[thememedaddy]

[riskytext]

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[emrysofstorybrooke]

One of my favorite things about Somewhere Beyond the Sea was how was Sal has grown and become more comfortable since the beginning of the first book. I mean, this kid who rarely spoke up about anything, and NEVER around Linus, is now the one the kids almost always trust to speak up for them.

And more importantly, he calls out the adults for dumb things they're saying or doing SEVERAL times throughout this book. It says so much about Arthur, Linus, and Zoe and the way they raise these kids that he's comfortable doing that. It makes my heart so happy to see him have a place where he's that comfortable in his own skin, and I love the adults in his life for giving him enough respect and room to flourish for that to happen. It shows in all of the kids, but I think Sal especially.

[destialpal]

I need everyone to understand how important Chauncey Baker-Parnassus is to me

[fanvoidkeith]

sometimes family is a regular man, his phoenix husband, the antichrist, an amorphous slime boy, a nature sprite, a gnome, a wyvern, a shapeshifter, a yeti, a much older and more powerful nature sprite, and her girlfriend the mayor

[sillysymbol]

chappell roan warm up

pic i referenced

[riskytext]

just finding stuff

[ceylonsilvergirl]

TJ Klune keeps asking, “what if a real life disney prince fell in love with the human equivalent of a wet paper bag?”

And I keep reading to find out the answer

[januarymoth]

they could never make me hate you Chappell Roan

[leoblooms]

rise and fall of a philly princess

[mistah-steel]

I just finished Babel by R.F. Kuang and I can’t stop thinking about Professor Craft. How she’s shown as the object of Letty’s total admiration for being the only female professor at Babel until she shuts down Letty’s questions about overcoming misogyny, how her refusal to acknowledge the institution’s misogyny frames her as complacent. However, she later proves herself to be a greater ally to the cause than Letty even would be. She is the first to believe Robin and Victoire about the war, she is the only white scholar to stay and join the revolution, she sacrifices herself to help Robin destroy the tower. Meanwhile, Letty betrays her friends and refuses to consider any oppression that isn’t her own. And I wish so badly that Letty could’ve seen Professor Craft when she told Robin and Victoire to surrender, that she saw that the woman she was desperate to emulate on the opposite side of the revolution and maybe then she would finally see that she was wrong

[bluebutter-art]

“…That they were all four of them drowning in the unfamiliar, and they saw in each other a raft, and clinging to one another was the only way to stay afloat.”

― R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History

[kindlespark]

can't stop drawing them in nap piles

[lobster-tales]

Books Read in 2024:

Babel by R. F. Kuang

"But what is the opposite of fidelity?" asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialectic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. "Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?"

[bangbangwhoa]

books read in 2023 📖 no. 007

Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang

“She learned revolution is, in fact, always unimaginable. It shatters the world you know. The future is unwritten, brimming with potential. The colonizers have no idea what is coming, and that makes them panic. It terrifies them.”

“Good. It should.”

[ollivandiers]

Books I’ve read in 2024: ‘Babel' or 'The Necessity of Violence' by R.F. Kuang | Historical Fantasy | 5/5

"It doesn't matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end."

[astxrothinsolace]

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention this but rf kuang’s naming of Victorie in Babel is just genius??? Victorie is derived from the Latin word for ‘victory’, and at the end of the novel, she was the only one to survive the rebellion out of the three of them. Her name alone carries the implication that the revolution was successful despite her and Robin’s worries, as she rides out in ‘victory’. This is such a smooth and unnoticeable reassurance that the novel did not end on a cliff-hanger, but rather and strong and positive reaffirmation.