#did they even read the summary

[duaghterofstories]

The Lost Hero: Hi! We are the first book in a whole new series that, while still involving Greek mythology, is not revolving around Percy. The summary never mentions Percy, but it does introduce us to these three new leads who I hope you will enjoy!

The fandom: But 🥺🥺🥺 Where Percy???😢😢😰😰🥺🥺 How dare 😡😡😡 Jason take🤬🤬🤬 Percy’s place!!! I expected 😡🤬 Percy!!!

#did they even read the summary #what were they expecting? #the lost hero #anti pjo fandom #heroes of olympus #anti fandom #pro jason grace #jason grave defense squad

[yugiohz]

idk i think they're equally annoying roommates

#so much to say abiout the league's living situation *stays silent* #those sheets look way too nice dabi would never but this is not about environmental storytelling #i know in my heart shigaraki plays otome games im not even woobifying him he has nothing else to do #like what did he even do before the launched his career as a terrorist he literall waited to become of age for that #my point it he's played whichever gamebä #he could get his dry hands on and this time its hatoful boyfriend #i read the plot summary it sounds crazy #bnha #shigaraki tomura #shimura tenko #todoroki toya #dabi #please no boy x boy tagging im very petty about this sorry #sketches #lov

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Y'all I been doing Dazai route in eng for the collection event and I'm just.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE WRITING HERE. DAZAI AND MC ARE OFF THE CHARTS???? I FEEL LIKE I'M IN IKESEN RN HELP

I never want off this tragicomedy this is amazing. Just look at this shit:

There's so much going on here???? I'm in stitches?????

Dazai if you're going to roll with familial obligation PICK ONE ROLE, what is this madness!!!

MC full on out here UNIRONICALLY looking at Charles and going:

MC: I could make him worse twirling hair around her finger

What's even more uproarious to me is Dazai like "I must. Protect MC from his vile eboy clutches." And MC is straight up like "Dazai if you won't tap this then I will have my hot girl summer." Can you tell I love her so much for this I'm sobbing. Girl math queen of "I want what's bad for me"

Charles. Trying to whine his way into a hot night and Dazai's abrupt "Haha, no." Just imagining the delivery of that line straight up made me astral project, Dazai is feeling petty and I'm LIVING

"NotMyName-san." Do I even need to say it. MC dragging his ass and I'm wheeze--

Aight but that last screenshot. I swear to God that's where I lost my veritable shit. I think I've just gotten so used to Comte and Leonardo being so literal of like "oh yeah that f**ker can't keep his hands to himself, give me a second to get rid of him" that I just did not see Dazai's roast coming. And not only how iconic and subtle a jab that is, but the ENDLESS implications????????????

"He seems like someone who can't keep his hands out of the picnic basket." Dazai was COOKING. He said "boy's got no patience, he can't pace a relationship properly." [Note: Dazai can't pace a relationship at all, so uh, pot meet kettle--]. He said "man's going to get to third base on the first date and that is GAUCHE." I love this bit because of how much it gives him away. Dazai out here like "I'm just a silly silly goofy no thoughts guy! Hahaha!" And then the second Charles tries to drag MC around like a rag doll, Dazai comes out like "what is this. menace doing with a nice young woman. I say, young man, cease this horny shitfkery at once!" The man who sat in bed with MC naked after a month's worth of knowing her and does not explain (though in fairness he was trying to be helpful [?]). Can you tell I love him. Osamu "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Dazai.

Dazai out here like "I just know he's going to ask too much of her, and that could have grievous implications when it comes to being a vampire." As much as it might be a throwaway line, I gotta say I see that amongst his concerns. And tbh I think he means it both in the sense of bloodlust but also in the sense that Charles is a bit wayward with his self-control (not entirely Charles' fault). Dazai out here like "I know this little shit ain't got an ounce of foresight, and I hate this for my best girl." No beef to Charles, but the man lives in the present (in some ways by circumstance) and I can see how he might not be able to have MC's best interests for the future in mind (he's got a lot of healing to do).

Man can you tell I just can't get over the way Dazai flamed him. It's giving:

Also for the record no shade to Charles as an LI, I just think it's hilarious how jealous Dazai is and how that makes him uncharacteristically choose so much violence khafjlsjkshgdfjh

I gotta say if there's one thing that gets my ass so bad when it comes to Comte and Dazai it's how they're so like. "Peace and love on planet earth~"

Charles/Vlad: hi

Comte and Dazai:

Comte and Dazai:

#legitimately its TRAGIC that i started wheezing SO BAD #i failed to screenshot that part where mc is like #'What a tangled web we weave…' when they both start hitting on her nonstop #THE POLYCULE IS IN SHAMBLES /j #listen idk who it was that did the localization for this rt #but i hope they know they're a fking real one damn #i feel like this is the first time in years ive read smth in the eng ver and gone 'who made this tea? delicious' #even funnier bc i rmr reading summaries of dazais rt abt how chaotic it was--its not like i wasnt even aware #but they really put their whole [redacted] into this one LMFAO #ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp dazai #ikevamp charles #ikevamp mc #ikevamp comte #ikevamp vlad #dazai main story route

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

The angel on my shoulder: Shipping real people is bad. They could find it and become very uncomfortable. It it highly disrespectful to them and their significant others.

The devil on my shoulder: John Lennon coming back from the dead to fuck Paul McCartney in the ass is the greatest contribution to humanity ever known

#i wish i could find this fic again #only read the summary and i cried laughing #it was on a forum *dedicated* to mclennon rpf so you know that shit’s gone #2012 was a different time #mclennon #rpf #real person fic #ao3 #larry #<- tagging b/c that was the wildest time on here omg the conspiracies #i love that they were probably right lol #the unbridled passion #phan #the milk fic #<- did they even have a ship name? #ferard #bilo and biggles #<- does it count if they ship themselves? #i guess same goes for david tennant and michael sheen #kpop stans have to be rapid and ship members right? i know nothing about kpop #milex #<- teeny tiny fandom miss u tlsp *mwah* #i read a fic about simon and garfunkel fucking once and it was hysterical #didn’t people stalk the finn/poe actors irl too? yeesh #bandfic #fanfiction #i don’t think i know any others sorry go forth and tag yr weird irl ships it’s funny 2 me #oh didn’t people ship damon albarn and graham coxon too?? #they admitted kissing once but graham said it was like kissing a washing machine which is still the funniest thing i’ve ever heard #blur

[yallemagne]

Robert Louis Stevenson: "Whelp. That's the end of it. The mystery is all cleared up, and I figure I don't need to continue with the story."

Us, having all known the answer from the start and only being invested in Utterson at this point: "Excuse Me What."

#i think i already knew from a summary of the book that it ended so abruptly #but seriously robbie? that's it? #even just a scene of utterson casting the evidence into a fire would have sufficed #it's like if you were reading a murder mystery and the last page of the book is just *jeffrey did it. the end.* #jekyll and hyde weekly #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde

[aaronymous999]

In my opinion if you’re making a “dark, realistic superhero” work, you should always hold some kind of love for the superhero genre, and if you don’t there is no reason to make it. You’re not going to enjoy your characters or have fun twisting the tropes. You’re just gonna have a bad time writing and make something that nobody enjoys.

*cough* The Boys comic *cough*

#aaronymous ramblings #superheroes #superhero #comic #comics #also i havent read watchmen yet but in one of the summaries i watched #i did enjoy how two characters just. #recognize being superheroes isnt very helpful or great but that its dangerous and fun and its okay to have fun #like a lot of superhero fiction isnt meant to be taken seriously and its just lighthearted fun and thats awesome #I do really like The Boys show though by the way #Also the only other one of this genre I’ve seen is Invincible and it’s good but tbh kinda overrated #and I havent read the comics but it doesnt even feel like a critique its more just what if superman was an evil space facist #and thats cool i just really dont think it should be lumped in with Watchmen or The Boys #but that might just be me

[rosetintedkaleidoscope]

best books i read in 2023:

- comfort me with apples by catherynne valente. fantasy/horror. this is a creepy, dystopian, fairy tale kind of story. some biblical references. the creepiness builds up slowly through strange little details.

- quest for a maid by frances mary hendry. children's historical fiction / fantasy. 13th century scotland & norway. read as a child, completely forgot, then found in a used bookstore this year. it absolutely lives up to my memories: rich with details, from the foods to the clothes to the activities to all the little things you don't really notice that create a sense of another time & place. the loving attention to detail is a big part of why i like this book so much. also excellent characterization.

- nisa: the life and words of a !kung woman by marjorie shostak. nonfiction. okay, if you're following me you've probably heard of this because of @etirabys, whose posts inspired me to read it, but i had to include it anyway. based on interviews with a hunter-gatherer woman, it tells about her life and worldview. moving and immensely fascinating

- making babies: the science of pregnancy by david bainbridge. nonfiction. also immensely fascinating. my ideal kind of science book: readable yet detailed and in-depth, and full of strange facts. strong contender for the coolest nonfiction book i've ever read

- the ladies of grace adieu and other stories by susanna clarke. fantasy. wonderful eerie fairy stories

- we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson. classic, horror. sinister and evocative. one thing i really like is that the characters are likeable and often happy despite the weirdness and the horror. it's optimistic and tragic at the same time, and gives you things to think about even after you're done reading

- murderbot series by martha wells. science fiction. it has an interesting plot and setting and all that, but the main appeal is the character and charm of the protagonist, a robot who hacks itself to gain freedom. all it wants to do with that freedom is watch tv, but dangerous stuff keeps getting in the way

#i read many other books that i loved #if you want a rec of something with a more specific vibe hit me up #but i didn't want to post too many slash i am too lazy to write that many reviews #not that these are really reviews #just little summaries of what i liked about them #i haven't made a book post in ages because i moved to goodreads but i think i actually do like making these Top X summaries every so often #i tried to pick ones people are less likely to have heard of so like... not brandon sanderson for example #even though i did love tress of the emerald sea #books #t

[vermillioncrown]

at the risk of sounding butthurt for talking about not being butthurt: going through quals really prepared me for trawling through fandom meta and research while keeping my zen

#redglyphs #opinionated verm #i have not seen another fandom as salty and divisive as the dc one #all the interesting meta and summaries come with this implicit ''you illiterate idiot'' vibe (exhausting) #or the ''we do what we want and fuck canon'' mindset is taken to the extreme end (simplistic and lacking nuance) #personally the visual style of a lot of western comics grates at me so it's hard to get into #but i do like the wack and fucked up dynamics of canon + trying to imagine a world/chronology around that #i like calibrating what i write around canon -> thus those meta&summary posters are very valuable and interesting to keep up with #i just gotta do 🙈 whenever they start to lambaste ''''fans'''' for not reading the comics/despised fanon reinterpretations of characters #''mmhmm yep. okay okay. i'm stupid. but let's get to why my blorbo is so fucked up bc of [whatever issue/run]'' #like whatever they say they cannot roast me as hard as this one prof from my quals panel did #that prof is basically the successor of the academic lineage that established his discipline #and man utterly destroyed me during the exam #''you have no idea what you're talking about; you didn't even read taylor's hypothesis from 1941'' and i just let my soul evaporate lmao #anyways. i feel like fandom (all fandom and esp ones w sprawling canons) would benefit from two things: #1) willingness to learn (you gotta try to absorb some of the canon to transform it; ''know the rules to break them'') #2) willingness to accept limits (ppl are allowed to pick and choose; ''you gotta tolerate other ppl on the playground'') #and like. fucking chill out. we're all literally writing about some fictional dudes doing fictional things #rarely is a thing you dislike actually harmful rather than just distasteful (to you personally or broadly w/e)

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

hannibal SHOULD be a show i'm into, except that i just can't get over my squeamishness at non-hilarious cannibalism. like!!!!! gillian anderson looks very beautiful, like an old timey starlet, and eats her own god damned leg, i think?!?!?! i can't, CANNOT take that on right now (or ever)

#see also me soul barfing at the thumbnail for 'bones and all' on my television #i just can't. i can't even imagine. #i read the plot summary and that was enough #i'm sorry. #if it's not drew barrymore and timothy olyphant having the most amazing and adorable marriage ever then i cannot do it #dollsome's deep thoughts #why would you have gillian anderson look so beautiful only to then have her eat her own leg #if the leg thing isn't true i'm sorry; i clearly got confused somewhere along the line #but really any human being eating any human body parts (when it's not a radiant drew barrymore) just makes me want to run away screaming #in case anyone's wondering yes i did rather have a difficult time with season two of ye olde yellowjackets

[nostalgia-tblr]

Reminding myself that I resolved not to delete any fics that have a bookmark on them😭

#there's this one frostmaster fic that must be TERRIBLE cos it fails on any metric but for some reason people bookmarked it #though the visible ones seem to be mostly people who bookmark literally everything they read so... #it has one (1) comment and like a thousand hits :| #i think it's not a bad fic! but apparently i am wrong about that :'( #BUT if there's one person out there who silently loves it i don't want to take it from them #i have invented a silent yet adoring audience in my head for fics that “don't do numbers”. between this and the “reason other than quality” #that i preemptively invent for any fic to flop i am left perhaps overly confident in my skillz but also a bit less worried about stats. #btw 'fair alfrida' didn't go too well either but i had fun writing it so fuck it i don't care (...much) #more positively: the frigga gen did v well and the sylki-on-sakaar one i fretted about for months does not actually repel readers! #and this year i feel like i'm doing fairly well despite posting a few quite niche fics :D #tbh some of my own fics are things i probably wouldn't click on cos they wouldn't seem like my jam from the summary/tags #and i beat myself up less about only writing short oneshots now that i've posted a couple of longer works as well #the sylki arranged marriage fic is on-track to be my second-longest fic ever (the bar was low but shhhh) #...as you can see i still put too much importance on length of fic even though i prefer reading shorter works meself :| #ANYWAY STATS BACK OFF NOW I THINK

[badolmen]

If I made a video essay covering every episode arc and the overall storyline and themes of Darker than Black would that be too self indulgent?

#ra speaks #personal #darker than black #dtb #tag rambling #yes I’m making it for me ™ but it’s also an absolutely massive project like #the video introduction I’ve drafted is 2.5 pages font size 11 1.5 spaced. it’s a lot of text. #and reading it out loud definitely takes longer than 20 minutes #and that’s without getting into the actual arcs and episodes of the show that’s just me rambling abt my personal discovery and interest init #but my real reason is that the wikia has some glaring inconsistencies/shortcomings in terms of its summaries and descriptions plus a lot of #subjective interpretations posited as canonical fact #which y’know I could remake the wikia piece by piece in a doc.wiki format #but to do that I’ll need a thorough rewatch with notes on all canonical events and circumstances as portrayed through the media itself #instead of through a personal lense #sorry I looked up video essays for dtb on YouTube and one of the first literally criticizes the show for something that’s #explicitly addressed in episode 9 like sir did you even fucking WATCH the show how is this the most popular video on the show

[todayisafridaynight]

sorry if this is out of the blue guys but i think my brain just decided to convert me to being an adachi stan

#snap chats #again technically speaking #ANYWAY NO LISTEN THIS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER AND IM SO VERY CONFUSED #i havent had a dream that wasnt a nightmare about my mom in like Ever and the one time i do has got to be. The Coziest Shit #ive only ever had like one or three rgg dreams and half of them Vaguely had aoki in it so this is the funniest curve ever #you will read my dream summary we are at a sleepover motherfucker #do i even remember exactly what happened NO i just remember being in a lobby with some other bitches #and one of them Other Bitches included adachi. im pretty nanba was also there? iunno cant remember piss #point is i just hung out with adachi for like 80% of the shit. oh my god no i remember ichiban was there #and this is a significant detail for a thing adachi said to me BECAUSE ichiban was there and vaervLKjve #FUNNIEST DREAM OF MY LIFE but also the coziest one but also mr adachi... can we hang out again:( #blaming the fact i had my kirby plush for this one since it's round and soft like he was </3 #ok bye thats all i should be legally allowed to divulge bout my sicko dreams #it was just very funny waking up at the asscrack of dawn and being like Hang On....... What Was That..... #be yeah im an adachi stan now sorry team </3 maybe one day ill dream about one of my guys #tho i cant forget that period where i did just have ttm dreams for like. a week straight.... ok byebye fr now

[tallysescape]

just made a huge mistake (<- started a long fic, somehow missed ALL THE FUCKING IMPORTANT TAGS. such as ‘no happy ending’ and ‘major character death’ and ‘horror au’)

#WHY THE FUCK AM I EVEN READING A HORROR FIC #I DONT LIKE HORROR??????? I CAN BARELY TOLERATE MOVIE GORE??????????? SOMEONE HELP ME #JAYME KNOWS THIS. IM A FUCKING WIMP WHEN IT COMES TO HORROR MOVIES #im better at reading horror but like its not something i usually put myself through #i dont know how i missed these tags i really dont #i saw ‘childhood friends au’ and the summary was funny and i was like neat!!!! lets do it!!! #HOW DID I MISS EVER FUCKJNG THING ELSE IN THOSE TAGS #i tried to scroll down and read the last couple paragraphs so i could know what was coming BUT IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE OUT OF CONTEXT #SO I HAVE TO FUCKJNG READ IT #FUCK IT WE BALL I GUESS BUT LIKE #JESUS #IM UNPREPARED ITS 1AM I CANT DO THIS #AND JAYME ISNF EVEN HERE TO LISTEN TO ME YELL OH MY GOODDDDDDDDDD #IM GONNA HAVE FO SEND HIM A FUCKING EMAIL #THIS ISNT NEGATIVE BTW IM JUST SHAKING AND BEING DRAMATIC #tally txt

[adore-gregor]

study smart not hard (altough both is best actually) this saying is so true

#my advice #but this saying is sooo true #i know some people at uni who study for exam so long and hard but then fail or just barely make it :( #like what are you doing? i don't mean this in a mean way but it doesn't have to be this difficult #i don't understand how some people can study for an exam for 2 weeks or even a month and still fail and i don't think they're stupid #or i don't see myself as particulary smart #but i guess they just waste their time a lot and i realized studying effective is so important #now everyone is a bit different and has to find what works best for them but there are certain techniques which are proven to work well #there is so much information on the internet on this look it up seriously #it made my life sm easier i never struggled in uni like i did in school and i get good grades #and if i ever struggled a bit it was because i started so late it was almost impossible to pass 😂 #which is why to do both is still best 😂 #but i actually always made it and i never failed an exam at uni (which i studied for) #(two i was fooled into to just try without studying bc it's easy lol) #i mean i shouldn't speak too soon but i already made it through some of the most difficult of my studies #ofc it depends on what you study how well this works but i'm speaking for myself #i once passed an exam with a B studying only 2 days as one of the best students while others studied 2 weeks #and got worse grades or failed #still studying only 2 days is stupidity don't do it 😅 #so the techniques i find very helpful are ofc exam questions probably the best one #if there are none make your own #then blurting for which there are different ways but i like to just go over a topic and then write down everything i remember #then fill the gaps #quizlet is also great it's an app which allows you to create cards and then tests you in creative ways #videos can be helpful as well for summaries and using summaries in general is normally enough it saves you sm time #normally you don't actually need to know everything but you should be careful it's not a bad summary leaving out too much 😅 #and i also like mindmaps bc i'm a very visual person #but all those tipps are mostly for remembering information so it doesn't work so well for other fields of study #well i hope this is somewhat helpful idk 🙈 #oh and reading texts over and over again is the most useless in my opinion i don't remember much at all and it takes sm time

[essektheylyss]

just muttering to mutter cuz I find it fun to have meaningless opinions but having watched the trailer for The Fall of the House of Usher, I really just feel like everyone should sit down and read What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher instead

#it's not even long! it's less than a hundred pages! and it is fucking incredible! #WHERE IS THE EPONYMOUS FALLING HOUSE. THE POINT IS THAT THERE IS A LITERAL HOUSE FALLING ALONG WITH THE FAMILY. #to be clear this is not 'don't pit two bad bitches against each other' this is 'one of them understood the assignment and one did not' #I have adaptation opinions okay. and I AM fucking qualified to have them. #to be clear it doesn't look like a BAD show by any means! it just looks like...... every other mike flanagan show. #which isn't Bad it's just like. he's very much a one trick pony okay. he's very good at his one trick! but I need a little more than that #also like. it feels like otherwise rewatch succession? idk man. what are we doing here. #the variety plot summary reads like they decided to slap a poe name on it so the sacklers couldn't sue them for libel #and I'm like. the sacklers couldn't. and if they tried they would lose bro. #the more I think about this the more incensed I am about it #like this is a different concept entirely my dude!!! #stop trying to back up all of your shit with existing IP and own the fact that you're trying to do something original #it straight up feels like original content has become a crime in hollywood and I am SICK OF IT

[girlscience]

you know all the jokes about how the 'view post' button that pops up with the blacklisting function on tumblr is the most enticing button in the world?? the a/b/o tag on ao3 functions the exact same way for me

#I AM SO ANGRY. I KNEW I shouldn't have clicked on the fic #I KNEW I wouldn't like it!!!! guess what I did anyway???? #I can handle abo under very very specific conditions and only if it is about very specific subject matter #a lot of abo smut tropes are extremely similar to a lot of non abo smut tropes I enjoy #outside of that???? the abo universe was practically designed with the express puropse of causing me distress #and I know that!!!! but there is So Much of it so sometimes I read it anyway #and sometimes I read it because I see the tags and the summary and I know I am going to get upset #but like. I HAVE to poke at it you know?? #anyway now I'm pissed off about a world that doesn't exist and my anger means uhhh nothing #because there isn't actually anything to be upset about or to fix #I know there are filters on ao3 so I couuuuld block abo #but it has so many tag variations that it's honestly not even worth it #if I just had better self control I wouldn't have this problem lol