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gotta say i am not in love with how this book talks about sex. a lot of "ohhhh what are gay men DOING to ourselves by fucking nasty and loveless all the time." that said if i were living in the 1980s i would probably be twitchy about sex too

“During this time, I couldn’t tell if I liked being alone, or if I only endured it because I knew I had no choice.”

edieeeeeeee. banging my head against the wall

"The good news is, there are actually ways to [make living with ADHD less exhausting]. The bad news is, they are going to therapy, eating healthily, getting enough sleep and exercising regularly."

god fucking damnit

[raising my hand] i think the bitchy miltonic angels are gay

"I stand before the mirror. I think to myself, You are a desirable woman. You are not a dozen gerbils in a skin casing."

ok im locked in

as frustrated as i am at this book right now. bringing the "BANGBANG" thing back around from the very first book. yeah. that hits

hell yeah baby let's kill god

"'Black-on-black crime' is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. [...] To yell 'black-on-black crime' is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding."

"This officer, given maximum power, bore minimum responsibility. He was charged with nothing. He was punished by no one. He was returned to his work. [...] The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws."

i love how murderbot keeps running into brilliant insane scientist women. and ART is this also but shipgender

she did NOT just use the word speedrunning in the vaguely-90s-fantasy book

oh my god goodreads choice award dropped my mental illness is ON HOLD. there's no way i've even read most of the books on this list but i love to see the nominees

"[Leida]'s not the one orchestrating new movement against the throne in the provinces."

wait hey yeah why is calla even worried about that anyway. she hates all these people and she hated the previous monarch adn she doesn't trust august or anton. why are we all so married to monarchy continuing to exist

it’s so hard for me to try to care about how the last book ended. it did not have to. they did not have to death match there were so many ways they could’ve avoided that shit

“The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Perhaps his own nation more than any other, precisely because it was his own.”

20 pages into this and ohhhhhh my god coates' writing. james baldwin style of prose that is so truthful and cutting and gorgeous that it knocks you off your feet

so uh. how we all doing on this fine morning

MURDERBOT SAVE ME. PLEASE.

historical accuracy (mark antony being dogshit at politics)

“For the first time, she’s starting to wonder if the provinces are better at hiding secrets from the palace than she thought.”

this is the girl who wants to liberate the kingdom

TRANS PERSON

“‘Don’t speak to me.’
…
‘I—you—pardon?’ General Ponin demands.
She considers backpedaling to conceal her overt disdain. … ‘Don’t speak to me,’ Calla repeats instead. ‘Your voice is so fucking grating.’”

behold. cleopatra, fucking apparently

i do think if i were a cis boy they woulda caught this shit ten years ago seeing as all my elementary school report cards are like "she's really smart but she talks too much in class and never checks her work and clorox wipes her desk every day as an excuse to stand up and she's reading under the desk 24/7." but then i'd have to be cis so. L

let's all hope this is godawful in a funny way and not in a boring way