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#pft

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Chainsaw Man Post Card

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as a person who grew up in hk, studied in britain (not oxford, unfortunately, i cant flex that) and is still experiencing the effects of british colonialism to date, babel was the perfect piece of fantasy / alt historical fiction that i could have dived into this week. truly the most well-deserved hate wank fiction i've ever read about bigotry.

icb stumbled into this book blind, didn't read the blurb properly or anything, just knew it would be good based off the ratings and hype. imagine my surprise when i figured that it was set in canton? and mentions the opium war within the first chapter? that shit got me hooked so fast. and then, all the interspersed references to idioms + hanzi radicals were so satisfying. robin explaining the word dan4 / 旦 to ravy against the backdrop of sunset is just. <3 my heart cannot take it. my only gripe is not hearing robin speaking in canto when he was in canton ( guess they couldn't be bothered to engage a cantonese speaker for the audiobook .... @ audible . lol )

also r f kuang out here doing gods work. like what do you mean this isn't a way to raise awareness in european cultures about the injustices that have been wrought upon colonies. :))) because lbr no average person will pick up a history book on the opium war where it doesn't concern them. repackaging it into internationally-parseable fiction tho ??? best way of getting people interested and talking about history. 10/10.

#babel the necessity of violence #babel #babel an arcane history #books #bookblr #rant

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he’s asking if you’re a communist, Robin.

#BAHAHAHAH #LITERALLY THOUGH

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#wordle #LOL #funny #ik i'm fucking immature but is this not the best wordle of all time

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it's hilarious the way that some people are insinuating babel's story is unrelatable or that it's overhyped because it's exclusively based on the experiences of colonized people of colour

like, we colonized people of colour actually already know everything babel teaches in terms of empire and colonization and britain, like from the time the average trinidadian is out of primary school, we're already taught all of the things about imperialism and white supremacy that babel teaches and that robin learns

i'd argue that babel is actually intended as a didactic work for a white, first-world audience way more than than it supposedly "panders" to poc, like this book is for the letty prices of the the world, and i can see that it makes said letty prices as uncomfortable as it says it would...

good

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babel ruined my life I think /pos

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This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.

R.F. Kuang (Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, 2022)

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late jc doodle #江澄0511生日快乐

#angry grape

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actually insane

#hmm so this . Happened.

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my comfort ship

#OOF GIVE THIS TO ME :'((

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sometimes a family can be a grumpy toddler and the weird teenager who adopted him on the street

#megumi...........my love

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Welp time to start posting here too

#hehe

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Missed you

#baby...... #screaming .. crying .. gagging

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seriously, boys, you can do better, worship him harder 😩

Commission for @sheepishvagabond-shinigamijack <3

#mikami is the cutest bye

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i know how u feel。

#asaden man.....

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denji and nayuta at barbie

#canon