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buddy reading with my sister while we spend a week in guangzhou

“Biologists and the laws of evolution on Earth said humanity had started, like everything else, in the sea. Maybe that explained fearing the dark. An ancestral memory of this sort of all-consuming nothingness”

logging my thoughts as i go

what if the leaked footage was retrieved in raw codec like 10bit and allat and that’s how they know for sure it can’t be doctored. or maybe it’s labelled a proxy and they will NEVER KNOW RAHHHHHHHHHH

🤖🧍‍♀️“Are we going to kick arse and take names, Miss Kane?”

HEEHEE

had to spoil myself bcos i was reading the description for the mermaid’s scales thinking please do not let this fish be the love interest like im sure she’s very nice but it’s giving avatar way of water 😭😭

i'm loving this but kinda wish it leaned fully into body horror with the roses and thorns. also contradictorily i'm sorry but this is all my brain sees whenever they mention the flower growing from rowan's hand bcos i am full of brainrot

ok i think most of it is super cool but as a singaporean i’m finding it hard to be into this colonizer romance where the sapphic power play seems a little too direct. no fault of anyone i just think its giving me the same ick that the raffles statue gives sorry. other than that its pretty cool and also reminds me of SRT’s stage adaptation of Miss Julie which was also exploring racial dynamics (but in post ww2)

what i would give for a sapphic version of this ugH

told my dad this morning that i wanted to finish this book ASAP because i’m not enjoying it and he just said why not ask chatgpt to tell you the ending 🫥

yea this book is definitely, without a doubt, openly and completely racist. obvious from the first page but i underestimated just how deep-rooted it was. it’s the whole, very dangerous package of the lost cause, with complete denial of abuse, and literally NO criticisms of slavery as a concept AT ALL.

i can’t deny that part of me was looking for any signs of subversion in mitchell’s writing about the “lost cause” of the confederacy, especially with scarlett’s indifference to it all. but she’s ignorant, and i would be ignorant to think her better. this book no doubt romanticises colonialism and slavery to a very deep degree. don’t wanna make conclusions before im even a quarter in but-

“Women knew that a land where men were content, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from cradle to grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men payed lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.”

“When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual.”