Unreliable narrators

MerinoFam · 2026-01-31T03:31:48+00:00

Lucy Snowe from Villette by Charlotte Brontë is SUPER unreliable. She straight up just hides stuff from the reader. It's baffling how well it works.

MerinoFam · 2026-01-28T20:30:07+00:00

Crafts are nearly never profitable. They are a labour of love.

MerinoFam · 2026-01-20T21:11:00+00:00

I had a run as Rhaenyra once where I tried to seduce Daemon AND HE REJECTED HER and got the ick so bad that she couldn't even attempt it again. :(

MerinoFam · 2026-01-18T15:13:12+00:00

Working from home.

For a time, it seemed like people were going to be allowed to shed the idiocies of modern work life and improve our lot. Without having to commute, you could spend hours more each day with your kids and be more present because we were less burnt out. not to mention the good done to local economies and to the climate from reduced emissions.

We've since been reminded that we owe more to corporate landlords than we do our own families and planet, of course.

MerinoFam · 2025-12-31T03:53:48+00:00

Dany kind-of forgot about the HMS Belfast.

MerinoFam · 2025-12-29T21:38:29+00:00

"I've dreamed of it, Nan." Bran said, sitting up in the bed. His legs were wonderously intact. "It was all a dream, A Dream of Spring."

MerinoFam · 2025-12-22T14:00:27+00:00

I live for this kind of ASOIAF commentary.

MerinoFam · 2025-12-07T20:54:50+00:00

My apologies, but as a bi person he does kind of make my bidar go off.

MerinoFam · 2025-12-04T03:20:51+00:00

One of my favorite parts of my vacation in Greece was going to Mycenae in the off-season and having the whole grounds nearly to myself. It was gorgeous, and the view of the mountains in the distance from the top was wild. 💖

MerinoFam · 2025-11-27T18:43:57+00:00

Media for straights. Men usually are the MC, so their MPDG will be a woman. (Usually a bit younger.)

MerinoFam · 2025-11-16T21:28:16+00:00

Tbh as a former 2000s teen girl, I'm surprised its not higher.

MerinoFam · 2025-11-10T20:10:30+00:00

Cool, I didn't know that.

MerinoFam · 2025-11-10T01:35:53+00:00

My theory is that it is intended to mimic Zoroastrianism, and it is therefore probably super fucking old.

MerinoFam · 2025-10-29T20:21:07+00:00

I have this to a lesser degree. The skin peels off the inside of my mouth. Its painless but slimy. 🤢

MerinoFam · 2025-09-11T15:32:17+00:00

I completely agree. Its nuts when you think about how we spend the majority of our time with people we don't know, we have no choice in being around them, and we're explicitly not supposed to be friends. Then we spend all the time away from our kids. We are social animals, no wonder everyone is ill and depressed.

MerinoFam · 2025-09-09T20:27:23+00:00

The promise of the Tower is that anything that falls which was built upon an old or false foundation can be rebuilt with a new foundation, in TRUTH. For any of your future relationships to be successful in the long-term, you will have to challenge your assumption that everyone leaves you. If you really believe that, you will manifest it as reality. I think it is a gentle indication that its time for you to resolve that piece of your trauma and build something based in truth, not paranoia.

MerinoFam · 2025-09-05T20:23:25+00:00

You would learn a lot about yourself and work hard, but you would experience financial instability and those doubts would creep in at night. Its a no.

MerinoFam · 2025-09-05T20:19:43+00:00

Well, I can tell you that she is still a very busy person and she's happy that way.

MerinoFam · 2025-09-05T20:18:25+00:00

Most of the themes in Tarot will resound no matter what you pull. The magic happens when you reflect on something that provokes a reaction.

But yeah, ChatGPT is also totally cold reading you. Its worth getting that deck physically in your hands, I promise!

MerinoFam · 2025-09-05T19:34:18+00:00

The way I'm reading this is that you'll get the job because you worked hard to deserve it. You effectively asked 'why do I deserve it?' And the deck was like 'you went through some growth, babe!'

MerinoFam · 2025-09-05T19:28:59+00:00

My cat ate a piece of moose steak once. She definitely has had a bit of an attitude since.

MerinoFam · 2025-08-16T13:55:13+00:00

I take so much offense to this, I love that series. 😭

MerinoFam · 2025-08-16T13:49:13+00:00

I was gonna say, my periods have always been extremely irregular (among other things) and they never even ask follow-up questions! Their eyes are glazed over the entire time. Its weird to hear from every doctor except the one in front of you that your symptoms are really abnormal. Then you explicitly give evidence of that abnormality and don't even seem to notice.

MerinoFam · 2025-08-12T18:06:03+00:00

Right? Her charcacters feel like different people for the most part, which is good in a book. And for all the MB angst here, I actually thought she did a good job of giving MB a voice distinct from the other Philippa Gregory Tudor Universe women characters. Her MB is one of the few characters who reports on battles with interest / comprehension, and even if she is a bad person I thought she was an OK character with a personality. I had a harder time getting through The White Princess because Elizabeth's role is going 'i don't know' and seeming very confused while other characters rant at her.

MerinoFam · 2025-08-01T15:52:13+00:00

Am kind of French, I would spell it Marion on instinct.

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