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People on booktok saying "books shouldn't be political, booktok is supposed to be a safe space🥺" with a shelf full of fantasy books in the background is sooo funny to me. Like I hate to break it to you, but the very books you read are not a "safe space" for you if you're a republican/conservative/Trump supporter. In Lord of the Rings you would literally be an orc. In Harry Potter you would be a death eater. In your beloved Sarah J Maas books you wouldn't be Aelin or Feyre, you would be a follower of fucking King of Hybern or Erawan. Your favourite characters would be fighting to get rid of you lmao. It's insane to me how these people don't see that.

i'm in the middle of Harrow the Ninth and i'm genuinely worried i will never feel the same way reading any other books ever again. what did tamsyn muir put in this series?? because it is altering my brain chemistry with every single page. this is the most fun i've had reading in such a long time. problem is i don't even know what to read after this because everything else just feels dull in comparison

sigh, why do i even try to read books by male authors? i tried reading Nevernight by renowned author Jay Kristoff, and it could have been good if it wasn't suffering from Written By A Man Syndrome. the female protagonist seems to just be the embodiment of a male fantasy; badass, sexy, 16-years-old, and Not Like Other Girls. she gave a whole speech on why using the word "cunt" as an insult is actually empowering to women, which in turn made the male lead fall in love with her instantly! then we go on to depicting graphic sex scenes (why is a 50-year-old man even writing smut about a 16-year-old girl?) and then she gets a fucking boob-job. because that makes one a better assassin, apparently?? weird how none of the male assassins had to get boob-jobs. just the sheer amount of times the author mentioned the mc's breasts (again, she's 16) in this book gave me the creeps. ugh