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aeide-thea · 2 years

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still making my way thru a restless truth and, predictably, simultaneously enjoying hawthorn and thinking about how a female hawthorn would just be, like, a bitch, and wouldn't get sympathy or credit for her complexity...

#this isn't *entirely* true and frankly in certain ways you could argue the love interest *is* a female hawthorn #but frankly i think the way in which i'm having to work to get myself to enjoy the female mains here #even tho like. objectively pretty good dynamic that gets pretty sexy in moments!#and am getting distracted contemplating this objectively quite-prickly male side character #is what the kids call 'internalized misogyny'!#it's like. okay. WHY am i a little bored and having to Make myself engage. why does this feel a little medicinal.#you know why.#like. writing good. plot good. things generally NOT pastel wlw actually #i ought to be more rapt and instead i keep drifting away and having to firmly reapply myself. unhappy.#bookblogging

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