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oh no somebody stop them they’re brewing sake and soy sauce

thinking a lot about when beetee said district 12 thinks differently. i think it makes sense that they are a pretty rebellious district because historically the worse your life is the more likely you are to want to potentially give it up for a cause / to make a statement. makes them risky. i wonder if depriving district 12 was ever a good idea from a machiavellian perspective lol

why am i suddenly such a slow reader

now i’m curious to read the other books because my perception of snow is that he’s always performing perfectly. didn’t expect him to throw up blood into a fountain

“Don’t start spouting the odd on their deaths.”
“Can I do other people’s deaths?”

i love him

japanese history is a roller coaster. every few generations the rulers get so zen and so into their art and poetry that they forget to run the country and then all the warlords break up the provinces again. and it’s just like ah shit ah fuck we did it again boys *goes to war for fifty years while the current ruler meditates in a teahouse*

author was doggin on michinaga so hard you’d think she had personal beef

“In reality, he does not seem to have been the wisest or greatest of men, nor did he bring about epoch-making changes or instigate great policy reforms. He did not change the course of history or create monuments of which people could say ‘Michinaga built that’. He was not the greatest of poets either.

oh boy i wonder what happens next

this is the 5th or 6th time she’s made a plan for when she “loses control”. you kind of stop caring back at the 3rd time when you realise nothing bad is gonna happen

since WHEN did she care about her country??? she always seemed to be doing things in the past motivated by her family, or by not wanting other families to end up like hers. it was never a “for my country” thing

the narrator sounds like she’s trying to do a really bad jinx impression i want to fucking die oh my god

audiobook narrator is missing out on a career as an english dub shounen protagonist voice actor. i want to die.

advertising her next book i see

would the princess perhaps consider giving her characters a flaw?

why’d she make ammi sound like a cartoon character jesus christ

“oh god” “you can just call me caleb” LMAOOOOO

“braised with imported wine” didn’t realise you could tell if wine was imported *after*it’s been cooked

obsessed with how much the author hates england

“the bethnal green slum” that’s CRAZY

“Day after day and night after night, she spun the dawn and unraveled the dusk.” you don’t even wanna know the sound i made just now

women in male dominated fields !!!

um. are they kissing while riding separate horses?

again on the direct exclamation, i’ve collected more:
“—tears of the moon!”
“—so much water!”
“—I could knit!”

dont use an em dash and break us out of the story just for some stupid shit. it’s such a lazy way to write surprise. you can convey awe by, idk, describing the the body of water&how bit it seems, or by how the character *feels* about being able to knit again.

i will keep reading tho.

“I froze. Let out a sharp breath.” “I let go. Released everything.” “I pinched my eyes shut, mustered a scowl.”
somebody teach elizabeth lim when to use a comma and when to say ‘and’

i’m having so much trouble understanding why i like this book. the writing is like. it’s not bad but it’s also not great. it leaves a little to be desired and the pacing is horrendous. in 200 pages we have gone from a poor port town, to losing family in the war, to competing in three sewing trials, to becoming imperial tailor, to travelling through the country & being stuck in the desert. it’s good but wow

ALL ROADS LEAD TO FOUCAULT. amatomormativity as a tool of biopolitics so that individual people monitor their health and welfare more closely than the state makes a lot of sense.