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I’m still reeling from seeing the Met’s outstanding production of Tchaikovsky’s opera yesterday, so today I’m popping my Pushkin cherry with the source material.

It’s been so long… I think a romantasy could fix me.

Who knew they were writing stuff this raunchy in the 14th century???

My commuting audiobook. A similar vibe to my beloved OUABH, but not even remotely as endearing or engaging. It’s adequate and I expect I’ll finish it. The MMC is 10000% on the spectrum and asexual.

This rhyme scheme is turning my mind to goo

For the first 20% I really thought I was reading an Achilles + Patroclus relationship, but tragically I fear these boys are hetero and boring. I don’t think I can continue at this point. Devastating.

I’ve dogeared half the pages

Cannot put this down. I’m 200 years late to the Brontë party, but here I am.

“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. “Then,” I cried, half desperate, “grant me at least a new servitude!”

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