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Sapkowski seems right at home writing consistent 7/10 standalone novels…

This jit Geralt is lowkey primal when it comes to endlessly getting duped by temptresses and, of course, feeding into desires most lubricious.

…farting bald barbarian guard women who sexually harass Geralt are featured in today’s reading of Season of Storms. Lovely!

I had quite a bit of notes on this which I summarized with ChatGPT which actually maintained most of my wording, just cleaning up the structure a bit, but

Main thing I would want to point out in this update is that hooks has been talking about how black women after emancipation are still seen as hyper sexual objects and assaulted relentlessly, with a mythos paralleling that of black men seen in porn today

Hooks wanted to focus on the unique status of black women and their intersectional identity, addressing how most people either discuss Black people regarding racism or white women regarding feminism, but never black women about much of anything.

White women coupled with black slaves for more workers by white men. Laws enacted to prevent this which is kind of good (for the wrong reasons naturally)? Geeked!

This book was intended as an intro to feminism.

Hooks was calling for more feminist media that’s more accessible as opposed to simply having the academic literature grow further. Her wish was definitely granted with YouTube; I’m literally listening to her now because of YouTube video essayists referencing her, especially FD signifier.

Feminist grievances were mostly spotlighted from the upper class female sect.

Baldwin writing from the perspective of a white blonde hair blue eyed aryan guy, lol. But the character is still gay, from Harlem, and with family trauma so it's still him...

I actually just finished this, but had a couple more comments I wanted to share beforehand, in the comments of this update…

Homosexual males are not “chicks with dicks” (peak) they can and do embody patriarchal masculinity.

Men who were sympathetic to feminism in its heyday but felt uninvited, became involved with the men’s movement. Positively, the men’s movement advocated for discussing and understanding feelings, yet promoted patriarchy by insisting that men must be separate from women for self-actualization (topical!)…

Hooks blindsided me with a quote while at work:

“A sociologist interviewing boys about their passion for the [Hulk] show asked them what they would do if they had the power of The Hulk.

They replied that they would ‘smash their mommies.’”

Ohhhh shit. That rematch was awesome. And the way these characters are coming together is great and intense. And oh shit. Right as I am about to get out of the car lol.

Oh damnnn

Every time another person from the original dimension appears, big lore developments take place, so it’s exciting to see them. Ironically though, Ryan, the best friend, brought the most sad developments to the plot.

It’s already foretold pretty much at this point, but John’s redemption will be satisfying, I can see it now…

Wow, this is great. Yazad’s goated fr…

Wow this is great, Yazad’s goated fr

Really cool. Especially now that we get to see all of his memories and with the healing ability. A lot has changed fairly quickly!

You can pick a hard mode dimension where the language spoken inside dimension is completely unintelligible to any modern earthling. Further, there is a speed run board for how quickly each language can be transcribed in dictionary. Wow.

I loved the stupid bit where the earthling protagonist speaks gibberish to sound intelligent to the dumb Vikings, especially when he said some shit like “bromance fantasy blog.”

Be careful that in your resistance to your father’s ways that you don’t become like your grandfather!

Apparently early radical feminist ideas largely villainized the man and wholesale suggested all men intentionally and gladly took advantage of patriarchy,

but later in the 20th century shifting toward seeing patriarchy as hurting everyone developed, hooks says men must be involved in the movement as well.

I just randomly thought “OK, I feel like doing another standalone Brandon Sanderson novel, and I saw the frugal wizard one at the library the other day, let me see if it’s got an E audiobook available online!”

Not only was there one, but it was in fact a graphic audio full cast dramatized adaptation as well!!

It’s great, some cheesy millennial humor on occasion but otherwise fun and super interesting…