You shall lie warm here, watching the long lake change its faces.

Table of Contents: 

• Some Overall Broad Series Positives
  
• More Thoughts About Extended Universe
  • Barrayaran Backstory
  • Beta Colony
• Some Things That Annoyed Me
  • Everything about Romance, Marriage, and Childbirth
  • Early Book Structures 
• Some Posts about Individual Books
  • Mirror Dance
  • Cetaganda
  • Memory
  • Ethan of Athos
  • Captain Vorpatrils Alliance
• Other Miscellaneous Thoughts
• The Part Where I Become An Insane Person Discussing the 16-Book Story Arc
  • Thesis: Vorkosigan is about Creating Life From Death
    • Aral Vorkosigan is the narrative spine and structure of the Vorkosigan series, not Miles.
    • Oliver Jole & the Red Queen feels weird because it is the dawn of a new day.
• My Power Rankings Of All The Books
  • Barrayar closely beats out Mirror Dance to take the top spot, but they're really 1A and 1B.
  • Yes I will take questions. 

( 5500 Words of Meta )

a friend and i got to discussing octopus gregor and now he would look in various gregor scenes. she suggested the scene at the end of memory, where gregor, illyan, ivan, and miles are in the jail cell during haroche's confession. so there's that.

some text is cribbed completely from memory by LM Bujold; that isn't mine.

i didn't bother to copy all of the dialogue here, especially the haroche stuff, mostly out of laziness. the scene is better with it. also i admit that probably going octopus mode on haroche is the opposite of gregor's real intention here in canon, which his calm confidence, and the octopus probably suggests a much more visible rage. i definitely don't think it's as good as the original scene, but you know, i guess maybe once you pass the line of "turning a guy into an octopus," you're just doing whatever seems good at the time.

i enjoyed this. feel free to suggest other octopus gregor rewrites into my ask box.

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Prompt - caveat emptor (let the buyer beware)

Would also accept caveat imperator (let the emperor beware)

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