Latest Posts by vivacias - Page 3
Watching baru repeatedly net the most attractive women in the world who want her badly and then go ‘Well if they die in front of me… this is my story so what happens to their lives is punishment for my actions and adds depth and complexity to my personal narrative arc 🤷’ as a form of torture
The tide comes in. The Throne’s man watches her, waiting for her to lift her eyes and make a census of the birds.
Do you ever think about how fucked up it would be if your brother died and came back but now he has someone else's face and all the stupid scars from climbing trees and stuff are gone and he used to be just taller than you but now he's like two inches shorter than you and he still talks the same way but in someone else's voice
City of Last Chances • Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Brides of High Hill • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Traitor Baru Cormorant • Seth Dickinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔄🍷 Klara & the Sun • Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thornhedge • T. Kingfisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heavenly Tyrant • Xiran Jay Zhao ⭐️
🍷 Violeta • Isabel Allende ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍷 The Fox Wife • Yangsze Choo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Raven King • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔄 Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand • Gail Carson Levine 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Howl’s Moving Castle • Diana Wynne Jones 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🍷 James • Percival Everett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Bloom • Delilah S. Dawson ⭐️
Sour Cherry • Natalia Theodoridou ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Besaydoo • Yalie Saweda Kamara ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📌🍷 The Frozen River • Ariel Lawhon
📌 The Monster Baru Cormorant • Seth Dickinson
📌 The Female Eunuch • Germaine Greer
Key:
📌 Currently reading
💀 DNF
🔄 Reread
🍷 For book club
Trend i’m noticing looking for books with my little sister
she asked forgiveness, and i gave it. but the truth is, i'd forgiven everything she'd done, and everything she could do, long before that day. for me, that was no choice. that was falling in love.
🦷 BABYTEETH 🦷
'cutting your teeth,' caylan macrae's debut novel, celebrated its one year anniversary recently! i was able to relive the honor of illustrating its cover by following up with this comic adapting one of my fav scenes 🩸
if this piqued your interest, you can pick the book up here and follow the author here (@hopeless-horromantic) and on twitter!
less than a week till SBCF'24, where I will be debuting a new comic!
SACRED BODIES is a story about what different people/s see as taboo, and the socio-cultural lines that delineate propriety and deviancy.
It's a 15+ rating on visuals and covers topics of intimacy, natural urges, shame and how we relate to these things and to each other. Also there's bird monster people, wow.
AND casting women characters as gorgeous & in their 20s who explicitly are neither…….
netflix hill house is a good horror show but why did they name it after this book like. it’s so not the same type of ghost story. tv hill house is haunted by ghosts that are very scary guys. hill house the book doesn’t have any ghost guys. the book characters were never a family, that’s kind of made a point of. and nell can’t be theo’s sweet innocent dead sister bc she’s theo’s jealous mean nasty wonderful toxic yuri life ruiner. call it smth else…
also i just hate modern adaptations. get ye to the costume department and start starching skirts 🫵
netflix hill house is a good horror show but why did they name it after this book like. it’s so not the same type of ghost story. tv hill house is haunted by ghosts that are very scary guys. hill house the book doesn’t have any ghost guys. the book characters were never a family, that’s kind of made a point of. and nell can’t be theo’s sweet innocent dead sister bc she’s theo’s jealous mean nasty wonderful toxic yuri life ruiner. call it smth else…
netflix hill house is a good horror show but why did they name it after this book like. it’s so not the same type of ghost story. tv hill house is haunted by ghosts that are very scary guys. hill house the book doesn’t have any ghost guys. the book characters were never a family, that’s kind of made a point of. and nell can’t be theo’s sweet innocent dead sister bc she’s theo’s jealous mean nasty wonderful toxic yuri life ruiner. call it smth else…
replying to coworker emails rn like do i sound weird. do i sound foolish. can they tell im in danger of surrendering to the house
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That new noble, you know, Lord Golden? Well I heard that he and that manservant of his, you know, Tom Badgerlock are…. Well…. Let’s just say that perhaps their chambers only have one bed?
When I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.
another interesting thing about letty's interlude is that, despite seeing herself as equally discriminated as robin and ramy because she is a woman, she does not think about victoire at all, who is both a woman and a person of colour...
i get why ppl say that babel was too 'telling not showing' with the cohorts' friendship; robin's internal monologue says his cohort were all in love with each other, but we mostly get dialogue of them fighting *cough* and letty being racist *cough*. i just think that that was kind of the point!
robin is a great flawed protagonist and most importantly an unreliable narrator, and the disparity between what he tells you and the dialogue scenes we actually get feels intentional to me, because you can feel the disconnect between what robin wanted and his reality. when he was still in love with babel, he wanted their cohort to be a perfect romantic ideal, wanted to think their fights were overcomeable, that ramy and victoire felt the same that he did. but the cracks were there from the beginning; their relationships were always fucked up. the effects of colonialism/imperialism robin wanted so badly to ignore had doomed them from the beginning. babel in ramy or victoire's perspective would be wildly wildly different because it's clear they did not have robin's privilege
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
in shock hearing people say that babel only takes a turn and becomes heart-wrenching at the end because that experience is so incomprehensible to my chinese diaspora ass that felt like their heart was being torn from their chest in the very first chapter likeeeee babel is underscored by such immense amounts of tragedy and loss and horror around colonialism and imperialism from the very beginning it's so crazy that white people can just read the first half of babel and not feel like every bone in their body was being dissolved in acid by the centuries of unspoken grief written in robin's experience SORRYYYYYYYY. average poc reading babel vs average white person reading babel truly LMFAOOOO
fuck my friend who recommended babel by rf kuang to me im literally always going to have these 4 (yes even the blonde bitch but for different reasons) babblers in my head forever. i feel like a drowned bee floating in an above ground pool. fucked up
+ some initial sketches of me just finding their faces and notes. might do a transcript, but truly the notes are just for me
