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katie
is 39% done
good riddance oh my god. I feel like this book is just now beginning like go nan!! kitty was holding her back and honestly it was past time nan learned some self respect and quit going along with literally everything kitty wanted omg so this is very much needed even if kitty weren’t a coward and a loser
— Sep 26, 2024 10:57AM
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katie
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been resisting rereading this since 2 minutes after i finished it the first time
— Dec 22, 2024 04:12PM
katie
is 71% done
oh i am going to be SO sad to finish this but what a roller coaster bc every time i think nan has finally started respecting herself and turned into sort of a badass she goes and does something so humiliating. and she literally IS capable of so much and she’s hot and charming and resourceful and has LOTS of various experience lol but she keeps begging these genuinely awful people to stay in her life. wake up babe!
— Sep 27, 2024 10:24PM
katie
is 20% done
the intensity of nan’s yearning for and worship of kitty is so agonizing and palpable and REAL lmao i’m getting retroactive embarrassment on behalf of various past selves 😭 just the persistent wide-eyed obsession with someone you adore so much but also think is so much better than you and the feeling that you would literally do anything for them without question or exception is so real! and also so not good!!
— Sep 25, 2024 04:28PM
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Sep 26, 2024 11:05AM
also idk this is not a fully formed thought but there’s something so weird about kitty choosing to become a male impersonator knowing full well she’s a lesbian and hating herself for being a lesbian?? idk, i know that this is not drag because it’s done for an audience of straight people to laugh at and mock but to me there’s such an obvious link between queerness and this kind of public performance of gender and i guess that just wouldn’t have occurred to a lot of people in the 1880s so maybe it truly didn’t occur to kitty either. but just very odd to me to make all of these choices and literally act like that, flirt with nan before nan even knew what was going on in her own head, go up on the stage every single night as a male impersonator, and then be so so precious about and scared of being associated with queerness to the extent that you refuse to even be in the same building as other queer people who are literally strangers to you. just feels cowardly and hypocritical and also very dumb
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kitty also just had such a weird change through part one of this book i still can’t quite get my head around it. she was so charming and SMOOTH and hot and kind of genuinely roguish even off the stage and she became so shy and meek and scared and that change was even before she and nan were official or had even talked about anything. i guess i can guess at some of the internal processes there and i guess some of it can just be chalked up to the fun of flirting with someone you don’t really know vs how your feelings about that change when you actually become friends and actually start to feel something serious for each other especially if you’re a lesbian who hates herself for being a lesbian but idk i just didn’t enjoy the evolution of kitty at all and the way everything that made her fun disappeared really all of a sudden, before anything with nan even happened?? but i guess that’s the point?? but it still feels to me really like she’s two separate characters when i think back to the beginning when they first met like i can’t conceive really that they’re the same person and i feel like whatever change needed to happen with kitty could have been done with a little more grace or consistency or something
