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first page and i'm already off to a rousing start of classism w like no idea how middle class people pick on poor people

i legit have never seen someone someone use 'lurve' in casual conversation unless they're mocking someone else

i'm not even going to lie- i have yet to see the main character actually regret what she's done... like, acknowledge that taylor was a person that she Ruined through her actions. most of her thoughts in relation to the Incident are either 1. excusing her actions or 2. regretting that she was punished

idk i think it's a little fucked up how this girl who had nude pictures of her leaked becomes friends w nikki even though she doesn't know her Full Story of why ppl hate her. like. it's a very legitimate reason to hate someone. and the girl Needs to know this information

I recognize the refrain of "Let It Go" from Frozen, which I performed with show choir last winter. Not to brag, but my voice is nearly as strong as Idina Menzel's.


HOOOOO MY GOD

oh shit this takes place in ocean isle, north carolina.... now i have to judge it really hard

i keep forgetting his name is pax bc of Pax, the event jfc

i don't like how he tells her to smile .....

i need to put this on an 'normalized eating disorders' shelf or smthn bc all this Pizza Talk makes it seem like nikki and her friends struggle w EDs

"What's your excuse for all the veggies? Is it, like, girl math, where somehow you think getting veggies on top of pizza cancels out the fact that you're eating pizza?"

I giggle because maybe it's a little bit true.

//um?? casual/internalized misogyny ew maybe a binch just likes pizza

who says "CU then" ? it'd be 'see u then' or 'see u later'

lmao @ this classism too. "Haley hated Taylor's brand-new red Mazda 3, and her Coach tote, and her weekly trips to the nail salon." ok but u literally ruined a girls life. i feel like the other factors matter more than how rich taylor is and how poor haley is. it doesn't Excuse any of it.

nikki acts as if bc she wasn't alone w uploading that picture it absolves her of blame?? no boo ur still responsible for ruining that girls life. ur house, ur party, ur facebook. the other girls took the photo but being a bystander makes u just as guilty

"A mental image of kissing him flashes through my mind, and I decide I'm really glad he's not still playing the whole 'I know what you're thinking' game."

WE!! ARE ONLY !! 15% IN! HOW IS THE ROMANCE THIS FAST

new bookshelf: fast-track romance.
add to ableism bookshelf ....

did... did a love interest show up the exact second after Nicole got told off??? *x files music* the wonders of YA

"I know who you are." He's not discreet; he's loud, pointing his index finger in my direction. "And you can go straight to hell."

oh damn what i miss

"Once upon a time, I was a shoo-in for 'Best Hair' in the senior superlatives- it's long and wildly curly, with natural highlights." u had me going there but the natural highlights lets me know this is a white main character.... dam

like a college kid trying to meet a word requirement, oliver repeats her lines over and over, long after a conclusion has been reached

"Some prison activists may see moving rape from a felony crime requiring incarceration into the realm of an honor code or Title IX civil rights violation as a step forward in rehabilitation." okay but ??? what kind of prison activists?? do they want more people in, more people out...????

according to oliver the only time you're allowed to be triggered is when you're actively being sexually assaulted again:
"In a culture that increasingly values feelings and legitimates sensitivity to triggers and traumas caused by words rather than by deeds and embraces the power of language to injure, the equal legitimation of all feelings becomes a form of political leveling." *eye roll*

"Yet within the popular discourse of trauma, increasingly safety includes emotional safe spaces where young people won't get their feeling hurt by hearing what they don't want to hear."
1. holy grammatical issues, batman
2. i'm sorry does ppl getting hurt make u sad, oliver?? why do u care so much that people actively are hurt by graphic retellings of rape? why do you think that they're being coddled???

i was being sarcastic when i said she was anti millenial but hOLY SHIT
"Those who have lived their entire lives in a post-9/11 world may have grown up with the notion that everyone is traumatized and we are all survivors."
l m a o ... okay... why do people have to prove their trauma is authentic for you to believe them. why do they have to prove their trauma is Real.

oliver talks some Big Game about rape culture without realizing that she's defending people that further it. you know. like this woman that said that rape survivors aren't really survivors until it's been proven in court