when he walks into the goblin embassy and he almost cries because he finds people who look like him - and also his realization that FRIENDS ARE GOOD and he’s allowed to mutually care about his guards - and his whole thing about his mother and his faith -the question of radical anarchy and THE WHOLE BOOK
omg, that aspect of Maia being an unreliable narrator and reading through the lines to his trauma was so f*ing well-written in the book - not to mention Csevet’s competing trauma too omg
— yes the scene where he’s nearly crying in the goblin embassy was so lovely, all of that is like– *chef’s kiss*
don’t feel bad about blasting my page, i don’t post enough anymore to have so many notification’s that i’m not delighted for more.
And yes– Csevet’s trauma also is like, a layer there, I’m not super articulate at the moment but I am In Agreement.
seriesofnonsequiturs replied to your post “yet more goblin emperor wittering don’t worry it’s almost out of my…”
omg that sleeping system bothered me as well!! i’m like dude, on duty for 12 hours does not an effective guard make
I have now had very serious conversations about this on at least three different social media platforms with like five different people, it seems to me that there’s literally nobody who read the book and was like “seems rational” so like. should we start a letter-writing campaign? “we want the nohecharei to unionize”
Although as I pointed out on Dreamwidth in the last iteration of this discussion, I mean, how many shifts are you really going to want in a job where if your coworkers fuck up even during a shift you’re not present for, you’re expected to commit ritual suicide? It’s gonna keep your pool of applicants small, I think. So like. Balance that.
But what gets me– even if you assume they really do nap while the Emperor’s sleeping, so like, ok, if they do an overnight shift every other night, they can get 2-3 hours sleep apiece while he’s out depending on whether they’ll sleep concurrently or not, and while it’s just a light doze, still it’s not like they’re breaking rocks for 12 hours, and if you assume kind of a monk-like devotion to their work where leisure time becomes important, you still run into a separate issue: you want your guard to have good reflexes, right? and good weapons and fighting skills? that means ongoing practice. When is that supposed to happen, when the vast majority of his shift guarding you is spent standing motionless as part of the scenery??? how are they supposed to stay sharp? even if maza skills are largely mental, they need to be fit, and the guards are gonna really suffer if they can’t work out sometimes. so like. When! When is their cardio! I must know.
girderednerve replied to your post “have you read the queen’s thief series? your goblin emperor posting…”
beshelar is So Adorable, oh my gosh, your goblin emperor posting has brought me sheer delight
I don’t know why I’m so into Beshelar but he has accidentally become my Relatable Everyman here. He’s just so… like, he’s an uptight kind of jerk, and I Get That, ok.
This whole fanfic I’ve written has literally 0 Maia POV, I decided that was my weird trope that I was gonna stick with, and so it bounces around but it’s got a lot of dear Beshelar realizing he’s in a little bit over his head and attempting to Deal With It.
Also I just wrote Maia semi-losing his virginity from Csethiro’s POV, and it was enormously satisfying, so. I mean, for me, I don’t know how he felt about it, we haven’t really gotten to the reaction part. (cut for slightly nsfw text, describing a male orgasm, and i love Csethiro because she is a fkn nerd, so this is maybe less sexy than you’d think but she is definitely enjoying herself a lot. no this is just a tiny snippet, i promise the rest will be worth waiting for.) I don’t think I could write it from Maia’s POV, I think he’s so shy he’d fade to black even to describe it to himself. But Csethiro has never really balked from anything in her life and isn’t about to start now.
“Maia,” she said, “Maia, show me how you–”
He cried out and shuddered, his whole body going stiff, and then– in her hand, his entire member pulsed, a fascinating and improbably exciting phenomenon, and she exclaimed in wonder at it, and he shook all over and she discovered, to her fascinated delight, that all the vague descriptions using words like “emit” and “issue” had not really done justice to the phenomenon of ejaculatory male orgasm nearly as efficiently as the lurid novel’s description of a “spurt” had, for his semen emitted at rather a velocity, and what did not wind up caught in her hand splattered in several directions, some of it as far as her breasts.
“Oh, Maia,” she said, approvingly; that made some sense, then, to bridge the gap she’d observed in the anatomical drawings, “that’s–”
He shuddered again and let out a sweet little whimper, and she had to kiss him then, all words forgotten.
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seriesofnonsequiturs replied to your post “goblin emperor”
sorry don’t mean to blast your page but OMG THE GOBLIN EMPEROR seriously one of the best worldbuilding fantasy books i’ve read - i also love the biracial dynamics like when he walks into the goblin embassy and he almost cries because he finds people who look like him - and also his realization that FRIENDS ARE GOOD and he’s allowed to mutually care about his guards - and his whole thing about his mother and his faith -the question of radical anarchy and THE WHOLE BOOK
omg, that aspect of Maia being an unreliable narrator and reading through the lines to his trauma was so f*ing well-written in the book - not to mention Csevet’s competing trauma too omg
— yes the scene where he’s nearly crying in the goblin embassy was so lovely, all of that is like– *chef’s kiss*
don’t feel bad about blasting my page, i don’t post enough anymore to have so many notification’s that i’m not delighted for more.
And yes– Csevet’s trauma also is like, a layer there, I’m not super articulate at the moment but I am In Agreement.
seriesofnonsequiturs replied to your post “yet more goblin emperor wittering don’t worry it’s almost out of my…”
omg that sleeping system bothered me as well!! i’m like dude, on duty for 12 hours does not an effective guard make
I have now had very serious conversations about this on at least three different social media platforms with like five different people, it seems to me that there’s literally nobody who read the book and was like “seems rational” so like. should we start a letter-writing campaign? “we want the nohecharei to unionize”
Although as I pointed out on Dreamwidth in the last iteration of this discussion, I mean, how many shifts are you really going to want in a job where if your coworkers fuck up even during a shift you’re not present for, you’re expected to commit ritual suicide? It’s gonna keep your pool of applicants small, I think. So like. Balance that.
But what gets me– even if you assume they really do nap while the Emperor’s sleeping, so like, ok, if they do an overnight shift every other night, they can get 2-3 hours sleep apiece while he’s out depending on whether they’ll sleep concurrently or not, and while it’s just a light doze, still it’s not like they’re breaking rocks for 12 hours, and if you assume kind of a monk-like devotion to their work where leisure time becomes important, you still run into a separate issue: you want your guard to have good reflexes, right? and good weapons and fighting skills? that means ongoing practice. When is that supposed to happen, when the vast majority of his shift guarding you is spent standing motionless as part of the scenery??? how are they supposed to stay sharp? even if maza skills are largely mental, they need to be fit, and the guards are gonna really suffer if they can’t work out sometimes. so like. When! When is their cardio! I must know.
girderednerve replied to your post “have you read the queen’s thief series? your goblin emperor posting…”
beshelar is So Adorable, oh my gosh, your goblin emperor posting has brought me sheer delight
I don’t know why I’m so into Beshelar but he has accidentally become my Relatable Everyman here. He’s just so… like, he’s an uptight kind of jerk, and I Get That, ok.
This whole fanfic I’ve written has literally 0 Maia POV, I decided that was my weird trope that I was gonna stick with, and so it bounces around but it’s got a lot of dear Beshelar realizing he’s in a little bit over his head and attempting to Deal With It.
Also I just wrote Maia semi-losing his virginity from Csethiro’s POV, and it was enormously satisfying, so. I mean, for me, I don’t know how he felt about it, we haven’t really gotten to the reaction part. (cut for slightly nsfw text, describing a male orgasm, and i love Csethiro because she is a fkn nerd, so this is maybe less sexy than you’d think but she is definitely enjoying herself a lot. no this is just a tiny snippet, i promise the rest will be worth waiting for.) I don’t think I could write it from Maia’s POV, I think he’s so shy he’d fade to black even to describe it to himself. But Csethiro has never really balked from anything in her life and isn’t about to start now.
“Maia,” she said, “Maia, show me how you–”
He cried out and shuddered, his whole body going stiff, and then– in her hand, his entire member pulsed, a fascinating and improbably exciting phenomenon, and she exclaimed in wonder at it, and he shook all over and she discovered, to her fascinated delight, that all the vague descriptions using words like “emit” and “issue” had not really done justice to the phenomenon of ejaculatory male orgasm nearly as efficiently as the lurid novel’s description of a “spurt” had, for his semen emitted at rather a velocity, and what did not wind up caught in her hand splattered in several directions, some of it as far as her breasts.
“Oh, Maia,” she said, approvingly; that made some sense, then, to bridge the gap she’d observed in the anatomical drawings, “that’s–”
He shuddered again and let out a sweet little whimper, and she had to kiss him then, all words forgotten.
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Date: 2019-04-05 11:31 pm (UTC)But your posts about it are REALLY making me want to read it, especially if you're writing fic.
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Date: 2019-04-06 01:19 am (UTC)It's not complicated other than that, really! It's just the honorific titles and that the names are complicated and unfamiliar. (If they were named like, mike and edna and ted, i would not have bounced off them like that, but it would also be not so magical a book, y'dig?)
I haven't posted any fic yet but I'm gonna, oh boy I'm gonna.
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Date: 2019-04-06 02:31 am (UTC)I am super excited for your fic :)