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she/her | 26 | π³οΈβπβ οΈ | reader and listener of many things | amateur academic
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05.02.2025 22:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Katabasis is gonna be our demiseβ¦
05.02.2025 22:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Heavenly Tyrant, The Bone Season and The Bone Season (Revised Edition) stacked upon a table.
decided to make myself suffer π€·πΌββοΈ
04.02.2025 17:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The book βHeavenly Tyrantβ is lying on a table. Next to it are a pencil for notes and a number of colorful sticky notes.
So. Managed to finish βYellowfaceβ last night, which means I am now starting βHeavenly Tyrant.β Did I intend to read both those books in January? Yes, but it is what it is.
04.02.2025 12:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A picture of an open book illuminated by a clip-on reading lamp. The book is βYellowfaceβ by R. F. Kuang.
iβve really not been reading enough, but we are out here trying!
#yellowface #rfkuang
![It's come to my attention that some people have been reading a certain scene in Heavenly Tyrant in a way I did not intend, and it's causing me so much distress that I am formally issuing a correction to the book in the form of a set of clarifying lines.
If you own a printed copy of Heavenly Tyrant right now, please take a pen and add the following lines to the top of page 434: [We can sculpt anything out of spirit metal. I could even FEEL through it. We can make this work.]
If you haven't read to that point yet, you can cover the text with a piece of paper to avoid spoilers while flipping through the book. The page is on the lefthand side.
Hopefully this scene will now read without ambiguity. I am campaigning to get the lines added in the ebook and future physical printings, including the translated editions. I've already confirmed that the Italian version (which has incredible translation work by Paolo Maria Bonora, btw) will have them in.
Thank you, everyone, and sorry for the trouble! I really thought it was plenty obvious that he was about to get pegged.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5v2dih6vrgbwcregngr2ecz4/bafkreiaxvxusybyu6j5ydikpgquzcdcqohywjgjo4kzp5txzhkryeiuciq@jpeg)
It's come to my attention that some people have been reading a certain scene in Heavenly Tyrant in a way I did not intend, and it's causing me so much distress that I am formally issuing a correction to the book in the form of a set of clarifying lines. If you own a printed copy of Heavenly Tyrant right now, please take a pen and add the following lines to the top of page 434: [We can sculpt anything out of spirit metal. I could even FEEL through it. We can make this work.] If you haven't read to that point yet, you can cover the text with a piece of paper to avoid spoilers while flipping through the book. The page is on the lefthand side. Hopefully this scene will now read without ambiguity. I am campaigning to get the lines added in the ebook and future physical printings, including the translated editions. I've already confirmed that the Italian version (which has incredible translation work by Paolo Maria Bonora, btw) will have them in. Thank you, everyone, and sorry for the trouble! I really thought it was plenty obvious that he was about to get pegged.
Photo of a corrected version of page 434 of Heavenly Tyrant with the added lines "We can sculpt anything out of spirit metal. I could even FEEL through it. We can make this work."
Issuing a correction to page 434 of Heavenly Tyrant:
26.01.2025 01:08 β π 776 π 110 π¬ 39 π 25hereβs how to NEVER FORGET to add alt text!!!
go to settings > accessibility > tick βrequire alt text before postingβ right at the top
#diversebooks Here are some YA Indigenous book recs!
25.01.2025 15:09 β π 213 π 65 π¬ 7 π 3kinda?
21.01.2025 22:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A month or so ago I saw a post by someone saying "we should all admit that Neil Gaiman has always been a shitty writer." That whole knee jerk revisionism. No, man, that's part of the whole horror. He's an internationally recognized writer. Objectively a good writer. But he's also a fucking monster.
13.01.2025 17:12 β π 2993 π 720 π¬ 56 π 114hello hello, i ventured over here to have a backup in case more socials go down the drain - gotta stay connected somehow! feel free to say hi or chat!
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