SCREAMS LOUDLY ABOUT THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!!!! I READ IT TWO WEEKS AGO AND IM STILL NOT OVER IT!!!! POLITICAL FANTASY IS MY JAM!!!!! have you read the traitor baru cormorant?

ISN’T IT GREAT?? ON A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO HUG MAIA??

and no, I have not! I’ll have to check it out!

I started reading The Goblin Emperor at your recommendation and its fucking fantastic, so thank you.

😀 I’m glad you like it!! it’s so impossible not to fall in love with Maia, really.

Ahahsfsfsgsj I can’t believe someone’s in your post scolding you for your tentacle density joke methodology I’m going to die

I KNOW. I am trying SO HARD not to respond snippily but. pip I am being Tested.

…also by several people who are huffy about what they see as my…. apparent criticism of tentacle porn in the TGE fandom. like, friends, did I at any point criticize the tentacles or their purveyors? no, just expressed reasonable bafflement. ffs.

beardbriarandrose:

Harry Napper, Hemlock design, 1899

Source: beardbriarandrose

fafarago:

“March Evening Northland” (1914)

by J. E. H. MacDonald (1873-1932)

I’m reading The Ladies of Grace Adieu and I keep having to pause to yell ‘THAT’S A FAERIE’ at various characters

bunniesandbeheadings:

silver-whistle:

clarab78france:

“La mort de Marat” whitout Jean-Paul Marat

Where is he ?

They managed to get him to A&E this time…

I always thought the French Revolution flew off the rails around the time the zombie apocalypse began

goddamnshinyrock:

goddamnshinyrock:

The Goblin Emperor fandom is little and darling and delightful but, of the 311 fics on ao3, fully 9 of them are tentacle porn. That makes the fanfic 2.89% tentacles by volume for a canon that, iirc, never mentions, alludes to, or otherwise hints at any sort of tentacles whatsoever

why.

just to confirm that these levels of tentacle are atypical, I used the Potter fandom as a control group: of the 171,418 potter fics on ao3, 125 mention tentacles, which is only 0.07%

using the same methodology, the Tentacle Density of Star Trek: The Original Series is only 0.21%, although this researcher would point out that the margin of error increases considerably the more a fandom predates AO3 by, and that percentage could well be higher.

A fandom that can be more closely compared with TGE, Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series (by virtue of being a small fandom centered on contemporary fantasy literature), has only 1 tentacle fic, with an overall Tentacle Density of 0.06%. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, another comparable fandom, also has only 1 tentacle fic, giving it an overall Tentacle Density of 0.15%.

focsle:

Me, proposing to an early 19th century ghost: Will u be my primary source?

guys rec me some contemporary fiction audiobooks! reading The Goblin Emperor got me in the mood for it again (for the first time in… years…) but I’m halfway through The Ladies of Grace Adieu and it was the only other fiction on my to-read list.