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goodreads I need you to STOP marking books I haven't read as 5 stars because i'm scrolling on my phone jeez

was really loving this book up until the casual mention of beating slaves 🙃

my brain can NOT do ebooks rn even on my kobo so we’re gonna have to DNF this temporarily

GIDEON SIGHTING ‼️ love this man

JKR catching strays, we love to see it!! (it’s talking about how great of a sin it is in judaism to lead others to sin, so mentioning that her actions are causing others to also be transphobic! love!!)

now THIS is slow burn pacing!!!

it’s been so long it feels like reading it for the first time! I of course remember the very very very broad strokes but absolutely none of the specifics!

this book isn’t actually about the horror of having a serial killer for a father, it’s about the horror of having an influencer for a mother

alright…. entering the final act… let’s go girls

giiiirrrrllll this is so messy 🤭

"I want to see him lose control. I want to be the thing that breaks him." is it getting hot in here????

this book does SUCH a good job at highlighting out the contradictory colonialist logic of these men acknowledging the inuit people living in the arctic while also being like "wow I can't believe we're the FIRST PEOPLE here! we're so special and important!!"

sorry, I was doing a disservice not just quoting the toxic gay content directly: "'I could have you lashed for this display.' 'Go on then, Lieutenant,' he said, before pulling me down to his mouth, a siren dragging a sailor to his death. Our lips were cracked and as we collided I tasted blood on my tongue. I couldn't tell whether it was his or mine." hehehe

toxic gays... how I love you

IWTV GIRLIES, RUN DO NOT WALK

do I know any goodreads librarians? because who is victoria? this should be connected to isabel yap

I HAVE to finish this book this weekend

tried to switch to the audiobook but the narrator sounds like an old infomercial or instructional video or something which is in such weird contrast to the richness of the text

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???