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shoyoist · 1 day ago

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realized i can talk about this here LMAO so i just finished the poppy war trilogy (r. f. kuang) a few days ago and i feel like i have a lot of unpopular opinions on that series... finished it and felt so incredibly angry that i did a google search to see if anyone agreed with me and,, i didn't see anyone agreeing with me ?? elaborating in the tagss

#₊˚ପ⊹ soliloquy .ᐟ‍#because okay i LOVED the story okay #the pacing the plot the storytelling the world building #MWAH chef's kiss it was incredible it was delicious fantastic #but the characters??#umm #kitay was the only sane person in that entire series #and if you haven't read the poppy war trilogy that's like around 3000 pages #3000 pages and there was only ONE sane character #unpopular opinion 1: i literally loathe nezha #unpopular opinion 2: is it just me or did the racism seem a little pointless. like it was just there and it was never addressed #like yk everyone talks about how kuang's writing addresses racism really well #but in the poppy war it was just There and nobody did anything about it ?#confused me so bad when literally nobody ever questioned calling rin a “mud skinned savage freak”. like even she was like ykw yeah ur right #and ok it would've been fine if it was expanded upon as an internalized hatred thing (which tbf IS what it was)#but the fact that 3000~ pages went by and it was never addressed or fixed or anything? the racism was just there #and for the most part it sounded like everyone including the author herself felt that “yeah this is the right way to treat em”#that's the vibe i got anyway and it was weird to me 🤷🏽‍♀️#i also didn't really understand wtf altan was doing #😭😭#maybe i need to read between the lines better but yeah #i was very invested in altan's character arc but it felt like he was just #being flung back and forth and then boom!#he was hyped up sooooooo hard and then he just. was a flop to me #like really. this is the man you've all been fangirling over?#🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️#kitay for the win #he did NOT deserve what happened to him #justice for kitay :/

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