simone’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

Somewhere in this flurry of papers, readings, and doomed late-night attempts to perfect Ramy’s potato curry, their first year came to an end.
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siguro part of what kills it for me is that she draws close for the lectures but zooms out for the collegial stuff like this, when the latter is what dark academia and real life college memories are Really made of...

‘So you’re here to ship silver back to those mutinying sepoys, are you?’
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how can you have arguments like these and remain friends? I remember originally disagreeing with other reviewers re Letty, but now I agree. i could have seen them remaining friends if they were 12-15, say. college age? no way...

oh, letty..... :/

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ROBIN COMMITED MURDER IM SO PROUD OF HIM <3

/j and all that but it was truly deservedddd and ik robin's going to struggle with it but i personally felt vindicated

[And so Robin was asked to forget his preferred native tongue.]

fucking hell my chinoy ass felt that like a knife to the chest

[Robin had never been taught the fundamentals of grammar – he knew what worked in English because it sounded right]

he's just like me fr.