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rip nabokov you would have loved legends of tomorrow

"Wartime scarcity had budded Thieves’ Market in the center of town between Jalan Besar and Rochor Canal Road. Thirty years later, the flea tents and blue-and-red tarpaulins sprawled between several streets. Like any other night market, Thieves’ Market still sold bright trinket toys and cotton singlets and rattan stools for the whole household." i want to red pen this book soooo bad

no one has copy editors anymore....smdh

1. i hate men so much oh my god
2. MONEY PROBLEMS THE BOOK IT'S KILLING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

"By the present audience of two persons, no dramatic heroine could have been expected with more interest than Mrs. Casaubon. To Rosamond she was one of those county divinities not mixing with Middlemarch mortality, whose slightest marks of manner or appearance were worthy of her study; moreover, Rosamond was not without satisfaction that Mrs. Casaubon should have an opportunity of studying her." i see.

WHEN IS CASAUBON GOING TO KICK IT...I HATE THIS MOTHERFUCKER

i'm in the hole

neumann and ladislaw....oh i'm sure

jesus christ

we are literally so back

gen x has such weird diction in their nonfiction. first the beatles book and now this...

i didn't know these stories had so many jokes

driving a 19 year old to pennsylvania to neg her about not having any real experiences is crazy work

this is maybe the most baffling experience of pov i've had in 2025 so far

OH HO HO

ok i had to fight for my life at the quarter mark but we're back we're ready hands are being touched DEVOTION is being SUPPRESSED thank GOD

really struggling with this one bc every time they mention johnny cash i get sooooooo stressed out roughly the same way you feel when a beloved yet distant relation, maybe once removed, is dying of gnarly cancer and alienating everyone on the way off the mortal coil. you know? like jesus. but NO, johnny, not like that, stop talking about jesus!

HEE HEE HOO HOO

HO DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAGDALENE CALLED LENA GOOD GODDAMN

ohhhh girl this is where you ran out of energy and i can tell bc the prose is enervating and u keep repeating details. where are the EDITORS

true crime people are genuinely so annoying

i soft dnf'd this the first time i tried to read it and i'm finding it more readable this time around but literally why invent a jimmy savile expy and then spend multiple pages telling me about the dude's crimes which are identical to jimmy savile's but for a few worldbuilding rounding errors, who on earth is this for

narrator/shauna 85k pet sociopath fic on my desk by jan 3 2026 or what the fuck exactly are we doing as a society

[delighted] YUCKY