If I had a nickel for every time a stellar thriller YA major debut was followed up by two sequels increasing exponentially in darkness while keeping the heart and development of the characters and story, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

I'm about 100 pages from the end of Fool's Fate and it's doing the same thing Patricia Brigg's Hurog trilogy did earlier this year, namely remind me of myself back in the early 2000s when these books were written. By which I mean (not derogatory!) they both remind me of (not derogatory!!) how I didn't think I was allowed to just write two guys happily having sex with each other so instead the story resorts to some of the most astonishing subliminal, symbolic, plausibly deniable, either textually or subtextually homophobic (not actually derogatory!!!) and frequently very angsty events! One might even call them intricate rituals!

i love that we’ve just collectively decided to loudly and randomly say hey bear!! as a way of informing bears of our presence while out in the wilderness

sara adoption au!!!!!!!

I remember during c2 a very popular theory was, that Trent actually was Bren's real father....

Hmm I've never heard this before but honestly I think it's more interesting if the point is that he doesn't need to be their biological father for the power structures and tropes and rhetorics of the nuclear family to be used to legitimize the volstrucker project and indoctrinate complete obedience that feels "natural" or even self-serving; The personal ego becomes intertwined with or replaced by the Family, and damage to the family is therefore damage to you. And by extension, disobedience to the family is hurting oneself, is disrespectful and ungrateful towards the gifts of the family, you owe it to the father to lead your life the way he wants you to because he GAVE you your life, etc. It's not that Caleb is special because he's biologically related to Trent, it's that all three of them are given the task of being siblings and being the Best Child to distract from the fact that what they're actually doing is working, for a boss, under an imperial structure.

But I do think Trent potentially being from Blumenthal is interesting. Would at the very least have some implications for why he favored Bren, as a blumenthal kid with the potential to be the better, streamlined version of himself. And then the begrudging shift to Astrid as his new son and heir, who is probably actually more like him—but not nearly as clean

okay, young royals, WHAT happened while i was studying for the written constitution-

jesus christ on a bicycle.

OH SHIT SHIN REKO AND NAO ARE MILLENNIALS

the whole point is love. the whole point is to love!!!!!!!!! and show it!!! telling people you love them is the whole point!!!!!!! of everything!!!! experiencing love of your own and beinging intertwined in another's is the highest acconplishment!!! to love is to live!!!!!!!!!!!! TO! LOVE! IS! TO! LIVE!

Um, well I was really heartbroken when I first heard it. I mean, I wasn’t in the acute stage of heartbreak, I was in the stage where you feel like you’re never going to get over someone and all your friends are like, ‘Please don’t talk about her anymore.’ They were like, ‘Get over it!’, but I couldn’t because there was no other face I wanted to look at more. So yeah, I was in a very preoccupied but functional stage of a breakup – and I don’t even know if it was really a breakup – and I honestly felt sleepless. Like I was trying to sleep with a broken heart and I just couldn’t. It was devastating to me that I just couldn’t get over this woman, and just being in that isolating period when the time of people being empathetic is over and nobody wants to hear about it anymore.

Sara Quin about her memories associated with “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart” by Alicia Keys (x)

I'm listening to the audiobook of "I Kissed Shara Wheeler", and oh boy the line where Georgia says they need Chloe because, as the bisexual, she's the only one in their gay friend group who can do math resonates way harder than it needed to.

"Most of the people who, at least that I've written songs about, know and seemed fine about it. However...I do feel like, at least on my side of the equation, there are a number of women who they wish I hadn't written songs about them. Not at the time, I think at the time they were like, Great, and then I think now it must haunt them.

And I don't even mean it to be funny, I mean it in like a - God, it must be annoying every time we put out a new album and we're just everywhere again and our faces. I definitely feel like there's this public haunting that happens. I also feel like I know that from having been involved at a time with another public figure. And I just remember always being like - I mean, I didn't want anything bad to happen to her, but I was like, Why can't she just be a dentist?"

- Sara Quin, Vancouver VIP Q & A 11/20/22

6/11/28!! for the asks

6) 3 characters that inspire you: Jo March in Little Women, Anne Shirley in AOGG, Eliza Schuyler in Hamilton

11) 3 books that you would recommend everyone to read: oooh that's a hard one, since I don't truly believe in the 'books to read before you die' since everyone has different tastes, but I'd recommend If You Could See The Sun by Jandy Nelson, The Giver by Louis Lowry, and Animal Farm by George Orwell (special mentions are Pachinko by Min-Jin Lee, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleed Hosseini, and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell)

28) 3 things you love cooking/baking: chicken soup, stir fry, and cookies <3

3 things asks

*tips hat* hope you're having a lovely morning/evening, m'lady (or idk whatever time it is where you are)

Might I request a book recommendation?

what genre of books do you like?

Just finished reading an entire book without getting dizzy, so SUCK IT LONG COVID

the necessary variables are apparently:

1. read on my phone where I can change the font size (reasonable)

2. read in spanish (????? what even?????)

man. yeah it is weird tagging shit as a romantic pairing when it's not intended to be.

I really need some good book recs