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ok as i’m moving past the setup it is moving from IWTV fanfic to being in conversation with IWTV

I fear I slightly screwed myself over going into this to indulge in the IWTV fic of it all… knife to the heart levels of disappointed that (not) louis and (not) claudia are white and blonde… i’ll survive I guess 😔

everyone shut up its time to read some (what seems like) loumand fanfic that has been hyped by one of my favorite authors (emery robin)!!!

reading a sapphic gothic house book that's also a fairytale retelling... I'm in my happy place fr

unfortunately i'm losing steam... I felt like I saw where this was going from a million miles away and just am not that interested

"and now to talk about modern homophobia... so in Ancient Greece..." THIS BOOK IS PISSING ME OFF

the chapter headers are slowly deteriorating like the cover and holy shit kudos to the design team, that rocks!

and now we're saying that judaism had a rigid binary gender system in comparison to the surrounding cultures and was oppressive to queer and trans people???? tell me you didn't talk to a single queer jewish scholar without telling me you didn't talk to a single queer jewish scholar!! what bullshit christian sources were you using for this research??

update: he's claiming that the "old testament" says man shall not lie with man but it's maybe up for interpretation... bruh we know that it originally said "man shall not lie with BOY" and king james CHANGED it because his gay ass bribed the church with homophobic liturgy to not get excommunicated!! it's literally just the king james bible oh my god im so annoyed don't blame the jews for king james's crimes!!

already cringing at the use of the phrase "old testament"... there's nothing like the feeling of reading a book by an author who never once considered a jewish person would read it

"Cause it was sort of—in this world, you know? Like there was a chance P-P—he—might come to my window." okay I know that an author doesn't always agree with their character but literally this character explaining that the story of Peter Pan is so powerful BECAUSE it exists in our own world is really making me even more confused about the choice to make this second world???

idk if i’m 450 pages worth of invested in this book but I do like what it’s doing thematically and I think if I DNF it’ll put me in a reading slump so we chug on I suppose

the fact that the real world outside of neverland is still a second world is really throwing me

happy pride month to celia and happy men’s mental health month to jacques ✌️

VERY nervous for this evangelical man to speak about jewish beliefs and customs….

alright… 80 pages left and a LOT of deaths (assumedly) have to happen… buckling up

and if I said it’s giving a bit of ghost quartet…

and now the etymologically accurate use of the word “guy”????? did kat dunn write this for me?????

wait, shakespeare exists in this world? I guess hamlet is kinda meta but walking a thin line there…

y’all…. i’m such a nerd for temporal-centric readings of hamlet and kat dunn is going OFF with it!!

ok we’re trying this again because I think i’m FINALLY in the mood and I want to have this read by her tour stop im going to!!

bring back the gay porn pot industry‼️

this man just pronounced “double” as “dooble” and i almost leapt out of my seat WHAT DO YOU MEAN

you guys... I don't want it to be over!! (I can't remember the last time I felt that way about a book)

look i love a fade to black but I need this fade to be just a liiiiiittle slower, as a treat

I am loving this narrator, usually a posh accent drives me up a wall but he’s doing it with so much ✨personality✨ (and tbf almost all the other characters are scottish)

CONVINCED this book started out as g*** o**** fanfiction (/pos) (saving my life rn)

sorry to hijack the everlasting for this but once again telling the people: if you like books like these (playing with form, about stories as empire, Big Brain TM) i’m begging you to read the empire without end duology

I know an egg when I see one, owen mallory

listening to the audiobook with the author’s cats while catsitting for her so they can understand they have a cool author mom (they don’t care, they just want food)