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"When I should have reveled in this gift, instead, I'd seen myself as broken. But couldn't you be broken and still bring change?"

-Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

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"I will wash this off soon," [Okwu] said. "It's not good to feel this pleased with life."

-Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

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Got my 2nd Book Bingo!

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"Romance was awful. She couldn't even do something as simple as murdering rude people anymore."

-Someone You can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

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"If you live cheek to jowl with danger your whole life, you're bound to be blind to it. But I'm telling you. There are no monsters in Guadalajara. Not like here."

-Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

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Saw this ad here and I thought for a moment this was a joke post.

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First Bingo of 2025!!!

Finally got my first bingo on the bingo made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

I've read a ton of great books so far this year!

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Book Bingo, Another Update

As always, this bingo card was made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

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"Do you think that's strange? The world is changing so fast I no longer know what's right or wrong, and now we are here following the current custom eating [human flesh] like this. Do you think we're weird?"

He shook his head. "No, I don't. I mean, normal is a type of madness, isn't it? I think it's just that the only madness society allows is called normal."

- Murata Sayaka, "Life Ceremony"

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I can't finish Harrow the Ninth.

I'm sorry. I can't. I didn't even want to read these books in the first place, but a friend convinced me to.

I got through roughly a third of the book before realizing I don't care about any of these characters. I don't care about the world building. I don't care about the mystery. Hell, I barely know what the mystery is.

Every time my friend asks me where I am in the book, I don't know how to answer her because, aside from whatever the fuck was going on in the river scene, I feel like the entire book has been characters having rambling incoherent conversations with each other.

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"Well, he hasn't got religious mania, and he isn't running around in a circle spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he's normal."

- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

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Book Bingo Update #3

Lit Fic: Loveless by Alice Oseman

Story Collection: Books of Blood Vol 1 by Clive Barker

Animal: We Have Always Lived in this Castle by Shirley Jackson

Spec Fic: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Fantasy: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Another Country: Soichi by Junji Ito

Sci Fi: Kindred by Octavia Butler

Memoir: Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

Nonfiction: Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy

Published in 00's: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington

Not on the bingo: Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

Once again, this book bingo was made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

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"We exhume bodies for the same reason we bury bodies—because they are our dead."

-Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

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Sometimes I sit back and wonder how many asexuals and aromantics throughout history had to suffer in silence because they didn't have the words to express themselves, much less the support. How many forced themselves into types relationships they hated purely because they thought "everyone experiences this." How many were made to feel like freaks due to their perpetual singleness? How many were mocked? How many cast out? How many forced to be someone they hated? Of course, this alienation isn't exclusive to aro and/or ace people, but I do think about this when my world is a little too quiet.

Hey remember when people on this site were absolutely insane about asexuals saying they’re a Trojan horse to sneak in homophobic straight people into the lgbt community or whatever and now JKR is making the same lazy edgelord jokes about asexual people

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I'm so sick of ASMR being in every goddamn thing!

Like 10 years ago, ASMR had its own little corner of the internet. People who liked it had easy access to it, but those that didn't could avoid it easily. Then, somehow, it escaped containment.

Now, I'll be having a good day watching some internet video, and then my ears will be filled with the DEAFENING SOUND OF BAG CRINKLES. Or someone WHISPERING AT ME WITH THE GODDAMN MIKE SHOVED UP THEIR NOSE. Or, they'll be TAPPING THEIR FINGERS RIGHT IN MY EARHOLE.

Its awful. I hate it. Stop it. Stop it now. Go back to your own personal hole of the internet so you don't anger the spiders who live in my brain!

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To everyone leaving comments on my last post about Harrow the Ninth: Yes, my friend has told me the exact same things. I bet you were all waggling your eyebrows mysteriously as you typed those messages. Locked Tomb fans are something else, I swear.

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THERE'S A MUSICAL?!?

My "friend" has once again forced me to read a Locked Tomb book. I'm now listening to Harrow the Ninth on Spotify. I feel like I'm listening to a Trekkie drop acid while reading a thesaurus. Please send help.

(Yes, I'm being dramatic as a joke, but I'm still confused as hell.)