The Empress Theresa Iceberg Explained!

Get a cup of coffee and hang out as we go through the Empress Theresa Iceberg! Norman Boutin's masterpiece is the gift that keeps on giving.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
This one of a kind story is a great gift for a teenager. An 18 year old girl gets enormous power over the whole world. What will she do with it? Theresa is honest, courageous, brilliant, loved by everybody ( even China wants her to take herself out of danger ), happily married, powerful but harmless, thoughtful of others' welfare not just her own, a believer in God, and an inspiration to the young and old. She attacks "impossible" problems with everything she's got and she never gives up. [sic]
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[@jamesrobbins1243]

None of us has any excuse anymore for not writing that book we've always wanted to write.

[@sbu_englishclub]

It's a hard, hard thing to do. But if this book proves anything, it's that it can be done, and even if it fails to be good, it can still be fun. For all its faults, ET has given me hours and hours of entertainment. Every author should be so lucky

[@nova3752]

Stick to video games, you're too much of a soft doughboy to write even a novella

[@bluetiger2468]

True! I've encountered a lot of people who come up with excuses for why they can't write/draw the story they want to make. I always tell them, "Do you know what's worse than creating something bad? Creating nothing."

[@Blissteen_BB]

genuinely watching a review of Empress Theresa made me start a notion page for my story

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

So many times this book makes you internally scream "Thats not how that works! Thats not how anything works!!"

[@molnet999]

"lack of mountains in the middle east" is even dumber because there are plenty of mountains

[@tartarsocks]

As someone who has never read this book but has heard of it only thought the grapevine about how insane the author is, this video was an insane ride. I don't think I could have ever prepared to here the sentence "I think this probably comes up in the North Korea Arc too" brought up so casually in the first thing on the iceberg. Amazing

[@Grace-tg4oy]

RE: Joan of Arc's hair: Catholics have a reverence for the body parts of saints as well as items they were directly associated with. They're called relics. So Teresa having Joan of Arc's hair would be very significant. Also there is the belief that saints do not decompose after death so Joan of Arc's hair even being around is proof of her sainthood that I imagine the author really wants to show due to his beliefs and fixation. I was never Catholic but my dad was so correct me if I'm wrong also this is a very simplified explanation.

[@burmiester1]

Only some saints are incorrupt but yeah you're correct otherwise.

[@sbu_englishclub]

Great cultural context! If only it was used even slightly in the book 😭😭

[@Dylan_Devine]

Everything you said about relics is true, but that's not why it's in the book. Norm wrote an essay years ago trying to prove that Joan of Arc died of smoke and not burning, and he included this whole hair thing to prove that she wasn't burned and have it validated by his own fictional characters. Which is also just completely and historically wrong, not to mention anti-Catholic.

[@chansesturm7103]

@@Dylan_Devine I'll be honest, this isn't the first book that's done something like this, but parts of this book, without knowing anything about the author himself, feel like a North American _Protestant_ writing and exoticizing or even fetishizing Catholicism. (Especially since Theresa's a "good Catholic girl" who he's clearly keen on depicting as beautiful.) But, upon reading his Goodreads page, he's been attending a Catholic church since 2011, though that was the year _after_ he finished the first draft of Empress Theresa and nine years after the infamous Joan d'Arc article he wrote. As far as I can tell, though I could be wrong, there's no mention of him being raised Catholic or converting to Catholicism later in life on that profile, so that's a mystery to me. However, he considers himself "Franco-American" and grew up during a period of particular disdain for French folk, so it really feels like a lot of this stuff could be born out of a kind of French nationalism (as in an obsession with and pride in the French people and their history, not necessarily the modern country of France itself). Maybe I'm overthinking this particular angle, but these are thoughts that have been floating around in my head ever since I listened to the SBU English Club's podcast on the book.

[@olookslike0]

Even though it's a book that should be forgotten, I'm so glad whenever someone, especially my favorite book club, covering it again. So much to say about it, it just keeps coming back.

[@sbu_englishclub]

Maybe we’re just suckers for outsider art

[@olookslike0]

@@sbu_englishclub it’s outsider art for sure, tho I hesitate to put Norman on the same level as Henry Darger. Still, being able to appreciate someone’s writing, even this specific piece of writing, is core to the club so I respect that.

[@gunmunz]

I'm just waiting for the 372 pages podcast to cover it.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The joan of ark thing is part of normans obsession/fetish. He wrote a way too long essay about how she died of heat stroke before the fire reached her (wich of course ignores all laws of thermo dynamics) with his final point being, and i quote "now we can think about joan without feeling sad"

[@sbu_englishclub]

This part of the whole norm lore thing is the most baffling to me. No offense to Catholics, but there is no way Joan is that important. So where did he get this weird obsession from?

[@capadociaash8003]

@@sbu_englishclub im not a catholic but I’m pretty sure such a brutal and cruel death is part of what makes her a Marter, I feel if she died peacefully it would take away from her Marter hood

[@Mousetrap1740]

Just a point about the shark massacre part and Norman’s continued trend of just getting everything wrong, when a shark dies it releases a pheromone that deters other sharks from that location. So in reality, hordes of sharks would be impossible.

[@sbu_englishclub]

I guess on some level I should have known it was scientifically inaccurate but come on did Norm fact check ANYTHING??

[@Mousetrap1740]

@@sbu_englishclub well at one point he refers to Theresa as the right hand of God (Jesus’s position) and ignores the 10 commandments stating that the Bible doesn’t instruct anyone on how to behave or live their life. I’m not religious myself and I know this. Norman even got his own religion wrong.

[@theunderstatement6842]

​@@sbu_englishclub he actually said out loud that he fact checked precious little of anything while writing the book. In an interview he said the following: "I didn't have to do research. It was all in my head. Of course i looked up a few facts like the amount of gold in Fort Knox, the tectonic source of Antarctica, and the density of xenon, but 99.9% of the story came out of my memory" honestly i wasn't expecting much more than this from our dear Norman.

[@tsuritsa3105]

Not to mention they shoot a bunch of these sharks. White tip sharks are a critically endangered species. My understanding is also that they only appear in temperate or warm waters. The cold water is a plot point in this section, irrc. But I could be wrong about either thing.

[@chansesturm7103]

@@Mousetrap1740 I've had this theory in my mind ever since listening to KrimsonRogue's breakdown of this book that Norman is trying to construct a new Trinity in this book. Not necessarily that he's deliberately trying to start a new religious movement, but that insofar as this story's theology is concerned, God in Heaven specifically refers to God the Father (a.k.a. the god represented by the Tetragrammaton), Theresa is either a replacement for Jesus or is the Second Coming _of_ Jesus (and the idea of Jesus reappearing as a woman is not original to Norman, look up Ann Lee and the Shakers for an example) as God the Son, and HAL, as an impersonal entity that greats enormous and downright miraculous power, is the Holy Spirit. I might be overthinking this with the parallels, but HAL gives superhuman strength like in the story of Samson (on top of giving her the thick, luscious hair of a Nazirite), incredible aim like in the story of David fighting Goliath, and does a whole bunch of other stuff like creating perpetual daytime and allowing the Israeli people to cross a massive body of water to a new Promised Land, preserves sleeping people for centuries and grants near-immortality to Theresa, Scott, and their children who are to usher in a perfect world (i.e. the End Times)... I dunno, just seems interesting from an interpretive standpoint. I'm not personally religious, I just have an interest in the Bible as a collection of ancient literature, but these are some stuff I've noticed.

[@Hamun002]

3:43 Theresa is not a villain. the author created his idea of the perfect woman and wrote a book about her in order to attempt to give today's Youth a guiding light. The Author is the Villain because this is what he would do with these powers.

[@randomboy3m98]

Every third edition copy of empress Theresa is personalized.

[@YinYangAngel55]

Summer was Theresa's favorite season and thus it had to be everyone else's favorite too. So she got rid of the seasons cause she wanted to.

[@theblekedet6467]

And her decision is correct because Theresa is a good girl.

[@nero1798]

But I like spring😢

[@YinYangAngel55]

Told a physics professor about everything Teresa did in the book. Apparently turning the axis of the earth would make us have seasons faster like within 4-6 months instead of the whole year.

[@tsuritsa3105]

Didn't she do the same thing with night itself? As a nocturnal person who suffers from light-sensitivity that often results in migraines, that would really bother me.

[@yeez13]

Gotta love how Empress Theresa has been shown to be a trendsetter! Every movie, show, and game is becoming like it!

[@capadociaash8003]

Norman, truly a visionary!

[@jennymckenzie5304]

As a Scot, we do get a FEW American tourists who are WEIRDLY fixated on "actually being Scottish" and it's a little odd. But hey, tourism cash!

[@oban6051]

As an American, I’ve seen those weirdos in their natural habitats here in the states. Their families are always a few generations removed from Scotland and they’ll wear kilts and shit to school. Most realize theyre being fuckin weird around the ages of 17-19. A few will keep it up much later into adulthood. No other ethnic group in the USA has this weird sub culture.

[@AleTitan]

As an American, I've never understood why some Americans are obsessed. That or those that go "I'm 21% Scandinavian, 5% Russian, 3% German, 8% this and that..."

[@jessamynroguski9649]

​@@AleTitan im not obsessed, but i am interested in my lineage, because its like this story of cultures coming together over years and years eventually leading to me Funny enough i come from a lot of "ish"es (irish, polish, scottish, danish, im not sure if theres more)

[@Cut_tape-x9j]

Never heard an Irish person say that tbh whether 10 generations removed or they just arrived from Dublin. keep your heroin cities

[@slitheen3]

​@@AleTitani feel like its because a lot of americans feel like we dont really have "our own culture." Which of course is silly, you cant have people without culture of some kind. But a lot of families who immigrated here in the past lost the culture they were a part of, either through intentional assimilation, or just over time as time goes on and generations pass, especially in a place that has SO many differing cultures all over that become mixed up through marriage and whatnot. So most aspects of the original cultures become so watered down or completely lost to the descendants that they have very little actual knowledge of that culture, but they know (or think, tracing families can be hard lol) they came from that culture, and they feel pride in it or desperately want to feel pride in it. I think its a complicated phenomenon and that's just one aspect of it. This is all just my personal observation and thoughts, I don't know if there's any actual research or academic thought on it, but its something I've noticed quite a bit, though usually a little subtler. How short america's history is compared to many other cultures may have something to do with it, like many dont feel like they "have enough" of their own culture, so they look to cultures their ancestors came from?

[@VersusArdua]

Ever since I watched the Down The Rabbit Hole video I just can't get enough of this Empress Theresa shit, it's just too much lol

[@Shaushkaa]

French here. About Paris. Waiters are almost always non-smiling. I wasn't born in Paris and I have a secret trick. Smiling at Parisian made them uncomfortable and unhinged. I don't exaggerate. My usual provincial jovial self terrorizes them. Appetizers: they put this in front of you (in bars, terraces, restaurant) without asking anything. It's...normal. And it's a "free gift" so no need to ask if you appreciated it, they don't care. Usually these are chips (like Pringles, not fry potato), peanuts, mini bretzel or popcorn.

[@sbu_englishclub]

Ohhh this makes me feel so much better I thought the Pringles were like to make fun of us for being from the USA 😂😂

[@Shaushkaa]

@@sbu_englishclub glad to have helped! I live near Paris since 17 years and they still surprise me.

[@capadociaash8003]

Oh no, Mecca is being threatened! Time to move the population of Arabia to a giant moon shaped island with giant ski resorts on it, I’m sure that’ll help.

[@PRGME7]

In the words of the great scholar Bubsy the Bobcat “What could possibly go wrong?”

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The thing about thereasa tilting earth to make it always summer..that only works if all the land mass is on a equal plane.. i..i think norman is a flat earther..

[@sbu_englishclub]

God you have no idea how little I want this to be true. But it’s Norman so who knows

[@angelsartandgaming]

​@@sbu_englishclubGod I feel bad for the Australians in the Empress Teresa Universe.

[@loyisad1211]

It sounds like a terribly written book but damn if I don't enjoy the hell out of more people sporking it. It's so batshit.

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

I could see Theresa as an anti-villain despite her intentions. IMO, she really resembles one of the villains from Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, discussed below for spoilers: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The Lord Ruler from the Mistborn novels was originally a decent person who was endowed with near-omnipotent power without the omniscience to go with it and immediately made massive changes to the world that he though were helpful, but which destroyed the environment and required additional changes to fix, and also set himself up as a semi-divine ruler of the world (he was called the "Sliver of Eternity," she was called the "Right Hand of God") and crushed everyone who opposed him, believing it was all for the greater good. There are even some very specific similarities: Both "solved" the environmental problems they created by creating features to perpetually launch particles into the atmosphere, and both altered and neutered their own people. The Lord Ruler is basically what Theresa would be like if everyone (including the narrative itself) reacted realistically to what she did. Of course, the Lord Ruler is more mature and responsible than Theresa, but that comes with being part of a more serious novel.

[@sbu_englishclub]

I love the misborn books how did I not notice this

[@Bluegirl12345]

But the Middle East, has mountains and it's not all desert in fact Lebanon has no desert at all

[@olookslike0]

Yeah, but Norman has only ever seen the Middle East through the lenses of Iraq war coverage footage from 2003. I doubt he could even distinguish Lebanon from any other country in that general area.

[@liliya_aseeva]

@@olookslike0 He messed up Iraq and Iran...

[@Meleedroit]

@@olookslike0 doubt he even knows that there's pretty grassy parts of Iraq, I should know since I live there

[@ergogrrl]

The man thinks there are no chipmunks in Europe. We are not dealing with a natural science expert.

[@black7594]

the theresaverse sounds like an interesting dystopia

[@linstar9172]

I have a theory about the plane incident--earlier in the chapter, it mentions that her control board thingy would be a huge problem if stolen. What if someone tried to use her board to crash the plane? It make much more sense than how it's explained in the book.

[@sbu_englishclub]

That's such a cool idea! Great power is only as interesting as its limitations. Would HAL blindly listen to the board, or could he possibly know that it'd been taken?

[@linstar9172]

@@sbu_englishclub I think he'd blindly listen to it? And then Theresa would have to get it back before whoever stole can figure out how to use it properly. Maybe that's why those duplicate HALs appeared--messing with the control board created them.

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

Only read small parts of the book, but good lord so many things thrown in that are just…. Wrong. It’s truly a book… of all time Good vid on the topic 🔥

[@evanthesquirrel]

My wife is ethnically Irish and she is that fixated. I'm not Scottish and I do wear kilts

[@Icyangel10]

This was interesting to see though I did see 3 things I want to mention The army navy game thing was to try & fix the ship used to kill Theresa’s reputation cause no one wants to apparently work on the ship after what happened but yeah you’re right in that it makes no sense. The guy also sounds to have just given up at one point & was like “Whoopsie I lost what was built up to be an important game.” Apparently it was 420 kids but wouldn’t be surprised if it was more & she miscounted(I’m saying this cause for some reason I went to sleep listening to KrimsonRougue’s final review video on the book & remember this) The mountain thing was cause for some reason she believed no mountains means you live in the desert so make mountains to help make it normal. Permanent day time was supposedly to stop crime. I saw a comment about this below, I agree some & wouldn’t put it past the creator but I’m just explaining what the book said about the mountains. Asides from that it was pretty cool seeing this & you did a good job explaining stuff about the book of a guy obsessed with Joan of Arc

[@madwomansinsight]

never thought there would be an iceberg for this disaster of a book but here we are

[@MichiInWonderland]

No one, No one at all: .... Me: Why didn't Theresa just move the clouds? I mean, she can transport elements from the sun, You'd think she could move a rain could from the Atlantic to like Nevada or something.

[@sbu_englishclub]

It's really interesting to me how arbitrary Theresa's powers to just change everything are. She can fix geopolitical problems in a chapter but the rain/clouds/wind/north pole explosion insanity stretches the whole story and only gets duct tape solutions

[@MattJDave]

While Norman Boutin is a certified weirdo, it's refreshing to see someone approach him with such compassion. While Empress Theresa is definitely a far-too-painstakingly polished turd, the guy spent twenty (or forty, depending on when he's telling the tale) years working on this and I certainly feel the pain of putting in time on projects that aren't as good as I want them to be in my head.

[@Savannah_Simpson]

It not that its bad, or that he spent years on it. It’s that he refuses yo listen to ANY criticism. Like one person on the Amazon page pointed out, he thinks it’s perfect the way it is and that other people just need to be persuaded to like it. Reading his responses to people he’s a text book narcissist.

[@MattJDave]

@@Savannah_Simpson Oh, I agree he's a dick to basically anyone who's tried to help or critique him (as I said, he's a certified weirdo), but I can acknowledge his humanity too.

[@linstar9172]

Yay! More Theresa!

[@sbu_englishclub]

Maybe if we all produce enough content Norm will give us a sequel

[@linstar9172]

@@sbu_englishclub It'll be called "Emperor Steve".

[@Dylan_Devine]

As a devoted Catholic who has studied Joan of Arc for two years, I'd like to say that Norman doesn't even seem Catholic. He seems like a "cultural Catholic." Cultural Catholics (and cultural Christians in general) are theists who believe in God but don't really take Christianity seriously or study the Bible carefully. Norm, despite paying a lot of lip service to the Catholic Church, has written a very unCatholic book. There is nothing Catholic about Norm's fixation on Theresa's body, his shallow understanding of God, and his shallow view of the Church. His is a book that wears the trappings of Catholicism without any of the soul. For REAL Catholic fiction, read Sigrid Undset or Dante's Divine Comedy or even Tolkien, who embedded a lot of subtle Catholic themes into Lord of the Rings. As for Joan of Arc, Norm's fixation is gross and he's also completely wrong about her not being burned. The reason it's gross is as follows: 1. Theresa is supposed to be vaguely modeled after Joan of Arc (and having studied her life, campaign, trial and death for two years now, I do not see the resemblance). 2. Theresa is highly sexualized by Norman. 3. Theresa's hair in particular is sexualized. 4. Norman is slightly obsessed with Joan of Arc's hair. See the connection? He's telling on himself here. As for his whole subplot about her hair proving that she wasn't burned, that actually ties with Norman's life outside of the book. Years before writing Empress Theresa, Norman wrote an unhinged essay insisting that Joan died of smoke, and not burning, and that she felt no pain. Having studied her execution carefully, this is not the case. While it is true that the smoke would usually kill the person and not the fire itself, the pain leading up to that would have been excruciating, and the witnesses of Joan's execution were weeping at her screams. As for her body, the English burned it several times over, including burning the bones multiple times, basically to reduce them to ash. Then they scattered the ashed remains into the river. There is a lock of her hair preserved in a wax seal from a letter she sent once, but that was before the execution, of course, and Norm's fixation on her hair and on proving she didn't suffer from burning is really bizarre. It's also anti-Catholic, because the whole reason Joan is one of the most beloved saints is because of her martyrdom, and Norm has this weird fixation on stealing her martyrdom from her. Please don't let Norman cloud your opinion of Catholics or Joan of Arc, we do not claim him.

[@Dylan_Devine]

Also, having read the whole Qur'an, terrorists in the middle east are not because of "lack of mountains." It's because Islam is a fundamentally violent religion. The Qur'an commands jihad (violent conquest) of non-believers. Obviously, not all Muslims are violent, but Muslims are only non-violent if they disobey the Qur'an which commands jihad against unbelievers, kafir, those who commit shirk, etc. According to the Qur'an, Jews and Christians are the "lowest" of all Allah's creatures, and Muhammed taught that Jews were wicked because they were hypocrites, and that Christians (especially Catholics) were pagan because they believe in the Trinity, which the unitarian Muslims considered to be polytheism or "shirk" (a heresy in Islam involving making others equal to Allah). The Qur'an also urges Muslims to re-conquer any land thats "stolen" from them, no matter how long it takes; even though the Muslims conquered the Holy Land from Christians, and didn't originally have it, once Jews were able to resettle in Israel the Muslims considered that a declaration of war because the Muslims want the territory that they once held, even though both Jews and Christians had occupied Israel long before any Muslims. That's why the war in the middle east will never end, because Islam does not permit that Muslims stop trying to take back all of what used to be ancient Palestine.

[@krle7970]

Teressa also claims to be the “right hand of god” And acts accordingly with her god like powers

[@chansesturm7103]

​@@krle7970 I've had this theory in my mind ever since listening to KrimsonRogue's breakdown of this book that Norman is trying to construct a new Trinity in this book. Not necessarily that he's deliberately trying to start a new religious movement, but that insofar as this story's theology is concerned, God in Heaven specifically refers to God the Father (a.k.a. the god represented by the Tetragrammaton), Theresa is either a replacement for Jesus or is the Second Coming _of_ Jesus (and the idea of Jesus reappearing as a woman is not original to Norman, look up Ann Lee and the Shakers for a historical example) as God the Son/right hand of God, and HAL, as an impersonal entity that greats enormous and downright miraculous power, is the Holy Spirit. I might be overthinking this with the parallels, but HAL gives superhuman strength like in the story of Samson (on top of giving her the thick, luscious hair of a Nazirite), incredible aim like in the story of David fighting Goliath, and does a whole bunch of other stuff like creating perpetual daytime and allowing the Israeli people to cross a massive body of water to a new Promised Land, preserves sleeping people for centuries and grants near-immortality to Theresa, Scott, and their children who are to usher in a perfect world (i.e. the End Times)... I dunno, just seems interesting from an interpretive standpoint. I'm not personally religious, I just have an interest in the Bible as a collection of ancient literature, but these are some things I've noticed.

[@Baider808]

I never knew I needed this but thank you ❤

[@MPMelo11]

Every copy of Empress Theresa is personalized.

[@lizf440]

The Joan of arc obsession is not a normal catholic thing. I grew up catholic, went to catholic school, and never learned about her. The long hair obsession thing IS a Catholic thing, however.

[@sbu_englishclub]

Of all things, the hair! Never would’ve guessed

[@lofkii]

I've never even heard of this before and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

[@sbu_englishclub]

Now's your chance!

[@Oblivitana]

Theresa in Paris coming to Netflix very soon (Also like the childhood trauma theory would make this book actually good cause that’s mean the entire story would be like a trauma induced hallucination and that’s make this a masterwork if you read it from like 10 feet away, I’d go into further detail but I’m too laz)y)

[@linstar9172]

You should try to interview Norman, like with Lani.

[@sbu_englishclub]

This is my dream 😭😭 I know he’s still around because he was complaining that they finally retired the dinosaur website builder he was using, but I don’t know if he indulges people on the internet like he used to

[@linstar9172]

@@sbu_englishclub Maybe try leaving a positive review on his Amazon page? If you were to explain why you wanted to interview him, he might agree to it!

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

​@@sbu_englishclubI'm glad he's still around for lols

[@RandomTrinidadian]

As a amature military historian..... i can asure you that Isreal would not run is threatened with invasion.

[@stormfischerr]

2:36 THE WHAT?????

[@ConnieTheo]

32:55 I'm wondering, did you mean the first season of The Legend of Korra? Because I could swear that didn't happen in ATLA

[@sbu_englishclub]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHy4dnh5o6l7oMU 3:05 on that^ I was probably just explaining it too awkwardly

[@ConnieTheo]

@@sbu_englishclub ohhh right! I had forgotten about that scene. Thanks for the explanation😊

[@MoonRiver_118]

with regards to the guerrilla marketing theory: while I agree that a lot of stuff online is engagement bait, I feel like you shouldn't underestimate people's willingness to argue endlessly about the dumbest shit ever.

[@koffiecake]

Remember me when you're famous

[@stevemc01]

Bookmark: 36:17

[@linstar9172]

Please read the forums

[@sbu_englishclub]

I just may. At the very least it'd be a good way to talk about how to deal with critique as a writer

[@StateBlaze1989]

The funniest thing to me about the arm-rake bit is that it is one of about 3 or so different explanations Teresa gives in that chapter for what Hal is or how he operates, all of which have absolutely zero evidence to back them up. She just goes on spouting utter bullshit while contradicting herself and the book multiple times.

[@linstar9172]

I remember the sister

[@sbu_englishclub]

Fellow Empress Theresa scholar o7

[@Cut_tape-x9j]

Me trying to understand the context of this book via the comments.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

We have summer when the earths rotation brings our hemisphere into a angle where more sunlight hits it. The eternal summer thing only works if all the surface is on the same plane, ie a FLAT EARTH.

[@sbu_englishclub]

Norman’s spreading truths that they don’t want us to know

[@linstar9172]

France has a President, lol

[@sbu_englishclub]

Vive Macron 🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@JimmySmith692]

So, she shifts the axis of the Earth and now its endless summer everywhere on the planet at the same time? I'm not an expert in astrophysics, so I only really know the basics of how this works, but I'm pretty sure that can't happen. The entire planet could never be oriented towards the sun at the same time, no matter how much you shifted the axis. The shape of the Earth doesn't allow for it.

[@sbu_englishclub]

@@JimmySmith692 The amount of things that are just taken for granted in this book are nuts

[@ajaxrao6042]

The ending sounds like a badly written start of a female version of Warhammer 40k

[@YashaVatrushka]

I kinda like the original covers. They're suprisingly modern

[@miguelthedrawtist]

Empress Theresa Marvel movie--when, Disney? Kevin Feige don't play with me, mane!

[@sbu_englishclub]

Literal pipe dream

[@yelena86]

👍✌️🙏❤️✨

[@dragon-named]

That beer can opening was TOO LOUD 0/10

[@sbu_englishclub]

Oops