#like this is bananasville

[queen-mabs-revenge]

bruh my monthly electricity bills have gone up from €71 to €104 over the course of past four months 🙃

i haven't even turned on my heating yet hahaha what

#well glad i bullied the broadband co into the €25/mo reduction yesterday #no but fr like ok my entire apt is electric so like i don't have any other energy bills #but like....bro. #i barely use lights bc overhead lights are homophobic #the little lamp i mainly use is an led bulb #and otherwise it's candles all the way baby #i have two laptops but my personal one just chills in sleep mode bc i use it as a plex server #i have a toaster oven i use instead of the big oven #i don't use the water heater bc like it only heats water for my bathroom and kitchen tap i don't need to have hot water for that #electric shower but like...i'm a pretty perfunctory shower-taker #phone charger? #tv on standby? #like this is bananasville #100% renewable energy but you know 'the war in ukraine'

[reining-disaster]

[Venting about drama below the cut so you don't have to see it if you don't want any part in it.]

[I really wish y'all would stop linking me that three year old blog with inactive Google docs being your only proof of any wrongdoing someone has committed. I'm tired of it. Like I'm sorry and I don't like being confrontational, but you can't just say "Hey that guy is a bad person." and then not give me anything besides a blog that just goes "Yup. Bad." Like it literally holds any weight. Especially if it's filled with screenshots from a discord that I cannot verify who it even BELONGS to???? I feel like I'm in bananasville. And I'll probably delete this later. But if you don't like a subject being written about, block the tag or block the person. That's all that's necessary! Please. God. Sorry.]

#ooc #veggie posting #not rein #this is the last one #veggie drama #drama

[incomprehensiblelentils]

top 5 books you read in 2017?

oh I actually posted a top 10 awhile back but it just had like summaries and content warnings (it’s here if y’all care about those) so I will do the top 5 with reactions!

1. LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng

This book is incredible. I adore Celeste Ng as a writer and will read anything she puts out, no questions asked, but I was blown away by this book. It’s about a nuclear family who lives in a nice just-so Cleveland suburb and how their lives intersect with a single mother and her teenage daughter who also move into the neighborhood. There’s a mystery, and there’s also a lot of racial commentary because another family in the neighborhood is trying to adopt a Chinese baby whose mother resurfaces after they’ve had the baby for a few weeks, and the birth mother tries to regain custody of her baby. It’s a very complicated story with like eight subplots and I’m not doing it justice at all, but I loved it. It made me laugh a bunch but it’s like, the Get Out kind of laughter? Where you’re like “oh MAN this is funny because it is a real terrible thing that I and/or people like me have experienced as people of color.” Anyway I adored this book and I also met Celeste Ng at a book signing and she was lovely.

2. RAMONA BLUE by Julie Murphy

Originally I decided to read this book out of spite because a bunch of people got very mad that it was about a lesbian who falls in love with a boy and is like “oh maybe I am bisexual or something idk” and like????? SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS IRL Y’ALL IT’S FINE. Anyway, so I went into this kind of just to counter my fellow lesbians who were being ridiculous and then I unexpectedly loved everything about this book. Ramona is a great, GREAT character, instantly likable and relatable, and her relationship with Freddie is so sweet and complicated and real. It’s also really not all about that relationship, it’s also about her and her sister Hattie and her and her dad and her and her mom. A complaint I see a lot is that YA novels don’t have characters with developed home/family lives, but that was one of my favorite things about this book. It also doesn’t have a fairytale ending where everything is tied up in a neat bow. It goes to some really hard places, and I loved that.

3. WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI by Sandhya Menon

This list has three books with m/f on it and no endgame f/f WHO AM I. But no, honestly, this book was ADORABLE. It’s about two Indian teens whose parents have arranged their marriage, but only the guy knows about it. They meet at a coding camp for teens and get off to a rocky start but then they fall in love. IT IS SO CUTE. I cannot stress how cute it is, and this is me saying that, who is usually allergic to prominent m/f.

4. THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE by Mackenzie Lee

This was another one that was getting a lot of buzz so I was like “shrug, whatever, I guess” but then I unexpectedly loved it. I almost don’t want to say much about this one because the less you know going into it, the better. But basically, the protagonist is usually the kind of character I am violently allergic to - swaggering pretty boy who counts on his charm and good looks to get by - but actually I thought he was a lot of fun! I expected it to be one kind of story and then it took a hard left into bananasville and I loved every second of it. Also there is a sequel/companion novel coming up about his sister and a pirate ship and I am SO EXCITED.

5. DUMPLIN’ by Julie Murphy

I think this is the only one that wasn’t actually a 2017 release? Anyway. I’m not fat and have never been fat, so I don’t have that personal connection to this book, but I just really liked Willowdean’s confidence and personality and I liked hearing about her life. Also I find beauty pageant books kind of fascinating because of how OTT everybody gets about them. I’m super excited for the movie and I hope it’s just as endearing as the book is. Oh also angry lesbian Hannah is my favorite.

#swiftjolras