The unending racist, furry nightmare of this YA book
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
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TW 00:00
Intro 00:36
World 07:51
Book 1 15:32
The Relationship 45:11
Entirely Optional Racism 48:37
Racism Racism 54:50
The Weird Website 59:53
Book 2 1:10:47
More World Dunking 1:39:53
Writing 1:49:54
Eden: Revealed Adapted Free 1:52:30
End 1:53:58
Post Credits 1:54:03
End End 1:56:05 - Zábava
Medical anthropologist in training here! I recently took a class on environmental stress and we covered a section on melanin. The latest studies have determined that skin melanin differs based on folate metabolism and vitamin D. Skin cancer, even if it does affect people, usually doesn't cause death until after the age of childbearing. If you can live past the age of having healthy children, genes will be passed down. If you can't have babies that are able to have their own babies one day, then your genes will die out. So even if melanin affects skin cancer rates, it would not cause the evolution of different skin tones. Skin tones have evolved so people can better metabolize vitamin D or to protect from UV degradation of folate, which is necessary for having healthy babies! If you live somewhere with lots of UV rays, you are less likely to have a viable pregnancy if you have lighter skin and do not take folate supplements when pregnant. If you live somewhere with less UV rays, you should take vitamin D supplements if your skin tone is darker. Vitamin D is important for lots of stuff, including having healthy babies. But skin tone is not an absolute factor for these types of metabolism. If you have light skin you should absolutely take folate supplements when pregnant, even if you live somewhere with low UV exposure. And everyone near the poles should take vitamin D supplements year round.
Oh man thank you that's really cool. I as said did some light reading but was annoyed how many sources would link to articles that didn't prove skin colour was a factor or just weren't a very comprehensive study. Then the few I could find in journals were.... Journal studies I didn't understand well without an academic science background.but def I found it very annoying how the author in book and on her blog is very certain skin tone is a huge factor in skin cancer and health, and how googling it doesn't prove that is wrong
Huh. Even really pale people growing up in subtropical climates? Cause I am in 20s and already have spots that worry me :[
Thats fascinating though. I took one med anth class in college and loved it but it didnt cover that!
UPDATE: just found out im vitamin D insufficient despite eating a ton of canned fish. I feel like this drives your point home a bit. Ive just moved 12 hours north but I still spent part of this winter in Mississippi where the sun shouldve been above a UV undex of 2 at least a little of the time. Never had bloodwork done before so I have no idea if I was insufficient in the summers there too or not
@@kimscozyreads It was a really interesting course!
that would make sense because some of folate's main functions are dna synthesis and cell growth/repair
El Tigre is senior Cheng
El Tigre is just Spanish for the tiger, so apparently the Amazonian tribe worships a jaguar god but they refer to him as the tiger it made me laughing at loud
I don't know why I never mentioned this in video, because I do know this and it is very weird
@@Crowcaller you where probably distracted by the sensual piggy rides
What has me baffled is, how easy it is to translate both. Tigre is just Tiger in English, a bit scrambled. Jaguar you write it literally Jaguar 😂😭
@@Hanatatami Sometimes the gringosidad of some gringos goes beyond the comprehension of mere mortals.
Also it's depressing because Spanish is the language of the colonizers and colonized. This indigenous tribe doesn't even have the dignity of keeping their own language.
"Becoming a furry has made him deeply religious"
Ah yes, another one for my thesis, the Furry-to-Catholicism pipeline
As a furry, totally how it works! All furries are either religious or on their way to it! Truly! Undoubtedly!
@Ender katze
Together we shall all yiff in heaven.
@@CruelestChris truly
tradfurs
o0h thats why genesis wolf exists
The fact that the homoerotic sauna scene ended with Eden telling Yolo to call her Xochipilli becomes even more hysterical when you realize that Xochipilli was the god of the patron god of homosexuality, specifically among men 😂
Yeah!! It's so. Weird
I think the author meant his sister Xochiquetzal who was the goddess of love, war and lesbians as well
Not even halfway through the video but as a German person of colour, I will just gently mention that "coal-black" "coal-boy/girl" and so on an so forth are in fact real racial slurs in a lot of Germanic languages, they have exactly the icky colonial history you might expect and I was definitely called them growing up. Not to make assumptions about the authors cultural background based on the name but it does sound very Dutch to me and I do get the sense that she may have been aware of this.
That does make sense, I'd not heard of that but it does ring to mind Zwarte Pete and sinterklass.... I figured it was probably something someone has called a black person as an insult before because ITS COAL it's so clearly not a compliment
That's such an odd thing to pick that I figure you are correct. Yikes
I'm dutch and I wasn't aware, so I wouldn't say she was just because she was dutch, but it's also 100% on her to research this stuff before putting it in a book.
@@Nixahma the joys of being a white a European, you get to not notice the EXTREME racism POC face in Europe 😭😂
@@mychannel-rt2gn ...okay?
The "definitely not sex" piggy back rides are endlessly hilarious to me because I have no choice but to assume that what is happening is that she is furiously humping the back of his head while he straight back and armlessly sprints through the forest like some sort of Happy Wheels, QWOP character.
Bwhahahahaha I love this interpretation XD
He's becoming a jedi
I just imagine him running like the CW Flash while Eden's just on his shoulders constantly humping his nape, all the while her face is being stretched by the speed at which they're going, all the while in the jungle
The image is just too funny mentally
I like to imagine she's constantly getting whacked in the face with tree branches and vines while struggling to keep her balance on his shoulders because riding around on someone's shoulders is one of the worst possible choices when it comes to speed and efficiency. Like, why not just have it be a normal piggy back ride..?
@@funsies8107 and he's also got the level of CGI that CW Flash's later seasons had.
JAGUARS CANT PURR. THEY PHYSICALLY CANT. GOD.
Must be the uhhhhhhhhhh..... Harpy eagle or anaconda DNA making him purr then
They instead chuff, which takes one second of research to find out. Unbelievable.
I suspect she went to the JKR school for animal physiology. (Also shown with her ridiculous depiction of an anaconda and the use of the term “el Tigre”)
That's actually pretty cool! Why can't they purr? There basically big cats so I don't see why not, but mabey they just dont have the throat for it?
@@ujjssjsjsjjsjs8061 it's a vocal fold specialization that's mutually exclusive to the one for roars, basically. (All cats that can roar don't purr and all the ones that purr don't roar.)
The cheetah is the only big cat that purrs and can't roar, btw, but they also chirp so they're extra weird.
“How cruel a nickname Yolo now seemed: you only live once.”
I’m dying. I’m dead. This killed me. I cannot believe this.
I'm just imagining a picture of an Aztec human sacrifice with the caption "YOLO SWAG" now
Yolo ig
As a Brazilian, the moment you mentioned Aztecs in the AMAZON my soul left my body
😭
As a mexican me too
Not just aztecs, man. Tiger worshipping aztecs.
As a history buff, I feel you mate.
@@Sinclairelimfor the Aztec role she likely should use some forest fairy/elf rather than real life ethnic that can bring unfortunate implication risk
"Dude, you're a ripped cat-man, she left you and your son, she's in two terrorist groups, you're in the amazon rainforest...you do not have to honor her custody rights!" PLEASE WHAT A SENTENCE
That's literally r/brandnewsentence
I've read lesbian romances less homoerotic than the steam bath scenes.
In some ways the sex scene itself was less erotic
Not going to lie, that's fruitier than any lesbian works I'VE read, and I've read a lot (I live vicariously through literature lmao).
Funny how they get rid of Yolo right after all that, as if trying to get rid of the "competition" 💀💀💀💀
The way YOLO had a name but the white girl gave her a nickname to avoid having to learn the full one and also as a reminder of her newfound mindset like ?? This is a whole ass person not a inspirational bathroom quote
Yeah it hugely bothered me. She gave her a.... Private nickname? Internally she renamed this girl an old meme
Inspirational bathroom quote 💀
She pulled a morbius????????
I feel bad for Yolo, she totally thought they were dating, and she got betrayed by racist heterosexuality.
this is a sentence that would require a lot of drugs to come up with without context
@@Romanticoutlaw LMAOO
@@Romanticoutlaw 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus Christ I literally gasped out loud during the book trailer when that actress showed up in just full blackface
Jump scare blackface
no because that was a literal jumpscare
"If you read the book, you would know it's not blackface!" she says as her book trailer has a stand-in for the lead character in full fucking blackface...
MYY JJAAAWWWW DRRRRROPPPPPPEEDDDDDD
I FELL OF MY BED IT WAS SO BADD💀😭
So intense racism and spicy scenes between a 14 and 17 year old? Wow, I sure am glad this book exists
Yolo and Eden don't even have sex!!! it's just platonic and just WRITTEn in the weirdest possible way like
@@Crowcaller I'm not sure if this book queerbaited so hard it accidentally crossed the line into canon or if the author managed to roommate her own characters, but either way I'm kind of impressed.
@@Crowcaller how did this book make paedophilia even weird?
@@Crowcaller I'm genuinely puzzled why you think they *didn't* have sex? Harold, just oh god, Harold, they're lesbians, or at least Eden's dabbling in it. 😆
I think the confusion might have come in how the het stuff later is written out but that fades to black? Which is likely to just be because of the age thing and the presumed hetero market for the book. But I don't think it's even trying to be coy about it happening. "Cut to the couple in bed after" is an old standby.
@@skylarjohnson7779 This... what? I was the younger half of this relationship age gap in high school and it was fine. I mean, it didn't work out, but thankfully in the normal teenage breakup way, not the murder way.
"if the sun does go beast mode on us we are all doomed" thank you for putting it into simpler terms for us crow 😞🙏🙏🙏
I'm sad I think I forgot to also ever say the words "the sun is rawdogging us that's why we're all dying"
@@Crowcaller but what if we use sunblock 🤨🤨
That’s technically an SCP.
Very disappointed this book's 'beast sun' premise results in this weird "reverse racism" narrative and not humans evolving giant ears like elephants and fennec foxes. Wasted opportunity.
hearing the line "that's because you're my she-cat" made me physically stop what I was doing, scrunch up my face like I just ate something really sour and shake my head side to side for a full five seconds as the cringe flowed through me
She-cat is such a.... Why does the term even exist, I hate it. It's in the book A LOT and I really do not appreciate that
@@Crowcaller "she-cat" reminds me of warrior cats, which is not particularly good series, but it's waaaaaaaay better than Save the Pearls
Unfortunately with cats it’s not like there is an equivalent term to tom/tom-cat unless you want you use queen - and queen is specifically a term used for female cats who have had/who currently have kittens so I can see why the author chose not to use the term. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t sound weird, and that is doesn’t jive with the text. Plus it just makes me think of Warrior Cats tbh.
Thank fuck they're not half coyote or wolf tho. Can you imagine him calling her his bitch 😩
@@spots6450 the equivalent is 'molly'! technically its for spayed females but it sounds better than she-cat. it's what we've been using in the warrior cats fandom, lmaoooo.
Every time Save the Pearls comes up, I'm prepared for the racism, but I'm never prepared for the Furry. Also, that scene where the protag blurts out a racial slur -- I feel like the entire book just spiralled out from that scene. Like the author said a racial slur in real life and then spent two entire novels going "But what if that ... was good ... ?"
Hahaha 10000 percent what happened
even without the gayness, the fact that Eden didn't even try to save her "close friend" from being sacrificed for her is fucked up tbh
AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES
@@jeremylackey6587 Oh My GoD tHeY wErE rOoMaTeS
As a ‘snerson’ I can confirm that Anacondas do not do that. While they are great swimmers they do not try to drown their prey.
I'm also floored by the notion... They're big snakes but it falls into the water and pins her down underwater when it dies, and she has to be rescued. How heavy was this snake!
as a fellow snerson it was so ridiculous to hear that part. they are constrictors,, they squeeze things not drown things
@@Crowcaller anacondas can get to be around 550 lbs as they are giant muscle noodles. nothing else made sense tho lol
maybe they should try it out sometime tho I bet it would work
So, she's horrifically incompetent and out of touch on at least 3 different levels.
I remember other people talking about this book! It's so tone deaf it could be used as a soundproof room.
It's actually just way worse than you think and you'd thought. At least in my experience, where I thought it was horrible and somehow was deeply unsettled by how bad it actually was.
It's like if they marketed the fucking Turner Diaries to preteens. It's shockingly awful
I'd argue the book is so tone deaf, you can only listen to audio of it IN a soundproof room! So the neighbors don't raise an eyebrow.
Bye
Only 17 minutes in but onyx was right there... if you truly want to create a new slur for your book for black people (which feels so icky), onyx would be a step up from coal and also a semi precious gem. Just really shows the intent of the author.
Correct! We could've just gone entirely stone themed names
The white people could be asbestos or talc or something. Granted asbestos is a mineral but it's close enough, it's white, it's carcinogenic, and sometimes makes its way into talc.
@@L0rdOfThePies obsidian. Black too and nothing offensive
Onyx, jet, obsidian, ebony. That took me the same 0.024 seconds to come up with as a Google search for “black gemstone” would have taken Victoria
Obsidian is also the hardest and strongest of the named Gems, which fits with the “Blacks are the best” theme better then coal
One thing that bugs me about Eden’s commentary is that… it doesn’t sound like the commentary of an oppressed person, but of a vengeful and hateful attitude from someone who doesn’t actually suffer from oppression.
I know black people are not a monolith, and perhaps this is just me as a black person with a history of slavery in my family, but black people (most of us at least) don’t go around hating white people or fuming about how we wish we weren’t oppressed. Of course, a lot of us aren’t happy about it and plenty try to change it, but there is not this near constant hatred of the system at large that consumes our every thoughts. Most black people I know are aware of racism as a concept but also treat it as something expected and built into a lot of systems. Many of us navigate the world not ALWAYS affected by the worst of racism, but always understanding that it could prove as an obstacle at the worst of times. For many of us, racism is a disappointing but not surprising reality.
However, despite being part of an oppressed demographic in this world, Eden’s behavior reads more like a white girl writing what she THINKS it’s like to suffer from racism, but she doesn’t actually know what it entails. There’s no acknowledgement of systemic struggle or generational oppression, but arbitrary things that make life slightly inconvenient, such as a “mean black girl” yelling at her in an overreacting way (when black women are already socially stereotypes as verbally aggressive in real life anyway). She even responds by shouting a slur, which is not exactly something that an oppressed person in real danger of serious repercussions would usually do. For example, if my white boss were to reprimand me harshly for a mistake, I couldn’t just stand up and call him a “white devil” without some crazy looks and possible punishment.
government mandated blackface was not a phrase I was psychologically braced for
I'm not going to lie, "Intensely Mundane Actions Being Described as Hornily as Possible" is a genre so surreal and hilarious to me that I almost want to use my linguistic power for evil just to see how far the limits can go.
Surely, anyone can see the inherent eroticism of their SO tying their shoes for them. The dexterity of their fingers! The intricacy of the knot! The certainty that their bond, like that newly laced-up sneaker, will remain secure no matter what difficult terrain they may face in the future! Anything is possible with just the right choice of words!!
It is very funny and odd to me. The way she writes these shoulder rides...... I've just never seen anything close! The trick is that is kinda the hallmark of a kink, right? Like people have very specific kinks all the time where people without them just ateleft confused. Like. A coughing kink
I unironically love this genre of prose. Much of life is searching for joy and pleasure. When someone can find this somewhere unexpected / unexamined - and then when they can effectively communicate their pleasure - it lets us feel it by proxy. Perhaps it awakens us a bit to the pleasures in life, and in doing so the author increases the joy in the world just a bit.
@sammyi2505 I'm sorry to tell you erotic shoe tying is already very much a thing, it's a whole kink (albeit usually with leather boots rather than sneakers, lol)
I mean sneaker kink stuff is extremely common on grindr so uhhh yeah it's a thing
@@thunder-san1377 I have no idea why that feels weirder to me than the boot thing...
Black face transition at 1:05:43 was a genuine jump scare.
Omigod yeah wtffff
I know, when I saw it I had to pause the video and stare at the ceiling. I just...didn't know what else to do.
At least they didn't give her big pink lips...? 😰
im reading comments before finishing the video and im genuinely terrified about what this means
OH MY GOD
This review would not exist without my efforts. Should I be proud or ashamed?
I never found that website where the author talks to herself in character, wtf.
Editor here, the bit with the book trailer we'd never even thought to look for without your video. That poor actress.
The home page for the website lists all the award she got and it's V Concerning!
Also CROW LOOKS ITS JAMES LOOK AHHHH
I spent a long time looking for save the pearls as a digital file and it took a tumblr follower to point me to your video and the only copy I could reasonably acquire, so really, your actions have directly created... at the very least this thumbnail I'm going to put on you. seriously though thanks, I didn't know you'd done a review of it only a couple months ago!
yeah, the website is MUCH deeper than just what I mentioned, again there's like 6 seperate blogs on there, mostly not really on topic. and I still don't know quite what's going on there
@@Astrotorical There's a strange irony in your last sentence because for a moment I completely forgot each of these CZcamsrs' names (even though they're right in front of me on the screen) and thought you were making a Jim Crow reference.
Oh lol @James Tullos, I watched your video on this first
@@Astrotorical the deep lore is so juicy this time. Lightlark was an appetizer. Delightful
The reason the setting doesn't make any sense is because it's not really what's important to the author. It's just a vehical for the authors true passion; Fury race play fetish erotica.
Oh yeah, as I at one point point out you can cut all ideas of race and the book is unchanged
Love how the sexiest sex scene in this series is neither a sex scene nor involved the main love interest lol
Until you said something, I genuinely thought this was written by an ultra-conservative lady because I've definitely heard racists try to convince me that we're going through white genocide and being replaced by minorities before and the start of this book definitely sounded like every single scenario they presented to me as what will happen if I don't start being a horrible human like them and repressing minorities. It is incredibly tone deaf to think this is a valid way of convincing people not to be racist when it just validates their talking points.
Yeah, great replacement or replacement theory. I call the book fanfic of that for a reason, even though the author seems sincere about THINKING she was um. Being anti racist
You can look on the internet and CZcams and see leftists spouting this very nonsense.
Don't be in denial. Lol
The repulicants take advantage of this behavior every single day.
You have confirmation bias on this subject, you're just not going to see it unless you examine your bias.
Yeah I highly doubt the author genuinely thinks she is being anti racist. Probably just trying to cover her ass about her actual racist beliefs
Everything is wrong in this book: race, mythology, geography, biology. And even the society too is wrong
@@Crowcaller tbf a lot of stuff that *says* it’s antiracist has some of that energy, but it’s usually in the form of othering and fetishization- Save The Pearls is unique in that it does that without horseshoeing it?
Usually this kind of thing hides itself in the language of academia, saying stuff like overcoming racial inequality is impossible without outside aid, or that all imperialism and abuse can be traced back to white people, and things like that. In some of the groups I used to travel in, people said that a lot of the “antiracist” works were operating with much of the same (faulty) premises that the alt-right did, and just had different values- erasing the great empires of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, framing imperialism as something purely from Europe, and stuff like that. The right views imperialism as good, and the left views it as bad, but with that and so many other things, it erases the actions of poc.
There’s the idea of amerindians having some form of ~spiritual~ and ~moral~ superiority and being innately ~connected to nature~, as well as being less “technologically advanced”, when their technology *was* the “nature” around them; most of the “wilds” of the New World were intentionally designed that way, with the New and Old Worlds taking different technological paths- amerindians did a lot of selective breeding and other biotechnology, rather than how afro-eurasians worked with inorganic materials and developed craftsmanship that way. The reason that Europe got the better end of the Colombian Exchange was because of the many *many* plants that had been domesticated.
So it’s interesting the author of this book internalized *different* racist ideas and premises and still tries to make (terrible) works of literature opposing bigotry.
i remember picking up this book, as a black man in his 20s, reading the synopsis, and flipping to a random clump of three pages to get a feel for how it actually went about all this.
legitimately the first time i ever, EVER, asked a bookstore owner why they were stocking a book.
Its a trap. Dangerous offensive book about furry cat fetish
How did they respond?
@@milli59681 year later, I am still curious too
Oh my god, I was JUST searching to see if any of the Booktubers I followed talked about this one yet. But as SOON as I saw greyscale Macavity in the thumbnail I KNEW.
And even if you're not fully equipped to talk about racism as experienced by POC, you are DEFINITELY equipped to talk about the audacity of white women who learned about Jim Crow-era segregation for the first time and was like, "What if, for me? 👉👈🥺"
Yeah, I was like. I have so much to say. there's so much to say. I can't not say this.
greyscale Macavity 💀
“What if, for me” THATS EXACTLY IT OH MY GOODNESS 😭
Dear god, I read this comment and it STILL did not prepare me for how awful it would be. It's so indescribably racist, I can't even comprehend how anyone could come up with such an insane book idea. I'm fucking floored.
Honestly I feel like the only ppl who should talk abt this book series are white people because no POC deserve to endure this nightmare
I think the author also forgot that sunscreen exists.
And that being far enough under the ground will keep people preeetty safe from UV rays.
The sun is however rawdogging us so much even. Um. The earth's crust can't stop it (DW the Amazon is fine)
(Note: I can't rewatch myself so I don't recall. I really hope I said "the sun is rawdogging us" at some point in the vid. I think that's a very funny phrase)
I checked the comments to make sure yt didn't glitch.
How does it feel to know that you have given more thought to the world building of that book that literally its own author?
@@ironicallynice Gives me hope in being able to publish my own novel. xD
I don't understand how you glossed over "snake person, or snerson" like that, that shit was so funny
I'M SORRY SNACCURATE, YOU'VE KILLED ME THANK YOU
Luckily the sneople, or snake people, are here appreciating it
Make me to snurch (~snail~ snake church)
the power of tumblr humor is no one off tumblr has tumblr humor. this means we can relentlessly and brazenly use tumblr jokes to mass market appeal and appear individually humorous, though our humor was always a smoke and mirrors display of autistic homosexual joke-theft. naturally, this means that anyone who notices the jeft, or joke theft, was also at the devil's party. to notice is to also be guilty of being a tuser, or tumblr user.
@@Crowcaller Steven Universe was right; the sneople ARE real!!! OAO
15 minutes in and i’m already terrified that between the caste system, the sun being a deadly laser, and the ‘forced mating’, this is just a More Racist and Much Worse human version of homestuck
EDIT: ITS SO MUCH WORSE BY GOD
you're right about the homestuck parallel there but you shouldn't say it
Op having a homestuck pfp is so relatable as a homestuck fan
I thought it for a second and shrugged it off but you're right. Why.
I'm gonna say it
Something something bucket
YEAH ITS. LIKE THE SUN THING AND THEN THE FORCED MATING MADE ME STARTED THINKIN ABOUT IT… AND THEN THE _CASTE SYSTEM_ IM
One of the few non-white love interests we get in a YA novel and he's a giant, animalistic beast man ... can we say yikes?! Also, I'm not sure about the author's "piggyback" fetish but, a much more sinister fetish definitely seems centerstage here.
I could not comprehend this as being written in earnest when you got to the “Yolo” stuff. This book had to be some weird rage-bait joke.
It just... no one rage-baiting could write something SO boring despite all the insanity. but I really did lose my mind on the Yolotli stuff. like. HOW do you do that
Just when you think these books couldn't sink any lower, we must now add Bury Your (probable) Gays to their tropes.
Accidental gay AND accidental bury your accidental gay. Groundbreaking achievement
@@Crowcaller AND THEY WERE TOMBMATES
I'm going to start using "that's not very she-cat of you" with my friends, it's such a good quote
the fact that they translated tigre as jaguar, even worse when you remember that tigers aren't at all native to the americas
Idk why I forgot to mention this. and I don't have an explanation. Someone else commented the Spanish for jaguar is.... Jaguar? So why TIGRE
Why is it even in Spanish if it’s supposedly an ancient Aztec prophecy?
Historically, Aztecs and Spaniards were pretty much the exact opposite of interchangeable
I mean in all fairness in many older european texts 'tiger' gets used for all big cats, the spotted ones in particular - tigrado is still a term for spotted paso horses in latin america. BUT. IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE FOR THESE POSTAPOCALYPTIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT A JAGUAR IS TO NOT CALL IT JAGUAR.
In Spanish, the j in jaguar is pronounced "H" as in jalapeño peppers, and the g is pronounced "W" so maybe the author wanted to spare you from trying to pronounce that.
@@Mecharnie_Dobbs how in the hell is g pronounced w? (as a native spanish speaker)
As someone who is severely sex repulsed, I thought the worst was the strangely sensual piggy back rides. And then you said “fantastic furry jungle sex”
Also every time you say “the sun’s deadly lasers” or anything along those lines I can’t help but think of bill wurtz
'The sun is a deadly laser,
Not anymore there's a blanket!' Used to play in my head all the time, and this vid has brought it back lol
Hello fellow ace! Also thanks, now that soundbite will be playing in my head for the next week
You just unlocked a memory! I remember reading this book in middle school and being bothered by the depictions of race in the book. As a young black girl I thought it was weird that black people were shown in such a weird and violent way, and then the disrespectful way that indigenous people were written. For years I've always randomly thought about this book from time to time about how weird it was, but I could never remember the name of it. Imagine my surprise when I realize this was that book! Thank you for discussing it and helping me remember this fever dream of a book!
I am so sorry that you had to endure this abomination at such a young age.
Hey, chronic pain patient here - while not a universally sound idea, PLEASE, for the love of god: we need to stop the stigma for those of us who need opiod medication daily.
I, myself, have been on it for over 15 years on a daily basis, with some "reboot" periods in between so I can avoid hyperalgesia and tolerance.
It's not right that people with degenerative, life-ruining diseases have to plead on our hands and knees and BEG our doctors like dogs, go in and out of the er, potentially give up all the joy and functionally in our lives, and worse - we are treated like junkies, like animals, even when we have piles and piles and piles of records and test results. God fucking forbid you need a new doctor for whatever reason. There are doctors where I live who are trying to "phase out" painkillers entirely, which people like myself can tell you is absolute batshittery.
I agree that people who are healing from surgeries and the like should have limited, heavily monitored opioid use. But this is not a danger for *everyone*. To give you an idea how bad things are for us: both my grandma and my dad died from cancer recently. My grandma's shoulder was completely shattered (long story) and my dad's brain was being eaten by cancer. They were both refused pain medication up until they were barely conscious in hospice care. My grandma was denied pain medication IN THE HOSPITAL with a shoulder that could not be repaired due to her advanced age.
I will fight with my last dying breath for the short time I have on this earth to promote opioid medications for people who DO need them long-term, for the rest of our lives. We do exist. We do need them. I can't ever go back to lying in bed all day, every day, every night. No one should be forced to make that sacrifice because other people are misusing illegal drugs. Please have empathy for us
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. I hope people see this one, because it's incredibly important to me. Much love to my other cripster zebras out there
I hope you heard me mention also that I am on opiniod painkillers and use them like. Weekly at least for my health problems. That's one reason I was so annoyed by the incorrect info here and talked about it so much. Them drugs do really have a nasty withdrawel and risks but also man I got morphine on tap for a reason
@@Crowcaller Oh no, I absolutely agree - pain contracts need to be enforced better for people who are SUPPOSED to be on it temporarily, and this book was more what I had an issue with- the last thing I wanna see are more stories about someone abusing their opioid medication for a sadgirl "aesthetic". It's so strange and gross, and it wasn't even done correctly. That being said, I hate the corporation who made oxycontin with all my heart. They're evil, dead ass. It's their fault more than anyone else's that we're in this mess, frankly.
I'm so sorry you've ever felt withdrawal, because it's absolute dog ass. I spent a very long time until I found a doctor who was comfortable giving me suboxone, so I could regulate my tolerance and avoid hellish suffering should some issue with the pharmacy or supply chain come up. I totally feel you on the morphine on tap! I would chop the earth in half with my laser-focused suffering without it.
I hope you got some narcan on hand just in case (its required in my state), and do mention getting a few strips from your doc per month so you never have to go through withdrawal ever again if you so choose! It gave me a lot of peace of mind. ^^
Big super floppy cripster hugs fam🖤✨
I'm on benzodiazepine medication to prevent seizures. I went through hell and back to find a provider who would prescribe it. Had providers try giving me everything under the sun instead and every single med always failed. Even after I had been on about every treatment available they were still trying to get me on something other than a benzo because of the entire trend of phasing out these controlled substances like you had mentioned. Even my provider has commented on how demonized this medication is, and of course I've been getting it prescribed by them for years now with no issue. It didn't turn me into a drug addict and I never turned around and sold my medicine like what was assumed of me when I was still trying to get the script. I just wanted to live a functional life. Unfortunately we won't see the stigma go anywhere I don't think, as more and more people OD on fake pills they buy off the street. The majority of people on controlled substances who medical professionals like ER nurses are interacting with now are illegally using those substances and often there because of them. It perpetuates a feeling of resentment among medical workers against people on controlled substances, whether they deal with addiction or not, because the people who are addicted are "wasting medical resources" in their eyes.
If you are looking for bad obscure books, this mortal coil is a ya dystopia that starts with an exploding cannibal disease AND GETS WEIRDER FROM THERE. At one point she discovers she is part virus, had another personality TRANSPLANTED INTO HER HEAD BY HER FATHER, then starts dating the brother of her psuedo DID headmate. She has a 5 year old ai version of this brother in her head too. Every plot point of this book was absolutely insane, the main character is literally a cannibal and it’s barely even brought up past book 1. Like she literally jumps a man, eats him and chops up the leftovers for the market and is like “ah well he would probably die anyways” and she’s viewed as a morally good character
what the hell. i’m interested
How in the hell is she part virus??? How would you even discover that you're part virus? Does the MC have those spiky bits that are on some kinds of virus have sticking out of her skin or something??? I know the author probably didn't give it much thought as a concept, but now I can't let the idea go.
Sounds like Prototype but YA.
Instead of the Amazon they should have had the forest and the surface survivors being in the arctic region. We've already seen treelines progress further North there due to climate change, so it would make a lot of sense if in the world of the book that the only surviving forests were ones that had grown there.
That's right. But considering how the author depicted scientific thing in this book, she clearly doesn't know that information
There are no large black-furred predators there, and of the cats I don’t think that Inuit, Métis, or Sami have any spiritual beliefs related to them for her to mangle? Also the Sami were christianized in the 1800s. Though there’s an attempt at reviving their religion which was somewhat related to the Norse one, so she could have just made some nonsense with Freyja or something, equating their shamanism with animal worship as well as Norse mythology. Although the Sami are pale and their very existence and the idea of them would probably break the author’s mind, given her poor understanding of race as a social construct.
(I don’t understand it at all but the sense that it confuses me, not that I think it’s absolute or anything. I think it’s a product of growing up autistic and regularly exposed to greco-nationalism)
No black furred large predator cats maybe, but bears (spiritually important around several old arctic animal spirituality stuff afaik)?? Wolves?? Wolverines?? Locats if you REALLY want a feline? God why am I even thinking of ways to improve this shitshow...
Some YA authors are just so full of audacity it could be used as an endless energy source, like girl what on God’s green earth made you sit down and decide “I’m going to write not one BUT TWO exceptionally racist ya books”.
All I’m saying is, seeing books like this makes me feel infinitely more confident in my writing abilities. If shit like this can somehow become published, I can do it too. It’s honestly why I love booktubers reviewing these kinds of books so much, I’ll put on these long book reviews and world build while listening, highly recommend it’s a fun pastime.
Honestly bad books are an inspo to me too. Mind, this wasn't "published", she just put it out there herself.... But evidently some people LIKED it so the bar is very low and you and I can write better books
I wish I had such audacity. I would at least put it to better uses.
"El Tigre" is not the name of an Aztec tiger-jaguar-furry deity; it is actually the name of a children's superhero cartoon created by Jorge R. Gutierrez. Common mistake.
A little known fact is that the Aztecs liked 2000s cartoons
@@merrittanimation7721 They better. El Tigre was awesome.
honestly, the idea of a racist terrorist group that's aligned with the racism of the government but in a more violent way, that the government then decries, is SO true to life that i think it was an accident.
As a person from the Caribbean, the premise that the dramatic drop on the white population would make them lose their place as the top of the social class is laughable.
* laughs in Central and South America *
Wait... The scenes with Yolo AREN'T supposed to be explicitly gay?!? In what goddamn universe lmao those were honestly really good depictions of sapphic longing
I lost my god darn MIND with the yolo scenes. just a descent into madness of nonstop extremely extremely gay interactions. I was like, the odds this book from 2012 is going to give me a bisexual lead maybe even poly is RIDICULOUS and yet I had no other answer from what was going on.
Honestly I think *maybe* the author needs to do some soulsearching. She was *this* close to a major revelation I think.
@@Crowcaller so, im russian, and the funny part is that in our fantasy romance scene there is MY FAVOURITE author. This woman, intentionally or not, has SOME BALLS. In her 2010nth romance series she just said " Yeah my female lead has 2 hands so she can have these 2 dudes romantically and that one platonically", in the next series she has a straight up bisexual king who was like " yeah I GET why you want kiss that dude". No gay interactions but like. I CAN FEEL IT? Two dudes treat each other with respect and care for each other and share a woman who loves them both dearly??? They also have children together?
@@this_Kwazicat pretty clever way to avoid government censorship ig
@@this_Kwazicat what's the name of this author, if I may ask?
If anything the thumbnail UNDER promises how wild this video was
I thought I'd made it bombastic enough.... Drats
@@Crowcaller nothing in this known universe can accurately prepare anyone to the insanity which this book entails. So we cant blame ya lmao
Here's a random fun fact to brighten the mood. Snow leopards are actually genetically closer to tigers than they are to actual leopards. I propose we start calling them ice tigers.
Love the bait and switch where the book description claims to be about racism but then it’s about other, unrelated racism
Hey I hope it's okay to say that as a black person this book is Supremely racist and most definitely About race. I'd elaborate more specifically but I also just think I have too much to say and it would be a bit too heavy to justify putting it in a CZcams comment section. If you're down to read about that I could find a way to contact you, I suppose?? But I think the best way to refute the "I don't think this book is proof that she's racist" is to ask
What type of media would she have to write or create to prove that she was, and how is it that this abomination doesn't apply?
I agree, it would have been nice if Crow had reached out to someone more informed on the topic to give their perspective before making the video. Like I get not wanting to overstep but there's a very obvious solution.
She's definitely racist, it seems like a better question to ask "how deep in denial is she about her racism?" But yeah. Definitely racist.
Agreed, this book is so extreme that if it doesn't prove the author is racist, I don't know what would
If the author thinks the female of any species is submissive to their male counterparts, boy is she going to be confused by hyenas, anglerfish, my idiot cat who regularly gets trounced by his queen companions.
As a person with an obscure kink, this review brought me relief because it reminded me that I'm not the biggest weirdo out there. And also I get to get brownie points for not putting my silly fetishes in novels about reverse racism and furries XD
Wait what's reverse racism?
@@bird4816 the (quite racist) though along the lines of "oh but what if equality led to WHITE PEOPLE being oppressed by BLACKS! Really makes you think huh?? Better to keep opressing them so we Normal White People can stay on top" that the book Crows reviewing seems chock full off.
@@bird4816 regular racism but woke
He... He made the snake gag by shoving his arm inside it's mouth? I... I don't think that works... Oh I hate this!
SO not snake accurate or snacurrate!!!
Snakes can throw up but I don’t know if they can gag or make gag sounds
I am 48% positive that snakes cannot gag by having hand pushed into their throat, plus anaconda have massive fangs, he's gonna have big ass puncture wounds
That drove me nuts too, given how snakes eat in general, that was more rediculous to me than the cartoon physisc
@@skeleletonboi4533 from what I've googled, they don't have a gag reflex so something touching the back of their throat doesn't make them throw up. Instead, snakes throw up either from being sick or from feeling threatened after having recently eaten (being full makes them slow so if they get scared while full they will regurgitate what they ate so they can flee).
I've been sat here thinking about the oxy-cap for so long now because it's just such a nightmarish concept to me and it seems like a throwaway idea in the actual books. Like everyone in the tunnel society has a hole in their head to receive oxy regularly implying either all children undergo a procedure to put one there or somehow they've genetically modified it in a wishy-washy science way so everyone is born with it. Both of which seem fucking horrible and definitely medical child abuse because there's no medical reason for an able-bodied ten-year-old to be taking opioids.
And like, there's a whole dystopian world you could build around that idea. One that examines the medicalisation of disabled bodies. I know a lot of fellow disabled folks who do often feels like their bodies aren't theirs due to the extent of medicalisation they go through. And idk, there's just something there that would interesting to explore. Maybe how often it feels like doctors want us to shut up rather than actually help with our conditions, and how an easy patchwork solution like an oxy-cap doesn't address the underlying condition or cause.
There is something there and it kills me how it's just a throwaway line in the racist furry piggyback books.
The oxy cap is so so so wild. It is entirely thrown away and unimportant and I initially forgot to mention it in my review! Yet. The total drugging of everyone is something you see in a lot of dystopia I feel but it's never just a Real Drug. And then it's a hat. The drug hat!
I def do agree in particular there's something very intriguing about talking mass med dosing and using it in a dystopia text to explore specifically disabled bodies. As said I'm on 800 meds including multiple strong opioids, and the mix and seesaw of that means I feel I am at constant war with my body, definitely not in charge of it
You’re just digging deeper and deeper into the abyss. I hope you’re reading good books alongside these
.....................................................no im not..........
people keep begging me to please read nice books and I keep shaking my head with eyes full of tears and picking up the worst things I can find anyways
@@Crowcaller you poor soul. You’re trapped.
@@Crowcaller crow no I'm begging you please read a good, or at least a decent book. ok ok look at it this way if you don't read something normal you might become desensitized eventually to this some of the crazy shit in these books and nobody wants that right? crow please don"t do this to yourself
@@Crowcaller At least sneak in a good, short fanfic once in a while, for sanity.
@@Crowcaller I would read The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler as a palate cleanser (?) after this. H*ck I would read it to you even.
Alright this is my third comment but how sexually repressed is this author, the bath scene? The piggy back ride afterwards?? This is so sexual???
Also: NO YOLO! I guess she only did live once-
HOW DARE EDEN BEAT ME TO THAT PUNCHLINE.
Yeah the book. Man I couldn't talk about this book especially book two without going into the sex but it feels like all of book two discussion was just wild sex and not sex. Most of it not being the sex scene. It's just so so thirsty
Yolo lived, served cunt and died
So... is the abyss staring back at you now?
Like mad respect for the dedication.
I think I can find a deeper aybss to stare into..... still looking. sure we can get some sort of deepest aybss possible. only then can I rest.
you spent 8 minutes building it up so i was pulling on my literary wellies and raincoat, mentally preparing. and then that excerpt hit me like an open fire hydrant to the anus
I went from “wow this poor actress gotta say shit abt gettin mated” to “nvm I don’t think she cares 💀” real fast
"Tonight on 'The Writer's Thinly Disguised Fetish,' racially charged furry-themed ponyplay."
you know i really never thought id willingly listen to the words “horny piggy-back ride” but here we are 😭 i hope you have a therapist to discuss this book with 😅
I don't know how far you are in yet but just wait until the last most graphic piggy back ride of them all.
I’m just starting. How bad can it be? I’m sure it’s got nothing on smutty hand-holding
@@AnkhAnanku You can't just go talking about the hand activity in public like this! Jeez. Censor yourself, pervert!
The fact that the author picked COAL, which was used as a derogatory term for black people in THE REAL WORLD, because of her "rock theming" (which falls apart when you remember what amber is) instead of like... onyx??? Or obsidian??? Is insane. Its just so blatantly racist.
Also, it baffles me that riding around on the shoulders is the go-to way of moving quickly, because it's way worse than actual piggyback rides??? Like it would really put the center of balance in an awkward spot for sprinting around, and I'm just going to assume Eden is getting whacked in the face with vines and branches whenever they're running around.
"that's not very she-cat of you" is my new favorite insult
Cafe-au-lait used to be a phrase you'd hear even in like beauty stuff describing a skin color, weirdly now remaining in the name of a skin condition, go figure. A perfectly expected way for a woman in her 60s to describe a skin color, really, but not as written for anybody young enough to have *never ordered one*. It's basically a latte but from a place that doesn't have an espresso machine, but it used to be that nobody had an espresso machine. I'm over 40 and it's kinda dated even in my eyes. So, uh, yeah.
*or a milk-steamer. It’s honestly probably closer to white coffee (coffee with cold milk)
@@runeanonymous9760 As a beverage it's different, but I meant its cultural role. It was simultaneously everywhere and just a *little* fancier than ordering a regular coffee. Taste-wise, usually you added more milk than you could with cold milk without it winding up lukewarm, so it was usually a weaker drink. The latte was a better option for still tasting like coffee but having enough milk to offset the bitterness, and took over in the mid-late 90s.
The notion of a separate steamer/frother wasn't even in the public imagination at that point, I don't think. 😆
You had me at "sexually charged piggyback rides". That phrase is now burned into my brain forever.
this is not a book, this is a fever dream
I have had much better fever dreams I gotta say
The fact that this and Empress Theresa exists makes me feel better as a Wattpad writer. It's an ego boost on any bad day 🤣
I think this author just kept changing whatever the story was but never edited the books or changed the website so that's why everything is so confusing
Yeah, her last draft likely came in and totally changed a bunch of stuff.... Apparently for the worse? And just she didn't care enough to edit her old posts or something
25:26 the "(nice)" took me OUT, I snorted so hard it was legit painful
That was possibly the most serious tone I've ever seen anyone make a 69 joke in
Racist YA authors that can't write victims of racism without also making them racist are my favorite genre of authors
1:19:17 Also I'm not sure if I heard the right name, but Xōchipilli is a god, not a goddess. And he's the god of things like art and music, but not love.
I don't want to claim the main girl as sapphic representation but...like textually you can't argue that they aren't at least attracted to each other. Badly written but undeniable.
Haven't watched the full video yet, but I'm just here to say: When the book started talking about the Huaorani I immediately started panicking omg. As someone who studies anthropology and has a small project on Huaorani/Waorani culture coming up, I am very wary when people mention Wao people/Wao culture, because most articles or books about them describe them in a very negative or mythical way. There is a strong focus on war, killing and hunting in reports on them unfortunately, even in anthropological works. My professor who had been living and studying in Waorani territory for some time gave me a lot of info and we are working on dismantling that focus bit by bit. It just makes me sad to see them used as props in this racist plot line of this fictional piece of work as well.
And to connect them to the Aztecs xsahjdvshjhjshdg,, I just can't. The El Tigre Jaguar thing is so disrespectful.
This!! And it happens so much to alot of Indigenous Communities like my people the Boríken Taíno
This was hilarious. The dog coming back to life only to sacrifice itself in the most ridiculous way had me cry laughing.
ohhhhh my god I'm listening to this while drawing and switching back to the browser to see that chick in the book trailer in blackface and a terrible wig was a fucking JUMPSCARE oh my god.
so what I'm getting is this is actually some author's odd little bodice ripper concept with racist undertones (and overtones... and midtones...) that she decided to stick a poorly thought out scifi dystopia plot on the front of, and then inexplicably market as a YA series. which is... one way to write a book, I suppose.
but personally, if I wanted to write about attractive young adults transforming into animal people and getting excessive amounts of pleasure from riding and licking each other, I would probably stick to the online forums that cater to that. and not throw a bunch of resources into publishing it under my full name that people I interact with day to day irl know me by. oh, and also not stuff it with a plotline about indigenous people that would've felt outdated and stereotypical decades before this book was published???
but hey, if my granny had wheels, she'd have been a bike.
The amount of times I outloud said “no please stop” when the quotes were read I just dear lord
It does sound like the quotes were torturing you and honestly. I get it.
Café au late is a real term for a specific type of birthmark where there's more melanin in a particular spot. Like, that is the actual, official term.
I looked it up back in middle school because I have one on my arm and wanted to see if it counted as a birthmark :)
I can't even begin to process what is this book BUT I think if you want a special drug hat you should get to have one. Even if the hat cannot administer the drugs I think putting on a fun hat before taking some pills or whatever would add to the experience. Makes things festive. Doubles as a conversation starter.
Put some bells on my special drug hat so when I'm rolling around in agony there's some festive jingles added to my cross of pain
My headcanon is that drug hat is that colourful cap with a little propeller, and you increase the dose by swirling the propeller
Now I'm imagining an infomercial for the drug hat, with both the propeller to administer the drugs and the jingle bells, and the commercial having video clips demonstrating how those features work.
@@LixiaWinter alternatively the propeller spins faster the higher you get
people with migraines already having medicine hats lol. We got them icepack hats
when you showed the book trailer i actually covered my mouth in shock. so many people collaborated to make that happen (or at least 2?) and yet none of them went "wait. maybe this is a bad idea."? 😭
another great video but im afraid this will haunt me for the rest of my days
Exactly, I'm crying, they couldn't even get her a decent wig?! The DISRESPECT
that or they were just desperate enough to get paid to be willing to take any job
you know its good when you're 15 minutes in and hearing about a protagonist calling someone a slur, racist pseudoscience, and eugenics
I found myself wondering what the hell this book could possibly be. Then I saw the cover and was smacked in the face with the reminder that this book exists and was actually publisbed
I didn't put the title anywhere in the title or thumbnail (besides the lil covers) but. I figured we'd all know what it is
@@Crowcaller honestly I don't know if I would have recognized it by the title alone, but that cover haunts me
And on top of that, a dry-ass book trailer was created too!
1:27:23 I can only see the person talking with her as her dad which makes me howl at “how could he have possibly known she was a pearl?” because like,,,,he’s your father, I think he’d remember when you weren’t ambiguously ethnic
the amazon rainforest dwelling indiginous tribe calls a jaguar man the spanish word for tiger. ok.
And are apparently Aztecs... Somehow
Hi! First of all loved your video!! Very entertaining!
Just wanted to share that my sister is called Yolotzin (I'm mexican! Fun!) and we all actually call her Yolo since forever, I had heard the YOLO acronym before and made jokes about how we actually stole the word as a nickname, but hearing that someone in 2012 actually called an AZTEC character Yolo as a play on the acronym made me die internally lmao
The biggest failure of this setting is that by saying “black people are the social majority because this setting makes them genetically superior,” the author implies that racism is due to one group being genetically superior to the other. Goes hand in hand with the “coal is good because it’s useful” thing, the idea that the groups in power are in power because they have a special inherent worth. In reality, white people have made themselves the social majority even in places where they aren’t even the literal majority, and there isn’t any inherent superiority that makes this social order “make sense.” Honestly, there’s no reason why racism would have gotten “reversed,” in this setting- it’s just as possible that white supremacy would have gotten exaggerated, with the Deadly Laser Event killing off all but the most wealthy white people, who can afford to hide away in personal fortresses.
@@welfare_king Here we go...please explain to me why I'm genetically Low IQ.
omg, Xochipilli is the patron god of *male homosexuality* are you kidding me rn?
Edit: you got there
The five flower prince 💐🌺🥰💐
The thumbnail alone has me howling. Can't wait to watch this when I get home.
The thing is. it's just. It's not INaccurate, any of it.
There's so many good lines in this video but "anyway it's furry time" caught me completely off guard lmao
The only story to ever write genius daughter of a scientist right was Kipo. Real nerds see a animal they know and are like HECK YEAH LOOK AT HIM GO DID YOU KNOW THA-
"Café au lait" is pronounced "Cah-fay oh lay" and literally just means coffee with milk, lol. It's not fancy, it's just French.
My flatmate laughed at me very much when she heard how wrong I got it. I'm a simple and humble person
When you read the sexual piggy back Ride bit, my eyes rolled back on my head as my soul tried to escape my body to get away. It didn't work. I'm still here. Trapped with the knowledge that someone wrote this.
I appreciate so much you talking about the skin cancer thing. I know several people that myth hurts because they think they don't need sunscreen.
A dermatologist said she finds similar rates across ethnicities but that for black people, it tends to appear in places not exposed to the sun. She concluded she doesn't know why for sure but that everyone needs sunscreen.
I…I’ve written gay sex scenes (m/m and f/f) that were straighter then the Yolo scenes. And those piggyback ride scenes…is the author okay? I need to ask, but I’m unsure if I want to know. Great review, thank you for suffering for us so we don’t have to.
i saw the thumbnail and KNEW. this book series has haunted me since i saw a review a year ago bc. what the Fuck. can't wait to feel that bafflement and horror again
edit: i didn't remember it being so gay omg.
29:56 - This section of the book is the perfect Exhibit A for modern day colonial beliefs about Indigenous peoples and climate change. As an anthropology student it is discussed a lot on my studies about how our current epoch, the Anthropocene, is framed by colonial powers. The Huaorani being treated as if they are less affected by the deadly rays of the sun and don't need to live underground is the exact same way Indigenous peoples are framed as being 'Holocene peoples' (belonging to the epoch before the Anthropocene) and somehow unaffected by colonialism and climate change. The Huaorani also treating Eden and Bramford as 'saviors' mirrors how contemporary colonial narratives frame colonial powers as 'preserving and saving' Indigenous peoples from the devastating effects of climate change and colonialism - ironic because colonial powers caused these issues in the first place yet refuse to take responsibility.
Before watching this video, if you told me that the sentence "When she feared their dance might destroy her, Bramford cried out and released his energy" came from a sex scene and not the retelling of an anime fight I wouldn't have believed you
YES. SAVE THE PEARLS. YES. *foams from their mouth*
Ahem. I was hoping for this.
you are the first person to ever react this way to this book