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I feel like a lot of reviews of One Last Stop are so fixated on trying to cancel the two characters for the most idiotic reasons..... including those weird reviews by non-Asians about Jane's fetishization, like. I have read that book multiple times and you're doing WAY TOO much about August being Jane's white saviour. Like that's a ridiculously bad faith interpretation. Sometimes people who are in love help each other. No aspect of Jane getting stuck in the subway was connected to her ethnic identity.
Also among the handful of tradpub butchfemme romances, Jane is one of the only butches not oversexualized or portrayed as a walking fuckboy to a weird capacity. Yet she is the one consistently called out to be a "hot Asian butch" stereotype while characters like Delilah Green or that ambiguous Kristen Stewart standin from For Her Consideration are considered "wife material" like ok. Whatever. Go outside. Maybe it was too much diversity for you.
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every sapphic book i love → one last stop by casey mcquiston
I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice.
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I am so proud to say that my college is so LGBT friendly, that in a survey Res Life put out they forgot to include straight people.
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I feel like a lot of reviews of One Last Stop are so fixated on trying to cancel the two characters for the most idiotic reasons..... including those weird reviews by non-Asians about Jane's fetishization, like. I have read that book multiple times and you're doing WAY TOO much about August being Jane's white saviour. Like that's a ridiculously bad faith interpretation. Sometimes people who are in love help each other. No aspect of Jane getting stuck in the subway was connected to her ethnic identity.
Also among the handful of tradpub butchfemme romances, Jane is one of the only butches not oversexualized or portrayed as a walking fuckboy to a weird capacity. Yet she is the one consistently called out to be a "hot Asian butch" stereotype while characters like Delilah Green or that ambiguous Kristen Stewart standin from For Her Consideration are considered "wife material" like ok. Whatever. Go outside. Maybe it was too much diversity for you.
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the circus was in town that day 🤡
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Queen Persephone
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Jane and August
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Jane and August
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Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
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The Bomb
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Jane and August
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at the end of the day it’s not that you hate your job - actually, you like working, you like routine, you like feeling like an adult - it’s that any time you fuck anything up, you feel like you’re fucking dying.
because you could be actually fucking dying. because if one day you wake up and you misunderstood something - you could lose your job, and nobody is hiring, and nobody is paying, and nobody takes people like you, and that job you want hasn’t gotten back to you. and what exactly are you going to do without insurance? good luck with those meds. you should have thought of that before being a person.
so it’s not just that you forgot to CC someone on an email, it’s that if you don’t have this job, you can’t afford rent. it’s not that you misread a comment, it’s that if you get fired, you will be in massive amounts of unpayable debt. it’s not that you are bad at your job, but here are the stakes as they have been decided for you: be perfect or fucking die. like, literally, die. that is how much safety net you have: none.
it’s not burnout, technically. but you literally just had two typos in your work, and you’re already picturing the ending. you want to throw up & curl up & make it all go away. it is two typos. if he decides he is mad at you, you lose literally everything.
your mom says that you seem stressed. the thing is that you have never known a job that isn’t stressful. welcome to capitalism. there is no other road, only this one. what the fuck is a career. you come here, and we hold your life against the barrel of a gun, and somewhere someone is spinning the chamber and pulling. eventually the bullet will come.
you live in a mugging. your boss owns three cars and has four kids. you worry about having enough to feed your dog. good luck. beg for forgiveness. CC the right people next time and be grateful, kid. somebody has it worse than you. someone, probably, has it worse than you. so what if you can’t sleep or eat or focus. your work chat sound literally makes you panic. you had to change the sounds of computer notifications so you’d stop having such an upset stomach.
welcome to the real world! the rat race! the dog eat dog circus!
your doctor studies the results and frowns at you. “it’s bad for your heart,” she says. “try to reduce your levels of stress.”
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