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Saw this ad here and I thought for a moment this was a joke post.

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First Bingo of 2025!!!

Finally got my first bingo on the bingo made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

I've read a ton of great books so far this year!

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Book Bingo, Another Update

As always, this bingo card was made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

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"Do you think that's strange? The world is changing so fast I no longer know what's right or wrong, and now we are here following the current custom eating [human flesh] like this. Do you think we're weird?"

He shook his head. "No, I don't. I mean, normal is a type of madness, isn't it? I think it's just that the only madness society allows is called normal."

- Murata Sayaka, "Life Ceremony"

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I can't finish Harrow the Ninth.

I'm sorry. I can't. I didn't even want to read these books in the first place, but a friend convinced me to.

I got through roughly a third of the book before realizing I don't care about any of these characters. I don't care about the world building. I don't care about the mystery. Hell, I barely know what the mystery is.

Every time my friend asks me where I am in the book, I don't know how to answer her because, aside from whatever the fuck was going on in the river scene, I feel like the entire book has been characters having rambling incoherent conversations with each other.

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"Well, he hasn't got religious mania, and he isn't running around in a circle spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he's normal."

- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

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Book Bingo Update #3

Lit Fic: Loveless by Alice Oseman

Story Collection: Books of Blood Vol 1 by Clive Barker

Animal: We Have Always Lived in this Castle by Shirley Jackson

Spec Fic: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Fantasy: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Another Country: Soichi by Junji Ito

Sci Fi: Kindred by Octavia Butler

Memoir: Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

Nonfiction: Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy

Published in 00's: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington

Not on the bingo: Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

Once again, this book bingo was made by @batmanisagatewaydrug

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"We exhume bodies for the same reason we bury bodies—because they are our dead."

-Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

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Sometimes I sit back and wonder how many asexuals and aromantics throughout history had to suffer in silence because they didn't have the words to express themselves, much less the support. How many forced themselves into types relationships they hated purely because they thought "everyone experiences this." How many were made to feel like freaks due to their perpetual singleness? How many were mocked? How many cast out? How many forced to be someone they hated? Of course, this alienation isn't exclusive to aro and/or ace people, but I do think about this when my world is a little too quiet.

Hey remember when people on this site were absolutely insane about asexuals saying they’re a Trojan horse to sneak in homophobic straight people into the lgbt community or whatever and now JKR is making the same lazy edgelord jokes about asexual people

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I'm so sick of ASMR being in every goddamn thing!

Like 10 years ago, ASMR had its own little corner of the internet. People who liked it had easy access to it, but those that didn't could avoid it easily. Then, somehow, it escaped containment.

Now, I'll be having a good day watching some internet video, and then my ears will be filled with the DEAFENING SOUND OF BAG CRINKLES. Or someone WHISPERING AT ME WITH THE GODDAMN MIKE SHOVED UP THEIR NOSE. Or, they'll be TAPPING THEIR FINGERS RIGHT IN MY EARHOLE.

Its awful. I hate it. Stop it. Stop it now. Go back to your own personal hole of the internet so you don't anger the spiders who live in my brain!

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To everyone leaving comments on my last post about Harrow the Ninth: Yes, my friend has told me the exact same things. I bet you were all waggling your eyebrows mysteriously as you typed those messages. Locked Tomb fans are something else, I swear.

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THERE'S A MUSICAL?!?

My "friend" has once again forced me to read a Locked Tomb book. I'm now listening to Harrow the Ninth on Spotify. I feel like I'm listening to a Trekkie drop acid while reading a thesaurus. Please send help.

(Yes, I'm being dramatic as a joke, but I'm still confused as hell.)

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My "friend" has once again forced me to read a Locked Tomb book. I'm now listening to Harrow the Ninth on Spotify. I feel like I'm listening to a Trekkie drop acid while reading a thesaurus. Please send help.

(Yes, I'm being dramatic as a joke, but I'm still confused as hell.)

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Book Bingo Update 2

I've been having a wonderful reading time this year! Seven books down, still no bingo. But who knows?

Literary Fiction: Loveless by Alice Oseman

Short Story Collection: Books of Blood vol 1 by Clive Barker

20th Century Spec Fiction: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Fantasy: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Animal on the Cover: We Have Always Lived in this Castle by Shirley Jackson

Nonfiction: Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy

Published in the Aughts: Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington

Thanks to @batmanisagatewaydrug for making the bingo card!

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"I won't be able to afford college. I won't be able to get a job or move out of my parents' house because no job I could get would support me and there are no safe places to move."

-Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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Book Bingo 2025!

For those wondering, the books are

Literary Fiction: Loveless by Alice Oseman

Short Story Collection: Book of Blood Volume 1 by Clive Barker

Nonfiction: Gay Berlin by Robert M Beachy

Published in the Aughts: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington

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My Top 5 Books of 2024

Wow, this is super late! I took a bit of a break from posting on Tumblr, but I did not take a break from reading! I finished 25 books so lets count down the best!

I should mention that I did read a few book series last year, and counted them as a single book on this list, so my top 5 is technically 11 books. Oops.

5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan

As you may recall, I shotgunned the first 5 Percy Jackson books over the course of about 6 weeks. It was a wild ride! I enjoyed it immensely, even if I was exhausted by the end.

4. Jaques McKeown series by Yahtzee Crowshaw

You want some really fun sci-fi? Look no further! This series was an abolute treat. I laughed my ass off, but it also had a lot of interesting things to say about art and artists. And it made up its own swear word system! Fun, exciting, what more could you want?

3. Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Existential horror. I want existential body horror, which my top 3 books brought in spades. So here's a look at a dystopia where abortion is illegal, told through the eyes of teenagers victimized by state violence. So glad this book isn't relevant to today's politics!

2. Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica

There are some books that are difficult to defend. Even people that recommend this book have difficulty with the ending. I don't. I love it cover to cover! My initial dislike of the ending completely flipped after thinking about it for awhile. So here: the cannibalism book is my top 2 choice.

1. Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Sometimes you don't know what to say, because there's so much emotion. Goddamn, this was good! Also, really hard to recommend. This book will test you.

I had a feeling this would get on my top 5 list. Turns out I was very, very right.