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This page goes so unbelievably hard

Bro chapter 10 is so insanely meta — Rooney is clearly using the character of Alice as a vessel to critique literary industry, but it almost feels like she is roasting her own work as well. There is some serious insecurity exuding from the author it seems…

✨phone sex✨

✨phone s*x✨

✨ phone sex ✨

Too many characters which makes it hard to follow sometimes but I’m heavily invested so far. Loving the subtleties of the family dynamic of the MaCabe’s.

Finished the most famous tale, The Knight of the Cart. Not sure what I was expecting, I thought there would be more “love triangle” aspects to the story, but it just seems to be Lancelot doing bad*ss things and he just so happens to be in love with Guinevere. This one feels less rich in imagery than the other tales, so I’m not quite sure what I was supposed to take away from this story.

A little disappointed so far not gonna lie💀 The premise is insanely cool but man does the humour fall flat sometimes. It’s very “boomer” coded and I’m rolling my eyes most of the time:/

Finished Cligés! Not quite sure how I feel about it, the sequence where Fenice fakes her death was pretty fun, but I feel like I’m missing the point/commentary of the story. Apparently it’s a critic of Tristan legend; tales of “forbidden love”, which I’ve never read. I understood it as adultery only matters when a marriage is based on real love. If love is absent, the spouse was never ‘truly yours’

Finished Erec and Enide. Already, Erec is the embodiment of toxicity and misogyny in courtly behaviour, but ironically he serves as an allegory for Jesus (from like, “rising” from the dead and saving everybody at one point). This text was obviously supposed to be looked at through a christian lens, but I think there’s a lot more to unpack here, especially in the treatment of Enide. Cligés next!

Had no idea synthehol was ferengi, I like it when these books give lore dumps on random sh*t you don’t think about when you watch the show.

Wtf was that Riker interaction with a 18 y.o. girl all about?💀 Off to a horrible start!

The act of war being presented as the will of God and the disintegration of christianity was not on my Wednesday morning bingo card.

Literally had no idea what I got myself into💀

Incredibly frustrating, but I get it.

This is so depressing lmao

Bruh this book is funny af

Bro I am already shooked and absolutely hooked

Wow I had no idea what I was getting myself into. F*ck the ruling class 💯

What a fun little adventure so far🚀

Connell is super annoying ngl

Honestly valid crashout from Lorraine

lol Connell’s mom is the goat, also f*ck Connell fr fr

Zhifang and Hongwei are vile.

Apparently there are “poop thieves” in North Korea due to the fertilizer shortage. Outhouses are locked shut at night and people conserve their own sh*t for their crops. Gnarly af dude.