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found a copy at a Laos cafe today, and read the first and eponymous story :] will continue on my next LPDR visit.

"our narratives were rationalizations, really, for our place in the world, or lack thereof— our place, in every sense of the word" AHHH

fucking hell

ah yes, giving birth. this is true horror to me

i love satire

this is so fun

i still dont know how this will end, in a good way

I can never know the anguish of being told you are not who you believe yourself to be. To be handed a photograph of an old man and told this is you in your last incarnation. That everything about who you are is already established. That you are not original.

AM I ALLOWED TO WRITE A PAGE IN THE TALE OF EXISTENCE, AM I TO BE GRANTED A SINGLE WORD. DOES THE STORY MATTER OR IS THE WITNESSING ENOUGH. why do we need to believe our lives must add up to some grand narrative, and what happens when we stop believing this? .. this is so .

"Even in the dark she selects an animal that should fetch a good price but is not the pride and glory of the flock. An animal that is not remarkable, that is not singular enough to be missed. In some ways I am this sheep." hahaha ... fukkckc meee 🔫

blood transfusion as a love language hellyeah

fearing your creator aaaaah

reliving childhood film favorites; i love a good villain

A stray berry stains his chin and I wipe it away. “Who can’t lie, Peeta?” I say, even though he can’t hear me.

— insane image.. for snow And haymitch

self-inflicting pain (rereading the trilogy after sotr)

self-inflicting pain (rereading the trilogy after sotr)

ahhhhhh hahahaha 👍👍👍🔫🔫🔫

i am the rattkin (will talk in exchange for free coffee)

:( :')

speculative and yet. so So Human

i cant sob before work but AHHHHHHHH

speculative scifi but the real speculation is what if every political power had one united goal hahaha

this book is so fun

#thankyou for the pov. grateful as hell for the analogies, like watch me become a woman in stem again after this

#thankyou for the pov. grateful as hell for the analogies, like watch me become a woman in stem again after this

i love the importance placed on names and naming!!! like the act of offering your name is an act of surrender to be known. "what is your name" and they place it into the other's keeping. ahhhh

NAMES!!!!!!

subversion of beauty by duterte and by imelda. ahhhhh wish i got to cite this for my last film paper

Dondon Chan mentioned! name so familiar i realized we did content analysis on so many of his group's posts a few years ago haha

gunpowder arc so beautiful! what is the purpose of poison if not to be used etcetera etcetera + rishe learning she could be looked upon with love and joy (albeit by her killer in her previous life hahaha)