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omg they are obsessed with her doing the voices… please be for real

little something to take the edge off 🙂‍↕️

wow detroit institute of arts mention

what bugs me about this writing is that you’ll have one piece of good dialogue, one good image, one good tonal shift and then BAM hit with some Philosophy/Literary Criticism 101 explicating the “merit” the “weight” of what was just said like please whatever happened to show not tell please show not tell come back i’m begging youuuuuu.

it’s been ages since i’ve read!! i love reading!!

i feel like the voices for the different perspectives really blend together though??? i think this may be because akbar doesn’t give up the long ass metaphors/imagery in each voice.

favorite chapter of the book thus far (nonlinear and iterative). really liked the delineation of “time traveling emotion,” and the role of feelings such as grief, in movements.

coming to the terrifying realization that i actually do need to read long books

need to cleanse my brain now

Björk reads Maggie Nelson????

feeling like i’m in symbolic logic and it’s spring 2023… frightening!!

really like / want to return to: six ways of looking at crip time by ellen samuels

using this as a reminder to return to the essay on donna haraway.

crazy that two of my favorite books of 2024 are mentioned in reference to each other. i love coincidence!

i’m thinking about that tiktok that’s like be real, if you like sally rooney, you DO LIKE ROMANCE. (it’s true, i do).

finally some peter singer hate 😭😭😭 lfg

i cannot express how enraged walker has made me, it’s come to the point where throughout my day, i’m like wait why am i annoyed??? and then i remember it’s this mf’s fault.

Covid book lmao.

“We learn so much about happiness from how we can be threatened by its loss. To become a feminist killjoy is this to acquire a happiness literacy. We learn how to read happiness…”

Will I finish this before NY … who knows.

Spend the past hour wondering how allegories are different from metaphors in other ways than length. Going great. Delany essay ate.