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fascinating thing to read during wisdom teeth removal recovery

“‘tell me again about this Louis’” >:)

“after all, i owed armand no explanations. and did he not owe something to me?” when i unknowingly speak the words of my own undoing 🗣️

it feels disrespectful to read about marius on the day the new armand s3 poster debuted but here we are ig

if s3 gives me machete-wielding armand to the tune of "blue monday" (cover) by HEALTH, then i will proclaim it the most thematically, intellectually, creatively, and spiritually correct adaptation of all time. i feel like this franchise was written, at a preternatural level, for me.

do all woke anthropologists write like this (said in a highly complimentary way)

"his mind was closed to me...and as we said our farewells, i believed that nicolas and the little coven had every chance for survival, and that armand and i were friends" HIT IT "DANCE" BY SLAYYYTER

i know i just updated but "he was closing his arm round me, and pressing his forehead against my face" -- freak nasty moment that i SOMEHOW forgot about

armand and lestat are just going to have a zoo-lander off in season 3 wherein armand tries not to cry at the first sight of lestat. i'm convinced. "he's going to get us all killed" and you'd like that, wouldn't you.

i don't really need to keep reading at this point - i've probably exhausted the material that's relevant to My Scholarly Field - but this is taking me right back to undergrad in the best way. terms/concepts would go right over my head if i hadn't taken certain classes taught by certain profs who remain very dear to me <3

THIS IS THE PART WHERE ARMAND READS BOOKS LIKE A FREAK LOL

assad zaman…assad if you can hear me…please do The Monologue…..pleaseeee…..

reading academic prose with such expediency and precision feels like running through a sunlit meadow. i can see and hear and understand everything clearly. this update is a direct attack on what i often have to read for work lol

i've never had a more bitchless, cringe-fail favorite character than armand before. WOW i forgot how embarrassing this entire book is for him (i love it)

shocked and appalled at how brilliant and current this is. raymond williams mention on about the 10th page, even.

“I stood holding the rein of my horse and looking at the small field of graves and could not quite figure what it was. Then again it came, and I knew. I felt a distinct presence in the churchyard” heehee <3

on what planet would they approve of a fishing trip

"Our dear head nurse is one of the few with the heart to stand up for a grand old Faulknerian tradition in the treatment of the rejects of sanity: Brain Burning" - top 5 funniest literature puns i've ever read. for the first time since i started this book: thank you, mister kesey.

the mic drop moments are frying me

lestat your bitch too bad your hair too blonde your illness too mental they’ll kill you

wow this is horrendous.

me now with hindsight: NICKI. NICKI LOOK OUT. NICKI PLEASE.

i'm reading this again but this time it's for science (season 3 premiers in 29 days and i need to remember Everything about armand)

“you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! but, please. it’s still hard for me have a clear mind thinking on it. but it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen” - me when i decide to write about an edgy holden caulfield’s experience in the mental institution because it’s the 60s and we all steal from salinger, at least a little bit

popping in to announce salinger news from the guardian (among other places): "In the final stages of production for The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger asked his editor...to remove his 'Jewish-Irishness' from the book jacket...'I don’t know that I’d like to have that Jewish-Irish business slapped on the jacket … Surely it’s as bad to advertise worthy information as it is to withhold it – if it’s catchy, that is.'

nothing can ever beat 'sometimes a great notion' but i'm still excited for this one! i've had it marked as to-read since 2020

i feel a bit of sacrilege coming on (i’m not loving this) (i haven’t read any brit lit in at least a year)

reading this because i want too, sure, but mostly to appease somebody in my life rn

uh oh it got boring