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this book is actually kinda fun when it stops trying to justify itself and just lets itself be two broken terrible people trying to find a crumb of happiness amid their shit reality

'"(...) a new set of manacles."' omg she put a stupid mythology gag in her published fanfic

see this book has some good scenes and some well written stuff in it and then between it is a whole bunch of bullshit. essentially.

HOLY ORIENTALISM BATMAN

"Paladins were as intrinsic as the Holdfasts in the history and tapestry of the nation. The country was named for them, in acknowledgement of their vital role in the first Necromancy War." thats actually so incredibly stupid LMAO

"(...) cut from my womb." okay so every 12th century saint has womb envy

kaine randomly switches from being a vivimancer to an animancer or i think he's both. either way, it's not established and the way it's done is super sloppy, like sen straight up just tossed it in there bcos she forgot to do it earlier

eh

senlinyu saying she built a 'unique' alchemy system then defaults to early medieval physic misunderstanding of the human body "men are hot and dry and women are cold and wet" while not egregious in and of itself--i love sexism explored in media, it doesn't actually feel like she's DOING ANYTHING with it

wait the protag might actually be about to have an epiphany abt moral ambiguity... but i will not hold my breath

resonance resonance evil wombs the faith the faith EVIL!!! [something interesting] necrothrall resonance ontological evil resonance

chosen one blessed by the gods blah blah blah faction of generic evil atheists who actually point out that the church is regressive and eugenicist bUT THAT DOESNT MATTER BCOS THEYRE EEEVVVIIILLLL AND LOOK AT ALL THEIR EEEVVILLL CRIMES!!!!

"Breasts, to Bernard, are a symbol of the pouring out toward others of affectivity or of instruction (...) of prelates or abbots." SURE! WHY NOT?

"Paul, mother... lay then your dead son at the feet of Christ, your mother, for he is her son." 'your dead son' being a reference to the soul of a sinner and jesus, who was said to have died on the cross for humanity's sins the same way a mother might die in childbirth for her baby ANSELM OF CANTERBURY FIRST FEMINIST MISOGYNIST

ofc the absolutely enraging way medieval men talk abt women is still present esp when anselm objects to the so-called "mother" in god bcos men are 'superior' BUT THEN goes on to recite prayer and speak on the mother within jesus and paul... "mothers to the soul"

okay finally something interesting...

"It didn’t matter whether theologically iron was classified as celestially inferior; (...)" yeah so this sentence encapsulates a lot of the problems i have w this book's wooden writing so far. why tf is the mc talking like this? this is a highly religious environment, isnt it? wtf is she talking about stating iron's supposed spiritually infirmity as 'theologically, erm erm' bro its YOUR theology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'lead for Saturn, tin for Jupiter, iron for Mars, copper for Venus,
quicksilver for Mercury, silver for Luna, lumithium for Lumithia, and gold
for Sol.' say it with me folks, CHANGING THE NAME OF EARTH BUT NOT THE REST OF THE PLANETS ACTUALLY MAKES YOUR WORLDBUILDING WORSE

there ARE some interesting concepts extant within the text however locked tomb did them better

beautiful writing and curiosity currently the only thing keeping me from dnfing bcos the plot is written specifically to piss me off