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and-you-found-me · 11 months

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Anyway Lucajen and Athykiel are the superior WMMAP ships imo

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garrettwrites · 2 months

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I am so tired of how Quotev/Wattpad level fanfiction, written by what reads as a 15 year old getting into their first fandom, gets pushed up the book ratings in the gay romance genre (m/m). Why is Red White and Royal Blue always at the top. Why is Boyfriend Material. Why must I suffer. Where are the standards. Why is a 30/40 year old recommending me, a grown adult man, stories that feel like they were written for highschoolers who don't like to read so they pick up the trashiest, most easily digestible shit in order to have the bare minimum of fun while doing their reading interpretation project for class.

This is coming from someone who had fun reading goddamn Twilight by the way. I'm not a book snob. I can enjoy objectively bad media if it's fun. My favourite book series with LGBT main characters is All For The Game, and that's a shitshow! But at least there's passion in it! There's fun!

I am going insane!!!!!

#my new technique is seeing which gay books tiktok hates #I always like those #honestly I think I'll just drop romance books entirely by this point.#fanfic is usually so nice to me on the romance department anyway #why am I paying for subpar shit that a goddamn fic author on ao3 does perfectly and better #i am so tired of the current state of popular romantic gay books #feel free to rb btw this is not a deeply personal post or anything #i am so tired #how the fuck are popular gay books so low in quality #like its not even about taste and opinion it's about straight up standards #like aristle abd dante is an objectively good book even though I was meh about it #I might not have personally enjoyed it that much but I can give it high praise #but boyfriend material? the american british one? really????#i liked the gentleman's guide when I first read but... I went back to it and it's kind of meh too #but when I first read it I was the target audience so. i can give it a decent rating too I guess #even though the characters are... kinda flat #aaaaaaaaaaa #I am so done #gotta start ignoring book recs and look for books with like. 2 reviews #unblemished by tiktok #published out of blood sweat and tears

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capinejghafa · 5 months

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Reading People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry after reading a short kind of meh novella that was kind of forgettable. The bar is still pretty low because I can't go in with high expectations right now.

#myra reading adventures #the novella was called what the hex by alexis daria. it's witches and it was just meh.#i know i keep talking about books but that's my first love and i will not apology for it #also also it could be great! it could be terrible! but i'll know for sure when i read it lol #random

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permanentreverie · 1 year

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to all my girlies who read - does anyone else feel guilty when they choose to reread a book? Like, I've got so many books on my tbr that I just feel like I should be reading one of them instead of wanting to reread a book.

#idk it's been an odd evening #I started the merciful crows but didn't like it so I dropped it just a few chapters in #and it made me want to revisit soc so I picked up soc #and I'm a few chapters into my reread #and don't get me wrong it's good #but I'm so scared of it not having the same impact on me as when I first read it #like when I reread the cruel prince I DEVOURED that trilogy cause it's sooo good I absolutely adored revisiting it #but I'm so scared I'll just be 'meh' on soc

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themyscirah · 1 month

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Reading shit comics kind of sucks but at least I get the satisfaction of proving my own point w this

#like damn if i really was 100% right about this before i even knew what i was talking about #anyways one of the many many problems with new 52 wonder woman is the fact that diana isnt religious enough #also that azzarello and chiang are incapable of imagining a feminist utopia which is the original genre that wonder woman comics were based #in in the same way that batman for example is connected to the noir genre. and the mythological aspects of the og wonder woman comics were #in fact a common framing aspect of the feminist utopia genre of the progressive era (with many of the deeper greek mythology aspects being #established as the foremost ww genre later on)#anyways this failure to understand this layering of genres in the ww mythology i believe is the principle contributor of why this run which #is popular with many and has such a footprint in other more mainstream media is hated by so many longtime wonder woman fans in that it not #only neglects but actively goes against key parts of her premise #a comparison could be made to a superman run that is heavily based in science fiction and exploring deep sci fi genre plots without any #understanding by the creators of why it matters that superman is champion of the oppressed and disrespecting that core part of him by in #some ways making him actually go against that in service of the high sci fi genre plots and conflict #and then ofc to translate better in this reality this run would function like a can of worms in that while dc in comics would eventually #course correct back to the base version the public opinion would become divided and especially adaptations would need all the canon changes #from that run torn viciously out of their hands bc they refuse to LET IT GO #anyways yeah teehee i swore to someone id never read it but i needed it for fic research purposes unfortunately so i started it. only read 6 #issues but meh. first one wasnt terrible tbh id read worse but after that i got much more unhappy #anyways they simply dont understand why people like the amazons or why people should like the amazons. which again is like half the freaking #point bc like. feminist utopia genre. but i digress #its bad but its bad in a way that proves me right about why its bad so at least theres that #someday when i post my rebirth ww fic ill post the analysis of nu52 ww and the comparison to the beat movement/ginsberg that ive got in my #drafts. finally get that A in comic book literary analysis #blah

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talagalaxies · 6 months

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Have to get this off my chest but here's my top fandom pet peeves

That one's "face card" is equals to a higher morality, using their looks as a " gotcha" moment. Like sorry Susan, that's not a serve you think it is. It's middle school mentality

A hate (even implied) to reylo, especially when it targets to shippers

#i want to SAY MORE on the first one #the way fandom treats looks as a top priority iks me #espwcially to asoiaf fandom for dragging actors for 'a declining face card'#and kpop fandom parrotting 'visuals' to win fanwars #and internet in general making fun of ad because his 'declining face card' means it's a flop and must be cancellable #like have we learn in storiws that beauty is deceieving or never judge a book by its cover #oh wait...they don't read stories at all!#i witness that pretty priviledge is a real deal in internet man #even thought I'm not part of the rylo fandom any longer and side eye some shippers #its still 😠 when they think reylos are the grossiest and nastiest freaks in fandom spaces that must be eliminated #or it's the boiling anger from antis since 2016 makes me this wah #meh texts #why am i posting this

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futuretrain · 2 years

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so few people in the wider dc fandom read superman and superfam comics while being fans of the characters in other comics. why is that entire branch of dcu so obscenely under-read. i don't understand

#i could. be mean and mention how many ppl are fans of a fam character #from his appearance in a different old book written by a guy with two first names #with really unattractive art and very meh writing #when they could've actually read more of them in better stories #but I won't be #ń txt

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duncan-rohanne · 1 year

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so wait a fucking minute v.e. schwab is gay, all the main characters are bi and WE ARE STILL STUCK ON A GENERIC STRAIGHT LOVE TRIANGLE???? HOW????

#the invisible life of addie larue #i shouldn't have started reading this book #absolute mistake #i haven't been this pissed about writing choices for a while #i was so excited when henry was revealed as bi i was like heck yeah finally some good fucking food #maybe some spicy interaction between henry luc and/or addie???#NO #one scene one fucking scene and that was it? ARE YOU SERIOUS???#lady you are gay and you can write gay so well when it comes to it AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GIVE ME????#the first half of the book is meh i barely remember it - the second half is simultaneously super interesting and raising my blood pressure #i'm sorry i know i'm going off here #i just don't understand how can you fail like that FOR NO REASON #i'm-#so upset right now and that's an understatement #it's not that bi people can't be in straight relationships it's not about that #it's about having interesting characters and plot and throw them into the most boring narrative choice ever #-> m/f/m love triangle #*takes a deep breath*#anyways

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aroaessidhe · 1 year

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2023 reads // twitter thread

The Battle Drum

sequel to The Final Strife, a queer Ghanian/Arabian high fantasy world where people are divided by blood colour

the nightly hurricanes are getting more deadly, and Sylah travels to unknown lands to discover the truth and find help

meanwhile Anoor is trying to manage her new political position while framed for a murder she didn’t commit

#The Battle Drum #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #okay I do feel similarly about this as I did the first one...really love a lot of what’s going on I just feel like some of the structure/plo #plot focus could b better #like the first one fell back on the generic competition framework which I felt was meh....this one does that a bit with murder mystery #it had a cool in-universe summary of book 1 #something about the politics/past/worldbuiling feels…I wanted some more connection or complexity or something?#or maybe i just expect more from adult fantasy #anoor's naivety got a little frustrating at time #like the murderer was pretty obvious #I love: cool new cities! glass city! MUSHROOM CITY #when sylah sees a camel and describes it in the most 'weird unknown fantasy creature' kind of way #I still find zines weirdly anachronistic.......when magazines don't exist in the world...#but I can give that a pass I guess #there's also an aroace side character (has some POV) who I have......mixed feelings about?#an interesting complex character but also. is SA'd for years before she finally decides t kill her husband #then becomes an antagonistic cult leader #I don't think that's INHERENTLY a bad thing; but idk; why was that a choice? maybe she'll be redeemed (for lack of a better word) next book #anyway all of these critiques are very much like. this has the potential to be in my favourite kind of books ever and doesn't QUITE reach my #expectations..........so like it is very good. I just ahhhhh want slightly more/different things #oh also jond and kitten was good. I still hate him for being the perpertrator of my Least Favourite Trope but. he has a baby kitten....#wait i should also mention the plot twist of who the person is is pretty good #didn't figure that one out #but going back through highlight notes i was like oh...there was clues...

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ace-and-ranty · 1 year

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(STARING AT CEILING)

It’s just, you would NOT believe how feral and unhinged I became when Nico was confirmed gay in HoO, and the follow up was so, so, so disappointing.

#I had a proper shrieking freak out when it happened.#I think that was just when the queer representation scenario was slowly shifting from #'haha yeah keep on dreaming'#to 'you can have queer characters SPECIFICALLY if we planned for them to be there and if the planets align'#to 'if the audience reads this as queer we are willing to listen'#never BEFORE had a character I liked been MADE queer because the fans read them that way #I loved the series so much at the time and Nico was its first queer kid #AND he was an incredibly compelling storyline #that angst shit was MY JAM!!#and it concluded so shoddily.#HE SAW THE BOY HE LOVED FALL TO LITERAL HELL FOR SOMEONE ELSE #LOOK ME IN THE EYES TELL ME THIS IS NOT THE GOOD SHIT!!!#and then he was just like 'Meh. I'm not that into you anymore.'#RIORDAN I WILL CHEW YOUR INTERNET CABLES.

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ifeelfreewithoutmyshoes · 1 year

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Giving your main character amnesia for this long is such a gamble and I’m still on the fence

#you can argue that it’s about the nature vs nurture and who would she be without her trauma #but honestly I just really liked her for her fucked up morals #and now she doesn’t have them and honestly she’s become kinda basic #like how she keeps clinging on to uk caring even tho he’s straight up said no #and she just seems more meh #like she was really cool bc she was powerful (both with her powers but also her personality without them)#and I just don’t think the new actor doesn’t it for me #bc she’s played so innocent and pretty and more quaint it doesn’t seem like the same character to me #like I really liked the first season and couldn’t get enough #now I’m on s2 and I don’t have to same want to keep watching at all #but I’m still really curious about her getting her memory back so I’m gonna keep at it but still #it’s like I’m tda when Julian locked away his emotions #it makes sense plot wise but it really made him a boring character to read…..#me #alchemy of souls #yeah I just saw 2 minutes more and that’s what’s annoying me #she was a really interesting strong kinda fucked up /female/ character #now she’s just… kinda like every other female character ig….

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alethiometry · 2 years

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How abouttt 'hurt' for the ask game? I promise I'm not shamelessly angst baiting you!

oh man i have not opened this one in about 2 years. enjoyyyyy

send me a word and i'll post at least one but probably more than one sentence with that word in it

#see the problem is i feel like my writing only really flows when i write in first-person but then reading it back it feels... meh #not that there's anything inherently wrong with YA but it just feels very YA to me if that makes sense?#this was fun to write though. our boy just learned that that the illuminati is real and wants him dead so he is going Through It :)#ask games #asked #reiverreturns

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omotelie · 18 days

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WHERE’S MY FUKING CAPO

#my post #funny #relatable #guitar #music #bjork #wait you can only have 30 tags the joke is much less funny if i don’t have a fucking wall of the stuff i guess i’ll just make this one reall #and 140 characters per tag this is stifling my creativity meh i was running out of popular tags anyway bjork’s not that popular of a tag tho #tbh i was running out of inspiration after like the 4 tag this joke was not meant to be at least not by my hand and i guess it wasn’t that f #unny either i cooled down real fast on that one you know what i’m pivoting this is no longer popular tags just my train of thought for as lo #ng as i feel like it the first few one might not even make sense when i’m done but who cares not me clearly it is quite annoying how i can’t #use commas tho make’s this harder to read than it needs to any way i lost my capo for like the third time my desk isn’t even that messy but #don’t know where else i would’ve put it it’s not lying on any of my instruments either i probably put it quote somewhere i would remember un #quote but clearly i didn’t i’m usually very good at remembering where i put things put the capo is the zone in between i use this often and #i use this every other year so i never remember where it is stored it is 1 am so i guess i’m going to bed soon anyway but still this is goin #g to annoy me until tomorrow i don’t even need it right i’ve had to remove so many tags the original joke barely makes sense anymore i’m kee #ping bjork tho you can pry her out of my cold dead hands not that i really listen to her music or know her i just like saying her name i’ts #got good mouth feel and it’s fun to spell i didn’t realize how long filling 30 tags would be what’s 140 times 30 let me look it up 4200 this #makes this post my biggest project by like 3000 words the only time i’ve written any meaningful lengths of texts was in college and i’m a dr #opout what 4200 characters not words silly little me makes a lot more sense now that i think about it i’m getting tired of writing so this m #ay end soon i would like to not go to bed at 4 am for a silly little post 2 people are going to read plus i am running out of ideas of thing #s to write i am very much not a writer writing scares me even writing lyrics for songs terrifies me i’ve only manage to write lyrics for one #without getting too self conscious and imploding but i’m better at writing songs with vocals i’ve never had anyone to write music with and w #ithout the ability to sing or write lyrics it’s been difficult the singing has been more or less remedied with synth v but the puter can’t w #rite lyrics for meso until i get a lyricist friend i will have to toughen up you can’t make art without making yourself known to those who c #onsume it but lyrics and poetry has always been 1 step too far for me tbh i’d rather spontaneously combust rather than let people know me i #do not look at my very numerous in stars and time posts and reblogs they are completely unrelated to this don’t think about it oh look behin #d you there’s a distraction oh you’ve missed it i have been writing this for half an hour and i am getting so sick of it i revealed informat #ion about the inner machinations of my mind i have not done this since last time i saw a therapist 5 years ago this is fucked up what a self #impose writing challenge can do to you luckily this is the last tag i’m doing lucky me well this was fun this is going to end suddenly so do

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kavehater · 3 months

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It always feels so Stockholm Syndrome-y whenever I find another Eris on this app and think they’re cool 😭

#problem is then I try following them but they don’t follow back so I’m like okay fine 🙄#I think my subconscious is looking for trouble ngl 😞#dora daily #not even my subconscious it’s my actual conscious cause listen whyyyyyyy #why #did I weirdly hope she would ask for my new blog #SEDATE MEEEE #ughhhh I am still not out of the wood works yet HOW LONG IS THIS GONNA TAKE #ngl none of yall are interesting without me making you interesting #because truthfully everything IS meh until my crazy emotional disregulation goes whack and suddenly you’re the equivalent of my saviour so #trythfully she isn’t all that and when I would re read the messages I’m like HUH why did I like her sm this is weird #then I remembered I was heavily suicidal and attempting to recover from that period whilst subconsciously digesting every bad thing my mum #was putting me through #nobody or rarely do people get groomed if they’re normally functioning they have to be vulnerable to an extent #unfortunately for myself and Eris she happened to be one of the first and very few people who actually talked to me back then #so no wonder I got attached so much LOL #to the point I disgustingly look for her in other things 👹👹👹👹 FMLLLLLLL

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canwesharethelonely · 5 months

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i love reading the descriptions of episodes of a tv series to spoil it for myself, only to forget the next day

#currently watching supernatural for the first time #i’ve tried to be a soldier and not spoil anything for myself #but. i. need. to. know. what. happens.#i need to mentally prepare for any deaths #do not read tags any further otherwise you’ll see spoilers #i’m still not over bobby and charlie. that HURT #love that i cried the first time sam died #and now when sam or dean dies im just like meh they’ll be back #until they’re not and i’m not gonna be okay #season 14 WOOOOOO

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clarabowmp3 · 9 months

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am I the only one who doesn’t find the Luke-Percy relationship all that touching?

#even when watching the ep #Or reading ppl dissecting the little details etc #Or when reading it for the first time years back #I rmb feeling more shocked than horrified (tho that sunk in later) when I first read it #but I still feel kind of meh abt it

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