#THIS FUCKING BOOK

[boywithskull]

Francis Abernathy is such a fantastic character to me, because he’s not outwardly violent like Charles, nor increasingly cold and self-serving like Henry, yet he is just as shallow. I often see the sentiment that his ending is so tragic and how he was forced into that unhappy, het marriage. As he expresses in his suicide letter, Francis ultimately succumbs to his own lack of moral strength and failure to act (“Forgive me for the things I did but mostly the ones I did not.”) Obviously I will acknowledge that the marriage situation was unfair — no one deserves to be ousted from their family for their sexuality. However, it really was not his only choice. Just as Richard comes to realise (and is quite disgusted by), Francis would rather remain trapped than have to get a job, provide for himself, and make his own life. It reminds me a lot of Julian’s ending, and how Richard says he could at least respect it if Julian had turned them in, since it would show some strength of character, but his running away only exposed how weak-willed he was all along. Perhaps Francis has a better moral compass than Henry, but his failure to use it renders him just as at fault for everything that happened. As always, Francis values his comfort over his happiness. That’s his fatal flaw.

[brokendoor16]

Hey so I’m rereading the raven cycle and the parallels in the ways Adam and Ronan look out for each other?? Fucking INSANE. Like the ACUTE similarities between how Ronan responds to Adam’s grief over Persephone (sitting down next to him on the porch; ‘I don’t want to talk’ ‘the fuck would I talk about?’) and how Adam responds to Ronan’s grief over Aurora’s death (getting into the car with him; ‘are you coming in?’ ‘no’ ‘wake me if you need to’)?? The way they comfort each other just through their presence and comfortable silence?? I am UNWELL about these books.

(I’m sure there’s more examples but this is what we’re getting today)

[cabesswtaer]

OH MY HOLY I AM LITERALLY ABOUT TO HAVE AN ATTACK

[chickren]

i’m still in that was what men wanted wasn’t it purgatory and will forever be slow roasting over a spit of soft helpless women they needed to protect

the nerve of this old man

why give me another part that wondered if jaime would comfort her should she weep upon his shoulder when you could just cut my heart out with a spoon which would hurt less

[wlasniezemerita]

Despite everything, it's still you

[stick-or-treat]

yo this book made 6 inches of space into a jump scare

[themoonyandthestars]

The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself

[myriad--starlings]

Someone like me, more imagination than can fit into one body, you can die inside a fantasy of yourself.

— Model Home, Rivers Solomon

[hercorrupterofwords]

"the twisted sequence of words seems to reproduce the snakes' tangling around the children"

[wordto-thewise]

WEEPING for Twelve Azalea now and always and forever

[ask-the-crimson-king]

Guilliman is finally here. And the Scouring begins.

Wow.

Not quite the scene and note I'd expected to be left off on, but. Wow.

It's over.

That's it. The Horus Heresy is finished. I've completed it.

Thank you to those who have been in my notes occasionally liking my excerpt posts, I see you and thank you for joining me on this journey.

What a fucking novel. Wow.

Saw someone posting about staring at a wall for a few hours. That sounds very nice. I am going to do this too.

Wow. Just. Wow.

I'm kinda left speechless. There's so much I want to discuss and yet so little that's coming to mind.

Maybe I'll make a post for it. We'll see.

[imu-chan]

by far the three weirdest things that happened in Dream of The Red Chamber were, in order:

3. the ending

2. Zhen Lian's insane ch2 backstory leading nowhere because she doesn't show up in the rest of the book

3. Jiao Da’s claims that someone in the house was sleeping with their daughter-in-law, with Qin Keqing avoiding this topic, followed by Qin Keqing discreetly hinting to someone that she had a bad feeling that something bad would happen to her, followed by the early-on deaths of Qin Keqing and her brother, followed by HER FATHER-IN-LAW proceeding to loudly and dramatically mourn her and claim he loved her more than his son — which to me implied a scandal/assault covered up by a series of murders — but actually meant nothing at all so don’t worry about it

[redrisingsun]

find you a person who treats you so much like you deserve to choose a life for yourself that you start to believe that maybe you do deserve to choose

[w-wings]

Fourth Wing

I vanished... again.... but this time it’s because I was literally CONSUMING this book: Fourth Wing. 

I finally finished it today but there were so many little bits that are buried through out it that I want to go back and re-read it immediately. 

I’ve seen a lot of people criticizing it, but I really loved it. I struggle with chronic illness that’s left me weaker than I want to be despite regularly working out, and I also have POTS and some EDS symptoms (though I’ve never asked my doctor - that requires me to have a doctor) but mostly hypermobility and things that pop out of where they belong at the actual worst times. 

Even so - my thought process is similar to the FMC so I really enjoyed the story, even though I found some parts to be very predictable because I could see how it was all being framed. I still enjoyed the ride though. There’s nothing wrong with seeing patterns and still allowing yourself to enjoy how it unfolds. 

but anyway - I loved Liam and Xaden and Imogen and just, oh November 7 can’t come fast enough.

[klave-the-dragon]

i just finished This Is How You Lose the Time War

utterly spirit-wrenching stuff, the condensed souls of a hundred thousand thousand poems dissolved and dropped into a blaze of love and fury

structurally beautiful, prose that moves in the shapes of dreams, with the grace of dragons physically impossible but present like grief

[cemeterygrace]

reminders:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.