Status Updates From A Study in Drowning (A Stud...

Awful

i hope im gonna start liking the main character soon 🫪

preston i love you

"My apologies if it wasn't clear to you, Mr. Marlowe," Preston said icily. He lifted their joined hands and gave a thin smile.

i giggled a little

i'm so sorry i cannot get over how much of a bitch effy is being. i'm usually all for women's rights and wrong but girl.

i'm so sorry i cannot get over how much of a bitch effy is being like it's insane.

effy, girl. u sound kind of racist and bitter right now.

"I don't know why you care about Myrddin at all, she said.
Unexpectedly, her throat tightened, on the verge of tears. "He's our national author. Not yours. Have you even read his books?"

girl come on now.

right ok. i don't like effy. i'm sorry but im not but i hope she has some good character development because all i am seeing at the moment is a girl who things only she should be treated better and is a bit racist and thinks down on other girls. also she is so unprepared like come on.

"And an Argantian. She couldn't fathom how there even was one at the literature college, which was the university s most presti-gious, and especially one who was studying Myrddin. He was Llyr's national author. The whole thing seemed like a terrible knife-twist of fate, a personal and spiteful slap in the face. The name in its pre-cise writing hovered in the forefront of her mind: P. Héloury."

this is lowkey racist

ok so like i get that's she wants to be recognized and stuff but like some of your thinking comes off kind of racist effy.

"If she said yes, I do, she was a conceited harpy. If she shook her head and rebuffed the compliment, she was falsely modest, playing coy. It was fae-like trickery. There was no answer that wouldn't damn her."

felt this 100%