thefig
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everyone is engaging with this as you'd expect, but I can't help taking it as a fun challenge to come up with a truly unproblematic author. maybe James Baldwin?
ᥫ𝒎𝒆𝒍᭡@motsdemaelys
honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first
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@barnfell @james_f_thomas begging both you & Milton not to play devil's advocate
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@grimbugsby @james_f_thomas to play devil’s advocate (i love her): too stuck in midcentury gender politics
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someone check on kamila shamsie, might be an excerpt from her next novel
Avee Chaudhuri@indigojackal
hey, in honor of AAPI heritage month, I'd like to share an excerpt from my novel All The Cardamom We Could Not Steep.
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she's smoking davidoff so it's not that bad righttt???
E | 🇵🇸@usernotnaming
over-accessorizing, messy buns, uneven styling, chapped lips, nail paint peeling off her nails bec of her biting on them aggressively, the strap of her bag having its leather scratched from where she holds it, dark circles, dark lips. its all so evident in the details —
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