#laughing through the pain haha

[mostlyfate]

i’ve been played... at least miptc didnt do this to me 💔

[evilromero]

now how am i supposed to be a cat person with no cats

[perfectlycleverduck]

he's so pookie in the first pic omg

the team 55 riding kit is soooo cute

also 'come to Monaco they said' who said? the km and time done that's crazy

[inactive-maelstroem]

[sleepinglionhearts]

No no get started on the whole "new adult" thing, I desperately want to hear

Ok, so here's the thing about New Adult:

It's a genre that's been emerging lately in the catalogs I view when doing frontlists (essentially just pre-orders for upcoming titles) for the book store and I'd been wondering what the hell it was. I'd noticed it was especially common in the descriptors for the romance books, but it was often the ones with that sort of sexy-but-not-full-blown-erotica kind of book that also tended to have the sort of description full of fanfic trope terms and "for fans of [usually a Young Adult title]" or "like [popular title] combined with [other popular title]!!" <- and here it's important to note that the popular titles don't always sound like they would mesh well.

And finally, FINALLY, one of these books is highlighted by the sales rep who works with us and she's got a little blurb about it and I get my first useful description of what "New Adult" is:

"Imagine the golden age of YA - The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments - but aged up and spicy."

S P I C Y

Which would explain why they're not-quite-erotica type books, you see, we're not straight up PORN we're just ✨️spicy✨️

Nevermind that a lot of these books do have sex in them, but whatever, it's SPICY because that's what's popular to say on BookTok!

Oh. Right. Yeah. BookTok also gets mentioned a lot in listings for this sort of title.

And yes, this includes the Court of... books by Sarah J Maas and things like The Infatuated Fae books by Jeaneane O'Riley. In fact, I'm pretty sure O'Riley was described as a "BookTok darling" in the contributor bio part of the listing, but don't quote me on that, I'd have to look at the listing again.

Anyway, these are some of the biggest offenders regarding that whole "we will describe this with fanfic buzz terms and BookTok girlies will eat it up :)" issue.

[meownotgood]

chapter 1 + chapter 2... halfway to 60k

[frecklystars]

sorry for the long ass post but this has always my favorite scene in the entire film - for obvious reasons - and im so glad greta talked about it and the way she worded it made me laugh so hard i had tears in my eyes. haha... god. my boyfriend sobbing his eyes out over the metaphorical crusts on his patriarchy sandwich......

[starry-nights12]

A continuation of sorts-

[toringo]

The lore drop we just got is so stupid I literally have no words.

I usually enjoy the fnaf books nonsense but not this.

This shit is literally what happens in one of my far-from-canon AUs. God damnit.

[sucha-coolcat]

I’m a smart (mentally ill) cookie

[sexswansworld]

Gonna be severely MIA for the next few weeks, very troubling family situations happening all at the same time.

[maelstroem-of-love]

sorry (not sorry at all)

[perfectlycleverduck]

I'm preparing multiple different drafts and scenarios depending on who Carlos signs with

Williams: Suicide letter (what do you mean you make note of spare parts on excel)

Sauber: Booking my flight to find him in Madrid and let my grievances or else I'll go mad

Mercedes: He must break down his plans and reasoning of signing with them

Red bull: Makes me a bit nervous but I'll live unless he and Max pull a brocedes plus Jos and Sr fighting

1 year sabbatical leave: If he isn't racing at all he shouldn't bother coming back to F1, if he is rallying they better have that particular rally coverage in my country or else...(I would prefer this over Sauber and Williams ANY DAY)

So most of the options involve me going mad but as long as he is happy 😁

[inactive-maelstroem]

Brokeback Mountain but Jack is a tumblr user

[the-gay-skeleton-in-ur-closet]

When every song you listen to reminds you of ✨THEM✨

[isildheir]

I hope my abuser and their lapdogs have a happy eternity in hell.

But knowing them, they'll lose all of em eventually now that they don't have me to play emotional piñata on every 2 days. :)) It's all on their 'friends' now! Toast to that!