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there's no greater betrayal than finally starting to read a book you've had sitting for months on your shelf or your desk or your nightstand and then finding out it's bad. like. i gave you a fucking home.
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April 23, 1923 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
#anais nin#literature#words#quotes#academia#april#april 23#dark academia#quote#lit#books#books and libraries#reading#quote of the day#bookworm#book quotes#prose#booklr#bibliophile#excerpt#light academia
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subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

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cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ
#book#reading#booklr#books and reading#book review#bookworm#bookish#book photography#bibliophile#book blog#currently reading#book club#library#book lover#bookstore#books to read#book tumblr#book aesthetic#book community#books books books#bookshelves#bookshelf#bookstagram#books & libraries#books and literature#pinterest#source: pinterest#cats#cats of tumblr#catsoftheworld
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the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
#someone send this to my english teacher because vocab tests are hard#writing memes#reading#writers#writers of tumblr#writers of instagram#writing#writer#reader#writer memes#readers of tumblr
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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…
Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?
#funny#funny post#booknerd#books and reading#book blog#booklover#booksbooksbooks#booklr#bookworm#booktok#book tumblr#bookish#bookblr#reading#currently reading#books
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#ao3#archive of our own#meme#memes#fandom#fanfic#fanfiction#fandoms#humor#blorbo#comfort character#fictional characters#writer#writeblr#writers#writing#readblr#reading#readers#reader#comedy#funny#whump#whumpblr#tropes#trope#prompt#prompts
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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
#writing#writing prompt#tropes#reading#books#book tropes#angst prompt#angst#booklr#writeblr#writers on tumblr#percy jackson#the poppy war#mythology#chosen one#atla#avatar#avatar the last airbender#bungou stray dogs#yosano akiko#anime#my hero academia#todoroki shoto#neon genesis evangelion#the hunger games#10k#20k#30k#50k#100k
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wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???
Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.
First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.
#reading#writing#writblr#writeblr#isn't second person the one more likely to be projection#because it's involving you in the story#unless it's told in a more artistic way#like dislike a pov style if you want idc#I just don't understand this specific reason
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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental
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I'd prefer a work that someone put the effort into making rather than just some shit that an AI churned out. If I wanted that sort of work, then I could just have an AI make it! You didn't really write the work, a computer did it! It's so... artificial, to put it bluntly. So use your own intelligence to put it together!

ai does not belong in creative spaces. period.
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"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.
#reading#since that Atlantic article got shared i have been seeing the Worst takes over and over#and i am going to scream
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I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay
#writing#writer#writing things#writer things#writerblr#writingblr#writeblr#writblr#reading#books#books and movies#film#films#movies#bookblr#movieblr#filmblr
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