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Season 5 Episode 12 of Buffy. Waiting for the sword throw.

Me: forgets that I requested this from the LGBTQ category
Also me: "wow, she's *super* observant of other women." 💀

I'm sorry, Rhysand who?

I'm sorry, Rhysand who?

46% through the third book and we finally have an offhand mention of a queer person! 🎉 Representation only rivaled by End Game! 🏳️‍🌈

Feyre is boring and Nesta is the worst

Omg it's okay to just call people by their names or pronouns. It doesn't always have to be "mate," or their sex, or their eye color, or their hair color, or their title. Ughhhhhh.

This whole book is a thinly veiled metaphor for capitalist exploitation and I'm not mad about it 🤷

"This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.”

"Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in."

"Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion — until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation."

"... but knowing it would be given, not sold, I decided I could do without. It's funny. Had all the things in the market merely been a very low price, I probably would have scooped up as much as I could. But when everything became a gift, I felt self-restraint. I didn't want to take too much."

Ope, definitely check the content warnings before delving into this one.

"You must teach me someday how you do that,” he said, “the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing.”

“It’s a female thing,” she said.