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ohhhhh holy moly that fight with the old lady was crazy

this is so good!!!!! it feels like an idea that was too ambitious for the original movie, and I love how it was expanded upon and breathed into life here. poor mulan's identity crisis is going insane, "she was always inspired by the men in her father's stories and wished she could do that as a girl" and I am eating it up

every once in awhile i space out and miss part of what he said but then when i zone back in i realize i've missed basically nothing LOL

that conversation about whiteness was insane also. oh gosh.

Completely losing my mind. This is a whale encyclopedia masquerading as a fictious tale. And I LOVE it. I love a meandering narrative with smart research.

Learning about LONG JOHN the WHALE HATER (a finback? whale) and the narwhal also known as the NOSE WHALE

DOWN, DOG?????!!?! AHAB!?!?!? LMFAO

"Let him kick you its a sign of respect" YOURE FEEDING INTO HIS GOD COMPLEX!?!?

also the freaking scene with the pastor had me rolling. ON HIS PULPIT THAT IS REMINISCENT OF A BOAT. LMFAO. he stayed kneeling in his boat pulpit until all the churchgoers left. lololol

this book is hilarious I can't believe I didn't read it sooner actually

THIS BOOK IS GAY??????????? "we are married now" BHFBSHB WHAT????? WHAT?????

sure he wouldn't have called himself a homosexual back in 18whatever but as a 21st century person reading this. this is like. the textbook gay. wtf. wow

I do like their dynamic a lot, to see the whole "to be a good christian i must show him my religion but Also i must Accept His" is completely insane. 1800???? WOW!!

it manages to be simultaneously ahead of its time and painfully racist.
I'm sure at the time it WAS seen as progressive but I can't get over the use of the word "savage." if you respect this man, how can you use such a word to describe him? even if that's what was normal at the time, it has such a disrespectful connotation!

otherwise, luscious prose and inventive atmosphere. love the "drowned himself to sleep."

wish me luck

FOR YOUR HANDS. oh my gosh. they nauseate me THEY ARE SO.

ronan arguing that they are meant for more than a normal life and adam refusing to let go of this one human thing (school, college) that he's been killing himself for that he CRAVES. i lean a little bit on adam's side (i am biased) but i can sympathize with both sides. them :,))))

HELLO KITTEN!!!! IM SCREAMINGGGGGGG

cannot understate how freaking hilarious this one is. mallory's entire character. the DOG. curses!!!

also, the dread. upon rereading I see that the dread really starts here in the third book, the hornets to ravens, the corpse road memories, maura in the cave, ooooh. so lovely so funny so. i love these characters and i love how much they love each other. we did it we found the family.

This is literally so cute I keep thinking about it 🥺🥺🥺🥺 actually had me giggling on break at work while reading. They are adorable and I am terribly fond of them.

i freaking love the mulan movie and so far this book reads JUST like it, great tone and nice, vivid prose. i am so worried about shang!!!!!!! love all the reflection/identity imagery too like yesss they understood the assignment

RENARD!?!?!?!?!?!

...i still feel like i don't understand why cade has to pretend to be patrick. because patrick doesn't know how to fight for some reason but cade does, so they have cade pretend??? but like why doesn't patrick know lol??? he's a prince??? what???

the argument about "oh no, they have to marry the people they don't like" lol?? that happened in history?? oh well?? could still be a win?
also was that sex? abstract sex?

LAD..... WE ARE THE PIRATES 😂😂😂😂😂

gone to the shared imagination we call memory........ oh my gosh

this book has me by the freaking throat

locke :((((((((( my pookie

Saint ELMO!?!!?!?!?!?!? the red Saint of trauma dumping?!!??!?! !!??!?!?!!??!? is that SESAME STREET ELMO

we are almost a quarter of the way in and he still doesn't know he is on a pirate ship. hilarious

oh my goooosh im seething. locke were you just hoping things would improve. YOU DESERVE BETTER WHY ARE YOU ON THIS BARQUE. mourning the inevitable death of locke and everyone else. this is so good so haunting soooo. they're all gonna die!!!!!

i am... so confused???

why were they at the place with the monks for so long. and then they just see the animals and they're like ok time to go??? and then he just starts fighting his brother lmfao and i mean patrick was right that cade was ditching like ??????

also the mystery STINKS i've been onto lowell this whole time just because he's shady COME ONNN where's the CLUES where's the INTRIGUE

The bloody kiss on her glove im screaming

GOOD LORD LMFAO

I really enjoy the idea of this trans monk conclave situation. that's cool!!!

can i just say though that the enemies part of this book really dragged for me, like we all know neither of them did the spell, can we please GET to the part where we start INVESTIGATING who did it!!!!! we've got a mystery on our hands!!!!!

"let me take you." "I let her take me." whoa ok. whoa

that sequence? where she's reflecting on being with that random woman in ganymede and she smells her perfume and just, REMEMBERS. remembers flint and the monsters and the ship. wow. i love that. the power of memory. terrifying!!!

Using a SECOND VOID to ignore the FIRST ONE..... oh my gosh..... im like.... oh my Gosh. This book is going to haunt me i love it

LOCKE. DANG. DANG. im. DANNGGGG.

It is such a testament to me just how sexy i thought their compassion was LMFAO

this is insane and i am crazy about it. LOCKE. im such a simp for rule followers lmao that whole sequence had me quaking like girl are you really going for locke. what!!!

the whole, the captain doesn't want revenge... the captain wants immortality... and you only get immortality one way in space... QUAKING IN MY BONES

this is so. oh my gosh. this is so.

i have nothing to add, this is freaking crazy and im into it