#bookmark challenge

[namocchi]

hello!! just in case someone wants to join my readathon, here are the prompts!

🔮September 1st to 8th 🔮More information & rules on the last image

If you have any questions drop a comment below and i'll get to you asap!

Let me know which books are you picking?

Im giving you all some time to think about which books you wanna read & buy them if you havent, prepare some cozy snacks, get out your pillows and blankets for some extra comfort, and everything else you need for a week long readathon with me!! We start on september 1st!

[nerdy-cake]

JOMP October book photo challenge | Day 16 - bookish item

Bookmarks are the best

[fizzytoo]

nothing better than a pancake breakfast

and im reminded of when a teenage adrien made pancakes for a baby julie 😔

[sleepynegress]

On Challengers...

Okay.

So, here's the thing. It's decent.

It's sassy, catfighty, but with dudes using rackets and tongue-wrestling, and the tennis scenes are tense, but... it wasn't at all confidently scandalous like I would've expected.

....Like I feel like they didn't push it far enough, somehow? And not even in the way you might think, with dicks a-swingin and thrusts abundant. Remember, the movie Closer? -I think that came out in 2007ish and was rated PG-13??? Or could have been if not for the language.

Natalie Portman has a similar nudity clause to her contract and *STILL* had the absolute sexiest scene with Clive Owen.... .....Which I'll put in this post to demonstrate what I mean. This felt like it held back at moments... When it came to pushing desire, between the men and/or with Zendaya, with one or the other. It just felt so tame to me given the hype. I was hoping for a return to artistic sensuality in film again, instead of this weird sort of by-rote-feeling purity culture we're having rn. (I'm watching Love Lies Bleeding tonight and I BET that delivers. Lesbians, salude!) I was hoping for Cruel Intentions' lush cut with The Dreamers' sensuality..if that makes sense?? AND some good-good tennis. THAT did deliver. WOW, some of the shots for that were eye-popping. A critic I follow noted that her issue (she always has the best takes I don't agree with all of them but they are always well-articulated) was that Zendaya was not fleshed out as a central figure, especially as a BLACK WOMAN. It was yet again another case of a Black woman dropped down from the moon coming from no people of her own, but just somehow existing in a sea of white people with not a hint of Black friends or loved ones.

Hell, they could've even laid out *her people* like the brilliantly underrated Beyond The Lights with Minnie Driver playing the stage manager mom to Gugu Mbatha Raw's biracial pop star. But that comes down to the white male gaze fucking it up, yet again. I looked up the screenwriter and just kind of nodded knowingly with an 'oh, yeah that's what I expected, that explains it...' He simply didn't have the range beyond a sort of vague tennis fetish for brown girls in short skirts grunting and swinging and wanting to do something with that. He admitted that Naomi and another Black woman player's interaction on the court *inspired* this...

Perception of Black women doing ANYTHING can be so heavy with a weirdly asexual gaze from white women and hyper-sexualized by white men. And if desire/centering tips in the "wrong" direction deemed by prejudice and our assumed place....*yeesh* we catch hell. You're either bafflingly too ugly to be treated with desire (whew the incel bigots are big mad that it's Zendaya and not a Sweeney-type) or only deemed good enough for it, because of that white gaze. And resented regardless.

*sigh* Can't win for losing. But I digress. Zendaya's co-stars are the oddest looking mystical-dwarf-head ass forest creature white boys with big ears, but they GAVE in the acting department. Mike Faist is a STAR. He has a sort of laidback sweetly confident rizz. But he definitely is the lovechild of a young Scott Glenn and DJ Qualls. I want to put him in a western immediately because he has Civil War photo face.

Mike O'Connor has that desperate dirty hairy scruffy thing like dude from The Bear. Like you KNOW he has a scratch tat somewhere and would do the dirty with his partner in the toilet stalls or anywhere else. Hollyweird is strange about beauty standards man. Back in the day, they used to pretend old white men, who looked like they smelled like Barbasol mixed w/ urine would somehow be sexy to a twentysomething. Now, we have this dichotomy of thankfully a little more of a diverse gaze for the centered "bombshell" other than blonde with large breasts number 32637263872.... but we also have some actresses cutting fat out their cheeks and being Ozempic thin. *sigh* ...While the "basic" hot boys are punching the air rn because they are also passé. Got to have something interesting going on in the face for everyone now, I think. Can't just be AI "pretty" anymore. Thankfully.

....Anyway. It is good, but with those caveats I laid out.

P.S. ICONIC for me is seeing Zendaya's Black-ass nose bridge drawn large on that poster. P.P.S Thank LUCA for doing the queer elements well... I personally don't think it went far enough, tho...

Mike bottoming for all, including getting pegged by Zendaya would've happened in my version of this... at least implied, come on (ficwriters?) Oh! and here are the clips from Closer, but then it was a successful play first, so the script is more substantial in that.

This is how filthy I expected Challengers to be, and it's just. not. Nothing in The Challengers touches the heavy heady nastiness in this scene IMO, but something in that movie should have, dammit! Note they never even touch each other.

[godzilla-reads]

February’s Dragon Reading Theme is a Dragon Romantasy OR a Dragon That Can Talk, in which I decided on the latter with rereading “Dealing with Dragons” by Patricia C. Wrede!

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 26 || Bookish Goodies

[snazzi-strawberri-artz]

LETSGO LETSGO FIRST BATCH OF ARTFIGHT PIECES!!! You can tell i went ham for the reds here xD

[[Owners of characters in order: @borcheim // Borcheim, @originalbreado // Forkbread, @fuj0 // Fuj0, @spiritonadventure // spiritonadventure, @awdragon-adw // Awdragon ]]

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || January 9 || Biggest Weakness:  Pretty Bookmarks! 

I literally just posted about my newest acquisition 😝. Also, maybe there's one coming with my next book order...

[just0nemorepage]

April Just One More Page BPC 📚 // Day 21 ➜ Book Best Friend.

↳ For me? It's always my bookmarks! 💕💕

[the---hermit]

I hate that in my book.ark collection there's no orange/yellow bookmarks because how am I supposed to match with pretty books like this?!

07|06|2023

30/50 days of productivity

Tired. I am very very tired. With this being said last night I had a great time with two friends I hadn't seen in a while, which was definitely beneficial to my mental health.

Productivity:

practiced Irish on duolingo

continued reviewing out loud for my history of religions exam of next week (and no I did not finish it so I am behind schedule)

Listened to a couple of old episodes of the books unbound podcast

Self Care:

read first thing in the morning

📖: She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

[lale-txt]

a little progress on my challenge!

i wrote about my little challenge here icymi. tl;dr: i want to comment on at least 100 fics by the end of the year because i miss having a reading routine and want to support my fellow writers.

it's been super fun going through my bookmarks so far! discovered some all-time favorites and forgotten favs again as well as fics i had saved for later but later had become forever. honestly my biggest motivation behind this isn't necessarily getting back into a reading more, but more the thought of making someone smile with kind and unexpected words.

[rosaaeles]

just saw a person on ao3 who bookmarks fics and leaves public ratings and criticisms of them in the bookmarks and hmmmmmmmm

i think people forget that unless you make a bookmark private, anyone can see it. a writer can see the criticism you’re giving them, even if you don’t comment it.

the bookmark comment i got wasn’t even that bad, i just saw worse ones when i clicked on OP’s account. they’ve written digs or unnecessary comments on most of their bookmarks (eg “umm nothing happened. i thought there would be more??” or “ummm not like amazing, also no plot, but like, i liked the idea”)

it’s never even occurred to me to bookmark something i haven’t enjoyed a lot, and i definitely wouldn’t leave a criticism - if i were to do that, i would make the bookmark private because i know how discouraging it can be for writers.

idk, i guess generally the fact that some people still think it’s okay to leave mean comments on fics is baffling to me. i still get the odd hate comment/criticism here and there, and mostly i just ignore because there’s no point interacting, but i feel like this bears repeating ; criticism of someone’s writing - when unsolicited - does so much damage. even when it is solicited, people should be more careful with how they handle it. one nasty comment is literally all it can take to break someone’s confidence.

[randomfusilier]

[play-my-game]

[bibliophilecats]

July 03 2023: Bookmarks

My least read plus my newest bookmark.

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || July || 3 || Bookmarks