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Saaame its my yearly winter game! That and vintage story

with the curtains and the lamp it genuinely feels like they were making a reference/callback damn

Yea! As I said, i don't mind the tropes in themselves, but I felt like Le Guin was just starting to play with them in the first book, and having the first book along with all the others makes it so much better to me, because of how it evolves later.

Despite it being less mature and falling into the trope of the standard masculine protag that goes to magic school and is kinda the chosen one, already at the time she was putting a lot of tropes on their heads and deconstructing a lot, but it only gets better!

Like yea I didn't mind the tropey nature of the protag by the end because the story isn't what you expect. He fucks up in a major way and has to heal himself to fix things, his internal feelings are very well described. From what I remember I didn't like the position/writing of women in the first one but the second one is literally centered around women and I found it incredible

France is typically machine a laver. Might vary by region tho

Actually nevermind I know people who use lave-linge but I associate it as old fashioned for some reason

Its funny having French as your native tongue and having internalised all that. Like obviously a machine is feminine.

It can make for fun play on words, imagery and parallels, but it also sucks ass for neutral or degendered language..

The earthsea series as a whole is insanely good. The growth of recurring characters over the books, as Le Guin herself went through decades of her life and was able to approach femininity and masculinity through a different lens later, is really special as well.

I would love to have your thoughts on each book, and on the series! I can never have enough thoughts about Earthsea.

Gel also works for mono and I really find it convenient, but not available everywhere.

WSWS as a source genuinely should be banned. Absolutely worthless.

WSWS article lmao. Utter garbage trot website with shit takes that are either anticommunist or ultra, and never useful.

I'm getting disappointed in some comrades on this site ngl.

Yea given the effects I've already had (plenty of breast growth for example), and the fact I can achieve this with just gel, I'm very happy here tbh

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