Okay I’m putting the warning here at the top:
THIS BLOG IS NO LONGER A SPOILER-FREE ZONE. I AM TALKING SPOILERS FOR THE REST OF THE STORY IN ASKS, POSTS, AND TAGS BEYOND THIS POST. READ THROUGH AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Okay click for the (spoiler-free) updates on the chapter wordcounts.
hey hi I have some really lovely messages in my inbox I've been meaning to respond to but I am going to go dark instead. obviously I haven't been active on here in a while but I wanted to actually jump on and clarify:
if a girl is reading a really interesting book she shouldn't have to go to work. she's expanding her mind and bettering herself and her employers should understand that
Then you may be entitled to financial compensation
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
Mr Xue Yang of The Untamed looks like at every moment he is baiting you to spit on him. due to the fetishes.
“OOOH did I say something NASTY and EVIL, don’t you want to purse your lil pink lips and PUNISH ME for being such a naughty little scamp (all ur loved ones are dead at my hand and if you make new loved ones, I’ll kill them too ❤️)”
The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it
It’s about rage, it’s about obsession, it’s about making that two-person war your entire raison d’être. It’s about loving and mistaking it for hatred and loving and loving and loving to the point of destruction. His or yours, it doesn’t matter. And you think seeing him dead at your feet will make you feel better, but all you feel is a whole lot of nothing.
Dutch is not a real language
when you have a longer answer for an ask do you do type it on your phone or on a computer?
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I took tumblr off my phone it was not good for me, so anytime I'm on here I'm on a computer
(ID: a tweet from @ oftheholybooty that says “is there anything better than a character’s arc being when they realize that they want to live”)
i refuse to defend my favorite characters. They did that horrible thing bc they suck really bad
It's about devotion and obsession. It's ALWAYS about devotion and obsession. And hunger. It's love with teeth.
nothing scarier than activity on an old post.....where did u find that thang
This is gonna be so funny
did you like bunny by mona awad? i saw you joked she might've read your blog
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I liked it fine. It was a little too in love with its linguistic acrobatics and not in love enough with fact-checking its favorite references (David Bowie did not have heterochromia; tango is not a dance where you can futz your way through who leads and who follows; etc etc), but I thought the last third was a lot of weird fun.
My main complaint was that it felt like it kept gesturing in the direction of actually being About Something, and then instead doubled back and doubled down on the aesthetics flourishes. The last third made me not regret picking it up, but it wasn't quite good enough to make me pick up anything else by Awad.
I'm looking forward to a possible movie, though! Books that focus on style over substance usually adapt even better to film, because the individual performers and artists involved will have the space to imbue... well, just more.
