#NONE OF THESE BOOKS ARE NEW

[morrigan-sims]

What are your hottest of hot takes on some of the booktok/trending books rn?

okay, I'm going to be honest and say I didn't even know what's trending on booktok right now. I had to google.

A Court of Thornes and Roses

Bleh. I read this book, and did NOT like it. Throne of Glass was decent enough, but ACOTAR is... not good. The relationships all give me bad vibes, or are just straight up toxic, and there's more sm/ut than I'm comfortable with. Also, the ending of the second book (which was where I stopped because agian, not a fan), is almost the exact same ending that Ms. Maas used for the end of Empire of Storms (book 5 in throne of glass). It's one thing for there to be tropes, but to essentially plagiarize yourself is an interesting thing to do.

What is it with booktok and faeries?? Is there something you people find romantic about being held against your will by a supernatural creature 10x your age??? DOES NO ONE ELSE FIND THAT CREEPY??? (ALSO Faerie myths rarely end well for the humans, and they never have good intentions. Not to mention that a very common faerie myth (changelings) is very, very ableist.)

2. Red Queen

it was.... meh. Things got dragged out 10x more than they needed to, and why can't you just kill these people who are evil and be done with it?? Also, neither of the love interest options are very good people to the main character. There's so much back and forth and backstabbing that you have no idea who's on what side, which while can sometimes turn out okay, the number of times the reader's opinion about X or Y character flip flops is just rediculous. (And again, just kill the douchebag and be done with it!!)

3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

This one... this one is something else. While I love the concept, in theory, I was NOT a fan of the execution. It's not nearly as good as everyone makes it out to be, and if you want to see V.E. Schwab's better writing, read the Villains series. The concept is nice, but the plot and characters leave a bit to be desired, imo.

Bonus (but tw for implied grooming and very unhealthy relationships) under the cut.

BONUS: Shadow and Bone (kind of)

While I absolutely ADORE Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom, and also loved King of Scars/Rule of Wolves, I was initially uncertain if I wanted to even read Six of Crows after reading the original trilogy. I read both *years* ago, before BookTok latched on, and I discovered that I cared 20x more about the side characters (Nikolai, Tamar, Genya, etc.) than I did about Alina and Mal. I never really cared about them or what happened to them, but I was deeply invested in the side characters stories. Hence why I'm so happy that Ms. Bardugo decided to explore them in KoS/RoW. But that's not my issue with S&B. My issue with S&B is actually a fanbase issue, not a plot issue. THE DARKALINA CREEPS. Who is their right mind thinks that the Darkling gave one rat's ass about Alina??? Who in their right mind could ship them together. Yes, you're supposed to see the Darkling as more than just an evil monolith, and that's valid. But how anyone can read those books (ESPECIALLY the tent scene near the end of book 1) and not be absolutley REPULSED by the Darkling, baffles me. Yes, you're supposed to feel emotions about him, even mourn his death, (or in my case, the death of the person he coudl have been, the person his mother wanted him to be), but dear god, he's a creep. He's also about 600 years old, and you're shipping him with a teenager. What the hell is wrong with you??? The reader is supposed to follow an arc with him, from being wary to admiring him to hating him, and maybe ending on pity. But SO many people get stuck on admiring, and it revolts me. I'm not going to lie, someone liking the Darkling or shipping Darkalina is a MASSIVE red flag, because of how blatantly abusive and manipulative the Darkling is. He's not even subtle about it, after the first 2/3 of the 1st book.

Okay, that's all. I'm so sorry for screaming at you.

#ask Morrigan #thanks for the ask! #ask #anon #anonymous #morri loves books #morri rambles #nonsims #I'm so sorry if there's any typos or weird shit in here #I cannot for the life of me be bothered to proofread this rn #if anyone wants my reccomendations for books that are Actually Good lmk #I have a list of criminally underrated books <3 #also #NONE OF THESE BOOKS ARE NEW #they're all been out for 5+ years at this point and are only now getting attention because of booktok

[mo-mode]

IF 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏼 MAD 👏🏼 THAT 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 SHOW 👏🏼 ISNT 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 PERFECT 👏🏼 CARBON 👏🏼 COPY 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 BOOKS 👏🏼 THEN 👏🏼 LISTEN 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 AUDIOBOOK 👏🏼 WITH 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 EYES 👏🏼 CLOSED 👏🏼 AND 👏🏼 MAKE 👏🏼 ONE 👏🏼 YOURSELF

#none of you have ever written for television and it shows #why didn’t they just do xyz? because the show runners can’t bend time and space and poodles are expensive #is the show perfect? no but is it a poor adaptation? ALSO NO #adapting literally means becoming better suited to a new environment #NEWS FLASH tv shows aren’t books #it has to ADAPT #i said what i said #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[adriles]

Wow some of you are really mad at me. Probably b/c i maimed & killed your friends, brothers, fathers, and sons on the field of battle. Thats ok though. Im fated to die soon

#book 22 #book 24 #greatest hits #hello?? #why this #new rule for this post #if you tag anyone but achilles #with the exception of cu chulainn or wei wuxian. cause. i mean yeah #i am legally allowed to come to ur house and kill u #i will also make exception for deep myth pulls #if they are cool enough #but yeah. none of u people know what being doomed to die means anymore #macbeth is fine too i guess #grendel addition. im kissing u with great passion. u r so right

[egophiliac]

Have you heard of the "Crowley is Malleus' dad" theory going around? Where Prince Levan (or whatever his name is) didn't actually die and just went out to get some milk and is now known as Dire Crowley, the silly man? The implications of that theory is absolutely hilarious when you think about it

hold on, we can figure this out, we just need LISTS

PROS THAT CROWLEY IS SECRETLY REVAAN/LEVAN/LAVERNE/WHATEVER:

unspecified fae of some kind, with similar coloring to Mal

the animal masks are apparently a Briar Valley thing

has some kind of big blackmailable secret that was alluded to in episode 4, and then as far as I know never brought up again

(unless this was just Azul bullshitting, which is extremely possible)

based on Diablo, which...maybe means something?

has canonically worn Dad Shorts

CONS:

(gestures to Crowley's entire personality)

NO LISTEN Revaan was the guy they sent off on diplomatic missions and to take care of delicate political situations, and...look, I love this dweeb, but would you trust Crowley to be in charge of negotiating your war treaties

despite my brain insisting on reading his name as "Raven", Revaan's title does imply that he was also a dragon (or super into longan berries, I'm not ruling that out)

currently unclear why Lilia "my closest friend Revaan...he is no longer with us...I used to make fun of him for being kind of a priss about eating jerky..." Vanrouge has somehow not noticed or said anything

Malleus' Aloof Anime ~Aristocrat~ vibe had to come from somewhere, and by all accounts it was NOT his mom's side of the family

???:

turns into a bird in the opening, I don't know if that means anything but it's kinda cool, I guess

all that aside, if Malleus and Yuu are any indication, then the Draconias have...questionable taste in their social choices. so anything is possible!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #disclaimer that this is half joke and half speculation so like. please take it in good spirits and don't yell at me #right now i'm leaning away from crowley being revaan because i think the evidence is currently circumstantial at best #but who knows what the future will bring! #man. whenever i consciously remember that crowley is diablo it also reminds me #that his name is supposed to be pronounced like dear and not like the word dire #which always fucks me up a little bit. this is the worst thing about him bar none. #damnit crowley #anyway every time a new part comes out i rewatch the opening just in case there turns out to be any more foreshadowing #(there never is) #(but that ONE really quick bit where you can see overblot azul means i always have to look) #which is to say i have been carefully reanalyzing all the crowley bits and i have reached the conclusion #that i still have no idea what is going on with him #he may be the world's biggest mastermind or the world's biggest idiot and these are not mutually exclusive #(this is a strictly pro-crowley post btw) #(i'm allowed to make fun of him because i love him dire-ly)

[dayurno]

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

two hours later edit: you're allowed to reblog this! sorry about the confusion

#this has been so upsetting to notice but 🥹whatever #there is a different kind of bitterness to thinking about how ten years have passed #and we are getting new content that changes and maybe even rectifies many of the ways we see and interact w aftg #and none of it not a bit of it addresses the racism #how it’s been ten years and the only thing we really get to show it is a book about a ship between two white men the fandom came up with #after seeing them be Suggested to interact in canon #i understand not wanting to hurt nora sakavics feelings by asking her about this #but imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are #do you know how bad it feels to read through nicky’s worst moments in aftg #and know that he was written this way because he looks like me? #do you understand how exhausting it all is. can you imagine? #the fandom has been so quick to undo the criticism fans of colors have been making since day one #and for what. for what! my doves. for what? #have we come out of it any greater? have we done anything but lie to ourselves? #and anyway this is not some mindless pessimism #this is not me telling you that aftg is bad and you cant love it; cant have it mean anything to you #this is me saying that when we acknowledge these things it makes us better readers and better people #nora sakavic if you are reading this from whatever hellhole america you find yourself in #grabs you by the shoulders. This is not the end #this is not something to sit back and feel bad about #you have opened the floodgates of hell with tsc. kick the door in and release a revised version of aftg #there is a real material way for you to make this better. it is possible and it will not kill you #i would read a revised aftg. my mutuals would. many many many many fans would #making mistakes is not just a human right its a human inevitability #but we do not have to let ourselves get defined by them. We can do hard things #lets go of nora sakavics shoulders. anyway. where were we #aftg #txt #tsc

[xxrat--punkxx]

obsessed w the resurrection beasts istfg its so gender, based off of @briarwickart’s design

#bruhhhhhhhh #im only on chapter 3 so chill w the spilers #im spending way to fucking much time annotating the book lmaoo #lik ive wrtten 3/4 pages on harrow in just snnotations #considering writing a kind of essay on each act when i finish them literally just for fun #i call this 'i got a 9 in my english and im currently not studying english so this is how i cope' #but uh yeah this shit is metal af what #i was like ohhh maybe they have a design when god mentioned them and holy fuck i was not disapointed #i had to draw them ahhh #no idea how big they are or how they move or anything #but ayo new gender dropepd #yes i drew it in the book #i do wanna post my nnotations and my thoughts because i hve so fucking much #none of them are legible tho lamoooo #my art #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #resurrection beast #tamsyn muir

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

There needs to be an "Austen adjacent men" bracket. So many hotties in Austenland (and other properties I guess) and no way to rank them.

it may not be a full bracket but your wish is my command - here are some austen-adjacent men to vote on...

curse my spelling mistakes *Mr Nobley

#hotjaneaustenmenpoll #austenland #the jane austen book club #becoming jane #Paging Mr Darcy #I'm not sure Tom Lefroy quite fits here but I think that might be my anti-Becoming Jane bias getting in the way so I've included him #also I haven't seen any of the hallmark Jane Austen films (curse them not showing in the UK yet) so I have no idea if Sam Lee is worthy #But I liked him in reign and step up 2 so it's an educated guess he is #This is also why none of the new sense and sensibility men have been included in the main bracket as I don't think it's released even #in the us until Sunday #I'm not holding out much hope it'll be good but I do think it will be fun! #jane austen #hugh dancy #will kemp #bret mckenzie #jj feild #ricky whittle #james mcavoy #mini poll

[omegalomania]

joe's favorite track on so much (for) stardust is the kintsugi kid (ten years) btw. if you even care.

#fall out boy #joe trohman #*making poasts #context there was a book event in LA yesterday and joe was there for none of this rocks #so some fans got to meet him and i guess ask what his favorite track on the new record is #and well. well i was not emotionally prepared for that answer #i have been a wreck about this since i learned it #of course its the kintsugi kid but also oh my god. ooohhh my god. oh my GOD.

[harbingersecho]

Lasombra fashion show?

Now how did you know I've been meaning to draw fashion 'shows' for all the clans…?

But! Here's some Lasombra fashion stuff for you!

+ bonus because I love bullying Lasombra abt their tech issues (:

#vtm #vampire the masquerade #clan lasombra #lasombra #outfit design #mine #*24 #ask #lasombra is kind of interesting/difficult imo in terms of making a fashion 'style' for them bc they're very varied internally #from corp goth shadow ceos to religious leaders to streetwise survivors. theyre unlike their counterpart ventrue in that their appearance #isnt rooted in sociological reasons as much as theyre personal ones imo. if that makes sense lol. but i tried to do a few different things! #something classically lasombra and then some more modern discreet + showy stuff. hope you like em? <3 #for me lasombra is like dark fuschia-violet-purple and gold. silk velvet and dark lace. and ofc religious symbols #none of these guys have backstories or names or anything btw i just threw shit together. its easier to make up styles for chs #that have a story or a personality but like. i cant put rafael in this stuff or whatever lol he's kinda boring fashion wise #i thought abt doing shadow fashion too but i was like. thats way too impractical. #i kinda wanna finish those tremere fashion 'sketches' too. and maybe do some of deja's outfits bc she's a fashionista. there's also my #outfit wips for rose who's a ventrue... but also i wanna do freaky sabbat outfits... and a toreador look book... and finish the new #nikifor tzimisce fashion looks... help mee. at least the tzimisce one is like 85% done i just gotta work on the extra stuff a little -_-

[tragicotps]

Lyra, Asriel and Marisa + Calling each other out on their lies

#lyra belacqua #marisa coulter #asriel belacqua #chaos family #truly #his dark materials #hdm #hdm edit #its kinda funny how they're all doing the same thing #they all lie but none can handle being lied to oh well #Asriel's the worst at it though #hes calling himself out on his own lies lol #he's just trying to keep up with the two experts 😂 #the lying theme is much more clear in the books #its ultimately what saves them all #new headcanon is masriel naming lyra lyra cause it sounds like liar and them having a running joke about it #this is an ugly edit sorry #mine

[im-still-watching-anime]

yamato: it’s so sad that the only team meal we can ever have is ramen

kakashi: …….what?

yamato: you know, because of everyone’s allergies, naruto told me all about it. it’s great that ramen manages to avoid all of them so we can all eat together but it’s sad we can’t ever branch out

kakashi: is this why we’ve only had ramen as provisions lately?

yamato: yeah! i took the time to switch the usual stuff out to make sure no one ate anything they weren’t supposed to :)

kakashi: unrelated question but have you ever dealt with children before joining this team?

yamato: no, never. why? :)

#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto incorrect quotes #naruto team 7 #team 7 #hatake kakashi #naruto yamato #naruto uzumaki #naruto was probably joking thinking it wouldn’t work #but then felt too bad to fess up after yamato went through a bunch of effort #rip new parent yamato got pranked by his new kids😔 #he probably picks up a parenting book once #but kakashi immediately tells him he already tried that and none if it works on their weird ass kids #tragic really

[aloeverawrites]

Me visibly shaken after reading And Then There Were None, in one go: Christie you madwoman

#she went off- #older media deserves to be hyped as much as new media so here I am #but oh my god holy gosh #brain re-written #got my daily seratonin #it helps I had a classical music playlist going at the same time and The Swan started playing at the dramatic bit *chefs kiss #agatha christie #and then there were none #dark academia #literature #think that fixed me to be honest with you #I really needed to read a real book didn't I can feel the cobwebs clearing out

[amxthystiine]

I know it was inevitable but the irony of the VE reference will never not get me,,

#opera gx #homestuck #vast error #destiel meme #fandoms #destiel news #shitposts #destiel memes #destiel #spn #none of these words are in ANY holy book

[corviiids]

genuinely so sorry to slide into your dm's like this, not sure that this is proper tumblr etiquette, etc., but i just got so excited when i read in your sayu-gets-the-death-note ask that you've been trying to talk yourself out of doing an entire statutory interpretation of the manga death note rules because i've been trying to talk myself out doing an entire metaphysical interpretation of the manga death note rules, so... if you, like me, simply cannot talk yourself out of a stupid idea once it sinks its claws in your brain and would at some point like to share notes about I THINK one of the sexiest and most broken parts of this series, i'd be delighted.

oh my god dont apologise im just excited a single person on earth besides me is interested in a pseudo-legal (very pseudo) perspective on the death note rules. high fives you. for the most part im just incredibly impressed that they manage to retain so much internal consistency especially since so many of them have the vibe of, like, random amendments which were included just for funsies. it's incredible they don't overtly contradict each other. ive been obsessed with them since i first saw them and have already spent way too much time reading over them but yeah i'd honestly love to dig into them more. HTR13 does organise them into something closer to Parts or Divisions which makes the structure a little more coherent. it drives me nuts that sometimes a numbered rule will have sub-provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. drafting that gives me a stress migraine

#asks #death note #dont get me fucking started on rule 67. the moment i read that story i just threw my hands up #look the fact that the magic system is run based on this set of strict rules which ARE #CANONICALLY #written in A BOOK which can be READ. by shinigami. like this is a LEGAL SYSTEM this is a piece of LEGISLATION #and YET in a-kira they introduce rule 67 which proves that not only can new provisions be drafted in at any time #but they can be applied RETROACTIVELY? #you cant fucking DO that! that completely delegitimises your entire rule system. like what the fuck #also who's fucking enforcing this? is it the shinigami king? is the power of the rules vested in the shinigami king? is he the source of th #power or its arbiter? who's taking care of the drafting? what's in that fucking book #anyway #ANYWAY #NONE OF THIS MATTERS TO ANYONE EXCEPT ME

[camellcat]

it's irritatingly funny that I can find books for almost any other series like it's nothing and yet somehow doctor who continues to evade me. I just. can't??? none of my usual sites have them, and looking online brings me nothing, and I ??? where are they ?????

#y'all I just wanna read the monsters inside #and I am the master: legends of the renegade time lord #but honestly I just wanna read every book with rose tyler pleaseeee #do you understand how easy it is to find books on like literally ANY other freakin series #in fact the only time I have ever struggled is when it's new #or if you're warrior cats ig. those bitches actually give me a quite a fight too #BUT IN THE END I STILL FIND THEM #AND I HAVE YET TO FIND ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE BLOODY STONE ROSE #(okay admittedly I found the monsters inside FINALLY. but at the time I had not) #this is the same as trying to download the episodes themselves as well ohhh my god why is everything with this show such a STRUGGLE #doctor who #hold on. to make things clear actually. this post is talking about piracy. I am talking about the whole “read online free pdf” type thing #just so that no one links me something where I have to use money. cause I don't got none fvkmfvkmvf

[newvegascowboy]

Im gonna be honest, the colleen hoover hate is just so old. I'm not gonna read her books and i never will because the content doesn't appeal to me, but ive watched the essays. I've sat and listened to 4+ hours of "omg CRING" on youtube. I get it. I understand. But you have GOT to find some fresh material, I'm so serious.

Has no one ever heard the phrase no publicity is bad publicity? The only thing this accomplishes is enticing people who think "it cant really be that bad" who go out and buy a copy. An dollar spent in disbelief is the same as a dollar spent by an earnest fan and at the end of the day she just has two fucking dollars.

Maybe she is a shitty writer idc but the majority of this videos boil down to "CoHo bad because she wrote a romance dynamic i think is weird and gross" and its like bro then don't fucking read it. Im serious. Your little rants are not going to stop her from writing her books and its not gonna stop the people who do like to read them from buying them. At a certain point you gotta ask yourself if reading hours of exhausting material is worth your 2 hour outrage video where you go in depth about how Weird and Bad colleen hoover is. Would you not rather spend your day doing something you actually enjoy?

At the end of the day colleen hoover writes weird books and that's just like, fine. Trust me, there are enough videos out there explaining why her writing is toxic. You can out the video camera down. It's okay. Take my hand. Try saying something beautiful and true.

#not fallout #kal talks #ive reached my LIMIT with these booktubers and this irony poisoned content model #i watch your videos to hear about books im never gonna read and im tireddd of the umpteenth Collen Hoover Cringe Compilation #stop!!! #at a certain point any actionable harm she had committed (which is already like. none) has been sufficiently countered by the thousands of #fucking videos that already exist #im tired guys. im tired. find some new content. please. #on my hands and knees BEGGING you