#I just finished reading it

[fruity-cleric]

grungey guitar player mike and football player will 💥

based on the fic Force Of Gravity by oceanfruit

[lovesick-vqmpire]

i saw this on twt and i had to

[alisdairvalentine]

hi this book broke me

[everyonehasbeatenmetotheusername]

Anyway Babel by R. F. Kuang is legitimately one of the best fantasy novels, general books, and academic works I’ve ever read and if you say otherwise I will explode you with my mind

[beatrice-reden-official]

That really was. A homestuck

[thursdaysdove]

Okay. Hold on. I did not expect this book to break my fucking heart. What the fuck. 😭

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

The Great Divorce. Hoo boy

[paintersatyr]

dungeon meshi….

[abisalli]

close one Marcille

[hinamie]

sympathy for cain

[otlwoozi]

[ochibrochi]

🐣 ok we are so back………..

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[galaghiel]

Both Jack and Maddie stared at him, speechless. Silence blanketed the lab, everything but Danny’s strangled crying, his hand pressed over the muzzle as if to hide it. No- to hold it still, to still the dozen wicked barbs that were digging into his tongue, probably ripping it with each sob.

a little sketch of @liketolaugh-writes amazing one-shot fanfic that you can read here

[robiland]

The Falin image of all time btw