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I literally can’t stop thinking about how much I hate the Yith. I keep trying to read a different story, and I keep failing to concentrate because my mind keeps falling back on all the different reasons I hate the Yith. This is a thing I’ve done before with elves, and angels too. These things just get into my head and refuse to leave for days.

(No wonder so many of my stories, over and over, involve taking characters like elves and angels and grinding down their arrogance into humiliation.)

To explain why I find Trumbull such a profoundly boring character, I’d like to propose the Theory of Linking Fucks. In order for you to give a fuck about someone, they must give a fuck about someone or something. It doesn’t even have to be a thing that you give a fuck about, because the mere recognition of a shared capability of giving a fuck is enough to generate empathy. But Trumbull gives about as many fucks as a particularly mobile brick, and that makes it hard to have a reaction to her other than wishing she would go away.