(saw someone criticize jasmine as a "confusing mix of arabian and indian" and I'm like. yeah that's. because it's clearly like a fantasy mughal setting you walnut)

wow that is balls? I'm so sorry lane, that's so frustrating

like, I am not a fan of bookthreads but this was a blow up on both sides bc her fanbase really loves infantilizing elyse and got mad that anyone said she did something wrong

she actually responded to multiple reviews of people talking about her book on threads! and then the book community there was like, hey please don't do that, and then her fanbase blew up and did what they do best - insist that elyse is just a smol bean uwu

yes!!!!!!!!!! I'm banging on my desk in agreement

astrologers are in the unenviable position of studying a real system that was produced thousands of years ago, cannot actually be demonstrated in satisfying numerical way, requires deep familiarity with history and spirituality *and* sound thinking, and absolutely cannot be explained easily to most

also I had forgotten how irritatingly posh brit tobias menzies is, in his voice and in his face, down to the way he moves his facial muscles. like good gods man the way I know you went to some posh boarding school for boys only

anyway caesarion is caesar's son and I'll die on this hill

idk I just find it interesting, the way we choose to tell these stories. what it reveals about the teller.

also I'm not over the base calumny leveled at cleopatra, one of the most politically astute women of her age in an age of politically astute women! how DARE

there is also of course the depiction of atia, which pretty clearly has smushed atia and fulvia together - fulvia of course being a very politically canny woman who was the wife of marcus antonius! and therefore unforgivably and ontologically evil in this narrative

@gnosticskald.bsky.social this all happened because of that one tiny yorkie mix named chuco