SHE’S ALIVE!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL! THE AIRSHIP AT THE END!!! THE GLITCHY END CREDITS!! THE AIR

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"I think I’d been looking for it all my life, a storm in my body to match the one in my head."

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To say this book was NOTHING like i expected would be a massive understatement.

sapphic horror has got to be one of my new favourite genres, and this book did i great job in playing into it. the gore was detailed, the mysteries nerve wracking, and i was constantly worrying about our main characters.

make sure to check the trigger warnings before getting into this one<3

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"But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination." Bunny by Mona Awad

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im covered in bandaids at the moment, but regardless this book has a tight grip on me :')

I haven't been able to properly put it down since I finally convinced myself to read it. i've brought it everywhere with me just so I can sneak a few pages in wherever I go lmao

im 60% through this book, and im absolutely in love. depending on how this ends, I might even give it a reread soon

as always, head the trigger warnings, and happy reading!

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anyway thanks to the staff as always

kachina is so cute 😭

LOOK AT HER OMG

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

Little guys they don't know what they are doing I love them 😭😭😭

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"You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway"

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oh. my.

I absolutely ADORED this book, and I also think it's just about time we saw some "women killing men" media floating around, and this was the perfect take on it.

A food critic who eats men? I don't know about the rest of you, but this is exactly what I meant when I said I support women's wrongs.

If you're looking for a book with weird gorey details, cannibalism, and a psychopathic woman as an mc, I absolutely recommend looking into this!

of course, please check trigger warnings before diving in

this is so real actually

i understand that there's a lot of panic after Trump got elected, but y'all really be lying on there for no reason 💀

you cannot cite your source as “the news”, you need to specify which NEWS OUTLET YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT IM GOING TO LOSE MY FUCKING MARBLES

Did we all collectively agree that Tim chooses to have a public feud with Red Robin as a way to cover his identity?

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Reporter, pushing a microphone on RR: What are your thoughts on Tim Wayne's recent kidnapping?

Red Robin, deadpan: He's an asshole cosplaying a feral racoon and whiny bitch.

-Later that day-

Tim, watching the news: Well fuck you too *flips off the TV*

Batfam: *concerned*

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Bernard, who's publicly in a relationship with Timothy Drake-Wayne, was caught kissing RR on a rooftop. Kon-El, who the world thinks definitely has a thing with RR, was seen carrying Tim back to a penthouse at night.

This leads Gotham city to believe that Tim and RR stole eachother's boyfriend. Thus fuelling another war between RR and Tim on twitter.

It didn't help when a picture of Bernard and Superboy having a date was posted online.

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Tim: *requested and funded a Red Robin joint to be built in Gotham city *

A video of RR staring at the building offended and distained from across the street went viral.

found Villette at a local bookstore and almost had a heart attack ! it was only $12 too

it's nice to see not all bookstores have been so heavily affected by mainstream books, I'm definitely going back there