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[soointense]

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[anythingforwolfstar]

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[detailedart]

Sixteen lovers and one who craves - stone softness

[transformativeworks]

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[starfallkaz]

Babel thoughts (and dreams)

In my heart Robin and Ramy are at that picnic together on the first day they met. Gorging themselves on sweet chocolate tart and brioche and sharp cheese, with bright smiles and fingers sticky from elderflower cordial. And they’re drunk. Drunk on the feeling of being known, and being understood, and finding kinship and kindness in another person like them. I’m thinking of Victoire teasing Robin on his awkwardness, and Robin's biting reply about the roots of the name Victoire stemming from vicious, but it's all in good humour and warmth. Thinking of them staying up until the early hours of the morning delirious from reading, their minds dreaming and spinning in foreign languages, with ink-stained fingers and tired smiles and the steady knowledge that they were changing the world one translation at a time. And it's the three of them holding each other so tightly, finding comfort and solidarity in each other's presence, smiling and laughing together until their bellies ached and their hearts were full.

[artemist-y]

a robin x ramy playlist b/c after finishing babel, i stared at the wall for 20 minutes 

the chemistry between these two was undeniable

runner-up quote:

“It’s so odd,” Robin said. Back then they’d already passed the point of honesty; they spoke to one another unfiltered, unafraid of consequences. “It’s like I’ve known you forever.” […] “I think,” said Ramy. “It’s because when I speak, you listen.” “Because you’re fascinating.” “Because you’re a good translator.”

[meruz]

reposting this babel drawing w/o the ask and then remembering abruptly that I have a sketchbook pg of babel drawings just sitting around

[zoyalensk]

was it casual when you almost placed your hand in my cheek because you found it so beautiful under the glow of sunset?

[archiveofliterature]

crazy how a book about languages and violence has themes about the unsaid and how violence actualises what people don't want to say

[hopeless-servant-in-a-fairy-tale]

Just finished Babel. Robin, Ramy and Victoire are my new roman empire. Go fuck yourself Letitia Price.

[hrrystylesbookclub]

does anyone else ever think about how in a way “birdie” is the realest name robin swift ever had

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

So my friend recently finished Babel and they said creating homoerotic tension between robin and ramy only to kill them afterwards was a weak move.

What does that even mean? If you wanted to a read a happy queer novel why did you choose Babel? Why are you looking for a fairytale ending in a book that deals with heavy topics like colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, slavery, war and whatnot. Death was always upon them. Being gay doesn't magically give characters plot armour. War doesn't care about anyone's sexuality.

[the-witch-forever-lives]

the most awesome thing about Babel characters is it either motivates you to study your ass off or to overthrow the shitty education system by non-compliance, and either way you KNOW Robin and Ramy and Victorie will be proud of you.

[angelsaxis]

Gay subtext is so much funnier than gay text because in the process of reading Babel you quickly come to realize that Robin only ever gives detailed physical descriptions of men

[joejhang]

if you ever feel good about yourself just remember that rf kuang wrote and published the poppy war, the dragon republic, the burning god, babel: an arcane history and yellowface all before turning 28

[archiveofliterature]

letty couldn't handle the fact a brown man rejected her, but also couldn't handle knowing that ramy would pick robin over and over again, that he would rather have a (chinese) MAN over a (white) woman

she tried to connect with him the ways robin could, by talking abt his foreign land, by "appreciating" him ("but your skin is lovely—"), mimicking his banter with robin (constantly going against every mundane opinion he had in an effort to tease him) but she could never see how she was constantly hurting him by never listening to him, by putting down his feelings of britain's settlement in india, by her utter ignorance to the group's collective experiences

but no, it's ramy's fault, obviously. he wouldn't even look at her and she couldn't stand it

[deermessrs]

after everything, afterall, i’m most astonished at the audacity of letty calling robin “birdie.”

that’s ramy’s word, not hers. but she uses it knowingly. she knows the power of words, of language, of translation, and yet she’s choosing to steal a word that’s not hers, a word that has meaning and history and love, a word that not even victoire dared use bc she knew it wasn’t hers, that it belonged to ramy and robin alone, all for her own advantage.

she used it time and time again without permission. she used it while ignoring all protests because she sees language as a tool to use, a weapon to wield. all to get ahead. letty’s another cog in the apparatus of white colonialism, exploiting that which doesn’t belong to her.