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wanderingmind867 · 7 days ago
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I still don't like Reyna very much. I don't despise her, but I also don't like her very much. Octavian is sympathetic because Rick Riordan heavily hammers in that Octavian is lonely, and has nearly every character bully him. But Reyna isn't like that. I don't think I've seen anyone bully her. Instead, she's used her power to try and manipulate things. She tried to get Percy to date her or something. She once allied herself with Circe, a woman who turned people into animals (and felt no shame about doing it). It's just…not the easiest task to sympathize with her so far. I still hate a lot of other characters more (like Luke, for example), but Reyna just rubs me the wrong way occasionally.
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puppyeared · 3 months ago
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filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^
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everythingwasnormalhere · 6 months ago
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pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual
im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out
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cowboysmp3 · 6 months ago
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there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 8 months ago
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The math just adds up!
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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 7 months ago
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historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman
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d4ggerfish · 3 months ago
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dnd character design :] !!!
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datcravat · 3 months ago
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this place is so fruity!
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thewritehag · 2 months ago
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I kept trying to write a first-impressions review of Initiated by Amanda Yates Garcia, but this was the first time I was unable to do so in good faith. I had to get to the end and maybe let it sit. It didn't have to sit long, though.
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I wrote up this review/disjointed rant on StoryGraph:
2.0 ⭐️
Audiobook read by the author. She performs well, but I had to adjust to it. I'm not used to slow, breathy intonation in general, letalone in an audiobook.
As for the text, it's a nonfiction, so things "not done" in fiction can be read as nonfiction convention. Her writing is fine, if meandering.
I first tried to read this last year, but was not in a good headspace. Returning to it, I'm pleased to discover I'm doing better and have become more tolerant (believe it or not) of the woo-y witchcraft flavor. Still not my thing, but I tend to gravitate towards folk practices, proto-deities, and storytelling.
Regarding her content, I will say that she speaks for all witches with gatekeeping rhetoric and in ways more Wicca than witch. There's nothing wrong with Wicca (aside from the cultural appropriation, but what religion born of toxic xtianity doesn't have that issue?), but Garcia takes the time to voice how she is not Wiccan and does not appreciate their practices, then proceeds to discuss using their practices in her craft without a trace of acknowledgement or irony.
There's a lack of self-awareness and self-reflection that is frankly irritating, especially in her "epilogue" (it was the final chapter, not an epilogue. This is picayune, but she has a masters in writing, a phd, and a published book. Some standards must therefore be met). She uses her witchcraft to avoid the responsibilities of her actions, to remove herself from the situation much the way a marker is placed for a golfball not in play.
She does not allow this same convenience for her mother. Now, I can understand the complicated, angry feelings she has towards her mom; her feelings are not only valid, but justified. Where Garcia uses her witchcraft to excuse herself from the narrative as an active participant, she places onus on her mother for all the bad that happened to her growing up. Her resentment is understandable, but the self-awareness is nonexistent. In the way Garcia narrates, I believe she is aware of her hypocrisy, but is hoping the reader does not.
Speaking of narration, she is unreliable (which is normal in an autobiography (she calls it a memoir, it's not and there is a difference)), however she discusses historical events and mythologies as points of anthropological fact without a single citation.
Big 'T' Truth and little 't' truth are going to be present in every nonfiction, but Initiated is so convoluted and so muddied, there's no way to trust anything Garcia says. More than being held to a higher standard as a published academic, Amanda Yates Garcia is the self-proclaimed #OracleOfLA (Oracle of Los Angeles) and is daily being given faith and money like a living altar, like a televangelist in pagan trappings.
Tl;dr Amanda Yates Garcia is overhyped, immature, and lacks total self-awareness.
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elita pep talk
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evgar · 1 month ago
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this came to me in a dream
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the-dragon-girl-27 · 9 months ago
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It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.
Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.
you are greeted by...... her
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ruushes · 11 months ago
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)
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chloesimaginationthings · 4 months ago
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The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..
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monakisss · 4 months ago
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the reverend family and harrow's childhood (based on htn)
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monkesupreme · 7 days ago
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a satisfactory answer for Selina
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