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"illusion of transparency"

on authors as devices

on "it writes". like a phenomenon

on never meeting your heroes!!!!!!!

on copies and distribution and authorship

serious note tho

on form and content

protag is like, im going to now copy a sentence from a famous novel. i go, sure. i read the sentence. i know immediately it is the first line of crime & punishment. i've never even read it in english before. genuinely idek what to do w myself rn yall

on an incipit of a book

"i contain multitudes!" (w.whitman)

–172. on written/unwritten

identity complexity

haha. HA

actually lowkey forgot how fast the training sequence ends in this series and how immediately we're on literal frontlines in a sieged city covered in english mud and facing death and starvation

on telephones and anxiety

on truth

on "arabian nights"

in the spirit of me studying to become an archivist as of this year i thought it fitting to slowly take up a reread of this series. oh how far we've come.

anyway. obsessed with the dario x jess "and they were roommates" situation

on the past and the whole

on authors and their true form

о нееет зачем открыла в два часа ночи блин теперь не могу остановиться ПОМОГИТЕ. кстати купила эту книжку когда она только-только вышла, и сериал пока не смотрела потому что гордость не позволяет — сначала книжка. НУ ВОТ МЫ ЗДЕСЬ

this takes place at a place called Valentine Academy for Boys and their crest is a pierced heart and their uniforms are red and dark blue. i am imagining it all as a Barbie dollhouse full of Kens. a Mojo-Dojo Casa House, if you will. i am enjoying myself

hi sorry first off i find it hilarious that Lomeli was renamed (to fuckin Thomas Lawrence) in the movie and seemingly everyone else was spared the name changing. idk why they did it im sure there was a reason maybe just cause Ralph Fiennes does not look italian enough (?) but its still so funny to me. also this does feel like reading an advanced burn book of sorts omg

feeling ambitious, upped my goal to 15 books (i bought four recently one of which is conclave by robert harris)

oh also! had to take it back to the library but i like it enough to own a copy and finish. i'm over halfway through and it really has a feel of the goldfinch in some way. so really i would love to have it

"i imagine it must feel really good" he says about a man-eating plant that holds you in its tentacles before digestion. laios is such a fucking freak i am in gentle love with him

(i've seen all episodes currently out but i can't stop thinking about it so here we are. here we are)

look, it's not that i think having your gay male hairdresser make assumptions about your sex life in jest was necessarily an original experience. but to think that i share it with Selin! fascinating

this book, so far at the very least, is like poetry. bits and pieces of the world grabbed out of the air – the sounds, colors, the words, and put to the page. it's interesting and alive that way

no physics expert myself but perhaps the universe might be aftgcentric and i'm of the few who is in the know. perhaps.

to the point. can't believe it's taking me so long to get to the golden raven jesus fucking christ. also amazed at how i still haven't caught a glimpse of a single major spoiler for that book despite being chronically online. you guys are slacking. my fomo isn't bad enough.

anyway. onwards