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chunky ass book but I’m having fun

i ADORE being reminded that john darnielle was a classics major. i desperately want to hear this song.

reading this ARC is turning me insaneeeeee /pos it is so fantastic

johannes i’m so proud of you. look how far you’ve come (developmentally).

losing my mind and also i refuse to believe that that character is permanently dead

my beloved sons who go on parallel character arcs <3 i really cannot wait to see johannes’ continued movement toward softness + what horst ends up doing with the murdery and monstrous parts of himself

i adore this book.

JLH was not lying about needing to have read the short stories before this. exeunt demon king is coming very heavily into the narrative.

johannes is zarenyia’s little guy. he’s a bug and she’s poking him to see how he responds.

oh my god this IS transgender
“to his horror, he also found her, which is to say him, which is to say himself, attractive” johannes i’m gonna hold your hand when i say this—

IS THIS A REFERENCE TO ODIN LOSING AN EYE FOR KNOWLEDGE

heard this is the one where cabal can be read as transfem

prep for reading cabal 5
what an opening

this is giving acotar but evil (compliment)

LEAF SERRAL AROACE???

screaming crying throwing up etc

this book is everything.

this book is like if the ya fantasy/romance books i was reading all the time when i was younger were actual quality

julian morrow wise old man archetype real

there is so much Gender in here. i’m like halfway through and most of it has been read aloud to a transfemme. pentheus wanting to send the army after the bacchae feels equivalent to the australian army having a war against emus. also he is getting maliciously feminized. this is glorious reading.

idek what translation this has me reading. probably Anne Carson. I will be done with my reading of this play within the next day or two and it’s school work but I feel like it deserves to count for goodreads reading just because of how much fun it is

reading parts of nietzsche’s *the birth of tragedy* for class rn and thinking “donna tartt definitely read this”. can’t wait to read bacchae within the next couple weeks and look for similarities, since she cites that as one of her main inspirations for TSH

how are you out here buying wine in the united states at age twenty with no mention of a fake id

funeral stuff is GOOD. also peak iliad reference

the more I read this book the more I think about the elitism baked into this

reading a book about exhausted classics students to help myself become a less exhausted classics student?!
maybe i can time finishing this book with when i read bacchae in class

these mfs are alcoholics 😭

awooga

and things have finally gotten truly interesting

parts of this feel deeply implausible but whatever. i’ll keep reading