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I genuinely can’t tell if I love or hate the writing style and that’s really messing with me

idk what’s happened to my reading tastes either but rest assured I’ll be returning to my wank pretentious poetry soon enough

yo this is on Spotify now?

I don’t think she’s that weird

I keep laughing on the tube I’m becoming one of Those People

this sounds so stressful and frustrating! man i hope this never happens to me and my partner! 😂🔫

oh yeah look at all that progress

my break ending twenty pages from the last page 😍

so engrossed that I missed my tube stop lol

it really speaks to RFK’s talent as a writer that she writes about twitter without it feeling dated. much to think about in terms of how to portray the inherent ephemerality and ‘cringe’ of social media with the permanence of the novel…

the ‘finishing a dissertation on graphically violent 90s theatre’ to ‘shitty YA’ pipeline is real

I feel sarah kane calling to me in the darkness

oh boy I feel so cheery!

english degrees are actually about reading bullshit in between the masses of plays about your own mortality that you’re forced to read

coming full circle with this being on my reading list

Sometimes I can still make my eyes well up - like a kids game of fainting at will - thinking of how much I wanted him to like me

thank god im in a loving relationship it seems pretty miserable for the rest of you guys 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

you think you’re cool and then you almost break down at your workplace’s cafe bc the details are so specific and so so painful 👍 count ur days mr porter

a well developed narrative voice!!!!!!

happened to me one time

this is worryingly heartwarming

i really thought i was special and then i was hit with the high sex drive lesbian who likes girls with dark hair, is really obsessed with cows and has a parent with a brain tumour. why even bother being alive.

the tradition of reading bizarre books that I’d never read at any other time while in the queue at a theme park continues. this time with more moocows 🐮🐮🐮