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honeyyeoja · 8 days
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my nightmare fuel
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Feyd Rautha? He's psychotic...
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honeyyeoja · 8 days
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currently rereading Clean as an adult
"The difference between the undiluted truth and what people know to be true is often simply lost in perception," Snape said, offering the tiniest of shrugs. "It's up to you to decide what's important. In the end, all that matters is what you know to be real."
rereading @olivieblake's Clean for the first time in years! This World or Any Other is one of my favorite Dramione works. i read this back when i was 16 and now i'm 24! nothing has changed -- i am still squealing LMAO
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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i mean this in a good way but WHAT THE FUCK.
(I just finished the book. I'm broken and I just wanna sleep, Robin-esque (iykwim))
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TWO BIRDS - A BABEL ANIMATIC [MAJOR SPOILERS]
major spoilers for the whole book so do not watch unless you’ve finished reading! hope you enjoy ❤️ (can u believe it’s been almost 3 years since my last animatic. improvement is so real tho)
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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I was trying to work on my WIPs but this thought won't leave my mind. I find it incredibly heartbreaking and poignant how Babel is a book about the ones erased from history and yet it still fails in so many occasions in telling their stories (and how it is on purpose). SPOILERS AHEAD.
From the start, we never get to know Robin's name, the last thing he thinks about before the end, and this is his story, which makes the loss even more staggering (even though Robin remembering his mother at the end is also hopeful and tender, because he didn't lose that memory). Despite all the pages spent describing the tale of all those Babel and white people don't believe they're human deserving of rights, their stories are incomplete, lost, and not only because the book is written following Robin's perspective. It's the English fault if we never get to know more about the Hermes Society. Anthony is so important to the story, yet we only know a little about him: as soon as Robin dares to believe in creating his path with the Hermes Society, Anthony and the others are brutally murdered.
Griffin is–I could talk hours about Griffin. He is Robin's foil, his brother, the incarnation of where the story is heading. Since the beginning, he is there to remind us the golden years are just a dream. He is the Cassandra telling everyone that violence is the only way to change things, and he's right, but at what cost. We don't know anything about him. We only have scraps. His last words –which were of comfort, of hope, not a recrimination like Robin thought– are never showed to us. We'll never know the impressive work he did all his life to make way for the revolution. Sterling, Evie, Griffin and Anthony were probably as intertwined as the main quartet: what is their story? What happened between Griffin, rejected son, and Sterling, who calls professor Lovell Richard? Did they love each other before and while hate consumed them? (Of course they did.) What happened in Burma? How much of Robin's cohort is a terrible replica of Griffin's? How terrible it is that we never get to feel the depth of Griffin's grief when he learns Anthony is dead? We only see the moment Griffin and Sterling manage to kill each other, ending their portion of the story once and for all.
We, like Robin, see the possibility of learning more about these people taken away from us. Robin will never get to see Ramy again, they'll never meet Ramy's parents in Calcutta. Victorie barely remembers her native language, Griffin's was taken away from him almost entirely. It's so much loss, of knowledge, of potential, of people, the ending of the book really feels inevitable. And right at the end, when you could dare to hope for a better future, when Victorie chooses to live? The only hope is her, and the book telling the story of the people who took Babel under siege. The book is the only way Robin may ever get to say his side of the story to posterity. And we, the reader, won't get the see the future either.
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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it's hilarious that a few days after i finished babel, i went to history class and our topic visited colonization, and my (white) professor said that teaching history within education is politicized and his example was how slavery and colonization are taught in most history classes as europe's invasion of other continents and enslavement of the native peoples there, thus racializing the issue of the slave trade. he asked why don't history classes focus on the fact slavery was a practice found in many cultures other than europe and that europeans also enslaved other europeans, which is a fair point... however he commented that "the version of history that's taught is a way for [european nations] to pay reparations i suppose" and it's an example how education distorts historical events through the lens of "modern politics".
and i'm sitting there like... colonization will always be tied to race. whether we like it or not, that period of history had forcibly tied race to colony, and we feel those effects to this day. that is why it's still important to talk about it. we breathe the consequences, live the consequences, and see the consequences of colony. we are products of a bloody, inequal, and unfair history that still poisons our lives today.
along the lecture, i interjected that any and all forms of colonization was bad and he claimed he could think of pax romana as one good form of colonization. the roman empire's golden age was only golden if you were roman, sir.
as an asian in academia studying outside her home country, i have to cosplay babel every day and i am already so tired. I've been missing my professors back home because they spoke against colony and oppression with fire and brimstone and passion and here they turn away from the blood empire or they see little wrong with it.
dark academia is aptly named because by god is it fucking dark here.
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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So my friend recently finished Babel and they said creating homoerotic tension between robin and ramy only to kill them afterwards was a weak move.
What does that even mean? If you wanted to a read a happy queer novel why did you choose Babel? Why are you looking for a fairytale ending in a book that deals with heavy topics like colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, slavery, war and whatnot. Death was always upon them. Being gay doesn't magically give characters plot armour. War doesn't care about anyone's sexuality.
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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Babel, R.F Kuang
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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Girls when translation is always an act of violence, but it can also be an act of love
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.
R.F. Kuang (Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, 2022)
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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babel spoilers
everytime Letitia calls him Birdie i wanna
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Many layers of Birdie
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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Can I mention the brilliance the RF Kuang did with Robin Swift’s name? No, not “Robin Swift,” but his original one. We’ll never know what his original name was. I was waiting, all 500+ pages, and on the last one with Robin’s POV, we get nothing.
But he gets his name back. After all his suffering, I’m inclined to believe that he deserves it.
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honeyyeoja · 2 months
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honeyyeoja · 3 months
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OH MY GOD??????
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The Queen of Nothing Ch.17
Cardan lighting candles so that Jude could see when she woke up??? OH MY GOD he’s so adorably considerate I CANNOT
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honeyyeoja · 3 months
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cardan: the kids haven't eaten their sandwiches
jude: ok, just throw them out
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cardan: *helping the kids pack their suitcases* look, i'm as surprised as you are
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honeyyeoja · 3 months
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Close 🥀 Jude and Cardan
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honeyyeoja · 3 months
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i love doomed narrative so much. i love enemies to lovers. i love one of them becomes so rotten to core but the love never fades between them even tho they're on opposite sides so much. i love the they want to kill and kiss each other trope so so much.
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honeyyeoja · 3 months
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Jude: i hate you
Cardan: *in his head* enemies to lovers, slow burn, angst with happy ending, 300k+ words
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