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Small progress, but I really have no idea where this is going now that Ashok is apparently back from the death… or is it the yaksa in his body 🤔 much to think about

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind

“Yet it is our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” […]“Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt.”

Pffffff don’t I know it 🚬🫩

Wtf

Terrified as to where this is heading

“I’m not sure you want to go toe to toe with me on growing up, Sam Bam,” I say and get a small smile for him. <\b>

When am I supposed to start feeling sorry for him? I CANNOT STAND THIS MAN

“Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor?”
“What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art”

Exaaaaaaaaaactly Miss Virginia, wild that it still applies today

“There are some advantages to abstention” - Name 1 Sam 😒
BOOOOOORING
Yash I’m BEGGING you to not do something stupid.

Have never hated a protagonist more in my LIFE! Never trusting a man again when it comes to classic lit

Second time round, imagining Hudson and Connor is even better

describing forbidden love as soft feelings still… yeahhh

Because you are you. To me.<\b>

It galls me that I want you as much as this. That my heart so thoroughly belongs to you. The power you have over me, Priya. Why does it refuse to fade? I think of

we’re so back

not the candles 😭😭😭

how come Perez Hilton is not imprisoned????

…images replicating images replicating images, all trading in the currency of sex and the commoditizing of body horror

final girl, the hardest chapter to read so far. And it’s about… you guessed it… torture p*rn 💀

The ideal woman of the era had “breast like an inflatable doll, no hips at all, and the tidy, a hairless labia of an unviolated six year old”. Such a form, is worth noting, can’t actually be humanly attained. It has to be purchased.

will my body be able to contain the amount of rage i feel? 🚬

The recent history of technology is written on women’s bodies[…] Womanhood has been tailored into something narrow and even archaic, by a media culture that has strained us to surveil ourselves and adjust things accordingly.

sick and tired 🫩

“If the hero’s curse is unwanted virginity, then who is the villain who cursed him? Inevitable: a teenage girl”

oh. my. fucking. god.

i can get into a love triangle every now and then, i’m not sure about a love square tho, this Artan guy better mind his business

this might just be the most quotable book i’ve ever read, everytime Julian opens his mouth my mind goes 🤯