Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

this author does a really good job of portraying like, a local immigrant community in an urban context, but is absolutely AWFUL at connecting its ideas of “activism” or “justice” to any kind of historical perspective; it’s like maybe if i, a twenty‐something, get a radio show and say the right words, i can inspire change

which is obviously just wishful thinking on the part of the author, who is trying to say the right words and inspire change, but that’s not how the game works. words will not defeat colonialism and the whole thing reads as youthful naïveté

i really wanted to give it a good shot but i’m only like 50% of the way through and the romance is shite and the protagonist is completely lacking in perspective and i don’t want to do this all over again

thinking i might DNF this YA novel it's simply not that good…

it came up in the unicode document register again so this is your annual reminder to nerds that the reason why Unicode hasn’t encoded Klingon is because they don’t want to get sued

i think i’m supposed to empathize with this young protagonist who is being told she is overambitious but no she absolutely is being overambitious

learning about gentrification is good but not from a YA book

oh no this book is trying to educate me about gentrification

remember in pokémon how the first game had a lot of mystery associated with it and there were a lot of rumours and things which didn’t necessarily actually exist but caught on in the cultural context in a big enough way that they might have well have existed

and then like 3 games later all the people who were originally a part of that were out there steadfastly bashing every other pokémon game

i applied for a job and now they want to talk to me; truly, i am paying for my hubris

oh no

cold feet

knowing bad memes is not a replacement for a personality

why can’t people on the internet just be cool

in the UK they have to make their graham crackers from scratch because they don’t have them in stores

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dogs are like cows except they are very different

there is other music yk

why do gaming fan communities listen to so much games soundtracks

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i have slowly come to the dawning realization that i am accidentally reading a YA novel