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is this heavy-handed with the god and the catholicism? yes! is it still so touching to watch a man turn away from cruelty repeatedly despite how cruel the world has been to him? yes!!! that is why this is The Novel!!!

cosette and jean valjean i love you so much. the kindness and hope that radiate off you both are so important to me and i will never not adore you as characters. and i haven't even made it to my favorite character yet! i'm this soft and emotional over characters that i'm like "yeah cool they're here" about!!!!

ugh how is this book still so relevant all these years later!!! javert representing punitive, carceral justice and valjean representing restorative justice. the way montreuil-sur-mer reacts to the news of him being valjean and just... turning on him. fantine being thrown in a pauper's grave without being remembered bc the cure decided she didn't deserve a proper burial and no one was left to advocate for her... FUCK.

LUCANIS DELLAMORTE I AM FREE ON THURSDAY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HANG OUT ON THURSDAY WHEN I AM FREE

i didn't expect Actual Horror from my dragon age short story collection but i'm not complaining!

even when i Know the things she's saying, i am Learning, and i am so grateful to have her work to learn from

i'm having such a fun time i love this not-earth and how viscerally terrifying yet fascinating i find it

i was apprehensive about this but i'm having a lot of fun! the trogs <3

nico di angelo you have friends!! and they care about you!! even when you turn people into ghosts!! you are loved!!

out here crying over a giant and a titan instead of a demigod for once. riordan has RANGE.

maxim is made of red flags and there is so much Not Right about manderley and i am finding myself sucked into this prose. what a haunting delight this is so far.

having a great time but this is false advertising because i was thinking about Beaches but this is the shore of a lake?? that's not a Beach beach (ninki minjaj)

everyone is insufferable and bj and magnolia are toxic as shit AND YET i'm having fun

haunted, desolate stretches of two-lane highway is a specific brand of americana and i LOVE IT.

torn because i'm REALLY engaged with the plot and how it seems to be a love story and a sci-fi thriller woven together, but something about the writing style is keeping me from being all-in on it. and the writing style is VERY GOOD!

stephen king's late-august love letter to tim wakefield made me emotional. no one was more no-nonsense. he was the quintessential red sox player, a workhorse with no ego and love for the city he played in. he's my all-time favorite for a reason.

i miss tim wakefield.

stephen king called it in regards to kevin youkilis. "a star is born," indeed.

god i love baseball and i love the red sox.

"arguing with a yankees fan is like arguing with a real estate agent who voted for ronald reagan."

"i woke up to real life, smelling not the coffee but the peanuts and cracker jacks: ah yes, screwed again. hello, world, i'm a red sox fan."

this book IS springtime to me, and with the 20th anniversary of the greatest sports moment i've ever seen thiz year, it felt like a good time to revisit this. baseball. ❤️

"one of the most powerful armies on the planet used its full might against a besieged area of one hundred and forty square miles, which is among the world's most heavily populated enclaves and whose people had no way to escape the rain of fire and steel."

hell is not hot enough for henry kissinger. rest in piss, asshole.

didn't expect jfk of all people to pop up as someone who had a "reasonably good" grasp on middle eastern political conflicts but hey, there he is!

"the palestinian issue thus became a political football exploited at will... palestinians witnessing this cynical game eventually realized that if anything was to be done about their cause, they would have to do it themselves."

only 35 pages in and filled with rage. how did the british empire get away with suppressing political activity and free press in palestine in the early 1900s without SOMEONE going "hey that's pretty fucked up?" (i know how. the dehumanization and refusal to acknowledge palestinians' existence has been crystal clear from the 1800s onward.)

mark made me incandescent with rage and then in the course of one chapter i turned that towards louise. IF YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE WITH CREEPY DOLLS YOU WILL DIE. THIS IS BASIC HORROR MOVIE STUFF.

okay so we're immediately revealing two "life size" dolls named after the kids and a bunch of out-of-place stuff i am HERE for this

yeah i'm an MRA: a mage rights activist fuck the templars