#for the space of a single book

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

man i fuckin swear to god the inconsistencies in LL are making me want to resurrect @wtflorienlegacies. getting to the end of FoF in my reread and being reminded that they completely retconned five's entire backstory without a word like

#lorien legacies #LL number five #LL crit tag #FoF: he was found by the mogadorians immediately after landing on earth; and they raised him from when he was a toddler #every single other piece of source material since: he had a roughass life and only ended up with them eight months ago #SOWHATISTHEFCKINTRUTH.GIF #like you might say he was lying; because he does lie a lot #but again; this was during his frantic climactic reveal; where he was exposing everything all cards on the table #he did not at all seem like he was intending to lie about this or thought it would help at the time #and this is the series that has casually retconned shit like 'the mogs found The Only Weapon in the Universe that could break the charm' #'and it's a sword being carried by a random soldier' #at the very beginning of the /first book/ #so it is clearly not beneath them but also i am amazed that this one wasn't just poorly handled early installment weirdness #that could be quietly waved off as a nonsequitur #this was like. a major plot point not just that a prominent character's concept was built around #but that massively impacted pretty much every other major character's arcs and dynamics with each other #/bruh/ #they also can't be assed to keep shit straight like the spelling of vatborn; or whether maggie grew up in scotland or ireland #for the space of a single book #truly incredible #anyway i'm gonna write a crossover au where the two versions of five meet; cause each other and everyone else trouble; and make out #watch this space #lorien legacies tag #the crit files #shipping #dyn: five squared

[curseofdelos]

irritates me to no end that the only confirmation we have that Reyna is alloace is a random quote tweet that has since been deleted

#word of god confirmations are tenuously canon at best #since it's very easy to read the books and never find out that she's canonically ace at all #(I legit thought she was canonically aro until recently because that's how I interpreted her I had no idea she was written to be allo) #especially since the way that whole scene was written makes it sound like she's choosing to be single #rather than lack of attraction being a meaningful part of her identity #Like it's good in some ways because it gives me (an aroace person) space to headcanon her as aroace sometimes #but on the other hand it gives people space to disregard her asexuality entirely and that. sucks to see :/ #(not that in-text confirmation would stop some people) #(you don't even want to know which female character I saw someone ship with Nico recently) #anyway. wish her identity was explicitly stated in the books so we could have irrefutable evidence that she's ace

[anthonycrowley]

genuinely cannot tell if you liked the new season or fucking hated it with every inch of your soul

it's complicated. it's layered.

#inquiries #Anonymous #gomens #gomens tv #the thing is i did genuinely enjoy it but i had to physically sever ties with every single bit of what it has to do with the book #(except the crowley momence that Do properly fit with the book. those can stay. because i am a crowleygirl gn first and a human second) #like then i can genuinely enjoy it. but if i remember the book exists for even a second and put them in the same space together #like in my brain. it all collapses like a house of cards and i hate it with all of my soul. #so like. it's complicated. it's layered. #i also just. love the existence of the romance plotline even if i don't like. care. really? #like about the actual plot. i don't really care. actually. #i don't care because we knew and we have known despite the fact we never thought it would be canon so i don't actually need to see #neil's take. like i do not need to see neil's fine BUT IF THEY WERE fanfic. i don't. #but the fact that it exists is both absolutely sublime and the most hilarious thing i have ever witnessed because of the Lore. #like i support gay rights. but this might have been a gay wrong. but i support those too. so. #yanno

[gaybearwedding]

what are everyone’s top 5 pibe episodes? i think mine are:

1. mallapalooza

2. cornhole in one

3. heebie jeebies

4. whimsy on wheels

5. trade school musical 2

#honorable mentions: humpty dumpty/space rocks/backwards compatible/joust because #genuinely though there is not a single episode of this show i don’t love #i’ve tried to rank the episodes many times and it never fully works bc having any of them at the bottom just feels wrong 😭 #mine #pibe #play it by ear #dropout #dropout tv #off book #zach reino #jess mckenna #mano agapion

[winteryapothecaries]

@leafy-m Yeah you got it. Admittedly EoG has issues, but a huge part of the review divide is from upset Dara stans. (it probably doesn't help that the author never expected there to be Dara fans in the first place, so when she made his ending better than it should have been to help appease them, it wasn't enough because they expected him to be the top dog/first love interest wins & all that. Which completely fails to understand what the series is about, but what else is new).

Thanks for the reply bc I was itching to speak with someone who read the books as they came out. I really want to know what went down bc from my brief research the author was subject to abuse bc of Dara stans, and publishers neglected printing merch of Ali??? Honestly, it's as if those folks were reading a completely different series because HOW? how can they treat the second largest main pov character of the series like this? No kidding Shannon was confused and I'M CONFUSED bc she laid the red flags on thick right from the beginning. Like Shannon wrote books based on Islamic mythology so she could be free to write and headline a character like Ali for Muslim readers, not bc she wanted she wanted to pump out yet another genocidal xenophobic edge lord for ppl to thirst over. Unfortunately, large parts of her audience are shallow and honestly lack reading comprehension skills.

#The fact that ali was a main pov in the first book and dara wasnt like what did they think this was? #the difference in effort too #is apparent #the daevabad trilogy #alizayd al qahtani #nahri e nahid #top dog who single handedly revived daveabads version of jim crow segregation lol who are they kidding 😭 #ppl hating on the pinnacle of muslim rep in a series based on islamic mythology can they be more delusional and in the wrong space #they needed to get a grip

[orthopoogle]

Man, I’m thinking of that one post everyone was circlejerking over about how kids should only be given ~classics~ to read, how all modern kids’ books are mindless trash (based on…what, exactly?), how modern books are rotting kids’ brains, and like…as a teacher, I have to say that the worst way to convince a kid to enjoy and practice reading is to shove a book he has no interest in into his hands. He’ll very quickly see reading as a chore and not be inclined to read the book, no matter how many times you go, “Awww, but this book is really good! I LOVED this when I was your age!”

If he reads the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh and starts crying about how boring it is, he’s not going to want to finish it. If you try to force him, he may push through, but if he still doesn’t like it, it’ll end up being a chore that doesn’t really build a drive to continue reading, then you fall into the classic “I hate reading!!!” that a lot of kids and teens wind up spouting. If his only exposure to reading is a book that he finds boring, then of course he’ll see reading as boring! What else is he supposed to think?!

What you do instead is research modern books, look at their content and reading levels and compare them to where your kid is currently at, and give your kid a choice of what to read. If he’s being stubborn and is stuck in that “I hate ALL reading!!!” mindset, then you think of what hobbies, shows, or games he likes and find books that match up with those to start with. You have to meet him in the middle on this and find him something he’ll be excited about reading. When you hit the jackpot and find something he really likes, that could encourage him to start looking for similar books to read and, eventually, start branching out into complex and broad books more in line with what you want him to read at his age.

I don’t know, that post was just swimming with self-centered thinking. The OP was basically going, “Well I was a super genius kid who loved classics! Every kid is exactly the same as me! They will love the classics if you actually have them read the classics!” That’s…not true, lol. It turns out kids, like adults, have different tastes. Some adults love reading Victor Hugo or Leo Tolstoy, others are bored to tears and wouldn’t touch these authors’ books with a ten foot pole. Some adults like biographical nonfiction, others like romantic fantasy. It just seems weird and stodgy and outdated to me to force the idea that every single kid should like the exact same kind of book, or else that kid’s brain is melting into garbage.

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

#recent developments in a very popular ip have forced me to think about how creators treat the deaths of major or main characters #and the discourse of ~ohh we don’t need to see every single thing~ has got me thinking #like sure we don’t need to be spoon fed everything but consumers have varying emotional investments depending on the characters #a side character it’s passable if we don’t get any fanfare but a MAIN??? #we’ve invested so much into their journey and the themes in their arcs and how they affect the world around them #is it too bad to want that to be actually acknowledged by & within the narrative? #so that whole thing got me to think about main characters whose deaths were well done in fiction #ned stark imo is a really good one because the immediate payoff of his death is the start of the wot5k and long term effect was #that the stark kids now had to fill in their father’s shoes and rise and become leaders in their own right and while we still have twow an #ados we can also tell as shown in adwd that the long term effect of Ned’s legacy is that house stark will be preserved even when it’s on th #brink of extinction #so that’s a well done imo because we also see throughout 4 books just how much his death meant to the kids #his death hurts because we see how his kids are hurting - jon arya sansa bran are GOING THROUGH IT AND IT HURTS! #I’d argue MCU did a pretty good job of showing tony’s everlasting legacy after his death and they did that through Peter who was the proteg #we can love and grieve for tony though peter whom we love and have come to relate to so Tony’s death has a lot of narrative weight #and how it’s handled is satisfying even though we’re hurt that he’s gone #same with sirius and dumbledore in HP - sirius’ especially hits sooo hard because Harry goes absolutely apeshit in ootp and then has to #pick up the pieces in hbp + dumbledore’s life and death is given quite a good amount of narrative space for both harry and the reader #the recent developments in jjk have me worried that a certain someone’s departure won’t be given the narrative weight it deserves #and part of that is gege’s pacing being wonky because oops it’s another big fight that will take god knows how many chapters idk #I’ll wait and see but as of right now….i feel like fan complaints about it shouldn’t be brushed aside because they’re super valid 😕 #asoiaf #harry potter #jujutsu kaisen #mcu #marvel #comics #manga

[tasmanianstripes]

Maybe it's the result of my main fandom for the majority of my life being one where canon just genuinely doesn't exist, where there are so many different canons and literally any sort of interpretation of a single character is correct and can range from a moronic maniac with a chainsaw to a depressed old asshole boss, but

Literally who gives a fuck about canon?

Especially when the character is practically a blank slate or if it's an AU

Like, I'm sorry, but if you're butthurt about a mischaracterisation of a fictional character in an Alternative Universe then I don't think you understand what an AU is

#thylacines can talk #Maybe that's the reason I do not have the same violent reaction to mischaracterisation 99% of fandom spaces seems to have #I genuinely think that getting butthurt over somebody not writing a fictional character exactly how they appear in canon is the stupidest #most juvenile pet peeve you could ever have. Literally WHY do you care so much? It's words on a screen. Calm down. #I think it's only a problem when you believe that it's canon or try to shove your own interpretation of a character or AUs onto everybody #else. Otherwise...literally who cares? Somebody else treating characters like dolls is not hurting me. I'm not about to get legitimately #annoyed over fictional characters in a children's cat book. Unless it's like. Bigoted. But then I criticise the person's beliefs not a #goddammed characterisation of a fictional character. #In the fandom I was in most of my life a trigger-happy clown with a chainsaw canon and an old deppressed asshole boss were seen as the same #character and only had like. One design detail in common. And literally nobody batted an eye. You could write a dynamic between two #characters being incredibly hateful and toxic and somebody else could write them as old friends or an old married couple and both of these #interpretations would be equally canon. A single guy could have two wildly different personalities and backstories and he'd still be #treated like the same character as long as the two looked vaguely similar physically wise. Sure there were interpretations of characters #that were more popular than others but literally the only people who would treat one specific interpretation as canon and shove that #interpretation onto everybody else would be people who came from different kinds of fandoms and let me tell you. They were annoying as fuck #So coming from that kind of fandom into more generic mainstream fandoms feels like such a culture shock. Genuinely cannot comprehend why #people care so much. #'oh this character is so far from canon they might as well make an oc' okay...cool...and? #Maybe they don't want to make an oc?? I mean come on. It's fictional characters. You're an adult. It's not a fucking English class #People don't come to fandoms to study book literacy they come here to have fun. Literally WHO CARES if somebody's interpretation of a #character has only name and looks common with the canon version. WHO CARES. ITS WORDS ON THE SCREEN. Who are they hurting if they're just #making AUs in their own corner and not shoving it in anyone's face? #Idk I just see a characterisation I don't agree with and just go oh. Kinda weird but go off. And move on. #This got longer than I meant it to but whatever #I mean if you have that pet peeve but aren't an asshole about it. It's also whatever. That opinion also doesn't hurt anybody. It's only #people who act so butthurt about it and shit on other people having fun that I have a problem with. If you put it on your own blog and #criticise that sort of content in your own space instead of coming to somebody and going 'hey. I don't like what you're doing'. Then I #couldn't care less. Again. That's kinda weird but go off #It's kind of like. I like horror but I dont care if you dont like horror and talk about it in your own space. But I'm gonna care if you #go up to horror fans and go 'hey I think horror sucks' or 'I dont like horror so you shouldn't either'.

[bombusbombus]

I keep falling asleep with my JLI omnibus in bed next to me.

#insert “me. my boyfriend. and his 10lb justice league book” meme #there are perks to being single (not getting memed) #(having space in bed for books)

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

i should not be allowed to read this author at emotional times. like. late at night. relocated from sleeping on the sofa (again lmao) at like 2am and was awake and i had mentioned that i really loved the play that one author had written (yes, the one filling me with admiration and envy so bad that let's not get into that) to my teacher and she also really likes that author and loaned me two books of his. so i decided, hey, i'm gonna read a bit, either i get tired and fall asleep (good) or i finish the book (also good) except now i'm hit once again by this stupid emotion mocktail i wanna write like that so so so bad but i'll never be able to write this or something like it because he already did that, that's the point, so now i'm tired but still not sleeping because ough and also i should really analyse the story maybe

#i already noticed a lot of details #he wasnt exactly subtle in saying his part #but damnn #a biscuit's rambles #its 4am i am still not sleeping i am still so unnormal about it #to be fair i did try to sleep #but that one theatre adaptation of a different play and this book started mixing #like the guy was whirling around on his colourful space rock on wheels thing with that bigass cane for steering (actually happened and it w #s GOOD okay it was a bit weird at the beginning but so so good) but that cane thing was a candy cane #and he like. used the hook thingy to pull me in by my collar. i have never before dreamed in 1st person pov btw that doesnt actually happen #and then thaz feeling was like a dull echo of the main guy at the end of the book #while the other two actors/characters from the play were also there #the main character still standing in the middle like a marionette slowly spinning w/out visible strings and s/that costume and stuff it was #so good. and the other one except she wasnt visible under all the clothes (that was like a pretty symbolic thing in the play) #and for some reason all of this was accompanied by iron maiden's 22 acacia avenue #i know every single riff and guitar solo and line by heart it was the exact song playing #interesting choice of lyrics for a mashup of classic literature with very different topics and one modern adaptation of one of those! #i mean that line of dreaming stopped but now im awake again ugh

[philemonsdarling]

i felt pretty today 🥰

#it's rare that i wake up and think i'm pretty when i first look in the mirror #but i did today!! #and then i wore matching underwear to feel even prettier #and in the evening i put on makeup for a concert #haven't felt that good about myself in a while #it was just overall a good day #i booked a single room but got a twin room so more space :) #and somebody gave me a rose for international women's day!!

[misterradio]

dr sivas chandra number 3 most whitewashed character on earth

#I MISS HIM <- guy who thought about space odyssey for 2 seconds #original nonsense #personal #poor bloke gets his name changed in tge first movie and then played by a white guy (under the right name) in the second movie... #WHYD THEY DO THAT 💥💥💥💥💥 #JUSTICE FOR MY MAN DR CHANDRA.....[STARTS THROWING THINGS AROUND THE ROOM #i remember reading that arthur clarke wanted him to be played by a specific guy but by now i forgot who. #and it was probably just from imdb which doesnt source anything so um. whatever. #i also miss sal who i cant believe was in one single scene amd never again but shes still cool. #im blowing kisses at my bookshelf for them. #walter was also cool actually maybe i should just reread the first two books.

[excavatinglizard]

Veyadi, upset: how can you trust me??? How???

Sunai: lol yeah so I’m a master of bad decisions I guess

AI in the back of Sunai’s brain: dude

#the archive undying #I’m only like three hours into the audiobook but I’m so invested #this book has every single thing I love I swear #I mean no space travel yet but since the moon seems to be fucked up im waiting

[transannabeth]

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#the thing about rebooting twilight and trying to fix it #is that the flaws of the source material are so so so deep and go beyond just like #dont be racist this time md cut the imprinting imo #it would involve being more aware of the toxicity of bella and edwards relationship (they won’t do that) #and there’s elements of this story that are so so so so mormon because smeyer IS mormon #not only is Edward painfully controlling; all the cullens are in on it (see book 3) #there’s a strong underlying message of sexism even among the female vampires really where they only get power once a man turns them #every single aspect of the werewolves are racist #like that’s what I’m leaving that as because I don’t have the tag space or spoons #the werewolves in twilight ARE RACIST. smeyer made up stories and mythology and the depections #of the quileute tribe ARE RACIST from the very beginning #and the fact that jasper not only was a high ranking confederate #but also ILLEGALLY JOINED because he was too young? what the fuck #that’s the tip of the iceberg I wrote a whole final paper on twilight and ran out of page space to do the proper dissertation I wanted #even Charlie y’all love Charlie. he has a terrible moment #when Bella punches Jacob after he kisses her because she doesn’t want him to? #Charlie’s reaction made me pissed I can’t remember it exactly #I’m not saying you can’t read twilight #clearly I still talk about it because it’s interesting to me from a writing standpoint with how bad it is #but I don’t think this is one we should try to ‘make better’ #and hot take we don’t need a reboot like barely a decade later #write an original vampire story. learn from twilights mistakes. #i do not think we need to be returning to this ip which is deeply broken and hurtful #yes much of the backlash against twilight was sexist #but there are also valid reasons to dislike and criticize twilight we cannot forget that #unless quileute people are quite literally writing the script #i can see no situation where they are treated with the respect and monetary compensation they deserve #and that is only addressing that singular issue #i don’t even know if a consultant from the quileute tribe would be enough #here’s your rant of the day

[lunar-wandering]

i seriously need to move out cause my room isn't big enough to hold all of my stuff anymore and it's genuinely causing problems

#like... ive got a lot of merch and books #and lil dolls and notebooks and pencils #and clothes. so many clothes #and i have things crammed into every single shelf in every place that will fit #to the point there is NO more space #so i've had to resort to putting things on the floor #i haven't seen my desk clean in years cause i had to start putting books and drawing materials and cards on top of it #for context: i have the smallest bedroom in the house #my parents kicked me out of my much larger bedroom when my brother was born #and shoved me into what WAS basically an office #im one of those ''there is one clear path in and out of the room'' people #it'd be fine if i was allowed to have my stuff be in other places in the house i think #but if my parents catch even a Single Thing that is not a Family Item or Theirs in the living room #its immediately being yelled at to ''take your shit to your room'' hours #i'd give stuff away but like ive ALREADY given away the stuff im willing to part with #like the stuff i don't get joy from anymore/don't use anymore #i just... need more space #cause literally EVERY part of my room is being used to hold something #if i like... lived in a space where my stuff could be in more than one room #like where i could have MORE SHELVES to spread things out on #this would not be a problem #also the school giving me like a thousand things and no place to put them (i didn't get a locker like everyone else) #DEFINITELY made things worse. 90% of the stuff on my floor rn is school stuff and papers

[scattered-winter]

feel like shit and I want her back (the illuminae series)

#you don't see writers mess around with their storytelling medium very often but when they DO it's the COOLEST FUCKING THING #there isn't a single page in that entire series that is written out in the traditional narration style #literally the entire story is told with files and emails and dms and video/camera transcripts #and that sounds like it'd just be annoying but it's actually beautiful how the story unfolds within that medium #it's horror/mystery/sci fi so a lot of the emails/dms are characters trying to get to the bottom of the Big Mystery #and there's also zombies!! in space!! and brain eating slugs #and all around it's just SOOOO <333333 #i wanna reread them sooo badly rn #the illuminae files #winter speaks #if ever there was a book series to rec it'd be that one