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“I’m grown. And I like my ghosts. I like looking up and seeing the same sky my people seen all them years before me.”

This guy has finished me…Pierce Brown, abeg. Give us peace

Can’t put this book/series down for more than a couple hours. So far, 10/10.

But I gotta say, the whole “bloodydamn” vs “gorydamn” word choice is ode funny to me. Like when I was reading Red Rising, I got it but now it’s become a bit comical (which I like). I laugh or smile every time someone uses those phrases lmao.

“I once credulously believed that our testimonies would be considered credible only once we attained ‘respectability.’ Colonial logic gaslights us to believe that it is our shortcomings, not colonialism itself, that stand between us and liberation.”

Understanding that a free Palestine not only means free from Zionist occupation—though it means that, too—but to entirely reconstruct our creation (and politicization) of “humanity” away from an apparatus rooted in Western/colonial terms.

Imagination >>

2/5 unfortunately; this one is a miss