Keegan Ryan > Recent Status Updates

obviously the povs are meant to interact even across time but i was not once thinking to myself how obvious or contrived. the gentle unraveling of the random and small moments of interconnectedness are a pleasant surprise!

i’m not usually a fan of big battles and war times but it was done well here and didn’t drag on

i’m really liking the themes of memory and identity and morality in the face of oppression but it’s kind of hard to track everything happening, even within only one pov

chapter 14 is killing me ina good way

queer conservationist i connect w/ it already “When finally I lift my eyes, I feel as if I’ve been transported back to the library stacks from somewhere far away. It takes me a few moments to return to myself.
With my hand still holding the lifting knife, I brush my bangs across my forehead.
More feminine.
Less depressed.
Then, placing my tool between my teeth, I continue my inspection of the book.”