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comfort book szn!!

been resisting rereading this since 2 minutes after i finished it the first time

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!

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

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!!