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Waking up in the middle of the njght mourning James Farrow like a dead loved one. WHAT DO YOU MEAN OLIVER SAW THEM AS HERO/ SIDEKICK (Ceasar) AND JAMES ALWAYS SAW OLIVER AS A LOVE INTEREST (Pericles).

“I asked chat gpt-” “I asked grok-” well i asked sloane and she said there’s a 98% chance my fist will connect with your face if you ever mention/use ai again

sometimes i feel like rf kuang has cracked open my brain and written every thought ive ever had onto paper

just finished katabasis and i genuienly think that all the people who complain about this book being bloated and poorly paced and dragging along just don't like flashbacks or character exploration or learning new things. im sorry but i had a fantastic fucking time with this book and even when parts of it were slow it was very necessary

Absolutely infuriating that people keep trashing on R.F. Kuang for “being pretentious” when they knowingly pick up a novel in a genre KNOWN for using academic language. Like please don’t read dark academia if you’re not prepared for references to classic lit, footnotes, or elevated language like babe those are genre staples.

Best moment of Katabasis so far is when they meet the cohort of dead students who voluntarily stay in Hell when they don't have to, because they'd rather stay charred ghosts if they're the charred ghosts of prestigious Oxbridge attendees rather than risk reincarnation as a farmer or laborer. That bit is C.S. Lewis-worthy.

Situationship so bad you lose your hand, start a revolution, team up with the evil overthrown lady that let your entire country suffer in war, get imprisoned by her in your own mind for the lolz, start hallucinating your dead crush/cousin insulting and beating you, save your old teacher/father, have to deal with his magical dementia and ptsd, kill your fellow rebelion leaders, rescue your platonic soulmate from said situationship and fuck shit up so bad that everyone you love is dead bc of you <3

I remember nezha losing a nation (HIS nation) because he couldn’t bring himself to kill rin and suddenly im not hungry anymore