#also there is no text on the book

[spooksier]

me when the emotionally repressed character is revealed to have had something happen in their childhood that was completely out of their control but changed them in a way they can never come back from

#text! #did post this on twt but this belongs on the crying about characters website #and yeah this is about jarchivist and also marc spector in the mk show #idk it hit me yesterday that they were EIGHT AND NINE!!!!!!! when their respective thing happened and that ruined me #like it wasn't their fault but they think it is!!! GOD!!!!!!!!!! #holds those autistic bi men close to my chest #should've never smoked that shit* (*took my brother to a cave/read that book) #now im irrevocably changed* (*tied to the shittest god possible/destined to be the antichrist) #edit: this is getting a bit of traction so pls know that blorbo tagging and oc tagging is SOOO encouraged #thank you to the person who added the flaming text miles edgeworth thats so funny

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[echo-shard]

I don't know what to feel... Am I happy? Am I empty inside? 📕

#grian #hermitcraft #hermitcraft s10 #hermitcraft season 10 #grian fanart #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #fanart #☆ mine #ART BLOCK IS NO MORE!!! #GRIAN IS A KINGFISHER BTW!!!! #<- fish obv and also it matches his starter base colour wise ^_^ #ive just realised the text on the book is upside down pay no attention to that

[passionpeachy]

I spent staring at that little prince fanart for so long I started dreaming about him.......I don't remember what happened. his presence was just ever-present

#text #also how come no oneever talks about how the author just. disappeared after #or did I fucking read the back of that book wrong. like he just disappeared in his plane for real #anyway please look at my fanart

[ryllen]

i have no other reason of drawing this, other than i just want to

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst grim #twst mc #fanart #who's happy with promo recycling tokens? me! me! me! #i'm so happy i can study potion for text books while also receiving honey from the boxes #i keep running back and forth to sam's mysterious store #i'm so close i'm so cloose i manage to reduce the earth titan's hp to 8000+ i'm so closeeee #why can't the promo recycling tokens be forever #one time i was on piggybackride i remember gravity kept pulling my as s down i never feel more like a burden #i wish at that kind of situation i am feather light like a/nime girl #I JUST HAD THE EARTH TITAN AT 4000+ AUGEGHHSHSHSH

[dangoulains-devotion]

#FF7 #FF7R #FF7 Rebirth #Final Fantasy VII #Final Fantasy VII Rebirth #aerith gainsborough #barret wallace #my favourite synergy ability... solely for the animation its so cute and cool #sorry papa wallace for i am 1) not good at drawing facial hair and 2) was not mentally strong enough to draw your gun #one day i will but today was not that day #i worked on this for 9 hours straight it got to a point i zoomed out and was like why doesnt this look right #and it was bc i forgot his tattoo....... he's naked iwthout that #also i've never tried to do comic-y explosions and text before so i kind of just looked at clip art for reference and then yolo'd it #i hope it doesnt look terrible i've decided i no longer care to fret over it #i need you to understand that if you were to zoom out the camera on this photo #barret is proper crouched down and aerith is standing on a pile of books #so that they could attain a pose where she is leaning on his shoulder #I FORGOT MY OWN ART TAG bro im so tired #my art #<- i am moonlight elegy on twt

[ghelgheli]

one of the fundamental mistakes serano and a lot of others make involves the following line of reasoning:

1. some people have dysphoric other-gender embodiment-desires (e.g. for different genitals) before they acquire an understanding of gender-sex associations or even that there are genitals other than their own

2. if gender is totally socially constructed, as the social constructionists say, then these embodiment-desires would not be possible in such a state of ignorance

3. modus tollens the social constructionists are wrong and there must be some innate gender-desire

this is often accompanied by the following:

1. if social constructionism is right, then the abolition of gender would mean the elimination of dysphoric embodiment-desires

2. the state of knowledge prior to acquiring gender-sex knowledge is analogous to the state of affairs under gender abolition

3. in that state some people still have dysphoric embodiment-desires

4. modus tollens the social constructionists are wrong

these arguments are often defensive, to be fair—the first premise of the latter argument is unfortunately made by certain social constructionists too, steamrolling those early childhood experiences. but in both cases there is a circular mistake happening. the dysphoric embodiment-desires can precede gender-sex knowledge specifically because they are separable from it. penis-dysphoria in young childhood can only be called gender dysphoria if we assume the very gender-sex epistemic constructions we have agreed not to take for granted! and the former dysphoria may well persist in the absence of the latter constructions. this is what people say when they talk about a (utopian, perhaps, but nonetheless coherent and logically possible) gender abolitionist future where people can have whatever procedures they desire done. the embodiment-desires are still there! they are just freed from gender-sex associations.

#text #transmisogyny #sorry for the analytic philosophy style #also re anon i WILL respond but when i said “shallow” i meant the book is shallow and not that it would be good for beginners (imo it's not

[scribefindegil]

As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

#imperial radch #also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon #if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting #and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question #that's AWESOME #but it's not the only way to do it #it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form #everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you #but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands #(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs) #and i think that's really cool as well-- #how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music #it's all been filtered #and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented #makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is #it's good #ann leckie i love you

[comradekatara]

my favorite crazyinsane narrative foils who are also just so sillygoofy and adorable together

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #sokka #aang&sokka #art #mart #drew this yesterday . of course #i never draw them in their book 1 outfits but they are so cute #also just needed to draw sokka to wash the bad taste out of my mouth tbh. you get it

[keingleichgewicht]

what's house of leaves?

the short version is, it's a book about a book about a book about a book about a movie that never existed about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. it is probably the single most famous/notorious existing work of "ergodic fiction", meaning basically fiction which exists in such a complex relationship with its medium that it takes nontrivial effort just to consume, meaning uhhhh a lot of it looks like this,

or worse!

it's like, fifty percent an extremely high-effort mockery of modern academia, it's often doing its active best to be completely incomprehensible to you, its and i cannot emphasize this enough A Space With A Beast In It. its awfully dear to my heart also. or as mark z danielewsky who wrote it puts it:

"I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right.

#house of leaves #hol #ask #anonymous #to clarify the first bit it is specifically like. an onion of unreliable narrators. scheherazade tactics with in-text citations #mark z danielewsky made a book about the editors making a book about johnny truant making a book about zampano making #a book about will navidson making a movie #about his family in A House Which Is Bigger On The Inside. #half the point of course is that at some point you start to feel that the book is also bigger on the inside

[ghostlyheart]

How I (roughly) imagine this scale:

1- I see myself as a faster reader than the average person. I can breeze through a text quickly and still understand almost all of it

2- I read at a "normal" speed. I need to pace myself but can consistently read and comprehend a text in a reasonable time frame

3- I see myself as a slower reader than other people. It takes me a long time to get through a text and if I try to go too fast I won't understand it

Obviously this can vary by your mood, the type of text, etc. and this is a very imprecise scale with some overlap, I'm just casually curious!!

#i consider myself a sloooowwww reader #i dont really track it when reading for pleasure #but when im reading something dense like a political theory text i've realized i can only read 6 or 7 pages an hour (give or take) #in order for me to feel like im actually Getting It i need to stop and annotate while i read and also frequently re-read certain passages #this is on my mind because im reading a book for my thesis prepping for the semester and it is a slog for me #it's very interesting but i have to break it up into 45-60 minute chunks with breaks or else i'll go insane because of how long it takes me #it took me 4.5 hours to read 30 pages im not sure that's normal hahahahaaaaa #when i read for pleasure it's still slow i just dont have a stat lol

[librarycards]

PSA for all who hate censorship and live in Florida!

Banned Books USA is offering a free (only pay for shipping) commonly-banned/challenged books in FL. These range from kids to adults, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. They'll keep sending them as long as they can afford it, so please donate if you have the means, and share with those who could benefit from it, especially educators and those who care for kids.

Here are just a few from the list that I recommend:

Toni Morrison, Beloved and The Bluest Eye

Marcus Ewert, 10,000 Dresses

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Junji Ito, The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions

Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Mariko & Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

Tillie Walden, Spinning

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

#mine #book rec #found this via electric lit's newsletter(which i also recommend) and wanted to share! #described #id in alt text

[emptyjunior]

Can't stop thinking about how the actual wording of the prophecy is "one who CALLS you friend."

Luke took Percy out into those woods, knowing that if Percy didn't join him, he would need to kill him quietly.

Luke let Percy walk through the world with the lightning bolt, knowing if anyone was to find it on him he'd be smited instantly.

Luke gave Percy the shoes, planning for them to drag Percy down into the pits of hell and the hungry hungry embrace of Kronos.

Luke has love for annabeth, his sister, Luke has love for Grover, his protector, but he saw a forbidden kid and made a calculated decision on how best to utilise him and planned to eliminate him easily and swiftly in one elegant move, using him as a mule in the progress.

Percy was looking for which one of his friends would betray him, not realising it was one who only called him friend.

Percy not being important to Luke doesn't change how meaningful that relationship was for Percy, but boy howdy does it make it that much sadder😭

#also my name is Maia! #im sorry I tried to kill you grover #my b #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #luke #text post #shows #books #luke castellan #annabeth #grover

[ash-and-starlight]

my “if something bad happened to them i’d kill everyone in the room and then myself” gang from the masquerade series (…..yeah i’m still in denial over [redacted] shut up)

#id in alt text #alternatively: baru and some of the ppl whose lives she fucked up 🤪 #alternatively (2): mentally unstable blorbini from my books <3 #seth dickinson i’m in your walls #myken i’m Also in your walls i’m going to send u the therapist bill since you’re the one who convinced me to suffer so much 😤 #i want to be clear that something bad happens to these characters Constantly #lgbt stands for laundering grifting bankruptcy taxes #aminata #iraji #tau-indi bosoka #tain hu #baru cormorant #svirakir #the traitor baru cormorant #the monster baru cormorant #the tyrant baru cormorant #the masquerade #my art

[skyenish]

The way that Kalim genuinely loves Jamil and holds on to him no matter what, even after book 4.

#twisted wonderland #twst #jamil viper #kalim al asim #fanart #art #noahsart #my art #animatic #disney twisted wonderland #ディズニー ツイステッドワンダーランド #ジャミル・バイパー #jamil viper angst #twst angst #scarabia #book 4 #twst jamil #animation #twst art #twisted wonderland art #twisted wonderland animatic #twisted wonderland animation #the way that Kalim clings on to Jamil #their dynamic makes me sob #their relationship is doomed but everyday I still hope things will improve between them #sorry that the text isn’t in the middle #my editing program decided to have a stroke and it’s 2 am and I’m too lazy to fix it #also I drew hands #be proud of me

[wylansvanhendriks]

there’s actually something so personal about how bc the books are from lucy’s pov it’s very easy to tell how she feels about lockwood vs the show giving us lockwood’s perspective and making it very easy to tell how he feels about lucy

#cause like. homegirl is down BAD in the books #but bc it’s her first person pov it’s harder to tell just how down bad lockwood is #but since the show is obviously from an objective angle it’s SO EASY to tell how down BAD lockwood is for lucy #(also v excited to see this phenomenon happen with pjo too) #lockwood and co #lucy carlyle #anthony lockwood #locklyle #lucy x lockwood #text #userevaz #tv: lockwood and co #book: lockwood and co #otp: just an associate