#listened to the audiobook

[randomaphunicorn]

I really can’t be normal about anything can I??

[mieczyhale]

thank you @ alice oseman for including the "explanations for american readers" at the end of the nick & charlie novella. truly a god-send bc it covers a few things / phrases i've been lost on and haven't found a simple answer for anywhere else

like no, i didn't need to know these school terms to understand or enjoy heartstopper, but i wanted to know and understand them and now i do

little joys

[everydaylouie]

BATTLE FOR REDWALL

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

[foxdoodles]

a little screenshot study/style experiment

[hvezdnastreka]

A date with Cardassia

[peonyblossom]

save me audiobooks. save me

[hellenhighwater]

okay, settle an argument for me. I'm being told it's weird to listen to an audiobook while simultaneously reading a different book. Do you do this? Like, audiobook in your headphones, unrelated book being read at the same time, not just alternating which you're working on by listening to a chapter, then reading a different chapter.

[spookygibberish]

Last year I listened to a worldbuilding podcast that was very queercore hopepunk (2/3 of the hosts were straight...) and I have kind of come to detest the ideology, as well as all these nitty little microgenres. the podcast itself was not bad per say, but it was so utterly bland and the kind of writing advice that almost seems to discourage people from making challenging or transgressive art via prioritization of escapism as the ultimate goal for a fantasy work + the repeated adage that "realism is no excuse". You can set out to make a cozy, fluffy, fantasy world where people never behave in evil ways, are ever selfish or cruel, and never fight over resources and ideology, but if your love for human beings is conditional on human behavior only ever being perfect and good all the time then idk if you actually have much love for human beings at all. it's the kind of advice that encourages easily digestible fluff over all, and if you actually internalize it your never going to get out of it the power to write something like The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness, or Parable of the Sower. is all.

[infectiouspiss]

ppl with kinks/fetishes, do you ever look back on media you enjoyed as a kid only to realise it contained the very thing you were into?

[psipaka]

V2 and Mirage on a date..? (I JUST REALLY LOVE HOW YOU DRAW THEM I NEED MORE SORRY,,)

Why is it now a running gag that V2 smokes in my drawings

Anyway here you go dear anon

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

was it casual when I dreamed up exact copies of your ever-present leather bands? was it casual when I called you a faggot and a dog? was it casual when you dreamt that I swallowed your tattoo whole? was it casual when I gave you drugs and taught you how to dream? was it casual when I told you I killed my father? was it casual when I told you my best friend was a forgery? was it casual when I saw you wake up and bleed near to death? was it casual when you told me it was never going to be me and you? was it casual when I asked nice the first few times and you made it ugly? was it casual when I killed myself in front of you and changed your life forever? was it casual?

[whenthegoldrays]

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

[thesmallersnow]

apparently naven just carries an apple with him all the time to look more teacher-y