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no one told me this was ACTUALLY gay they have SUCKED EACH OTHER OFF

also... captures the very specific experience of moving from NYC to the desert very well. the las vegas melancholy is so reminiscent of phx 🩷💔

also! weird little bildungsroman going on. it's gorgeous prose but the book feels almost bloated

oh BROTHER

ping xi (as a character within the work, not just from the racist unlikeable FMC- which i recognize as a device but think is somewhat dumb and unenjoyable, still) is interestingly orientalist. like he couldn't be a european, he has to be a chinese guy with a chinese first name. more otherized, distant, New York City Art World, figure instead of A Guy.

I feel like I have gained nothing of value, nor have I enjoyed reading this. This is spectacularly substanceless. I would have gleaned just as much into the MC's rich inner life by listening to the Red Scare podcast or scrolling through the twitter account of one of many of New York's Jaded Femcel Marxist E-girls. I still might like it? IDK. Maybe wanting to fall asleep reading this is the book working on me.

this is literally just john green's "paper towns" but for adult femcels

WE'RE SO BACK

or trying to "beat" hell: this is all very great divorce-ian

well no i think it's gonna be self flagellation probably, holding on too long and festering

but alas there are apparently like 124 pages left so i will read on in hopes he returns

i no longer want to send rf kuang a fruit basket.

BROOOOO. a) that's mean b) that's expected and c) that did not have the emotional payoff i needed, for some reason? that's it?

re: hangman's paradox, i feel like we're falling into the babel trap of unreadability here because it's too dense trying to explain when it's chock-full of academia - specifically doing that for logistics doesn't work! even aside from the magic system! - and very unpopularly i don't subscribe to the idea that that's my fault or a skill issue when this is a very popular mass market book so 🫤🫤

i love women who are SICK AND TWISTED ! plot twist !!🥳🥳🥳😍😍😍

i want to send rebecca f kuang a fruit basket . edible arrangement❤️

i love rageful vengeful at times pathetic girls going insane over the bitterness and inequality in academia actually 💯💯 i love spiraling into petty vendettas because there have been times you truly were slighted!!!! i LOVE it!!!!!!!! ahh!!!

"Look outside, said Professor Grimes; you see that kid? Darjeeling tea, brewed too long, tasting like acid. Dry scones like cement in her throat. She could not swallow it down. Grimes at a blackboard, Grimes at a chessboard. Fortune favors the bold, magick rewards the decisive. The first mover wins; the losers play catch-up. Are you a born loser? Do you have the guts?"

baby, assonance will get you everywhere!

another standout paragraph of prose here! i love this and how it characterizes!!

all my homies hate kant btw

cowherd and the weaver girl mention🔥🔥🔥🔥 a reference i appreciate but which feels somewhat random

miscommunication is MY ENEMY!!!!!!!!!!

damn. first solidly nice piece of prose here in the panic attack scene- wowowow i love its horrific

wow, straight up "nuh-uh'd" him.

this is soooo great books theology core... very cs lewis very the great divorce... :) it makes me feel stupid which makes me feel smart i think run of the mill kuang readers will understand what i mean

it's arguably a weak spot that this is all written like a dissertation: i get it's the character as an academic sort of, but also, babel was like this but worse ... this aspect has improved since babel i think but not enough to make for Good prose 3

me and my gf who hates me💓💓 hilarious if most of this rivalry and these slights are in her head ... so far i like this a lot actually and alice has a lot of solid & likeable characterization (stronger than robin i think) but maybe that's just be she reminds me of somebody i know...

OMG THE APOLOGY FOR THE MORNING WOOD BRO😭😭 i love him... boyfailure....

yep i fucking knew it was a professor callahan situation goddammit grimes

she's def got some sort of addiction maybe, or ED, or something – very [! & !]

ok i really need to stop updating at every single page but

"every now and then a research paper surfaced on why male voices were better suited for magick, citing regions of pitch, depth, or steadiness, and they always parked a big hub involving outrage statements from women-in-magick societies"

debate kid shining through rf kuang i know what you are... i did a project on this LOL