#book freak

[dimmadoome]

#early 2000s #inkheart #gregor the overlander #uglies #circle of magic #the five ancestors #maximum ride #leviathan #leven thumps #deltora quest #keys to the kingdom #cirque du freak #random poll #reading poll #book poll

[ourpageblog]

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#new #trending #popular #books & libraries #read #blog #tumblr #subscribe #bookreview #comment #book freak #bookspot #books #booktok #bookish #books and reading #booklover #novel review #novels

[mickgaydolenz]

real question to all of my fellow book reading people. how do you guys mark your place? do you use a bookmark, dog ear, memorize the page #, or a secret other thing???? 📚

#i’m the heathen that dog ears my books. it makes my twin so mad. but it’s so convenient #is that really so sacrilegious??? what about those freaks that tear out the pages as they read??? #anyways! i would love to know where everyone weighs in on this! #reading #books

[lunaicfantastic]

fav part of gideon the ninth is for the first pre-canaan house chunk of the book, she's all "ugh I'm so normal surrounded by all these weirdo goth freaks when I blow this popsicle stand everyone will see how cool and normal and charming I am" and then she gets to canaan house and realizes that while she might have been a normie jock in the ninth house she is not exempt from being a goth weirdo who hides important doors behind tapestries and sneaks around in the dark so she doesn't have to talk to people. like we talk about her being a jock forced to be goth but nature v nurture babey she's not shedding that bone freak skin anytime soon

#gideon the ninth #and she realizes this its really funny #every time she does some ninth house shit shes like damn this is some ninth house shit :/ #and then she does it anyway #i actually think its a cool piece of character work: gideon goes from seeing herself outside of/in opposition to the ninth house #in the beginning of the book #to feeling a part of/a soldier for the ninth house (and harrow specifically who gideon sees as the epitome of the ninth) #even during her brief backslide where she goes and talks shit with the eighth she can't really separate herself the way she could before #and when the chips are down and isaac and jeannemary are dead she wants two things: her longsword (a relic of aiglamene's training) #and harrow #so #yeah shes a jock but shes a goth weirdo freak jock #and shes a jock of the ninth #shut up anna

[everchased]

half orc flirting next level

#me @ me: you do not have to fully color all your art. it takes you a million years to make more polished stuff #also me @ me: but free coloring book of my oc? 🥺 #she counterspelled then ran up on me anyway and crit my ass twirls my hair uwu #z'rell you were a freak i knew for like 2 hours ily<3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 tav #oc: finch #my art

[zrreed]

Leading Aegis releases tonight at midnight!!

In a world where Captain Carolina Trace could’ve been an indentured worker, or a soldier for a corrupt government, she chose the freedom of piracy instead. But what the rest of the world doesn’t know is that she’s cursed, and bound to her ship, Omen, for all but a few hours at a time. When her most recent quest to break the curse puts her on a trajectory to cross paths with Ophelia, a fugitive doctor, and Wyatt, a Sovereign soldier, she might just have to reevaluate the things that are most important to her. What is she willing to sacrifice for her freedom? And what is she willing to sacrifice when her freedom isn’t the only thing at stake?

Get your copy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Google Play, and Lulu!

#leading aegis #can't believe it's happening #also look at the amazing freaking cover that #lesly oh #did if you haven't seen it already #also go buy my new book please #i'm excited for everyone to read it :D

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

#writeblr #warm up #i can't write rn but i have SO much words in here bc im reading the chorus of dragons books #(just started book 4) #and this woman's writing is just LIVING in my brain. let me out!!! #(i read roughly like 2-4 books a week usually bc i go on long walks with my dog but when a book is REALLY good like. it eats my life. ) #anyway ...... so like here's a story that idk i've tried to explain to other people as being wild #but maybe im the only one who thinks it is wild??? #so i play pokemon go (i just started in jan) bc i love pokemon and as i have mentioned i walk goblin for like an hour in the morning #and i don't like a lot of fitness trackers due to the fact it makes me .sad. but i also wanted the little digital rewards. enter pokemon go #anyway so they make you make friends to complete quests. so i used a reddit thread. i do not usually use reddit. i don't have an acct #i lurked. i just googled like ''pokemon go reddit '' and randomly added a bunch of numbers #i was on that page for all of 15 minutes. there are THOUSANDS of responses on that page. #here's what's wild: in that group of people. even though i am not on reddit and it was one random event once #it turns out one of those people lives in the town i live in. or at least very close. i only know this because #when we send each other gifts. it's from the same freaking area. #i can't ask them to meet up bc pokemon go doesn't have a messaging app lol but like . what are the fucking chances that #a random person posts in a random reddit thread and HAPPENS to get added by someone ELSE from their SAME TOWN #who by pure fucking CHANCE is ALSO playing pokemon go and looking for friends #i googled it there's only 42000 people in my broad region. the .......... smallness ! of the world!!!

[delizbin]

I wanna be defined by the things that I love

Not the things I hate

Not the things that I'm afraid of

Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night

I, I just think that

You are what you love

#caption is the song daylight by the one and only queen Taylor Swift #that song is so them #when i have no ideas for the captions i write ts lyrics #haymitch abernathy #effie trinket #haymitch x effie #hayffie #whatever i sold my soul to them apparently #i freaking can’t #to whoever made this playlist: I owe you #i seriously need to reread the books #once you read the book with the knowledge you own from the movies about those two is deadly over #I’m waffling #thg fanart #hayffie fanart

[rewrite-canon]

im going crazy with how people are starting to agree with snow that sejanus was really stupid and deserved what was coming to him. reading the books first should be a pre requisite to the movie idcccc if that takes away the wider audience, the wider audience all have smooth brains anyway.

“why was he colluding with rebels when he could’ve just thought about it pragmatically 🙄” i’m in your fucking walls. sejanus was never dumb, snow just kept pushing that perception of him through the book to deflect the fact that sejanus was an actual good person. snow thought himself the personification of good and benevolence, which was why everything he did had to have some half-assed excuse as to why he was justified in doing it. it was why he was actually tweaking in the woods when lucy gray left him, because he wanted to rid himself of her but he didn’t have an actual reason so he convinced himself of the most random scenario ever to justify trying to shoot at her. so we can establish that snow was an evil broke boy who clearly wasn’t good— then sejanus was a direct confrontation of snow’s own shortcomings towards that (i don’t think i have to detail how sejanus was genuine, it was obvious). coriolanus and sejanus are like the direct opposite characters of each other, and snow knew and took pride in this to an extent. which is why snow couldn’t admit that sejanus was good to himself, thus sejanus was deemed ‘stupid’ to protect his own deluded self actualisation (but this also includes other aspects like how the war made the plinths rich and the snows poor, leading to resentment and jealousy from snow).

“but that still didn’t mean he wasn’t doing dumb things throughout the book” was it really that dumb? a rebellion will always include some level of risk but i don’t hear anyone calling heavensbee stupid because it actually worked out for him. plus sejanus is district, so if we use our common sense of who he is as a character and emotional intelligence of his situation, it’s pretty easy to see why he would get in touch with rebels. he’s literally always yearned for the districts, he never once cared about his money or safety, which isn’t stupid, it’s sad. this was his way of dealing with the guilt of profiting from his people’s suffering— again, not stupid. you could argue he was reckless, especially when he went into the arena, but most people who simply cast him as a ‘dumb character’ ignore how troubled he is and fall into the very filtered lens of snow who was just concentrating on his stupidity.

sejanus’ growing radical actions had nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with feeling helpless and like nothing was changing. he tried minor/low-risk things such as attempting to change the perception of the districts in the capitol, advocating against the hunger games etc etc. of course it didn’t work, so his options grew limited to more radical courses of action. its a natural line of thought— activists literally do it in real life when they feel as if their cause isn’t getting enough attention (eg. setting themselves on fire). sejanus is a desperate character who is so selfless in light of snow’s constant self-preservation. snow will always put himself first and be paranoid that he will be betrayed like he’s betrayed others, so he never understands sejanus’ disposition to help and trust people, so he labels him dumb. omg. like. sejanus is so not-stupid i’m actually gonna start freaking out!! this is defamatory leave my boo alone!! plz go read a book and work on media literacy i am begging!!!

#maybe the stupidity was the friends we made along the way….. #i saw someone say that since the book was in third person then it wasn’t told from snow’s pov so it was reliable 💀💀 #like are we stupid now??? #this was supposed to be a short post but now im ranting and tweaking out #sejanus haters catch these handz leave this boy alone #he is literally the best!!! i hate yall sm 😭😭 #some of yall have the WORST takes about tbosas ever. #dont even get me started on the ‘lucy gray was manipulating and using snow the whole time’ bcuz i will freak out worse #sejanus plinth defender 4EVAAAAA #sejanus plinth #coriolanus snow #snowjanus #lucy gray baird #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #the hunger games #rewriting

[darcyolsson]

not to sound pretentious but sometimes i will go on goodreads and feel as if ive landed on another planet. one star reviews saying "the main characters have toxic relationship/friendship" "the main character is an awful person, she's unlikable" "the prose was too extravagant" IS THAT NOT WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR ...??????

#i feel like this has to do w the tiktok way of reading books where it's like. if a character does smth that must mean #the author condones said behaviour #is it not enough to watch a little freak ruin some things for everyone....im a good person in everyday life #dont need more of that in my books! #personal

[skipppppy]

I have taken to reading Agatha Christie in my free time and I am BEGGING tumblr to get on this train. I need there to be a Poirot renaissance NOW. His tboy swagger is off the fucking wazoo. His combined autism/ocd smoke is too real they're gonna kill him

#poirot #he has enraptured me body and soul #hercule poirot #i am also a little freak of belgian descent who has an unhealthy fixation on hot chocolate and love of routine #agatha christie #also murder on the orient express is just. a really good book #i can see where benoit blanc gets it from

[annabethisterrified]

see I can’t be on dating apps bc I’m like I’m only interested in the whimsical but soul-shattering but easy but ring-fingered sort of love btw we also have to have known each other for years and also going to the grocery store has to be as exciting of an experience as a fancy date and also I’m irrationally jealous and we have to have the exact same sense of humor oh and also I’ve read and written myself into a thousand unreachable corners and  

#figured my fellow book freaks might relate #*azula voice* it's okay. you can laugh. it's funny! #i promise i'm legit fine though lmaoooooo

[blueboyluca]

For instance, a litter of six puppies will be individually tested on their reaction to a novel stimulus like an umbrella suddenly opening. Let’s say puppies one and two are not spooked in the slightest; they wag and investigate the umbrella. Puppies three and four spook first and then investigate. Puppies five and six spook but don’t come around to investigating by the end of the testing period. What have we learned about the temperaments of these puppies? The standard test interpretation would read that puppies one and two are very stable, puppies three and four are a bit spooky and puppies five and six are definitely spooky. The reality is that we haven’t learned anything about puppies one and two, puppies three and four have demonstrated reactivity but excellent bounce-back and puppies five and six have demonstrated reactivity and some lack of bounce-back. Puppies one and two haven’t been tested yet. Remember, the test is to determine the reaction of a dog to something that frightens it, not the puppy’s attitude about wet weather gear. Before it’s possible to see how well numbers one and two respond to a fearful stimulus, you first have to supply one. All that can be concluded from the test is that pups one and two aren’t afraid of umbrellas. We still don’t know how they will react when they encounter something that scares them. They may react as did three and four or they may be like five and six or worse. The jury is still out.

— Jean Donaldson, The Culture Clash (1996)

#dog quotes #dog books #this made me feel better about having a puppy that spooks #she does recover fine #and she doesn’t freak out or run away or shake with fear

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #148

You know those homework assignments where you have to interview someone in your family and then write an essay about their responses? Fic where Peter's class is told to interview their dad / a father figure in their life. 

Peter decides to interview Tony. But, he doesn't want his class to accuse him of lying, and he definitely doesn't want Tony to know what the assignment is about. 

So for Tony, Peter makes it seem like the assignment is just to interview anyone. Then, he carefully chooses questions to ask that are domestic and personal enough to avoid any mention of superheroes, celebrities, or so on. The few details that do slip through he just leaves out of his final essay.

For the class problem, Peter solves it by referring to Tony in the essay exclusively as "dad"

Unfortunately for Peter, the teacher then announces a part 2 to the assignment. Right after collecting the essays, the teacher says they will now need to bring the people they interviewed to school for their presentations

Peter has pretty much decided to not even mention it to Tony and just say his dad is busy. But then Flash has to open his big mouth. 

He accuses Peter of just making his assignment up, loudly reminding the class that he's an orphan. Peter clarifies that this father figure thing is a new development, but now the teacher looks suspicious

Peter is going to have to ask Tony to come to his school. And he's going to have to explain why the class will be full of kids and their fathers

#irondad fic ideas #irondad and spiderson #imagine the assignment is because the class is reading a book with like toxic masculinity themes #so they have to interview the adult men in their lives about it #tony: yeah my own father never wanted me to show emotion and considered it weak. but emotions are important kid #I've been trying really hard not to pass any of that damage onto you #tony when peter reveals the purpose of the assignment: (crying) see kid. emotions #iron dad and spider son #peter parker #tony stark #in the interview tony talks about things like his ptsd and anxiety and his love for his family #peter's class when they realize the person talking about these things was freaking IRON MAN: :O !!!?!¡!!! #peter: my dad's career puts him under a lot of pressure. at home he can be himself but at work he often has to wear a mask :) #tony: u little shit #lmao #queueueueue

[markantonys]

"This is some of the most fun work we’ve seen from the talented actor Dónal Finn all season; he gets that Mat is a depressive character, and so when Mat has moments of joy and elation — whether that’s simply reuniting with his friends or realizing he was born to be the leader of the most legendary assemblage of heroes ever known — he really makes them almost radiate inner sunlight. It’s just a pleasure to see Mat happy." –Vulture

#wotedit #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #mat cauthon #mine #wot show spoilers #I WILL NEVER BE OVER THIS EVER #man!!!!!!!!!!!! #'why have they spent 7 episodes harping on about mat being dark and not letting him succeed at anything' #so that i would BAWL MY FREAKING EYES OUT DURING THE HORN SCENE that's why!!! #LOOK AT HIS FACE!!!!! he's so happy so relieved so emotional!!! #it's amazing that they were able to take the massive unplanned change to mat's story caused by barney's departure #and not just work around it but create such a beautiful and moving character arc out of it #show!mat IS different from book!mat. different and BETTER. there i said it

[blueteller]

So, Dark Elf Tasha...

...more like Tanned Elf Tasha!! 😂

For goodness' sake, man! That is NOT! DARK! SKIN!! 🤣 RIP "black pearl beauty" elves, I guess you're only gonna get proper characterization by the fanbase...

#tcf #trash of the count's family #lcf #lout of the count’s family #humor #tcf humor #meme #tcf meme #tasha #tcf tasha #dark elves #make our elves actually black like in the book darn it!!! #i'll be fair i actually like the design aside from the skin shade #but i am serious why are they freaking bleaching our dark elves #someone hand that girl some potassium or something