#... ish

[summer-oil-inactive]

had a pretty bad case of physical anxiety but managed to soothe myself down with the power of blorbo thoughts, water, chilla's art let's plays on yt and takeuchi ryouta's vocals 🥹 eez

[isthequeerbookgood]

Storygraph Goodreads

Short answer: yes… Slightly longer answer: … but I didn't enjoy it

It's taken me a long time to get around to reading any Sarah Waters, mostly because I just didn't feel like I'd vibe with her books all that much. And I was right! I didn't!

Don't get me wrong, this is a well-written book. It's distinctly not a romance novel, though it does have romance in it. Romance, and quite a lot of fucking. Our story follows Nan, a simple oyster-seller's daughter, as she becomes enchanted by cross-dressing singer Kitty and follows her to the glamorous underbelly of Victorian London.

The story is vivid, the characters are complicated, interesting and alive, and the sex is impressively nasty at times. Waters does a great job of showing just how kinky the Victorians could be behind all the repression. It's a great book - so why didn't I enjoy it?

Honestly, I think it was just genre. It's a book set in the real world with realistic (albeit historical) problems. Nan makes a lot of bad choices and faces the consequences. Although I wouldn't say the story wallows, it definitely dwells in her misery, and it's a quite mundane misery. I was compelled enough to finish the book (and I genuinely really liked the ending) but the overall vibe was not for me.

Conclusion: Tipping the Velvet is Good (if you like that sort of thing)

[maulfucker]

do you ever watch a music and get hit with the realization that the singer looks exactly like your oc. and have to paint your oc over them.. yeag this is lazy bcause I actually wanted to do somthing else and just. had to. she's just like my sadboy guy,,

[cryptic-loser]

I am mentally ill

[bowbow-the-clown]

... 𝕮𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖆𝖈𝖍 ...

[sanctus-ingenium]

he saw a paper bag

[pocketramblr]

" can you go back and file them present since they were with me” I am going to have blood on my hands. We had a TEST" I'm guessing the worst part is that marking the kid absent would punish the student rather than the teacher responsible. Have you tried confronting the teacher trying to settle it peacefully while making it clear they are not to do so again? Because I can imagine that sort of thing is infuriating to have happen

Exactly, I'm not gonna punish the kid. I emailed the attendance coordinator and refiled it. But yeah I did email the teacher too that they had a test and to email me back so we could coordinate something better but got no reply. I'll try to catch them in person next week in the hall or right after school, but if I can't, they don't reply, and it happens again? I'll have to go to my admin about it