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“When the two men showed up the next summer to visit their sons at Keewaydin, Eisner was standing at the end of a dock on the lake when he saw Gordon approach. Rather than risk an encounter, he dived into the water, still wearing his shoes.”
ASTRONOMICAL levels of pettiness

Imagining Defunctland’s voice as the narrator

This book🤝The Shape of Water
Fish man is absurdly good in bed

Río is only 22 in merfolk years he should be at da sea club

Me when I’m in a being doomed by the narrative competition and my opponents are una everlasting and owen mallory

She’s the saint whose legend built an entire empire, he’s just Ken

Julia Armfield’s obsession with water being associated with grief and depression

It’s giving the shape of water if it was gay and at the circus

“Like, I’m losing my mind, but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.”

Not Dorian accurately describing what it’s like to read this book

Adventure Time reference yas

Zachary ordered a matcha what’s next?? Is he gonna eat some Dubai chocolate?? Listen to some benson Boone?? Find a labubu in the starless sea???

Love that Diana is taller than everyone in this

Obsessed with the art in this

Very happy the owl king is, in fact, a literal owl

Shoutout to my professor who recommended this as “what if madeline miller wrote a wonder woman comic” followed by me and this other girl gasping

This is some real reader/fantasy nerd rep ok, none of that ‘throwaway line about how much the mc loves reading without any deep characterization’ bullshit this is some real genuine representation

Don't love how many footnotes are in this

Interesting how a lot of dystopias have warped or erased histories but this one is very engaged with actual history and contemporary problems

Already fucking enchanted by this holy shit THIS is prose THIS is creativity

Took awhile to get into this but I am now into weird shit happening

This is really making me realize I do not like forced proximity/romances being based in isolation cause I think it's way more romantic to love someone purely out of choice

The concept of movies getting remade 400 years later

So far this is about what it would be like if you were horny on a spaceship with a very hot guy you don't know

I just saw a Cassie Clare book on my feed with the description "by the reigning queen of romantasy" and I don't mean this as shade but like Shadowhunters existed long before romantasy and she will still be writing them long after romantasy is dead so it feels really off to classify her as such

I’m keeping up spooky season vibes indefinitely idc

The amount of strays BetterHelp is (deservedly) catching in this book

“But high school ends. Remember that, even when it feels eternal. And when it ends, there are places to go.”

Reza’s storyline really makes my heart break for the queer people who never unlearned misinformation during the AIDs crisis, the idea that being queer is diseased/doomed must be an especially excruciating form of internalized homophobia

I can tell this author frequents r/popculturechat but it’s very much a “what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament??” situation so I can’t judge

This book’s already collecting eighties pop culture references like they’re pokemon