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im a fan is like im a fun pop lit book about a woman stalking a man and his influencer gf ! it's like saltburn for loser women ! then 30 pages in you get a scathing commentary on the exploitation of a minority status and how while this may have a noble intent rooted in Fixing something or even self protection all it works to do is perpetuate the same ideas you were trying to dispute and then it goes right back to loser woman activities

brettsgoldstein

can we please talk about woman of the hour because holy shitt oh my god dude. its actually so good and not even in the sense i was expecting it to be like i originally didnt wanna watch it bc i dont love indulging in serial killer media that can romanticize it but this wow. it does not do that at all like watching anna kendricks snippet of her interview with stephen colbert fr convinced me oh she gets it and well she really does. so many details down the the way its written wiith the back and forth and the way its shot really emphasizing the abuse women have to deal with. and the very first shot isnt even of this fucking guy its of one of his victims but it's thru a camera lens a literal objectifying lens. "people dont want to be seen, stop performing" *sheryl nods, like an authority figure is speaking to her* all the different ways women have to make themselves feel small at the sake of a man to ensure their safety and protection. when sarah experiences a very weird, very dangerous, gesture she laughs it off awkwardly because what else is she to do? that shot with just her in the frame head on clearly contemplating the truth of her situation figuring out if its worth it to even try and run. cut to a scene of sheryl doing something very similar but shes not in danger, right? but she sleeps with him anyway. laura no one is going to believe you not even your boyfriend are u really sure its the same guy you have to be 100% certain sure honey just wait right here ill get the studio exec for you since the cops didnt do anything oh yeah the guard at the desk sorry yeah hes such an asshole right? the men encroaching in the frame of the women make urself small no one's going to believe you he's not taking the hint just leave just leave im so stupid for letting him in everythings a risk, i don't date much haha, oh that's just la, dear. it's okay, baby, i'm just so embarrassed, don't look don't look believe me believe me okay now run. "stop performing" because to perform is to survive and sheryl doesn't want to survive she just wants to live.

wonderstruck

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#unwind #neal shusterman #wind and truth #brandon sanderson #kinda on pause #the woman with two navels and tales of the tropical gothic #nick joaquin #greek lessons #han kang #how to steal a presidential election #lawrence lessig #matthew seligman

Gideon the ninth is a just a mystery novel with an enemies-to-lovers romance subplot but set in a sci-fan world with necromancy

And its perfect

#gideon the ninth

impartial-nihilist

im coming out as a shakadolin truther

#stormlight archive #tbh rn im grieving the reality that it will never happen #relistening to oathbringer and oh my god the potential #shakadolin #kaladin stormblessed #shallan davar #adolin kholin #cosmere

wonderstruck

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#the night circus #erin morgenstern #merciless #w. winters #willow winters

“All this just so arya can kill the night king and bran sits the iron throne”

Is that not the point? Is the tragedy not in watching this family’s hubris destroy everything for a prophecy that theyve misunderstood

#hotd #house of the dragon #got #game of thrones #and yes i do think the show fucked up the prophecy #but hotd exists in the shows continuity

wonderstruck

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#rebecca #daphne du maurier #the bell jar #sylvia plath

Jon remembering the snowflakes in robs hair the last time they saw each other and jon noticing the snowflakes in sams hair when they part in feast oh my god

#a game of thrones #a feast for crows #jon snow #rob stark #samwell tarly #asoiaf #game of thrones #got #a song of ice and fire

guccifloralsuits

what’s your Spotify top track and 100th track 👀

#2023 this time #nonsense by sabrina carpenter #dress by taylor swift

teartra

Babel: Dream

As someone who is a bilingual but never left my home country, I’ve never thought much about this “dream” thing before this I read this scene… (note: and yes, I mostly dream with my native tongue)

Also the parallel between Robin

And Griffin

#read this in a mini bookclub w 2 friends #one of whom is diaspora like me and the other who was raised in SEA #and the latter always kind of held the view that americas view on heritage is ridiculous #in that ppl raised in the US are just americans #and when we were discussing this section #i got so emotional talking about how #to the boys in that party robin is foreign and will never get to really be seen as one of them #but it is bc of his foreignness that he has some skill that he can lord above them #but griffin too will always be foreign to them #but he cant say the same bc he cant dream in chinese #and my friend just sort of got it #the diasporic experience and why we hold onto our ethnic identities even if in the end we are american #babel #griffin lovell #robin swift

Following rand’s treaty with tuon, im really just ready for her to die in a battle already

#wheel of time #wot #memory of light

im sorry but was i not supposed to assume that nick and mr. mckee hooked up when they were half-naked in bed or

#nick carraway #the great gatsby #currently reading

Wait so jordan baker was mixed-race, right?

#the great gatsby #jordan baker #currently reading

So i started reading manacled last night and finished this afternoon. Disregarding how ive totally destroyed by melatonin-created sleep schedule at the start of the semester—

Its 370256 words

Thats more words than the second asoiaf novel (which i believe took me about 3 weeks to read)

If we use the 275 words/page stat this fic is over 1300 pages long

And i somehow read it in roughly 12 hours

#manacled #senlinyu #dramione #currently reading