#cohoes

[20th-century-railroading]

DH 42 by Citizen of the Galaxy Via Flickr: RS-11 duo 5001 and 5006 team up to power the Colonie local serving the GE Silicones plant, seen here crossing the Mohawk River from Waterford into Cohoes on 17 July 1986.

#d&h #delaware & hudson #1986 #trains #freight train #history #cohoes #new york

[extraneous-trip]

Is it so wrong for me to want a second book to Ugly Love, but I want it to be from Miles’ perspective during his time with Tate so we can hear all of his inner turmoil about his feelings for her??

Like I need to know what was going through his mind during multiple scenes. The table scene, the panic attack, etc.

I also wouldn’t be mad if there was some present day scenes of them being happy and married with their daughter and maybe another baby or two..

Is this to much to ask for??? Lol

#ugly love #collen hoover #cohoes #coho #cohobooks #miles archer #Tate Collins #I Love Miles Archer

[zutarasbuff]

Pals reading a CoHo book cracks me up. Generally, I am not much of a critc, but CoHo provokes me to judge the reading habits of people along with their entire personality all in a go.

And believe me the ruling’s never a fine one.

#cohoes #colleen hoover #cohobooks #anti coho

[ratabibliofila]

Todos nós somos humanos e, às vezes, fazemos coisas ruins. Acho que isso é verdade, de certa maneira. Ninguém é exclusivamente ruim ou exclusivamente bom. Algumas pessoas só precisam se esforçar mais para suprimir o lado ruim.

É assim que acaba, Colleen Hoover

#collen hoover #ryle kincaid #cohoes #trecho de livro #quotes

[shrasthi]

He's the one always trying to push my boundaries and straddle the line of what I'm okay with, and I'm honestly tired of it.

"What if I've changed?" He (Ryle) asks. "Really changed?" His eyes are full of a mixture of sincerity and sorrow. It does nothing for me. Absolutely nothing.

"I don't care if you've changed, Ryle. I hope you have. But it's not my responsibility to test that theory."

~Lily blossom bloom ( it starts with us)

#it starts with us #lily blossom bloom #lily bloom #i dont like Ryle #coho #cohobooks #cohoes #collen hoover #it ends with us #books and reading #book recommendations #book quotes #books & libraries #bookadiction #ryle is a jerk #ryle needs to be in jail

[3garcons]

Chatham Rabbits and Zan and the Winter Folk at Cohoes Music Hall

Mar 2024

#chatham rabbits #zan strumfeld #the winter folk #cohoes #zan and the winter folk

[ililitheveworld]

Some more fun #behindthescenes photo of the photo booth that me and @yellowdiamondservice run. These are from a dance and photos with Santa! If you are interested in having us at an event of yours reach out to @yellowdiamondservice directly for scheduling and further details! #518 #newyork #photobooth #518photographer #518modelcommunity #518modeling #518photography #518events #albanyny #albany #albanynewyork #troyny #enjoytroy #troy #cohoesny #cohoes #cohoesproud (at New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHq8VypzkO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#behindthescenes #518 #newyork #photobooth #518photographer #518modelcommunity #518modeling #518photography #518events #albanyny #albany #albanynewyork #troyny #enjoytroy #troy #cohoesny #cohoes #cohoesproud

[weaponizedducks]

you know what i think kids/teen books do 'fantasy romance/fantasy books' way better than any of the adult fantasy books booktok raves about. i try and read some of them and 90 percent of the time its just smut and abusive relationships disguised as 'dark romance'. then i read books like Keeper Of The Lost Cities, The School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, Land of Stories, the Nevermoor series, that kind of thing, and they are all actually so amazing because they have fleshed out characters with flaws and an engaging plotline instead of just badly written romance. and when they do have romance it's well written and about the people rather than the tropes.

#anti booktok #six of crows is the only booktok book i have loved #this is not me being anti- smut #it's just when it's the only thing driving the plot it's bad #it should not be used as a plot device #anything by taylor jenkins reid i don't mean you you are beautiful #keeper of the lost cities #the school for good and evil #nevermoor #the land of stories #percy jackson #six of crows #anti sjm #anti coho #booktok #you know what i'm talking about #blue analyses things

[cainhowlett]

#art #california #nature #bay area #mendocino #sonoma #printmaking #ink #illustration #mokuhanga #linocut #linoleum #coho #salmon #Salmonids #fish #fishing #spawning #blue #traditional art #reliefprint #river #ocean

[sluttypatrickstar]

#anti coho #anti colleen hoover #book snark #should i tag sjm in this as well–

[seabeck]

Salmon are such amazing creatures

#animals #wildlife #nature #lensblr #artists on tumblr #original photographers #photography #photographers on tumblr #Washington #vsco #pacific northwest #p #coho salmon

[lockandkeyhyena]

can you break the chain?

#yeen art #alvin’s infurno #hell story #ethan beck #alvin adams #anne adams #simon coho #implied abuse

[angel-maybe-alive]

More things I hate about modern literature because today is a bad day and I need to be a dick online to feel better:

How much sex there is in everything

And again I am not a prude, erotica has existed for decades and it's okay but every popular YA or adventure book nowadays is a bad erotica with some low stakes adventure in the background

And somehow they are able to be both bad porn and bad adventure

And also people will promote those books as " yes the plot kinda sucks but there's good sex scenes"

The word Mary sue

The misuse of the word Mary sue

Any attempt to make a "LOTR inspired" book made by a man

Because usually the things that made LOTR good go just over the authors head and we end with basically a vin diesel movie set in the middle ages

This is not just about modern literature but books about or set in horrible moments for a oppressed minority(like holocaust or slavery) written by people who aren't part of said minority

Coleen hoover

She did for feminist literature what Seth MacFarlane did for adult animation

The harry Potter/Percy Jacksonification of children's literature

The magical choose one trope being taken to a magical world did irremediable damage to children's literature

The mean girl trope

Books set in fictional middle ages but the protagonist go to balls in fashion show modern runaway style dresses

You know the tacky Pinterest glittery showing shoulders back and leg

Those official arts of the same exactly white women and the same white guy in slightly different clothes with the same 2016 style eyebrows and the sharp jawline and the nothing expression

Characters being described as "golden skin" so depending if the author needs some representation points they can be interpreted as people of color but if no one says nothing they stay as just tan white

Comparing dark skin color to any food

How many authors try to make at the same time "this is brainless wish fulfilment fantasy about being desired by a hot dominating guy" and " this is a profound take about the horrors of abuse"

Usually by having the second love interest to abuse the protag

In the end the message that stays is any abuse is forgivable if the abuser is hot enough

The "I'm skinny but not hot super model skinny I am ugly skinny my bones show because of malnourishment"

"yet I don't feel any other effect of starvation like being weak and I can carry five times my body weight in whatever animal the author needs me to hunt in the beginning of the book because making me a farmer wouldn't be cool"

"I am ugly" cried the skinny girl with locks of auburn hair porcelain white skin and eyes of emerald green.

The jk Rowling stupid name school (she named the werewolf Wolfy mcwolf in Latin and people though it was smart now we have a girl who fights on a island named island and the archer who marries a fae named fae archer )

And again faes because fuck faes

#anti sjm #anti sarah j maas #anti booktok #books #writing #unpopular opinion #i guess #yes i am sour and mean #anti jk rowling #anti lore olympus #i know it doesn't counts as a book #but i bloody hate it #fuck booktok #anti coho #anti coleen hoover #i think this is how you write her name

[happysharkintensifies]

Booktok makes me sick, not just because of all the shitty books. It's the prevalence, no, the celebration, of toxic masculinity. Every single booktok book features some variation on the same man. And without fail, against all sensible reason, these characters are portrayed as handsome and charismatic and desirable.

It makes me sick when these authors hold up these toxic, predatory traits and put them on a pedestal as some kind of Ideal Man.

It makes me sick when their aggressiveness and possessiveness is treated as romantic. It makes me sick when these shitty men forcibly grab women, invade their personal spaces, and render them helpless by 'purring' in their ears, every. single. fucking. time.

It makes me sick that these misogynistic, heteronormative, and hypermasculine social conventions keep appearing in so-called feminist literature.

Strip away the idealized elements and you have what is basically the rich, white, cishet, alpha-male archetype. He's tall, usually six feet, physically fit and muscular with obligatory six pack abs, and conventionally handsome, with a chiseled jawline. He's usually clean-shaven, and any hair he may have on his body is minimal. He maintains composure at all times and rarely shows anxiety or uncertainty. He exudes raw charisma and charm and navigates social spaces effortlessly.

His hobbies, if he has any, are stereotypically masculine. When it comes to sex, he's confident, skilled, exclusively dominant, and always knows what to do without communicating with his partner. The sex he enjoys is usually rough, animalistic and overpowering. He may have been with several women in the past, and he may be regarded as a sex god, both in-universe and out.

His toxic traits are rarely portrayed as negative. But when they are, they're usually held up as some edgy, anti-hero persona and the reader is inevitably manipulated into sympathizing with him. He'll be portrayed as a tortured, wounded animal, and his female love interest (and, by proxy, the reader) will decide on some variation of 'I can fix him'.

He is essentially the unrealistic standard the ideal Proper Man; the one that men are expected to emulate, and that women are expected to swoon over.

But what really irks me is the lost potential.

If there are men who don't fit into this mold, they are depicted as pathetic, ineffectual, or any number of negative traits.

The narrative quietly and passive-aggressively mocks them and portray them as boring and un-sexy.

After all, is this the kind of man who will bravely swoop in and sweep a helpless woman off her feet? Of course not. Such men are boys. Wimps. Cowards.

These books are supposed to be fantasy: a genre in which easily anything can be explored. If faeries, magic, and contrived mating bonds can exist, then why can't we also have male characters who exist outside the stereotypical, hypermasculine mold?

Why is it that we can have so many fantastical, impossible, and wondrous magical forces, creatures, and peoples, but we can't have men who aren't possessive, abusive, or controlling?

Why is it that male characters, have to be so innately dominant, abusive, and violent? Why do they have to be so fit and muscular and strong?

Even worse, why is it treated as something that is so natural, so inescapable, even in the realm of fiction?

Where are the men who aren't tall and fit? Where are the men who don't have sculpted abs or chiseled jawlines? Where are the men who aren't lean and muscular?

Why can’t we have men who are skinny or overweight? Why can't we have men who aren't handsome or attractive, but just average looking? Why can't we have men who are shorter or just average height?

Why can't we have men with non-stereotypical hobbies? Why can't we have men who love to read, or paint, or write, or sing, or dance, or build model kits?

Why can’t we have men who are timid and shy? Why can't we have men who feel anxiety, fear, and sadness? Why can't we have men who aren't afraid of crying openly?

Why can't we have men who aren't sex gods? Why can't we have men who aren't confident in bed? Who are anxious, or even scared, at the prospect of sex? Who are passive instead of dominant? Who want to experience intimacy and affection?

Why can’t we have men be kind and gentle and sweet for once?

I'll tell you why we can't. Because booktok says men like these are not 'man' enough. Booktok says men like these are the 'boring' option, and completely devoid of interesting quirks, traits or personality. Booktok says men like these are underserving of attention, and only fit to be background noise.

As far as booktok is concerned, men like these can't exist.

#anti sjm #anti booktok #anti colleen hoover #anti coho #masculinity #toxic masculinity #booktok critical #healthy masculinity #fuck booktok

[3garcons]

Run Rabbit Run in Cohoes Music Hall Jan 0224

#run rabbit run #cohoes

[wallisii]

salmon slammin' sthursday

#i couldnt fit atlantic salmon onto the page sorry guys )-: #anyway this was a birthday gift for a friend!! and i liked it a lot so i thought i'd share it #tumblr nuked quality again though i think #salmon #sockeye salmon #chum salmon #chinook salmon #king salmon #pink salmon #coho salmon #nature art #fish art #nature #fishblr #fish #salmon art #traditional art #artists on tumblr #tee's trash corner