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ah. so when you all were saying henry is irredeemably bad you guys were really not kidding. yeah. yeahhhhh

katherine: ..... oh, look at your face!
henry: what?
katherine: you're white!

henry casting announcement in mind this is just funnier now

is it okay if i just skip the outing/metros chapters bc it makes me feel icky i dont like that i Dont want it ugh

love nitpicking this because saying that ilya saw a lot of stray dogs growing up in moscow means he likely lived in non-elite suburbs in a private house and/or hung out outside the city bustle a lot. especially in the 00's moscow had very strict and particular campaigns to reduce stray dog populations so this is an interesting context if you want it to be

once again from the discourse ive been seeing i thought their conversation before the plane was some unclear bitter thing that left them both hanging. but it very much was not. like theyre on the same page about needing to talk and shane proposing after this is not too far-fetched. god i rlly should stop trusting what people say online lmao

all this talk online about how shane and ilya are miscommunicating and are miserable but every time its happened so far theyve resolved it in a decently reasonable way and communicated and shown up for each other as consistently as they can wtf guys did yall really get me worried for nothing

ilya getting repeatedly tortured by visions of his dead mother in his sleep while shane dreams about getting fucked by ilya on center ice oh shane hollander i am obsessed with your beautiful mind

ilya is going through stuff for sure and shane is being very stressed and understandably dismissive its true but why am i feeling like theyre facing horrors beyond comprehension. like this is just regular relationship crisis things and theyre faring much better than most. calm down @ me

most amusing so far about the whole HR arc of my life is the fact that i so seriously do not read romance that i don't even have a shelf for it and i never have. i read it in fanfiction but as a print book it's gotta be a regulated substance-enhanced ordeal for me to latch onto. oh canada

im enjoying this a lot more the second time around and it is definitely because of the tv versions of shane and ilya. and the added context of the show-only scenes. and because now i just do care. anyway. COMING TO THE COTTAGE TOMORROW!!!

actually one comment i saw that indigo FINALLY restocked so i planned a date with a friend to show up at 11 in the morning to get pastries and tea and walk around indigo and get HR & TLG. and so naturally this is the result. mind your business

no questions or comments re dates of reading please

having fun reading this very poorly written smut while spending the night (3am – 9am) at the ER for my kidney stones (i'm fine). god i'm so glad i watched the two episodes on crave first. the visuals are helping immensely. i like my men hot what can i Say

ok calm down everybody i'm supporting canadian authors after just having supported canadian filmmakers for two episodes calm down this is not personal at all in fact im not even that interested haha

pop psych that does not suck. a win on all fronts

taking a ux design class at uni + dont gaf about ux design personally + have to read this book written by a designer whose biggest opps so far are glass doors, his own watch, and his fridge and i am obsessed with it

on fake vs. real

"illusion of transparency"

on authors as devices

on "it writes". like a phenomenon

on never meeting your heroes!!!!!!!

on copies and distribution and authorship

serious note tho

on form and content

protag is like, im going to now copy a sentence from a famous novel. i go, sure. i read the sentence. i know immediately it is the first line of crime & punishment. i've never even read it in english before. genuinely idek what to do w myself rn yall

on an incipit of a book

"i contain multitudes!" (w.whitman)

–172. on written/unwritten

identity complexity