“What did he know about female friendship? He didn’t know women could be so attached to each other. He assumed that they only spent time together when there were no men around.” (141)

Unironically this is the best summary of the idea behind people constantly pushing lesbianism and wlw to the side, in both history and social movements. It all comes back to men and misogyny, and those men believing that they are the sun and women are simply a planet rotating around them, desperate for their warmth. How could women ever have anything in their lives that wasn’t about men? /s 😒

Does anyone else picture Sadie as Wednesday Addams?!?!?

hi lovely boundlings!! i’ve talked multiple times this year about connecting books to music — i’ve got a playlist that i use to connect one song per book i read this year.

i’ve spent basically all of the past 24 hours thinking about nao and ruth and their stories. i finished reading this book last night and simply cannot stop finding memories of them in the world around me. as such, i’ve found quite a few songs today that remind me of them and the book as a whole.

i’d love to use this as an opportunity for us all to share songs that we’ve have connected to this book and its characters!! we could have our own little song library in the comments 😌🩷

i’ll go first! i think this song deeply encompasses the themes and motif within “drag path” by twenty one pilots (and i mean the full version, not the shortened one that they recently released). both nao’s diary and ruth’s search to find her and haruki #1’s letters and diary are the prime examples of a drag path, imo 🌌

edited for typos