Angel_of_Sleep
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“There’s a lot they take away from us, Birdie. I won’t let them take you, too.”
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12 Jul 2026
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mark our hearts with shame by orphan_account for just_a_donut_who_reads
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
18 Feb 2023
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From Latin ignorare: to ignore. To deliberately turn a blind eye. To sit in the echelons of fortune and allow colonial processes to run undisturbed because one could not use violence to resist and push back.
OR: Letty Price, and the deliberations that led to her decisions.
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12 Jul 2026
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A great flood of emotion, of nonsense, rushes through Robin; he bites his tongue to keep it all at bay. You are life itself, and what a terrible job I would be doing at being human if I did not love you.
(ch 17: an excerpt from ramy and robin’s opium-laden walk back to the english factory in the middle of the night)
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12 May 2026
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Griffin began to let Robin come into his room more often. He thought that letting someone take care of him was a translation of coming home.
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01 Jun 2026
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to be understood (do you understand?) by questionablyflying12451
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
06 May 2025
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The Chinese character ài (爱) carries the English meaning of “to love or to be fond of.” It’s not much different from its English counterpart: it’s what a father tells to his son, his wife. Or so Robin has been told.
But there was one thing that confused little Robin. The Chinese character for friend (友) was always present in ài. No matter what era of documents he scoured through, there wasn’t a single instance where ài lost its friend.
So perhaps he never learned the distinction between “friend” and “love.” Perhaps he had intertwined the two concepts in his mind so deeply it had, unbeknownst to him, changed the way he viewed his world. So much so that when he was presented with a friend, he thought it was love.
Or perhaps his feelings for that brown eyed boy were genuine. Perhaps the only reason he thought it was a friendship was because he was merely confused by the intricacies of language. It wouldn’t be the first time it had occurred.
He would die without an answer, left only with a feeling so intense it would follow him past his final breath.
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30 May 2026