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not the kudo and yasuko affair arc oh the drama, shit’s goin down y’all..

personally i think yukawa is guilty because his logic with the bicycles is just too serialistic but then again physics teachers are that smart, im more now leaning towards ishigami because of his obvious crush on yazuko and pure jealousy, and being “quite capable to commit such an atrocity” according to yukawa himself

the books my book club picks are too boring so i’m reading the one i voted for anyway..so we all agree misato is a victim right?

“Out of all the possible worlds, I found this one and it’s exactly, at least from the doorway of the box, what I wanted.” this parallel with jason “leaving” in the first chapter to get ice cream?? oh i’m sad. def wasn’t expecting dani to be on the verge of death

“We perceive our environment in three dimensions, but we don’t actually live in a 3D world. 3D is static, a snapshot. We have to add a fourth dimension to begin to describe the nature of our existence. It adds a temporal one, it adds time, representing space moving through time’s arrow, best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took 50 light years to reach our eyes.”

“we live in a state of decoherence in one reality, because we’re constantly observing our environment and collapsing our own wave function.” can also be used to describe panopticons and social media if you think about it.

“i can’t get over how entirely surreal it feels to be viewing a playback of the exact moment the nightmare that is now my life, began in this brave, new, fucked up world.”

seeing daniela slowly remember charlie is so surreal, wouldn’t she remember giving birth to him ( logically speaking, i know it’s an au) because that physical toll is unmistakable😭 yeah yeah suspend your disbelief BUT jason saying he thinks that charlie got his love for manga from his mom and her artistry, even in this universe where he isn’t supposed to exist is so sweet😭

lowkey giving your friends and neighbors vibes

lowkey giving your friends and neighbors vibes

the phrasing of concepts in this book is just so mind blowing. “an original psychic wound” to describe mathilde’s childhood trauma??

i’ve come to realize that i may be more similar to Enka in my friendships than i’d like to admit although i do think whimsy is unfortunately in my blood. absolutely no SA’ing my partner though. maybe not LOL

having “it’s bisexual lighting “ and “i call these regurgital lights “girlhood” a chapter apart is absolute genius and as a girl, 100% accurate.

“Rendering my art constantly reactive, whereas Mathilde was endlessly generative.”

“A labyrinth of iPads a visitor had to get through, only to end up at a mirror. The first and ultimate screen. The self, after all, being the thing we hope to discover or recognize in all screens.”

HOW DO YOU THINK OF THAT? BRILLIANT

as a disabled person just starting out as a writer and beginning this book , this book so far gets everything right about creating art for solace. “I made scarcity a good education” is such a devastatingly gorgeous depiction of what it means to create under any circumstance. i’ve even started writing with this audiobook on lol, it’s a great motivator.

“Half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice , a full bushel to anyone who brings him out alive.” might be the most brilliant way to frame classism, but apples grow on trees and the animals can grab them anytime, no ?? am i philosophizing too hard about farm animal unity

“The cows declared Snowball crept into their stall milked them in their sleep” hive minds!! not anatomically possible

“Do not imagine that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility..Bravery is not enough. Loyalty and obedience are more important.” the way this book from 1945 can speak volumes about the current administration is horrifying: “Tactics.”

justice for muriel the goat

tried to watch the film alongside reading to digest it better and prime video suggested charlie chaplin’s “the great dictator” in the queue so that’s how this is going lol..great start!

“Such is the natural life of a pig, but no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.”

“Americans have made a political investment in a myth of racial separateness, the idea that art forms can be either White or Black in character, when aspects of many are at least both.”

Jonathan Lee Walters described the preaxhing style of black churches as stemming from “a deep love for, and thus a deep disappointment in, a country that too often fails to affirm the self evident truth in our nation’s creed: that all people are equal and endowed by God with certain unalienable rights.”

“This racializing of medicine did not end after slavery. Two persistent physiological falsehoods that Black people were impervious to pain, and that they had weak lungs that could be strengthened through hard work have wormed their way into the scientific consensus and can still be seen in modern day medical education and practice.”

“Nerve endings less sensitive.”

“When a White person kills an African American, it is 281% more likely to be ruled a justifiable homicide than a White-on-White killing..the consequences are predictably deadly and unequal.”

“America has a way of dancing with its own delusion, unable to keep count of its murders because it then would have to keep count of its murderers.”

These actions speak to how the threads of history tie past and present together. The assault on the legitimacy of non white political actors, are downstream of ideas and ideologies that came to fruition in defense of human bondage and racial segregation. As long as there are enough Americans who don’t trust democracy to protect their privilege, and those who believe in political equality, are a path to power.”

“If liberty cannot be materially secured through landholding, at least it can be somewhat felt.”

“Houses do not attempt to become non property by running away. Cattle do not stage revolts. But humans treated as property, constantly do both.”

“The institution of American slavery and the events of Indian removal, were, in both cause and effect, twin evils.”

“My troops already occupy many positions, and thousands and thousands are approaching from every corner to render assistance and escape alike, hopeless. Will you, then by resistance, compel us to resort to arms, or will you, by flight, seek to hide yourselves in the mountains and forests, and thus oblige us to hunt you down?”

Learning about Hopewell and Indigenous/Black coalition and assimilation is so fascinating to me. “Slavery was no longer a bridge between Indigenous and African people, struggling to survive in similar straits, but a wall of division.”

“The true age of sugar had begun, and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done.” / “As production grew and the market increased, the craze for the sweetener gradually trickled down from elites to the laboring poor../the single most important addition to the British working class diet.”

“Black women have always embodied if only in their physical manifestation, an adversary stance to White male rule and have actively resisted its end roads upon them and their communities, in both dramatic and subtle ways.” These women are not sexually licentious, they are victims, and the horrors depicted in this chapter makes my heart and blood boil.

Also, how ironic a part of Virginia was named Point Comfort.