#Forgotten Audiobook

[asexualbookbird]

so um. I finished The Last Hour Between Worlds today and i DO have thoughts but I also. um. just went back to chapter one and started the audiobook over again. So do with that what you will.

[playpurpur]

i finished the avatar series and started listening to the moonshae trilogy. the problem being that darkwalker on moonshae sucks ass so badly but I'm compelled by bhaal autism to finish the trilogy.

[wyatcallowsprotector]

Rip Spruce you would have loved Bonnie and Twill

Rip Bonnie and Twill you would have loved Spruce

[jaclynhyde]

okay but why is so much of this short story artemis and jarlaxle talking about jarlaxle's cock

[theffej]

Hi, knock knock Tumblr. This is not a drill. I have completed Sabriel's audio book. The entire thing is on my YouTube channel for free, $0.00, gratis. It would mean a lot to me if you would subscribe there, because I will definitely be continuing the series and branching into others as well. Some of my plans include the silmarillion, The Hobbit, and the Lord Of the Rings trilogy, as well as the monolithic Forgotten Realms' drow legacy and the accompanying cleric quintet.

[cataclysmicamomile]

Wait I totally forgot that Fors was introduced during Volume 1. Is it time for Qilangos' assassination???

[illusion-reality-steve]

Hi, audiobook anon here!

sorry it took so long to make I got covid and school was a pain so it's a bit rushed. However the first chapter of the audiobook is done!

I thought you might like to listen to it so here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYuxLLHbfw

Hello audiobook anon! I hope you're recovering well from covid. Please take care of yourself and rest your voice!

Thank you so much for sharing! I've listened to it, and I absolutely loved how it turned out! I especially loved the part where Memory is constantly running away from Illusion. You did a great job on this omg!!

Here's the video in case anyone else wants to listen to it to :)

[youremyonlyhope]

Poor Mary being forgotten.

Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.

But her family. Holy shit.

First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever

Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.

And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, and she’s getting engaged so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves two more, and those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper

And while one of ‘em’s young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.

And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK

And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”

So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE

And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for

And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker

And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”

And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”

And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah

Yeah, I think I kinda get it

[scarlettfevor]

Last year I listened to a lot of audiobooks because ever since I graduated high school I haven't been reading as much and I had to really fight to get back into the habit. And I do feel like I can read again, but now I can't listen to audiobooks. I've returned all the ones I've gotten the past 3 months after listening for only an hour or so. I just logged onto Libby and saw that the audiobook for the secret history is finally available and I am SO excited to listen because tsh is one of my favorite books of all time and one of two books I've given 5 stars in the past 2 years. I want to read Donna Tartt's other books "I've had my eye on the gold finch for a while) but haven't gotten to it so I'm hoping that since I know everything that happens (and know that I won't be disappointed) that I'll actually finish this audiobook and maybe be given the motivation I need to read her other works

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[gloriadenton]

Lestat in one of those "we're the daughters of the witches you didn't burn" t-shirts, send post.

[iknowitwontwork]

i need to finish red queen rip

[the-aviary-system]

Mood. We've had to stop playing games like this because we'd get unhealthily addicted to "number go up"

Like we'd get a withdrawal like effect, we'd get anxious about missing out on potential number going up if we didn't have whatever idle game we were obsessing over running in the background of our computer 24/7. Doing schoolwork? Keep it in the background and tab in like every 5 minutes to check in on it and buy upgrades. Planning D&D? Same thing.

Other games that use the "number go up" formula often got greedy with their players and kept trying to exploit their addiction to make them spend money, they made it more and more grindy until it was impossible for free-to-play people like us to keep up. (We didn't have a job, so no consistent money, so that's a reason why we were FTP. I dunno if we would've fallen into the trap of spending tons of money on games like these if we had a consistent income)

After getting disillusioned with our latest "number go up" simulator, I decided to try cookie clicker because I heard it wasn't pay to win. Yeah, I used an autoclicker too. And CC was pretty neat and all, it wasn't exploitative, which I appreciate- it was a grindy game in its purest state, grinding for the sake of grinding, gaining numbers for the hell of it, instead of trying to make money off of players- but since it wasn't actively trying to exploit us with FOMO it let us stop and think, and we realized we don't even enjoy these kinds of games that have taken up hours and hours of our lives.

So we made a rule for ourselves. No more of these games. From now on, we only play games if we're actually enjoying them, not just playing it out of obligation to make the number go higher. And it was really hard to stop playing since we got that same kind of withdrawal effect, the little itch in the back of the head that "I could be more productive right now, if I just had one of those games open in the background while I write I would be more productive" but we had to just fight that.

Anyway, that's not to say nobody should play these games. I'm not writing this to shame anyone for playing them, I'm not trying to sound preachy and hope that it doesn't come off that way- this comic just reminded me of our experience with these types of games and I felt like talking about it since we were addicted to these kinds of games for a good while. Some people will definitely be able to handle the addicting nature of these games better than we can. Some people genuinely enjoy the grind because it lets them just turn off their brain for a little while or not have to focus too much on something. Just be mindful to not let it become an addiction, is all.

So yeah that's the story of how we had an addiction to really grindy idle games

-Emyr (he/it)

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

I don't fall in love because my entire heart is already filled to the brim with my one true love and only soulmate:

💞Libby 💞

[penguinsomething]

Listening to someone read the sex scenes of books is so awkward and I do not like it

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

school (esp school as a child) shouldn't be the only place you acquire information about the world. implying that if information wasn't already in your head by age 18, you have no option to find out more is just... so disingenuous and disconnected from reality.

social media should also not be your only non-school source of info about the world. you have so many options!!

there are nonfiction books written by experts! and if reading with your eyes is hard there are so many audiobooks! there are courses you can audit or listen to/watch recordings of if you want to practice new skills or see them demonstrated!

there are short form articles meant both for laypeople and experts! a LOT of nonfiction informational books are DESIGNED to be extremely digestible to someone with no prior knowledge!

people make reading lists, curricula & syllabi to help YOU. whatever you want to learn about, odds are somebody somewhere has made a list that might be useful to get started!

like your options truly are not just "happen to run into this info accidentally" and "never learn it".

sincerely though for most things (be careful w politics/economics lol) even wikipedia can teach you a lot. like you aren't doomed never to know stuff just bc you didn't learn it while a literal child. you might find that your adult brain actually picks certain things up easier than when you were little!

like yes schools need to be better but like. you aren't 10 anymore. you have more options now! the world is so big and you have time to learn slowly!

so if it takes you longer to learn certain kinds of information, that doesn't mean it's impossible! like I find geography extremely difficult bc i'm so nonvisual but I still make progress on understanding it year by year, and searching in the moment, when i'm not sure if i remember correctly, reinforces that knowledge, so I'm definitely much better-informed than I was half a lifetime ago in my mostly forgotten childhood class.

ultimately you are the one who makes the final decision about what you will or will not prioritize in your life. Be honest w yourself about what your barriers to knowledge are RIGHT NOW as an adult person, instead of assuming bc you had barriers as a kid they're still identical now & also insurmountable.

The barriers between you & knowledge as an adult are probably more permeable than you might assume!! You have so many options!! But apathy is the first barrier, and it's one only you can address for yourself.