#(I'm not saying I don't read YA

[artemisiatridentata]

I just finished reading Fourth Wing after picking it up because of all the hype, and because I love dragons, and... I have to say it's the worst book I've read in quite a while lmao. the dragons were its only redeeming quality

#seriously not worth it y'all sorry #not tagging the title bc i don't want to rain on other peoples' parade #it just was notttt my cup of tea at all #if you like a court of thorns and roses you might like fourth wing. personally I hated ACOTAR for a lot of the same reasons #mainly: language and writing style that clashed painfully with the supposed genre #(fantasy characters saying shit like 'Holy. Fucking. Hot' and 'looking respectfully' and 'vibes' is just NOT believable lmao) #plus the characters and plot were very shallow! nothing was fleshed out! nothing made me *care* abt the characters! #the worldbuilding had sooo much potential but nothing was really explored and it felt so slapdash! #idk it just felt like a YA smut/romance remix of ACOTAR/Shadow & Bone/Divergent wearing a fantasy trenchcoat #it did have a lot of potential but i'm sorry to say the author did not manage to pull it off. :/ #oh well. at least the dragons were cool as hell #books #anti fourth wing #if you want to read my more coherent review just message me and i'll give you my goodreads info

[fictionadventurer]

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#okay i promise i'm going to get off tumblr and actually get something decent done #but i just have to mention that i started reading 'thief liar lady' #the cinderella retelling where she's pulling a con #which i did not have high expectations for because that concept screams 'we're going to prove how dumb the original cinderella story is' #so i have to give it credit that so far it's pleasantly surprising me by pulling back every time it's about to do something stupid #within the first page or two we have 'they say the slippers were glass and the carriage was made of a pumpkin which is so dumb' #which seems like standard cinderella bashing but it's also framed as an explanation of the magic system #as in 'this is a waste of magic based on the rules' not 'this story is stupid and my 'real' one is better' so i can live with it #we have the enemy prince she's trying to con but he's not a dumb strawman royal #he's actually a sweet guy and a shrewd diplomat #all the royals are actually getting credit for talents as well as flaws #no strawmen in sight (i still shudder to remember 'just ella') #it feels like real politics #and there is *so much* politics and i am eating it up #(which makes me realize that one of the reasons i love cinderella retellings is that there's a lot of potential for politics) #we did have a scene where she goes into the throne room and meets a strange disheveled nobleman lounging on the throne #which made me roll my eyes because you could not have had a more obvious 'meeting the ya love interest' scene #but then there's a scene where she's like 'i don't care about embroidery' #and i internally groaned #but then she's like 'but i do like the embroidery circle because it's relaxing to be away from the men for a while' #so to my delight i could cancel the 'not like other girls' alert #the queen is feminine and her social skills are presented as a vital political skill #the swearing is really stupid and out of place and brings the book down #and i know that there'll most likely be something that makes me stop reading it before the 25% mark #but i do want to give the book credit for pleasantly surprising me #i'm liking it more than i otherwise would because of all the ways i was expecting it to disappoint me

[jlf23tumble]

"Maybe I drink too much for a singer. Maybe I smoke too much for a singer. But it can be quite demanding, this life. So, for me to have those little vices, it's important." - Louis for The Telegraph

He even acknowledges himself that he smokes and drinks A LOT. but he sees it as his little pleasures in life. He says he needs it because he finds the life he lives demanding. He also once said that he needs a drink before the show to calm his nerves. So that sounds very much like he uses alcohol and cigarettes as a coping mechanism. That is NOT healthy. Wherever the memory loss comes from, he still has a problem with drugs and alcohol. He admits it in almost every interview! He just doesn’t see that it is a problem. Just like you :) instead of making fun of people who are concerned about Louis, you should at least acknowledge the fact that these concerns are very reasonable to have at this point. You don’t have to agree but making fun of it makes you look like a fool who is deeply in denial about reality.

#i'm not gonna acknowledge that at ALL #and i don't care if i look like a fool #at this point you have two choices: support local smoker/drinker louis tomlinson or don't support him #the secret third option of sending anons to people who don't care if he does or doesn't isn't really a thing #hate to spoil the whole parasocialness of it all #but you don't get a say in what he does or doesn't do #you only get a say in whether you support him or don't #and that's a fine line baby #but it's there #telling other people anonymously how unhealthy it is feels like it skirts the boundaries of unhealthiness in its own way if ya feel me #and as a heads up: this kind of handwringing nonsense is just gonna earn vintage smoking and drinking ads #i've got 'em for days #i have a scorching hot take i don't dare put on main but my lordt i'm thinkin' it #i keep going back to read the top of this and i'm floored that you can pull a direct quote #and then MISQUOTE it to fit your own alarmist narrative #to pinterest i go

[frannabelle3]

I just had the biggest fuckin paradigm shift and it was caused by a goddamn merthur fanfic

#merlin #bbc merlin #ao3 #fanfic #merthur #don't mind me #I'm just thinking about why I consume the media that I do #and why I create the stories I create #and the commentary my subconscious is saying #ya know that oh in italics moment? #usually that's a romantic oh #but it signifies the realization of something deep #and I think I just had that #literally think I might've realized my purpose in life??? #like #why my calling is my calling #my vocation #and it was triggered by reading an au where arthur comes back to the present day #and merlin isn't there so he has to figure out the modern world basically on his own for 5 years #and then they find each other through fuckin TWITTER

[llycaons]

I got mad about how genuinely pretentious and condescending people on here about things that honestly don't even matter that much and so I went oh I know and I went to a mutual in law's blog because I KNOW they have the exact same views as me on them but they articulate them so much better and bam I got like six posts in a row of excellent compassionate measured responses to the very mean-spirited and meaninglessly cruel culture on here surrounding 'anti-intellectualism' and also calling people virgins in a derogatory way. like thanks! gotta jet

#man I wish our interests overlapped more *salutes* #breaking point was someone reposting a meme celebrating thinking of fanon hcs to flesh out an underdeveloped character #and commenting it like 'wow I know this was a YA or anime' like you're just being a dick at this point. who is this hurting #I would have agreed with the og meme! not every character is well developed due to various constraints or the role they have #sometimes you get attached to stories with shallow characters but you love it anyway and you wanna develop them #ppl thinking up new material for them and having a good time is not the Death of Art you all are so nasty to others #like I fail to see the appeal in mocking that and this is coming FROM a hater #but there are so many ppl on here that are so needlessly judgemental and smug and self-righteous about having Correct Media Literacy #and like...I'm not going to say anyone should stop bc im not the website police but you're all so mean #I don't even have a stake in most of this I just don't think it's worth it to be cruel to other ppl over and I don't like ppl acting better #than others bc it's not like being into literature or like. 'highbrow' media is a moral imperative/morally good. it's just what you're into #the world exists outside of literature and plenty of people with trashy tastes have strengths and skills you couldn't even imagine #and even if they don't! having bad taste or being a bit stupid about media isn't a moral failing! #a woman I work with reads the court of thorns books for fun and she is a kinder and better and more skilled and intelligent person #than I will ever be. she has a stressful and very high-impact job and it's how she relaxes. it's fine. it's fine #cor.txt

[electrobiology]

was reading dazai osamu's wikipedia page as you do and i saw that firstly he had numerous children but secondly and most importantly one of them had a wikipedia page as well (tsushima yuuko) and i saw that she lived until 2016. i wonder if she knew about bungou stray dogs and i wonder what she thought of its depiction of her father

#her page says most of her works focused on abandonment and women being left behind #wonder why that is (sarcasm) #i like dazai's writing except for the misogyny but he really was kind of an awful guy #also his wiki page said that his life started to go downhill after akutagawa's suicide and it didn't say this but his own suicide was #maybe inspired by akutagawa's as well #wonder also what she would have thought of the inverted dynamics between bsd akutagawa and dazai #i think it's very funny that the only wiki pages i ever read are those of authors #all of akutagawa's children died far too early to see the creation of bsd #wonder what they would've thought #that's like 90% of what i think about when i think about bsd #you don't just create something like this without having effects on the relatives/etc of the real life people all of the characters are #based on #i'm not on any high horse admittedly i like d*zai/ch**ya fic even though i've hardly read the manga and not watched one second of the anime #but still. i can't help but think about all of this #i have an essay that was due 8 hours ago but instead i'm reading author wikipedia pages

[gurenmonster]

Btw I say Damien and Angela are cute but not in a couple way... like no matter how I look at it I can't see them as a romantic couple 😔 they're just two silly little guys to me... (more in the tags)

#felt like clarifying cuz damien angela shippers are getting blasted good lord #like i get don't get me wrong #but courtney shayne shipper were doing this exact same thing before they came out as a couple lol #idk #seems weird now to go after damien angela shippers #not that i agree with the heavy speculating and exaggeration of events tho #but ya know??????? idk if I'm making sense #anywaaayys #all this to say that if i draw damien and angela and tag it as damangela(?) #know that it's in the platonic sense #just a duo name #I'm someone who uses ship names as duo names A LOT #reading this back omg so many grammar errors but i hope y'all get it #g chat

[veone]

last statement cause i lurked which was dumb nothing new was read, but i'm say this. yoonie is a 🦝 for siding with a racist ass, race faking white person and never condemning them for making other black people uncomfortable in his discord. Gaslighting me in the dms by blaming me for his contentiously harassment, ignoring why I was uncomfortable, causing minors to be getting slurs in their inbox and causing people in the discord and him mental anguish for talking about how i was uncomfortable with a person. mind you this nigga kept this person around around unil they left or something. i am not sure, i could be very wrong but they didn't kick them from my knowledge. i had alot in my inbox and school and wasn't reading everything he was saying on his blog. That why i don't like yoonie personally. yoonie you get called white for acting white and you loud, so of course your names on peoples mouth. no one forgot what you did/do. no ones thinking about you a daily basis though or at least I'm not. I got school stuff i'm trying to learn how to do etc. Hella people don't like you for a reason outside of this and its because you were and are(idk if you got any pull anymore) a bully. plain and simple ya had/have a big audience of followers i was one.

Xldx s a 🦝 for hyping up a know trump supporter and choosing to ignore that, cause you know people was saying mack was a trump supporter(who started their whole anti paywall shit by attacking black creators) in their ask and comments and dms probably, until somebody big, which was yoonie said something and now its not cool. talking about i'm crying about you on my blog when you decided to have a conversation by unblocking and blocking me. ya followers of people, minus two i never seen before blocking me is not a sad day. they can have their opinions i don't care. ya weird as shit for trying to call me out and not even letting me speak?? like what's the point?

#veonerants #not a single anon either which tells me alot #no offense if you over 35 on simblr i am not looking up to you as some type awe being you make sims content on tumblr?? your a person #biting the hand that feeds you ya didn't make those tutorials and didn't have what i was looking for??what are talking about #kiwifarms ass black people ma'am do you hear yourself?? #hmmm end of this conversation. i am fine with people having an opinion i can't shut up sometimes i have a thought it has be shared #also random lowkey sorry to yoonie ya was not in this until i read something xldx was saying that stupid i'm talking about people who have #me blocked like what are you doing than?? #sorry to my peeps if xldx is ya fave its fine if she is i don't care #i'm only saying something cause i couldn't get an actual conversation for the record

[afreakingdork]

HOW BIG HIM DICK!!!!!

LOL WE FINALLY GOT HERE!

I'm so proud you were able to ask.

Here's my answer: However big that big would be to you 😉

#ask #seriously though I'm not going to answer because again this is a self insert fic #i don't want to name a number and have it be so wild that it takes someone out of the fic #one person's 8 is someone elses 13 ya know what im saying #read with your heart

[tardiswithadrivethrough]

i keep seeing screenrant articles and stuff (most recently) that are all "*gasp!* the toymaker has fixed continuity in doctor who by saying that actually it's all a mash up of different timelines!" and every time i'm just like yeah???? that isn't new that's literally the entire show

#el speaks #doctor who #dw 60th #google has long since figured out what I'm into #(apparently it's doctor who and archaeology and quantum mechanics in case you were wondering) #and i am occasionally a sucker for that specific kind of clickbait that's like #NEW STUDY SUGGESTS UNIVERSE MAY ACTUALLY BE TWICE AS OLD AS WE THOUGHT #where you can just take one look at the headline and go #nah #nah that's preeeeeeeetty obviously a massive exaggeration of conclusions made by a single preprint #maybe a chance that the authors would agree with the headline because they're going a little out there #but probably even they would say it's an exaggeration #the REAL exciting stem headlines are like #we found the first aperiodic monotile (it's shaped like a hat) #that's when you know you've found the good stuff #(the actual headlines about that were much less funny but I don't remember any examples because they weren't very interesting) #sometimes less interesting headlines = more interesting stories #but also sometimes i just want to read some dumb shit that's completely nonsensical but also 100% completely benign #because you know what? sometimes ya just gotta get way too into string theory and that's fine #fringe physics beliefs generally have utterly no impact on one's actual relationship to the world around them #and anyway how big can the overlap between people who care about this shit and people who believe this shit be? #wait what am i talking about now? i started out talking about doctor who #oh well #that's what the internet is for

[transingthoseformers]

Hmm. Megatron keeps having dreams about well Optimus. Considering his reaction to them, and how Megatron/Optimus isn't exactly in the main tags, this means something and I doubt that he exactly wants them.

#i mean there was that one nightmare of his that seriously fucked with him #now I'm not exactly observant by any meaning of the word #someone could say something to me point blank three times in a row and my brain will just. bluescreen #but I'm fairly sure this means something different than '' oh I'm still in love with OP '' #because I don't think he is #my brain keeps suggesting they're in this weird middle ground between wet dreams and lowkey nightmares #but that's just a theory #fic reading as ya do #tfp Megatron #tfp optimus prime

[lookedlikethebins]

SUPRISE!

I didn't do the work i needed to do yet tonight BUT

I did just finish a draft of an angsty ~5k mostly-internal-george-narrative gatty-centric fic WHICH MEANS

i'm going to do some actual work and then (after like, maybe a nap?) revise, edit, and then post her!!

(also, new rule, per that lovely anon from this past weekend: i'm not going to think too hard about this; i wanted to write this so i did!! and i always end up writing a really prosey/emo/basically committing every single one of my self-indulgent writing habits in a fic--and they get mixed reviews but man, y'all have been so nice and encouraging and forgiving i'm just going to do it!! and if you like it, that's very sick and awesome thank you ily and if it's not your cup of tea thank you for even glancing at it. i'll be back with regularly scheduled programming soon.)

anyway... now i'm going to go uhhh, edit an entire manuscript of a book that so far is not my cup of tea... wish me luck. ty and gn x

#i am so excited i have something... even if it's sort of like. not really plot but more character study of a moment sort of thing #i'm just so excited to share more i love writing things that feel like they END so i can just #here!! this is what *I* was thinking and now it's your turn (if you want to share)!! ya know?? #fandom is the one place where a fic can be finished but the writer doesn't necessarily have to be done... if that makes sense? #like in academia that bitch better be PRINTER READY like it has to be everything you want to say... #but i had a thought and i wrote it and i liked it and it feels like everything i was interested in exploring and articulating #and it's not a Definable Plot i don't even think it has a Defined Setting with Description but that's bc this is not academia!!! fuck it! #can you tell i'm in Editor in Chief mode? sorry sorry i get very verbose when i edit sorry #ANYWAY if you read to here thank you!!! and i'll see YOU on ao3 tomorrow :)) #OH double bonus if you get down this far... i may perhaps be open to prompts... #since so far the whiplash and range of my fics is pretty uhhh ya know... interesting lol #smth to mediate me serving you whatever the hell my brain cooks up while i'm in egregiously long meetings that should've been emails... #OKAY now i really should probably go edit... love u bye #from v #del

[duncanor]

The mental illness goin' strong I'm afraid

#dunkar rant #Let's ruin my own friendship by bein' avoidant for no reason #Sure why the fuck not #I don't understand #I had such a nice day #Why does it feel so bad #Idk what to do #I know what I should do #But I'm stuck #I think I'm at a dead end #Don't know if I can go back but I must he #Maybe tomorrow will be better #Idk why I'm talkin' here #Britney was right #This loneliness IS killin' me #Im sorry for never respondin' under these posts #I read what ya say #I just don't know what to say back I'm sorry #I don't feel like a real person #Never have tbh #It gets harder to act like one #Feels like.. Idk.. Like the rope snapped

[pa-pa-plasma]

redditors are so fucking weird, sometimes they don't even know what hill they're dying on all they know is that they're gonna die on it for sure

#told a dude on reddit who was asking how much violence is allowed in YA books that you can put as much as you'd like #& he was like ''books sure have changed since i was an adolescent'' & i was like. no. they've always been that way. read them & see #(literally gave Watership Down as an example. it was published in the 70's) #& he started ranting & raving about how actually i'm wrong because liberals & kids these days don't understand #what it's like to be an adolescent (kept using that word) in a time where all books were banned for even the most minor of implied violence #& i was like ''what the fuck are you talking about'' & he was like ''where do you live & how old are you'' about a hundred times #i wish i was exaggerating. it really escalated that fast #oh also they were assuming i'm a guy & using he/him pronouns which is like. fuck off lol yeah you're obviously an old white guy from Americ #literally i should just leave reddit forever but i can't stand by watching people say ''quit forever'' when newbies ask simple questions #like redditors are insane. batshit #i want to be the ''do whatever you want forever'' person in a sea of ''you're 12 & only have a 12yo's reading level? die'' #also the blocking on there is bullshit. you can't reply to comments if one of the people in the convo is blocked #& you can't block someone twice in 24 hours #& if you want to report someone for. say. harassment. like asking for your location repeatedly. you have to report the specific comment. #which you now can't see because you blocked them #more & more i become astonished that people use every other social media EXCEPT tumblr #couldn't imagine living like that. it must be horrible