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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
Post from the The Unworthy forum
He called us unworthy, like He always does, like He does whenever we gather in the Chapel of Ascension, after three days, or nine.
a MAN calling them unworthy?? oh I'm pissed off again.
whatever the plot of this book is, (haven't been able to grasp it yet, it's hard to visualise and make sense of the environment the narrator is describing.) I hope HE drops dead first thing first once shit starts hitting the fan.
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Am i the only one who found the romantic ressolution to be very bland ? i won't eleborate as to not give spoilers, but confession and the immediately making out. it felt to sudden ? maybe i was simply expecting more due to all the previous build up idk i just needed MORE 🙏🏼
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I boil them. I burn them. I kill them.
hi nice to meet you I'm fine thank you and you???
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The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica
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I'm at a loss as to how to describe what I just experienced in reading this book. i loved it so much I want to talk about it for hours and yet, at the same time, it's like I read this in a hypnotized daze, and now that it's over it's like a trance has shattered and I have no idea what the fuck happened.
this was like a beautiful nightmare, tender and violent, scenic and grotesque. so completely entrancing despite the prickling unease most of its imagery evoked.
I can't think man. this was a fucking trip.
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The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw
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“Someday there may be a world for us.”
reading this reiteration meant a lot me.
most people view the original carmilla with a focus on the titular character being the face of "evil predatory deviants" burdened to carry the demonization of lesbians and love between women, but when I first read it I could only see Laura's own desire and fear and regret and longing, so perfectly and faithfully reminiscent of the struggle most queer women go through when they have an epiphany that goes against everything they learned to be "right, natural, orderly" about the world and themselves, that they later fight to suppress and turn away from almost by instinct.
and so reading this Laura be emboldened by her love for Carmilla, rather than be frightened by it, felt like consolation I didn't know I needed. i admire how Simper took these two from Fanu and how much they poured into them to basically gave them a new life. I'm glad they got their happy ending in this universe, at least.