#just like the vote in the book

[bonefall]

And not all DC fans are mad! I was happy when Leafpool beat Starfire, and I was pleased with Bumble winning too. (Epilepsy dad here, who is a comics fan, and has 4 kids who love reading the warrior cat books and have the Minifig warriors become superheroes In the Gotham city I hot as a kid) im digressing here: What keeps the warrior cats fandom strong is how you all form up around the cats that were mistreated by the writers, how you bring them into your homes and hearts and make better features for them. My Amuma always used to say if enough people believed in something, then maybe their will can change the world.

Always good to see you around!

This vitriol has been super disappointing, y'know? I feel like I have to keep stressing that DC fans are valid, their frustrations with the comics are well-founded, and Bumble's opponents should also be acknowledged as victims of misogyny

And then we don't get that grace back! Doesn't matter that Warriors is a best-selling kids' series with REALLY harmful messages in it read by millions across the globe. Bumble's "just a cat" and we're "reading too much into it." As if that's not the same shit that gets said about misogyny in media broadly; "They're not real, comics are just for fun, you're reading too much into it"

Now people are like "Oh it was a mistake for WARRIOR CATS to be in this poll" because they're mad our "just a cat" is winning. Like it's not a tournament and that's the whole point. We've got people trying to say that Bumble can't even have misogyny happen to her because the human writers superficially made her a cat, as if she's not a fantasy character like every other fantasy character she's been up against.

But, ugh. I won't let it stop me, y'know? StarClan gives its hardest battles to its strongest warriors ✨✨I will never shut up about the "justa cats," this fandom rocks exactly because of the fact we're so passionate about these issues and how to address and fix them, Bumblesweep FOREVER!

#I'm not a DC fan but one of my best friends in the whole world is #And he's always telling me about what's going on in them #His favorite guy is The Flash! #And me and my friend group have been watching the new superman show together #So like. I don't hate DC and I never have! #And it's not all DC fans obviously. There's just some really loud and nasty ones #But man I can't help feeling like WC fans are getting shit just because there's some sore losers #who are super mad their very prestigious and well-known comic book characters are being beaten by a character they do not respect #Bumblesweep #Vote Bumble #I don't know if I can change the world through my babbles and my passion #But I DO know that I can make some people feel a little better and less alone. #And I can back my girl Bumble and make everyone in this fandom and our surroundings see and acknowledge what they DID TO HER #JUSTICE FOR BUMBLE #bone babble

[sonknuxadow]

it was certainly a choice for warrior cats to put a fan's cat in the book and then have his backstory be that his owners put him in a bag and threw him in the river as a kitten

#sorry i just cant stop thinking about it its kind of funny but also kind of mean because thats like. a readers cat. #i mean if theyre a warrior cats character then its guaranteed that bad things will happen to them. but still . hello #i remember to name this character they had a bunch of people just comment their cats names #and then later had a poll where we could vote out of their favorite options #and one of the options was my cat's name. like i didnt actually submit it someone else with a cat with the same name did #but like that could have been MY cat who was thrown in the river. crazy #asc spoilers #thunder spoilers #ask to tag idk maybe some people might find this upsetting #for people who dont read warrior cats or dont read the new books that are seeing this. no im not making this up

[onesidedradiostatic]

Apparently tiktok picked up on onesided radiostatic ship and are calling it radiosilence. And now that tag has started to spread on the tumblr side of things. And just when we finally decided on OneWayBroadcast too 😭.

I'm aware, the only reason I'm against it is because it mixes in with another fandom (and now I see that precise problem searching it up and seeing a mix of the oseman book and hazbin) if the tag was like #hazbin radiosilence I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it

like to me the whole point of a tag is filtering and if it mixes with something else popular it kinda defeats the purpose, it's like how young justice has a ship name called spitfire and it's a filtering nightmare because it mixes in with mlp

this is not meant to be anything against people who like the name, these are just things that concern me when it comes to tagging of specific ship names

#ask #osrs.txt #I don't wanna like discourse over ship names because that is a very very VERY trivial matter #I'm still using onewaybroadcast because a sizeable amount of people voted in that poll #I just genuinely do not want to mix in my posts with that fandom #and I just think of it from their point of view #just trying to find content for their book then BAM hazbin hotel tv man #I mean the deed is already done but. shrug

[markantonys]

#wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #i don't even know what to vote for myself hmmm #i mean ofc i'll vote for a demandred option bc he's my special little war criminal and if he doesn't make it in i'll die #but between rahvin & semirhage i'm not sure who feels more likely #both are in the same bucket of 'only around for a brief period but does something Very Important' #so i could see either getting their One Very Important Thing absorbed by someone else #but i could also see either appearing as a one-season wonder #i think i'll go for semirhage just because i am so fond of my 'graendal takes over rahvin's role in caemlyn' theory haha #(i wouldn't necessarily say i think that theory is abundantly likely but it is Fun!) #also the middle of the series is pretty crowded with forsaken and semirhage is a good late-series forsaken

[catastrxblues]

i keep forgetting that i am in fact not a thirteen year old anymore because what do you mean

#according to my country (if i make it) i’ll officially be an adult this year and can make my id card and can vote and such #that’s super weird because am i not still the girl who spend her time decaying on her bed reading her silly books and fics #and arguing with people on the internet about them and scrolling through pinterest looking through virginia woolf quotes #and dreaming of high school like she has all the time in the world #hm weird #i was in a room with a bunch of very smart people and i was just sitting there like oh. right i have less than one year and a half before #having to apply to uni and figure things out in the world. realllyyyy weird #most of them have done their extensive reaearch and know what path they’re going to take to achive it and i was just. #okay. #nadirants

[kayzero]

i wanna do something weird and fucky and majorly audience-participationy with my fantasy universe that would both be entertaining and also help me worldbuild but i don’t think enough people would be interested and there’s no audience participation without an audience y’know what i mean

i am asking for affirmation, gay people in my phone—if i made a fantasy worldbuilding sideblog with like fiction snippets and weekly exploration polls would you send asks

#fantasy #worldbuilding #fiction #fantasy writing #is this kay whining it feels like it is #i don’t think it’d be like an rp blog #there wouldn’t be a Player Character or whatever right #it’d be closer to like. a guided tour #and the audience is a group of tourists and i’m showing you around the place #and you vote on where you want to explore and you’d send asks pondering about weird things that i don’t in the slightest treat as strange in #and if you send an ask Yes-And’ing my world i would also yes and alongside you #but like. if there’s no interest in that kinda thing then there’d be no audience #and at that point i should just write a book or something #and i already have trouble writing for ZWG yknow #i love audience participation projects but i hate not having an audience #so exhausting #bleh

[lizbethborden]

There is such a range of opinions regarding Hogwarts Legacy. There are people who think playing a video game is functionally equivalent to genocide. There are people who don't have any awareness of or interest in the controversy and are just playing bideo jame. There are people in the middle who take various tacks like "it's OK to play it if you buy a used physical copy," or "it's OK to play it if you pirate it," or "it's OK to play if your trans friend also plays," or even "I don't feel it's OK to play it but I won't get mad at those who do feel it's OK." And you have no idea where anyone lands at any given moment, so for some people it's OK to mention it without vehemently decrying it, whereas with others, if you mention it you're marking yourself politically evil and exiling yourself from your friend group. Meanwhile nobody wants to even stop buying sammiches at Chick-Fil-A when there's a Popeye's right next door. And heaven forfend you breathe a word about not supporting media that puts money in misogynists' pockets!

#all of this because of wizard school bideo jame #what's funny is like. if you choose not to support jkr just don't buy her books #that's her actual creative output #and the most direct way to 'vote with your dollars' so to speak

[libraryspectre]

I dont know why i even look at the goodreads choice awards i just get mad every year

#they nominate like 20 books and then people just vote for whatever theyve read!!!

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Ok, a poll because I'm genuinely curious.

Tags:

@yumeyumeappleo @firstfandomfangirl @simp-detected @hollowedart

#galaxy rambles #i need to know #pls reblog i wanna get as many votes as possible #books #booklr #book poll #reading #readers #prologue #epilogue #books & libraries #stories #reader questions #just as clarification i read both #i had an online writing teacher a while back say: “you might not want to write a prologue. people tend to skip them.” #and im like “bro that doesn't even sound REMOTELY true” 😭

[asexualbookbird]

May wrap up time! After 254 hours I finished Breath of the Wild. Found 899 korok seeds and do not care enough to find the last. A little disappointed that you beat Ganon and that's it, no after game, but I guess that's what Tears of the Kingdom is for? I bought a few books I said I wouldn't, but it was my bookstores birthday and I must support them it's the Law. Would have liked to do more art, but I liked the stuff I accomplished! While the books were many, they were not as fun as last month. Though last month was so good it was hard to live up to it. I did manage to put a couple of reviews up on Goodreads though! That's exciting!

A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir ⭐⭐⭐⭐A good ending to the series! Hit all the right nerves! Wish it didn't focus so much on the sexual relationships but whatever it was a satisfying conclusion!

A House With Good Bones by T Kingfisher ⭐⭐⭐⭐FUN! CREEPY! VULTURES!

A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab ⭐⭐A glorified prologue to book three. Laia would not fucking wear that.

Witchmark by CL Polk ⭐⭐⭐What the fuck was that ending lol somehow the romance was the only thing I truly liked and even that I had questions about.

Black Wings Beating by Alex London ⭐Birds wouldn't fucking do that. They climbed a mountain. They were thrown off the mountain. I wish they'd died.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ⭐Why was THIS the most hyped book on tumblr in 2019, I KNOW there were better options. This review actually covered a lot of the problems I had. I don't think sexual assault should be used as shock value and this has too much of it lmao why the hell was Mercy cured of her trauma in like twelve hours what the fuck Bardugo

As I said in another post, I'm including Ninth House here because I can <3 And I read most of it in May so it feels weird including it in June. Time is fake anyway. Glad to have Black Wings Beating in the past hope it fades from my memory so I never have to think about it again. My favorite was probably A House With Good Bones, it seems T Kingfisher really knows exactly what I want in a book. Love me a good underground horror.

Don't forget to vote in my Best Book In May poll! I want to know what others think!

#bookbird babbles #reading wrap up #may wrap up #books #booklr #monthly wrap up #yes it wouldve been wise to put the poll in this post #but i am impatient <3 #i have insider knowledge that BWB is not losing and whoever voted for it im not mad im just disappointed #i know i said i wasnt sure if i wanted bwb or ninth house to lose more but like #i know how tumblr was about ninth house lmao

[raedas]

oh that poll is going to annoy me so bad

#THEYRE DIFFERENT FORMATS OF FICTION. ITS NOT A VALUE JUDGEMENT… #people calling it elitist to not consider fanfiction books is just…. idk. what. huh #and also being lke. it counts as reading!!!!!!!!!! like yes great the poll asked if it counts as reading books #and then someone being like ‘i challenge everyone who’s voting no to read [long fic] that’s like 800 pages when bound’ great i have read #multiple fics over a MILLION words and i loved them!!! and they’re great quality!!! THEYRE STILL FANFICTION M #sure there are places where the distinction mighttttbe a little fuzzy with like public domain and whatnot but like #for the most part. those are two different things with two different meanings. almost every conflation of the two is a reactionary argument #and often just creating a value judgment WHEN THERE WASNT ONE TO BEGIN WITH #i enjoy fic and i enjoy books for vastly different reasons they give me different emotions and i interact with them differently!!! maybe you #interact with them the same way! great! they’re still different though. #shamsisms

[yellowhollyhock]

Foolishly wondering to myself how many eggs I should boil before remembering that Seven is the Biblical number of perfection.

I am a good decision maker.

#funny #personal #voted most likely to successfully boil eggs in high school year book #lol just kidding #voted most likely to write a bestselling novel which. uhhh #I’ll just boil the eggs okay 👍

[bookwyrminspiration]

Had a nightmare last night (yes it was a nightmare) that Stina was voted the number one villain in Kotlc. Not Gisela, not the council, not Vespera- Stina.

Listen, I know I've excluded bad things those parties have done, but I only have so much space; fitting an entire list would be difficult.

Anyway, I'm always fascinated to hear about other people's dreams and nightmares, as I have very few of my own. All hail Stina, our villain <3

#kotlc #quil's queries #ultralazycreatorfan #stina villain arc when #choosing to belief that this is a prophecy and stina's gonna commit horrendous atrocities in book 10 #your nightmare is just a little ahead of schedule the vote is justified we just don't know it yet #where are the stina fans I feel like y'all could really do something with this

[septimus-heap]

this is gonna sound so silly but over the last year I've been doing a reread of all the books on my shelves. I hit my "childhood favorites" section around December and am chugging through, and will be rereading the Septimus Heap series again once I finish the Magnus Chase series. I had the first book memorized as a kid (I could still probably pull up the first chapter in my memory if I wanted to) but I only read books 5-7 like twice before putting the series down for a few years. I'm so glad I follow you bc I know once I read those SH books again in a couple weeks I'm gonna be insufferable since they were definitely my favorite as a kid and I'm so so so so excited to read them again and to have an active fandom to see again when I do 💕💕💕 (I see your polls and recognize like 3/4 the characters but wanna read books 5-7 to get a refresh before I start voting on them lol)

Anyway this was long and rambly but I guess at the bottom: I love SH, I'm excited to read it again, I'm excited to know someone else loves it like I did and it feels like I'm gonna have someone to talk about it with for the first time in my life (never had a friend who'd read it and could geek out about it) so thank you and I'm excited to hop back in the fandom 💕 thank you for reading!!

:D

#sep talks #asks #I can't see ur whole username from the Answer Ask page so I can't tag it rip #ANYWAY SORRY IDK WHAT TO SAY. I'M HONOURED???????????? #SH IS JUST AS GOOD AS U REMEMBER BTW. MAYBE BETTER #PLEASE be insufferable abt the books btw. I love it when ppl r insufferable abt them. (<-guy who is insufferable abt them) #absolutely feel free to vote in polls even if u don't rlly know who the characters r. I know there r ppl voting who don't even know sh. So #I'm genuinely so 🥺 abt this btw. I still don't think of myself as like. A Big Sep Heap Blog #but I guess realistically I definitely am!!!! Half the tag is Just Me sbdhdbdhnd #and. Idk. Idk. Explodes #idk what I'm saying!!!!!! Anyway have fun w ur reread <3

[adriles]

sitting in my tent without washing to punish my self for allowing patroclus to fall in battle, which has Cemented my fate to die far from my native phthia . Ough !! It stinks

#book 23 #patroclus #ok widdle updates #1) i think im gonna do helen for april fools cause of the people who said stuff she ended up having just one more vote than everyone else #and i like to start collecting stuff beforehand #gonna make her text pink. maybe italics. she deserves it she means everything to me #2) ive felt like. eh about some posts recently. and im blaming me not finding things funny #on me needing to refamiliarize myself with source materials lol #so once my break starts soon im gonna do a reread and ig try to post alongside it #so that will be fun and sexy #tis all

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Last

slow building apocalyptic thriller

an american academic is at a conference in a remote Swiss hotel when a nuclear apocalypse strands him with just 20 others

50 days in, a body is found in a watertank and he becomes obsessed with investigating to find out who did it

even though the remaining people are just trying to quietly survive as supplies slowly dwindle and the winter approaches

#the last #hanna jameson #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #so I read this because there’s an aromantic side character! #she’s an interesting/complex character who has a friends w benefits thing with the MC #a few stereotypes but like she actively counters them #the only weird thing about it is that it’s implied she’s a republican who voted for the ppl who started the nuclear war….. #like. would a right wing person identify as aro lmao #but also like i’m okay with not all ‘representation’ being good people. #as for the rest of the actual book i found it quite interesting overall! #i enjoyed that it wasn’t just 'fighting dangerous people to survive' immediately like a lot of the postapoc genre #(though i wonder how much food they had to be fine for 2 months??) #though there is a bit of that in places when they leave the hotel #a lot of interesting characters and like.....discussion on what different kinds of people would do in that situation #the australian accent (audiobook) of the australian character…..not sure about that LMAO #also I don’t believe the internet would still function after half the world has blown up? like this thing needs upkeep right #there’s a bit where the MC is talking to two dudes who start talking like: so are we gonna repopulate society? #and being creepy about the women. and the MC is obviously like: yikes! #but also nobody even suggests like……we could just die? without repopulating humanity whatever the fuck that means? #why is that concept not even brought up?????? i am horrified that anyone would consider having children in that scenario. christ. #anyway i guess yeah overall a few things im like hm about but it's a pretty good book #aromantic books #(also the MC has a wife on the other side of the world but like. there's not any actual romance. his thing with the aro woman is offpage)