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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    1 year ago
    Unjust Depths 9.4 except I got owned by GunslingerSky's superior free time and reading speed. How could this happen!!! The volume of Unjust Depths posting seems to be increasing dramatically though, which is rad.

    Aaliyah is so fucking hardcore about Sieglinde, it’s great. Ulyana is maybe understandably a lot more sympathetic to her, but Aaliyah is rightly all SHE KILLED OUR COMRADES IN THE REVOLUTION, SHE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

    I first saw the Restorative Justice concept discussed in The Last Girl Scout, and it’s still really refreshing to me. Like IMO, if Aaliyah or Khajida just straight up slit her throat, it would be brutal and kind of pointless, indeed it wouldn’t serve justice as Aaliyah says, but I’d find it kind of hard to blame them. But no, instead our hard-assed commie captain and commissar happily hear her out. So much for bloodthirsty tankies… shrug-outta-hecks

    It’s a great moment for Sieglinde too, it’s hard not to be sympathetic to her. I mean she wasn’t literally as child soldier but she was basically groomed for combat, under threat of not being accepted by her adopted family. She’s also a little more based than I had expected, describing the leadership as “greedy Imperial landlords”, lol.

    Sieglinde needs a hug, big time…

    Also CAPTAIN ULYANA IS ON HER WAY INTO UN-FUMBLE TOWN kel-bliss It’s so adorable & funny when Aaliyah folds her ears and her tail shakes a bit, like dawwwwww you fucking dorky cat! She has a soft center actually, and Ulyana absolutely must be getting close to repairing things.

    However, it had a nice boozy bite to it, and it would certainly fuck her up.

    And getting fucked up was all she wanted in that moment, inshallah.

    KHAJIDA ❤ and then immediately KHAJIDA OH NO, now I feel bad for Sieglinde, rip. Not like it’s unexpected though…

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      i read through unjust depths in about 2 weeks, but that was more than 6 months ago and i was extremely unemployed

      yeah! it’s all so good. the way they discuss it and let it all play out is great. they’re going to hear her out, and they don’t TRUST her but they’re willing to give her that chance. i fucking love all the sieglinde stuff. she’s got pretty clear eyes about what the empire was and what she was doing, she just didn’t see any alternative until now. khadija’s reaction at the end of the chapter was great, i feel SO bad for sieglinde

      and yesss!!! ulyana is unfumbling the bag! they are firmly in friend territory at this point, they are on very good terms and clearly ulyana has been mostly forgiven. love them so much. wait you’ve read 9.5 at this point! you’ve seen their scene there!!! 9.5 100% in the running for best chapter, just great to see all the relationship stuff there. i love the blood drinking, the roommates, the regular drinking, elena reading theory, shalikova trying to ask about psionics. it’s all so good

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        21 year ago
        the best is yet to cooome

        We love our commie crewmates, don’t we folks?! I’m so glad for Sieglinde, I feel the worst is behind her now. Unlike Gertrude she can shed loserdom. Even if she has to get bitch-slapped by a cat :3

        Oh she’s doing so fucking good. Yes, I am currently cooking a colossal 9.5 analysis, look out for it, holy shit.

        • Cromalin [she/her]M
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          21 year ago
          the best IS yet to come

          sieglinde is doing so much better, it really makes me happy to see. she kinda deserves the slap, but she also deserves a hug (hopefully from the same cat :3)

          yeah!!! i am!!!