#and i’ve also read part of the books

[why-the-heck-not]

making a new yearly bullet journal spread is serious business (I drew 72 mini calendar grids and my hand cramped)

[kai-nyktos]

what if bill is jealous of the pine family because they remind him that he doesn’t get to have a happy family because he burned them all. and ford having almost gone down the same path as him (unappreciatedly smart, weird, outcasted, and then gaining access to greater knowledge and almost destroying the world) but stops and saves his family even after all the shit that’s happened (this is the one timeline where both dipper and mabel survive, after all). he gets to be happy. they all get to be happy, together.

he must hate them as much as he hates himself, doesn’t he?

[myokk]

[communistkenobi]

I don’t like when people ask how many books you plan to read/have read this year one because I think that’s a weird relationship to have to books and two because I think even reading a chapter or a portion of something is valuable. this is especially true with non-fiction but even with fiction I think any amount you read, even if you don’t read the entire thing, is not a failure or ‘incomplete’

[lovvelorrn]

i think i’m entering a new hyperfixation and oh man it’s fucking bridgerton

[spideyhexx]

feel like some people don’t comprehend that partially the point of tbosas is that you can sympathize with Coryo. It never excuses his actions nor does it try to, but it’s way more complicated than Coryo just being ‘psycho’

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Sword of Kaigen

standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors

follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city

and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage

when there’s a violent attack on their village that they’re unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people

[violetwolfraven]

Wait a second.

All those kid’s stories where the main characters have to leave the magical world behind at the end are a metaphor for childhood itself.

I feel so stupid for just figuring it out now but it makes so much sense.

You can’t go back to that sense of wonder you had before you knew how everything worked. Back when lightning and fire and flowers might as well be magic. You can’t go back to the same dynamic your friend group had. Back before you all grew up and had to try your best to hold onto each other from the different paths you each started down instead of walking down one together. You can’t be the person you were when you were 9, when you were 13, when you were 18 anymore, and you probably don’t even want to. Back when the most important thing in the world was who won infection tag at recess, or if that boy liked you back, or if you got all the signatures you wanted in your yearbook before all the kids you grew up with went their separate ways. All these things that seem so much smaller when you’re looking back on them as an adult.

Maybe a part of you wishes you could go back, because some of those memories hold pain, yes, some of them were among the worst days of your life, but some of them were magical, too. There are things you wish you could do again, not because you want to do anything differently, but just so you can experience them again.

But you can’t. You can’t go back to that part of your life, and you wouldn’t fit in it anymore even if you could. Your childhood might as well be a portal that’s sealed behind you.

There are days when you’re very, very glad that it is.

There are also days when it kills you inside to know that you can’t go back, no matter how hard you may want to try.

[sportsthoughts]

My relentless pursuit of getting a physical copy of Laura Robinson’s crossing the line has now resulted in me just… emailing random email addresses that I think may be her in the hopes that someone will know where I can buy a copy in the UK

[rotzaprachim]

*breathes in and out through mouth* everyone is scared and grieving and still waiting for news of their families everyone is scared and grieving everyone is scared and grieving*

[nakamurareia]

I’ve always been a luke forgiver but recently I’ve fully become an apologist bc u know what I’m 18 (almost 19) and I now understand that luke was fully a child like he should’ve been able to rely on a parental figure at 19 he should’ve been able to rely on any adult at all bc 19 is not the fully fledged independent adult ya fiction presents it to be. he was just a boy in need of support. like it’s such an obvious conclusion that he would rebel when he has never been able to rely on an adult in his life bc of the gods and the systems they’ve put in place

[jorvikzelda]

I started reading Lord of the Rings (bought Fellowship of the Ring like… last spring but never got around to starting) and I’d just like to say. Holy fuck what a slow book. You mean to tell me I’m over a hundred pages in and this man is only just leaving the Shire? Sign me up for MORE I love this shit. Tolkien said “I will take exactly as much time as I want to describe things and you will like it”. AND I DO

[sunshinechay]

Okay so again I haven’t caught up but from everyone’s reactions

I’m finding it really funny when I think about Mew from Only Friends and Tai from La Pluie because the narrative seems to be doing the same thing for them and yet the reactions are vastly different.

Both are seemingly meant to be unlikeable protaganists, for very different reasons.

Yet Tai, who was over all a good person who wanted what was best for those around him, even if he was selfish and self centered, was widely disliked by a lot of people and criticized by the fandom

Yet Mew, who isn’t a good person, who is also selfish and self centered, has people defending his actions as if he’s the most perfect person in the world.

Like damn

[twoscriddler]

all the negative criticism i’ve seen of gomens s2 can be boiled down to “it’s too queer and it makes me uncomfortable” which means it was great and neil did his job

[brutal-out-here]

Me crying to the new Percy Jackson trailer once more, this show is actually going to kill me

[ancientrimer]

you ever read a paper that has such a bad faith-take on a female main character that you know without looking that it’s by a male author