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Warning bells started going off at 2%. At 5% those bells were booming. 8% and I'm functionally done. Especially after researching critiques of the issues I was clocking. I skipped through to get the gist and read various analyses. https://stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/review-the-everlasting-i-feel-used-and-dirty
I think The Everlasting is too close to white guilt management in pretty prose form for me. A POC is placed into a fascist framework, written as a willing participant to further genocides, and then weakly made to navigate out of that using romance as a prop. A romance as a reward for suffering, but only once his dark eyes have lightened to amber and his dark hair is turned "a pure, unnatural white, like bleached bone".
Warning bells started going off at 2%. At 5% those bells were booming. 8% and I'm functionally done. Especially after researching critiques of the issues I was clocking. I skipped through to get the gist and read various analyses. https://stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/review-the-everlasting-i-feel-used-and-dirty
I think The Everlasting is too close to white guilt management in pretty prose form for me. A POC is placed into a fascist framework, written as a willing participant to further genocides, and then weakly made to navigate out of that using romance as a prop. A romance as a reward for suffering, but only once his dark eyes have lightened to amber and his dark hair is turned "a pure, unnatural white, like bleached bone".