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alfia is 35% done

interesting parallels to Song of Achilles. these few weeks before the battle of loos feel like those days at chiron's mountain, where they got to be happy and free even though it was fleeting.

— Jan 17, 2026 12:40PM

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alfia is 47% done

— 18 hours, 42 min ago

alfia is 43% done

this is a heavy book. i don't think i've ever read something like this. i'm curious what part george is going to play in the rest of the book after the stunt he pulled got henry killed.

— Jan 17, 2026 01:36PM

alfia is 39% done

"ernst?" hey. so. that wasn't okay. umm. if i had a fucking nickel for every henry ik who has died ...

— Jan 17, 2026 01:13PM

alfia is 26% done

this is bleak and not even the worst of it yet.

— Jan 15, 2026 01:16PM

alfia is 21% done

'I stood on the most God-forsaken patch of earth I hope ever exists and I thought: I wonder how Elly is.'

— Jan 15, 2026 12:35PM

alfia is 18% done

just as henry wrote a letter to sandys telling him how much his friendship meant to him, sandys died. he never got to read henry's letter.

i slammed my phone down and shed a tear in pain.

— Jan 15, 2026 12:11PM

alfia is 14% done

why is 90% of this school gay

— Jan 15, 2026 11:42AM

alfia is 10% done

what if my best friend homoerotically nipped at my skin while reciting wordsworth and i got hard. that scene was so 😳🤭

— Jan 15, 2026 11:07AM

alfia is 8% done

another doomed character named henry 😔 why did homeboy have to go enlist i feel such an acute sense of foreboding.

— Jan 15, 2026 10:44AM

alfia is 5% done

— Jan 15, 2026 10:03AM