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hooooooly shit this is so good it is somehow exactly what i wanted to be reading??????

i’m having so much fun w this - “Not to mention, I’ve been staring at her like she’s a perfectly grilled piece of ribeye.” eat your heart out edward cullen!!

rereading !!

I’m four essays in and 3/4 have been really excellent, which bodes well!!!

bailey said this was like watching someone solve a rubik’s cube and she was right

this book is gonna put me through a blender

“He grabbed her waist to steady her and flashed that crooked smile she hated. It looked like flirting. It felt like a finger sliding down her back.” goooood i love regina so much she’s just so good at this.

the energy of this omg. when john puts the guitar pick in his teeth and micah pulls his hair?????? i s2g i levitated a little i love romance sm

i’m at the point of the book where i remember why i hate psychoanalysis

i’m screaming. i am screaming!!!! i am no longer being chill and cool!!!!!!

now we’re cooking (romantically speaking)

oh…. i’m hooked i fear

in the “lots and lots of worldbuilding info” portion of the book but not having a bad time

every time i read a sherry thomas i think of that tiktok audio “Life is worth living” 💞

“Both were referring to the radical potential for self- and world-making that arises when we meet the other without trying to exercise our will over them and when we surrender to our own foreignness to ourselves.”

“Where Hegel gave us a vision of self-consciousness that exists because of the other, Bataille gives us an understanding of self-consciousness as the unknowable in us, which is an experience of a strange order, in that it does not appear phenomenally.”

“Consent, we begin to see, does not only encompass conscious processes unfolding between people; it also implicates our interiority. When we consent to something, we open ourselves up to encountering the otherness in ourselves.” psychoanalysts are so annoying but man occasionally they really eat

yeah this is really not working for me. approaching dnf territory

oh no i think i hate this book 😭

incredible how quickly it becomes clear to me that this book is what every paranormal in the subsequent two decades wishes it was lol

this book is one of the more insane things i’ve ever read. and when i went looking for the author i found, to no one’s surprise, that the author is an iowa writer’s workshop guy lol

i am having a good time but i wish she would cite fewer terfs lol

i’m really enjoying this even if much of it is familiar (so far)

top 10 sex scenes i’ve ever read in a romance omfg

cat said at least one mc has to be a gemini and imo… they are both geminis

having the stunning realization that this is a dark mirror of zoya and nikolai from shadow and bone omg

“I have no way to harm you.”
“I have no shield if you do.”

these two are killing meeeeeeeeeee ! the number of ways you can read this dialogue 😭 truly truly unreal

Cat said allegretto was giving luigi mangione (both italian assassins* with rich estranged family) and i can’t stop laughing

* allegedly

can i just say the therapy representation is excellent

i love ali sm :’)