Oriole Keber > Recent Status Updates

Rocky just died. I knew he would but I hoped that he wouldn’t I’m crushed

Awwww they are both sole survivors awwwww

“…So rather than being something we want to avoid altogether, like square dancing, the plague, and having your look at photos of your colleagues cats…”

DANI cover your ears you won’t believe what Dr. Hill just said!!! Red flag!!🚩🚩🚩

Dani cover your ears the Dr. Lady just listed “having to look at photos of your colleagues’s cats” as some “we” want to avoid altogether!!!

Lady you don’t know me!!! Red flag!!!
🚩

According to this author I have “a kind of cerebral, not choosing a book by its cover approach to mating”

Because I don’t prioritize masculine AKA “sexy” faces. Lol what

“They had pictures of the men’s faces rated on attractiveness”

RATED ON ATTRACTIVENESS? Girl. You can’t do that scientifically. Attractiveness is different to every person. MAYBE if you used masculinity as attractiveness, which it seems like you are. Which is wrong.

I cannot even with you right now.

The way the author is drawing a direct line of
(More) masculine = (more) sexy
And that sexy (which is to say masculine) men is what women want to have sex with is ridiculous. I can see how she got there with her logic, but I don’t like it. Also drawing a direct correlation between having a “sexier” partner and better sex is bogus to me.

Ok I’m falling off at all this “sexy man” stuff. Dr. Lady 2 seconds ago you were talking about how sexiness is in the hormones of the beholder, now the law is square jaw = sexy???? Also all this research of purely based off appearances. Softer face is less sexy? Fuck off. I’m mad now all of a sudden.

Also wtf is facial masculinity?
This feels so wrong as an artist.

God I’m only a fourth of the way through this book and my mind is already blown.
As someone considering the pill because hormonal birth control is the only solution doctors have for my PCOS, this is so important, I didn’t even know there was different kinds of synthetic estrogen and they do different things! My hormones ARE me, my actions, and personality

“You can call me Archer” dang that’s good.
Right in the feels.

WE GOT THE THIRD BOOOOOOK

Jacks get in there!

Beleaguered

surrounded by military forces; besieged:
ALSO
beset, surrounded, or overburdened by troubles:

New words:
Harangue
1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.

Anachronistic
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time:

Reading her disassociating made me start to disassociate, trippy

New word: cathexis

the investment of emotional significance in an activity, object, or idea.

Ryland kicked Puppy!!!!!!
This is a note not to recommend this to people who are sensitive to animal abuse in books.

New use of “pique” a sharp resentment

An interesting thing about this book is that at the end of each chapter the main character switches from talking in the present tense to the past tense. Saying final words like “and that was the last I ever saw of her” or “and that was my first mistake”.

Genuinely wondering where this book will end off! (minus the romance, I know what’s going to happen there.)

NO. THE CLIFFHANGER. I should have known things were going too smoothly. I can’t believe I have to wait for the next volume on this note!!!

Here be spoilers:
Duke Kaufman slipping love potion into (now) Emperor Heinrey’s drink???
The duke seeing Rashta????
That last panel with Heinrey in former queen Krista’s lap???? NoooooOoOOOoo!
I just want Navier to be able to chill for like a couple years!!

I’m only getting my book recommendations from Tiny Bookshop (video game) from now on.

I’m listening to three podcasts at once, so no books for a while 3

The way that Redain respected and immediately used Cas’s and Meep’s preferred pronouns even though she was tied up and in a position of powerlessness made me so warm and fuzzy inside!

Yay!

I’m in love with this book

“Great minds think alike”
“No, they don’t. Otherwise every idea would be uniform.”

Banger quote from Zofia. Hit me square in the chest and I couldn’t agree more.