dancing around the line of romance with my best friend. what's new? are they lovers? worse. are they friends? worse. every part of me wants to kiss her. no part of me wants to date her. every part of me wants to live together forever and adopt a kid to raise with her. no part of me wants people to perceive us as a couple. she's my everything and nothing and most of me and every thought i think and my rock and my nothing. i love her. i need her around forever, but i also would be ok if we parted ways. i want to scream in her face as much as i want to dance with her at stupid parties filled with bitches we don't like. i want to learn to write poetry so i can write a million sonnets about her, so she would never be forgotten. i want to kill myself i want to never die.
Book Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
This DOES NOT contain spoilers, safe to read if you are interested in this book and want to know more about it.
Wikipedia's synopsis of this book states, "Tender Is the Flesh (Spanish: Cadáver exquisito) is a dystopian novel by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica. The novel was originally published in Spanish in 2017 and translated by Sarah Moses into English in 2020. Tender Is the Flesh portrays a society in which a virus has contaminated all animal meat. Because of the lack of animal flesh, cannibalism becomes legal. Marcos, a human meat supplier, is conflicted by this new society, and tortured by his own personal losses."
In my own opinion, I thought the idea behind the book was interesting. The idea was a relatively unique twist on a tried and true metaphor for corruption and politics (cannibalism). I think that Bazterrica was passionate, and you can feel it through her writing. I also enjoyed how she spent time world-building, and walking us through the slaughter process. It felt like she researched the actual butchering process, to an extent.
However, I think the characters could've been more fleshed out. They seem a bit flat at times, and Marcos' personality is not explored very far. He's supposed to be the sympathetic and disquieted character, but his treatment of "Jasmine" always made me uncomfortable and made him appear much less kind than he was telling the reader he was.
The writing was graphic in places where it wasn't necessary, using gore to shock the reader more than develop the central plot. I don't mind it much, as sometimes I like a gore-y horror movie/book, but it is important to mention.
The writing was more juvenile than one would assume, and maybe that has something to do with the translation into English from Spanish, but the diction and syntax were both relatively simple.
I gave it 3.5 stars, read it in a day, and I enjoyed it well enough. It's not a long book, and I think that it's worth a read if you like gore/political commentary. Maybe not the best/most in-depth metaphor, but enjoyable nonetheless.
there is this girl who pretended to be gay and "date" me when i was younger and then outed me to her homophobic mom and my parents, and spread rumours to our old friends and literally made me a pariah ALL AFTER I CAME OUT AS GAY
and i made amends and became friends with her again a few years after that
and guess what just developed within the past month? she came out as gay and then said she also liked the girl who i said i liked. and is now talking to her. and theyre going to like.... go out together.
i backed off when i found out she liked her, why couldnt she do the same?????????? its common knowledge you cant date the person your friend also likes?????
its not even necessarily ABOUT THE GIRL, its about how i cannot handle her being in a happy gay relarionship when she ruined my life (albeit temporarily, i did eventually get past that trauma) over my own homosexuality.
and because im friends with both of them i have to like act like its not TEARING ME APART that theyre gonna go out.
there is this girl who pretended to be gay and "date" me when i was younger and then outed me to her homophobic mom and my parents, and spread rumours to our old friends and literally made me a pariah ALL AFTER I CAME OUT AS GAY
and i made amends and became friends with her again a few years after that
and guess what just developed within the past month? she came out as gay and then said she also liked the girl who i said i liked. and is now talking to her. and theyre going to like.... go out together.
i backed off when i found out she liked her, why couldnt she do the same?????????? its common knowledge you cant date the person your friend also likes?????
its not even necessarily ABOUT THE GIRL, its about how i cannot handle her being in a happy gay relarionship when she ruined my life (albeit temporarily, i did eventually get past that trauma) over my own homosexuality.
and because im friends with both of them i have to like act like its not TEARING ME APART that theyre gonna go out.
I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.
