#I also wanna read my books for fun

[evansbby]

yall I read this book when I was like 12-13 and it was a “sweet valley high senior year” book and yesterday I found it again and reread the whole thing in 3 hours and honestly??? THIS BOOK IS WILD LIKE IT SAYS FOR AGES 12+ BUT IT IS SOOOOOO WILD OMFG!!!

I kinda wanna do a review on it 😭😭😭 like I think I understand why I write fanfics the way I do… it’s bc I was reading these types of books when I was young lmfaooo

I would love to do a review on it here if anyone would be interested in reading? Like it would be a fun, full of pictures type review post where I summarise this wild af book YOU GUYS PLS WOULD U BE INTERESTED

#THIS SHIT WAS WILD WODJSKXKS #I MEAN FOR A KIDS BOOK LIKE WTF #THERE WAS SOOOO MUCH GOING ON #it was also….. well written?? #I also used to read Mary Kate and Ashley books when I was young #like two of a kind and so little time and sweet 16 #but they are soooo tame compared to SWEET VALLEY HIGH SENIOR YEAR #like the boys are so toxic and the girls are bitches and OH MY GOD???? #I wanna do a lil review on it would yall read???? #please tell me you’d read it I’d love to do it! it would be with pics and really fun and interactive lil review post #sweet valley high

[kimabutch]

My Hot Take is that moralizing on how people choose their next book is very silly.

If you have to get mad at anyone, get mad at publishing companies that market books by emphasizing only one aspect of the books (ex. plot, atmosphere, representation, themes, tropes) and ignoring all other aspects that potential readers might enjoy.

When you get mad at people who choose books cause the plot sounds intriguing, or they want to see themselves represented in a character, or cause it has particular tropes they'd like new takes on... it makes you sound like people who say that genre fiction is inherently inferior to "real" books. You sound goofy!

#my stuff #personally! I don't choose books based on the plot 90% of the time #my eyes start glazing over reading plot summaries or even most back-cover blurbs #I wanna know about the book's themes and how it might make me feel #but I think most people care about the plot of a book before they start reading and that's more than understandable! #frankly I can't even judge people who pick books by their cover because I also do that! some books have really fun covers! #they're designed to make you wanna read them!

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

#im posting this very late because i was sort of weary of how it came out and ended up messing w it until it was like 4am oops. #and i have plans tmrw so... oh well! i did my best and ill put it out while i can! #and i tried to make the scene match barnard's colors lol #finn's ocs #finn's art #i know i said id do more sillay stuff with the simpler screentone only style but i had a couple more of these in me #and this is the first piece im making thats like an actual part of the story too rather than just setting stuff for fun #i wanna write something to go with it too but for now ill just sort of briefly explain the context in the tags here: #barnard has a pretty bad case of OCD and his compulsions have made it difficult to make friends in the past #he was never outright bullied or anything but people just didnt really have the patience to deal with it #he has compulsions that include stuff like walking through doors until it feels right and needing things to be perfectly aligned #which in group settings has lead to people having to wait for him to finish his rituals and join them #they might find it tolerable at first but eventually they grow impatient and hes just... not invited to stuff anymore #but juno is a newer member of the guild who ends up frequenting the same library. hes also kinda a little weird #and they dont become fast friends or anything but just sort of naturally spend time in the same place #though they never plan meetups they eventually fall into a routine. around the same time theyd just both be at the library #and read next to each other. and maybe talk a bit. and eventually they end up walking back to the guildhall together #since theyre going to the same place after all. and juno always waits for barnard outside the door #eventually barnard asks if this bothers him. juno kinda just tells him 'of course it does' without any malice or anything. just a statement #barnard is surprised and apologizes and juno says not to. but the next day juno doesnt show up at the usual time. #barnard assumes hes committed somekinda more by bringing it up. he ends up staying there late reading to get his mind off it & not ruminate #but when he leaves juno is in fact still waiting for him down the hall (see pic) having collected a bunch of books literally abt ocd #he fell asleep bc barnard stayed later than expected. and hes an eepy guy generally. and also one very bad at expressing himself #but now barnard gets that juno's 'of course it [bothers me]' had the implication of 'but its worth it' which no friend has previously done. #and from the interaction juno was also able to understand that this isn't something barnard just does for the hell of it so. he studies. #and checks a bunch of stuff out because he thinks it could help his friend too (theres ocd workbooks and such- i remember working w them) #and thats the point where they became more ''friends'' than ''pleasant library acquaintances'' #from there on they also do get into juno's problems. whole other bag of worms. but this specific scene is more about bernard from his pov #sorry about when i said briefly explain. i lied </3 #but compared to the whole sequence im picturing its brief so shhh

[larkoneironaut]

The silly little map for my reading journal is finished! First attempt at making one ever, so I didn't put too much pressure on myself, lmao

#my art #Reading journal #Fantasy map #Book tropes #Zoom in for some fun #Some names are lame but my brain is slow lately and I couldn't come up with something funnier #I also didn't wanna spent more than two days on this haha

[the-owl-tree]

thought I was chill and normal about discourse until I was on twitter (I know) and saw a warrior cats opinion thread (I know) and read ppl saying they think squirrelflight was worse than bramblestar and I. I’m tired of being a spiteful hag

i KNOW lots of the fandom have dropped off after oots but it is wild to see the newest arc have Bramblestar manipulate a member of his clan into setting up a situation where he can publicly humiliate her and still have people go "well! have we considered sometimes she's reactive and doesn't do everything he says and that actually makes her worse/deserving of this?"

#like he's her leader!! the power difference there is insane!!! #and he actively uses it to harm her!!!! #abuse cw #people have their own hc/fanon version of these two #idc about those people you do you you have fun with the cat books lol #but i wanna tear into canon and why it keeps espousing this narrative #so no real patience for contrarians sorry #also here's my dark confession for those who read tags #moment of weakness i remade my twitter #but it's just a lurker account. i might get it more active if i need cash

[ereborne]

What is a Monday? A miserable little pile of obligations.

semester turnover restructure

generate/send out error reporting

figure out how to separate out unique counts

create polite reply to Massive Dick Move email

finish the bad book >:(

bò kho (not an obligation. dinner)

laundry

lizard bath

#yapping tag #I spent my weekend trying to sleep and now all my chores are due today and I wanna complain. grump grump grump whine. #the semester turnover restructure actually is a pet project so that part I like! I wish I could take my time with it though #the error reporting is. well it's easy to generate (it's actually running now) and it's tedious but uncomplicated to send out #but then I'm going to spend the rest of the day getting passive-aggressive responses from everybody #in a just world my coworkers would respond to careful itemized lists of all their fuckups with 'thank you Alexis you're so helpful #we really appreciate you flagging our mistakes two weeks before the system final-saves them forever into stone. have a cookie!' #but alas #if I'd been any less stressed and frantic when I first established the error reporting I'd have set up a separate address to send them from #write up some template emails and let the reporting all come out of the mythical 'automatic system thing' #--every 'automatic system thing' in our college is me or IT on my behalf. even the people who hired me for this don't seem to realize #if only I'd known from the beginning that nobody would ever connect me and my systems! I'd be exploiting the shit out of it-- #the unique counts is going to be a headache. no idea how I'm going to structure the coding for it. might be fun to invent? we'll see #the Massive Dick Move email response also will be an invention. 'hello Mr Massive Dick I am karma here to smite you' but polite #the bad book >:( I don't want to read any more of but the deal I made with my friend is he sends me free books and I report back #we did not discuss a special 'get out of book free' card for when the main character is a godawful shit sibling. (should've done though) #beef stew is good! mostly it's on the list so I don't forget to set the timers #laundry and lizard bath can wait until tomorrow if they must but they shouldn't wait any longer than that. lizard and I will get stinky

[avatarwindboy]

....

Anyone reading Murtagh?

#where my old dragon nerds at #anyone else grow up reading this silly series #and has to once again return to this #i expected it to be bad #but also murtagh was always my favorite character #and also fun fact: the first character i ever RPed as...on MYSPACE wow #and im actually liking the book #the writing is hmm at times #but liking the story a lot #no spoilers yet #but also anyone wanna talk it with me?

[raiiny-bay]

unfortunately i'm obsessed with project zomboid again

#if i disappear this is why #i've been playing soo much these last few days #unironically my favorite mod is the zupercart mod #it's so silly #i kinda wanna try a multiplayer server. like i think that would be fun #but i also like playing alone bc i turn zombies off #i only turn zombies on if i play with other people. i am not brave enough to face them alone #n e way. i do have a lil thing for valentines q'd up for tomorrow #i made sure to finish it on time lol #i'm gonna go to the library tomorrow. need a book for february. #i've been so bad about reading lately. #also have a few movies i want to check out #i want to watch more movies this year. since i started collecting dvds & all. i need to find more movies i like #i've always been more of a book guy but now i understand the joy of a good movie. or a bad movie #both are good #rainyrambles #ETA: i will get to the last of the asks & tag games i got at some point. as soon as i'm done playing pz. #i'm not ignoring them. just preoccupied lol

[diffenbachiae]

the worst part of anxiety is that it feels bad before you do the thing, while you’re doing the thing, AND after you’re doing the thing, but if you ever stop doing the things it gets WAY WORSE!!!!

#so your job is to fight through it every time and every once in a while you notice it’s not as hard as it used to be #which yes is progress! but also i’m very tired of feeling like this! #today is supposed to be a fun day and i’m shaking with anxiety already and it’s so irrational #i am going to read books to children at a fun winter event and then go to the nutcracker ballet #and i’m weirdly nervous that the kids won’t like me. my entire job is getting kids to like me. i think it’ll be ok #it feels like there’s a panicking kid in my brain and also a world-weary adult sighing every time the kid freaks out like ‘this again?’ #i don’t know there’s not rly anything to be said or done #i just wanna vent and i feel like my irl friends are gonna get sick of me having a bad time 🤪

[bunnyb34r]

Facing my fear of movie theaters by going to the first showing of the day sgdggdgd

I think I'll be the only person there which would be awesome tbh

AND I dont have to break my streak of having seen every hunger games movie in theaters :D I'm excited man

#marquilla #first one i saw with my friend from middle school and her weird ass family sgdgdgdggd second and third was with my ms/hs best friend who #also loved the books (we would have 'arguments' over what character was the best cough cough finnick cough cough which drove my dad insane #listening to every single time we would pick her up to come over (40 min drive one way atgagagsg) #and the last one i saw with my first boyfriend who really didnt have any thoughts one way or the other ab the books but he DID think gale #was better than peeta which lead to an 'argument' in the parking lot while we were looking for his moms car sgdgdggdgd we both #agreed that finnick was better though sgdggdg #and by arguments i mean they were those goofy 'my fav is better than YOURS' debates you have with friends that are always in good fun #now this time im going alone bc i really wanna see it and mom didnt read the book yet/isnt really interested (more like eh ill get you the #dvd when it comes out and we can watch it) this is my first time going by myself though which is kinda exciting sgdgd #did you know you can order food ahead of time and have it delivered to your seat?? thats wild to me #id feel so awkward doing that especially since it's probably just gonna be me today shhdhdhdhd

[camptw1nk]

I watched the lightning thief movie the other day and i loved it so much it made me sad

#i was 12 when it came out in 2010..... i think my entire life would be different if i saw it when it came out and i mean that so genuinely #like. in 2010 i didnt really know what fandom was but if i did my big fandoms wouldve been buffy which slay but no one my age knew it #or. the girls of the playboy mansion tv series which like. also slay but a) i was too young for that and b) the body image issues it gave m #but like. oh i would've loved percy jackson as a kid and im so sad i didnt see it or read it bc i truly think it could've fixed me #i wouldve been so obsessed w lukes actor tbh #but anyway. i loved the 2010 movie and i know people hate it bc its inaccurate but i didnt know that watching it i just had fun #next is sea of monsters then the tv show but also the books somewhere #maybe books alongside tv show? or after? #i want to watch everything without book expectations but also like. i wanna read them #i just wish i got into typical kid stuff lmao

[izzizzels]

Taking a look at the Les Mis tag now that I've started reading the Brick and finding out that Les Mis Letters started a week ago and there's all kinds of memes and discussions... I win again

#i love love love this new trend of ' tumblr book club for classics ' #because its fun #and such a great way to make reading the classics easier and more fun for people! #and also bc i get to see memes about books i love #someone better make one for frankenstein #i wanna see more memes about my boy victor #anyway whos gonna join my iliad email bookclub huh?? no come back hear me out #les mis letters

[wariodemambo]

Been talking a lot about writing a lot with the hubby recently... so I wanted to ask! What do you guys think I could improve with my own writing?

He and I agreed I need to work on transitions and comedy. Anything else you've noticed or wanted to say but haven't? I'm all eyes!

#【 💰 — you can call me… annoyed. ┊ ooc. 】 #slapstick! my mortal enemy... and for someone who writes WARIO that's just criminal... #i've always been an edgy angsty motherfucker! so it's hard to break out of my comfort zone. #i had a weird realization couple days ago that i wanna write fanfic and academic papers again. #especially the latter because it actually sounds HELLA fun without worrying about deadlines or grades. #i also need to sit down and... read books again.

[mollyolikeme]

girl help.

when you wanna read a fic about the first book in a series but you haven't read the rest of the series yet and don't wanna get spoiled unintentionally.

what's a girl TO DO?!

#green creek series #this is about me looking for wolfsong fics #but I am too nervous there's gonna be spoiles #i've only read wolfsong and ravensong so far and i just wanna keep reading content while i wait to get the next book #HELP pwease #i know i can look through tags and filters and such #but like #i wanna read the most loved #and those def have spoileys #also the green creek folkies post everything about all the books the most i swear #im out here dodging plot points like mad #this no longer applies to green creek #because I'm a mad girl and I finished those bad boys #but I have ZERO doubt my next hyperfixation will be completely affected by this again #SO fun for me

[moononastring]

Just because your personal headcanon doesn't line up with what happened in the actual book doesn't mean the book is bad/wrong. It just means the author wrote what they wanted and what is true to the character and not what you wanted.

You can make your guesses and yell all you want about what you think is right but canon is canon whether you like it or not. Your headcanon is not canon so rereading the actual books might be helpful to differentiate between what is true and what you made yourself believe is true. The author will always know their characters better than you think you do since those characters wouldn't exist without the author.

#gpost #fandom wank #just in general #people think criticizing the text is a whole ass personality trait. #it's why no one likes being part of anything anymore #but also this isn't for people who genuinely just have fun with things #because those people realize 'hey i'm going to crackship or make up things or fic or headcanon that I know would never happen' #'but I'm going to do it because it's fun without me bashing the author because they didn't do it in the book' #people these days always post with the 'I'm right and if you don't agree you're stupid' #and my gal pals #my hot mamas #we're on this website for no other reason than to be weird #also these books are never that deep and I'll keep shouting it from the rooftops #if y'all had fun just reading and enjoying the story for what it is the way the author writes the story FOR FUN #we'd enjoy this place so much more #this isn't some platform where we have cult leaders and 'influencers or some shit lmao #this is fucken fiction #biggest advice (and this is to myself first): except nothing so that way you won't be disappointed #I dont' even wanna think about what's next in terms of events/plots/ships because ya know what? #You never know. You really never know. #So I will take what I am given and either enjoy it or not. #sorry for this random rant on this fine Monday #but just been my thoughts lately.

[lizzieonka]

The most ironic thing of being a Creative Writing major is that the heavy reading load and numerous academic papers you have to make leaves you with little to no time to actually... write

#I AM FULL OF INSPIRATION FOR MY SHORT STORY #and world building for my web novel has been fun! #I also want to finish my years of intoxication fanfic #but aaaaah I have an exam tomorrow #screaming and crying as I read this book about poetry #I WANNA WRITE BUT FIRST #AAAAAH #miyamiwu.src #miyamiwu.log #miyamiwu.txt