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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

me trying to get my cousin to read COOL english books like japanese mysteries but he got too into them and read all the chinese translation so now he's reading this stupid book.......

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

i know she means well but this is super depressing actually.....i would like it if i lived in a world where family aren't the only people who will help me wholeheartedly and unconditionally bc we fundamentally do not get along

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

this person clearly does notttt know enough queer as-am 😭😭😭 they don't know abt the work we're putting into fanfics

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

i also find the lolita allusion in jaw-droppingly poor taste bc a woman in her 50s trying to get with a younger adult man, while she's in an OPEN MARRIAGE, is just fundamentally NOT the same as incest and csa???

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

incredibly doubtful of that vladimir netflix show bc this is absolutely not the language that ppl who take sexual assault seriously use to talk about accountability from abusers lmfao

She also has just learned that the liberal arts college where she’s taught contemporary fiction for decades is bringing a sexual assault case against John. “The series explores themes related to desire, obsession, sexuality, lust. It also delves into the world of campus gender politics and cancel culture,” says Weisz. His dalliances — which happened a decade ago and which he believed were consensual — involved students.

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

okay i was just asking my cousin a covert kainess translation question but lowkey he's getting more into chinese/english language differences than i am. hey bro do you.....want to become a translator with me....

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

i don't deserve the bonne maman advent calendar unless i get to this level :-(

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

they should have let her fuck the devil in slewfoot ngl.....it's a 4/5 from me

are you not the same moon from my other life? he wondered, fixing on it, trying to push through the thin veil of time, listening again for the voices of the ghosts. and there, faintly, from down in the pit, the calls and bellows of beasts from a distant night.

-brom, 《slewfoot》

-hoping that the story will draw on the "witches are women who lay with the devil" superstitions....
-it would be sweet if her husband lived on a bit somehow through slewfoot's reluctance to kill her, like bec homestuck and jade harley
-starting to hit its stride about 1/4 of the way in?

the force swirled around them, stirring up the leaves, then flowed into samson, setting his silver eyes ablaze. he grasped her hand and it entered her.

abitha let out a fevered moan as the magic filled her, her eyes rolling upward, her whole body quivering, and for a moment she felt it might be too much, it might break her, drive her mad. but she did not break.

-brom, 《slewfoot》

-flat villains are passable in horror visual novels, but somehow less convincing in novels
-otherworldly being having an existential crisis is super funny, actually
-discussion of bible/paganism pretty interesting
-the tension would probably feel more heightened in a show or miniseries

the serpent, she thought. it seemed to be waiting to claim her. this terrified her, yet at the same time, some part of her wanted it to take her. she felt its promise of power and prowess. why be the rabbit, it seem to ask, when you can be the wolf?

-brom, 《slewfoot》

-the climactic scene for the witch accusations felt pretty abrupt, that kind of setup works better in danganronpa LOL
-underwhelmed by the truth of the matter, not really invested enough to be shocking
-wish there was more buildup to the witch trials and how people fall in line to fanaticism
-i'm wondering about the depiction of the indigenous pequot people in this novel, i think that it tried to be fairer than other stories, but not sure about effect even with cultural research and consultation
-it's okay for a halloween read but nothing new

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

orz sorry i accidentally hit post w/o adding alt text on the last one </3

“angels must often do dark deeds in the name of the lord.”

-brom, 《slewfoot》

- lol i was wondering a bit about the chasteness of their marriage, but it’s okay they fuck! i figured it was going to be kind of ahistorical otherwise, even for puritans…?
- historical aspects seem to be leading the story around at times though
- antagonist a bit cartoonish, but more digestible if you think of him as a fairytale villain
- book shines most when it digs into horror, everyday life is not as interesting….maybe it’s just set dressing…

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

ermmm forgot to post yesterday's reading logs but basically i just read a bunch of short things and then finished a mystery novel

“any place you love is the world to you,” exclaimed a pensive catherine wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. they wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and i am not surprised. true love suffers, and is silent…romance is a thing of the past.”

-oscar wilde, 《the remarkable rocket》

- kind of feel like i’m missing a lot when i read this…i think i noticed some of the themes and references rooted in the time/society oscar wilde was poking fun at though
- debating a fairytale happy perfect love as outsiders and a character whose nasty personality is punished, unlike in 《the devoted friend》
- both sides made pretty good points, but i still want to believe in happy romance and true love…

i shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! i shall involve myself wholly…everything matters! the only thing i resign is the power to resign, to retreat: the acceptance of sameness and the intellect. i am alive…i am beautiful…what else is there?

-susan sontag, 《journals & notebooks 1947-1963》

- interesting to see how susan sontag struggled and embraced her sexuality…she seems to have had a much more fulfilling time with it than i have though
- her intellect is daunting, even at 16, but i guess that’s exactly how she went on to write papers that are basically film criticism canon
- genuinely wondering how she managed to meet a million girls (it feels like) who wanted her back…especially throughout her life
- she’s given me much to think about with my own identities

[orczy had] felt that they were alike the moment they’d first met in the classroom. she was convinced chiori had felt the same way. and they got along very well. they had also visited each other’s rooms several times.

-yukito ayatsuji, 《the decagon house murders》 translated by ho-ling wang

- yuri AND yaoi-baited for what…where’s my yuri yaoi 😭😭😭
- kind of irked by the ending, but i got 1 deduction right!
- spoils 《and then there were none》 by agatha christie like less than 1/3 into the book lol 💔 okay maybe i should have read it earlier
- not sure this would be worth re-reading like 《out》 by natsuo kirino, but i’ll tune into the manga and new drama adaptation
- was pretty fun nonetheless! will continue series 🕵🏻‍♂️

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

really hoping this novel will impress me....i want to have a list of asian diaspora fiction i can actually stand behind

because by the time he gets to “west virginia, mountain mama,” you’re going to be singing along, and by the time he’s done, you might understand why a seventy-seven-year-old guy from a tiny island in the taiwan strait who’s been in a foreign country for two-thirds of his life can nail a song, note perfect, about wanting to go home.

-charles yu, 《interior chinatown》

- the 2nd person POV is a genius choice….bold, controversial, and brilliant
- “you” implicates the non-asian reader, also immerses anyone into the shoes of the seemingly-everyman protagonist
- touches on really fresh topics that i’ve yet to see broadly discussed in diaspora fiction, LOVE LOVE LOVE

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

started a reading blog (edited the titles after the screenshots for clarity though) bao-is-reading.tumblr.com

that explains the dance: he doesn’t mind getting wet, because he’s besotted with romance.

-roger ebert, 《singin’ in the rain》

- love love love the word “besotted” in this sentence….etymological roots in “wetness”
- disliked mary corliss’s introductory piece because of the way she described aging actors 🙄 isn’t it a privilege to witness their craft as they mature?? what a typical hollywood attitude.
- picked random ebert reviews to read and a little surprised there wasn’t a quotable in every one of them. skimmed some of the history parts, but it was still interesting.

“what are you saying?” agatha laughed and ran her fingers through orczy’s short hair. “you need to have more self-confidence. you know, you’re cute. you just don’t know it yourself. don’t look down so much and stand proud.”

-yukito ayatsuji, 《the decagon house murders》

- PLEASE YURI PLEASEEE….this is bao bait…..this is such bao bait…
- read the manga and i’m mad they got rid of agatha’s wavy hair and made orczy skinny with huge tits and pink underlights….wtf…unnecessary character changes plus there’s nothing wrong with plump, unfashionable orczy 💢💢💢
- the manga also transed kawaminami taka'aki into kawaminami akira LMAO good for her 🫰🏻
- going to try solve this as detective bao. beware all schemers, i WILL uncover your plots!!!

she probably does not remember the texture of the elevator wall when she touched it. or how the white floor felt when she wiped the spilled drink with her handkerchief. or the song that we listened to together.

only i will remember these moments. as long as i function, always.

-bora chung, 《a song for sleep》 translated by anton hur

- immediately started crying when i reread this. reminded me of 2 great losses in my life in a cathartic way.
- nonbinary masc elevator communicating in an incredibly humanistic way to get to know more about an old woman who is losing herself to parkinson’s….the fact that conversation and touch turned them human (as much as an elevator can be) is so beautiful 😭😭😭
- death and machines are a theme that i’ve seen explored before, but i still loved reading about the elevator learning about death like a child.
- people come and go, but objects are forever…
- bora chung is one of the few writers whose short stories i don’t struggle to get into.

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

why do we need a thread abt this when we could just.....read the manga with an active mind....

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

okay ig this makes a little more sense but yeah i would argue that the 2 overlap much more than that person was saying 💔 maybe i'm more put off by their overall lack of curiosity.....that just doesn't make sense to me even if they say they don't like books and reading

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

this book has been in the free section of the library for like a year now and every time i think it's a gay book but it's not....

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

there's a setup for an ee-ending rhyme in dirty work that just doesn't pay off and it bothers me every time

Call me the reaper, I'm knock, knock, knocking
It's me, it's me, a little baddie
Just 'cause I'm pretty doesn't mean I don't do hard things
Hard things, make me feel like a thunder

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

really enamored with this find at the free section of the library. it has such good descriptions of food.

the auberge of the flowering hearth by roy andries de groot

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

i feel like the older i get the more i am interested i religion, not as someone who worships, but in the way of things. thank you to whomever donated this to the used bookstore 🫶🏻

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

god plays favorites and today it's ME (found a copy of dance dance dance by murakami in the free section of the library)

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

guys . i got the mother of all finds at the used bookstore. slipcase of a 7 guidebooks to chinese classical literature and it was $7.50

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

reason #16649273027493 i fucking hate talking to my dad: he tried to convince me arm and hammer BAKING soda is toxic for BAKING bc it's a "chemical that people use to clean things."

there's a fucking picture of baked goods and instructions that say baking soda is used for BAKINGGGGG

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

yea....fuck grok none of this is "evidence-based" they're just pushing their agenda under the guise of an "objective technology"

The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced the removal of the COVID-19 vaccine from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women. This decision reflects a policy shift towards evidence-based vaccination strategies, aligning with practices in other countries that have ceased recommending these vaccines for similar groups. The move has been described as advancing President Trump's initiative to 'Make America Healthy Again', emphasizing a focus on health policies driven by clinical evidence.

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👨🏻‍🍳 chef bao 🍎🍞🥯🧀🍝🧅🥬🧄🍳🍅🫘🦐🌽 @turtlebreads.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

guys this book was literally written for me. 29 different english translations of li bai's poem and an in-depth discussion of the translation choices!!!! wowow

《twenty-nine goodbyes: an introduction to chinese poetry》by timothy billings

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