#fast reading

[dresyreads]

Well, I timed myself reading Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth By Rick Riordan.

The book is a first edition, 361 pages long and I hit the lap time every 100 pages.

Unfortunately, I do have ADHD and got distracted but I can read 361 pages in about 3 hours and 4 minutes, after a full 8 hour workday. Google says the word count for the book is 85,079 words. About 462 words per minute and 27,743 words per hour. See the screenshots below for reference.

#reading challenge #2023 #reading #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #reread #percy jackson and the battle of the labyrinth #battle of the labyrinth #book tbr #booklr #books and reading #bookworm #books #books & libraries #currently reading #pjo series #pjo #fast reading #speed reading

[zkyeline]

a couple of eepies

#atsv #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #pavitr prabhakar #chaipunk #people are so fast with all their ship names! #i read them as platonic but tag however you like #art #fan art #atsv fanart #redraw #yeap I draw over that one pic

[cozystars]

!!! BUILT LIKE BILBO BAGGINS !!!

#cosmo creates #edits #dungeon meshi #this one is a personal favorite rn! I’m proud of how it came out :) #also if you can’t read the song credits it’s keep up by karma carr #so good but the full song is like. 2 minutes. I need more than that #anyways. chucklefuck. yesh #volume warning #as well as fast visuals! should’ve noted that earlier #flashing #jic #omg I misread the lyrics. OH WELL

[majoringinsarcasm]

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

#reject modern fast fashion fandom culture #comment on shit from 2012 to scare and or delight the author #anytime I see ppl reading my haikyuu fics I wanna cry with happiness #being reminded of fics and then looking and realizing I still love them is a true gift #COMMUNITY BITCHES THIS IS WHAT THAT IS

[danielleurbansblog]

Meet This Author: Francesca Maria

Q: When did you begin writing stories? I started writing at the age of 6. My first story was about a group of kids that stumbled onto a haunted house at the end of a cul-de-sac. It was my way of coping with growing up in a real haunted house. I’ve been writing horror ever since.  Q: What troupes do you like to explore in your writing?  Oh I love all of them. My recent collection is a love…

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#Amazon #Author Interview #Creative Edge Publicity #Dark #dark reads #entertaining #fast reading #fear #Fiction #Francesca Maria #Goodreads #grief #horror #losing control #loss #Meet This Author #must read #new #New Release #powerlessness #Q&A #recommended #Short Story Collection #Special Guest #They Hide #writing #writing style

[elminster-big-naturals]

when its 4am and the whole squad is zooted out their gourds trying to read the overhead menu in mcdonalds

#baldur's gate 3 #i've been them all #wyll: the smell of dirty fry oil is making him green out #astarion: 100% of his energy is dedicated to keeping his face perfectly neutral. he hasn't said or heard a word since they left camp #lae'zel: wait. where do my arms go. how do i noramlly hold my arms. what. am i supposed to do with my arms??? ogh god everyone knows im hig #anthrael: has been trying to read the menu for 13 minutes now but the pictures on the screens keep changing too fast

[that-one-tired-tiefling]

So like, yesterday my laptop was acting a bit funny so I decided to actually read a book instead. I lied down right after taking dogs for the last walk early and I already showered beforehand, so I was cozy in bed around 9.30 pm. And they I discovered something.

As my job, I deal with reports and documents, massive amouts each day. And in order to perform better, I taught myself to just pick up words that are important, search for patterns, those kind of stuff. So, I now can read real fast.

And by 'real fast' I mean 11 chapters (so around 60%) of the book was read in 1,5 hour.

Just for the record, I already read this book, it's only 253 pages and each chapter is broken into smaller sub-chapters, around 10-13 each. It may be affecting the speed as well, but I remember reading that book when I was younger and I would read only 1 chapter per sitting (sometimes not even full chapter if I was really tired) and it would take me several days to get through it.

Now I kinda wonder if I will manage to read other books with that speed. Will check once I'm done with the current one.

#the book is called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. #joseph murphy #fast reading #books #cozy #psychology

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[fulgurbugs]

Guess who caught up in the manga

#everything went so wrong so fast in the manga. recommend reading if you like pain #fanart #myart #doodle time 😎 #jjk #jujutusu kaisen #jjk manga spoilers #chosoyuki #yuki tsukumo #choso kamo #jjk choso #choso brain: weird ✅ offputting ✅ baby ❌ girl ❌. but who else could she possibly be referring to #yuki my beloved you were too good for gege he did you too dirty

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

#mine #cats #i was like losing it over th colouring yesterday like this SUCKS and then looked at it 2day n was like. anyway #ive been unstoppable since ive figured out how 2 do glowy things #me n my partner went ice skating this evening !! so so fun #i love how girls will just peacefully hang out in the centre ice doing spins n boys will fast and furious skate around at 100mph #like we dont need to be doing all that #as soon as i see a boy w hockey skates enter the ice i am now leaving the ice #anyway....i got a slightly dubious fantasy audiobook 2day we will....see...how it is #whenever i read a fantasy book written by a man my hackles are up i am scenting the air i am growling #have i finished assassins fate u ask.....no :3 #its been sitting at 30% for like 4 months i cant bring myself 2 read more KJBDSSK #there is like so much book left. so much that can go wrong #i will finish it soon i prommy i prommy...n then listen 2 th tawny man audiobooks :3 #ngl this fitz n fool trilogy isnt super doing it 4 me im not finding it as Invigorating for sm reason #still good !! but def my least fave of th three trilogies #anyway. i am going 2 bed

[gascreates]

^^ infectious

#i now desire to read sickfics #this is an old sketch that i colored cuz i was dying to feel productive #depression and executive dysfunction are joining forces against me #i fight back by finishing something fast so i can feel accomplished for a bit #then maybe i can work on the bigger pieces/comics i want to get through #or maybe *gasp* work on a FIC #wouldn't that be crazy #atla #zuko

[dresyreads]

The Grimoire of Grave Fates is a Buddy read I'm currently doing with a friend, so technically I am only halfway through with it as I am waiting to read the next portion after my friend finishes.

These are just the physical book's I've read this week, I do also read Fanfiction (which is shared here after I finish the fic), And I have read a couple ebooks this week as well. See below for a list!

Kiraide Isasete by Hijiki Volumes 1-5

The Alpha's Bride by Kaoru Iwamoto & Yukimura Kanae

The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson & Jo Rioux

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Washed Up [With A Kraken] by L.E. Eldridge

#reading #read #booklr #bookworm #used books #book club #new books #books #fast reading #fanfiction #2024 reading challenge #2024 readings #2024

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #jiang cheng #'Good Morning World' because to wwx the jiang household is what grounds him. It is his burrow and blanket. #The familiar soup and banter is his home. The familiar arguments and tension are also his home. #Notice how quickly he throws LWJ to the side once he has JC back in reach! 'He was so boring; I wish *you* were there!' #WWX is very quick to constantly remind himself that he fits within a very specific power structure and role. #He pushes boundaries but almost always only the boundaries that he knows he can push against. #Sitting here now and realizing that if WWX did take life more seriously and act more diligent he would totally usurp JC. #Because the contrast with Them (tm) is wwx is the one that gets in trouble and JC is the one that sticks to the rules. #That responsible appearance especially in contrast is the thin line that holds JC's self-esteem together. #And lets be fully honest. From JC's perspective the last week was also extremely intense and stressful. #It truly was a feat to travel so far so fast despite also being exhausted. Never knowing if it is all in vain. #JC said with his actions 'I would move mountains for you and dig through stone with my bare hands if it meant reaching you.' #and WWX said '[read]' #It's about wwx chronically asking 'why would someone care for me? I'm always tool to be used' than accepting that people love him.

[andisupreme]

I moved recently to start a new job and part of my commute now involves one of those high capacity toll booths where a two lane road suddenly flares out into 5-7 lanes of total anarchy with no lines anywhere, and then narrows back down to two lanes again, and we're just supposed to sort ourselves out? Who designed this

anyway I dreamed up this helpful anatomical guide on the drive home

#thought of flipping it upside down for it to read correctly but then it didn't feel like the driver pov #oh also yeah aside from generally pulling back from online spaces for the most part I've started a FAST-PACED full-time job #after on and off contract/part time work since 2020 #I am WIPED #all the time #exhausted #I'm told I will adjust and I am trusting these people but holy shit I'm capital B Bushed #you will not see me frequently anymore but do not mourn for me #I am adjusting to my new fish tank... #I will be thriving #by the time I turn 30 next year I will be able to hit my 30s at a run #I'm feeling it mr krabs

[elitadream]

A Humble Offering 💝🪵

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I saw this post by @peaches2217 which was inspired by this earlier post of mine, and uh... I couldn't resist. 🥺🥰

#I never reached for my tablet this fast 😂 #I've always been so incredibly fond of this concept #Mario having big carpenter vibes and offering handmade presents to his loved ones #It's just- all so indescribably charming and endearing to me! #Reading that scenario gave me a burst of inspiration 🤭💕 #Hope you like! ^-^ #Mario #Princess Peach #Mareach #Mario x Peach #friendship and romance #fluff #demonstrations of love and affection #gifts #absolute sweethearts #I can't with these two ;_; #Super Mario bros #Fanart

[joeyyap]

How To Learn Anything Effectively

#youtube #learning #effective learning #fast learning #fast reading #qimen #qimen dunjia #qi men #qi men dun jia #law of attraction #joey yap #joeyyap #astrology #metaphysics #chinese metaphysics #chinese astrology