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Happy 10th anniversary to the final part of my favorite trilogy ever!

One of my favorite outfits from Rose ♡u♡

“You have such a great fear of freedom, brother. It's shackling you. You've identified so hard with the colonizer, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can't be one of them?”

- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by RF Kuang (2022)

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When Chloe Gong said about Shanghai: "This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment."

And when R.F. Kuang said about London: "London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved. London was both unimaginably rich and wretchedly poor. London - lovely, ugly, sprawling, cramped, belching, sniffing, virtuous, hypocritical, silver-gilded London - was near to a reckoning, for the day would come when it either devoured itself from inside or cast outwards for new delicacies, labour, capital, and culture on which to feed."

Yeah. Authors describing cities is my new favourite thing.

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fucking linguists

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Day Two - The last book I finished is Babel. Without a doubt, it’s the most important dark academia book to read if you are interested in this genre. The criticism, the setting, the characters and the whole book is just phenomenally done. While reading it I was just completely in awe that one singular person wrote this book. Like, in a YEAR. I’m manifesting a Victoire sequel or a Griffin prequel 🕯