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#i have to finish my re-read of sge
heyo-428 · 4 months
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What book are you currently reading? How are you liking it? What book are you going to read next?
I’m reading “Good Girl, Bad Blood” by Holly Jackson, the sequel to AGGGTM! Also, re-reading the SGE series and Six of Crows, simultaneously. And also reading “All the Bright Places” and “We Were Liars”
I have a bad tendency to read multiple books at one time, I somehow can multi task with books but nothing else in life.
I’m liking GGBB, i’m actually going to Barnes & Noble so i’m getting the final in the series. I’m liking All the Bright Places, it’s a more difficult read for me rn just because the beginnings a bit slow. We Were Liars is also good I am excited to read it! I have had two friends who have so they said the endings sad, but I love sad books.
After these I think I will read “Girl in Pieces” and “How it Feels to Float.” By the time I finish all these it will probably be Christmas and I will probably get a lot of books from friends and family so not sure what I will read after! Might attempt to make a schedule to finish all my books in 2024 lol.
Thanks for the ask I love answering them!! <33
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pencilwritesshiz47 · 3 years
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Me, casually watching the interactions of @/xonar-verse, @/enbies-and-felonies, and @/ademonwithinternet on my dash: :)
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naihexiang · 4 years
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Just wondering, what are your overall thoughts on the school for good and evil?
I AM SO GLAD U ASKED STRAP IN FOLKS WE’RE IN FOR A LONG ONE
okay so i read the og book (the first one) a while ago (not long after it first came out i think) when i was really young, and i was IN LOVE. i wasn’t allowed to have books in my room bc my parents worried about me staying up all night reading but i snuck my copy of the school for good and evil into my room and kept it there for the longest time. i’m still so angry at myself for losing it lmao
i actually didn’t have copies of either sequels (the next 2, i’ve never read the rest lmao), so i just borrowed them from a friend who did. the second book i was less impressed with even back then, and i actually forgot about the third book entirely. 
as time passed, i would occasionally think back on the school for good and evil and i eventually decided: yeah it should’ve been a standalone. like, the og concept was SO GOOD but. everything else. wack. 
so like fast forward to two years ago, i haven’t read the school for good and evil for the longest time, BUT i am now insanely into houseki no kuni/land of the lustrous and i thought HEY, how about i do a school for good and evil crossover featuring two of the characters (it was cinnabar and dia btw)??? cause at the time, all i remembered about sge was that i loved the concept and i absolutely thought it should’ve been a standalone
so i end up downloading online pdfs of the first three books and i read them, and that’s when i realized. oh god. this is actually not as good as i remember it being. so i finished the first book and moved on to the second, which was harder to finish than the first because i just. wasn’t vibing with it. i couldn’t even finish the third book because i was like “you know what, i hate this” and i just left it lmao
at the time my then s/o was kind of like a hype man for me so i ended up actually writing a bit about the school for good and evil world as i would have written it, and i even made up a school curriculum and everything 
but like. fast forward again to what- the last few months i guess? i had kind of moved out of my obsession with hnk (i still like it but like. yeah) and into twisted wonderland and then in the greatest bout of deja vu ever i thought “hey why don’t i do a school for good and evil crossover?”
okay now that got me thinking about the whole series bc i thought “well damn if i’m gonna write the crossover, i gotta like. get the whole worldbuilding right.” so i started writing out each characters’ roles and profiles and stuff and then i started thinking “wow, canon really gave us nothing.” and i was FINALLY able to make sense of everything i hated about the school for good and evil, and let me tell you, it is a LOT. like, why didn’t sophie get any character development between book 1 and 2?? why does tedros exist. why does sophie and agatha’s entire character arcs revolve around a fucking BOY. why isn’t there enough worldbuilding??? there’s more worldbuilding in fucking HARRY POTTER. 
i then concluded that the reason why the school for good and evil was so fucking bad is because the author did EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER dirty. i actually really enjoyed agatha’s growth throughout the first book, but what about sophie?? as the second protagonist/one of the antagonists, doesn’t SHE get something other than being written off as a vain, selfish pretty girl hell-bent on getting the boy of her dreams? like, i realized that that’s why i didn’t like the second book as much as the first one. because sophie was the EXACT SAME PERSON as she was when she started the first book. 
then again, i haven’t read the school for good and evil in AGES, so some of these takes might be rotten as hell, but i think it’s worth noting that i re-read the school for good and evil in hopes that my opinion on it would change, but it did not. 
also i think sophie and agatha should be gay because i’m gay and i fucking say so
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angelsodreamy-no2 · 3 years
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life update that no one asked :
- i currently have 0 motivation to make any original posts for the 3rd time i think idk
- i have 0 idea on what posts to even make
- i feel like i've forgotten almost everything that happened in the books so i might have to re- read all 10 books from pjo to hoo considering this is mainly a riordanverse fan acc lol
- i'm still reading the 3rd book from sge and am planning to read the earth (bumi) book after this, and after this im gonna go beg my dad to buy me the shadow and bones book yayyy hopefully that goes well
- i also need to finish watching sky castle and hotel del luna ashhsbdgshabjsh
in conclusion, i'll probably only be posting my drafts rn and reblogs... :D
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jems-history · 3 years
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16.10.2020
18/20 days of productivity
Got everything that I could get done finished in the morning (well by 1pm)!
I had a GP appointment at 9am today so right after that I toddled off to the library to wade through all the paper you can see on the desk and then some more. History students definitely have to print a lot! The main piece of work was sifting through the police and court records for a case from 1955 against two men who were found engaged in homosexual acts by a police officer. The first task was getting to grips with the fact that I was dealing with a case that really isn't that old and as a queer person myself it's always quite jarring to read about the negative experiences lgbt+ people had to deal with throughout history, especially in the 20th century, but back to the manner of the task. The purpose of going through it all was to see what we could learn from this material as historians i.e. How did the legal system deal with these cases? What were police reactions to it as read in the statements? What happened to people who were charged? How was public perception of homosexuality shaped by the fact that committing a homosexual act was a criminal offence? And so on. There were loads of journal articles to go with this work so I was able to read a few of them too.
Moving on to a lighter topic, I finished the reading I had to do on whig history for my seminar next week and after all of that I was ready to call it quits at around 1pm as I had a zoom (or the university equivalent of zoom) seminar session to replace the one yesterday where the seminar lead didn't show up. Unfortunately, only 4 of us actually attended the call with our seminar tutor today (it was good to see that he was okay!) but I can understand why others were reluctant to as we had a pretty successful session on our own yesterday.
After all of that I spent the rest of my time re potting some houseplants, one that was dying and others that I have propagated. It was a nice way to wind down and I hope that they do well!
My housemate and I then had a suprise visitor. We get a lot of cats come into our back garden but this lovely ginger female was a new one and a strange one at that. Sge wandered right into the house with no hesitation and made herself right at home. It was a bit odd as we have never seen her before and usually the cats are hesitant when the first make themselves home, nevertheless we gave her a bit of kibble and eventually sent her on her way.
All in all a good end to the first week of uni I'd say!
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