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Different anon who just finished it – the end was deeply satisfying as a conclusion to the read. IMO Muir laid it out well in the lead up (multiple huge hints) so it wasn’t a GOT idiot twist but natural progression of the story/their partnership. Yea i want the sequel now and just preordered but after reading a bunch of youthful fantasy romcoms (like the of fire and stars sequel), this was a really nice palate cleanser. Looking back, the ending is pretty well hinted at in the book summary!

Again, so sorry for the lateness of this reply! I’d like to pretend it was because I was worried about spoilers, but that was like 5% of it, the rest of it was just…you know. Me getting distracted by other things.

Still gonna put the rest under a cut:

I’m glad you liked it but I have to disagree with that, anon! Kind of. I never claimed it was a GOT level ending, but it still didn’t make a lot of sense to me. These endings never do, the whole point is that they’re strongly hinted at, or straight up predicted or prophesied but THEN they get subverted. And GIVEN how many small pieces of Gideon’s unfinished story we had, her mom, the other Gideon, the fact that she wasn’t killed by that one draining technique Harrow used or the poison (was that what killed all the other kids of the Ninth? Whatever that was). there’s clearly a lot left of her story and I imagine we’ll either get Harrow investigating it or Gideon back in some form in the sequel anyway, but in either case, I didn’t love it.

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I just finished memory of empire. Whew it took me forever to get thru the first like 50 pages, but it was a good read once it got going. But!!!! The ending left me so sad!!! I loved the dynamic bt Mahit/Three Seagrass the entire story, but then the ending was disappointing for me. Asdfghjkl. There’s a sequel tho, right? I need more. And Three Seagrass embroiled in whatever comes next. I thought I was getting ride-or-die vibes the whole book lol. Thanks for the rec.

Ah, as always, sorry this took so long. Still making my way through all these, although who knows if people even care about the answers at this point. 

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The ending did feel abrupt! But I saw it as setting up the sequel. I can’t imagine that Three Grass isn’t going to feature in it? But I don’t even know what the sequel will be about. It’s been a while since I read Memory of Empire but she was returning to her home but there was still unease, right, some mystery power outside their border and capable of threatening the whole empire? So surely she’ll be back with the main Teixcalaan powers at some point. You don’t keep the POV character away from important Events. Unless they change the POV character… 

I don’t remember so much from the first book, I’m going to have to reread it before the sequel comes out…all the way next year. It got delayed all the way from March 2020 to March 2021. 😡

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Do you take requests for gifs? If not i totally understand, you’re already doing everyone such a great service and put out lot of high quality content

Thanks! Um, that’s such a loaded question, heh. In theory, yessss? But in practice, that usually ends up me going, hmm, I’ll totally do that, putting it on my list, and then never getting to it. I’m much more likely to make something if it’s for a fandom I’m currently already giffing for and it’s already something on my mind and the request was very clear and well, kind of easy. >_>

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Hi you don’t have to post this lol but i’m really happy you feel that way with portrait of a lady on fire because as you said i’m really happy people liked it but un-happy or bittersweet endings are not my thing and after i watched it i was a little sad and let down with it bust so many people say they love the movie …. anyway i”m just happy i’m not the only one who feel this way lol

Hi, I hope you don’t mind me publishing this, but I just want to say, no problem. 🙂 

I understand so much that need for validation from others’ opinions, is anyone a bigger people pleaser than me? Heh. Or being influenced by them to the point where you feel you’re missing out if you don’t enjoy one of the few widely accepted Good things we get, but I think the older you get, the more you’ll be willing to say, well, too bad, but that’s not for me. You’ll find out what things you like and don’t like and why and decide yourself if you even want to try them. 

That’s not to say that I think one should stay in a total rut, I do need to push myself out of my comfort zone more, or not interrogate why I like what I like at all (for example, oh, what a coincidence, I only like media with thin white people, I’m sure there’s no reason for that or any need to branch out), but you know, it’s entertainment at the end of the day and I know what I love, what I tolerate, and what I don’t like. And endings are freaking vital to me.

I place so much value on the future story and togetherness, the experience itself is not enough for me. (Portrait fans, you don’t need to explain to me how it’s actually only bittersweet or even a happy ending through a particular lens, I totally accept that it’s a wonderful, moving, poetic work of art with layers and beauty and introspection and if one has the mildest inclination to watch, they absolutely should, my friend who agrees with me 95% of the time on endings LOVED it, so I totally get that it can work.) I don’t even like stories where you get an epilogue where you find out the couple lived happily ever after for decades and then died together at like 100. No! I want the potential for more! It’s that important to me. Which, I’m realizing this moment, is probably why I prefer not just TV shows to movies, but continuing TV shows to completed ones…but that’s a different conversation. 

You can always ask me to validate you, anon, and yeah, it feels especially isolating when it seems like everyone is into something you’re not, but having the freedom to have your own preferences is like one of the best parts about consuming media. Don’t feel guilty about not enjoying something as you should, or like you’re in the wrong for a different reaction. ^_^

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So I’ve not seen this new Terminator movie (or any full Terminator movie tbh) and I don’t want to. I just wanna watch your gifs and pretend it is an action movie with a WLW love story at its core. Because honestly after looking at your gifs how was this movie not a WLW love story???? Look at those gazes, those touches, the gentleness! Ugh I wish we could get the movie I imagine lol.

I knowwww! It would have been so perfect! It doesn’t take much at all to see it, right? It really–okay, I know I’m biased toward that, obviously, what else am I going to say, but I do actually still love the first and second movies, and they didn’t have any subtext, I can appreciate a plain good story. It hurt the movie to have these two similar age women forced into these roles, when it could have just done what came naturally. It had to work to no-homo a dynamic that was already established as romantic in the first movie. 

I think what gets me about it so much is that what better time would there have been than now? What are these big franchises waiting for? These little background characters, that’s not progress, it’s not an actual step forward until it’s a significant part of these movies. And this franchise in particular, built on Sarah Connor, casting two more women as the new leads, why not? What would it have cost them to go all the way and just make it a love story? The people they’re afraid of already didn’t want to watch, they didn’t like that it was so female-centric and had a Latina lead and didn’t portray border patrol sympathetically. They could have done it and really stood out and be remembered forever and set a new standard.

All the same, I am glad and super grateful that Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes absolutely played up the knight/queen dynamic and gave us this much. I’ve actually not yet really dipped my toe into the fic, but I probably will get into it once I’ve fully ~experienced~ the HD movie and extras.

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One of the things I love the most about DF is that The difference between Dani and Jhon is that Jhon lead the resistance; Dani won the war.

Well, not to defend a Man, but John did win the war too. 😛 

The first terminator was sent back as a last ditch effort AFTER Skynet was already defeated, to prevent a future in which John was born and would lead the resistance to victory. And Dani, I guess does something similar, with the Rev-9 sent back in the same way (all these damn parallels and they think I’m not gonna treat Grace/Dani like Reese/Sarah). In a way, what Sarah did was perhaps the biggest victory of all, putting off the war entirely, and if these movies didn’t have to continue being made, maybe there’s a timeline where she and John are genuinely relaxing and having fun.

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I still haven’t watched terminator dark fate but I still want to know, is there something btw Dani and Grace ?

Unfortunately, there is not. A cause of great grief to me, even more so that they try to sell it as a surrogate mother role. More maternalzoning. -_- 

But it doesn’t play like that in the interactions we see, the way Grace treats Dani, there’s loyalty and protectiveness and even reverence, but it doesn’t ever seem like that kind of familial love? I dunno. You can go either way, I think.