#same shit different book

[a-books-allure]

“I suppose I could be your father.”

“It’s a pity you have to grow up.”

EW??

Bruh why are all these books romanticizing creepy old guys grooming and then marrying young women? Why are they written from the perspective of the girl as if she’s narrating the most perfect love story? Why are they written by women?? Kinda wild that this type of “love” was seen as the norm and even portrayed as desirable for women back in the day. Just a thought.

[polaraffect]

y'all remember when book fairs used to have those "banned books" display sections that advertised books based on that fact that they had been banned in schools in the past and everyone went "haha wow, it's crazy that they banned books like this! what a wacky thing to do!" haha........ yeah....... who would even do that......

[karamazovanon]

controversial opinion maybe but it BEWILDERS me when people (mostly americans ime) genuinely seriously with their whole chest complain about how impossibly hard russian names are. like. do a single google search. i don't see how you can comprehend that charles = chuck and margaret = peggy but can't fathom that rodion = rodya. how is this such a huge barrier of entry for people

[gods-favorite-autistic]

People who are like “Omg gen z theatre kids only know *proceeds to list every single musical that came out after 1999*” are the most annoying assholes like hey maybe we just don’t like shit from the 1960’s or we have specific tastes have you ever considered that

[bonefall]

Tbh the whole 'bloodclan bans families and hates Cat God' thing really reminds me of the anti communist bullshit I was fed in highschool history class.

Every day I count my lucky stars that I got educated in a well-funded school in a blue state. My teachers were shockingly good in hindsight, I didn't get half of the same propaganda some of my friends in other states got.

[pandemic-info]

"Public health officials urged calm. This, combined with their overconfidence in modern medicine, led them to downplay the severity of the pandemic. Publications like the British Medical Journal counseled silence and inaction: one editorial said, “When epidemics occur, deaths always happen. Would it not be better if a little more prudence were shown in publishing such reports instead of banking up as many dark clouds as possible to upset our breakfasts?” An editorial in the Manchester Guardian echoed this sentiment: “Terror is a big ally of the influenza, and if the public state of mind can be steered out of the channel of fright a long, long step will have been taken to conquer the epidemic.” Overreaction was frowned upon,"

1918.

via Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction

[spider-man-2o99]

this idea that some ppl seem 2 have of miguel being an insanely jealous/possessive person is so funny 2 me because i just cannot even fathom where it came from in the slightest, lol, like... one of his Whole Things is respecting individual autonomy, y/k-? nevermind he also just. canonically doesn't fucking act that way,.,. yeah, obviously people can draw different wrong conclusions from the source material but, like, that Does Require at least skimmin' the source material... .

[13eyond13]

one of the lesser talked about fun things about intentionally reading more books is finding new stuff to be a bit of a hater about tbh

[korrasamibottles]

"Nobody asked for live action Ahsoka who even was the target audience why did they make this" for me they made it for ME. Because I like seeing different takes on my favorite characters.

[limesnlawnchairs]

dr. jekyll 🤝 larry talbot

frequently transforming into a physical manifestation of their inner "evil", aka the "undesirable" parts of humanity they would wish to repress a weird hairy guy

[ev]

i told my coworker im writing a book and she was like

"Omg me too! like u can totally get a lot of passive income by seeing whats trending online right now like lets say its gardening, then just have an AI write a gardening book for you and self publish it on amazon!! you can write like 4 books a week easy!! 🥰🥰🥰"

we live in the worst timeline

[bitchkay]

I prefer Guys characterization in the princes path rather then his consort route

I feel like all the routes should've progressed slower tbh but with Guy in particular I feel like it would really work with a slow burn romance

Also, unrelated but MC always falls in love with her chosen consort by chapter 10 like girl you've known this man for 2 weeks

[lisbonsteresa]

YEAH

[punkshitposts]

something I think is actually hilarious is that if you go left enough you start having more stances in common with (individual) conservatives, and if you go right enough you start agreeing with (individual) leftists. like i have a pretty close friend who's self described as "just far enough right that I hate politicians" , whom I hard disagree with his overarching political stances. but the finer details of it... yeah we agree with each other. gun control/gun rights opinions taxation opinions pro-small government opinions slight separatist opinions anti two party opinions anti-corporation opinion ect ect ect.

we stand on opposite sides of a standard political compass but I genuinely think if I were to count stats, I'd agree with as many of his stances as I would a liberals/democrats stances. my hs gov teacher described the difference in right vs left to us as "everyone's goal here is the betterment of mankind, they just think the best ways to do it are different" and that's literally the best way, to me, to describe what the difference in right vs left is regarding anarchism specifically. we got ESSENTIALLY the same opinion but the ways we think are the best ways to go about enacting said opinion are what makes us different. and something abt that is really painfully funny to me. envisioning a world where an-something is the major world thing, not capitalism.... and there's STILL right vs left... but The Anarchist Versions. christ.

sorry for the book i wrote in the tags. ignore typos I am NOT retyping any of that to fix them xoxo

[docholligay]

Hood by Emma Donoghue

My wife loved this book when she was a young gay depressed Catholic, and I think you would have to be to put up with Pen. Even she said she didn't like it anymore, as an adult with a marriage and life.

This is about being gay in the 90s in Ireland, and I guess when you don't have a lot of choices, you spend your life with the girl you've been with since high school even if she treats you like shit, even if she steps out on you, even if she tells you that she sometimes just wants to run away from you, that you loving her is too much. But don't worry, she'll always come back to you, and, by the way, you can work while I volunteer or whatever I want to do, so, that's great too. I'm just too ~Cara~ to have a job. By the end of it, I was sitting here like, "Pen, the only good thing Cara ever did for you is die."

I was going to punch Pen in the face. My god, girl. I know it is rough being gay in a place where that is not okay, but you don't actually have to sacrifice your self-respect. We flash back to a time when they were walking together, and Cara literally ran away from her, ran and left her alone, far and fast, and when Pen saw her later, all she says is, "I just wanted to get away from you" and Pen remembers this with hurt YEARS later, and Cara never remembers it.

The only person I like in this novel is Kate, Cara's sister who moved to the US when she was young and is there with Pen going, "Oh no, I'm never coming back here ahahah, I was impatient for Ireland to catch up, so I fucking left. Don't call me Cáit, I haven't let anyone call me that since I left school and it's not my fuckin name anymore" Which is interesting in a number of ways, but also because...the author basically fucked off to Canada from Ireland, so Jill tells me, and I'm wondering if that isn't the author saying a little bit, "Yeah some of Pen's ruts are Pen's problems. You can just leave, girl!" Kate and Cara are the only two you ever see really refusing to take what they're given, and we see Pen have feelings for Kate, also, so it might be that Pen is so useless in that way that she needs a person who is willing to destroy anything to be where they want to be. To run, and leave everything behind and down with love, and home.

All of which would have been fine but the narrative seems to think that Pen is tragic rather than admit that she is part of the fucking problem here, and she made her bed in a lot of ways. This is probably a fine book for other people, but for me the ending with...what? Her getting to finally be friends, at least for one night, with Cara's friends, I'm supposed to consider that happiness? Maybe. Maybe it could be, and I think I would have liked the ending a LOT better, actually--It's not bad in and of itself--minus the fact that we have hundreds of pages of Pen being a sad, sad doormat and then alternately mourning the boots that won't tread on her anymore.

[aquickstart]

im gonna be honest with you guys i am the weakest soldier in the battle against the evil that is coriolanus snow portrayed specifically by tom blyth and i have absolutely seen tbosas three times and have plans to see it at least twice more in theatres