Tak! quoted David Mogo by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Content warning chapter 33
Shonuga creams for her men to retreat, retreat, […]
That's … an interesting tactic
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Content warning chapter 33
Shonuga creams for her men to retreat, retreat, […]
That's … an interesting tactic
Too many people try to touch me even when I make it clear that I do not want to be touched.
same
Content warning chapter 21 spoiler
My first thought for "the place where iron lives" was a laundromat
The Nigerian Army Shopping Arena was one of the most guarded shopping complexes of Oshodi in its heyday.
As someone who's unfamiliar with Nigeria and Lagos, there's a lot for me to unpack in this sentence
The Tainted Cup is very much a fantasy Holmes novel, where a labyrinthine mystery is being solved by an almost supernaturally skilled investigator and their lovable but hapless assistant, through whose viewpoint the story is being presented.
The setting is delightfully weird, much more like Divine Cities than Founders, with elements of existential/apocalyptic threat and imperialism.
I'm looking forward to more in this universe.
This is going to be a bad job.
And when the Empire is weak, it is often because a powerful few have denied us the abundance of our people.
What a tool cynicism is to the corrupt, claiming the whole of the creation is broken and fraudulent, and thus we are all excused to indulge in whatever sins we wish—for what’s a little more unfairness, in this unfair world?
“I’m as civil as a magistrate,” she said.
Have you felt any curious flickering sensations when you defecate, perhaps?
So instead of committing robbery, I made tea.
A "why not both‽" moment
That seems a good way to invite more hell into my life, when I already have hell aplenty.
That's the problem with figuring shit out—eventually you run into someone who’d prefer all their shit remained thoroughly unfigured.
“They don’t like to put numbers to it,” she said. “Numbers would make everyone worry.”
I said nothing. For there is nothing worth saying when you are being forced into a pit of horrors.