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Of Monsters and Mainframes

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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

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I have built over time a deep kinship with species that have been maligned by other humans—venomous snakes, fungal parasites, soil-dwelling insects, slippery spineless beings—and the “undesirable” habitats they call home. Of these, snakes ...more

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“So many parents will try to kill everything brilliant about a girl in the name of giving her a good life, a safe life, a chance at happiness.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

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“You’re afraid the real thing won’t match up to your memories of it,” Ramesh said. “And you’re absolutely right. That place stopped existing the moment you left. Maybe it didn’t even exist at all. Memory has a way of smoothing and polishing edges.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

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“Here was a boy who made monsters, or perhaps was a monster himself. All because he couldn't face the fact, the guilt, the sorrow, the rage, of his sister being dead.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

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“If you cut open my chest'—Andrew's voice was wrecked—'you'll find a garden of rot where my heart should be.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

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“For a vicious moment, Andrew thought about slipping his fingers into Thomas's cut. Taking hold of his rib and breaking it. Pulling the soft crumbling bone from his chest and sewing it into his own. They'd be forever together, rib against rib, fused in gore and bone and adoration.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

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