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Jesus, this is a hard read. Protect the dolls in your life, please.

And she learned right then: You always had to be on your guard. It didn’t matter how often you passed, it could always be taken away. Always. She’d never be little, she’d never be fish. It could always be taken away.

No longer experiencing euphoria of any kind 🫡

The novelty of reading horror with a trans and autistic protagonist is making my reading experience slightly more euphoric than disturbing. That being said, seeing the phrase Second Trimester written out like that was terrifying.

AAAAAAAAAAAA

Ok. How did Mary put up with Baldwin’s dramatic ass 😭 I need to see her side of their correspondence

It feels somewhat reductive to call Baldwin messy, but I fear the shoe might just fit.

I’m enjoying this more now that I’m reading it as Alice’s attempts to justify her addiction(s?) to herself

I understand putting mentors on a pedestal but GOD DAMN. I don’t know how much more I can learn about Grimes and his relationship with Alice (when I could instead be learning about the interesting things happening in hell) before I put myself out of my misery (dnfing)

“It is categories in the mind and guns in their hands which keep us enslaved. Those who have power- the men- decide which divisions they find expedient. They decide, for whatever reasons, who is not them and so who is to be hated.”

ADAM….

Beta blockers would do wonders for these kids 🫡

THEY WERE “SPECIAL FRIENDS”

I’m starting to think Narita might have thrown the first brick at Stonewall

The age gap here is CRAZY. I suppose Séverine wouldn’t think so: does Farr want her readers to think the same? It’s not clear yet, so I’ll withhold judgment for now 😬🫡

Happy pride month to me specifically

I’m not gonna make it out of this book alive

“Everything has a house. It is so bad if mine is made of flesh?” GOD DAMN

;-;

Recording my thoughts now so I don’t lose them: this should be required reading for anyone working in youth services. If you are not at least theoretically prepared to meet the most marginalized and endangered youths in your community with respect, compassion and loyalty, then you are in the wrong line of work.

I refuse to entertain the idea that the sun and moon are in a healthy heterosexual relationship

SHOUTING IN ANGER? 30 PAGES FROM THE END OF THE BOOK? GIRL GET OUT OF THERE

WHY did he say that and WHY in god’s good earth did they still have sex afterwards?!

Reading this as a queer person who has only ever been in queer relationships feels like studying a new species of insect under a microscope. Interesting stuff

“the surprisingly inspiring salad” is crazy

“In 2017, the American president averaged six lies a day. The next year it was sixteen, the following year twenty-two. In 2020 he told on average about twenty-seven lies a day. This figure is so high that it makes the correct assertions seem like unintended oversights on the path toward total fiction. Then came the Big Lie about an election, creating a fictional counterworld.”