#is one of my favourite books ever a biography on the romanovs? yes. do i also love everything maggie stiefvater ever writes also including

[amphiptere]

my issue with booktok is not that it is unpretentious and often promotes bad books but that it is an echo chamber of generically enjoyable stuff made for mass-market appeal when I think what makes books so special is that since they are (slightly) easier to get into the world than movies or TV, they are, after fanfiction, likely the most accessible ways to enjoy niche and weird stories that are specific to you and your particular interests. Everyone has something they love that completely lacks popular appeal and if not then they just haven’t found it yet. Non-fiction books are perfect for distributing verified information on incredibly specific topics to the wider public. Fiction is perfect for exploring ideas like what would happen if two worms invented calculus and also let’s throw in some themes on the deeper idea of connection between beings and the universe. Or whatever. There’s weird and awesome stuff out there, and learning about only the things that everyone ever loves will not help you find it.

#mine #i do agree that generally tiktok favourites tend to be mediocre to bad but there's some really awesome stuff on there too #i'm not going to judge anyone for being unpretentious or enjoying bad stuff either whatever floats your boat #and i think that as book lovers we should be embracing anything that helps other people get into reading #if that's acotar then so be it #i mean i don't endorse the series or anything but i'm not going to be mad at people for enjoying it #also the point of this post is not to say only read weird stuff hell no enjoy your mass market shit all day long #that shit slaps #but so does the weird stuff we need variety #is one of my favourite books ever a biography on the romanovs? yes. do i also love everything maggie stiefvater ever writes also including #the werewolf stuff that upon further consideration will probably not hold up too well now i am an adult but still holds an important place #in my heart and always will? god yeah. #i was in sixth grade i'd never read a book that had sex in it before i was walking around like omg i am so naughty 🤭 #objectively that is hilarious #i recommend booktube to y'all that's where it's AT #also talk to librarians! they are Wise.

[cloud--atlas]

i'm wide awake it's morning, for the wip title? it's probably my favorite of your incomplete stories and i every so often i just go back and reread the whole thing and try to leave another kudos <3 also, does courage, dear heart happen to be that other redstar fic you mentioned, based on the prairie skies tracklist? ;)

Hello! Thank you so much for your lovely words about Wide Awake. <3 But unfortunately... it’s probably going to remain incomplete. I’m sorry. I’m not really in that same headspace any more, and the characters have stopped talking to me. I’m so, so glad you enjoy it enough to reread it though. That means so much to me. I’m working up to posting the last 2k I have, but I kinda don’t want to because that will be the final admission that I’m not going to finish it. Urghhhh. :(

And yes! Courage, Dear Heart is the other RedStar fic! It’s going to be the first two chapters - or maybe the preface and the introduction - to a biography of RedStar written by Alice Sun called Courage, Dear Heart: A Love Story in Three Parts. The first part is going to be a short things about Alice Sun meeting Wanda Maximoff at her home to ask her to clarify some things she’s found while researching for her book. The second part is going to be the story of Wanda at university in New York, her meeting a kid from Iowa called Clint Barton, and her introducing Clint Barton two two friends she shares studio time with; James Barnes and Natasha Romanov. It’s going to be one of those mix media jobbies, so I’m having fun making up quotes and stuff. But also writing biographies is hard so I keep stalling.

Have a review:

“What it astonishing throughout Sun’s book is not the magnitude of the secret kept hidden – if it can even be called a ‘secret’ that was ‘hidden’ – nor the care Sun takes to portray those involved. No, what is astonishing is the love. It bleeds through the pages, through the years. The entire book is suffused with it. Sun set out to write a biography of her favourite band, and in doing so wrote possibly the most beautiful love story I have ever read. And it’s all the better for knowing it’s true, and that it hasn’t ended yet.”

--- Remi Bulaweyo, The Guardian

ALSO, I love that you could guess this as the RedStar fic because you knew the Prairie Skies tracklist! <3 <3

WIP title game

#ask #snowbirdwinter