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starting i fell in love with hope today cuz one of my friends told me it was good might die idk

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i FINALLY finished So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole and it was pretty good

idrk how to feel abt it rn, which is probably cuz it’s like 1 am and i usually sleep earlier but yknow

i’ll probably make another post abt it in the morning

the ending kinda confused me tho 😭

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i finally finished The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and it was SO GOOD

literally a masterpiece omfg

i love mary and will defend her with my life she’s so awesome

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You guys who have not read The Poppy War need to know that the main character gets her first period and immediately decides to have her womb removed and then she proceeds to bring that exact energy to everything she does for the rest of the series

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“Fight well. Keep us safe. I love you.” 😭😭😭

These platonic soulmates have my whole heart omg

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forever thinking about that one scene in the dragon republic when rin tries out the wings kitay made for her and they’re just so happy and when she comes down she shouts move! but he just grabs her wrist and swings them around until they collapse in a tangled laughing heap of leather and silk and limbs and she says “i love you” and kitay gives her a tired smile “i know”

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what murdaaaaaa

posting this Rin here bc a kind soul in my asks reminded me I hadn't :)

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please put emphasis on platonic soulmates in media. on unconditional love and loyalty based off of pure friendship. on heart wrenching breakups between best friends that change their lives. on knowing someone else better than they know themselves. on being a shining light for each other and finding happiness in the darkest places. on fighting side by side until the end, because a lover may visit your grave but your best friend will be in there with you

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sometimes, in his loveliest dreams

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absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

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currently recommending the poppy war to all of my friends that read because i want them to SUFFER. i want them to feel PAIN (but in the most loving way possible <3)

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this song is so rin (tpw)

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update guys sobbing rn

i’m reading the last book of the poppy war series (the burning god) (SUPER good series btw u should read it) and i would just like to say kitay and rin are literally the best depiction of platonic friendship EVER.

they’re soulmates your honor

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i’m reading the last book of the poppy war series (the burning god) (SUPER good series btw u should read it) and i would just like to say kitay and rin are literally the best depiction of platonic love EVER.

they’re soulmates your honor

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She's a 10 but she murdered a serial killer and then framed it on a rapist so obviously she's an 11

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𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝖜𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖎𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖒𝖞 𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖓𝖊

Black Turbine - Lake Malice

Hell Followed With Us - Andrew Joseph White

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finished reading the arc of a scythe series last night and it was SO GOOD. it was amazing. everybody needs to read it. IT WAS SO GOODDDDD