#Babel Or the Necessity of Violence

[rayfishandchips]

Oh yes very book accurate

I like this version of Victoire, powerful.

i went through this book in 3 days 🥹 fanart / face studies

edit: fixed!

comm me to draw your fave characters ..

[kindlespark]

my brother's keeper (poem from here)

[gheenue]

happy belated valentine’s…i miss them

[merrygoesaround]

[rayfishandchips]

holy shit * this is what I meant in a prev post about this book.

I am as dumb as a sack of rocks in the face of romance and when I do notice anything I say to myself yeah that's a qpr. Also I read the book Chinese and I had NO IDEA how gay this sounded in English.

* holy, as in an agnostic and metaphorical fashion

was it casual when you almost placed your hand in my cheek because you found it so beautiful under the glow of sunset?

[cikebabbler]

can't really blame rf kuang for being so on the nose, literal, and explicit on her messaging in babel. I mean she was really screaming her message through the pages. but can't really be mad at that after decades of sff authors using metaphors and allegories and allusions and parallels to criticize capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, and to emphasize the importance of resistance—armed resistance. and every single time people would cheer on the fictional resistance, yet would still side with the oppresors in real life.

[izze-art]

The Fallen Angel of Babel 📜✒️🪽

LOVE BABEL BY RF KUANG!! I drew Robin Swift as the fallen angel painting!!

[jaleana]

I think Ramy is finding it hard to concentrate guys 🤭

[joejhang]

if you ever feel good about yourself just remember that rf kuang wrote and published the poppy war, the dragon republic, the burning god, babel: an arcane history and yellowface all before turning 28

[abrillustrated]

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

[towns-end-bindery]

Babel, An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The front cover of the book features the English title of the book hand foiled in gold. Around it are Bible verses written in Cantonese Chinese (Genesis 11:8-9) hand foiled in silver.

The back of the book is like a mirror of the front except that it has the Cantonese title of the book hand foiled in gold, and around it is the English translation of the same bible verses.

“So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

[dinoari]

would hate to be the main character or their best friend in an r. f. kuang novel. immediate death sentence

[layaart]

robin from babel by r.f. kuang

[skaiplana]

Girls when translation is always an act of violence, but it can also be an act of love

[agoddamneddelight]

babel rf kuang cuts pretty deep doesn’t it

[archiveofliterature]

letty couldn't handle the fact a brown man rejected her, but also couldn't handle knowing that ramy would pick robin over and over again, that he would rather have a (chinese) MAN over a (white) woman

she tried to connect with him the ways robin could, by talking abt his foreign land, by "appreciating" him ("but your skin is lovely—"), mimicking his banter with robin (constantly going against every mundane opinion he had in an effort to tease him) but she could never see how she was constantly hurting him by never listening to him, by putting down his feelings of britain's settlement in india, by her utter ignorance to the group's collective experiences

but no, it's ramy's fault, obviously. he wouldn't even look at her and she couldn't stand it