Fr the record I do hate that the most ive posted in months has been in a bullshit bullshit bullshit pisstrain crash defending siscon incestposting enjoyers from malebrain brickhon accusations.

Anyway what are all you bitches reading right now?

If youre not actively reading a book I'm going to kill you.

@kittenlikeasmallcat Both good

@kittenlikeasmallcat I’ve been reading The King in Yellow lately if that counts

@kittenlikeasmallcat disappointingly, there are very few kings who are yellow in this book /j

@kittenlikeasmallcat based

@kittenlikeasmallcat reading Anti-Oedipus plus re-reading a bunch of ancient Irish literature

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arkady renko book 9, Aldiss' 80 minute hour and duke elric by Michael moorcock.thinking about a sequel to Eyelash.

@rowb1t @kittenlikeasmallcat I really need to read anti Oedipus everyone tells me to

@kittenlikeasmallcat atlas shrugged and I have the second book of the VALIS trilogy on the back burner

@kittenlikeasmallcat The Will To Power + Human, All Too Human to cap off my Nietzsche reading for now (although i also intend to reread Nietzsche & Philosophy afterward now that i've read much more of the relevant material); and rereading A Thousand Plateaus :3

@kittenlikeasmallcat roadside picnic
read the first half of it a few weeks ago and i intend to finish it tomorrow

@kittenlikeasmallcat Maelstrom

@kittenlikeasmallcat beyond good and evil and the collected poems of emily dickinson

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- Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression - Christine Delphy

- The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Ward Radcliffe

- Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler

@kittenlikeasmallcat I’ve been reading this story called the darkness that came before and it’s a exploration of a fictional world but the world building and fictional cultures are really really cool also the religion ^^

@kittenlikeasmallcat i picked up the mabinogion properly after trying to get through the intro before figuring out how to pronounce welsh names made me feel physically ill last time. also got a bunch of ursula k le guin's essays on writing and feminism which im excited to read bcos i swapped a girl some earthsea books for those, and having read tales from earthsea recently the metaphor of magic, knowledge, phallogocentrism and all the daoist stuff has been swirling in my brain since.
also got some second hand gene wolf books (Latro in the Mist), idk when ill pick it up

@kittenlikeasmallcat idk nothing at the moment. Got any recommendations?

@kittenlikeasmallcat oh and yeah finally finished dao de jing after very slowly chipping away at that even tho its short bcos i felt like reading it mostly when outside between doing other things. definitely want to pick up some supplemental material at some point but im gonna let it brew for a bit

@hjh @kittenlikeasmallcat i'm actually working on writing. i got thinking about something on Lúnasa that gave me an idea for a post that has now spiralled into something much more involved that i'm taking my time on.

@kittenlikeasmallcat kind of rereading L’Opoponax because comfy and stream of consciousness and also À la recherche de temps perdue to study impressionism a bit

@kittenlikeasmallcat the conspiracy against the human race

@rowb1t @hjh @kittenlikeasmallcat v interested to see what results from this 👁️

@hjh @kittenlikeasmallcat oh I have many it's very special, I love the writing style in complete indirect language dominated by the pronoun on, Wittig's first three novels each really have a central pronoun that defines them and on makes it kind of very detached and yet Catherine is still a really strongly developed character and we pick up so much of her personality from indirect language. I think that is a lot like childhood, she doesn't fully grasp the big picture of what is going on any better than the reader does. she's a very memorable and lovable character and Wittig's other works don't even usually have specific characters at all so one could think it's a weak point but here it's clear those are deliberate choices and she could be good at anything.

I think a lot about how the shadow of death hangs over this narrative, with each of the chapters kind of broken up by somebody dying in the background, from a young child to an archbishop, and in any case it doesn't really affect Catherine at all and she just kind of floats through these heavy emotional spaces with childlike detachment like the rituals around death are just a curiosity like everything else but it always seems to be in the back of her mind.

her hyperfocus on every plant and flower she sees is really so endearing too and also taught me a lot of vocabulary, and seeing her start to get into other special interests like geology too, it opens a lot of doors for what she might be into when she grows up. but my favorite section might have been the summer on the farm, the imagery there was all just so vibrant and real. Wittig is powerful at the trivial and she can describe a wheat field or a farming tool or something in L'Opoponax with every bit of depth and color as she does a girl's body in Le Corps Lesbien.

and ultimately how smoothly it built up and flowed into being a lesbian story was beautiful and subtle and the ending was fantastic

@hjh @kittenlikeasmallcat maybe I will write a thesis on this book when I'm in my Master or something, I could read it many times

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- Nibbling through We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson has been rapidly rising the ranks to becoming maybe my favorite fiction writer lately. Though idk if I'm willing to dethrone McCarthy for her quite yet.
- My reading group is working on From Being to Living by François Jullien. Really good book to jumpstart your Chinese Era.
- Started with X-Risk by Thomas Moynihan, I place good trust in the author but so far the book only gets an "alright" from me.

@kittenlikeasmallcat I'm reading The Succession to Muhammad (obv), and also the odyessy, plato's collected works, and slowly reading antkind, and i just started the light fantastic.

@kittenlikeasmallcat im finally (FINALLY, AUGH) getting around to reading antioedipus & wondering how tf i slid off it the last couple times i tried

@kittenlikeasmallcat also beforee my phone got broken, i was reading yotsuba to and tokyo ghoul