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the detail about gay people donating lots of blood pre-1980s got me. i was like "wait but that doesn't sound right because--ohhhhhhh" because i forget that there was a before

picking this up feels like some kind of hail mary cry for help

backman can get really saccharine but his work always hits best when it's not trying to. case in point

"Once you graduated from high school in Beartown? Would you have stayed then?"
...
"Maybe I'd have gotten together with some crazy hockey guy and had a little house with a little yard and two children..."
...
"Are you happy, then? In that little house?"
"Yes. Yes, I probably am. But I write really bad songs."

"There was no excuse, in this country and this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic. For this was a time in which the United States boasted the world's most sophisticated medicine and the world's most extensive public health system..."

ah.

“I know what ‘half-Russian’ means!’ Peter sighs.

‘First you want me to explain everything, now you don’t want me to explain anything…’ Zackell mutters in surprise.”

autistic zackell theory continues to win

“They’ll soon be grown men, and all they will talk about then as each year passes will be more about memories and less about dreams. This is the end of the age where everything is still possible.”

hey. fuck offffff

everyone says murderbot is autistic but i still didn't know it was gonna be this autistic

"When a major character died in the twentieth episode I had to pause seven minutes while it sat there in the feed doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics. Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on."

art is just like me fr

im sick save me murderbot

oh i don't care if the scene is "optional" if you cut the last roy scene you're a bitch and a coward

the double casting in this play. is fucking crazy

prior walter i love you so much it is fucking unreal

NEIL CICEREGA COMIC VOICE EIGHT VAGINAS

hugo is always at his worst when he’s emphasizing how the thenardiers are bad people and also gender failures

granted i’m not sure how sincere he’s being rn but. “the conquest of a yoke for others… a hideous contradiction. France is meant to arouse the soul of nations, not to stifle it” hey victor. about algeria

ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN WAS INVOVLED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PLAY?

"Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions."

joe being like “do i sound gay” dude you call your wife buddy

"'I think Lyra's braver than me. I think she's the best friend I ever had.'

'She thinks that about you as well,' whispered the daemon."

i'm going to lose my mind

justice for selah because if someone started braiding my hair without asking or warning me they were about to touch my head i would slap them too and i’m a grown adult

she’s lie… and he’s fight… the lyra and will brothers

there is perhaps a familiar name in today's beneath ceaseless skies issue :3 https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.c...

every chapter of this book is like how did you people survive this. literally physically how did you people survive

HOLD UP.

the casual implication that lyra’s world’s texas is a sovereign country

“I’m going home to Texas to work at my dad’s Toyota dealership. Fuck this magic shit.”

im always saying this

katniss everdeen as coriolanus figure... bold take but i understand more with every moment i ponder it

was not expecting this to make me mad at ray bradbury again

IS LORD ASRIEL SATAN FROM MILTON???