#I mean like obviously read the books

[bluesey-182]

cause i see the words on the page, read each word in my head, and simultaneously see it all play out like a movie inside my head, but im recently finding out that not everyone subvocalizes and it's tripping me up

#i know it's like a whole thing that subvocalizing means you read 'slower' but first of all reading slower isn't a bad thing #and second of all I've still read 109 books so far this year so it's obviously not a problem for me #also to be clear: im not at all looking for tips to do speed reading bc i don't care to do that so pls don't offer them #i love the way i read and im not looking to change it #it might be the writer in me but i really love reading every word individually and seeing how they knit together #and how the author decided to use them. i think it's beautiful #text post #okay to reblog

[simstoyourdismay]

you’re so art deco out on the floor shining like gun metal cold and unsure baby you’re so ghetto you’re looking to score when they all say ‘hello’ you try to ignore them cause you want more, why? you want more, why?

made a sim for @acuar-io’s decades challenge on discord!!

#ts4 #s4 #simblr #sims 4 #ts4 simblr #s4 simblr #the sims 4 #i feel like i could be off by a few years but i intended for her to be a flapper girl from the 1920s #i should've downloaded a cigarette holder or something but i forgot whoops #i downloaded other cc for men in the 1920s #cause i wanted to make nick carraway and jay gatsby.. obviously in love because i think the great gatsby is a thinly veiled queer classic #like nick carraway is so bisexual.. but you know i also have this disease where i need to force homoeroticism into everything everywhere #i feel like i should clarify that i mean the great gatsby book. not the movie. never seen it. i do not like leonardo decaprio #okay i'm done cause that's not what this post was even about.. i like reading my bad #my other sims

[kazz-brekker]

dark rise: metaphorical sex via unicorn horn stabbing

dark heir: metaphorical sex via unlocking magical potential

book 3: actual sex???

#i mean obviously it's a ya book but like. you gotta resolve all the tension and drama somehow #i see that tamsyn muir and cs pacat went to the school of 'this magic scene is actually a sex scene' and i approve #pie says stuff #pie reads #dark heir #dark rise #books

[stillunpainted]

I started reading Otherside Picnic (aka the books by the "yuri made me human" interview guy) and they're so fun. I love Sorawo. She was born in a wet cardboard box all alone.

#otherside picnic #i only have two volumes of the novels so no spoilers please! #this book is so exactly my shit though. i was so fascinated by creepypastas as a kid and now i get to learn about secret new ones #(by secret new ones i mean like. japanese ones that I obviously cant read since i dont know the language. im sure theyre well known)

[vegathebrighteststar]

If one more person says that will was abusive to nico or shit like that Iam gonna flip fr

#will solace #nico di angelo #solangelo #Iam soo gonna fight u ppl #Just finished reading tsats and iam mad #I mean after ur rants ofc #I liked the book obviously #They kinda did us justice

[theriverbeyond]

relistening to HtN rn and it really hits me how many moments of fun and hooting/hollaring there were in both GtN and HtN (even desite the latter's overcurrent of grief&disorientation) and how... absent those feelings were (in me as a reader) throughout NtN. like..... comparing the pure rush of Gideon returning in HtN, vs the uncomfortable, uneasy, uncanny valley feeling of first seeing Kiriona in NtN. the elation at realizing the narrator in HtN was Gideon, and the... dread? sadness? grief? of Nona realizing she's Alecto. GtN's "go loud" and its victory versus NtN's "go loud" and its grief (again) and weight.

#idk idk. ive read nona like 2.5 x now not counting rereading small parts for reference and im just....... @ tor books this book is SAD!!!! #it's sad in a way that is so fucking desolate #and i think maybe bc it was split off alecto and therefore doesnt have its conclusion #or maybe bc this series is Supposed To Be like this and i just dont get it or w/e #the vibes reminded me deeply of the red rising series ngl. #anyway again not a complaint just like observation on the tonal shift and thinking about #what that means for AtN #ntn spoilers #trb.txt #tlt thoughts #sighs. as always worried about if i am enjoying things in the Correct Way or not. ntn is a masterwork of XYZ literary things im not #learned enough to articulate but idk. etc etc etc #and not to say there werent funny parts obviously but the general vibe was brutal #still thinking about it all.......

[aroaessidhe]

a few NZ adult sff books!

for @thereadingchallengechallenge following an ask from a week or two ago

most of these authors also have other books that I love! I have mentioned specifically their books that are set here (or Aotearoa-inspired fantasy)

From A Shadow Grave by Andi Buchanan (alternate history fantasy based on a real life murder/wellington ghost story)

The Dawnhounds by Sasha Stronach (queer alchemical-biopunk dystopian fantasy)

No Man’s Land by AJ Fitzwater (queer historical fantasy about land girls in WWII)

The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade (climate fiction novella about an underground network protecting science data in the future)

The Wind City by Rem Wigmore (urban fantasy set in Wellington)

How To Get A Girlfriend When You’re A Terrifying Monster by Marie Cardno (cute sapphic monster romance novella)

Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (nonlinear myth retelling, this is definitely more in the direction of literary fiction tbh)

Butcherbird by Cassie Hart (supernatural horror/suspense, not quite sff enough for my tastes but might be of interest?)

Wake by Elizabeth Knox (similarly more horror/thriller than sff-y; she also has a fantasy called The Absolute Book that I haven’t read yet)

I already mentioned Na Viro by Gina Cole, but since I think it’s adult I’ll mention it again here! it’s a Pasifikafuturist sci-fi/fantasy

#I swear there's more in my head but my brain is mush atm #(i mean obviously there's more but like. what I have read) #but there's a couple anyway! #obv always check CWs if you need but as a note butcherbird has a somewhat graphic SA scene #book recommendations #nz books #aotearoa books #it's been a long time since I read wake also

[moghedien]

watching the last episode and trying to get a good shot on the Forsaken statues and being like "why does it look like their are only 7, I thought there was gonna be 8 Forsaken in the show" and then my mind immediately was like "7 deadly sins?" and began categorizing

#lmaooo so I still think there are gonna be 8 because 8 has been the number for things in the show #BUT like that's something to chew on #like Graendal would actually seem like lust obviously but then no she might actually be better as Gluttony #as long as you don't read that as it having to be about just food #so is Lanfear lust? #or is she Wrath? #or Greed? #Ishamael pride and Demandred envy #Moghedien probably sloth #but out of fear rather than laziness #but whats Asmodean then? is he greed? #or is he sloth and Moghedien is greed? #see all of this probably is nothing and means nothing and there's nothing to this #BUT fun to think about #wheel of time #wot on prime #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers

[silvermars]

i love it when a fictional couple/ship is a man SO in love with an amazing badass incredible woman that it literally consumes his whole being... and she's just like "cool dude" and takes forrrever to even like him back let alone love him, bc she has shit. to. do. she is booked and busy.

#spuffy.... obviously #but like captainswan too (i mean they are pg spuffy) #and also kanej vibes -- but only my interpretation of kanej as someone who hasn't read the books and is a v casual watcher #also dair #alsoooo catherine x peter in the great #there's gotta be more #I HAVE A TYPE #and LoVe tbh

[sassmill]

“If a lot of men get killed at one go, does it make the killing of one man less of a crime? I don’t know, Andy, I don’t know. I’m only twenty and they say today the world is ours, but Pa was twenty once and felt the world was his, and long, long ago Mad was twenty too, laughing at applauding audiences, smiling from picture postcards, and when I am as old as she is nothing will have changed…”

Daphne du Maurier, Rule Britannia (1972)

#think about the context of this woman writing this right #she was born in 1907 #so by the time she was 20 she had lived through one world war with the next right on the horizon #as well as at this point witnessing the effects of so many other 20th century conflicts #she’s 65 at this point and this is what she sees ahead for future generations #which I’ve no doubt others saw coming as well but just like everyone for USUK in the book is acting #I’m sure plenty read this and thought but that could never happen not now not here not to us #but look where we are today #look at the genocide being enacted in Palestine #I want people to read this book in 2024 and think hard about it #because the events of the book are happening to white people in England right #I’m not at all trying to say she described anything on the level of the real world atrocities currently happening #but the slowly building anxiety of ‘but what could really happen they won’t do that’ #then overnight all these new restrictions and retaliation #phones cut power cut water cut travel ban #just because it’s happening to people far away from your life #doesn’t mean it could never happen #you wouldn’t see it coming or think it was all that bad until suddenly it was too late #obviously I am reaching to apply this book to today but I think it could make certain people reexamine their mindset #daphne du maurier #rule britannia #quote #this book is making me think so much about imperialism and occupation and military states and civilian cruelty #through such an interesting lens considering what I know of Daphne du mauriers life up to the point she wrote this #this was her last novel #and it’s so different from her other novels #like this to me is her equivalent of a Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur’s court #except it’s just the ending where everything becomes terrible so fast

[secondbutonenothird]

i think y'all would be blown away by how much i think about numbers and how much more i am aware about than most or all of the people that i know

#ocd: #there are two words before the word y'all which is separted by the ' creating a barrer like in sentences that are five words and are #separted by commas like hello (comma) are you okay (comma) (name) #this is three lines and too many words for it to count #sentences that look like they are seven are probably eight unless they are seem like hello are you okay and you (name) that is seven and no #eight nine can be divided into sentences like are you okay are you okay are you okay with it making sense because it is divided by 3 into 3 #which means that it is nine but even though are you okay are you okay is 3s divided it is six which is two and six and not three and nine #when you see signs twelve does not work because six cannot be divied into three and can be divided into one but that is too many words on #one line for it to be socially accpectable eight does not work on more than one line expect if you make it eight lines #nine works and three works and one works obviously #that sentence right there is ten words but 2 2 3 so sort of not working but since it is counts it is probably okay #i have figured out a lot of this and i have a ton of examples because i am working with numbers constantly #following three people having an even or odd amount of followers #five is an accpectable nummber becauuse it go like 10 15 20 and so on which are good numbers #11 and 10 look surpisingly similar and are easy to notice #watching tv shows is interesting #you can usually fix a lot of sentences with the words as but and #like if a sentence was hi how are you period i am okay you could hi as i am okay but how are you #i know that sounds like shit and does not make sense but it works for me in those kind fo situations #because i read it and edit it at the same time #books are worse because you can look at the paragraph for a while trying to figure out what makes sense #sometimes i just read them over and over again trying to figure out how to make it so the amount of lines is the right number #is the right number and the amount of sentences is the right numbeer and the words is a right number #i can explain more examples because you know i have a lot because i do this for more than like 3 hours a day for almost a year i am doing i #right now if you have not noticed that everything is following it #i swear it was there but now it is not there so i am just going to say it #sometimes i wonder if i am overexgratting how hard it is to have ocd or if it is just something simple and i should not be so fucking #dramatic #shitposting #mental illness ocd

[darcyolsson]

honestly another thing that makes tsc so fun is that there's so many implicit little worldbuilding rules going on that you're aware of as a reader but the moment a character states them out loud you go "Haha, What?" like jocelyn casually mentioning that shadowhunters love extremely intensely and that virtually all of them fall in love only once. girl I thought everyone just suffered from YA Protagonist Always Meets Their Soulmate At 16 Disease what do you MEAN that this is an actual Thing. and that thats the reason why your current husband spent 20 years pining over you because he was physically incapable of falling out of love. and that it took you 15 years to even think of the possibility of loving him back because your first husband turned out to be a genocidal maniac and you were like well thats it for me then no more romance too bad I wasted it on him! what do you MEAN

#i do think tid plays with tropes in this way more obviously but rereading tmi made me realise some of it is literally woven into #the worldbuilding. extremely fun no one ever say fanfic writers shouldnt be allowed to publish books! #tsc #tmi #personal #vic reads tftsa #(because this train of thought was prompted by the evil we love) #like this also more or less means that more often than not getting a divorce means you were never in love at all #bc theres literally no falling out of love except in really extreme circumstances like the aforementioned genocidal maniac situation #insane. actually deranged. i love it

[beaft]

this will sound mean, but nothing takes me out of a book faster than characters in a fantastical or historical setting talking about societal issues like they spend all their free time on twitter

#obviously i don't mean they shouldn't talk about societal issues #but sometimes you read a dialogue and it's like. they would not say that. #close cousin to the trope of people talking like they have an a in therapy #no!! be messy! be incoherent! talk like a person! #anyway. read a book set in the 1940s the other day and the MC started talking about bisexual erasure and it gave me whiplash

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

follows an unhappy nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company - the corporate structure of gods & spirits in the modern world who deal in prayers and belief

he meets a succubus who convinces him to go freelance, and they travel the world getting their own sustenance and building a relationship

but the elder gods aren’t finished with him, and he’s tasked with stealing an artifact from the British museum, with the help of a human magician from the succubus’ past

nonlinear storytelling

#Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #another one I was really enjoying for most of it but by the end a few things I feel hm about #I thought the narrative style was really interesting and I REALLY enjoyed the concept of the corporate god stuff lmao #(tbqh I would have liked more focus on that. it’s mostly context/background) #the relationship between the main two….I wanted it to be like dysfunctional immortal couple kind of vibes but it kinda ended up a little to #like the MC spends a lot of the book being jealous and upset she won’t say she loves him and I’m fine with that as a character trait #if he got over himself but it’s more like She gives in at the end. eh. I feel like we didn’t truly see much depth in their relationship? #maybe wish there was more than one female character and also her being a succubus means she is kinda regularly raping people. #the examples we see are mostly shitty men and like obviously all the other gods are murdering people too but also.... #That is a thing in here. It maybe could have been discussed a little more idk. #Having said that I did still enjoy a lot of aspects of it!