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divided by nationality, united by misogyny

girl sees london for the first time and says “we drove solemnly through the dirtiest and darkest streets that ever were seen in the world” fuck this is too accurate

i have an actual physical copy rather than a pirated version i found online we are so back chat

sekigawa when i get my fucking hands on you

“Good evening, Brother” this is what i mean by a too literal translation, this sounds normal in japanese but in english it sounds overly formal. it’s tightly written but i keep getting taken out of the book by some of the odd phrasing

is this just a way too literal translation or does it also read like this in japanese

“i confess that the way Ubertino stigmatized the vice of others did not inspire virtuous thoughts in me” that’s a hard as fuck line i’m using that

people make fun of russian authors for waffling on about nothing important but my god why dont the italians catch any flak

“in this abbey something has happened that requires the attention and counsel of an acute and prudent man such as you are. acute in uncovering, and prudent (if necessary) in covering. if a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.”

zhang certainly wasn’t lying about some parts of his backstory cuz fuck can this guy haggle

i love that this book commits to being found footage esque but it’s really funny when it’s like “hello mitsuru, someone who has nothing to do with the murders whatsoever, how are you doing? anyway, i remember the day i met yuriko hirata like it was yesterday.”

all of the trigger warnings hit you all at once like a fucking freight train

“i knew immediately that it was the same kazue satō i had known in school” no way dude what gave you that idea? was it perhaps the fact that the article mentioned she went to the same school as you and also graduated the same year as you? japanese sherlock holmes over here fr fr

“it wasn’t an act of god. it was an act of toranaga.”
perhaps the hardest line iv ever read

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no offense blackthorne but i could have told you how horrible the dutch are like over 700 pages ago

“‘only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another’s labor?’”
rest in peace mariko you would have loved karl marx

blackthorne the type of guy to look at a hot woman and go “hallelujah!”

my fav parts are the little fan service bits in between all the plot stuff. dance break? fuck yeah. beach episode? more of that please

tbh i can’t even blame blackthorne i just chowed down on sausages and greens and thick crusty bread from woolies and i feel like a new man. id get tricked by this too.

iv been smiling non stop for the past few pages they are all soooo special to me. go white boy go do your funny dance

my personal headcanon is that toranaga genuinely doesn’t want to be shōgun and when he’s like “why the fuck do people keep asking me that” he means it

“for years now, she had run his household and kept it free of trouble. as free of trouble as any household with women could ever be, toranaga thought.
‘you’re getting fat,’ he said, not minding that she was fat.”

this novel feels like a fever dream sometimes.

TORANAGA ISNT HOT LIKE I IMAGINED IM GOING TO KMS THIS ISNT FAIR

blackthorne and yabu both thinking “i will never understand these people” about the other’s culture is so interesting. id have to think more about how the novel weighs each perspective but i’m coming at it from a western pov and so far the people i care about the least are blackthorne’s dutch crew so that’s something ig

maybe i’m just too king lear brained but suwo being blind yet seeing more than yabu is so clever i like it. yabu is so terrified of being physically blind that he doesn’t realise how much he misses even when he can see. he’s blinded by his arrogance and lust for power and weird obsession with hurting others.
or something idk :3