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Could you reblog this if you enjoy seeing your writer friends ramble about their wips on your dash?

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Expressing my lifelong love of sharks by painting a sweet little nurse shark

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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Surnames Master Post.

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I am actually desperate to know what book/s you were thinking of when you reblogged that post about 5-stars being A Completely Wrong Response

Uh oh. I feel like I'm already in trouble. But as far as books-

ACOTAR which for the life of me I don't even care what the actual title is, but I couldn't make it through the first chapter. Like...it pained me to read it. After like a week and reading 5 pages I just gave up.

50 Shades. Yeah we all know it's bad now, but when it first came out people would not shut up about how awesome it was, and I was in the Navy when it came out, so like every girl in my division was reading it and saying how good it was, but never any details. So I finally asked what it was about and they gave me the B storyline where Gray was horrifically abused as a teen/child and now couldn't stand people touching him, but a girl he falls in love with helps him past his trauma. Now - before you judge, these were *popular* books but nobody ever explicitly said what they were about, and I had the ebook version and was like what the hell, let's give it a whirl. Oh. My. Fucking. God. Even before the dubious sex scenes, it was just so fucking badly written I couldn't get through more than a couple chapters - like I didn't get to the sex scenes at ALL and that's saying something.

Foxhole Court. Just. No. So no. All the no. Wtf wtf wtf. Nope.

And finally- and don't judge me - Fourth Wing. I just couldn't. It had everything that I love, except...not done well enough to make me read more than a few chapters. I found myself skipping huuuuge chunks because it was reading like the world's worst history book.

Now all this being said - I know people like them. I'm not saying that they can't. I'm just saying that I hated them and couldn't get past the opening few chapters to convince me that there was something worth slogging through it.

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i love when an emotionally inept character who thinks they have no one, gets wrecked and ralphed and Goes Through It before waking up with like seven people worriedly hovering over them, hands pressing against their face, telling them to stay down and that they're okay. and then character, who thought these people just tolerated them at best, proceeds to get coddled for the next week and then every week after that.

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I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars

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Slow Horses (2022-)

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The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

Hood by Stephen Lawhead

Robie and Reel series by David Baldacci

Stalking Jack the Ripper (Series) by Kerri Maniscalco)

Most of Dean Koontz's works, especially his earlier ones.

Hello, Ace! I was wondering if you had any non-fantasy book recs with some good whump? Preferably with male adult whumpee(s). I've been really in the mood for reading lately but I just can't find anything that suits my taste. Have a wonderful day! And happy Easter if you celebrate.

Happy Easter to you as well!

Non fantasy book recs. Yeah I can give a few recs. Is scifi okay? I love scifi and that's like all I'm reading right now. I've also added a few historical fictions cause I love historical fiction.

Both Project Hail Mary and The Martian by Andy Weir

The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells

Reviver series by Seth Patrick

The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson

Any of the Hardy Boys books

The Stargate SG-1 tie in novels

The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman

A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin.

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Literally just to be assholes. That was their reasoning. Supposedly, Peter didn't even want to leave the show.

And earlier in this season, Bobby is a consultant on a show based on 9-1-1 and the character actor playing the fire chief on the fake show has a crisis of faith and debates leaving because how realistic is it that they keep surviving, etc, and then the fans of the fake show protest because he's their "TV dad" and they loved him so the actor decides to stay - for the fans.

So the writers can burn in hell for that one.

Wait are you fucking serious right now?

Bobby is for real actually dead?!

Fuck that! Fuck that very much! I haven't watched the episode but I saw a gifset and I saw Peters goodbye letter and WHAT THE FUCK!? The show actually killed off Bobby Nash!?! NO! 911 needs Bobby!! The team needs Bobby. What kind of show can we possibly have without Bobby Nash?

Yeah I'm fucking done. I don't know if I can keep watching after this. As much as I love the other characters and I want to see more of BuckTommy this is horrible and I'm not staying for a show without Bobby. I love Bobby so fucking much and I can't see a decent show without him. Fuck this.

I'm hoping so hard that this turns into a buried alive plot or something please tell me he's not actually dead. But God that letter from Peter does not give me hope. I don't want to say goodbye to Bobby!!! I won't!!! It fucking sucks!!

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WIP Wednesday which is in fact Friday

tagged by @jamietarttsnorthernattitude on Thursday but you know what I have been a day off all week and time is a construct and anyway here is some random excerpt from a Slow Horses fic (if you followed me for anything else, I'm sorry, but the brain rot is terminal here)

At first, he’s not even sure River is alive. River’s face is a mask of barely dried blood, his forehead split jaggedly across, the laceration deep enough that Lamb is sure it’s to the bone, and he’s lying on his side on a faded and torn mattress that is possibly worse than lying on the floor.

There’s no movement beyond the barely visible rise and fall of his chest, the slight shudder that wracks his frame on every exhale. His hands are bound in front of him, duct taped together with so many layers it’s almost ridiculous, but Lamb is looking at his fingers to see if they’re still pink and warm from circulation, or turning blue. It’s hard to tell under the blood there, too, and Lamb remembers the car park and the broken glass.

There’s something wrong about the curve of River’s body - there’s a dip at his right shoulder where there shouldn’t be, and it takes him a second to realize it’s because his arm isn’t where it’s supposed to be. It’s bent inwards at the joint where his upper arm meets his clavicle - dislocated, not broken - but Lamb doesn’t know enough about anatomy to know if that’s better or worse. The bare part of River’s arms between his wrists and his elbow are shredded too, and Lamb’s brain unhelpfully supplies the fact that River was forcibly dragged across concrete at some point.

He’s not sure if River is unconscious, or just lying very, very still, and Lamb hopes it’s the former. He’s seen bad shit before. People decapitated via hanging from piano wire. Suicides up close. Cyanide poisoning. Forcing a gun into a man’s mouth and pulling the trigger. But this is River.

No pressure tags to be filled at a time and date of your choosing: @abubblingcandle @lord-owlsnake (it does not specify writing and I love your art so this is an unashamed plea for more) @fayedartmouth @dragonnan (also because it does not specify writing)

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Would really love some more aroace characters in media but really tired of the way fandoms constantly try to be like "oh but they can still date and have sex!!!" Because god forbid theyre deprived of shipping for five minutes

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Chapters: 3/12 Fandom: Slow Horses (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: River Cartwright & Jackson Lamb, River Cartwright & Louisa Guy, River Cartwright & Bertrand Harkness Characters: River Cartwright, Jackson Lamb (Slough House), Louisa Guy, Shirley Dander, Bertrand Harkness, David Cartwright, Emma Flyte, Yves Harkness | Robert Winters, Diana Taverner, Roddy Ho, Marcus Longridge Additional Tags: S4 AU, Insomnia, Paranoia, Stalking, Supportive Slow Horses, Hurt River Cartwright, Sleep Deprivation, Platonic Relationships, Les Arbres River, Harkness Brothers, River’s past explored by flashback, Underage Drinking, stun grenades, Interrogation, Canon Terrorist Attack, Canonical Character Death Series: Part 13 of Candle’s Whumptober 2024 Summary:

Everyone thinks that they know all there is to MI5’s biggest disappointment, River Cartwright. And that’s just how he wants it. But when River’s sanity starts to unspool and figures from his past randomly pop up in London, everything that he had painstakingly built begins to fall apart.

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I got too impatient waiting to post this! 

Whumptober Day 31 - Asking for Help

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I have decided that fate will determine what I work on next

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So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.

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i think a big part of expanding your intellectual curiosity and trying to learn new things about the world is to abandon the shame of not knowing things. don't blame "the US school system" (which US school system????), don't blame your teachers, don't blame society, but embrace the fact that you are going to be learning new things constantly, throughout your life. practice saying "i really need to read about that" or "does anyone know of any good sources to learn about xyz?" or "hold on i gotta go check wikipedia/a world map/the dictionary/the news." every single day, there will be something you don't know already. that something doesn't have to be embarrassing. instead it can be an opportunity to learn something new