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“here lies my life, a conscious ghost of a paradise i never knew, a stillborn corpse of my unrealized hopes. happy those who suffer as unified selves—whom anxiety alters but doesn’t divide, who believe at least in unbelief, and who can sit in the sun without mental reservations!”

my first major disagreement! i am not yet nihilist enough to look down on those trying as a collective to improve material conditions. i’m finding pessoa’s remarks about revolutionaries and humanitarianism quite nauseating. i admire his honesty, but that’s as far as my appreciation goes on this topic… he is just a Man at the end of the day.

never felt so seen btw. “I seek and I don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots. God made my soul to be a decorative object.”

i fucking love this guy. he’s so dramatic about everything. he spends his time complaining about christianity, daydreaming that he is julius caesar, and envisioning a frightening scene of thundered destruction where his boss emerges as a zombie. and he always has a stomachache. he’s just like me fr

this has been an interesting reading experience… i keep fluctuating between VERY engaged and VERY emotionally invested vs struggling to focus

sitting here sobbing my eyes out 2% in because what do you mean he’s gay… my heart is aching… i did not expect this

seeing “poggers” in a real life book just made me throw my kobo across the room. this is the craziest shit i’ve ever read.

speechless

ohhhhhhh actually this is everything everyone said it was and wow i’m having fun

alright let’s fucking do it

“if sin existed, she had sinned.” exaaaaaaaactly

this is setting up to be a really fucking crazy climax and i’m scaaaaaared… ann leckie please don’t hurt my feelings…

i have so much to do and i can’t stop reading. torment.

really enjoying this more than the first. i fear i’ve become enamored with seivarden. kind of meow meow…

oh how i missed you, my dear eliza clark

for a very cold and calculated sci-fi book, this is GAGGY!!! i’m gasping in shock every 50 pages!!!

you have gotttttt to be kidding me… using my lunch break to pick up a physical copy of this. i’m not playing around. this is brilliant.

just started twerking i can’t lie… this is GOOD.

this one is for the DYKES!!!!!!!! oh my god!

losing my goddamn mind at this 😭😭😭 CRAZY!!!

????!!?!?!?!?!???????!!!???? MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!

so fucking incredible. this is a MASTERY!!! i cannot believe this duology is martine’s debut.

ok i’m a third through this, and restarting with the audiobook because i think it will help comprehension to hear different voices.

MAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN NOT THE DID/SYSTEM DISCOURSE!!!! i’m losing my fucking mind this is a TIME CAPSULE of a book, holy shit 😭😭😭

the discord chat logs are taking me OUT. you can tell ms. eliza has either done her research or has truly been in the trenches herself

the tumblr shit is actually KILLING me like this is such a specific subset of chronically online culture that i am regrettably familiar with and it’s just too accurate 😭

i feel like you have to have a sister to really understand this book and i just don’t have a sister LOL

yall… this is so good

taking me forever to get through but also super enjoyable. girlhood <3