edit: i would also like to note that i found caraval because of booktok so it can be good sometimes :) (i also do not have tiktok myself because who needs the toxicity but i see a lot of tiktok on pinterest)
alright this is random but PSA about all books:
i know i make theories about acftl often and reply to them in asks but i would like everyone to remember:
at the end of the day it is, in fact, a silly little book and is not that deep and making theories is fun but there is no need for people to argue a ton about it imo because the reason you make theories is for FUN correcting people is fine but idk weirds me out when people will get so mad about book theories like YOU'RE MEANT TO BE HAVING FUN if it's not fun for you and you're taking it way too serious and going around being rude to people then are you actually having fun??? it's also ok to not agree with a theory or like a theory too :) the entire point of reading (especially the YA genre) is for fun.
another thing: STOP BEING SO CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING ON BOOKTOK. i have seen way too many things of people getting mad because they see teenagers with aesthetic book shelves or people who spend a lot of money on books and it's so weird to me because their only argument is "they're making it about the aesthetic"AND ITS THE SAME WITH DARK ACADEMIA i saw a post of somebody gatekeeping dark academia and saying you can't like it if you don't read poetry or classics 😐 LIKE ITS AN AESTHETIC NOT A CULTURE??? HELLO???? it's literally just liking dark academia stuff and how it looks and the style. i have never read a poetry book yet i still love the dark academia aesthetic so why are we gatekeeping 🤨 if it gets people excited about books that's a good thing.
i don't care if this is controversial or makes people mad because it's my opinion and i think people need to stop gatekeeping books or saying shit like "you're not a real reader if you haven't read ____!!!" i don't like booktok or tiktok at all and i think tiktok can ruin things sometimes sure but like why are you hating on people for liking the aesthetic of books 😐 reading is a personal thing to the individual imo. some people like classics, some people like YA, some people like adult fantasy, some people like non-fiction, some people go to the library a lot, some people just buy books, some people listen to audio books, some don't. it's all a personal thing and it's meant to just be entertaining and interesting.
thank you for coming to my tedtalk.
(also i would like to mention that i got inspired to make this post by this video and it's super interesting please check it out if you haven't:) )
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HAIIII DANDY I LOVE SEEING UR ART ON MY DASH SO MUCH UR ART STYLE IS SO COOL AND UR SHIP WITH GUZMA IS ADORABLE WAAA
SOBS THANK YOU NICK WAUHHHH this is so kind ( ╥ω╥ )♡ i really appreciate it WAUGH !!!
also you caught me at a good time :3 I had my sketchbook out when u sent this and was just trying to figure out what to draw, and I remembered you saying how u wish u had more pics of Aiden so ,,, I did a lil doodling of ur guys (۶•̀ᴗ•́)۶—̳͟͞͞♡
here's an Aiden and a Kylar for you !!! i hope these are okay !!! ^^;;
i appreciate u sm and u are always a delight to see on the dash !!
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i chime in with my own unfinished thought on the mvk & miles thing:
initially mvk brings in the boy with a (half-baked) plan for vengeance. he'll turn the boy into something his father would hate (mistake #1: gregory would be disappointed with miles' methodology used at worst, he could not possibly hate him) and then destroy him as a vengeance against the person who stuck him a wound that would never heal (mistake #2: if mvk had the bullet removed, it would heal most likely fairly well. a whole character study could be based on the fact that mvk decided to carry that pain along instead of get help).
thing is, miles was grateful, miles was bright, miles was a kid, and mvk was, for all the faults he had, a father. he is von karma of course, he can't just *not* go through with a plan he's made once he's said he'd do it, because if he did it would mean that his initial decision was a mistake and he can't make mistakes if he is perfect. so he postpones.
and then suddenly it's almost christmas 15 years later and the statue of limitation of the dl-6 is running out and if mvk si going to do the whole vengeance thing, if he really plans to completely destroy miles edgeworth with the "killed his own father" guilt, he has to do it NOW.
it's a rushed thing, it's something mvk doesn't relaly want to do anymore, but he has to pick between destroying his own son or admitting to a mistake, that is destroying his own sense of self.
so here. my theory is that he was incredibly grateful that he got caught in the end, though he'd never admit that to anyone, least of all to himself.
please just imagine me pressing my hands to my cheeks and softly going yes, yes, yes, oh my god your BRAIN. please tell me you've written stuff utilising these headcanons? i wish to Subscribe to the newsletter 👀👀
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in some fandoms, mostly media whose audiences skews younger, theres often an annoying minority who latch onto a comfort character so hard, they genuinely get mad at other fans for putting their comfort characters in situations that make them (the characters!) upset in fanworks. most of it’s, like, kids and teens who haven’t learned how to interact with people yet and theres a smattering of unhinged adults and either way theyre not like. the joking or ironic mad most fans get seeing those kinds of works. these fans’ vibe isn’t “fuck you op /lh” its more “fuck you op /srs/kys”
anyway i already think the concept of judging a work solely based on how its characters feel as if they’re real people with agency, instead of judging the work based on how it makes the audience feel/what the work is trying to say, is uhhhhhh braindead! but also if you look at the comfort characters some of these ppl have its like. most of them follow fandom trends. and by fandom trends i mean most of them favor the angsty, usually white and male, characters who have rly tragic backstories. they don’t have to be particularly well written characters though some of them definitely are. but they’re usually edgy and, i cannot stress this enough, very tormented by events that happen in canon.
anyway i think most of it boils down to people not knowing how to mind their own damn business and just avoid angsty fanworks if they’re not feeling it. but it’s like. buddy, if you can’t stand people making content about your comfort character Going Through Situations, then why did you pick a comfort character whose entire job in canon is to Go Through Situations
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I want to have such raw sexual energy that any time anyone at all with a sex drive so much as looks at me they can only think about sex so that everyone is a lot more chill because of all those pleasure hormones for everyone and so that I can pick anyone I want and know I won't be fucked over because I'm literally a sex demon and they are addicted to my pheromones. I need to invest in some way to boost my natural pheromones (all humans have those actually!) and do some mad science shit. It's time to get even more irresistible. Gonna walk in the room and make everyone in it cum. That's the good life.
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