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ugh love baldwin’s writing sm

imagine being a gay in 1872 and reading this for the first time. omg.

my gd, these bitches gay

i think woodard’s writing is phenomenal. kind of surprised that everyone i’ve ever seen recommend this book has never touched on the extensive concluding section where woodard examines the role of black (homo)sexuality in the civil rights movement

“The Gambians ascertained in Christian ritual and deity a process of soul harvesting and soul hunger that coincided with the bodies Europeans had also come to claim and transport. If we accept the conclusion of Europeans as soul and body harvesters, then we have to wonder how Europeans might have used, commodified, and ingested the very African souls that they consistently claimed did not exist.”

ough.

not the brené brown reference :\

hey so i’ve already cried twice

feyre i understand you’ve been fighting everyone for most of your life but i need you to listen to basic instructions and also calm tf down

tamlin just airing out lucien’s trauma to this random girl who just moved into their house is WILD

WHY IS HER DAD THERE

honestly thank gd she’s leaving, her family is so irritating

no way i’m crying over HIM of all characters

literally no idea why i started this, the pit and the pendulum is one of the most terrifying stories ive ever heard, and i knew that going in

only just started but wow this writing is beautiful

sort of glad mrs. montague is there, i can take a break from being scared to be supremely Annoyed instead

“i know what she meant [about it wanting to eat us], because i thought it was exactly the right word. the sense was that it wanted to consume us, take us into itself, make us a part of the house.” oughhhghghhhhh

for all the differences between the show, this is still so unsettling in its own right, and i think the line above really encapsulates the vibe of the show anyway

“perhaps it has us now, this house. perhaps it will not let us go.”
very different from the show, but ough my heebies are already jeebied

if you told younger me i’d be getting brainworms over the papal conclave i would have thought you were out of your mind