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Inconsolable oh my god 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Nooooo I knew a tragedy was coming but if it’s an infertility story I’ll be disappointed

I think my favorite part of this book is that there are some things that I had previously thought the LGBTQ community would unanimously support, like drag, or the repeal of don’t ask don’t tell. But this book talks about conflicting opinions from different groups within the LGBTQ community. That level of nuance makes me feel like by reading this book, I’m actually taking a graduate level course. 😍

If they cut Ben in the movie i RIOT. I cried “why not go to the wedding? It’s better than a funeral”

Henry telling his dad about how often he sees his mom destroyed me

Clare realizing Henry is kind of a loser? Love love love love love

I like how unlike other sci fi stories the MMC is just a guy who stumbled into this. His many flaws make him more realistic and interesting to me over like “im a genius and i discovered time travel” kind of stuff

“Do you ever miss him?”

“Every day. Every minute.”

“Every minute. Yes. It’s that way, isn’t it?”

In addition to the horrific descriptions of women, the science isn’t even right!!

Charlie’s condition is caused by phenylketoneuria, which the Dr. says is a mystery. It was explained and mostly cured a decade before this was written. Maybe pre-internet the author couldn’t get that info, fine.

Now they describe the gyri and sulci of the mouse brain - all mouse brains are flat!! Come on!! Easily available info

As a woman and as a scientist I just cannot care about this protagonist. Relatedly… Deeply disgusted by how the women are portrayed. “There was no place to enter. No street, no room, no woman” SIR????????? 🤢🤢🤢🤢 BOO HOO CRY MORE

Now we’re on don’t ask don’t tell. Damn.
By this point I’ve heard so many stories of our institutions completely failing queer people, and I’ve become almost desensitized. But this story happened in 2004, and the recency is a shock to the system!

This actually does read like long-form creepypasta… AND IT’S VERY EFFECTIVE IM SCARED

My internal monologue is just “GETTTTT OUTTT!!!!!!!!” Also can’t believe how well the author nailed the anxious inner monologue, like it’s truly eerily accurate 😆

I cried when Sharon Kowalski came home 🥲🥲🥲🥲

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” - Harvey Milk

Fascinating to hear the process by which homosexuality was removed from the DSM! Namely aggressively protesting the annual APA meeting (!!??!!)

Such a beautiful rollercoaster im emotionally wrecked at the bagel shop

This section about the intersection of feminism and queerness is really wild to me. Drag being offensive to women, particularly queer women, is definitely not a concept I expected to find in this specific book! History!!

God bless Frank Kameny

“There will be more floods. More children swept under. But they will not be my children.”

Juxtaposed with:

“But a mother and her baby survived tonight. On a night I thought bound for death we’ve witnessed life instead… These kids fought, they pushed themselves past every threshold. Knowing all the while that it would probably be for nothing, they pushed on anyway.”

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The humpback whales are symbolic af UGH I love that grief is physical in this

“There they were. Eight and nine years old. Having lost their mother and yet stepping forward to save me… They loved him. Purely and without resentment, and now he does the same for us, he nurtures and loves us.

And within the sphere of my children’s courage, of their generosity of spirit, I found a way to be more. To ask of myself more.”
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I ship it!!!!

“There were eucalypts, three of them. My favorite trees on the land. They were a fraction too close to the house, but I couldn’t cut them down for that. I loved them too much.

In the end everything burned for those eucalypts. Because the flames, they leaped. They flew farther than I’d ever imagined they could.”

My inner monologue is about to have an Aussie accent 😆

The smut is getting to be toooo freakinggg much for me ☠️☠️☠️

I really really really want to like this book but it just makes me feel icky