Katrina Duque

just me and my 20 or so friends who really like the book the children act

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@litwithlayton thanks for a great year!! here are some pictures of bluebirds that nested my yard ive seen during quarantine to cheer you up (i also saw a goshawk!! and a bald eagle! sadly no pictures of those)

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@krempaskym @zhack999 i think that the most interesting possibility is it becomes a weapon, just like how lew silences the narrator at the end. fire it at your enemy, and they just walk away, pleased into apathy. kinda reminds me of how britain purposefully got china hooked on opiates #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

shortening 'euphoria' to 'euphio', to me, made it sound a lot more like a drug and also more similar to euphemism, which, even though 'eu' means good, has implications #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@AlyssaGoldstei5 i really liked that quote too, because when i first tried to rationalize death when i was little, i described it like: if you were able to freeze for five minutes, and after that five minutes it feels like no time passed, then death would be freezing forever. #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

i accidentally retweeted this twice so i tried to delete the retweet and i. deleted the tweet permanently. so oops. (it was relating the 'everyone worships something' part of the speech to adam losing his religion so worships fiona)

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

ey, me referencing this is water like a month ago #laylit20 (puma had us read it too)

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@litwithlayton wow, thats an incredible poem. it really makes his death feel much closer, the fact that right now, not before his death but right now, he has effect on the world. theres a certain detachment from people you hear about on the news, and the poem really disbands that. #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@zhack999 an important element of the problem, too, is that the trolley is heading for the five people, & your choice has to be towards the one. pulling the lever admits your involvement; you kill one with purpose, or let five die through negligence. does passivity negate guilt? #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

i think that jerry and paul being twins had significance, because in war, we don't choose who we lose. jerry (almost) dying and paul living has no planning/forethought, theyre the same, but jerry just happened to be in that spot. just like troops in war #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

the way kelly had to pretend that sacrificing his son was an accident was crazy. his son wouldve died either way, but if he saved the rest, he would take responsibility. & then he had to not take back his move when given the option, proving his full intention? like damn #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

the irony of this whole setup is that the only babies being born are going to be of people who the pills dont work on, or who still wanted to have sex despite not feeling anything. the next generations are just going to get progressively hornier #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

one of the hostesses clearly victim-blames when she says "I'm not as mad at him as I am at the women who let him do it to them without a struggle" - im highkey not liking how the author not only though the storyline but also through that characters glorifies rape #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@litwithlayton it kind of reminded me of the prostitute from TSAR. men come in, trying to get some kind of companionship bc all they do it watch tv and theyre sad, except the price that they pay isn't money but suicide. they need boredom and loneliness to persuade them to go #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

funny how awol is an acronym for "absent without leave", which is exactly what newt is, but it's such gentle language compared to the connotations of awol today, which is now synonymous with going off the rails #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

near the end of their walk in the orchard, they come across a school for the blind. what do you think it says about the characters or what does it symbolize? #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@mchenchard @litwithlayton #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@litwithlayton the takeaway for me was that taking a 'least common denominator' approach to equality instead of a 'greatest common multiple' approach is stupid and a misappropriation of the needs of the people #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

@Jeffrey98367332 @litwithlayton that's an interesting take. funny how he intended to make fun of minorities, but instead creates a narrative of
disabled: hey there should be wheelchair ramps
abled: oh? so we should all break our legs for you??
which to us is clearly making fun of the privileged. #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

funny how their idea of "equality" is to tell people that their innate and sometimes unjudgeable traits are good or bad #laylit20

[Katrina Duque @katrina_duque]

what's also interesting about ideas unfair beauty and intelligence - how do they judge? beauty standards are volatile (i.e. skinny used to be bad) and often racist (big noses being deemed ugly), and intelligence can be defined in so many different ways (street vs book) #laylit20