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Wine and Lal & Earn and Lada Enemies with Benefits Episode 7 / The Secret of Us Episode 7

Okay, is this how this is gonna go? Because we have way too much work to do today for me to feel attacked by way of an imbalanced social dynamic.

that's part 2! here's the link to the smut pdf and if you can't afford, no worries! here's the rest of the story after the smut in part 3! part 1

vi noticed that caitlyn was thinking too much again

The haunted palace wing

Yay!!! Desi Miku!!!

yall fuck with butchverine

like i find it rly interesting that the “an act of translation is an act of betrayal” has become the most well-known/popular quote from the book because i think the book itself disagrees and questions that concept many times. i mean i GET it it’s a raw ass quote and marketing campaign's gotta market but to me it's so deliberate that that quote comes from playfair's perspective. when used in the service of empire, of course you can only conceptualise translation as violence. but robin and ramy and victoire use translation for love and connection and understanding, which is what it always was. robin spends his final moments rejecting playfair's premise; translation has always been about love and connection and understanding. babel falls to the hope for a better future; to translation itself. this act of betrayal is ALSO an act of love. of course the book's final moments are with victoire, translating something for anthony entirely out of love. god

i just love that robin is like truly such a damn liberal for half the book, never truly committing to hermes, holding onto his whiteness and desire to belong, and that this flaw is what dooms his relationship with ramy. people celebrate babel for its scathing critique of white feminism, and they should, but it's also so damning of liberal activism too imo. robin as a protagonist exemplifies the way fellow poc will often uphold racist structures for their own benefit and to avoid complicating themselves--and that this will always be a futile selfish endeavour. robin must, like all of us, come to the conclusion that he will never belong while this system remains intact, that his privilege isn't worth the suffering of those alike him, and that resisting it however he can is the only moral and just thing to do. wow i got sidetracked but robin swift wasian character of all time fr

it seems that those who dislike the book are just offended by its blatant anti-colonial stance and if that's the case, you need to seriously reevaluate your perspectives.

And that's so important because, as Robin notes in the novel, it's so easy to say that revolutionary actions are too destructive, while ignoring the inherent violence of the status quo.

more authors should spend page time dunking on european languages