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[skatesfullofsunshine]

Putting books on hold at the library has the same thrill of ordering books online, but with the added benefit of not losing any money over titles I might not enjoy.

10/10 would recommend.

[readtrovert]

There's a melody in your voice, an emotion in your eyes and a beauty in your smile.

[blinkbones]

Title: Fight Club Author: Chuck Palahniuk

In which 90s american salarymen are miserable and turn to "fight club" to find meaning in their lives. In which we follow a specific, nameless one of these, his normal fucked up romance with a cigarette girl, and his abnormal romantic enfuckening with his pet guy.

Perfect read for a heatwave and being stuck in a city i loathe (Paris) doing something i loathe (flat hunting).

It's funny, you know. I would never have been curious about this book before. Fight club? The manosphere trapdoor? The red flag? Ah well; but I've grown. I mean, and it gets harder and harder to not empathize with men when I'm getting hit with the genderfluid beam every morning. Eventually I got to have enough similar experiences that I thought "hey, this sounds fun". Learning that Palahniuk is gay helped. Interesting to ponder what a gay man may have to say on the topic of "everyday men being miserable".

I think I expected sharp criticism. Well. WELL! I'm not sure what I got, but boy was it compelling. At the end of the day, I'm not sure what Palahniuk was trying to express; I'm not sure that he was trying to express something clearly defined at all; I'm not sure I got it at all. I don't mind. I had so much fun.

SO much fun. Tyler Durden, y'know. Well I love him. Godddd the lye scene. The kiss. Fight club? I sort of get it. It'd be hypocritical if I didn't -- I dream of violence pretty much every day. You know that post that went around asking what your usual daydreams are? That's how I learned that maybe, actually, mine are unusual. Because I do daydream constantly about fights, beatings, torture, bloody little things. Calms me. So I sort of get it; you beat a brother up, you both feel better. I've never played this game irl, but I see the appeal. This is a bit of a terrible realization to have.

It's a short book, but gave me a lot of food for thoughts. It's funny, it's ridiculous, it's grotesque. It's explosive and numbing. It feels like finding yourself in a profoundly shitty situation and starting to laugh because it's so absurd to have to deal with this.

I really want to read more of this guy's books. His writing is curt and strange -- I lovedddd it. I think there are sequels? Oh boy. Oh yeah.

Ah! Post-scriptum : the wounds are so much more present than in the movie. I haven't fully rewatched it yet, but it's cleaner. In the book, the narrator fucks up his cheek early on, and spends the rest of the book dealing with the hole in his face. It's so great.

[knebellindemann]

[learnelle]

A story that will haunt me forever

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

*for books physical, ebook, and audible all count

I tend to read more books but ao3 is my love I probably fall around a 4

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I’m curious drop the last book/fanfic u read

[blindfolded-nakedtruth]

The best compliment is to accept someone with whatever they have.

[crepusculescence]

— Passage from The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[else-creates]

So I didn't preorder "Heavenly Tyrant" by @xiranjayzhao because of the delays, I just decided that I'd get it online or in person when it was released.

I genuinely thought it came out at the end of this month, I didn't know it had already been released until I saw it on a shelf today.

My girlfriend managed to swipe it out of my hands before I could pay for it though.....So now it's a Christmas present.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Gotta say I used to extensively comment on fics and not just a few words but did some fairly long detailed comments on what I liked but recently I started to get less and less replies on them despite authors (relatively popular ones) sometimes replying to others. And while I understand that author doesn’t owe me anything it did quite demotivate me from leaving as much comments. Why bother if nobody cares in the first place? I know its an unhelpful mindset but I can’t shake it. Any advices?

hi!

as an author who likes to comment on others' works but is notoriously bad at replying to comments I receive on my own works, I can guarantee that 99.99% of writers read the comments they receive and, even if they don't reply back, they love and appreciate your kind words more than you know. I know this may sound cliche and all, but I can wholeheartedly say this because it's true for me, as an author.

yes, I admit that I don't always reply to comments I receive, but it's not because I don't appreciate or care about them. I read them, mostly several times each, I screenshot them and save them in a special folder so I can always come back and read them again. there are just so many kind comments I receive that make me smile to myself for minutes even though I don't reply back. some of them actually make me shed a few tears of joy.

thing is when us authors don't reply to comments we receive, it's mostly because;

we don't know how best to respond that will let the commenters know how much we appreciate them. because if the comments are several paragraph long (we LOVE that!), and we only reply with "thank you so much", then it sounds too short for us. (I know this because I sometimes spend so long thinking about how best to respond that will let my commenters know how much I appreciate them that I sometimes end up don't respond back.)

sometimes we are overwhelmed by several comments from several readers, and responding to all of them are too overwhelming. but we read, love and appreciate each and every single one of them very dearly.

sometimes we reply to some comments and not the others, because maybe we have little free time where we can only reply to some people, or maybe there's something about some specific comments that makes us respond back. but this does not mean we don't care about comments we don't reply back.

sometimes we're simply exhausted from stuff in our lives and replying to comments take time and energy, depends on how long the comments are / how long we want our responses to be / how many comments we receive, etc

writing is hard, but sometimes finding the right words to reply back to comments can be even harder, especially when we want to write several paragraph responses back just to let them know how much we appreciate them. and unfortunately sometimes us writers just don't have enough energy left.

but rest assured that, even if we don't reply, we love and appreciate every kind comment we receive very, very much, and they help motivate us to keep writing.

when I comment on my fellow writers' works and don't get any response back, I know why (for the reasons listed above), and that's totally okay for me because I don't comment on their works just for them to thank me, I do it because I want them to know how I love and appreciate their works, and I believe they do know. and that's really all that matters for me.

so if your favorite authors don't reply to you, please don't think that it's because they "don't care" or that your comments "don't matter" to them.

I mean, of course, I can see why not getting a response back can be discouraging, especially when commenting on writers' works are so encouraged, but as a fellow commenter (yes, I'm an author and also a commenter of fics I love), I always think of it this way; fanfics are gifts we receive for free, we comment on writers' works as a way to thank them for giving us cool fics to read. we don't expect them to thank us back because they've already given us this lovely gift. we comment only because we want to let them know we love their fics. and they know.

your comments could now be saved in your favorite authors' folders and re-read by them over and over again, even if they didn't respond back. they could be smiling to themselves reading your thoughts on their works. who knows? their next 100k word fic could be motivated by you.

[giftandhisoaks]

if you're a fellow weird autistic/some other flavor of neurodivergent, please reblog for larger sample size! i really wanna see the statistics of our hellsite!

[creelson]

Choosing to stay alive and not kill myself because I still have Archive of Our Own to read and post on. I’m not even joking

[themanyhobbiesoffem]

23.05.2025

I’m halfway through my last semester with four weeks to go, and boy is it busy. And my motivation completely went over the last three weeks. I kept pushing my assignments and not enjoying it, finding the classes so incredibly hard. But! I have two days off this and next week, so the grind has started.

I’ve worked for three hours so far on my Personal Developement class today (it’s only 1 pm)

I’ve finished the Pairing last week! Absolutely loved it.

Haven’t been taking as many walks and skating trips, but I’ve been trying to do as many as I can, like walking to school from the busstation.

Worked on my miniature build last week :)

Had a few good conversations about selfworth and studying on Wednesday, which have helped my motivation!

So, there is a lot to do, but I am feeling pretty okay about it!

Have a great weekend!✨