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You know what? This is time for POTUS to start honoring his ticket promises to me. I want my regular one-on-one meetings. I want more responsibilities in infrastructure and education reform. I want an expanded role in deficit reduction talks. I want a Cartier fucking dildo.

SHE'S an upper-class delhite postdoc at U of T with no friends. HE'S a second-gen brampton boy uber driver with no prospects. two years ago she TAd a course on south asian literature and he was the class clown in her discussion tutorial. she hated his ass. so when they run into each other and he asks her out (because he had a massive crush on her when she was his TA and was humiliating himself to get her attention)... well. if i complete RNJ, then they fall in love.

rnj day 2 update: 1446 words. the name rajbinder goes by is robby, bhumika is just being a dick. did i have fun coming up with THE MOST mainlander name for her and THE MOST diaspora name for him that i could possibly think of? yes!!!

"... writing in 1863, H. L. Mansel castigated the new subgenre [sensation novels] as "preaching to the nerves instead of the judgment" (357). Since early in his anti-Sensation diatribe Mansel refers to "A pale young lady in a white dress" (358), we can be certain that his chief target is Wilkie Collins, whose The Woman in White (1860) initiated the Sensation mania." (VictorianWeb)

mansel's dislike of Collins leads me to my next point: many novels that are currently held to be classics and assigned without objection in middle and high schools were the center of controversy when they were new. we're having the same panic about romantasy that we had about sensation novels that we had about gothics.

Juan Grela Los Bichos (The Insects)