Post AF0E4MIxTLEVSE17z6 by Quellist1@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AF0E4Lt51YX69xuSeG by Quellist1@spinster.xyz
       2022-01-01T16:27:10.570954Z
       
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       Caught up in the warm but almost forensic beauty of this woman's style.  Still not entirely sure how she brings this off, but it's among the finest writing I've read in a very long time.  Highly recommended!
       
 (DIR) Post #AF0E4MIxTLEVSE17z6 by Quellist1@spinster.xyz
       2022-01-01T16:47:55.923545Z
       
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       * one tiny reservation; I was disappointed just now to trip over a lengthy in-text footnote on why it's cool to have minority-representing characters fill a variety of roles including villains, badly behaved people etc.....  I mean, duh.  Does this *really need* stating explicitly in a literary novel about an abusive lesbian relationship?  Feels like a sudden failure in courage-of-convictions that jibes really badly with the overall effortless genius of the text.  Either that, or it's the deathly touch of the Academy and PC theoretics falling on the shoulder of the fiction like the stern and leather-gloved grip of some secret police thug that chills to the bone.Or - you know what? - maybe it's simpler than that.  Maybe this is just another case of the death of subtext and subtle art - the high-end literary version of that excruciating line in almost every superhero or Disney movie these days where someone has to, just fucking HAS TO say the words out loud "Let's go save the world/Guess you'd better go save the world/wow, looks like we have to save the world"  Y'know, just in case you were too dumb to grasp what - inevitably - the stakes of this are.......