anyashimas
anya (she/her, neurodivergent, queer.) still trying to understand what kind of reader i am (definitely a slow chaotic one though.)
870 points
October 2026
4.19 average · 8 reviews
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this is not a book for those who've never been to therapy. my opinion is you might not appreciate the sincerity if you cannot be author's imaginary friend (or at least carer), except your inner world is similar to her. going into it without empathy is a waste of time.
i've listened to the audiobook, and though it was flowing really easy and nice, i often found myself in lack of written sentences for a forum discussion. i have so many thoughts! my plan is to reread the whole thing soon.
i think the main psychiatrist wasn't a really good therapist specifically for baek se-hee. i mean ideally you don't want your therapist to be your psychiatrist, those should be two different people. in reality, it's hard to actually stick to this system considering the costs in most countries. i am very curious what i will find in the second book... 👀
I have spoiler-free general thoughts on "They use spikes to keep them away from human settlements." Sharing birdwatching experience is caring, right? 🐦
It's so funny to me that my city is filled with those thin metal spike layered fences all over the buildings, but so many pigeons would just sit ON the spikes. Some even try to make nests there (well, pigeons being pigeons). When I just moved here and saw it once, I thought "Oh you're a weirdo birb," but now I know: people are weirdos who can't share their concrete "paradise" even with a single more species. How hateful that is!
And don't even let me start on those ulta-/infrasonic bird deterrent/repellent devices that hurt us humans too!
anyashimas commented...
for sure! i better understand my feelings for the book in perspective: how much do i miss it? do i still feel the same after a month or two? sometimes i'm just angry at the author for the ending—then i need time to calm down and reassess if i understand it better after my initial emotions are gone (or feel even more passionate and need to whine more)
Hi everyone! I was just editing some older reviews from months ago because sometimes I feel like my judgment of a book takes a bit to settle, if that makes sense?
Especially because later in the year, I'm better able to compare that book with other ones I really liked, and decide that maybe I should've given the other one a lower rating in retrospect.
It got me curious about other people's experiences with changing your mind about books. Do you often go back and lower a rating? Or give something a higher rating later?
anyashimas commented...
pokemon poetry!!! i love this review, i wish there was a showcase of my favorite reviews on my profile page. gotta go order the physical copy 💨
pokemon poetry!!! i’ll take five billion copies please!!!
ok ok ok guys i am absolutely crazy about this book. and not only because poetry and pokemon happen to be two of my favorite things. capable monsters is just… so EXPANSIVE and IMPRESSIVE and EXCITING. it’s 36 pages but it’s a whole living breathing lifetime. incredibly moving, beautifully complex. and so. fucking. cool. (i mean, it’s structured ike a literal POKEDEX??? how awesome is that???)
i think w poetry, it can often be taught in a super inaccessible way. it can feel very rigid, almost antiquated. i love love love contemporary poetry that embraces the freedom, the looseness, of now - doesn’t restrict itself to writing about things on whose inherent beauty humans have always agreed. i love when contemporary poets choose instead to write about and find the poetry in the small stupid gorgeous distracting every day shit: social media, cars and texts and facetime calls, favorite albums and anime and doing the fucking laundry and in this case - pokemon, something lots of people wouldn’t ever consider to be deep or even artful. but this book rejects that, it is a book about growing up black and queer and it is a book about little monsters and it is a book about wondering if you are a monster too because that’s what you’ve been told, looking for your own power, your own strength, wondering where you fit, can you ever even be “cataloged” at all. it is gorgeous and fresh!! it is everything!!!!
anyashimas commented...
Anya-she-muh-s
• Anya – diminative name for Anna in Russia • shimas – shortened romaji of します (actually it's written "shimasu", but aesthetically I liked "anyashimas" more, so I chose it since it's still pronounced the same; actually, it's kinda making it nice and informal because in everyday life people don't bother themselves with that -u all that much)
します is the conjugation of する – to do/to be, the most common verb that combines with other verbs as a suffix (I'm not good with grammar terminology, please bear with me) which kind of adds "I am doing that thing" flavor, e.g. 電話します – "I'll call you (I'll do the call)", 洗濯します – "I do the laundry."
Saying all that, "anyashimas" means "I am doing my Anya's business". Imagine your favorite Spy x Family Anya gif—she gets the biggest shoutout, it was her who helped me stop hating my name, and that's how this nickname started to form.
If you've read it all, I love you so much. 🫶
Hey guysss 👋🏽 ⭐️ For those of you with usernames that the pronunciation is not intuitive or that it’s frequently mispronounced (or for whoever would like to answer this), how do you say your username? :) Mine is literally just what you’d think it is, hahaha.
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