Marija’s Reviews > Chlorine > Status Update

I don’t know how to articulate this, but there’s something gender essentialist about the way she describes men and women

Linking the brain damage to the metamorphosis

I don’t particularly see any like, affection between Cathy and Ren? Which I’m not particularly complaining about, actually. It feels like a friendship of circumstances, where both of them don’t seem to particularly enjoy each other’s company but are very attracted to each other. Am I onto something? Is this anything?

Touch-me-nots <—> you cannot touch me

“I’m confined to a comprehension of human difficulties through an American lens” it’s like I’m reading an instagram post about colonialism

Cathy’s homoerotic letter was all fine and dandy until she said “anyway, let me get back to my yearning”. Took me right out!

I would’ve loved to learn about this Faye Wong thing a bit earlier

Very explicit period talk

Winning as a human concept she, as a mermaid, is beyond now? Because she understands that there is no winning when someone loses? That’s an interesting choice, for sure.