#general fiction books

[writeouswriter]

*banging fists on table* more mentally ill characters in stories that aren't just about them being mentally ill! More mentally ill characters in sci-fi, in fantasy, in romance and fun and high stakes situations and everything in between, as the heroes, as complex individuals, multifaceted and treated with respect, not having their needs and differences ignored or skirted around but, again, not having them be their only trait or plot point/entire premise! Please, I'm begging, on my hands and knees, there's a place for these topics and characters in realistic, reflective and literary fiction, yeah, but there's also a place in those magical, mystical, action packed, mysterious and alien worlds, give them to ME

#books #mental illness #mentally ill characters #writing #writeblr #not so much a problem with writers here but in books and such in general it's an impossible search #because you try and look up books with mentally ill protags and it's giving you either 1. the worst horror rep you've seen in your life #2. secondhand inspiration or pity p*rn #3. just irl biographical or realistic literary fiction which is not what i'm looking for at the present #4. either complete hollow cardboard tokenism or just barely true hc or etc. #&god forbid you try to find a character with psych*sis w/o it giving you killers or big plot twists where it was in their head all along 😑 #like i just i want a funky scientist studying aliens who happens to be b*polar #i want a fantasy adventurer or ghost hunter or etc who happens to be sch*zospec is that so much to ask 😔 #bizarrely hard to find male protags in this category as well? if you do have recs for scientists in fiction like this hmu 👀 #anyway and yeah yeah yeah write what you want to read I'M TRYING #i have all these guys i have this funky scientist but i have the illnesses™️ as well such is the world #so i want something to read or see like... now

[vole-mon-amour]

I LOVE when a character is at least 200-300 hundreds old and they TALK like one, too. Thinking of Astarion, Halsin, Dracula (in all media, but I am especially fond of Castlevania and Penny Dreadful ones), Alucard, The Outsider (yes, hi, he's 1500 years old God). My fav pals.

All of them coming up with such exquisite compliments, insults, and general comments. L O V E that.

#halsin #alucard #bg3 #dracula #penny dreadful #castlevania #the outsider #dishonored #dishonored 2 #fiction #halsin with 'my heart' and the way he generally speaks #astarion quoting passages from books #dracula being DRACULA #'the creatures of the night. what music they make.' #not to mention him going full on 'i'm in love with you' with vanessa #all the best stuff really

[uncanny-tranny]

I know this is a very unoriginal observation (much like any other), but I'm finally reading The Great Gatsby, and even I wouldn't describe men the way Nick does.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #i did watch the 2013 film for my ap english class though (i think they didn't have enough time left for us to actually read it) #like the way he described tom was very. superfluous in my opinion. something you want to tell the class NICK (joking) #i find myself really partial to the general writing styles of that time though #i haven't even gotten that far in the book either i'm just barely past the part where daisy is introduced #so nick is just waffling about his family history and how he rents for $80/month #which is relatable when you consider inflation. nick i hope you eat you landlord #i can see why people don't like this writing but i am endlessly fascinated by the prose #maybe i should just free myself from the impulse to hide behind layers of self-censorship and live like nick does #tbh tho i still prefer non-fiction and textbooks BUT fiction is valuable and is useful #fiction is like play - it lets you explore different possibilities and thought in a safe environment

[michaeljoncarter]

ok finally found the batsuit diagram i was talking about, so here's the full versions of both of them together! robin suit page from The Batman Files & batsuit pages from The Batman Handbook by Scott Beatty 💕

#bruce wayne #and uhh it's just kind of a general robin suit & doesnt say whose it was but.. considering where this was in the book i'm just gonna say #tim drake #god ok for real though scott beatty is THAT bitch to me like ejnvefkjn #the batman handbook is the single best piece of supplementary material ever published point blank period #and i don't even know if it technically counts as supplementary material because i don't think it's actually something dc published but W/E #the level of detail is absolutely insane #im pretty sure ive made a post about it before but seriously #it's criminally underrated !! like i'd never even heard of it until i stumbled onto it by accident while looking for something else #if you're someone who loves pointless details and getting down into the needlessly nitty gritty about fictional things you NEED this book #and it's on archive dot org if you wanna read it !! #and he wrote one for superman called the superman handbook that's also really good AND also on the archive !!!

[ecoharbor]

#IA #AI #paradise #video #nature #paraiso #natureza #view #flowers #primavera #explore #travel #fiction #vacation #books #movies #trip #ai generated #spring #forest #cabin #sky #stars #estrela cadente #shooting star

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

Will anybody be interested if I made a list of adult transmasc and Nonbinary/transneutral main/major characters in adult fantasy and Science Books.

Because I'm legit sick of the infantilisation both within and outside the community. Why is so much of the NB and transmasc rep children 😭.

Even outside of the miniscule rep Even less of it are grown adult main characters. None of that side character's love interest is a trans dude business, or a they/them appears for one page and is never seen again.

Anyway I've got a handful of characters in books I've read/on my TBR and I want to share them with others looking for this kind of rep.

#adult fantasy #adult science fiction #adult sci-fi #lgbtq #queer representation #trans #transmasc #nonbinary #transneutral #also I'm not interested in romance so a NB mc in a capital R fantasy romance i don't give. shit about that guff lol #And why are so many grown ass trans(or queer in general) adults so invested in YA #Like Gawd damn all the rep shouldn't regulated to kids books. #by adult the characters need to be 20s and above #because if i used the 18/19 year old legal adult excuse way too much YA BS will clog the list lol #adult sff #books

[trans-cuchulainn]

the trouble with learning a minority language is that once you've hit the upper-intermediate stage of actually reading books in the language and so on, it doesn't take very long to exhaust the books at your level that you have any interest in whatsoever, and then there aren't any more. so you read the ones you're not really interested in, but that feels like Work, because you're not really interested in them. but it doesn't exactly get better as you get more advanced because even the more difficult books tend not to correspond too closely to your preferred genres

#there's a serious lack of queer historical romance as gaeilge i'll tell you that #or yunno queer genre fiction in general :/ #RIP #i haven't completely exhausted my book collection but the number of unread books is shrinking #and most of the others available at my reading level are translations #which a) i tend to find have harder language relative to the level of the story #and b) don't feel as helpful in learning the rhythms of storytelling in the languages #i will read them but i want more original fiction to read too #probs gonna have to email an siopa leabhar and be like. help me. i need you to send me more books #personal #néide ag foghlaim gaeilge #i'm pretty sure that tag is grammatically incorrect but blame me from three years agp

[belle-keys]

“When I felt my stomach, my womb, my breasts and sternum, I saw that they didn’t just hold my memories, they held the rage and pain and isolation, the joy and passion and lust, of the women before me. My body remembered my mother’s life experiences and my grandmother’s and her mother’s before her. I felt the violations and indiscretions, the reverence and longings, from unfathomable years back.”

- The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

#girlhood #womanhood #the female experience #women #book quotes #writers of color #woc writers #books #book blog #litfic #literary fiction #the body #female body #generational trauma

[whyamihereat4am]

Organisation names in bsd fall into three categories: most basic literal description you can think of, one word name that is sort of cool I guess, and the sickest sounding thing ever.

Like okay we have the Weaponised Investigator Company and the City Mob or something. And then their rivals are named the Decay of the Angel, Order of the Clock Tower and Poets of Malefic Badassery.

Like come on are you trying to drive the theatre kids to Europe? What do you wanna be, a Rat in the House of the Dead or *checks notes* member of the Rich Guy Guild.

#Honourable mention to the Hunting Dogs because it may not sound like the title of an extremely aesthetic fantasy book but it does sound cool #it's not that I even think the normal titles are bad by any means it's just that the jarring juxtaposition with the over the top ones #is lowkey hilarious. it's like they were pulled out of entirely different series and then dropped into a room together. #is this a translation thing?? or is it more normal than I think it is?? idk man #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #armed detective agency #port mafia #decay of angels #the hunting dogs #i would tag the guild but i feel like the name is so generic that 100 different fictional organisations will pop up #this is why you need IMAGINATION fitzgerald

[nabu630]

Hate to be that person but reblog for bigger audience, thank you

#bookblr #bookworm #books and reading #character death #character deaths #character death in fiction #I didn't know what to put for most of these but just go with it #tumblr polls #book poll #tv and movies #TV characters #movie characters #hunger games #percy jackson #song of achilles #marvel #marvel polls #gen loss #generation loss #I just put a bunch of random media where characters die #reblog for bigger audience

[redroyalblues]

it’s extremely funny to me that casey mcquiston, mid-intense taylor swift hatred era, accidentally created the most taylor-coded character that has ever been conceived in the form of his royal highness henry fox 😭

#and firstprince in general is just????? #the most taylor swift song of fictional couples??? ever??? #like pick any album there’s gonna be at LEAST five songs about them #rwrb #red white and royal blue #firstprince #and alex having a moment in the book of throwing shade at her is even funnier? #bc i know that bitch was listening to the lover album all of rwrb 2020

[chickenoptyrx]

Do you have any radtiz raises gohan fanfic recommendations?

Ive never read any, but im not really the person to ask and im absolutely sure they exist.

Anyone feel free to reblog or comment with a link to fics you'd recommend or have written about raditz raising gohan :U preferably with either a bit of info on why you liked it or a summary

#gonna use the tags for what theyre meant for for once #dbz #dragon ball z #fanfic #fanfiction #raditz #gohan #son gohan #saiyan saga #ok now to abuse the tag function to ramble #i dont really read fanfic much. very very close to never #but thats not cause i think fanfic is bad #i legit think fanworks in general are a very very good thing and suppoting em is how u maintain a good fan community #but my dumbass spends p much all of my free time drawing or thinking about drawing #and when i DO read ( cause i do actually read quite a bit) its as a break from the brainrot that is my dumb little hobby #so reading for me is p much exclusively a break from not only dragonball and like modern fandom as a whole #most the stuff i read is old #i think the area X books were the most modern thing iv read in a long time #i still needta finish heart of darkness- started that while i was gone but suddenly needed to do all those sketchbook drawings #oh and ive found a love fr non fiction and biographies #omfg and ww1 and 2 :[ im becoming an annoying bbq dad :((( #before ya know it ill be reading about the roman empire 💀 #...anyways. point is. im not the best person fr fanfic recs #ill probably reblog this again tomorrow afternoon too so maybe we can get a list of recs tho

[random-bakwaas]

fuck "overthrowing an oppressive government" it's such a cliche overused ya trope. anyways does anyone want to establish an oppressive government with me

#books #tropes #ya fiction #and while it's about the trope in general i wrote this thinking about a very specific series #which im sure a lot of you can guess #divergent #date ideas

[millionmovieproject]

Happy Buster's B-Day, everyone!! Here's an animation I made a few years back commemorating his most famous film, The General.

Remember, you can still see Oh Buster, Where Art Thou? for free on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/GxL_d_2bbts and the companion book, Another New World (part 1), comes out November 25th.

I'll also have a new live show tomorrow night 8pm est talking Buster and my upcoming projects.

#buster keaton #buster keaton book #buster keaton documentary #oh buster where art thou? #buster keaton biography #silent film #silent era #non fiction novel #movies #tv #movie history #tv history #classic tv #classic movies #history #biography #nicolette olivier #another new world #the general #animation #my art #my artwork

[eclecticfandoms]

She Who Became The Sun deserves so much more attention like. Tumblr. This book is made for you.

It’s got gay stuff! Cross dressing! Gender Fuckery! Overthrowing the government! Wlw-centered romance! Supportive found family! War crimes! And it’s a genuinely fascinating and engaging narrative.

Why don’t more people read this book?

#she who became the sun #book reccs #queer fiction #general ouyang #zhu chongba #the radiant emperor #my posts

[fitzrove]

new favourite video.........

#it puts into words my worldview of ''let people enjoy things!!!' 'no<3'' akslpfpdpgpöf #books #literature #ok tbh i dont really have much to stand on as someone who doesnt read a lot of fiction books rn 😭 (lack of time) #but idk its this general culture in fan communities sometimes that annoys me & esp with books #however! i think booktok might not be uniquely horrible or anything like that lol there were always poorly written books they just werent as #popular and mainstream in like the 00s or 90s or 70s or.... #like pulp novels have very much been a thing for centuries #anyway yeah [movie salieri voice] 'haters everywhere! i bless you all' #Youtube