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#i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki#tbh i didnt like the book#i finished reading it only because namjoon recommended it#but i liked this paragraph and i thought it was interesting to share it with you#if you read it#did you like it?
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once more around the sun!! :3
#mine#cats#happy new year!!! a little late but alas#i didnt like th colours here but now i love them hehehehehheheh#i hope everyone had a good holidays life development for me is i now like ice hockey#in my sports fan era...these greasy sweaty bloody white men...intrigue me#also i got a new diary!! im using th hobonichi cousin in kinda alarmed by it ngl a5 is a lot of space to fill#i tried the hobonichi techo a couple years ago n found it a rlly weird size 2 work in but now.........big page scawwy#im trying not 2 b too insane about it . like relax who cares#if i do cute spreads i will share them :3#also in th same vein im not setting a book goal this year !! tbh i surpassed my goal last year by a lot and wasnt stressed about it at All#but i get so guilty about not reading sometimes like girl . guilty to who? god? are we catholic now? get a grip#anyway anway im going to toot on my flute and then eat my weight in mac n cheese#love how i had to get a new cork in my flute bc i didnt play for like 10 months n th guy was like play regularly! n i was like yeh will do!#and then did not do that#alas...time escapes me
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Oh, Hazel, look! The field! It’s covered with blood!’
Fiver is my favorite character in Watership Down, he's just like me fr. I was afraid this wouldn't read especifically as Fiver, but alas... i liked my initial sketch a lot so i kept it as it was.
#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#watership down#so just to make this absolutely clear.. this is fiver XD not an attempt of a book cover#even tho it looks so much like many watership down covers tbh#i didnt even realize until i was actually googling images for reference that i found a lot of wd covers have a rabbits profile and the fiel#what a bummer#but i still like this a lot#everyone and their moms thought about the same thing i guess#me included#anyway FIVER MY BOY#I LOVE HIM HES JUST LIKE ME#IDK WHY EXACTLY BUT I RELATE TO HIM SO MUCH#its like 'yeah i also have visions of chaos and death and despair its called having anxiety and depression'#ok no forget that
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I’m legitimately gonna explode if I don’t find someone else who understand the background tragedy of the Gleeful Family in Gravity falls.
#Gravity falls#Gideon Gravity Falls#Gideon Gleeful#Bud Gleeful#I HC the mom’s name as Karen - a play on Caring - just with the Accent#Carin’ Gleeful……#ANYWAYS#Gideon is a child star at the age of 10 with a powerful corrupting force around his neck and a VERY weird coded behavior.#AND THE BEHAVIOR HAS TO BE LEARNED OR INFLUENCED. He’s TEN.#And he’s being weird from anywhere to kids a bit older to him to mentioning having a crush on an older woman (in a prison short)#Can we get this kid some COUNSELING#Also#It’s heavily suggested he was born with the white hair which might’ve made him just as outcast as many of the cast…..#I also have to shoutout Bud. Because while he’s permissive I don’t think he’s *bad*.#He’s in the weirdest possible situation as a parent because uhhhh! People forget that amulet does change the Power Dynamic#Like. The amulet makes Gideon a giant physical threat and people Forget That. The entire house is BUILT around that#Smaller Bud personal take -#I do heavily get the vibe he’s been not-so-well-off before (‘It’s all brand name foods-’) but Idk what to do with that#AND THE MOM. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU 😨#THE BOOK DIDNT EVEN NEED TO BE BURRIED THERE I’M SO UPSET OVER THE GLEEFULS I’M GONNA EXPLODE#I have a LOT of HCs about the Gleefuls I could just drop in the tags of this post tbh#Example;#Bud used to be a holy man IMO - Is this anything?
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"so just for this moment, as long as you're mine"
or fiyeraba yuri bc i love them n omg its been years since ive drawn wicked fanart <3
#my art#wicked#elphaba thropp#fiyero tigelaar#fem!fiyero#au mix of musical n book bc why not? i do prefer book fiyero more but dancing thru life is a fav#fiyeraba#“fiyeraba is a het ship”..*yuri beam* ty ty#tbh i have a lot of fem!fiyero art from middle school bc i didnt like drawing boys lol
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finally finished stellarlune... did the ending feel like. super rushed to anyone else or did i just read it too fast
#the whole second half of the book felt really rushed tbh#like i get it but also i wish the ending fight didnt feel so rushed? i was kinda like....that's it???#yap tagggg#but it gets a pass because SOKEEFE CANON LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO#stellarlune spoilers
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[part one] [part two] you to me, me to you
#fire emblem#fire emblem heroes#lif#sharena#alfonse#summoner#kiralfonse#not really but i drew this with the intention#finally done with the last part……#i was gonna delete ibis app and found this still unfinished#so i finished it lol#tbh i dont like it :///#but ive drawn so much……….#anyways book 3 feh you will always be dear to me :’)#my fav part from here is when lif closes his eyes#funny enough thats the part that i threw in solely for pacing purpose lmaoo#when i opened the file yesterday there were 2 blank panels without any sketch#for pacing purpose#i was all ????? what did you plan past me?????#and i didnt wanna think too much so i just deleted one panel HAHAH#should i do final part where kiran summons lif…… kinda like a closure………#AW MAN SO MANY IDEAS SO LITTLE SKILL SO LITTLE TIME#jejesart
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“Lucifer, please. Enough.”
“I’ve never been happier,” Lucifer seethed, bursting out high laughs in between the tears forcing their escape from the crevices of his eyes. - Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás.
#this book has driven me insane#i admit..... it isnt edited very well but looking past that its phenomenal#the accurate retelling of paradise lost and now book 2 being the book of enoch?#im so excited for three#ik the author said he didnt wanna answer if he was christian or not but tbh theres no way he cant be#bc even if he is resentful of his faith which it reads like he is#he cant have this must hate and fury for a faith he doesnt believe in yknow this kind of rage can only stem from love#and ik that bc i get it#its helping my religious trauma and my own writing and UGH IM SO GLAD I FOUND TJIS AT LIKE 2am on a pinterest doom scroll#mine#religious#religious art#angels before man#angels and man#rafael nicolas#gustave dore#paradise lost#the book of enoch#religious trauma#aesthetic#iconography#ethel cain#ghost bc#darkness at the heart of my love#satanism#luciferianism#catholicism#christianity#fanart#this is only part 1 i have like 3 posts in the wings waiting
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I finished the Caraval trilogy and now I'd like to ask why we like Legend and find him attractive?
He was an annoying brat through the whole series.
#stephanie garber#caraval#but tbh i didnt like the rest of the main cast either#donatella dragna#was fun until she fell in love and was totally unbearable#julian santos#was sometimes fun but mostly annoying#scarlett dragna#was lovely and had her goof moments but so naive I nearly died several times#and dont let me start on#legend caraval#dante santos#absolute worst#jacks#the prince of hearts#was the only thing that kept me alive#ya books
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I need to get a physical set of the ouran manga so bad for many reasons but most pressingly because there is a post (essay) I really want to make comparing the way Kyoya and Tamaki’s feelings for each other and for Haruhi are portrayed but I CAN’T because I don’t have the text in! my! hands!
#ohshc#kyoya ootori#tamaki suoh#i need a set of the books so i can reread it for pleasure a dozen times a year but ALSO#because this series is genuinely one of the best to dig into and there is so so much to analyze#and most of the really really rich stuff didnt make it into the anime#like tbh basically all the major character development is absent#and i need to physically hold it in my hands or im gonna lose my mind#ecdysing#moss does books
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rip my heart out and shoot it, why don't you???
at least it makes for a great mantlepiece item!
#the long filthy claws of the masters...#like the one you put a ring on a month ago? sure buddy#yin-thoughts#fallen london#fallen london spoilers#nemesis spoilers#caeru keeps collecting red flags like he's a professional at capture the flag#and the opposition got sick and didnt attend that day#so he's just left to run around the field hoarding all of them without remorse#i swear i dont mean to liveblog nemesis so much#there's just. so much to unpack in every new storylet that comes along#this is very in line with... basically everything about caeru tbh.#he's absolutely the type to leave a secret book for someone to carry on his legacy#he's good at writing his own will.#he's practiced it many a time.#tune in next time on yin fallen london posting for more ✨ incredibly violent whiplash ✨
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okay there are some revenge stories where the "you're losing yourself to revenge you need to choose forgiveness instead :(" argument actually has some merit, but tbh every time a character has brought that up in count of monte cristo i'm in my corner shouting THEY PUT HIM! IN A DUNGEON! FOR 15 YEARS!
#out of petty jealousy and ambition! he was completely innocent and they stole half of his life bc he was inconvenient to them!#im sorry!!! but to me he can do whatever the fuck he wants to them in return!!!!!!!#also like. even LEAVING ASIDE that VERY GOOD reason for revenge...#they CONTINUE to commit crimes. like fernand straight up let a dude be murdered to get his fortune.#villefort tried to murder his own baby bc it was born out of an affair#danglars is possibly the only one who who isnt quite as bad... but he still does a lot of shady business and insider trading#so it's even MORE insane to me for anyone to talk to dantes about 'forgiving' them and leaving his revenge aside lmao#like not only did they personally fuck with his life but theyre doing bad things so like. theyre just getting the consequences of that.#i feel like the book doesnt push this idea nearly as much tbh. like a BIT when mercedes pleads for albert's life#but to me that reads as: ALBERT didnt commit the crimes so he shouldnt be the one punished. which makes sense.#but in the miniseries there's so many of 'oooh revenge is so bad for you :(( oooh you need to stop :(((" like SHUT UP.#the count of monte cristo#is this now a monte cristo blog? who's to say
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Tbh? I think the radiant emperor duology deserves more critique than it gets in its tag, so after stewing it over for a couple weeks and also discussing it with my friend, I have decided to do it myself.
So. Spoilers for She Who Became the Sun and He Who Drowned The World ahead.
First off, so nobody accuses me of hating the series, I liked the series. I'd say I'd give the first book a 4.5/5, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I like both books. I truthfully skipped the fisting scene, it triggered some dysphoria that I wasn't comfortable with personally but I don't have problem with it existing in the book, it's good where it is, no changes.
No, my critiques come mostly from the second book, hwdts. Which sucks because I absolutely loved Baoxiang in it, it's a well known fact that my ideal type is pretty, really mean, characters. ('What about Madam Zhang?!!!???!? Shes mean and pretty!!' I hear you ask. Give it a second cause i will get to my beloved madam zhang) So, my critiques are mostly organized as 'The first part I didn't like in Hwdtw that signals the thing that became my biggest issue, the bits in the middle that i did like along with the bits that I felt didn't really work well, and Act 3 which is where my issues really were exacerbated.'
By the end of book one, I had a general annoyance but acceptance that Ma Xiuying was a bit of a weak character, and not weak as in 'dang shes a woman and cant fight' or any other sexist way you may interpret that, but weak as in structurally, she didn't really have as much depth as other characters. I thought she didn't have as much time put into her character as others. And yeah you could have a million character analysis essays over Ma and her place in the story and etc, but for me, her setup for the next book as potentially having conflict with Zhu or her own morals was the most interesting part of Ma. In general I think a lot of people tend to overlook this flaw partly because Ma is a cis lesbian character and the main 'love interest' in a book that is usually marketed to people as sapphic, which yeah there is certainly a sapphic relationship in the book but I think saying it's a major part of the book is really giving the relationship a load bearing wall ot isn't strong enough to carry. The Radiant Emperor Duology is not a romance, first and foremost. To describe it as a wlw romance is gonna leave people who read ot specifically for that reason kinda dissappointed by the end of book 2.
My big critiques didn't start until book two, and a particular scene, though. Ma, at the start of book two, was generally filling the niche of 'nagging wife' to zhu, which yknow, is a fine place to start from. I was a little disappointed there was no further discussion of Ma's disapproval of the morality of Zhu's actions, and in fact the dead child was pretty much entirely forgotten by Ma in favor of being Zhu's wife. Which, yknow, sure.
The Scene I had issue with happened (Spoilers once again) after Zhu finally captures Ouyang and imprisons him at her base of operations. Ma, dressed in her empressly regalia enters his room with the intention of being the bigger person. She walks in, looks at the stripped down and humiliated general who killed her father and famously is also really a women hater, and tells him she forgives him for killing her father. And then she gets upset and cries when the prideful general who hates women gives her a dressing down and taunts her and is like 'I'm glad I killed your father'? She nearly cries because Ouyang was mean to her (notably only cause he was mean to her and didn't gracefully accept her forgiveness, not because he killed ehr father) and runs off to Zhu. And Zhu responds with 'Wow, he's just a weirdo, everyone likes you and everyone in existance immediately knows you're a good person and you change people.' Which, my friend suggested before she finished the book, was a case of Zhu placating Ma and dismissing her feelings which would be an interesting dynamic.
Really my hangups with this scene come from multiple parts.
1. Ma' few character traits including being observant and reading people really well (a thing she's praised for in book 1) and having good social intuition are completely thrown out by her thinking being alone with ouyang and forgiving him would be a good idea and then her being shocked and upset when he spat on her forgiveness. And
2. Zhu's response is never once treated by the text as her dismissing Ma and placating her, and Zhu's statement despite never being shown to be true before and that moment being the first time it's ever mentioned, ends up becoming Chekov's moral purity by the end of the book, where the plot hinges on Ma being able to magically heal a damaged character's mind enough for Zhu to win in the end. Which I will get back to. There's a lot of other stuff happening between here and the end.
So, before I get back to Ma and her role in the story, I'll address some other bits from after this scene. Both problems and things I enjoyed generally.
Madam Zhang and her parallels to Baoxiang and her being the absolute queen of dissociating really was interesting (before act 3). She was a very compelling character who I completely understood and felt positively about. She had a way more interesting relationship with gender imo than Ma did, especially in book 2. I didn't really like that she was overwhelmingly shown having sexual villence done to her, that felt weirdly like a punishment. But, I did like her a whole bunch, and I liked the look we got into her head. She was probably my second, maybe third, favorite character in the whole book until Act 3.
I really, really liked Ouyangs dynamic and relationship with Zhu. The weird sexual tension between them, their weird kinda nonsexual but also kinda very sexual S&M relationship. It was somehow the most sensual, sexual part of a book that featured Madam Zhang having sex with multiple people, and Zhu going down on Ma, and a lot of other mentions of sex or scenes involving sex. Tbh I feel like, in a way, Ma was left to the sidelines for most of the book because Ouyang became the primary 'love' interest for a hot second there and the only reason Ma could get her spot back was Ouyang and Zbu's separation. Also, from what I've seen when people talk about this book, they always kinda try to express Zhu and Ouyang's dynamic as very nonsexual and nonromantic, as platonic mostly. And there is no inherent superiority of romantic over platonic, but I think to insist that it is only platonic, and not a strange swirl of romantic, platonic, sexual, frustration and relief, and a swirl of familiarity and vulnerability all wrapped into one, is doing the dynamic a bit of a disservice. And ther is, imo, very clearly a subtle hint of romantic intent and interest on Ouyang's part before he realizes Zhu has a body he hates.
Which is also another point I didn't like. Ouyang and Zhu's relationship end felt off. The entire bit with the pirates felt off, but especially how Ouyang found out about Zbu's body, and how Zhu reacted. I think Ouyang finding out second hand, from a combination of being suspicious and from Jiang saying it, was a poor way for that to be revealed. I think there was a better way for that to happen that woyld have felt more like a betrayl to zhu than this did. The fact that Zhu and Ouyang were so in tune and could see each other perfectly, but this one thing was a blind spot for both of them because of how unaffected by gender Zhu was compared to how overaffected by gender Ouyang was is a really interesting thing to explore, an interesting disconnect between two character's whose entire basis for their relationship is 'like recognizes like'. I think Zhu seeing it as a betrayl would have been more impactful if she had presented this informatuon to Ouyang herself and been rejected than how it went down. And, I think her not realizing Ouyang would be disgusted that he felt connected and felt a sameness to someone with a body he found grotesque and that he feared would have been more interesting for zhu, who views herself outside of womanhood and didnt really think that other people would not see her outside of womanhood, if she was the one who told ouyang herself.
Also, less importantly, think going into Ouyangs annoyance that zhu kept moving his target further away was a good move but it wasn't expanded on as much for my taste. I also really liked it when (spoiler) Xu Da dies, and that entire part despite some minir bits, was extremely good in that Zhu finally has tasted loss. She had, up until that point, been riding a wave of positivity, she was the underdog who won over and over again despite all the odds and despite her own reckless choices. So I did appreciate that everything went wrong for her at least once. that would have been, imo if other things were changed, a good place to end a book two in a three book series. Which will make sense as to why I mention it im a bit.
I also didn't like how Ma was nonexistant unless the plot was like 'ok we need to remind people that Ma exists.'
And there's of course other stuff but those are the main points of acts 1 and 2 that i wasn't fond of or that i liked.
Act 3 is a wholely different behemoth which can be encapsulated with 'I wish it was longer but also different' (courtesy of the convo my friend and I had).
My friend and I both agreed that we liked this kind of courtly drama game it was playing. My friend doesn't tend to like the structure or writing style of a lot of the chinese wuxia, danmei, or courtly drama translated books i read, so it was nice to know that the genre content isn't the issue for her there.
The biggest problems I had with the ending though was 1. I think Baoxiang and Ma had an interesting dynamic despite it being really rushed and how distasteful I found the entire concept of Ma being such a good wholesome goody good good person that she could change Baoxiang, quiet his demons and fix him in some way. That was annoying in an otherwise interesting dynamic. And 2. I think Madam Zhang's character traits and cleverness and all that were wiped away to make her inexplicably jealous of Ma in a way that I don't think fit her character and just served to fit a trope of jealous empress who hates the favored concubine.
So, here's my major proposed changes.
1. Ma gets sent to Khanbaliq extremely early on. Like, act one maybe after ouyang is captured early. This serves three purposes. A. Ma has something to do and is more present in the story. this could be a good xhance to let her actually feel frustrated or upset at Zhu in some tangible way that needs to be resolved or talked thru eventually. B. she gets more time to build a relationship with Baoxiang, whose entire defeat hinges on him having a strong connection with her. and C. Her absence in the other parts of the book feel less like she's being ignored or forgotten. It makes Zhu's lack of haste more than just a way to annoy Ouyang, and turns it into an interesting moral choice. Should she rush to Khanbaliq to save Ma or trust that Ma will be ok in favor of gaining power? Her lack of haste means Ouyang leaves, depressed, and she loses Xu Da, all while she doesn't even have the assurance that Ma is ok, she is truly at her lowest point with nobody with her. If Ma is in Khanbaliq and that's explored, then Zhu and Ouyang can also explore their dynamic without Ma feeling a bit like she is battling for Zhu's attention.
2. Madam Zhang is suspicious of Ma, or feels actually tangibly threatened by Ma. In act 3, Madam Zhang's anger towards Ma feels really out of place. She got exactly what she wants, she is empress, her emperor isn't interested in removing her from her position and her position isn't threatened by anyone. Baoxiang won't get rid of her, he won't demote her, he has shown zero sign of ever even considering it. So, why is Madam Zhang jealous of Ma? Imo, especially since she very clearly has dissociated into oblivion and has no love or affection for anyone anymore, and no real desire or motivation to secure her position further aside from maybe producing an heir to make sure shes taken care of after Baoxiang dies, there's no reason for her to be inextricably jealous of Ma. It kinda just erases all of Madam Zhang's political savvy and cunning into jealous, petty woman, and that sucks. If she was suspicious of Ma's intention, or Baoxiang genuinely expressed spmething that actively threatened her position, her hatred of Ma would make sense, but instead she hates Ma cause Ma is ugly and spends every night with Baoxiang. She hated rice buckets concubine cause that concubine used a lot of funds and competition genuinely made her position less stable. She needs better motivation for hating Ma.
3. As I mentioned earlier, Zhu needs to be the one to tell Ouyang that she does not have a dick. That's just all around better, it feels more like a betrayl to bare your secrets and be rejected, etc etc.
4. The duology should have been a trilogy, with book 3 starting when Zhu is at her lowest, ouyang is dead, ma is in khanbaliq, Xu Da is dead, a new guy is the emperor. This is where a book three should have started. in a series that has so many important characters, i feel like it needs more space. she's in a 10 gallon tank when really she needs a 30 gallon tank. Lots of it, especially towards the end of book 2, felt rushed and the extra book will absolutely push that back a bit and make it less rushed.
Anyways that's my critique of The Radiant emperor duology. Once Again, I liked the series, its one of my favorites i've read all year. I don't dislike it, and having a critique or opinion about something doesnt mean I didn't like the book or understand the book (because obviously if i understood it i would understand why its flawless). I liked it, there are things I wish were different, that's it.
#radiant emperor#he who drowned the world#she who became the sun#radiant emperor spoilers#spoiler#i wrote this in like 2 hours at 4 am and i got lazy halfway thru editing it so if theres typos rip#i just needed to get it out of my brain#organized in text somewhere other than jamies discord dms#thank you jamie also#i have a lot of opinions on this duology#some i didnt even mention cause its 6:30 and i forgot#i think shelley parker chan wants to write nblm or mlm books tbh#i dont think they really wanna write sapphic books#and tbh im ok with that i think there should be more books about transmascs#the tiktok/tumblr habit of describing a book with tags really also doesnt help this book also#i think to say 'sapphic enemies to lovers' for this kind of book gives people the wrong impression#especially since once again i wouldnt really describe it as sapphic in the genre way#anyhow again so nobody kills me#i did like the books#i enjoyed them i loved them i did not hate them at all
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my only sincere wish for tgr tomorrow is that theres at least 1 scene of them actually playing exy
#i think this might be an unpopular opinion tbh bc i know a lot of the fans dont like the exy scenes or even skip them#to whom i say: you know nothing and neil would be so disappointed in u#if u read the books enough times ur 3rd eye opens and u begin to actually understand exy#and once u do the exy scenes become some of the best in the whole series#IMAGINE my disappointment when i finished tsc and realised i didnt get to see them play exy even once. in the exy books#also i purposefully didnt let myself know when the book comes out bc i thought it would be funny if i got surprised by it#and its TOMORROW???????#luckily im off work the next 2 days c:#my posts#aftg#tgr
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Guess what book series i’ve been reading since november lol
#stomlight archive#im halfway thru book 3#absolute banger tbh i didnt think id like it this much and Yet#kaladin ur my bro ily
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doing the worst thing on earth and reading goodreads reviews of american psycho and this person saying it was 'impossible to form an emotional connection with [bateman]' is beyond baffling. youre not fucking supposed to form a connection with him are you well? the entire POINT of the book is to show- i mean its BLEEDINGLY OBVIOUS that- jesus. whatever.
okay and this other review by a woman who gave it one star, saying its like, a brilliant book, describing its intention really well, and then saying i fucking hated it. well yes but that isnt what a one star review is for? i mean obviously you can use the rating system however you like but i feel like giving bad ratings to books that you yourself think are well written or hit the mark of their premise well just bc you didnt LIKE it is like...stupid?
apparently theres big debate over the misogyny in the book and like, people saying oh the murdering of his coworkers and stuff is okay but bc most of his kills are women and its entwined with sex then maybe the author is a misogynist too and its a bit much and this book is problematic and antifeminist. i just. hello???? can anyone hear me???
#like i didnt really enjoy the book either tbh but i found it very interesting#and obviously idk the author or what he thinks or whatever but i definitely felt that the violence#(just like the forced banality and cataloguing of the nonviolent scenes) was very intentional#its just so. whatever lol
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