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[bookswithjulia]

Watch me talk terribly about books again |bad book reviews part 8|

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#youtube #booktube #the guncle #steven rowley #swimming lessons #claire fuller #reverse #kate stewart #the godparent trap #Rachel van dyken #a million kisses in your lifetime #monica murphy #misfit #elle kennedy #rural voices #18 inches between the heart and the mind #tales of beetle the bard #jk rowling #galetea #Madeline miller #my dads best friend #katee robert #bookish #bibliophile #book addict #book addicted #bookaholic #book obsessed #book obsession #reader

[razzek]

One thing that's starting to really get to me with the James Somerton stuff is a real strong undercurrent of disdain toward his fans. And yeah, I was one of them. A good scam artist isn't as easy to spot as y'all seem to think. You forget that you have all the information right now. Two days ago most of you had never heard of him and it would have kept going. Anyone can fall for a scam, nobody is immune. I would love to have had whatever resources you guys think we all should magically know about so I could have kept my sad $5 a month I really needed but thought was going to something worthwhile. Some of us can only devote so much energy into things and when you have no idea whatsoever that something is amiss of course you're not going to go digging for sources, why would you when everything is fine as far as you know? I really wish I could have seen the dissenting opinions on him but for many, many reasons that aren't just that the dissenting voices weren't widely circulating at the time all I had was the thought every now and again that "huh that doesn't seem right" and then go on with my day. And I think that happened to a lot of us. So yeah. Say what you gotta say about Somerton, he has more than earned it with the damage he's caused, but maybe don't shit so hard on his former fans because that is going to be you someday with something, it happens to everyone sooner or later.

#james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #I really am greatful for Harris and Todd's hard work in exposing all of this #and I am glad I get to see the real voices I did like that james was stealing #I'm just tired of all these people jumping on the drama train taking a dump on folks who are also victims of these crimes #razz rambles #this whole situation is upsetting me in the weirdest ways #I'm distraught but I'm not at the same time #and yet it's 6am and I can't stop reading through the tags and seeing the takes I missed #vaspider's essay and remarks from an AIDS pandemic survivor are especially good #I lived through that shit too but had no idea I was living through it #cuz that's what being blind and impoverished in rural community was like #queer wasn't even something I knew I could be until like 2010 #so it's nice to see my own history #it's not just the young queers who have little to no knowledge of our history

[androdragynous]

maybe im coming out of left field with this one but I think it was better when "delivery driver" was a hired position for a specific restaurant and they were required to actually successfully and competently deliver the food and got paid for it and - this may be controversial - i think some random fuck with a car and an app and no consequences and no wage who can decide whether or not you actually deserve to recieve your food should not have replaced this system

#(guy who ordered two hours ago from a McDonald's 7 minutes away only to have the dasher take a drop off pic and then steal the food voice) #being disabled and being vaguely rural sucks ASSSSSSSS #patch me through to palaven command

[kyngsnake]

at least once a year i have to remind everyone im a real human person. also happy 7 months on t to me

#I haven’t been on t long enough for incredibly dramatic changes but it’s definitely changed my face shape #biggest change has been my voice #which I should do a little comparison video just for funsies #I finally pass in my rural ass town consistently #me #irl

[somany-fandoms-solittle-time]

Ruggie: *eating clean through a bone while having lunch*

Midwestern! Yuu: "Well, Shit. Yous gotta pair'uv Chompers on ya dontcha? Now, yous better be careful with that thang or'y'll snap somebody's fanger clean off!"

Epel, listening in from another table: YES! YES!! I UNDERSTAND!!! IM NOT THE ONLY ONE ANYMORE

#twisted wonderland imagines #twisted wonderland incorrect quotes #this is so stupid #dumb shit #rural america #midwest #Yuu needs to be from a small town cuz that shit is so funny to me #epel is my son #twisted wonderland ruggie #ruggie's got a BITE #hyena jaws #my first thought when I learned about hyena jaw strength was “please don't eat me” #bro if Ruggie ate me I'd be SO PISSED #worker solidarity brother #this is so incredibly dumb plz dont interact #yuu saying weird shit that nobody understands #istg the voice saying these lines in my head sounds exactly like I real person I used to go to church with #grim come get your fishing grampa #Yuu's gotta beer belly and grey hair while saying this #i am disturbed #Midwestern!Yuu

[twothpaste]

for real though, y'all have no idea how fucked up it was when my roomie (who's been gradually watching through all the yugioh serieses) encountered [ this guy ], and we realized in horror he's got nigh-exactly the same pitch and tone and intonation and doofus manner of speaking as intermission claus (whomst we'd already been doing shitty impressions of in this apartment for well over a year)

#just imagine a little tennessee and/or rural kansan accent and it's so over #lucas' voice sounds just like claus'. sick and twisted. but he speaks so gently & passively - it'd come off totally different 🤷 #intermission au

[crimeronan]

once when i was about thirteen i came home from school and found my mom in the kitchen. she was visibly upset but also doing that Mom Thing where you pretend to be bright and cheerful and fine so you don't worry your kid, even tho it's pretty obvious to said kid that you're upset. (i don't know if this is a universal mom thing but it was certainly a My Mom thing.) i don't remember where my siblings were, possibly they just went off to watch TV or whatever. i was alone in the silent kitchen with my mom when she said "okay, sweetie, this is going to sound crazy, so just bear with me. can you..... can you hear music right now??"

and i closed my eyes and concentrated and..... i Could. there was a tinny little electric guitar coming from somewhere. so i said yeah, and went in search of the source. eventually i found my incredibly old incredibly shitty mp3 player with the headphones plugged in under a pile of junk on the table. the sound was coming through the headphones, bc the mp3 player had been playing lacuna coil's "shallow life" album on repeat all day. the battery was nearly dead but truly had lasted way longer than you'd expect. gotta love that 2009ish tech.

my mom visibly Wilted with relief. and was like. [half-whispering] i've been hearing it off and on All Day and nobody's been home to ask. I Thought I Needed To Call My Doctor.

#spending all day in a huge isolated rural house alone hearing strange snatches of goth metal and screaming floating on the wind... #not the best use of time for anyone let alone someone with Our Particular History. oh no. #(it's not a matter of if but simply when the psychosis sets in. for me it was very early for her it was much later. we're both fine though) #listening to the voices in the bath water made me remember this suddenly. #with my antipsychotics i know theyre not real or speaking to me but i still hear em u know. #there's little guys in there. in the water #bipolar blogging #i'm psychotic tag

[tricoufamily]

once again thinking about how easy it would be for me to be in a relationship if i was cis

#cis woman cis man either way #dude in the neighborhood has a crush on me telling me i'm beautiful like 'thanks! i will go home and cry now' #i fucking hate being trans i wish i wasn't lol #and sometimes i feel like i can't talk about this anywhere bc in a lot of trans spaces it's like. taboo? to express anything but positivity #as if me being honest about how i feel about myself is somehow how i feel about every single trans person jesus christ but whatever whateve #like listen peace and love but i need you to do me a favor and promise me you will not come at me with any 'transness should be about joy' #i know you mean well i know you're right. but transness for me /is/ pain and sorrow. that's all it's ever caused me my entire life #you have to remember that i'm from rural appalachian tennessee with a transphobic family #some of the most deeply rooted self hating repression for years just for. more honest self hatred #i've never admitted this before but i've considered detransitioning and repressing because of transphobia many times #i'm not brave i'm not strong i'm not trying to make some grand statement or be the voice of a generation. i just want to Be. you know #i just got really really unlucky #but i can't repress. i know that would be even more miserable so i'm just. trapped. forever #who i want to be forever out of reach like tantalus or something i don't know #i want to be loved #or maybe i should just watch the batman again

[fictionadventurer]

"It looked like a good day for setting fence posts, and my mother said so while taking the biscuits from the oven. 'Some morning early, when I can get away, I want you to come with me along the edge of the hill in the wood-lot," she continued. "When the shadows of the trees begin to come down the slope, as the sun rises you feel the turning of the earth. You feel the whole globe under your feet rolling into the sunlight. . . . That's something I found one morning when I was driving the calves to pasture. I've been saving it up for you. I wonder if you've seen a more beautiful dawn in any of the places you've been.'

On my fingers I count the dawns I have seen--memorable, just in being dawns. Sleepy-eyed dawn from the Paris markets after a night of dancing; mist dawn against which I was just to late to see the minarets of Constantinople--all the fault of the stupid stewardess who didn't wake me in time; one startling moment of color on the hills around the Dead Sea before they went colorless in merciless heat; sudden dawn like a clap of light over the freezing-cold Syrian desert. Four dawns in twenty years. No, I do not know dawns as my mother does."

-- Rose Wilder Lane, "A Place in the Country" (1925)

#little house #rose wilder lane #laura ingalls wilder #a little house sampler #i dove into the book seriously this morning #intended to read just the first couple of pieces and kept reading 'just one more' until i've got about 2/3 read #most of laura's pieces are familiar from her farm columns #though there's a couple of early versions of little house stories that show a lot of her voice did get through there #rose's are fascinating #i can't quite wrap my head around her #sometimes she'll seem neurotic and restless and judgey and sophisticated and a bit pretentious #and then she writes some of the most beautiful nostalgic pieces #showing so much love of home and family and the simple joys of life #this piece might be my favorite so far because it grapples with those two sides #after four years as a foreign correspondent she's back at home in mansfield #and she has a new appreciation for her parents and the work they do and the life they've built #now that she's had her adventures and is no longer a restless teen looking to get away from rural poverty #even in the other pieces it's fascinating how much love of her family comes through when you know about the difficult relationships #i should share some quotes from the piece about mary when i get the chance #(also i'm very upset that she didn't write down the story of why she and her parents never read the last book in the school library) #(you don't end with a sequel hook and just leave me hanging ms. lane!) #anyway i love the whole essay that this is from and there are other worthwhile quotes #but i like how this one captures the 'noticing beauty while doing farm work' side of laura that i've come to think of as her trademark

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

There are 4 2010s cartoon villains i know of with the horned animal skull aesthetic and 5 2010s cartoon villains i know of with the big horns and glowing eyes in general. I love that shit the design fucks so hard. Does anyone have more examples im starting a collection

#the owl house #emperor belos #centaurworld #the nowhere king #adventure time #the lich #over the garden wall #the beast #amphibia #darcy #that last one is a little different bc darcy and the core are axolotls not deer or other horned mammals #and also their vibe is REALLY sci fi and robotic #still has the big branching horns though and the glowy eyes and cool voice #the lich the nowhere king and belos both have the aesthetics or rot #and the three plus the beast pick at that creepy rural horror if thats what you call it #something that should be a deer but is no longer a deer #a primal horror or sorts #like idk about the lich but the beast the nowhere king and belos are all like #theyre the scariest when you see just their silhouettes in the distance #like the nowhere king and belos are both goop guys and its gross but when you cant see that #whatever you fill in with your imagination is more spooky #darcy and the lich arent really that but they work best when theyre lurking in the background like you can see them #but the threat of what theyre going to do is scarier than what they actually do i think #the lichs corruption goes hard i guess but maybe i was too old for adventure time for it to leave an impression on me #while i loved darcys badass scythe fight but just them lurking in the background was more intimidating #i guess the beast is also like this? he was more passively manipulative #meanwhile belos and the nowhere king are Bastards that do war crimes and are great at it #also are very very tragic figures and are doomed by the narrative and whatnot #or rather doomed themselves #shut up pandora

[boxwinebaddie]

is fingerbang in rm?

oooooh...iiiiinteresting.

but i'm gonna say no. :/

i Wish i could put them in rm because that would be so iconic, but there's just too much crossover with the characters; i wouldn't know how to work it into the story with everything going on already.

however! i will raise you this:

so back in the stone ages when i used to run the BWB twitter, i came across a post that you might remember me retweeting/replying to a tweet with a picture of fingerbang kyle and regular stan in it.

at the top of the post, someone retweeted it saying something to the effect of 'ugh, i hate celebrity x fan plots, so boring lol' and maybe it's petty but that made me heeeellla overprotective and Viciously Angry bc that's the plot premise of my entire fanfic and i literally don't think it's boring at all??? yes, i'm insane.

that pissed me off, lmao.

but anyways i was looking at that picture of finger bang kyle and regular boy stan and was like...oh my god it's just rm in reverse???

so here's my pitch for the reverse remember au fic aka...

forget?

shdlkshdlkah

so i think that the plot premise or chapter one would hinge on the fact that it is shelley's birthday. and for shelley's birthday, she and her friend got two tickets to go see finger bang live and in concert, world famous boy band, like one direction, beatle-mania level famous.

buuuuuut her friend backs out at the last minute, so she's left with this extra ticket and that girl was her ride so she basically can't go.

let's leave that off to the side for a moment though, so i can tell you a little about what i think forget au stan marsh would be like...

who i think...

is an absolute fucking LOSER.

like i am talking major loner-stoner energies, has literally one friend and i think its butters who is also his roommate, never goes outside, literally just holes up in his room playing his guitar, writes a bunch of really dark edgelordy songs no one will ever hear — they are actually quite good, but again, sort of political and bleak and beat-poetic, is a serious music snob, like really really fucking annoying about music...might bring him working at vinyl tap back, but i also support city wok delivery boy stan, basically only goes outside to barely pay attention in class ( he's a music major at cu denver ), go to work so that he can buy more pizza, beer, video games and i think he's saving up for a really fancy guitar or to see shows which are his safe place.

i predict that he probably is still bleach blonde stan, i maintain that he can still be half mexican like ravenstan, could be really cute if he brushed his hair and stopped slouching, vegetarian, wears the same beanie from high school, rotates the same like four or five tee shirts which are all covered in stains, full of holes, etc. most of them are band shirts or 100% hemp tegridy farms work shirts from when he was working there in high school which he barely got through, btw, cs get degrees, probably wears the iconic stan leather jacket that is obnoxiously covered in pins, big baggy jeans, like, huge, and ofc, the stan marsh combat boots bc he's an midwest emo king.

i assume he has all the stan piercings, certainly the nose one...should i give him the ravenstan lip piercing for shits and gigs? some tattoos?

but yeah, i love him but he's pathetic. he has like zero social skills. he had one girlfriend and it was wendy and they broke up a million times because he kept accidentally fucking up by boyfailing too hard. bi but i don't think he really knows that. like i feel like he has some bi panic moments but he kind of just takes a shot and swallows those down and tries not to think about it so stan probably thinks he's straight.

interesting.

anyways! stan is gearing up to go to this gigantic metal festival that he's ben waiting for..Forever but then gets a call from his mom who is like "stanley marsh, it is your SISTER'S BIRTHDAY! you are driving her to this concert and that is final!" he complains soooooo much like shelley why are you fucking ruining my life to go see gay one direction????? holy shit???? i hate my life????

but the hotel room(s) are already paid for and stan has the tegridy farms family truck ( riley made me moderately obsessed with little beat up pick up truck farm boy stan i love him ) aka weed for speed aka mary jane ( she is stan's baby ) so he picks shelley up who tries to play finger bang the whole way there but stan is a snob and he is like i am driving i am picking the music, but shelley and him keep fightng and probably break the radio and they have to sit in silence hdlksah, the whole time shelley is going on and on and ON about finger bang and how obsessed she is specifically with kyle, who stan doesn't know much about other than the fact that he is little and ginger?

sigh we can have tall boyfail loser midwest emo weed farm skater boy stan and short cute fresh faced world famous popstar kyle as a treat, you are welcome to everyone, but mostly riley.

also because i gave jersey an accent, i mean, i don't think forget finger bang stan has a super strong accent but there's probably a little twang there just from being all the way out there in super hick nowheresville rural colorado, it kind of embarasses him so he doesn't talk much or very loudly at all, might have a slight stammer?

idk i love him he's a qt. <3

anyways they get there and it is PACKED!!!!! it is literally hell, stan is so overstimulated holy shit, like forget ( why am i calling it that like that is so fucking funny ) stan is so introverted, he is not vibing. also because it's all mostly screaming girls with signs and stuff, shelley is one of them, she is holding up this really obnoxious one that says 'DEFILE ME, KYLE' on it like gOOOOOOD.

he's in hell fr fr fr.

but it gets worse because right before they are about to get in, this group of rabid fans runs by and one of them knocks her red sugary drink all over stan and completely douses his shirt. he's ready to die. the hotel is too far away, so he has to go into the stadium store and buy something to wear but sigh...the only option...

is black tee-shirt with the words FINGERBANG ME <3 in a big pink glittery font...but sigh...*raven vc* at least it's black. he has no choice but to buy it rip the guitar fund.

he goes back in with shelley and the finger bang boys come out i think its cartman, kenny, kyle and wendy but...wendyl? might be kinda spicy if stan's ex-boyfriend was in fb, also bc that makes him confused about his sexuality...nina rm/fb trans rights, baby!

stan hates everything about their upbeat, capitalistic, commercialist vibe, all of it is really obnoxious bubble gum pop stuff meant to be peddled to teenage girls, its almost propaganda and makes stan sick.

which, speaking of, the songs are bad, but the singing, he's realizing, is actually quite good, particularly the singing done by the little ginger finger bang boy who shelley is obsessed with who...for some reason stan really cannot take his eyes off of. he also thinks he might be crazy but he swears they accidentally locked eyes a couple times, which meant stan had to take a swig of flask he stashed in his jacket.

but i'm gonna finish this post out with a bang or, rather, a finger bang if you will, because i think ala the virigin sacrifice schtick in rm, they probably single some audience members out...

shelley picks the extremely oppurtune moment before that happens to use the restroom and basically pawns her gigantic DEFILE ME KYLE SIGN off on him, so he's just holding this kyle sign and the FINGER BANG ME teeshirt so naturally, fingerbang kyle thinks he's a fan, gets really close to him, winks, steals his beanie, replaces it with his white, blingy, fluffy ushanka and says

"Hey Cutie,

Wanna Get Finger Banged?" <3 ;) xxx

LKHDSLKSHLKHSLKHD I CAN JUST SEE RURAL BOY MIDWEST EMO STAN HEAVY BREATHING HAVING A BI PANIC ATTACK LIKE OHHHH GOD OH GOD LITERALLY CANT SPEAK FEELS LIKE HES GONNA THROW UP FB!KYLE RIZZ IS WAY TOO STRONG HELP

anyways...Scene.

this was so funny to me. like obviously it's not a real thing or anything but it was interesting to imagine an alternative world where finger bang is the famous band and kyle is the big celebrity, not stan. i think maybe they're looking for a 5th member and butters joins the band??? also maybe style have some secret red string of fate tying them together that neither of them know abt?

live, laugh, fingerbang.

uncle nina, celebrity x fan enthusiast

#this was so funny to me i don't know what the hell this is #but it made me laugh so there #finger ban(d) supremacy baby! #this kind of thrilled me so u can ask me silly questions about the fake forget fingerband universe if you want #i am a little obsessed with lanky introverted mid west emo music snob music major rural colorado weed farm boy stan #and tiny bubblegum pop boy next door super cheeky flirty it boy golden boy kyle who probably has a lot of demons and #idk i get the feeling he's got some sort of secret addiction or really dark past...something i think fb stan can sense in his aura #do i give fb stan the stan-a-thesia #idk but he can tell that hes putting on some kind of act #something about maybe having wendy become wendyl #and end up in fingerbang just seems dramatic and interesting to me and really explores sexuality and gender identity #fb stan is repressed that whole fanfic by the way holy shit #i guess its enemies to lovers again #i love drama #i feel like butters is butters and not marjorine #but maybe also transitions through my fake fic #why do i kind of like midwest emo stans twang deep country backwoods colorado accent and his awkward stammer #kyles voice is beautiful by the way he also can do ballet <333 #he is very cute stan is sick all the time its so bad #OKAY IM DONE ARE WE OBSESSED #oh god what if i had finger bang order city wok #and stan deliver it oh my god #luv my fake fic #where is the prissy preppy rich boy kyle visits tegridy farms and has a paris hilton simple life moment and gets chased by the farm animals #and doesnt know how to milk cows or shuck corn or anything and stan driving the tractor and pitching bails of hay shirtless #that is the content i want to see

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

return to dust(2022)隐入尘烟

#china #movie #this is a really good movie #don't know what's happening but it has been removed from all platforms #and the tag is suspended on weibo??? #what are they afraid of seriously #what after all is there that they don't forbid #ultra-small voice: abortion #about the movie itself #viewers' comment: a thoughtful emotional and intimate look at human bonds amid rural poverty

[dotjings]

Rural houses and structures are a lot like stars, in which they are marked out clearly at night, and seem closely grouped, but are actually very far apart

#rural america #late night #your beauty is the glow of a thousand houses in the distance #each one is separate and isolated but from a vantage point they all blend together #forming a collage resembling an artificial galaxy #your voice is like the crickets and the local train passing far away and the highway buzz on a sunset complimented with mountains #you are more than i could ever be and all i could ever want

[ragsy]

I dreamt last night that I changed dogmark's backstory so that he was from New Jersey, and I had given him just the absolute thickest, most exaggerated jersey accent imaginable

And the reason I'm sharing this right now is so I don't have to suffer alone with this vision

#ragsycon exclusive #he probably does have somewhat of an accent in canon from being from Wausau #but I mostly just give him my own voice with a different speech pattern #so he has the rural illinoisan affect instead i guess #either way. his ass is not from new Jersey #*wausau being in central Wisconsin for those who are not up on their midwestern geography

[skullshoal]

People are so annoying on this website about politics.

#broken pencil #needless to say the dominate loud liberal voices all live in large city areas and are out of touch with everyone in rural/smalltown america #nobodies telling you to suck joe bidens divk no one is even telling you to vote for him again he sucks and he should kill himself #i just dont know how to tell you if you dont vote a president there is still going to be a president