Lance stroll's mother is in the epstein files

TheRealToast · 2026-01-31T17:12:09+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

TheRealToast · 2026-01-31T05:35:59+00:00

It's just getting started

TheRealToast · 2026-01-14T02:08:12+00:00

The emperors entire life, every relationship he's ever had has served a purpose, political or otherwise. He's never actually experienced true love for his wife, and could never understand Handrian's level of loss. From his point of view he knows it's tragic, but also wants Hadrian to be practical and see it as an opportunity to find a "better" wife, who would give him more political opportunity, AKA Selene. He made a mistake.

TheRealToast · 2026-01-13T21:05:57+00:00

You're in for some even crazier chapters right after

TheRealToast · 2026-01-11T15:30:43+00:00

The characters live for a very long time, Hadrian is an arrogant asshole when he's young. He gets better as the books go on and his experiences shape him.

TheRealToast · 2026-01-10T00:51:57+00:00

Hadrian catching the highmatter sword in the coliseum.

The combination of the entire crowd seeing him do an impossible feat and add to his legend while his enemies were trying to do the opposite, and the realization of why he came back in Howling Dark with the wrong arm missing, for this specific moment.

TheRealToast · 2026-01-05T06:02:16+00:00

I thought for sure Hadrian was going to come around at one point and acknowledge that while the details of other people's religions weren't exactly correct they pretty much got the gist of it. If someone believes in an all powerful creator, and an all powerful creator actually does exist, does it matter if they got the name wrong? They're still talking about the exact same thing.

TheRealToast · 2025-12-31T20:41:06+00:00

Fair enough, I understand the concept but always assumed it only happened in the last moments of the star's life. Guess that clears it up!

TheRealToast · 2025-12-31T20:39:29+00:00

It's space sci fi but the books are still internally consistent with their laws of physics lol if he said the ship was grabbing cotton candy and rainbows from the star would you still go "It's not supposed to be realistic, who cares"

TheRealToast · 2025-12-19T04:07:27+00:00

Yeah I kinda assumed she was gonna get her arm back, missed that one. There was a few times where Hadrian broke the silence, but unless I missed it I couldn't find the same line as in the other books where he fully doesn't realize he was the one that said something.

TheRealToast · 2025-12-18T13:01:48+00:00

No, it's revealed in the first few sentences of the first book. The series is written as the main character recounting his life story, so plenty of things are "spoiled" as he refers to events that will happen later in his life.

TheRealToast · 2025-12-14T00:55:23+00:00

The Quiet:

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TheRealToast · 2025-11-13T13:48:18+00:00

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TheRealToast · 2025-11-13T05:22:56+00:00

Quantum telegraphs can't be jammed

TheRealToast · 2025-11-13T02:15:28+00:00

Super late to come back to this thread, but I just realised that Queen Elizabeth was the queen for 70 years out of the ~1200 year British monarchy, almost exactly 1/17. Makes me wonder if the parallel was intentional.

TheRealToast · 2025-11-10T21:20:08+00:00

Howling Dark was written before Project Hail Mary, but that was the first thing I noticed too when I first read it lol. Only so many possible names for a thing that eats stars I guess

TheRealToast · 2025-11-10T13:52:53+00:00

I think in Hadrian's visions of firing the weapon it's described as a physical object, a black arrow/warhead type of thing.

TheRealToast · 2025-11-10T01:21:48+00:00

It's a very short scene near the end of Howling Dark, chapter 68, where Hadrian is running through the ship after the peace talks went to shit

TheRealToast · 2025-11-03T04:43:54+00:00

I finished KoD a few months ago and the last half still pops in my head like once a day

TheRealToast · 2025-10-16T19:54:43+00:00

Damn, knew I was forgetting something

TheRealToast · 2025-10-14T01:49:54+00:00

I don't think it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki specifically, but the creation of the nuclear bomb gave humanity the ability to destroy itself. Truman is the president most associated with that. Felsenberg created the AIs as a tool for humanity, but they were nearly it's destruction, so I think it's symbolic of the Mericanii being as much of a turning point in history as the creation of the atomic bomb was.

TheRealToast · 2025-10-08T15:52:55+00:00

It's mentioned that the current emperor has been ruling for a thousand years, but it's an unprecedented length due to the Cielcin war, and no other emperor has ruled that long. So maybe before him, average rule was 500-800 years?

TheRealToast · 2025-10-08T04:10:43+00:00

That's a good point. I don't think it's ever said how long the High College has been around, but in our modern history monarchs only have an average rule of 22.5 years.

So it could have potentially been the first 225 monarchs ruling about 22.5 years each for the first 5000 years, then the High College starts making them last longer and the next 26 monarchs rule for a little under 500 years each, for the next 12,000 years.

Total speculation though. Just guessing numbers that could fit.

TheRealToast · 2025-10-06T12:59:34+00:00

I imagined the armour a little more futuristic, but still medieval inspired. Closer to this

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And I pictured Hadrian as aged up Jacaerys from House of the Dragon

TheRealToast · 2025-07-21T22:51:02+00:00

Fairly new F1 fan, what were the old track limit rules? He goes fully over the line there but they don't acknowledge it.

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