#seriously read this book its so good

[incorrect-tbs-quotes]

Guess who just got their copy of @sshannonauthor TBS the Tenth Anniversary edition? (Me!)

I can't wait to dive into this world as I did for the first time six years ago. I get to see my OTP, Paige and Warden for the first time again which is insane. I can't believe we even get that chance so thank you Samantha, truly. This is essentially my version of early Christmas. (And now that I'm older I can actually bust out some champagne for the occasion 😂)

#samantha shannon #tbs #im so nervous and excited #its been a good 6 years since i picked up the first book and now i get to read it again for the first time #which is so crazy and awesome that we get the chance to do that #anyway #i think we all know im a lil crazy about this series #and getting to see og paige and warden again ia getting me so emotional #coming from tmf to this is gonna be like circling back lol but its okay i know they love each other...er eventually #thank you samantha!! this is such a cool experience #i get to be 13 again lmao except i have more reading comprehension skills #okay lemme stop #bon appetit everyone!!! #(but seriously i am emotional over this) 🥹

[oozeandgoo-art]

had an odd dream that i was reading a comic book. sketched a couple of the pages i could remember.

#i might adapt this into an actual story because i am SO SO SO mad that it isn't a thing i can go back to reading #oc #im definitely keeping the concept of save-bot i fucking love save-bot he's just doing his best. i love a robot who wants to help people #im not equipped to be writing about underground rebellions with any sense of real tact though #besides its in a superhero universe/story so you know it would just be so sucks lol #sketch #god the colors were so interesting. the teal parts were all very precisely crosshatched and the fire was this gorgeous brush pen looking #colored inks that just seemed like they were MOVING #and i mean some of that was because i was dreaming but god even in my halfhearted copy you can see some of the movement #it was a bad scene but a really really REALLY fun dream. i love when a book can *get* to me so i was really enjoying it #put it aside so i could take a break and woke up. instant fury at the universe for not having it be a real book instead #ill reblog with details if anyone's curious. i can explain this scene but i dont feel like it #the green people are in a secret basement though. hiding from the government. blue jacket guy is a speedster robot named save-bot who does #rescue stuff with every fire department so fire suppression technology is not very good because save-bot "can just save you'' #however they're badly over their legal occupancy and the secret basement has One (1) exit so everyone is like really fucked here. #includinig save-bot who is going to do his job until he dies because he is an ai without any sense of self preservation and he cares #which i didn't even CATCH until i woke up and started tryin to frantically note everything down #and then i was like wait. the glitter on that last page before i realized i needed a glass of water to keep reading... what WAS that... #(it was tears suspended in midair because save-bot goes so fast and also knows he's so fucked LOL) #seriously i'm so mad someone else didn't make this.

[a-partofthemob]

i want to re-read one of the most painful tear-jerking pillow throwing bathroom screaming terumob au fic i have bookmarked but i Know that im not mentally prepared to reread it

its the sword of damocles

#that fic #destroyed me #so damn hard #it made me excuse myself from the living room to cry in the bathroom #please #god #its so good #and so gut wrenching #i was surprised to see it orphaned though i couldnt find the user #im probably gonna bind it as a book so i can take it to school #sighs and opens word /hj #but fr this fic is so good but id recommend to read tags and take them very seriously it actually destroyed me #terumob #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #from the amt of fics and books i wanna bind i should probably open commissions #but like #only to the ppl in my school #bc i dont know how to ship things out and it scares me frfr #but the sword of damocles🤩🤩makes me cry🤩and i wanna bring it to school and i cry in class🤩💅

[chososluv]

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#im currently reading this book i got and YALL ITS SOOO GOOD #the protag is literally a black spice farmer who gets tangled with a fine ass demo #demon* he out here washing her fucking HAIR!!??! UNDOING HER BRAIDS!?!! #choso coded me thinks but in all seriousness this shit is so good and unserious #༄𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬

[lacomandante]

Also I forgot to update: last Sunday I got Sharpe's Command (thank you Amazon Spain) and I just want to say. Bernard Cornwell sometimes you are the bane of my existence but I lost my MIND reading this book. I couldn't put it down and screamed at Sam as I read ahead bc CORNDOG GAVE US SO MUCH TERESA AND TERESA/SHARPE STUFF. SO MUCH. TERESA GETS HER DAY IN THE SUN AND I HAD TO REFRAIN FROM SCREAMING W/ ASSUMPTA RIGHT NEXT TO ME WHILE I READ. Literally this book is SO FUCKING GOOD for both teresa/sharpe content AND teresa content I am SO happy with it, and it absolutely was worth the wait. Every time he could've done something disappointing he didn't and i kicked my feet and twirled my hair and rolled around on the couch as I read it and ooughhhhhhhh it's now my favorite Sharpe book EVER!!!!!!!!!! TERESA MORENO MY BELOVED SHE GOT SO MUCH STUFF IN THIS BOOK....THANK U FOR MY LIFE CORNDOG

#;ooc #(i wont post spoilers here yet for a while but AAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) #(I put SO many fucking sticky tabs in it to highlight my favorite parts) #(THEYRE SO CUTE THEY HAVE SO MANY CUTE INTERACTIONS) #(SHARPE LOVES HIS WIFE SM IN THIS BOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!) #(AND TERESA LOVES HIM TOO ;WWWW;) #(there's a fantastic scene that made my heart SWOON AND I CANT TALK ABOUT IT) #(SAM HURRY UP AND READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) #(I want to scream about it there's so many good teresa scenes. one is so fucking funny) #(she is so smart and cunning and GOOD and there was like. one part that made me go hmmm but its forgivable) #(okay small spoiler for one of my favorite parts: teresa + 🧱) #(ALSO THE END IS THE PART OF THE ENTIRE BOOK) #(ITS MY FAVORITE SCENE EVER FOR TERESA) #(i couldnt believe he gave her so much. corndog took my question to him seriously when i messaged him on his website) #(me: mr cornwell sir can we plz have more partisan teresa :(( we never see her be a partisan much at all in the books) #(corndog: you Know What Kiran i will make this book Just for You) #(now its 1am and im fucking feral about this book)

[wiinterskye]

also the today one

#akata witch #READ IT ITS SO GOOD #like seriously one of the best book series i’ve ever read #it’s so underrated

[chryzure]

whew, people get heated over their fav booktok book.

#memorie.txt #once you’ve read more you’re more willing to admit that you love a kinda poorly written book #by god i love jackaby. the writing style is a solid 3/5 and the plot stuff is cheesy as hell. #you get a better frame of reference for ‘this book requires an award’ style of good #and a ‘god this is so my dumb little niche that scratches all those weird little itches nobody else has’ style of good #one of my fav series is the ghost and the goth!! is it good?? i don’t know if i’d go that far!! #is it fun and does it make me think of trysi / chryzure stuff??? yes :) #i’m beginning to wonder abt ppl rabid abt their fav books. anyway this one person was losing their shit over ppl liking apollo #and aurora and i’m an aurora shooter but i digress #they were foaming at the mouth and im like Well. its a little not that serious . #he is letters on a page. and also mostly irrelevant to the story as a whole so im kinda confused as to why ppl feel so strongly abt him #it’s funny because most of my complaints stem from an outside pov #where i critique the worldbuilding / plot work / character writing and its inconsistencies #whereas ppl assume im encouraging villainy irl. it is quite seriously more that the villainy is unmotivated #or otherwise poorly done. i love to hate a good villain if the proper legwork is put into it #because i like observing how others work their craft!!! #but my irritation with stephanie is that she doesn’t work her craft well. it’s shoddy craftsmanship full of retcons or #convenience required for plot that otherwise hold no reasoning in the story #and i can admit that i find the series unsatisfying because it’s marketed as a romance (the romance had little chemistry that could be #understood by anyone that’s not straight. straight romances are always laziest because it’s the ‘norm’ so that equates to chem) #and also it was marketed as having plot when rlly the ‘plot’ was trying to put these characters in weird chemistry-less situations together #so yeah i’ll complain abt the villains being jealous shallow archetypes when it could’ve had depth. #i’ll complain abt a lot. but in the end it’s a silly basic ya romance series that isn’t anything unique #most unique stories will not be found on booktok. i’m sorry #i can show you the beautiful world of horror novels though! #or weird lil 80s fantasy novels that are actually quite long that my dad likes showing me #truly no romance novel will be better than the darkangel trilogy though.. that is what stephanie wanted to write. #but that’s lightning in a bottle ithink. #okay anyway. good night. i worked a long day and i have appts in the morning

[13eyond13]

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#here's some of the classics on that list i have beef with btw: #i have tried to read A Confederacy of Dunces several times and it's funny but it's also so cringe and Ignatius is so obnoxious #that i find it too difficult to finish like i just feel depressed and bad for everybody around him too much #i tried reading Infinite Jest like a decade ago and i got like 200 pages in and i remember thinking it felt like #such a slog the entire time because he's just so gd wordy and also i stopped liking DFW after i heard the abuse allegations against him #frankenstein i didnt read that long ago but i just remember finding it so boring for some reason?? i feel i might need to read it again #dracula ngl i feel like im cheating a bit saying ive completely read it because i loved the beginning and then HATED so much of the rest #the characters were just so boring and melodramatic hahaha i just liked the part where jonathan was doing a travel diary #and trapped in the castle tbh and after that i skimmed quite a bit #i almost flipped my shit when i saw ender's game on there because I ALWAYS mix it up with ready player one by ernest cline #which i bought the audiobook of a while back and hated every minute of it i dont think its good at all #but it wasnt that so phew my faith in this list is somewhat restored #i read most of the first game of thrones book and was disappointed tbh maybe because id seen the show already #so i was like 'this feels almost exactly the same except worse?' because i'd been expecting it to give me more depth and insight #into the characters but instead it felt exactly the same and i still didnt love any of the characters enough to feel attached to them #also i am fully aware me not personally liking or vibing with a book doesnt mean it doesnt deserve to be considered great btw #but i think if youre gonna be like me and force yourself to go through a bunch of lists like this very seriously then you also need to just #let yourself be like 'yeah not for me' without feeling too bad about it sometimes too #often times i dont particularly love the classics or 'important books' but at the same time #i still feel like im getting more out of reading them than just grabbing the newest hyped up books that also dont do anything for me #maybe not in a 'wow i loved reading this' way but in like a #'i now have first-hand knowledge of this thing that is so influential / so frequently referenced' #or 'this challenged me and i feel like i did a mental/emotional workout or gave me some new food for thought' #or 'made me more aware of what gaps in my knowledge and reading skills and what my tastes are too' #sort of way... #it really just depends on what you're reading for and why and what you're hoping to get out of it a lot of the time maybe #it's like the homework i give myself to go through these lists that i also intersperse with the stuff i read more just for fun #p

[lesbianraskolnikov]

me and my friend will reimagine crime and punishment and yes there will be yuri and yaoi. But mostly yuri. We both want that but he likes toxic yuri. Well he says it already is I suppose hes right.

#Rodya really was literally a woman and its nobodies business #My mind will make him a lesbian i dont care. Just like me. #I havent fixated so hard in a really long time you will let me play and laugh #See i would change some things around. #floyd.txt #I read this book seriously but i will have my fun with it. It really was so good. Yayyy!!! I am changed now. #Get him out of my head he wont leave me

[doctorweebmd]

writing is ridiculous because you're like "what if i write the most dogshit chapter of all time, being the same person and having the same writing skills as I did last week" and it LITERALLY paralyzes you from writing

#in all fairness.... i think we've all read either chapters or books that have some dogshit parts #but honestly i dont think i ever noticed something chapter to chapter. just sometimes the plot falls flat but not like its written poorly? #does that make sense? #sorry i'm overthinking things i just REALLY struggle with writing atsushi. i hope i do him justice. #i want to get this chapter out this weekend or early next week. its just getting the 'voice' right #which is often just a matter of time and spirits of 'good flow' #l;asdjfalksdjfklasdjf SERIOUSLY. I WANT TO WRITE THIS SO BAD. WHY IS IT SCARING ME. #WHO IS SCARED OF THEIR HOBBIES #TEARS TERROR RIPPING MY HEART OUT #okay. i'm okay

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

the barbie movie "discourse" has like blown so out of proportion. does it look like a fun movie, yes. will it maybe have a good message, yes. is it kinda just a big commercial, yes. is it going to revolutionize cinema, no. like just have fun and don't take it to serious. you don't have to be able to write a 300 page dissertation on why the movie is morally good or bad to enjoy it.

#sorryy im seeing people both act like this is the worst thing ever or the best #the movie hasn't even come out yet #im not one to say reject media literacy or the “curtains are blue just cause their blue” but sometimes its okay to just have fun #if you want to take a piece of media seriously go to a piece of media that is designed to be taken seriously #ya know read a good book that will change your life #and again the movie hasn't even come out yet so chill #♡

[brother-emperors]

I ADORE your art. I love how you use color and just your style is SO jgpgdgdjldfjtuzifs

Anyways, I'm curious if you went to school to learn art or you taught yourself!

I did go to art school, but it wasn't to learn art! I went to art school to learn how to. uh. make comics. specifically, the technical, production, and business aspects of it! (also thank you!)

#fully recommend no one ever goes to art school if they're in america bc it sucks here. the loan debt is NOT worth it #and very rarely do people actually care abt ur art school degree. its about your portfolio. art school is only good for connections #and you can make those in other ways without the crushing weight of student loan debt and interest #HEUGHGHH NOT TO GO ON A SOAP BOX TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE STATE OF ART SCHOOL. anyway #art school had very little impact on my style tbqh #the biggest impacts style wise that school had on my were the figure drawing and painting classes #but that's because i didn't have access to live figure drawing where i was living before #and painting was an eye opener bc i couldn't afford to take a chance on oil painting until it was a class requirement #i think artists at heart are self taught bc art is a dialogue with thousands of years of history #all art school can do is speed up or condense that conversation #everything is already out there in the world so all that's left is to pick up a pencil and see what happens #more specifically ive been drawing since i was 5 (crayons baby) but i started to take it more seriously in highschool bc it was #the only thing i was good at so i started looking up the old masters and studying their techniques #and reading art history books at the public library to find out what's been going on in art for the last thousand years #ask tag

[ribbitrrrbitxhs]

access to higher education is so limited in america so I'm gonna make a google drive full of the resources I'm given at my university I still have access to. For what I no longer have access to, I'll just post a list of books, articles, poems, ect from the course. Granted it's gonna be a lot of political theory and history but like its some cool stuff.

starting off,

A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein (my actual professor. this book is fantastic)

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin Burrows

No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920 by T.J. Jackson Lears

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 by Timothy Gilfoyle (literally so fascinating)

Myth and Thought among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant

Mortals and immortals by Vernant

Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru by Irene Silverblatt

Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York by M.H. Dunlop

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla Peterson

#education #history #politics #political theory #history of new york #books #seriously read the first book! its so good!

[caruliaa]

will prob not start reading either for a while regardless el oh el but i have both six of crows and pride and prejudice so if anyone is reading this tell me which on u think i shld read first 👍🏽

#in replys 👍🏽 #i have to read one at some point bc i cant justify buying any other books b4 then even though i cant buy most books i want regardless #bc in order to do that id have to bring them into my parents house. SAD! #also i dont read. just realised i am not a girlie who looses their mind over book quotes i am a girlie who looses their mind over song lyri #which is deeply cringe fail and needs 2 b changed rn so my webweavs can b good and ppl can actually take me seriously #and i can b a full actual person. and not the cring mutual holding up tswift lyrics to cartoon characters thumbs up emoji #like u all dont know what its like 2 b 18 with a 14 yr old sibling whos read the odyessy but let me tell you it does not make you feel good #anyway. this became smth else. pls actually reply to this i need to decide. the owl house there will this get as much attention #as my little miss perfect post now #(pls tell me that wont put this in the actual tag ill loose my godamm mind) #flappy rambles

[bansenshukai]

here is my recommended reading order of novik's work:

Spinning Silver

Uprooted

and then interchangeable between Temeraire series (9 books) or The Scholomance (3 books), depending on whether you like pride and prejudice but instead of romance it's the platonic perfection of a bond between man and dragon or YA fantasy where the magic school is trying to kill you (a series that restored my faith in a genre)

#naomi novik #book rec #actually author rec #all her books are very different imo #a rarity for an author #like seriously. so different. but spinning silver is the nebula winner and hugo nominee and a buncha other awards for a good reason #that being said i think temeraire might be my fav. practically a comfort series at this point. lawrence and temeraire got me in a chokehold #i honestly think you cannot judge that series until you've read all nine books #because its like. the best series ever. i've never felt the plot development and character development grow and expand so organically #and seamlessly across NINE FUCKING BOOKS and then WRAP UP AMAZINGLY SATISFYINGLY #like. oh my god. thinking about it has me on the floor

[ralphdro]

Power Girl in Lazarus Planet: Alpha! Art by Riccardo Federic.

#dc comics #power girl #karen starr #kara zor-l #dc universe #comic books #comics #dc #lazarus planet #lazarus planet alpha #seriously read this #its so good #why did they go so hard #i am thankful they did tho