#its a p good book

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

meditations on first philosophy (1641) - rene descartes

"who give a shit"

#rene descartes #ok #so this is a reference to that post #bc i cant stop saying it #sorry i havent been active #ive been working on an opera #and have been having like p bad health issues #but its ok #learning to crochet a minecraft frog #idk if itll be like any good #whatever life is love anyway #blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

In light of the Percy Jackson trailer release

To be clear i do also care very much (PJO my beloved <3) but meme funny so

#httyd books #httyd #how to train your dragon #how to train your dragon books #am i excited for the pjo series? yes of course #would i trade it for an accurate good httyd series? absolutely in a heartbeat #preferably it would be animated tho lol #in my imaginary land where this is an option its animated :p

[daiwild]

"When God Made Man She Was Only Joking"

LIFE IT NEVER DIE WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY

#ik ppl have done this already but its just too fun not to :p #blaming my friend who supported me when i said i was gonna draw old man yaoi #this is yaoi right idk im not a fujoshi #i need to get this outof my face NOW #i havent actually seen the show but i read the book a while back #planet of the bass #good omens #go2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale

[13eyond13]

the only gay rep I truly care about is

1. countless lives are destroyed because two proud people can't fully admit their gay crushes on each other

and

2. someone hides being a murderer as a metaphor for also hiding being gay

#miss me with that perfect wholesome gay rep stuff #in theory like yeah its good to have that too but does it resonate with me no #like is it probably homophobic to always make the obsessive weird villains creepy and gay yeah #but is that also by far the most fun yeah usually it is #theres this lesbian couple with basically opposite taste to me in my book club #and we read something with a shitty queer coded villain and im like yay #and they're like thats homophobic #and im like youre not wrong but id rather die than give 5 stars to the h/ouse in the c/erulean sea #i feel the 'bad rep' feels different when its a gay person writing it too... like clearly it is complicated #p

[stuckinapril]

i love anthologies. anthologies are so sexy

#in an alternate world where im an english lit major the norton anthology of english lit is my bible #it's by no means an exhaustive overview but i really love how everything is in its neat timeline #and you get a general vibe for how literature was back then as opposed to just going in blind. u see how everything influences everything #a major (maybe a bit irrational?) fear i have is i come out of a book w superficial understanding #and while that has contributed to unfortunate reading slumps i do also like this trait of me #where i am actually focused on giving a book/period of time the respect it deserves vs just reading it flippantly #i like doing my silly little pre-read of a period of time/author before jumping into it #i don't do pre-reads for everything but there are books where i find it necessary to prime my brain for absorbing them #and anthologies are good for that #and they're also a good resource for investigating authors whose vibe sits right w u. #or for knowing the general quaintessential authors of a certain genre of lit #i also love poetry anthologies #the commentary comparing/contrasting certain authors is also rly interesting to me . ok i'll shut up now #p

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy

Imperial space opera trilogy

a soldier who was once a starship AI with thousands of bodies but was betrayed and is now a single human body, encounters one of her old lieutenants on an ice planet and helps her while on her mission of vengeance

in book 2&3 she becomes part of a new ship, protecting a remote system & becoming familiar with the different people & culture while discovering injustices, politics, and murder

interesting cultures, characters, and use of a singular pronoun (she)

#Ancillary Justice #imperial radch #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is a p terrible synopsis but like. who hasn’t heard of these books #anyway: i finally read them!!! 10 years after reading the first 5 chapters lmao #did take me a bit to get into it #but once i got into it; a lot less complex than i expected it to be? or like. smaller scale. which I enjoyed. #also. it’s funny? not like all the time but more so than i was expecting #(i mean I wasn’t expecting or not expecting anything in particular) #love a grumpy not-friendship (as it is in the first book especially) #audiobook cons: skips the first two pages of every other chapter. pros: singing! in a way that actually works #(i only listened to the audio of book 1 bc the libby wait times are SO LONG for the others) #translator zeiat a standout in book 3. obsessed with her #i feel like i don;t have many concrete thoughts other than yea its good #anyway i will read the other 2 books at some point also

[spectral-honey]

Dick: come on, Jason. Just tell me what's wrong, I KNOW it's something.

Jason: oh yeah, how do you KNOW, huh?! Don't give me the older brother instinct crap.

Dick: Jason, you've been reading only Russian authors for a WEEK now

Jason:

Jason: that could mean anything. Maybe I just like Russian literature

Dick: Jason

Dick: yknow what. Okay. But you have to stop getting book recommendations from Tim, he has terrible taste in books--

Jason: *loud and dramatic gasp*

Jason: I can't believe you

Dick: jay--

Jason: No. don't you ever talk to me or Fyodor Dostoevsky ever again

#dick grayson #jason todd #batfam #batman #dc #idk if this is anything im tired and have work tomorrow so im not thinking about it after i post this #anyway. i love crime and punishment its a good book #also i feel like its p commonly accepted thet jasons fav authors are like jane austin; emile bronte etc #and i was looking at audiobooks and i was like it would be funny if tims fav books were like. russian literature and agatha christie #and thats it #anywya einfid 👍

[lizzibennet]

is it just the voices in my head or does it feel completely plausible that bridgerton is being cancelled after s3… 😬

#idk the show is just so dependent on the whistledown thing #in the books it’s so minor #i feel like without it the show loses a lot of its like gimmick #like the draw it has #and i just don’t see how they’d allow pen to continue being whistledown at the end of s3 #that coupled with the fact they seem to be so wholly uninterested in benedict (who was supposed to be the main this season) and fran #and really don’t care about greg or hyacinth at all #idk i just don’t have a good feeling #i really hope i’m wrong though bc ben and sophie are #my fav couple after kate and ant #eloise and phil*p can choke tho

[kotopeachii]

bruh (tag rant)

#making really big and super cool improvements on your artstyle and then having to go right back to your old one because of a project #the most beautiful joker ive ever drawn vs mediocre anime girl #whatever. my art is cute anyway. i shouldnt be too hard on myself #besides theres only 2 left and one is a cat and the other is a middle aged man #so maybe its good that i got better at drawing different faces! :P #theres a silver lining afterall #uuugh but i have to do that really shitty screen tone shading instead of the cool comic book style one #!!!!!!! im crippled by my pure awesomeness!!!! i am king midas!!! #whatever

[chickenoptyrx]

Do you have any radtiz raises gohan fanfic recommendations?

Ive never read any, but im not really the person to ask and im absolutely sure they exist.

Anyone feel free to reblog or comment with a link to fics you'd recommend or have written about raditz raising gohan :U preferably with either a bit of info on why you liked it or a summary

#gonna use the tags for what theyre meant for for once #dbz #dragon ball z #fanfic #fanfiction #raditz #gohan #son gohan #saiyan saga #ok now to abuse the tag function to ramble #i dont really read fanfic much. very very close to never #but thats not cause i think fanfic is bad #i legit think fanworks in general are a very very good thing and suppoting em is how u maintain a good fan community #but my dumbass spends p much all of my free time drawing or thinking about drawing #and when i DO read ( cause i do actually read quite a bit) its as a break from the brainrot that is my dumb little hobby #so reading for me is p much exclusively a break from not only dragonball and like modern fandom as a whole #most the stuff i read is old #i think the area X books were the most modern thing iv read in a long time #i still needta finish heart of darkness- started that while i was gone but suddenly needed to do all those sketchbook drawings #oh and ive found a love fr non fiction and biographies #omfg and ww1 and 2 :[ im becoming an annoying bbq dad :((( #before ya know it ill be reading about the roman empire 💀 #...anyways. point is. im not the best person fr fanfic recs #ill probably reblog this again tomorrow afternoon too so maybe we can get a list of recs tho

[12ratsinagnomecostume]

I had to read the maze runner for school and-

It's objectively a bad book?

This is only about the book, not the movie, and it's only the first book. Ok? Ok.

Thomas is too perfect. The only bad thing about him is that he used to be "evil", and even then he was forced to and you sympathize with him. The changing means nothing to him because it means nothing in general. It's just a "turn crazy" card. It's literally the Flare (which doesn't make sense in itself because if a solar flare actually hit the earth it wouldn't cause disease, but it's science fiction so I'll let it pass) but for the Glade and it gives people memories. Go back and reread it, it's not consistent. Ben was grotesque but Alby wasn't? And then Thomas had a peaceful but kinda nightmarish nap?

And then he wakes up and Zart is dead. AND IT DOESN'T MATTER. He's never mentioned again. He doesn't matter. Albys death? Ultimately doesn't matter. Because his sacrifice wasn't one, it was an excuse for him to kill himself. And even then it doesn't work. It was worthless for no reason. And we don't sympathize for him because all he has done was be mean to Thomas. If I had written it, he would've died instead of Chuck and had more nice moments with Thomas. GIVE THE BOOK DEPTH.

I don't care that anyone died because we didn't have enough time with them. So at least don't have a character die for shock value wtf? It's so pointless. And the lack of female characters my god. I get that's the point but even them, once Theresa showed up I forget she existed. Why? I didn't care about her. Anything she could do Thomas could do better. She was a plot device, not a character.

It reminds me of Harry Potter. Cjs white straight male protagonist with a destiny to save the world or a society, with a power nobody else has (even though it doesn't mean anything), not so great world building, making everyone else an idiot to make the biggest idiot seem smart (like come on, what do you mean the runners couldn't solve the maps in 2 years but Thomas solves it in a week?). Great characters that get discarded in favour of worse characters, misuse of plot devices, it's so similar it's scary.

And they are both popular.

Write better books. Pls I just want good literature.

Or

Schools. Let kids truly analyze books, because I would write one hell of an essay about ethics, gender, and race within this book.

#maze runner #the maze runner #books and reading #books #book analysis #analysis #hot take #its not even funny #its so bad #i hated it i just wanted to read c&p or bsd light novels #heyyy #editing the tags to clarify something: #i was very dramatic while writing this #if you like this series then good! like books! #i just personlaly didn't like it #peope have pointed out that death IS meaningless in this series #which i do get like i understand zart and ablys death #i can get down with that #the point I was trying to say is that *I* felt there was no depth to that fact #that thomas doenst seem to have much confliction about this #but again #i only read the first book and i have a predisposition to not like it bc of what i do like #i might ask my friend who has read them all to give me her take #ok thank you! #and thanks to all the peope who replied or reposted with more info <3 #THE ITS OBJECTIVELY BAD THING WAS A JOKE IM SOERY IM BAD AT THAT TYPO STUFF

[ouidamforeman]

related to prev post i just reblogged but as a certified Deranged Close ReaderTM of the good omens novel i sometimes remember some of the shit that's in it and feel insane, esp when i think about how often it does this weird thing where something is a Joke but at the same time deadly serious or revelatory or containing critical information or later revealed to be very serious in another part of the book. its like fridge horror but managing to be funny the whole time and used as a device in itself to convey information. ik this is very "just read more books" of me but I just like it and think it's very weird and rewards close reading in a way thats more fun than usual lol

#i dont even know how to explain this bc ive never seen it elsewhere in the same way so i cant articulate myself #like the level of everything being jokes and yet not deflecting any information because everything is jokes #i think i latched onto this hard bc its very close to how i naturally see the world lol #there are absolutely things in this book that most people have dismissed as jokes and i think that invalidates that like #im p sure the text is self aware of this and is intending for you to gain information from them lol #anyway i dont think im making any sense i just like my weird little comedy novel :) #good omens #book omens #go meta

[ellatholmes]

"this book didn't use the magical cure trope!" is good but it is not The Bar for writing disabled characters. I've been in deep my feelings and thoughts about this for weeks after reading a certain book, and I am begging people to look at disabled narratives through a more truly inclusive lens 😭

#p for personal #its 2023 and that is such a low bar. plus there are so many other problematic and harmful narratives writers can engage in #and some of them are quite insidious esp. with internalised ableism and a lack of education. i get that #but im so heart-sore reading books that promise “good rep” and ultimately end up endorsing and perpetuating ableist ideology

[cirrus-grey]

Gotta be honest, one of the most disconcerting things I've seen from the Good Omens TV fandom is people casually referring to Aziraphale as Zira as just a cute little nickname. Like, I only ever saw Zira used for Demon!Aziraphale AUs in the Book Omens fandom (pretty sure The Sacred and The Profane started that, but I wasn't in the fandom in those days so I might be wrong) and now it's just??? Something that people call him???

I'm sorry but his nickname is Az (or Azi if you really must). Every time I see someone call him Zira I get flashbacks to angst fic

#personally its flashbacks to full circle rather than s&p #but ymmv #good omens #my good omens stuff #good omens tv #book omens #original post #aziraphale

[ephe-y]

dante and vergil as the fox and the hound. one brother who provokes the other and spends the rest of his life running from the consequences, trying and failing to find reasons to continue living. the other brother who was hurt once irrevocably and cannot help but hunt the other in revenge, compelled by something that kills him in the end. both are trapped in a vicious cycle of hurt and be hurt until it becomes the only thing they can find joy in. is this anything.

#dmc #devil may cry #this is about the book by daniel p mannix btw. never watched the disney movie #would 10/10 recommend the book tho its SO good #although unlike the fox and the hound neither dante nor vergil die #and instead get some sense beaten into their skulls lmao #i wonder what nero would be in this scenario #ephey-meras

[stevethehairington]

ALSO i did not realize that hannibal the tv series was based on ALL of the hannibal books. i thought it was just red dragon but it's NOT its ALL of them and i am living for this realization while reading these books bc i can see how the details from them all are being mixed and melded together to form the masterpiece that is hannibal tv and im LOVING that

#hannibal #like will and hannibal's backstory comes from red dragon #and miriam lass is just clarice starling except minus the buffalo bill part #and SHE gets book will's realization that hannibal is the killer (the noticing the piece of art that tips him off) #and then the vergers come from the third book #and francis dolarhyde in s3 is from red dragon #and i have only read 100 pages of the third book so far but im p sure italy is a heavy influence in it — which ofc matches the later season #idk i just love the way the show took these ideas and stayed true to some of them but also while still putting their own flare on it #its good its really good #ALSO im curious to see if bedelia ever shows up in the books #i LOVE her in the show