Notices by Lord Guysbert de Fieri (inspectorcaracal@tootplanet.space), page 18

@aldersprig how about "AUTISTIC CHILDREN NEED RESPECT NOT THERAPY"

In Summary:

if you think that what autistic children need most is to be taught how to behave appropriately, you are wrong

what they ACTUALLY need is recognition that two of the fundamental aspects of autism are a reduced ability to self-regulate stress and to communicate

and that any autistic people will need outside accommodation and assistance, AND consciously learned skills to accommodate for both.

*breathes*

for the record, if you are concerned: I was raised in a pretty dysfunctional family but I was not abused, even in objective retrospective comparison to all cases of abuse that I know of.

"WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN" PEOPLE SHOUT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE HOLDING HANDS WHILE THEY PAY MONEY FOR SO-CALLED DOCTORS TO EMOTIONALLY ABUSE ACTUAL CHILDREN

WHY NOT PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FUCKING CHILDREN NEED INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN COMFORT FOR GODDAMN ONCE YOU ENTITLED SHITHOLES OF FAILURES OF PARENTS I HATE ALL OF YOU

@aldersprig oh no now I've biased you and the experiment is ruined, lol

@aldersprig you are not obligated to find the same things interesting as I do <.<

@aldersprig i also think that he strikes a really good balance between world-building details and using existing assumption frameworks to build his setting without really putting the focus on it, so the stuff is *there* and it's interesting but you aren't left confused about what the heck that is or left with pressing unanswered questions that distract from the main stories

and that the stories might have far-ranging scope of effects but are all very human-level in actual narrative scope.

@aldersprig you could say a lot of things? >.> i am unsure what you are asking me

@aldersprig i also enjoy that everyone in the books is constantly engaging in sarcastic banter but it doesn't detract from the actual emotional and relationship ties that come into play which is important as those ties both complicate the political elements and are complicated by them in turn

@aldersprig i mean "political intrigue" is one of the things I like about the books a lot as well, but it's like, it read as standard-level political intrigue in terms of depth and complexity, just very well executed and with a big dose of literal backstabbing

@aldersprig huh

.... huh!

that's interesting, i wouldn't have called the politics notably "deep".

@aldersprig locke lamora is excellent

@aldersprig what were your favorite bits of Jhereg?

(clarification, I mean, elements of the book/story, not quotes or passages)

@aldersprig can't believe the second book I thought to put on the list was the one I forgot to actually put on the list

@aldersprig i feel like a good, if not thoroughly assessed, cross-section of Books I Think Are Really Great is:

- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Artemis Fowl
- Sherlock Holmes canon short stories
- The Ship Who Searched
- Claws of the Cat
- Phule's Company
- Jhereg (or any other Vlad Taltos I've read so far tbh)

@aldersprig *whispers* those are authors, not books

@aldersprig or we can also just ignore the stuff we haven't read for twenty years since that's more relevant for the discussion anyway ;P

@aldersprig are we talking liked or "this book was great!!" for this list

@aldersprig everyone: "there's just one?"