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The animation change when it shows how Isha sees the world and it's all bright colours and sunshine ;_; ;_; ;_;

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SKJDFHKLSJD BRO DID JAYCE JUST KILL VIKTOR FR???? TRULY THE WORST END TO A SITUATIONSHIP EVER KDSHFJDSKL

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Vander: I've always liked the name Violet. Silco: *snorts a line* Hey, you know what I like?

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Also I know this is neither here nor there but why does everyone have such varied accents. Like it's not as if Piltover people have English accents and Zaun people American or vice versa. It's just a seemingly random mix, with ONLY Viktor having a Russian accent despite being from Zaun like everyone else lsdkjfd

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girl how can you wear this weird evil villain high collared cloak and STILL think you are on the right track alskdhfsjslkdfj

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i am a woman at war with herself, torn forever between my love of detective fiction and my hatred of cops and cop media

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still can't believe they had the audacity to put a trans furry this cunty into the gay kiss episode. Arcane is feeding sapphics of every kind

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I engage with fiction in a normal way. don’t look at my blog

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hewwo? Someone just walked past my window backwards??? what's going on

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although idk maybe Victoire gets more focus in the last 50 pages or so that I have left. I should have waited to finish before posting that because I might end up looking stupid if she actually does get treated better by the book at the end lskdfjg

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Alsooo I'm almost finished with Babel but I just lost momentum somehow and also after my fave character died it's kind of hard to get motivation to read it. Straight up I don't find Robin a very interesting POV character (not necessarily a criticism of this specific book, but rather this is the same in every Dark Academia book because the audience needs an entry point into the tight-knit and cultlike academic circle and so the POV character has to be normal enough to identify with but also halfway into the academia circle).

Also I do like how it treats subjects like colonialism and 1800s racism with gravity and the opressed with compassion. The tone of the book was to see Chinese people as real, individual people (even with so few actual Chinese characters), and not a faceless whole who are Different From Us. And sadly that's a tone you really don't see in many books featuring Chinese people, nor honestly in most media, so that made a refreshing change.

However I think the book's enjoyableness was held back a bit because almost all of the characters fell short of being believable. The character of Letty felt like the author was just taking out a personal grudge against someone she knew irl? The other characters constantly disliked and got annoyed by her and nobody liked having her around at all, excluding her and constantly thinking about how annoying they found her, then at the end this was supposed to all be justified because she turned out to betray them. She didn't feel like a real person at all but rather she was just there to be hated by both the characters and the reader sldkf. The betrayal would have felt a lot more real if any of the characters had liked her or thought of her as an equal at any point?

Also Victoire was so brushed over, as the only Black female character she faced double the discrimination but for some reason the book focused everything on how Ramy was perceived and not Victoire? I get that Robin was extremely close to Ramy and less so to Victoire, but if they were all supposedly so tight-knit and close then surely he would have realised she was facing the same and worse than Ramy? Yet it's only mentioned maybe 2-3 times in the book and the rest of the time glossed over.

Anyway aside from character work, I did enjoy the book and I liked all the etymology stuff especially. I kind of wish there was a bit more etymological stuff in there but tbh what I'm probably looking for is just a non-fiction book about etymology lskdfj.

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alksdjf also I walked into Waterstones today with the intention of pre-ordering Wind And Truth (I somehow have not yet pre-ordered?) only to immediately overhear a team briefing where the manager was telling everyone how the pre-ordering system was down at the moment. So it is still unordered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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i am going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health and relationships* make it through this year if it kills me

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By the way I have KIND OF succeeded and am at my desk with the blinds open at 10am. So that's an improvement!

Starting Monday I will aim for 9 though!

OK I have GOT to stop opening my blinds after midday and only getting 3-4 hours of sunlight. smh

Tomorrow I am going to wake up early for ONCE and get a longer day

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wait actually. was there a time skip again and it WASN'T immediate? I thought Cait did all of those things at once but maybe becoming a dictator and moving on with someone else happened separately?

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GIRL HOW DID CAIT GO FROM NORMAL TO IMMEDIATELY TRYING TO SHOOT A KID, HITTING VI, BECOMING A DICTATOR, AND MOVING ON IMMEDIATELY TO BE WITH SOMEONE ELSE??????? GIRL PICK ONE BAD CHOICE TO MAKE AT A TIME???

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hewwo??