#book: the most likely club

[haveyoureadthispoll]

In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire. Melissa Levin, Priya Chowdury, Tara Taylor, and Suki Hammer are going places. Their yearbook superlatives confirm it: Most Likely to Win the White House, Cure Cancer, Open a Michelin-Starred Restaurant, and Join the Forbes 400. Fast forward twenty-five years and nothing has gone according to plan as the women regroup at their dreaded high school reunion. When a forgotten classmate emerges at the reunion with a surprising announcement, the friends dig out the yearbook and rethink their younger selves. Is it too late to make their dreams come true? Fueled by nostalgia and one too many drinks, they form a pact to push through their middle-aged angst to bring their teenage aspirations to fruition, dubbing themselves the "Most Likely Girls." Through the ensuing highs and lows, they are reminded of the enduring bonds of friendship, the ways our childhood dreams both sustain and surprise us -- and why it's deeply uncool to peak in high school.

#book: the most likely club #author: elyssa friedland #genre: contemporary #year: 2020s

[soliusss]

Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

#I don’t like fight club #but other people do #gay people on their way to write some of the most relevant popular influencial literature of the 90s #solius posting #this shit also kills me because both of those books have. OVERT homosexual themes and moments

[carrinth]

Did you notice how many gifts are *books* in Awakening?? Either our poor Warden-Commander was running out of gift ideas or was passively encouraging the formation of a Grey Warden book club.

Vigil's Keep Book Club! With Nat as honorary member.

Fun fact: Justice was apparently Most Prolific Reader of VKBC with a grand total of 3 books! (Well 2 books and an elvish scroll but it counts!)

#dragon age stuff #grey wardens of vigil's keep #vigil's keep book club #like I know Wynne also got books but Warden Commander was gifting books to almost ALL of their Awakening companions XD #Justice got the most books #Fade Spirit likes books about the Fade go figure #DA2 Anders should have been an avid bookworm haha

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

#I need to brush up on my post colonial reading I’m not as well read as I’d like to be #once I finish my coursework I’ll have more time for reading shit I actually want to read lol #like I’m reading so much stupid bullshit that does not matter for class #genuinely useless theory that I will never pick up again #I want to finish orientalism in particular. one of the most didactic books I’ve ever read #like said’s writing is like every sentence restates his central argument. It’s an unrelenting book in a really compelling way #Interspersed with him talking fine grain shit about a bunch of European intellectuals I’ve never heard of lol #book club

[heartofarcanum]

This girl just actually for real drew a picture of her and her crush in the margins of her notebook idk what to do I’m-😭😭😭

And the way he’s so much taller than her in the picture 🥹🥹

#Eva doodling ‘Mrs high epistates in the margins of her notebook’ #EXCEPT SHE ACTUALLY DID THAT #she’s just like me fr #this has to be the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen #so earnestly too #‘his favorite scribe’ #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #I am climbing the WALLS #rc #romance club #song of the crimson nile #scn #rc amen #amen x Evthys #HIS FAVORITE SCRIBE #no because this is now my favorite scene in this book

[raycatz]

I'm not including a situation where someone might be injured because in that case I'm thinking the bed goes to them by default or they are nominated for it. anyone who wants to be chatty goes to join the living room floor gang.

What are your thoughts and headcanons? Do you have thoughts on how the boys tend to approach assigning beds in inns? Who do the chain choose to sleep near when camping and why? What are their dynamics like when settling down for the night and getting ready for the day?

In "Mirror Vs Open Closet Door: Fight!" by Gintrinsic (here) Four refers to the chain's decision on how to split up between inn rooms as the "Link-per-room ratio" which I find very funny. He, Sky, and Time also talk about their thought process behind why they do or don't want to sleep in a room with some of the others which I find fun and interesting.

So! If you have thoughts and want to share them! *gestures to the post!*

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #alrighty! now for my answers- #for the ranch question I think it varies which is why I'm asking in a poll. What do you think happens most often though? #each answer is a fun scenario so it's difficult to choose #but I think they'd try to act politely around Malon and Time for the first couple visits with straws or rock paper scissors #or showing generosity by offering the bed to someone else. (I bet Malon saying they're charming is quite the incentive #for more possible compliments. The chain as a whole would want to prove her right xD ) #Once they're more comfortable in the house though I can totally see Wind and Legend making a mad dash for it while Wars yells after them xD #Wind probably ends up sharing with Four a lot since they're the littles #or Wind snuggles in with Wars Legend Wild etc #Wild and Twi/Wolfie have claimed the spot on the floor by the fireplace. #For inn rooms / castle rooms / camping - I tend to group them by how they're grouped a lot already #but a lil mixed up #Time - Sky - Wars are the good rest trio. they want a good night's rest please let them get their beauty sleep. often joined by Four #Wars goes between this group and wherever Legend is depending on how chatty he is that night. #Twi - Wild - Hyrule are snuggle/proximity buddies #Legend is attached to Hyrule's hip or sets up near Warriors to gossip and gripe. I can also see him setting up near Wild #in the eye of the storm as it were or just an interesting place to be. Wild and Hyrule can get to chatting about everything and anything #so if Legend wants background noise (Hyrule and Wild podcast omg)- #or a conversation he can be half a part of and jump in and out of while getting ready for the night or in the mornings- #this is a good place to be. add Wind and things get a bit more chaotic. #Wind gravitates to Wars and Legend too when curious and chatty. He gravitates towards Time when he wants something calmer. #Four tends to be near Sky or Twi or to Legend's group for the same reasons #I can see Four and Twi having a little book club going during downtimes where they talk about what they're reading. Sky likes to listen. <3 #Wind thinks they're nerds but so is he and he can't resist a good story so he orbits and sometimes settles in and peppers questions. #it's funny that Time Sky and Wars want to sleep the most but Legend follows Wars to chat (and ends up bringing people with him xD ) #there could be some conflict there oooo #Twi is by Time #it's almost a circle but with clusters of sleeping bags near on top of each other and filling the gaps

[dawnthread]

i’m no fanartist, but i couldn’t help but get in on the dracula book club hype with a knitalong after finding Dracula’s Bride by Renee Linville on ravelry!!

my wonderful datemate gifted me a gorgeous gothic-lit-inspired skein pack for christmas last year, and this is the PERFECT project for it. after a lot of winding, a little math, and a few rounds of swatching to test-drive the needle size and gradient technique, we’re off to the races to the tune of our boy jonathan’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad business trip to transylvania - played to perfection by ben galpin in @re-dracula‘s audio drama production!!

i meant to post these earlier to properly track my progress, but i forgot XD

further updates to be posted as work progresses~!!

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #knitblr #lace knitting #teatime fibers #dracula's bride shawl #I'M SO HYPE TO WORK ON THIS GUYS #[WAVES HANDS EXCITEDLY] I AM *CONTRIBUTING TO THE BOOK CLUB* #i was rubber duck debugging the project specs to my datemate and they were like '... so does this one have an intended recipient' #and i was like 'not yet!' #and they were like '............ can *i* have it?' #and i was like 'YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY HAVE IT YOU KNOW I LOVE MAKING STUFF FOR YOU' #'ALSO YOU BANKROLLED THE PROJECT ALREADY SO YOU DEFINITELY HAVE DIBS' #i love them so much for enabling my lace hobby #anyway this is definitely gonna be the most complicated lace project i've ever done #double-sided lace AND beading AND colorwork AND row by row strand changes to blend two sliiiiiightly incongruent hand-dyed skeins together

[13eyond13]

the only gay rep I truly care about is

1. countless lives are destroyed because two proud people can't fully admit their gay crushes on each other

and

2. someone hides being a murderer as a metaphor for also hiding being gay

#miss me with that perfect wholesome gay rep stuff #in theory like yeah its good to have that too but does it resonate with me no #like is it probably homophobic to always make the obsessive weird villains creepy and gay yeah #but is that also by far the most fun yeah usually it is #theres this lesbian couple with basically opposite taste to me in my book club #and we read something with a shitty queer coded villain and im like yay #and they're like thats homophobic #and im like youre not wrong but id rather die than give 5 stars to the h/ouse in the c/erulean sea #i feel the 'bad rep' feels different when its a gay person writing it too... like clearly it is complicated #p

[potato-lord-but-not]

my lord, apologies if this is intrusive. i inquire of you... how did you meet your girlfriend, blorbo of all blorbos, biggest blorbo to every blorb?

the technically correct answer would be church but I’ll go with book club hosted by our local homeschool group

#that book club changed me in the most unfathomable ways possible #like I wouldn’t be a h2g2 or discworld girlie if I never attended those meetings #I WOULD’T HAVE BONDED WITH MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE #ask

[martyryo]

man that joins your breast cancer club and then asks you to check if he has any testicular tumors.

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #pixel aesthetic #fight club #fight club 1999 #marla singer #genderbend #marlo singer #this is like the most rendering I've ever did #he was my specimen for skin shading practice #at some point I was so pissed cause I accidentally made the featured two femminine so he looked like a bearded woman #anywayss #really proud of it tbh #wanted to also incorporate some pixels in the rendering cause I like them a lot #I think it goes well for the hair and the fur #happy I got past the ugly phase #may doodle some more this weekend #idk I gotta lay out a whole ass book and also do sketches for the cover #I wanna hibernate so badly #also I'll add a specific tag to my art so if one wants to see all the stuff they don't have to scroll all the way through reblogs #m art yryo #< #it's this one hehe

[theodoravery]

so, guys! i'm curious...

please feel free to expand your answer in the replies or in tags, i would love to know! also would love to know, if you rename your mcs, what criteria do you use when looking for a name? or maybe you always play self inserts and name them after yourself? idk, let me know!

#thought this would be fun #personally i do a mix of both. sometimes i have a name pop in my head right as i start a book so i use it #other times i end up really liking the default one so i just go with that one. although now that i'm replaying most books #i'm kinda renaming the ones i went with the default name when i first played #romance club #polls

[sandwichhour]

Some Renfield doodles since people seem to like her

#dracula #dracula daily #r.m. renfield #ladies book club #I felt like I had to draw her in the babygirl pose. it had to be done #trying to make her clothing look loose n baggy since that's what she finds most comfortable #the suspenders are loose too. they dont serve a function she just thinks they look nice

[communistkenobi]

I really need to get more into marxist god-building. As soon as I started reading a review of Lunacharsky’s writings on how Marxism evokes religious emotion and is basically scientific theology it was like discovering what i had believed but didn’t realise it

#also have been pretty compelled by his discussion of the role of religion in socialism #like in terms of capturing the ritual and social emotion that religion evokes for the purposes of uniting the working class #it resonated a lot with the history I’d read of the Haitian revolution and the role religion played in slave organising #like obviously religion plays a massive role in most conflicts but using it as a mobilising force for proletarian movements resolves a lot #of my confusion/uncertainty about religion in a socialist society #anyway I need to read a lot more I’m not very far into it #hoping maybe I can do a bit more reading in the summer but I have comp preparation then. augh #book club

[skin-slave]

"That's not god's fault," might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. My child, that guy's entire claim to fame is being omnipotent and omniscient.

#yeah hes the most horrible entity ever but hear me out he is blorbo from my book club and we lubs him 🥺💖 #hes just a little guy pls just give him a chance by coming to his house once a week and telling him how great he is for 2 hrs #disgusting #anti religion #sorry im in a goddamn mood and that hit me like a cheese grater on my bones #* theyre xtian btw but you already guessed that bc who tf else would say that *

[solariaswitch]

i should definitely be studying right now so naturally here i am, darcyposting <3. darcy is just such a fascinating character to me because she's so incredibly dynamic and you never really know where you've got her.

darcy exhibits vulnerability and sensitivity that is not often seen in the other trix at all. like, darcy is incredibly scared of losing face, especially in front of her sisters. we know she deals with control issues, and these differ from icy's control issues in the sense that darcy isn't shown to get angry when she loses control, but rather panic-stricken. this feels like a dead giveaway of a much more emotional personality, it's rather a fear of slipping up than a need for power. there's just always the sense that there's something she's repressing. while she appears extremely aloof and cold, she is not immune to the pain of love or heartbreak. her feelings for riven make her slip up and walk into traps she usually wouldn't, it makes her irrational. contrast this with icy, who only really loses her rationality when she's losing a battle or something. in her relationship with riven her feelings for him were shown to be genuine (at least initially) and they surprised and embarrassed her, just as much as they surprised her sisters.

beyond all of this she also displays a deep sense of introspection and self-reflection. she questions her own motives and actions, and is not one to simply follow orders without understanding the reasons behind them. when she and her sisters are stuck at light rock she seems pretty content to be there. there's just constantly the sense that darcy could have chosen a different path, she could have changed. at times i feel as if though the writers were playing with the idea of making her an anti-hero rather than a full-blooded villain. she's got so much depth of character that simply lacks in almost every other villains of other series.

#this is why she's the most popular trix too #oh yea I should mention I did not proof read this bc its like 10pm and I've been reading text books for 6 hours straight #so like if this isn't coherent at all then that's my bad #darcy #Winx club #darcy trix #darcy winx #the trix #winx #cinelume #4kids

[blorbosdoingdrugs]

#disco elysium #blorbos smoking weed #steban and ulixes smoking weed #tw drugs #weed #bong hits #this is what's happening in the book club #I really don't get why you guys say it's a nightmare blunt rotation #I smoked with guys like this #It's the most fun thing ever #steban smoking weed #ulixes smoking weed