readinging

im in like chapter 7 or 8 of nona the ninth and so far my takeaway is that id gladly pick up smoking and cirrhosis to hang out with pyrrha

kind of unfortunate to go into harrow the ninth being like “oh wow ianthe is so hot and amoral and off-putting” and every subsequent chapter shows that her brand of amorality is unfortunately being a pathetic, opportunistic remora

camilla with LAMBENT eyes, you say

wowzers 😳😳😳

lowkey kinda get why cytherea went crazy like aside from her illness imagine feeling unlimited and eternal guilt over killing her beloved cavalier and your colleagues are like “whats a loveday lol”

all the flashbacks in harrow the ninth so far end like “look at this motherfucker (harrow) misremembering the events of gideon the ninth”

its really sad to see people play at radical politics by hollowing it out of its contents and wearing its radical skin. a lot of “radical” politics with major roots in the amelioration of specific minority identities (gender, race, etc.) nowadays are just reduced to idpol that, despite its rhetoric being aggressive towards oppressor classes, focuses most its energy on the less fortunate. in the end these “radical” politics are merely uncouth versions of the “politics as usual”, using the Machinery of existing hierarchies to beat down on the less fortunate dressed as oppressors. just a cynical analysis of and negotiation with hierarchy, that surely I, a subhuman, must have a group of even baser subhumans beneath me

thinking about the new wuthering heights movie again and i really hate what they did to heathcliff. the movie portrays heathcliff as a mostly animalistic, imprecise brute (especially with his illiteracy!) and book heathcliff is anything but! heathcliff is intelligent and is very much a man of his time (an industrialist) and improves upon the misery of wuthering heights by replacing the drunken, laborious hate machine that is hindley with multiple other tenants who are not as hateful as hindley individually, but in some harmonious fashion generate efficient levels of misery and hatred towards each other requiring little effort from heathcliff himself

hatch porch, law enforcement and esprit de corps

egan is so fucking disgusting

kalin being compared to eurydice while tom and landry are given the title of orpheus leads me to think that in a better world the two gatestone children wouldve been passing kalin around like a blunt

IT’S FARGO

reading Tom’s Crossing and getting a very Love Lies Bleeding vibe from it. i’m even casting Ed Harris’ character in Love Lies Bleeding to play Old Porch

tom’s crossing is such a heavy book and it smells so nice 😭