Status Updates From Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Nearly 2/3rds in and there’s hardly been a whisper of queerness in this book. Even if the last chunk is gay gay gay (and I don’t have high hopes), this is a disappointing read.

“We would do anything, even go against our natural instincts, so we could be taken care of.”

“I was starving and grateful. I felt such a pinching, thorny love for my mother. I wished I could hug her. But that would have been impossible. We never showed love in that way.”

so so cute 😭

wait why was the ouija board part actually so scary

absolutely breathtaking so far

“Our parents had left their homes and the thread had unraveled, then been women again with us. This was how it always was, an unraveling and a ravelling of the earth, the ground we stood on. Nothing was sacred, everything was sacred, everything changed, everything stayed the same.”