Fabulous Bell in the Raadch
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"We'll talk about that."

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"Thank you."

And they go home.

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"'Nother movie?"

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"After lunch. You ordered a cheese tasting, remember?"

They taste cheese. What has the Radch to offer in the cheese department?

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Lots and lots and lots of cheeses, none of which are quite cheeses they've had on Earth but many of which are good.

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Isabella doesn't feel a need to be secretive about their cheese preferences, and so takes notes on the tablet about which ones are good.

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And then they go watch a movie.

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Historical drama, let's go with that one.

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The tablet is really happy to point out all of the linguistic oversimplifications in this historical drama. The plot is also a thing, it grudgingly concedes.

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Isabella's mostly interested in how the character arcs reflect modern Radchaai expectations of the feelings of historical Radch annexation victims.

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The heroic sorts tend to be awed and honored and determined to be worthy citizens and the unheroic types tend to mutter about the good old days when you could enslave people and eat corpses, but they are not infinitely wedded to this narrative, good guys are allowed to grieve their dead parents and so on.

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Uh-huh. She asks the tablet on the way out if that's a particular genre.

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Yep. There are movies where people are miserable about having been conquered and they win awards but they don't tend to get impressive box office returns.

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Can she watch one of that sort on the tablet?

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She can buy it, yeah. 

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She buys a critical darling and watches it while Xander tries to figure out if there's anywhere to go dancing around.

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It's a bit heavy-handed in the opposite direction but not horrendous. The viewpoint characters are a wealthy family before the annexation and their parents vanish in the first hectic days and they spend most of the movie trying, exquisitely courteously, to wrangle themselves into a position to figure out what happened, only to be shot dead when they discover a commander taking bribes.

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Wow! Okay.

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Meanwhile, what can Xander find in the way of a social dancing scene?

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The dances are unfamiliar but not hard to learn and they welcome newcomers!

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He makes really really sure he is wearing gloves and lets Isabella know where he's going and promises not to be kidnapped and goes to check it out.

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Then he can get involved in the Radchaai social dance scene, which is much like the Earth one except with different music and everyone dancing whatever role they prefer/is needed.

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He'll do a couple turns as a follow just because it's easier to pick up for the first time, then switches to leading without otherwise belaboring his sex, but privately resolves to try to grow a beard.

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Isabella looks up Garsedd.

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