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I love that the characters all speak over each other like in real life. I love that this 160 page play is to be performed in 90 minutes. However! Really hard to read on a page!

Dear Bumble Match Who Ghosted Me Afted I Suggested We Meet In Person,

You're right. This play definitely does rule.

Sincerely,
A Confused But Grateful Play Fan

Super glad I read we don't know ourselves before reading this or I would probably be quite thrown off about the historical importance and modern rejection of catholicism in ireland

Oh girl you are in it!! Also the oyster part was so much shorter than I remember and that's why I hesitated to pick it up again

Me reading this going 😮 why did no one tell me this in acting classes. You can't plan to feel a certain way! You can't make yourself feel particular emotions because you're a human being! That's what playing the objective is about. It's improv with given circumstances! Anyway shoutout to Rhea Seehorn for mentioning this in interviews and shoutout to my library for having one ebook copy of it.

It's interesting but I hate when pop history books tell you things like, "he wiped the sweat from his brown before [doing such and such thing we actually have a record of]." Like you don't know that. You imagined it!

So either that (my previous update) or it's making me think that we are as blasé about caffeine as they were about meth and maybe caffeine is a fascist tool of capitalism 🤔 and I'm only like 30% joking

I feel like he's treating as self-evident that meth is bad so he can point at people going "wow I love meth" and go omg they're crazy when the actual experience of reading this book is *vague memory of him saying what long-term use does to the body and brain* *account after account of how awesome meth is*

Finally reading the rest of this four years after my global crime and corruption class assigned parts of it. Already developing my hot take that it actually makes a lot of sense that drugs we criminalize today (heroin, meth, cocaine) were widely available over the counter in preparations for adults and children. They were wildly effective! And also some of the first effective drugs! Scoffing at the old folks is silly

Okay so like 80% of the problems I've wondered about in progress updates thus far have been resolved and now the real question is: Lesbian Hivemind Sex ⁉️

Okay so I like and find interesting that the different cultures in this world have different gender arrangements, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation as to why. What led to the stakhi having more distanced relations or the oriati having a third gender or the taranoki having polyandrous marriages? Gender relations, as power relations, don't appear out of nowhere and hesychast's eugenic explanations are bad.

I can't believe this book hasn't mentioned scurvy yet... how can it be a part of this series without the scurvy mentions

The chapter on the physics of melanin was good. Otherwise, this so desperately needed an editor!!

heaven help me she's called the universe queer and has mentioned a spouse (exactly that word—no gender mentioned. It's a man). Like bro just say your husband 🙄

Noooo don't give baru another chemical escape... it's bad for her, but it's really bad for everyone else... miss cormorant should NOT be on cocaine

it sometimes feels like the oriati mbo culture is mary-sueified but also whatever it's nice to have some cultural element in this be, like, worth rooting for. but also woah you have multiple genders and your social system is based on generosity and kindness and the people you're fighting want to institute a eugenics program and rule your land? who should I root for here 🤔

The first book had very obvious parallels to historical empires/ideas. The second continued and acknowledged its connections to the real world in the end acknowledgments. This third one fully starts with a blurb about vasco de gama. Yes, Mr. Dickinson I understand that this series is actually secretly about our world I got that from the eugenics/hygiene as oppressive tools and central banking policy parts

Back at it again with the woman with seemingly no ethical boundaries ✌🏻 love you baru you absolute sicko

Oh yeah baby we have eugenics and central banking policy this is a good fantasy book 👍🏻

Anybody want to use the map from one city to navigate a different one with me

This book is making me come to a conclusion that I thought I was "too enlightened" to have, which is that butch/femme culture is conservative and regressive. :/ alas I think fetishizing gender roles can't be anything but

I just don't find gender sexy...

I wish I hadn't fead high femme camp antics before reading this, because I think this book is well written and uses the subjectivity of the MC as a fascinating lens. Unfortunately I hated the essay (it feels like the author is living an entirely parallel life to mine) and also the book is exhausting even if well written

I'm starting to 🤔 at some of the data here and there (saying GDP is majorly flawed because it doesn't include unpaid labor and then talking about the success of childcare programs in relation to the GDP gains they'd produce) but still... the kind of book that makes you want to grab "society" by the shoulders and shake it and cry, "why are we letting this happen??"

Admittedly I have not partaken in middle grade fiction for quite awhile but not sure this is for me. I think every single character seems like a kate mckinnon sketch character. In fact, it all seems like a kate mckinnon sketch, which makes sense, but I'm not used to sketches going this long. The jokey asides per minute are so high compared to my usual fare (see first sentence).

sometimes spending too long in john green's head feels like spending too long in my own head... feels a bit navel gazey (for both of us) but still, I learn stuff!

I'm apparently working my way through the john green cinematic universe

this is sooo interesting sarah waters you are so cool

E+RP mention!!!