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scruffyket

ash | 32 | šŸ‡øšŸ‡¬ šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ | songsforafuturepoet @ IG & substack. my current interests are grief, gender, violence, intimate labour, critical feminism, philosophy, scifi, politics, and climate

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My Taste
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)
The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope
Planetfall (Planetfall, #1)
Reading...
BabelLight in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)The Burning Earth: A HistoryWhite Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of ColorMalayland

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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 13% (page 113)
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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 8% (page 64)

    Robin’s musings about commonplace English things he’s learning makes me feel like the author had to learn it at some point, and so have I. Being Chinese and living in a English colony, I can so relate. The comment about English food being heavy made me laugh.

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  • Stone Butch Blues
    Thoughts from 3% (page 16)

    Okay finally starting this after my (masc) partner badgered me about it for a year. I should have started it sooner - I do want to be in solidarity with our mascs - but the number of assault scenes I heard is in the book put me off quite a bit

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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 9% (page 48)

    I'm only 2 chapters in and I can already tell why everyone thinks this is a banger. It is. It very much is, I just know it'll become one of my favourite books. In barely 50 pages I've learned so much about the worldbuilding of the book AND the British Empire in the 1800 it's actually insane, and even though I already loved linguistics every single thing - explicit or not - about language in here is absolutely fascinating and "tasty" to read (in the very practical sense). I'm afraid I'll eat this whole book in weeks if not less, that's usually what happens when I like it a little too much at the very beginning x)

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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 8% (page 64)

    Robin’s musings about commonplace English things he’s learning makes me feel like the author had to learn it at some point, and so have I. Being Chinese and living in a English colony, I can so relate. The comment about English food being heavy made me laugh.

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  • Babel
    Thoughts from 1%

    HERE I GO

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    R.F. Kuang

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    Malayland

    Dina Zaman

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    The Burning Earth: A History

    The Burning Earth: A History

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  • Stone Butch Blues
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    Oct 25, 2025
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  • Stone Butch Blues
    Thoughts from 92% (page 554)

    Sobbing. The author’s note is as equally important to read.

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  • Bi-/multilingual reading

    Fellow bi- and multilinguals! I’m curious about your reading habits, so if you’ll please indulge me by answering these questions…

    1: which languages are you able to speak and/or read? 2: which language is your preferred for reading? Bonus if you can explain why 3: do you ever read books in a language you know but is not your preferred? Which one(s)? Why/why not?

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  • Blindness
    Thoughts from 60% (page 224)

    Finally the doctor’s wife fought back. But why in the world would the doctor ask her ā€œwhyā€ when she told him she’d killed the bad guy? The men are all either rapists or spineless…

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  • Stone Butch Blues
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    My god

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