you open the mystery book. The experience is odd in that it feels like you are there, watching, though not entirely immersed in it; you can feel impressions of what it would have felt like, though.
[ wow this sure is from zero to BARKBARKBARKBARK real fucking quick.
time to just slam open the rest of these. if they open all of them fast enough then surely there will be too much at once for any single one of them to make them so angry they just start eating books. ]
Somewhere while you're doing that, there's a clatter, and out of the corner of your hearing, you think you hear a childlike giggle and the pitter-patter of footsteps. But if you turn to look—there's no one there.
that last one is pretty bleak but who among us has not suffered the tragedy of war and the invocation of our deities for the sole benefit of those in power? also, small Miaoshan is cute.
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Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID 19TH CENTURY
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you open the mystery book. The experience is odd in that it feels like you are there, watching, though not entirely immersed in it; you can feel impressions of what it would have felt like, though.
What it felt like...
...........is bad.
Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID 19TH CENTURY
time to just slam open the rest of these. if they open all of them fast enough then surely there will be too much at once for any single one of them to make them so angry they just start eating books. ]
Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID 19TH CENTURY
But also, slamming open the rest of these—indicates that you got the worst one here out of the way. This one is handwritten in childish script and has little doodled illustrations; Influence of Gender Equality Norms on Childhood Aspirations, Late 19th Cen is familiar, and Power Struggles in Qing Dynasty China, Mid 19th Cen is just... a bit bleak.
Re: PRIMARY SOURCES: MID 19TH CENTURY
that last one is pretty bleak but who among us has not suffered the tragedy of war and the invocation of our deities for the sole benefit of those in power? also, small Miaoshan is cute.
moving on, ]