#getting brainrot about these books again

[the-terrible-theys]

kal and auri are SO queerplatonic to me. no i’m not taking any criticism on this

[yrsonpurpose]

Happy One Month of Red, White & Royal Blue! ♡ 11.08.2023 ♡

[peppermint-jade]

not at all what I normally post, but I just have to talk about this book. As an amateur Arthurian nerd who is slightly out of practice, this book was amazing. Now granted, the King Arthur Brainrot has been on the downlow for a bit for me, but safe to say I'm back into it. I picked it up on a whim and finished it in record time (I don't have the time/energy to read like I used to) so I know it's good. It's so refreshing to read something Arthurian by someone who gets it??? Like.... so much good stuff here. we have:

Kay centric narrative (!!!)

Historical accuracy for the 6th century! (mentions of no plate armor, accurate weapons, place names, romans, saxons, etc)

Galehaut (who I didn't even know existed but am now obsessed with. what do you mean he acted like a romantic rival to Gwenhwyfar??? (as her name is spelled in the book))

on that subject, queer Lancelot

Warrior King Arthur (who swears like a sailor and is depicted in a unique, almost negative light)

Glastonbury Tor as a central location (yes I know he was "buried" at the abbey but the tor is so iconic)

calling the sword from the lake Caliburn rather than Excalibur

Neutral Morgan le Fey/Morgana figure (sorta net positive I guess)

Christopher Marlowe is here

probably more stuff I'm forgetting tbh

anyways please someone go read this book. It's very good I promise. Especially if you're an Arthurian nerd. You can tell the author had all of this knowledge and decided to write about it, rather than an author who decided to write about an Arthurian topic then researched it if that makes sense.

[argentoau]

the annoying part about having black sails brainrot is that i haven't drawn anything about it yet so i can't channel it properly :'(

good thing is that this usually means the brainworms should be going away soon

[lecinea]

My goodness there is a lot of bullshit in the Jiang Cheng tag again.

[romanitas]

i did it..... i finally finished rereading blood of olympus for the first time since it came out..... it took literally all month, but i am a champion....

still utterly baffled by how utterly anticlimactic this book was, especially when you compare it to last olympian LMAOO. so many things i could say but i am simply choosing not to bc it's been ten years

[certifiedlibraryposts]

hello library god, do you or any followers have any good fiction books about libraries/librarians/archives/books themselves? Gratefully yours

Thats very flattering but you dont have to call me library god im just a gal whos just some guy im not even a librarian sbfkdkkss

I! Actually don't have a ton to contribute to this answer and I apologize! The closest that comes to mind is maybe Inkheart, but I only tried to read that YEARS ago when I was in middle school and didn't even finish it at the time.

Followers please leave recommendations for this lovley anon! Heck I'll probably check them out too lol

[averlym]

For the prompt thing can you do lina and jane w no.8?

If that's fine w you ofc

(for context: prompt post can be found here)

i was unsure which no.8 you meant so i did,, all three,, anyways here is your very belated request, thanks for sending it in!

[mittysins]

Been playing bass for about half a year now. So far, this is my consensus:

Easy and fun to play: Foo Fighters

Easy and boring to play: Radiohead

Challenging and fun to play: Metallica

Challenging and kind of infuriating to play: Ghost

[figofswords]

hrghhh I really gotta finish second circus

[freakurodani]

i bombard u with krsn/kghn/hinata posting until i have a mad dash and suddenly post another fully fledged bkak comic

[rillette]

hello soup rillette i hope this ask finds you well. ive come to inform you that i think i have reached peak hal insanity wherein i edited a karl marx quote to properly convey my take on the green lantern corps. i sat there after i did it and thought to myself "this is it. the height of my insanity". i felt compelled to tell you because you seem to be similarly insane but perhaps in a different direction. best regards!

anon bestie we are brothers in arms 🤝two souls completely and utterly normal about hal jordan god bless <3

[goblin-enjoyer]

Oh by the corpses I think I’m loosing it. Earlier I just got back from a friends birthday get together for their 21ST. I’m a bit worn out so I go to watch some background entertainment on YouTube while a get my batteries for wow back (I heard there was a new important quest chain). I see some homestuck comic dubs in my feed. Odd, but makes sense as I have been listening to the music lately. So I turn on those old 3-4 year old videos thinking: “eh this is just some old dubs from 2015-16 might as well watch em while I recharge. See what this old decaying fandom had in its heyday”. I watch for a bit until I find a comp that BLINDSIDES me with a Covid reference comic. I look at the date, 4 years ago. After the video is finished I then proceed to realize that all those videos were from 2020-2022 and then start breaking down somewhat as I realize I’m getting old and starting to think “4 years ago was 2016” . Que this post . Honestly I can’t tell which is worse. The fact that 2016 was almost 10 years ago and as much as things change, every 5 or so years they kinda just reset a tiny bit in the transition from old to new to old again Or the fact that i might be a homestuck fan now. Nonsense of a mad[WOULD PREFER NOT TO SAY] in the tags as I don’t put that crabp in the main post.

[polarisbear]

horrible day whenever i remember i have like Standards when it comes to stories because my god. would love to turn my brain off. i can’t do that any harder though

[arlathen]

the brainrot has gotten deep enough that i now have professors solavellan modern au on the mind again.

[atticustheclown]

I could probably talk for hours about how people just refuse to analyze content with any sort of skeptical lense but I'd argue that the most insufferable cases of this come from any media that doesn't serve the main themes on a silver platter. People have lost the ability to use context clues and implied messages and it makes me so sad because there's so many good stories that just get written off as lame or nonsensical when actually it's full of meaning and purpose.