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[kitay’s] grin widened. “come on, rin. trust me. i gave you wings once.”
“yes, and that’s how I got this scar!”
he reached over and patted her on the shoulder. “then it’s a good thing you’ve never cared much about looking pretty.”

kitay being the crazed prodigy he is >>>

the next words she spoke felt like reopened scars, familiar and painful, words that bore the weight of all the guilt that she’d tried so long to suppress. words belonging to a legacy that now, she knew, she had no choice but to face. “because we’ll be cike. and the first rule of the cike is that we cull.”

rfk is gonna make me fucking cry

that centuries of warfare later, this country was still a canvas for the gods, that their celestial essence still seeped through the cracks between worlds.

the audacity of rfk to write abt truly atrocious war crimes on one page and then string together prose this gorgeous. like. how

“he got plucky,” daji said. “i turned him to mincemeat and sent him back to vaisra in a dumpling basket.”
jiang arched an eyebrow. “darling, fucking what?”

ICONIC

she remembered the first time she’d ever laid eyes on nezha, and then all the times thereafter.

abt to just fricking die bc i simply cannot

she squeezed her eyes shut. she imagined herself falling backward into the phoenix’s warmth, into that distant space where nothing mattered but rage. the thin wail wavered.
burn, she thought, shut up and burn.

go unhinged queen go