#book written like a diary

[rjalker]

Now applying to everything it applies to instead of just The Books of the Raksura or The Murderbot Diaries.

The most ~mainstream~ example is probably Zootopia. Or, more infamously, Bright.

[ID: Two images, each showing a panel from a two-panel comic. Panel 1 is titled, "What white authors think bigotry looks like", and shows a snake wearing a bib that says, "I [heart] mice with a fork, looking down at a mouse that is trembling in fear, saying "U R a bigot if you're afraid I'll eat you when you first meet me even though I am literally an obligate carnivore who evolved 2 eat u. And ur cousin got eaten by my cousin last week." Panel 2 is titled, "What bigotry actually looks like", and shows one mouse sweating nervously, surrounded by five other angry mice with swords, who are shouting, "Terrorist!" "Thug!" "You're threatening me!" "You are dangerous!" "You are violent!" Larger text to the side explains, "People with power pretending that the minority is inherently dangerous and violent to justify violently oppressing them.". End ID.]

Pro tip: Real oppressed people are not and have never been scary Evil monsters trying to end the world. Nor are oppressed people obligate carnivores that literally evolved to hunt and eat the people oppressing them.

Disney wants you to think that anyone who wants people to stop being oppressed is gonna turn around 2 seconds later and murder a baby. And so many fucking white authors (Including Martha Wells!) think that oppressed people are all super powered unstoppable killing machine apex predators who literally evolved to eat other people and you're being mean :( for being reasonably wary when you first meet them, because your cousin literally just got eaten alive by their cousin last week and you don't want to go the same way. This is what white people think bigotry is.

#The Murderbot Diaries #The Books of the Raksura #Zootopia #and everything else it applies to #there's so many #Like the legends of korra #Fantasy oppression written by white people #racism #bigotry #Martha Wells critical #Martha Wells racism #The books of the Raksura racism #The Murderbot Diaries racism #The murderbot diaries has repeatedly condemned slaves revolting so like. idk zyg. it doesn't take 7 books to stop demonizing slave rebellio

[cactuseri]

yeah yeah i know richard siken is woefully over-quoted on this site but “there’s a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that i’m about to burst into tears, right before i burst into tears,” hey what if i walk into traffic. idk why that line rips my heart out every time but it does

#literally one of my issues w poetry is i get SOOO attached to one authors style and then my brain doesnt wanna read anything else #in no particular order i like #1. siken #2. one unpublished author on here who ran a blog thats now deleted and i probably wont ever read their writing again #(thank god i bought pdfs of all their available work at the time and printed it out and bound it. thank god) #3. a boy who was one of my closest friends ever but hasn’t written back in 6 years and idk why and it hurts but i still buy his poetry books #4. the minecraft end poem #5. kafka’s depressing diary entries #of course i read more poetry than that! i think everyone should #but i cant reallyyyy get into anything else. so far. #seri.txt

[lux-scriptum]

google how do you break the instinct to immediately nope out of books written in first person i feel like a snob

#its so popular rn and i feel so BAD when im like 'mmmmmmmmm' #google how to not have personal preferences #thats not what this is tho #i dont think #i mean it is but also #ive read books written in first I adored!!! #and yet i still grimace #i wonder if divergent really did that much damage on me #this blog is my diary im sorry for the ramblings

[paleode-ology]

I love words I love words I love them so much words words words rahashhahthahahrhdhhdjsjahdgahrhsh

#ode by ode #sorry I am just thinking #about stories #and language #and just like reading and writing in general #written stories can take so many different forms #and there are so many different ways to interact with fiction and literature and storytelling #like I just #there’s books #and within books you have like prose and poetry and non-fiction and fiction #and there’s journaling and writing and creating #and so many different levels of writing and creation #like writing stories that you come up with fully or playing journaling RPGs #diaries and journals vs words to be printed #short stories and news articles #interactive fiction games!!! #which are just so diverse and so so interesting and can have such cool mechanics #like even just parser vs choice based creates such different vibes I’m #like with parser you’re there and your decisions are your own and you’re participating in creating the story #and with choice based you do that as well but you more like guide the story?? #the story is already written but it can’t end without your participation #and this is all just written word media #there’s so much of it #so much writing and reading all with different intents and purposes #different methods of writing different reasons to write #it’s just so insane to me I want to do and be everything when I think about reading fr

[rudolphsboyfriend]

The sheer number of times i had to stop reading Babel bcuz the characters said something describing so perfectly exactly how i feel and just sit there feeling my feelings for a while. Gosh. Says something abt the book

#someone said that this book made them feel SEEN in a way no other book sad #has* #and yeah i agree #it was genuinely so so cathartic to read it and see. FINALLY just see my anger and horror written out #it was like reading my diary honestly

[nilesmoon]

I baffles me how someone rbed a post from me (lit major btw) and said that they prefer fanfic over literature bc the characters lack depth or whatever in the tags and it just makes me incredibly upset to see ppl saying shit like this because there are So Many good book out there!!! literature is so much fun when you find what works for you!!! but anyways why don't you read the metamorphosis by franz kafka and metamorphosize your taste

#Go pick up romantic book written in first person. Adolphe by Benjamin constant my beloved #Or just do no longer human by dazai if you want something more depressing #Vita sexualis by mori. Banger book btw #I do not know the english name for the book but ionesco has a singular novel so it can't be hard to find. Read that #Froth on the daydream by Boris Vian. Another banger #I actually don't know if the last one is written in first person #I'm saying first person specifically bc it's mostly used to make the reader feel for the characters more #diary or letter genre could also be interesting. correspondance is fun #Im just giving a lecture at this point what Im trying to say is. Try out different genres I promise theres something out there u might like #For a while I stopped reading as much and didn't find most books interesting but I think I know what I like now :]!! It's nice #nile talks

[yukinyaminyato]

all my assignments are finally done. i'm free. 😤 a month long vacation from uni yippeeee

#just turned in my last essay of the semester <3 whew #ive written total of 20 pages of academic text during these past 10 days + compiled a learning diary that ended up being 16 pages long 🥴 #i truly deserve a break #ive read so many book chapters and articles this semester..... like i honestly don't think i read this much during my entire BA degree lmao #is this how it feels to be a MA student. constantly tired 😔 #my posts

[rogueninja]

on a related note this might just be a personal thing but like. does anyone else find wlw lit to be so lacking

#lacking as in. not very good. sigh idk #that one may be more personal but i’ve yet to find a wlw book i really like or relate to #even if they’re written by lgbt authors #the kat diaries

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread        

Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster

YA contemporary about an aspiring music photographer who needs a date to her sister's quinceañera

dealing with a crush on her best friend, ex boyfriend, and the new girl in town

and trying to figure out her feelings while preserving her friendships

#Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #also recommend! #i think the best friend relationship was concluded a liiiitle weirdly #like i actually love the concept of 'my friendship feelings for you are just as strong as romantic feelings and i got confused' #(bc romance isn't more important than friendship) #but the way it was a bit entangled with 'straight girl experimenting/messing with my feelings'...idk #i think it's funny how her 'big secret i have to tell her so our relationship isn't a lie' is just. hvaing a private instagram art project #where she talks about her feelings. girl it's no different from a diary except a couple other people r seeing it.... #i mean i know teenagers r like that and also i'd prefer that than some other actually bad plot point written in #i don't. get why it's a big deal though? it' a private account which i assume meant it had no followers #but they keep saying 'telling the whole internet' #writing down your feelings about people to figure out your feelings seems like a perfectly normal healthy thing to do #anyway neither of these are massive criticisms its a good book just my specific thoguhts LOL

[ofthesamewhole]

The tiktokification of music is so exhausting.

#did you write a fully-formed song or did you put together a 20 sec tiktok dance and then continued that for 3 minutes? #it’s not good and it should be criticized for not being good #that post that was like: books/writing these days are written so they can be broken down into snippets on tiktok #and put into little gifsets and Pinterest boards #nothing is ever created to be a whole anymore just bits and bites forced together #(and don’t get me wrong—I love the tumblrina gifsets they’re a staple here in my sad little public diary) #the chronic need for virality is a plague in and of itself #it’s so exhausting I’m so fucking tired #these are thoughts that make me realize how fucking old I am #I’m just in a miserable anti-social media mood and full of vinegar #I’m a hater and I want to be full of hate today #-s talks

[minamotosousuke]

So there’s the whole homosexuality in samurai culture thing, but there’s written sagas about Minamoto’s specifically who bedded men

#you gotta remember the first book ever written in Japan #is like literally the diary of a Minamoto

[miharuhebinata]

so i'm reading Love Is for Losers by Wibke Brueeggemann & i'm so annoyed, because a good number of the reviews i read talked about how the main character is soooo unpleasant & unlikeable & even ableist???? & then i go to read it & she's literally just your average teenage girl LMFAO like..... the hatred of teenage girls for literally no reason at all is so very real.

& as for ableist, i'm only about 80 pages in but she has literally not done or said anything overtly ableist aside from telling a boy with Down syndrome to "shut up" because he was shouting for her godmother & it shocked her. also at one point she says "i've never been out with anyone with Down syndrome" which, yeah, that's a weird thing to say, but she's 15????? she didn't even say it out loud & she also educated herself on Down syndrome immediately after, so like........ idk man. people talk so much about wanting to see more flawed characters in fiction, but then when they finally get one they're like "umm why didn't the author write this character as if she came out of the womb being a perfect little angel???? so problematic ://" like genuinely what the fuck do you people want

#sorry sorry. i'm done ranting #aside from this i'm enjoying the book so far. i mean it's nothing totally groundbreaking but it's engaging #i really like the diary format it's written in. i always love when books do that #love is for losers #📖 tag #send tweet

[2030kamenriders]

Recently, I started reading Dracula, thanks to that whole Dracula Daily post that was floating around a few days back. Figured it would help me understand how fictional vampires worked in the old days.

Anyway, so far Dracula the character doesn't seem too bad? He's inviting the current narrator dude over, and he seems to have made all of the arrangements for the narrator's travel toward his castle. Sure, the locals seem really scared of Dracula, but perhaps it's a Frankenstein's Monster situation where Dracula is just misunderstood?

Not quite sure when the book takes place though, since I don't know much about European history or geography. But the author seemed to try to give a bunch of clues to that in the first part, so perhaps I can figure it out with a little help from Wikipedia.

#2030kamenriders reads a book sort of #so far it's written like a journal or diary. and the Dracula Daily mailing list matches the emails to the times in the book #so if the narrator guy writes an entry on May 3rd then you get that entry emailed to you on May 3rd #I kind of like that idea! it adds a bit of interactivity to it. Even if you are not actually doing anything to the story

[itsfreeandthecopscantstopyou]

Besties I am reading about the appendix of 1984 by George Orwell and I just re-read the actual appendix last night and I stg I'm gonna scream and cry and throw up because it's fucking past perfect tense and it's the "woulds" and it's the fact that the appendix is written in modern English. 1984 secret ending where Big Brother is long gone it makes me cry.

#and like the fact that the appendix is written in universe and attached to the end of the book meaning that 1984 exists in its own universe #so Winston's story is like. its a historical narrative most likely based on his diaries and like. he is remembered #and big brother failed! they are gone and words remain! #Winstons larger revolution might have failed but those small acts of rebellion. the diary. the memories. they lived on #loosing my mind omg #1984 book #george orwell

[toastsnaffler]

another murakami gem this one's from a short story in the anthology first person singular idr which one tho. they also have terrible sex and he keeps comparing her to a horse 👍

#i remember reading this bc it made me laugh so much and i was trying and failing to explain why it was so funny to my ex #just the way he so earnestly believes her...... theres something so wrong with them both 😭 #this anthology was pretty terrible tho i think some of his other anthologies were far better #hes such a dry writer and baby im dehydrated B-) I still have a few of his books left i havent read I should finish them off #I think blind willow/sleeping woman was gonna be my next one and then killing commendatore #I think the reason I like his stuff so much is the same reason I used to read cursed but well written sonic the hedgehog AU crack #much to think abt. anyway i should make lunch #.diaries

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change by Tanja Hester (2021)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (2007)

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone (2012)

Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Alex Rosenblat (2018)

The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 1 by Natsu Hyuuga & Touko Shino (2014)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1997)

The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters by Benjamin Ginsberg (2011)

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell (2021)

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Fox Meadows (2022)

[ID: Covers of aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #gigi.txt #wallet activism was solid book. was a bit well. wallet activism. #but financially it was super solid so #learned a lot! #what i talk about was soooooo good especially as someone who is trying to get into running #fantastic #active hope. was a book. it did fucking nothing. #uberland was good! a lot of it i knew but like #the details i definitely did not #i love apothecary diaries in light novel in manga in anything mwah #guns germs and steel was so fucking bad im never reading anything by jared diamond again #fall of the faculty was agonizingly boring and awful and just not written well #I LOOOOOOOOVED WINTER'S ORBIT SO MUCH. SO SO MUCH. #I JUST GOT THE NEXT ONE AT THE LIBRARY AND I CANT WAITTTTTT #a strange and stubborn endurance was not. good. i DNF-ed #the prose was solid tho and it wasn't problematic.jpg ig it was just. not good #so i have a diff book by them on my tbr that i will give a second shot