#bable

[skybson]

1x04 - Babel

[bookphile]

Reading Bable for a book club, though I've had it on my TBR for awhile, and I think that I could write an entire essay on Chapter 2 alone. Because as an immigrant -- albeit white immigrant (and yes that distinction is very important) -- the conversation about learning the language of a country you immigrated to vs your native language is so relatable. Particularly around forgetting your native language if you don't practice it, about not being able to understand all the nuance of reading a text in a new language because you don't understand the context behind them. I'm both sad and excited about finding it so relatable.

[ckmstudies]

Babel - R.F. Kuang

Short review:

It took me six months to finish this book. I never DNFd it because I did like the characters and I wanted to see what happened to them. This book was intriguing and thought provoking and dealt with what could be considered delicate points very head on and very impressively. The point and subject matter of this book were very well done, my issues with it were more with the story and the writing itself. I understand why the timeline in this book was set up this way, with us starting with the main character, Robin, when he was a child and following him through almost every year of his life until the end of the book, however it took me until the last three-ish pages to understand why. It felt like we would focus on less important years in his life and then skip years while he was at Oxford, arguably the most important of his years in the book. I wonder if the ending impact would had been the same if the book started with his final year at Oxford and we saw flashbacks to his previous years. There were also times we were told instead of shown such as about Robin and his friends having inside jokes and laughing until they cried in the early hours of the morning, but we never saw those jokes. It made the characters fall a bit flat when dramatic things happened. That being said, I did cry at the end of this book and was very shocked by the major plot points. I also really enjoyed getting to see how drastically Robin had changed at the end of the book and being able to see what kind of path he had chosen to take, which could be considered as not the usual path of a hero. The other thing that bothered me was the magic system. This may have been an issue on my part, but it was hard for me to understand how the silver bars worked and predict what the charters could do with the bars to get out of predicaments. Maybe people with more language experience than me could understand it better. Overall, I think Babel is an interesting step into a world of could-have-been and deals with many hard hitting topics very importantly and in unexpected ways.

Rate: 3.5/5

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[oaks-kata-dojo]

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[finnslay]

It's called @facts-from-finn

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[whateverdraws1008]

Price: *playing with marbles*

Roach: *staring*

Price: .... *Noticed*

Roach: ...my grandpa used to play with these.

Price: marbles, you mean.

Roach: yeah.

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Roach: ...❗

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[arkad322]

It’s insane to read dog man as a kid and you know laugh at the goofy backstory,

oh , his body is dead ! and his head is dead !what shall we do ! Let’s fuse his head with his body of course! They are both alive as one ! Well dog man is mostly dog / Greg than human / knight because dog head , but we will not develope that !

But know , it’s so messed up , dog man is the dog put inside of the body of his best friend/ owner/ maybe dad. Do you have any idea how messed up that is . And since his body is still living inside does dog man do things that officer knight would normally do and then realize he’s doing it .

Anyways I’m excited for the dog man movie!

[ca-dmv-bot]

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[myokk]

My writing/reading question of the day:

Do you prefer present tense or past tense? Or something entirely different like future tense? For writing AND reading🫶

The more I write (I wish I realized how fun it was before this year😭😭😭) the more I realize I like to play around with language & tense choice can have such a profound impact on how your writing comes across & even how I feel as I’m writing. With my oneshots I’ve been playing around with only present tense & my main fic is past tense (but present during the flashbacks - idk don’t ask it just felt right😆).

Or does nobody else think about tense and I’m just alone in this😆😆😆 LANGUAGE IS JUST SO COOL !!!!

[justanotherclosetednerd]

I don't know if I'm partial to the idea of Ramy and Robin being in love in Babel

What I do know is that, even in this, R. F. Kuang speaks of privilege because, at its core, loving freely is a privilege, and you can feel it in the way Robin expresses the night at the -much discussed- ball:

'Their eyes met. Robin felt a prickle at the back of his neck. The space between them felt very charged, like the moment between lightning and thunder, and Robin has no idea what was going on or what would happen next, only that it felt very strange and terryfying, like teetering over the edge of a windy, roaring cliff'

And this is horrible, because sometimes, when you're already in a position of vulnerability, wherther being for the color of your skin, your place of birth, your sex, gender, mother tongue and so many others, you just can't give the system more ways to vulnerate you.

(I'm not saying everyone does it, sometimes people are brave and courageous, and they persist and change things)

The possibility of them being in love or even considering it is something Babel also takes from them. From my point of view, they feel it and immediately resign to the oportunity, as they had with so many others things

[rainydayzo]

gotta add wasp and Mother a

[pwrpixie3]

WHAT IF IF???

There is so much we can study — there is so much written about God heaven and hell — there are so many experts out there.  So many are doing just as instructed — so many are so strong in faiths of every kind — so much care is taken to follow the word of God and his commandments. So many give thanks — so many give reverence, so many pray to him — we know he made heaven, hell, earth, and the entire…

[pwrpixie]

WHAT IF IF???

There is so much we can study — there is so much written about God heaven and hell — there are so many experts out there.  So many are doing just as instructed — so many are so strong in faiths of every kind — so much care is taken to follow the word of God and his commandments. So many give thanks — so many give reverence, so many pray to him — we know he made heaven, hell, earth, and the entire…

[phantasmatoucan]

Guys can i hold all smittens and hug them theyre all so cute it makes me wanna bawl my eyes out /pos