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maybe a week of jury duty will remind me how to read

this translation is enraging, ngl. e.g. "chinese parsley." …really. REALLY.

idk i have about 18 poems from the last ≈3 months but not a single one of them i would call lyric. i'm too stupid for hart crane or berryman just now so thought i would try one of their children.

(this one's not as good as toni natalie's memoir, but i'm reading it anyway bc it fills in a couple of gaps. i need to find some general cult books, too, so my case doesn't wind up just mirroring nxivm precisely, specifically i need a leader who isn't this turkey wing bc he's honestly? kind of an idiot.)

[laughs nervously]: …i'm in danger.

why can't i meet this police sergeant at the club on u-haul night

me on chapter 25: wow this is the worst thing i've ever read
me on chapter 65: hey i'm sorry about your breakup priest but probably it was worth it because it seems to have turned you into dostoyevsky

priest [writes lhjc/ccp/spl with their absolutely bonkers worldbuilding]
me: okay okay cool, this is all very normal and fine

priest [writes slice-of-life about a guy in dongbei going to school and trying to start a business]
me: WHAT TF THIS IS LITERALLY INSANE THIS IS UNHINGED I CANNOT COPE W/ANY OF THIS????!?!?!?!?

who hurt you, priest

why did i not read this years ago, it's riveting and i've wheezelaughed a dozen times. it's like sa ye but the speedrun version, and with priest's bone-dry humor. also comrade xu jin the woman you are?? highkey booking a ticket on air china bc i'm gonna wife you up

problem: just finished priest novel. sad.
solution: start reading new priest novel

idk maybe archfiends are scary but not the sharpest tools in the shed?

every time xiao fuxuan moves a muscle or says a word i clearly see xiao shunyao as di feisheng, and i'm NOT MAD about it

that point in a danmei where you've read 1200 of 1800 pages and think, well, this will simply never be over and i'm fine with that, i live here now

not priest levels of funny but i've still coughlaughed aloud several times. something about a transmigrated character who was just sort of a dude before and now has to navigate being an "archfiend" which is as far as i can tell basically a glamorous zombie. wu xingxue is extremely shen qingqiu, pragmatic and in way over his head; xiao fuxuan should be played by di feisheng (i can see him, chin cleft, tall, unamused)

had to switch to this ftl and it's making me grit my teeth—fortunately i'm COMPLETELY OBSESSED with the three-thousand-year-old sword spirit who can't understand anyone's jokes but, when he finally puzzles out the cultural references hours later, will laugh quietly to himself for the rest of the day. i've only had zhichun for 1200 pages but if anything happens to him i will kill everyone in this room and then myself.

this continues to be the stupidest thing ever (new villain just dropped! "mark jones") and i'm completely enchanted by it. i read every new lurid scene with the exact same starry-eyed delight as that of dr. alberino bacchus himself

jesus christ, priest. got an early start this time i see. barely chapter 25 but you already deftly gutted me like a wriggling fish. i’ve been pacing and crying and eating cookies about it for two hours now. start running because WHEN I GET YOU

already in withdrawal for the fact that i'm going to run out of official tl after this volume, bc whoever "yog" is they're doing GOD'S WORK here—this is leaps and bounds better than the ftl. also can't wait to find out how sheng lingyuan winds up in that trenchcoat from the cover

do NOT make the mistake, SAMANTHA, of starting to read this book at 11 pm at NIGHT oh my god are you NEW HERE

darrow be normal about even one other guy being pretty challenge

"i stood on the bridge of my starship" in which pierce continues to make gleeful genre trope salad in a bowl the size of a football field. i think about 80% of the appeal of this series is how much fun HE'S having—he's having the MOST fun and so we wind up having it too, like being in a conga line with the drunkest person at the party. (also he's very canny about how he uses his classical fanfic references.)

this is officially priest’s funniest novel. i made an idiot of myself laughing in my doctor’s waiting room today

ugh why is this like trope salad but STILL SO RIVETING

i have only had sevro for two chapters but if anything happens to him i will kill everyone in the house of mars and then myself

this book is idiotic and insane i already love it dearly

so absolutely taken with the scene where they suddenly almost at random try to kill each other only to realize that the civilian casualties would be unconscionable and then face each other warily across the rubble of a destroyed hotel room. who is doing romance like them

one thing i miss about him is how vicious he could be. i think only a very gentle person can be that vicious.

rec me some literary writing that doesn't enrage me challenge