#i didn't read as many novels as i wanted

[thasorns]

But from what I’ve seen, he already tries and works so hard. - Cause he has you who always spoils him, that’s why he’s like this. — Parents about Waan

Working is not fun. If you have the chance to live your life, then do it. Work is not going anywhere. You should let it go sometimes. — Waan to Win

I’m not gonna stop you, if you wanna help. But I just don’t want you to give up on your dreams. Don’t want anybody to force you to do this and that. — Win to Wiew

Dad! In case you didn’t know, Waan was gone all night because he was dealing with the issues at the resort. I promised Hia Win that when I grew up, we’ll help each other to run the resort. But now, I wish it could go bankrupt. I’m also curious, if you don’t have that stupid hotel would you gonna be the old dad we used to have? — Wiew to his father

#between us #between us the series #oreo puwanai #zeystuff #gif: bu #listen so many texts and no one likes to read that much I get it... also this one will get probably what one like or so #but I feel for him soo much... he probably didn't want to study business in the first place he only did it to make his dad proud #yet no matter what he tries all the efforts he put into it to make his dad a tiniest bit happy doesn't work... it goes all in vain #being the first born already puts him under so much pressure and he probably never got to live as a child #(I didn't read the novel but being the first born also normally requires to be a parent to your siblings kinda) #his only escape from this hell where he can be at ease is to play. is the gaming world and even that he can't really enjoy bc of his dad #'childish'... like pls he tries so hard to make his father accept him no matter what. he works his ass off and that's not enough #we know he doesn't wanna work in this industry as he said to Win (quote in the caption 'work is not fun') yet to please his parents he do it #'since you were born...' - feeling quesadilla but the 'que' and 'illa' are silent #I'd appreciate if the caption stays on bc it's important (at least for me) for this set

[maybankiara]

i was gonna write a proper essay but why when i can just say this: the main difference between original fiction and fanfiction is that, in most cases, fanfiction is written as what would be considered a filler chapter/episode. readers are familiar with the characters and they want to go out of their way to read more about them, to find different perspectives, to build on the character interpretation they have in their heads. 

this means that when approaching to fanfiction, you’re not limited by what is necessary and instead, your role tends to be to build upon what is wanted. if you keep writing tender moments with little plot, it’s adored, because that’s what people want to see. they want their characters to have a little break from everything going on in the plot, and just live and feel. not every scene needs to progress something. it could be just a snapshot, or a sweet moment of peaceful quiet, and people would love it just the same. 

in original fiction, scenes get cut because they’re not moving the plot/character development forward, whereas these scenes tend to be the essence of fanfiction. they’re usually more emotional and less eventful, focusing on characters rather than the plot, on feelings rather than action. it allows the reader to breathe and enjoy the character dynamics without having to necessarily consume the same amount or intensity of the canon plot. 

essentially, the readership is different. fanfiction writers are working with an already established fanbase who know the characters, therefore the connection between reader and the character doesn’t need to be established as much as simply reaffirmed, or adjusted. you know these characters, and here’s how they fit in this scenario/universe. the reader fills in the gaps, they care about the characters more than the plot, because they wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the characters. 

obviously, there is fanfiction written in the style of novels, but unlike original fiction, that is not a must. it’s a can. but fanfiction allows for the soft and the emotional and the “filler”, especially with the modern media approach of keeping the plot going with little to no filler episodes. it’s the freedom of approach that makes fanfiction a broader form in terms of creativity, narrative style, and general approach to plot. some forms work for fanfiction only and that is why it tends to be easy to spot a published author who used to write fanfiction. 

fanfiction, essentially, lets you do whatever you want -- as long as you’re good with the characters. you can bend the genre, subvert the expectations, try narrative styles that would have the publishing companies rolling their eyes at you, and with all that, there will be people thinking they’ve never read something better. 

#d.writes #d.tag #bit of a continuation in the tags: #i wrote this partially to explain to myself the difference between the two #because i spent a long time having the same approach #wondering if everything i write has a purpose #and so many projects failed because how i wanted to write it didn't work #because it wasn't the same form #some fics work as novels but some work solely as fics #and sometimes not having a clear plot is good! it's fine! #you don't need to explain EVERYTHING!! #people want to go on an emotional journey rather than necessarily read the best story ever #people read fanfiction for different reasons than why they read original fiction #and that's something i needed to rationalise and remember #here's hoping i take my own advice #(one that was between the lines: do whatever the fuck you want) #i can't believe that technically i've got a degree in this shit

[libraryleopard]

Adult fantasy/sci fi short story collection

Running themes of colonialism, history, and storytelling

Experimental, luminous, lush, and varied

Incredible stories: "Selkie Stories Are for Losers," "Walkdog," "Honey Bear," 'Those," "An Account of the Land of Witches," "The Closest Thing to Animals," and "Fallow"

#INCREDIBLE collection of short stories #definitely one of my favorite books i read this year #i mean not every story was a complete home run but so many i loved and just overall a really impressive collection #i had read selkie stories and walkdog elsewhere and really liked them so i had high hopes #and this absolutely didn't disappoint #really want to read some of samatar's novels now #tender #sofia samatar #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #books #also this is published by small beer taste so they continue to have a fantastic catalogue of works

[innitmarvellous]

Today I randomly decided that reading the Alastair Campbell diaries could be interesting, so...I ordered the first two volumes lol

#i threw out so many stupid novels i didn't want to read anymore earlier this year #but the unread pile never gets any smaller because i keep buying politics stuff...lol

[nanodot]

a danganronpa bnha au but it just has makoto with deku's quirk and kyoko with todoroki's quirk

so my hand slipped but i have a perfectly reasonable explanation---

#danganronpa #danganronpa trigger happy havoc #kyoko kirigiri #makoto naegi #i have so many thoughts about kyoko having todoroki's quirk #so 2 reasons why kyoko doesn't use the fire side the first few times #so we know that jin is the disappointment of the family and kyoko hates him for that #so something like that happened and kyoko refused to use the fire side bc she didn't want to be associated with her dad #readon number 2 #so i only read the first volume of the kirigiri novel (can someone please translate the rest) #and i only know snippets of how she burnt her hands #but basically what i'm trying to say is that the quirk was also the cause of how she burnt her hands #and she doesn't use the side bc she's scared she'll get hurt or somethin #idk how makoto gets the quirk #probably found it on the side of the road or something #my inspo was the deku vs todoroki fight #bnha au #may add more tags idk #oh yeah kyoko has temperature proof gloves #nano art

[aaami]

Now I'm thinking about that ex and I'm just

#it was a fucking mess like holy shit #i had a job at that time and on top of that the ex wanted me to spend so many hours every night talking to them #they got upset if i wanted to go to bed early #got upset when i wanted to do things on my own #i was walking on egg shells a lot of time it feels #i broke up with them when i got accepted to uni and my mental health was Bad #they were SO mad #didn't understand my reasoning at all and tried to make me the bad person #they came back some months later trying to rekindle the friendship and for some reason i decided to try it #but wow it was a mistake #i was SO anxious #told them that hey i cant do this im sorry #and wow they went off #wrote me a fucking novel about how terrible i am but i never was able to read it because they blocked me before i could lmaooo

[the-busy-ghost]

Benefits of audiobooks- I can listen to them while I work, and I am forced to hear and consider every word, rather than read at my usual flying pace, which means I don’t miss things as much and get a deeper and more sustained enjoyment from a really good book

Disadvantages of audiobooks- When there are emotional details they aren’t blunted by the fact that my uncontrolled eye is already skimming the next passages and there are some Emotions that are not appropriate for working hours

#The Woman in White #Because Mrs Clements saying 'I made her first short frocks' broke me #And yet if I'd been reading a physical copy of that passage I'd probably have flown through it without remembering that sentence at all #Also the bit where Hartright says that Anne is buried in a place that Mrs Clements would have chosen for her herself #Was very upsetting #AND to top it all off I've just gone back an dlooked up the passage again and there's a sentence about how #Hartright 'is certain that she was not neglected in her last moments' #WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WALTER #Ok so she had medical attention and all the kindness that strangers could give her #But she died in a strange place confused as to why she was there surrounded by people who only wanted to use her #and the one person in the world who loved her not only didn't know where she was but never heard of her death until Walter told her #At least I suppose when he says that he means it as a comfort to Mrs Clements and that's totally fair and valid but still #Honestly I quite enjoyed the book but Anne Catherick deserved so much better than a single line on a tombstone #Maybe I'm just susceptible to statements about people who died without their loved ones near them for personal reasons #And I know it's a very common occurrence and even in the Victorian era when many people died at home it was common then #But poor Anne deserved better #Anyway also proof that audiobooks count as 'real books' #Because even though I don't always count them towards reading challenges I actually find that I pay more attention #and get a lot more out of fiction books at least than if I'd been reading them in a physical copy #Non-fiction is a different matter but I learnt to race through novels at an early age and just eat them up without much mulling over them #And it's hard to control my eye even when I'm trying to savour a book #So audiobooks actually make me read more carefully and sensibly #Perhaps the main disadvantage is I never know how the names of people and places are spelt #Especially if the narrator has an accent #reading log

[damiemontclair]

This blog is a spoiler safe blog. All spoilers will be reblogged with appropriate warnings for at least 2 weeks after the show is done airing. Spoilertags to block will be listed on my pinned post

#I am soooo annoyed by people rn. #Can't we all just chill and take the 2 seconds it takes to add '[medianame] spoilers' to our posts? #Yes its 'just' an adaptation. But believe it or not; not everyone has read the novel. Not everyone has *access* to the novel. #Not everyone wants to have to block every tag associated with that fandom to avoid spoilers #Just bc some of yall don't have the fucking decency to tag it as spoilers. #I'm not saying don't post spoilers. I *am* saying tag it accordingly. #I love seeing gif sets. I hate seeing they're not tagged as spoilers. When they were posted hour before many of us could even watch. #heck some of yall already posted untagged gifs from the ep2 preview before the rest of us could see ep1. #Timezones are a thing. #Work and school and other obligations are a thing. #Opening tumblr to spoilers sucks. #And tumblr (unlike instagram) actually gives you the option to block spoiler tags but that only works if people *tag* it. #Istg I feel like I have this rant every time something new releases. #If you know what show this is about good for you. I watched it in french subs bc I knew I'd get spoiled if I didn't. I was right. #damie talks

[cainpdf]

the fact that native english speakers use the notion of ‘translated work’. ‘i am reading a translated novel.’ as in, it was not originally written in english. it was written in french, or spanish, can you imagine. or japanese if it’s murakami. and i’m just. do you realise that most people around the world read translated works why is this such a special notion to you. like not every book was written in english you know

#heared some booktubers i watch mention that they want to read more translated novels or whatever #or they mention that it's a spanish or whatever novel and they read it in translation #i know this is such a niche thing but i truly don't think the aberage usamerican (specifically) realises that there are MANY books that are #simply not written in english #cause lol as someone who didn't grow up in a native english country you HAVE to read translated works #or like. if an usamerican goes and buys a book and later finds out that it's translated it is a shock or a novelty to them #and like when i see a book in my language i first assume it was translated lol #anyway weird rant. it came about because i was reading a goodreads review of samarkand by amin maalouf #which was written in french and a goodreads user was very intrigued by the fact that the book was originally written in french. anywya #probably gonna delete this later cause its so petty lmaooo #and for no reason really #mine.txt #translated works #translated fiction

[leatherbookmark]

sitting and thinking (in the context of my fic but also in general) about the things about jgy that lxc doesn’t know, but specifically those that wwx KNOWS but won’t tell him. because that would make him soft, and we don’t want that

#like this is so infuriating #in the novel... there literally is no last scar on wwx's forearm. there's no Imperative forcing him to solve the mystery Lest He Dies #and yet. and yet. the way lxc's reluctance to hop on the detective xianlock weimes train is almost framed as this... irritating obtuseness #and like i KNOW jgy did those things that lxc didn't want to believe he did. but wwx's approach is so impersonal sometimes #it Is just a mystery and uncovering it is fun for him. and i guess in a mystery novel it's also exciting for the detective to find all the #clues and exclaim that it was the butler that did it! but ignoring the circumstances that led the butler to do it to em is just Mean Okay #especially since we're holding in our hands a How Wei Wuxian Did It To Em: The Novel #that's the way it starts: wei wuxian the murderous yiling laozu! thank god he's dead! and then we find out that he wasn't an one-dimensional #villain! but while wwx can sort of say SAME HAT about the way jgy becomes the scapegoat in the span of like one day... as many people #before me said they have exactly zero feelings about each other. Nothing. and it's not a bad thing! it's interesting and ironic and makes #you lie down and go AAAAAA WHAT IF...!!! #but going back to lxc. he seems to know that jgy killed his father and that qin su was his sister but he wasn't at the lotus pier when the #cultivators talked about it and theorized about What Else he Definitely Did #wwx didn't tell him a thing about the brothel or meng shi's body. and i'm just very horizontal about it. i need to lie the fuck down #i still after 84 years have Not read the extras but like. is lxc sitting out there? wasting away? Uninformed? PROBABLY HE IS YEAH #because it's not like wwx cares particularly and at this point i think lwj would mentally spit if not piss on jgy's grave for hurting lxc #so they have zero business telling him stuff that might frame jgy in another more nuanced light. but also even if they did. then what? #hey this guy you were tricked into killing because you thought he didn't do murders but he did and it flipped your view of him upside down #so much that you believed that he genuinely would attack you? yeah about that we think he might have just wanted to get his mother's body #back. yeah from this temple where he essentially deified her. the temple he built where the brothel was. yeah they were treated horribly #out there and like i guess jgy wanted to make sure his mom would never have to suffer like that again or something. anyway thats all yea bye #i'm sad. #shut up shrimp

[tonyglowheart]

okay so turns out we only finished 2 episodes of Sandman yesterday lmao not 3

so we finished ep 4 today

and. hey so apparently it's supposed to get good at some point right... :')

#me watching stuff #this show is just like. so D- to C+ for me. like I just feel like it's lacking in a certain creative/artistic vision to it #there's so many things where it's just so blah and say-nothing in like a Phase 3 kind of way #that like hollywood say nothing kind of way #and then it keeps tripping into these like. I'm sure unintentional. but like. uncomfy race things that like really stack up #the thing about this show is it makes me want to read the graphic novel because I feel like I'd have a better time with it #in a way that Good Omens didn't for me? like Good Omens absolutely had a vision and drive to it #but this I just. #and the sound design is also so mid and expected and uninspired and like cringe in how uninspired it is to me #(also lmfao. oh so hell sounds is throat-singing? yeah okay.) #Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer absolutely was amazing though #but it was like. the writing and framing didn't fully support the vibe that Lucifer should have had #the way they had the guy appoint Lucifer as his champion should have had more of like. an indulgence and 'I'll allow it' from Lucifer #which Christie absolutely gave but the framing just did not give that #the other thing is the pacing still feels weird to me #they do these episodic plots but it just doesn't feel like the care that certain aspects of the episode should be given is given that #like the way Rachel's storyline is done #and also I get that Rachel's story is supposed to be a drug allegory lol but as soon as they showed her and she was ethnic I was like #lmfao oh are they gonna kill her too #and then they did lmao. and it was a drug allegory. that they spent just. not enough time and imo care on lmao #I dunno man. just. I dunno #but it's suposed to get good at some point right... lmao #mrgnghghg *mood of Coco Montrese I lost all hope today...*

[kenobihater]

man the mummy novelization is REALLY trying my patience... in less than 50 pages it has 1. described anck-su-namun's dead body as beautiful and was just very icky in general with how it described her 2. compared rick to not only custer (may he rot in piss) but the alamo defenders as well and 3. used the following terms to describe the med-jai: human battering rams (literal objectification), a swarm of locusts (dehumanization), and as a different breed of human (i don't even know where to START with that one)

#thank GOD i didn't buy a physical copy and instead pirated it 😅 #probs still gonna finish it to see this shitshow through but like. damn. shit sucks 😕 #also i've heard from reviews that evie's characterization isn't as good and rick isn't funny so like :^/ what's the point? #god my number one and two issues with this book are def the racism and sexism though. i can't overstate how many times my face scrunched up #while reading. and i have like 250 pages left 🙃 #i just wanted a fun adventure novel :^( #also as a disclaimer YES i was NOT expecting this book to be politically or historically correct but this shit is BLATANT in its biases! #i'm not ever gonna pick anything up from the author after this bc it's THAT bad. again... if you're interested in the book just pirate it!! #len speaks

[risaonda]

venuss can u give me your thoughts on desth stranding..i'm gonna start watching a playthrough soon but i want to know ur opinions on it first

(sorry this emoji image is so big btw)

game of all time i love to deliver my silly little cargo and me and my bb are best friends and everyone hates me for it

#look an ask #idiotpop #genuinely there were parts here and there that ppl would say things at me and i just went Okay I Guess #every time anyone said anything about america i was like Rolling My Eyes and then sam one time went FUCK america and i was like YAAAA #meeting other ppl in the game was always a very surreal thing but i loved meeting heartman my friend who dies 60 times a day #dimitri came home from work the day i finished the game while the credits were rolling and he was like ''what happened'' and i was like #at a loss for words not bc i didn't Get It Tee Em but because So Much Just Happened In The Past Like 20 Minutes #I Don't Even Know Where To Begin #and everyone wants sam carnally #i need to go back eventually and actually read all the interviews and stuff #i read some of them here and there but there's So Much. heartman alone prob sent me like 50 things #novel length bits of info i was like. i'm gonna get back to u. thanks for the so many likes king #OH my god i just remembered amelie made some mario reference at some point and it was so cringey. but forget that #fun lil game to play about community and our relationships with other people. i'm soooo good at delivering cargo #none of these are insightful thoughts. i liked the game when i turned it online it was godless #nobody knows how to make ziplines except for ME

[injuste]

i am very overstimulated and tired and this cost me 65 dollars but it was WORTH IT

#i need to finish sapiens before i read any of the novels #and i spent half an hour wondering if i should read dostoïevski in french or in english #and they didn't have these aot volumes in english #and i saw so many other books i wanted to read but couldn't buy them #BUT i am SO happy i have these rn #i havent bought books in like 2 months

[rusted-phone-calls]

isn't it such a waste of time to try to love someone the way you can't?

#we've been over this i have read too many romance novels it still matters. on occasion #i still want to try i don't want to be different i didn't choose to be different #equal opportunities. or equivalent #i didn't ask for this i should just. focus on studying instead maybe. i think #elaborate later. mayhaps.

[boxingcleverrr]

Popular Hades & Persephone "retellings" are, rightly, getting dunked on all over the socials right now and, as a Pagan who has an altar to the Queen, I could not be happier. But also, I feel like a lot of people miss WHY they're bad - aside from just plain bad writing and lazy tropes. Which are, yeah, also REALLY bad.

Pretty much all retellings try to wave away, or excuse, or twist the whole kidnapping bit. And I actually do have sympathy and understanding for why, when speaking from a modern perspective.

But honestly...you gotta get over it. There are other stories to play fix-it with, not this one.

The Abduction is The Thing.

Were I a little more sober I could bring up chapter and verse of the Hymn to Demeter but frankly, if you know even the middle school mythology curriculum version of the story, you SHOULD know the themes. The story of Persephone was one mothers and daughters in the ancient world held dear, because it was a reality: you will, one day, be swept away from your home to go cleave to a man you most likely know nothing about. You will miss your mother, but chances are very good that he will be a good husband, once you get to know him, certainly better than Zeus or Ares, and he will make you a queen of his home.

Leaving home to marry was often scary, and violent (look up the history of the tradition of Bridesmaids, if you don't already know it - they were originally decoys on the marriage road). Centuries later we'd have tales like Beauty & The Beast serving the same function: comfort, hope, you are leaving your safe loving home to figure life out with a (often older, powerful) stranger. Your trauma over this sudden ending of your childhood made manifest in a Beast, or a God of The Underworld.

It's wonderful that we don't NEED stories like this anymore to comfort us (here, at least, in this culture). But if you try to force them into modern vernacular it just will not work, not really, because you're gutting out the whole point just to have a more tidy romantic male hero.

I have read MANY very good ...novelizations? fanfic(? however you would frame them, but they're certainly not "retellings"), etc. that simply take advantage of the blank spaces in the myth, and there are many!

It's not explicit that sexual assault happens - "The Rape of Persephone" as a title was coined in much earlier eras, when the word was just as often used to simply refer to abduction.

"She was starving!" the gods didn't need to eat. So it's easy to read her eating the Pom seeds as a deliberate choice on her part. Like, shit, people, scholars have written whole papers on the symbolism of this moment, between marriage rites and even yeah, Seph choosing both worlds with her husband's knowing consent.

And that, I think, is the real heart of the thing. People want an utterly mundane, spelled-out story here, as opposed to what it really is, has always been, just like any other myth or religious parable: IT'S A METAPHOOOOOOR.

They don't need to be destined, or meet at a goddamned BALL and then CONSPIRE to fake her kidnapping, or shit, I once saw one where Hades got MIND CONTROLLED by Zeus?! Jesus.

Persephone was yoinked into the Underworld against her will.

That's how it went.

I don't mean this in a "stay out of my belief system!" way, shit I'm a white American chick with delusions of witchery. I mean this in a "stop stressing yourself out trying to make things palatable" way:

This is a very real, very precious myth to many people, BECAUSE for at least that one event, Persephone had no autonomy, BECAUSE for thousands of years most women had no autonomy. Erasing that, sanitizing the fact that a girl is ripped out of the spring, from her mother's arms, is erasing the thing that gave comfort to women for centuries. And people can and should still find power and healing in it now!

Fill in the blanks the story leaves in whatever manner seems fit to you, there's plenty of room, but. Come the fuck on.

#blathering #truly had a ramble bubbling for weeks #just pagan things