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My Croatia trip unexpectedly reawakened the ASOIAF thirlie in me I fear… Elissa Farman I am so into you!!!!!

My conspiracy theory is that Big Church:tm: had to change Benitez's ethnicity from Filipino to Mexican in the film adaptation because Benitez is just so Cardinal Chito coded that it would've just fueled the first Filipino pope propaganda (Fropeaganda) smh

Ppl disliking Ivan/hating Ivan's chapters when Peter literally has the 5'7-annoying-liberal energy of every other cishet man that you will meet in postgrad...

:')

I’ve only had Ivan and Margaret for 38 pages but if anything happened to them I am ready to kill everyone in this room and then myself

“It is easier, I think, to consider the fact of us in its many disparate pieces, as opposed to one vast and intractable thing. Easier, I think, to claw through the scatter of us in the hopes of retrieving something, of pulling some singular thing from the debris and holding it up to the light.

So in pieces, then: a long time ago, we met.”

“I used to imagine the sea as something that seethed and then quietened, a froth of activity tapering down into the dark and still. I know now that this isn’t how it goes, that things beneath the surface are what have to move and change to cause the chain reaction higher up.” 🫨🫨🫨

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”

Are you kidding me I'VE BARELY TURNED THE MF PAGE

possibly one of the most interesting—and genuinely Thee most esoteric—readings I've ever started in my life... i say this affectionately though!!!

Not them using the same gender-neutral cologne they’re just like me fr 😭 I love when normal people get together

im losing my mind at how self indulgent this feels… who is going to tell kuang that there r academics that regularly engage with the world as cultural/field workers and even members of own trade unions that align themselves with the masses… it doesnt even work IN CONTEXT to have academics be so puny when this is set postwar book 😭 global north humanities scholars r NAWT beating the ivory tower allegations

pro tip: to enjoy this book one must simply Ignore the Footnotes 😊🫰 being talked down to by a novel is crazy like damn what are you a 1940s academic journal off jstor ???

why tf am I already crying

“I wanted to write about the reading culture I was seeing: the way it instrumentalized the books of writers of color to do the work that white readers should have always been doing themselves […] creating a dynamic in which predominantly white American readers expect books by writers of color to “teach” them specific lessons—about historical trauma, far-flung wars, their own sins.”

I’ve made a commitment to write a review for every book I read this year. So far my thoughts on Wuthering Heights is just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHSHSHSHSJJSJS!!!!!!! So I’ve got my work cut out for me 😔