#ok gonna go read the books now

[reneeub]

I can't believe I missed out on Lockwood and co bc I thought it's another silly monster hunting in victorian London show. It's such a good show (and it's a book adaptation!)

I absolutely love the world they're in. More wordbuilding should make use of "modern world but something went wrong along the way"

It's modern but the technology is kinda backwards, they have no smartphones (I personally dislike phones in fantasy settings so I'm really happy) and have to do research in the library, THEY USE SPADES WHICH IS SO COOL, like YEAH why not make swords relevant again, it's fantasy and they are great and it makes the world feel so original and real bc of that.

Also the whole economy (?) of the world, that young people are the only ones that can sense the ghosts so they're being used to protect everybody else (and die along the way but it's called a noble sacrifice, of course). It's so messed up. Which makes it so compelling.

All the politics between the different kinds of agencies and teasing with conspiracy theories that there's something the agents don't know about was also great (and it would probably be even better in season 2 if the show wasn't canceled)

I loved Lockwood, Lucy and George. Especially the fact that they're all crazy in some way and you can see that. Lockwood with his reckless plans, Lucy with her compassion to ghosts and George with his social awkwardness. They're all so lovely and love each other so much it warms my heart.

Characters and plot related thoughts under the cut

Tbh I thought George was gonna die pretty quickly bc characters like him (third wheels to another characters that have a dynamic that's more focused on) are often created to die for shock value, so it was interesting that he didn't and moreover, his plot line was dedicated to showing that he feels like a third wheel and how he deals with that which led to him befriending (?) that older woman. What the hell was that. This whole relationship made me so uncomfortable (which was most likely the point but still UGH)

Before I watched the show I saw some Kanej and Locklyle comparisons and yeah, they're pretty similar on first look but I'm so glad that's where it ends. I love both Kaz and Inej but Lockwood and Lucy are their own characters.

Lockwood is a genius but he relies more on his charisma than longtime planning. He would never get the reputation Kaz has. He's got big ego, he's self-sacrificial, he doesn't have trouble with showing his people he cares about them.

Lucy is so much different than Inej that I won't even compare them. She's great on her own, I wanna hug her and I'd trust her with my life.

I can't believe they ended the season just before showing us what's in Lockwood's room. My guess was that it's gonna be his parents in some form (bodies/sources) but I guess I'll go read the books now to find out

#lockwood and co #also what is up with the genres of bri'ish people #every time lucy spoke i was like yay she feels so real. i could just listen to her talk for hours. yes teh show is set in england. how did s #he pronounce monster? that's so fun #but every time kipps opened his mouth i was like ugh british people. cant he just die already. #(and its not bc i hate him. i came to like him in the end but i still couldnt stand hearing him) #ok gonna go read the books now

[just-a-girl-with-a-pistol]

Uhhhhhhh, they :> For me personally, happy no bitches day For all of you pretty folk: Happy valentines day :>

#library of ruina #project moon #lor #roland #roland lor #angelica #angelica lor #Look at them gooo #Listen hes shy and i love it #Ok #go on a date now with you lover and have fun k? #I'm gonna stay home and read books #as i usually do :> #GO EAT SOME CAKE #AND HAVE A GOOD DAY

[tacosaysroar]

I almost didn’t catch this one @busylivinnow!

Again, I could put SO many things on this list, but I’m going to limit myself to books that made a big impression or that I’ve continued to think about over the years.

1) Great Expectations, Charles Dickens. I’ve read it at least four times and I’ve seen most of the movie adaptations (which never measure up). There’s just something about Pip, so desperate to be loved and accepted and going about it in exactly the wrong way. (Also, come on. Miss Havisham and her super toxic influence on Estella is so compelling.)

2) The Long Walk, Stephen King (originally under Richard Bachman). This one I’ve read at least a dozen times. At least. It’s very reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” but we get a much longer, much slower descent into the consequences of that sort of system. It’s so beautifully and horribly accomplished. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to read it without crying.

3) The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien. This is a collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, based on his own experiences. (One of several, I think. He had lots to say on this subject.) The Vietnam War is one of those historic events I find so perplexingly awful. The fact that you could sit in front of the news at night with your family waiting to see if your birthday (or your brother’s or your boyfriend’s) was called. That we sent sweet, 18-year-old boys with no life experience to die or be traumatized against their will. That’s so dark and dystopian.

4) The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Speaking of dark and dystopian, this post-apocalyptic quest story crosses my mind often. There’s a scene where he finds a coke while scavenging and lets the boy have it. Because he’s never had one before and likely never will again. Not an uncommon idea for that genre, but the execution was very good and the language of the book is highly stylized, almost like a very long poem. That scene comes back to me sometimes.

5) City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s got 1940s fashion, sex, the New York theater scene, and the very smart, dry humor Elizabeth Gilbert is SO good at. I’ve read this one twice so far, but I’m sure I’ll read it again.

#can’t believe there’s no Neil Gaiman on here #seriously considered adding two other collections of short stories #one by Lorrie Moore #and one by Tobias Wolf #should be two Fs #but autocorrect doesn’t like it #and I’m not gonna fight #also really wanted to add Stephen King’s IT and his Gunslinger series #but a series is cheating #and the first book is a SLOG #also childhood books I loved #and fun beach reads #but we said 5 #so I’m behaving myself #AND DEMON COPPERHEAD #which is the best novel I’ve read in a long time #but I think it’s too recent to go on this list #ok shutting up now

[kindledrose]

WHAT IF WE HAD BEEN AROUND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BUT FOUND EACH OTHER IN EVERY ERA AND LIFETIME FOREVER + EVER + EVER HUH. WHAT THEN

#what if we were asexual and very much not humans but were very very very much in love #(​what if terra finished good omens and thought about it for the rest of her life) #i need to be super unnormal about them now bc we r going to see a movie #oh we’re going to see spiiderverse !! not that i have to be normal during that one (i will not) but it will Not do to be thinking abt other- #-sillies during it #but ummm tge 2 good omens freaks my actual beloveds. i can’t believe there’s gonna be another season in a month! i gotta read the book #that is so exciting #ok that’s it #terra is rambling

[confusedconfetti]

ohk so RWRB...uhhh, i dont have any different opinion from others but yes movie did have pacing issues, but sometimes it hit the nail but then next second its gone..and i am a bit...ughh.... frustrated because i think Taylor and Nick were trying but then i could see the distance they had even when they were about to be intimate, but then some scenes made like, yes eat him.

Alex was OBSSESSED with Henry...we needed that, like throughout?? Present there absent there!! Sometimes I couldn't really pin, where is this all going wrong?

Was a bit upset over the movie? yes

Was I smiling throughout the movie? Also a yes.

This movie has its charms-ish?

Something good that I found..

This is HEART eyes, my boy was in love love..

Oh his pain, when Alex got kissed..youch!

Its better in book, but it did make me smile..

this was lovely tho??? whole conversation like this was really cute..

he said BABY!!!!!!( some tears, some more tears, a bit choke of voice would elevate this because desperation on his face is real..man i needed more)

Since, i mentioned desperation

oh this face, BROKE my heart, this scene, look at him, he really really wanted this to have some good outcome so he can be with Alex.

And for the fluffy end...there is one little cutesy thing?

awwwwwwwww, henry you adorable adorable summer child..come here let me hug you. Look at him...

#red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #i am bit sad #i am gonna read the book again #you can watch once it does make you smile #there are certain things #ok now i am really going to go and read the book

[multiicolor]

... re the last post, maybe i should just rewrite alpha and omega. but in an original way, ofc. like adapt it into a better story JHSDBFJSDF

#` ooc || move bitch im 𝙂𝘼𝙔 ` #tbd. #( idk if anyone knows this book but i'd prolly roll it into smth like the sight ) #( WHICH IS SO GOOD AND YALL SHOULD READ ITT ) #( and ALSO like. wolves of the beyond too- ALSO rlly good ) #( ok im gonna go draw now ) #( .. if i can ) #( otherwise im just gonna use roblox for an fc KBJDSBF )

[mooodyblue]

i've gotten myself into a routine of consuming some sort of elvis content or media right before bed......i don't feel #right if i don't. peak mental illness right here

#seriously i've been reading an elvis book right before i close my eyes even if it's just a few pages #i'll put on an elvis movie or something before bed if i have to #just rewatched the cb special and now im gonna read larry's book like #am i ok? probably not #i will go insane if i don't consume any sort of elvis content for one day im so serious

[dullahandyke]

accidentally unfollowed u trying to send an ask i'm soso sorry T-T but also people who rely on chatgpt for uni are so incomprehensible to me partially because i took a quick college course last year to get into my job, social care, and like can you imagine having a carer or smth who didn't know what they were doing because they cheated the entire time they were learning??? but also like you're in an academic setting they're gonna have shit in place to notice plagiarism and they take that so seriously lmao. AI bros are annoying as fuck

Dw bro but SO REALLLL LIKE. I watched the main person I was bitching about for a while and they're a business student who was using chatgpt to pass a sociology test or something 😰😰 NOT a good sign for the businesses of tomorrow

#genuinely at this point im beyond the ai bros im like ok youre gonna be fucking annoying i understand #but what gets my goat is like. tech #tech-illiterate people who do it because its easy #in most cases i fully advocate for cheating on tests and shit #but like. fucker youre going to fail bcos chatgpt is gonna serve u a nothing of a paragraph!!! #we need a mandatory computer module NOW #AND LIKE YOURE RIGHT eg my college has automatic plagiarism detectors #and in big highlighted text in front of all my assignment submission forms it says 'DO NOT USE CHATGPT WE WILL KNOW' #and ive mostly heard/seen ppl who arent in my course doing it (mostly stem and business people which is also badly disappointing) #but like. if i went up to somebody in my English Course and went 'hey how are you liking the english' #and they went 'im using chatgpt'. i would maul them to death #wait post cancelled i just remembered the horrific 200+ member whatsapp group for an english module im taking #that loads of arts students are also taking for easy As #where its a constant stream of 'i havent read the book' 'im using chatgpt' 'i dont know how to google the answers' #< i have it. muted

[blazeball]

that post about a classic being soooo sososo good and being mad about it but its just so good. me and primrose are reading war and peace and it is like. it is an enjoyable read

#the prose is just really good. idk how else to describe it #i can't really read it right now bcos my brain fog will not let me parse it. i wish the audiobook was good </3 but. its good book #AND... free on project gutenberg... #ok im gonna go poke around on the before archiver and get sad about blaseball again #quincy.txt

[livvyofthelake]

it’s crazy how women speak to each other so little on this show that kate and sun having one scene together feels like an oasis in the desert. do not get me wrong lost is fine with women it just does NOT pass the bechdel test most episodes unfortunately. nothing to be done we already got once upon a time out of it i wouldn’t ask for more. anyway. kate and sun 🫶

#lostposting #gonna stop the episode now cuz um. well i finished my nails and it’s reading time i decided #might read a real book. might have some fanfiction time. who knows #those people on tiktok who say they read these longass fanfics in like three days are insane to me what do you mean you read it in 3 days #it's taken me 2 weeks to get almost halfway through this one and it's only 600k #what do you mean you read c****** r***** inn three days #you have to be lying. there's no way. or am i an idiot who can't read. #or do they simply have literally actually nothing else to do with their lives. #like. i have work in the morning. i have naps to take after that. #ok those people just have to be unemployed because there's o way you can be clocking in to a job and then going home and reading an #800k word fanfic in three days. like you're unemployed. #I'M unemployed in the mind but YOU are unemployed in the body fr.... #anyway. see you whenever i have to comment on whatever i end up reading <3 #peace and love on planet earth and lost island

[coridallasmultipass]

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#gOD FUCKING DAMN IT I HAVE 2 MINUTES I SPEND PICKING THE SKIN ON MY THUMB BC I THOUGHT IT.. #..WAS HEALED BUT ITS NOT NOW I HAVE A BLOODY THUMB AND I STILL GOTTA DO A WATER CHANGE HNGHHH #that immunosuppressed life got me stressed #i dont want to put my hands in fishy water when its got a cut on it hhhhnn #my dermatillomania has been off the charts recently and its stressin me out #god i just want to rip that piece of skin all the way off but its not gonna help the sitch and itll need a bandaid #i can feel it in my 5th rib sayin 'dig into ur skin foolish mortal' #my brain is like rejecting my body i need a new one #mental illness #ocd #dermatillomania #hhhhhh lemme be mentally ill for a sec #just thinkin about that rush of adrenaline when the dig goes too deep or the ripping pulls skin from too deep #hhhhhh i could nut to that feeling #need to dig and peel and rip and tear and i cant stop thinking about it #ok fuck reading this book i gotta go take a few hits and desl with the fish #maybe thatll get my mind off it and ill blast some music and maybe draw something #i can finish the book in the morning #i already went nuts on my lip earlier today because it was chapping where i bit off a chunk and i had to even it out #i fucking hate being like this but im actually doing pretty well mental health wise #or maybe im just telling myself that idk any more #but ive always had skin picking problems even before actual mental illness kicked in so maybe its just who i am #again my brain is rejecting the body id like to request a fully cyborg body pls

[fangirlwithasweettooth]

I hope @what-eats-owls is somehow aware that I finished Little Thieves in under 3 days and now am starting Painted Devils and im ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED???

#it has real six of crows vibes I love it so muchhhh 🥹 #Vanja and Kaz would get along GREAT #as would Inej and Emeric I think #and I absolutely ADORE the casual acceptance of queer people in this universe #while also acknowledging the whole ‘heirs are needed’ thing that complicates [redacted]’s life #(i have so many emotions about [redacted]’s coming out scene to her parents AHHH) #also i hope ragne knows that i would die and kill for her <3 #literally can’t say enough good things about this book akfhskfh #ok im gonna go leave a proper review on Goodreads now so im not just rambling #everyone go read little thieves seriouslyyyyy #little thieves #painted devils #no one cares sage #sage reads

[avocado-frog]

how am i supposed to live laugh love under these conditions

tldr for tags my mom found an old journal of mine and read through it so i accidentally outed myself to her lols

#might be a vent in the tags jsyk #but brooo i had this journal when i was 14-15 and my MOTHER read it today because she Could (tm) #the journal in question was in a box in the storage unit that clearly had my name on it so she chose to open it and read through the journa #right so the journal in question had the name isaac on it and i am not out to her #i guess i fuckin am NOW??? #but she hasnt said anything ab that. she def saw it tho. RIGHT on the cover #but no her focus was that i wrote that i. didnt particularly care for her when she lived with her boyfriend which is a WHOLE can of worms #but tdlr on him he kicked my brother and i out bc my brother used his phone past his bedtime. we were 13 and 11 #and he fought with my mom + 11 yr old brother every night for like four years. which sucked a lil tbh #i dont know what she EXPECTED it to say #gonna be real im a little mad #because like girlllllllll you chose to open that box and then open that book and like that's mineeeee you cant just do that shit :( #i dont have to deal with it for two more days. am at my dad's house #i am fixing it with the power of ✨white out✨ #WHICH I SHOULDNT HAVE TO DO. IT'S LITERALLY MINE #if i keep thinking about this im going to explode #vent #??? #i think #ok update like an hour later. i read a little bit of the journal that she read and uhh SHIT. #girlie i wrote all THAT and you're upset because i wrote that i dont like your boyfriend??? okay

[sierice]

very suspicious for tsats rn. i dont trust that its gonna be better than the preview i'll be honest gang

#like ive heard its good to some extent? ish? maybe? #so im gonna keep an open mind and all that but like...... #dont think im gonna forget that preview anytime soon #anyways pdf please 🙏tank u #mine #see i should not have given myself the tsats spoiler role in the toa discord #i keep opening discord and clicking on the channel only to close it again LMAO #i dont want spoilers but like. at the same time. when will i be able to read it #the dilemma of a person who is never going 2 be able to convince their parents to buy the book ig ✌️ #edit: skimmed thru the tsats spoiler channel. the reviews are not sounding good for my delicate heart folks i'll be real w you #ok. removing the role now. bye bye tsats spoilers

[teddytoroa]

i can't find it but ages ago (like several days) i saw a post that was about how fanfic turned into romance novels is like the tiktok of books bc they dont have any breathing space and just jump between the main plot points and it makes the book unsatisfying and im like yeah actually thats absolutely true. And imo it feels in line with the antiintellectualualism problem we have where people just wanna be spoonfed the "interesting" bits.

But also the flip side of that is when theres entire books of like,,character interaction that doesnt go anywhere and its marketed as slice of life or light romance or whatever and yall know me i LOVE some chill slow paced low stakes character exploration but even slice of life stuff needs like actual plot to hold it together or it just feels a bit like mush. some of my most favourite stories are slice of life with characters who dont do very much at all but theres enough actual development of relationships and an underlying thread of a plot (not always a conflict even) to tie it all together so its not just a loose collection of characters in a bag rattling around like marbles and going nowhere. does any of this make sense

#often i think of the novel i read a few years ago that had characters i liked and seemed to be building up to something really big and cool #but then it just kind of couldnt support its own hype and the second half of the book was just. flat. it was just nothing #it felt like the author sort of..ran out of ideas? or was just freestyling without any overarching plot or goal for the end? #it was very bizarre. a good slice of life should feel like just that- ur briefly dipped into a fully fleshed out world #but this was like. ok this is gonna sound mean but you know when youre playing dolls with a toddler #amd they're just making up big plot points as they go along because theyre literally 3 years old #like 'ok the barbies are married now. ok and now this one dies and the other one is sad. ok now they have a new car. ok heres a dinosaur.' #it felt like that. no substance no real plot no character development no goal no endgame no worldbuilding no meat on the bones #ANYWAY its just as well i couldnt find the post bc i wouldnt want to clog the tags with this #god that book bothered me. never read anything else by that author bc i just. like it wasnt good. #it was like ordering takeout from a new place that looks promising but it arrives cold soggy meanly portioned and missing half the order

[livvyofthelake]

i love asking questions about shadow and bone on here you guys always answer with such resounding silence it’s actually kind of unbelievable

#it is SO FRUSTRATING that no one here has read these goddamn books. who’s opinions am i supposed to trust here. #anyway in other news i just finished a puzzle in the time i was hashtag not chronically on tumblr #ok i’m gonna go either watch The Sitcom now or read cordelia #if anyone would like to answer my question in that time that would be cool but i don’t even expect it actually #unbelievable. i thought this series was popular and you’re telling me literally only like. one of you has read it…………. goddamn #beth.txt