Robin Swift - Blog Posts
"Your motivating goal cannot be to join Ramy"
rf kuang really looked at the whole "main characters cant die and mostly everyone has to get a happy ending" thing and said you know what? fuck that
That "RIP" meme, but with Babel characters
RIP Robin, you would've loved Frantz Fanon and therapy
RIP Rami, you would've loved Edward Said and political linguistics
RIP Victoire, you would've loved Angela Davis, the Black Panther party and natural hair blogs
RIP Letty, you would've loved girl boss feminism and "all lives matter"
All the images of the characteres are from the ilustrated book website and were made by Abigail Larson.
the way victorie and robin and ramy all loose their birth languages has me in shambles. victorie never really spoke hatian creole, she moved to france at a very young age, and when she tried to bring it into babel, she was dismissed. ramy, who’s from kolkata, who’s bengali, only speaks bengali once in the book and his speech has become rudimentary because the british saw urdu and sanskrit and arabic as more valuable. robin has forgotten cantonese by the time he goes back home for the same reason. it’s utterly tragic it comes with a deep pain that’s hard to describe the pain of loosing your mother tongue.
