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bloggingboutburgers · 8 months

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OC-tober day 16 and day 2 of aromantic spectrum flags: aroflux.

Definitions of aroflux seem to vary between a romantic orientation that fluctuates while always staying on the aromantic spectrum, and a romantic orientation that fluctuates between being alloromantic, completely aromantic, or somewhere across the spectrum (eg demiromantic).

Hopefully I'm doing it justice, I don't know much about labels besides the shades-of-green one TwT Nudder one tomorrow

#it's an interesting learning process #aroflux #oc tober #akhtsoctober #oc #my art #nonburger

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luxites · 1 month

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"Know your place, fool." ⛩

I really want to know more about how he became the King of Curses

#Sukuna #Ryomen Sukuna #Ryoumen Sukuna #Jujutsu Kaisen #JJK #Jujutsu Kaisen fanart #JJK fanart #luxites art #loosely based on the unwanted child / ''I bet I was a creepy kid'' line #he already has 4 arms here btw I just think he hid them in his kimono early on #he was already seen as a walking calamity/natural disaster as a human #so I'm just really interested in how others perceived him as he grew up #and when he started refining his skills and learning how far he could go #THOUGHT THAT THE BG WOULD BE SIMPLE BUT IT TOOK FOREVER #I don't usually work with these colors it was fun #I can show process pics of this if anyone want to sends an ask #I just didn't want to put them under a read more #EDIT: UPDATED CUZ TUMBLR?? CROPPED IT A BIT???#it was only noticeable to me tho

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guiltypleasure-art · 1 year

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✶ Final artwork can be found here ✶

#for the lovely anon and anyone else who might be interested!#please note this is just my current process and i’m no expert!#i’m always experimenting and learning #as you can probably tell from my ever-changing style lol #draw in whatever style/method you find comfortable and enjoyable!#process video coming soon (hopefully!)#procreate #digital art #my art #my process

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hwaitham · 2 months

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⸝⸝ ˙˳ ⑅ first piece of marginalia ( of many , hopefully :3 ) about eremite!al haitham && akademiya student!reader ♥︎ f!reader + not proofread + subtly implied trauma on both reader n haitham's end

you first meet the eremite who's to serve as your bodyguard throughout your research expedition on the day of your departure, at your designated meeting spot under the pavilion in pardis dhyai. its stone pillars cascade with vines of sumeru roses that shine a sweet lavender hue under the morning sun— one of which you've plucked and tucked into your hair earlier, leaning over the railing to gaze at your reflection in the pond and smile at the beauty of it.

(and a petal which has unknowingly slipped off and fallen to rest ever so delicately within the dip of your clavicle.)

“al haitham, yes? um, hello!” you greet the eremite as he walks into the pavilion with a quiet waver to your voice, bow respectfully, try to still the timid pitter-patters of your heart that only seem to worsen the longer you're in his presence.

because this man standing before you is large— tall, broad, as stunning as the pale blue moon. his upper body is strapped with tough sinew and yet his waist remains lean, torso mostly bare save for the pashmina shawl draped about his neck and the worn leather holster slung across his chest.

and he's silent. offering you only a small bow in return before giving you a quick once over, gait unhurried as he takes one, two long strides to stand by your side. it's an arduous task to bring yourself to look up at his face, but you do— lips parting in awe when you realise he's unlike any other desert eremite you've met before.

the trimmed red silk tied around his head shelters only one of his eyes.

how interesting, you think to yourself, for what you know of desert eremites is that they are convinced all things betray, even their own sight.

you bite your tongue to stop the questions that bubble and ebb at the forefront of your throat from tumbling past your lips, the innate scholarly need to learn and dissect and digest and know. a surprised little squeak escapes you instead when he turns his head and catches you staring, meeting your curious eyes with technicoloured cyan.

“is something the matter?”

“no, not at all! i'm sorry, i didn't mean to stare,” you flush hot under the intensity of his gaze, play with the flouncy sleeve of your blouse while you giggle nervously. you're unsure whether it's his size, or his beauty, or his quiet dominance that makes you feel much more shy than you'd like to feel, far too giddy— as if you're a little girl back in grade school.

“alright. shall we get going then? we're losing daylight with each second that passes.” al haitham holds a hand out in front of you, waiting expectantly.

you tilt your head in confusion and pout. what's he asking for? a tip? your hand?

“your bags?” he heaves a sigh, rests his other hand on his hip. you feel a hint of irritation in his words, and your heart wilts a little, “did you want me to carry them?”

“oh!” you exclaim in realisation before hoisting your travel bags further up your shoulders, force a reassuring smile on your lips. “it's okay, i couldn't possibly ask that of you. i can handle it myself, really!”

that couldn't be further from the truth, and al haitham sees right through it, with your shoulders hunched forward from the leaden weight of your bags slung atop them, the wince in your step as you walk towards the pathway, how you nearly topple over when you lose the slightest bit of balance.

“hey,” he pinches his brow, a certain roughness in his voice when he calls out to you that withers into something more gentle, tender after you turn to look at him. sweet and innocent and dewy-eyed. like a flower too frail, one whose stem may snap clean off if looked at the wrong way. “let me take them.”

al haitham doesn't allow you to protest, swiftly lifting your bags from your shoulders and holding onto them with ease, their weight nothing compared to what he's had to endure throughout the entirety of his life.

“it's my job to take care of you these next few weeks, and i intend to do it well.” he walks ahead of you, the longer mint strands of his hair swaying with the wind, the air around him lifting into something lighter— even if it's only by the most minute amount. “besides, you'll tip me generously if i do, won't you?"

his voice lilts mischievously, and you can only bring yourself to watch on in awe. nerves melting into excitement, cheeks warming not from timidness, but anticipation of what lies ahead in the next month— for your research, yes, but also for something closer to your heart.

a companion, a friend.

you smile a smile that reaches far past your eyes, bounding up to him with those clumsy fawn legs as you try to match his pace. two of your steps for one of his own. “of course i will, thank you so, so much! and i'll do my best to keep from making trouble for you— it'll make your job easier too, i hope!”

al haitham hesitates for a brief moment when you thank him so earnestly, so wholeheartedly, so unlike any of the other scholars he'd been commissioned to act as a guard for. with your smile so cloyingly sweet and your kindness so childishly naive, he can't help but feel a bit grim.

how much violence did it take for you to become this gentle?

the faintest of smiles— honeysuckle soft— curls up on his lips and he gives your head a single pat, sweeps the spare rose petal off of your clavicle, quietly wonders what he's gotten himself into by accepting this commission.

“silly girl. come, let's get going.”

#haitham ❤︎#&(*^&@)*(&& hieeee ! ! omgeeb so 🥺 this is how i imagine reader n haitham to meet in this au . .#i rllie like imagining alhaitham w someone who is more . . . gentle n naive n almost timid ?? like despite all The Horrors they are still #not worn down by it all ( or so it seems C; ) n remain tender towards the world #bcos . as we know . alhaitham is . . not exactly that . he is much more guarded n cautious after experiences frm his own life #+ also seeing what happens to others #so putting him with his ' diametric antithesis ' jus sounds rllie precious in my eyes 🥺🥺#how they cn learn frm each other ! show each other something they've never seen before 🥺#maybe fall a little in love in the process . . . WAAAH #anws :3 anywhosies :3 this is what this au is all about :3 n i hope ! ! ! i hope #if / when i continue to post lil blurbs about it #this is what u envision too :3 #WAH !#um um um ! ! 🥺 if u like this au or wnt to see more of it . . . then may i selfishly ask u to interact with this post ??#even a like is fine ! ! or u can tell me too !#'s just to gauge interest bcos rn i dont weally knowwww if anyone is interested in this besides like .#Me ><

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aetherdecember · 5 months

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Look, I love BBC Merlin and how they told the lore, but I’m a sucker for the relationship between Arthur and Mordred in the mythology. Specifically, I love how Mary Stewart (author of The Arthurian Saga**) and Nancy Springer (author of I Am Mordred**) wrote about the father/son relationship between them. So naturally, my brain has been conjuring up how I can include that in my Flipping the Coin au.

Since the main premise is Merlin died/Arthur lives, and now Arthur is the one waiting for Merlin to come back, things would stay consistent with canon up to the last episode (when Merlin flips the coin of their destiny and sacrifices himself so Arthur can live and thus stop Camlann from happening altogether). Which is where this idea will start:

Gwen is barren. She and Arthur never have kids. Eventually, everyone Arthur knows and loves dies. He can’t rule Camelot forever, and after Gwen’s death, he no longer wants to, so he fakes his death and wanders off figure out why he’s still here. He never gets an answer for that. Arthur spends the next millennium waiting. He keeps living. He meets people, experiences things he’d never experienced before, and learns things he’d never dreamed of learning. He can’t stay anywhere long, or else suspicions will rise, but he gets to see the world change, how technology advances, and witness humans continuing to be humans. When war breaks out, he joins the battle. It’s familiar. The rush of adrenaline is the same whether he’s wielding a sword or a gun. Only, he can’t see the enemy’s face anymore.

Peace comes again. At some point, he sleeps with a woman, and she happens to become pregnant. Bisexual disaster that he is, he’s had all sorts of partners from both sexes, but has never had this happen, even before the advent of reliable birth control. Later, he’ll learn her name is Morgause. She doesn’t look like the Morgause he knew before, nor does she act like her, but her name haunts him. After the baby is born, she gives him to Arthur, says she has no intentions of being a mother, and leaves. The last thing she had said to him was the baby’s name.

Mordred.

That night, Arthur holds Mordred and weeps.

There is irony in his son being named Mordred. First, in that the legends surrounding him, Merlin, Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and all of it, had long ago decided Mordred was his son. And two, in a retelling of that legend, it had aptly phrased what he sensed was happening now. Granted, he isn’t a sorcerer, he doesn’t have magic, so he can’t support his feeling with anything other than he’d been around a long time and knew to his very core that it was true. Mordred’s birth is a signal of the beginning of the end.

Fatherhood brings him a new sense of purpose. Gone are the days of loneliness and drudgery. Every day with Mordred brings a new light into his life. Each smile is a miracle. Seeing Mordred experience things for the first time brings a new appreciation. Being there to watch him grow makes time fly like it never has before. But Arthur is afraid. He doesn’t want to be his father. He doesn’t know how to be a father, or what the right way to do it is. In all the years he’s been on the Earth, he’s never known a man who could concretely say, “This is the way to raise a son,” and actually reap the fruits of their efforts. Too frequently, he’d seen sons grow outside of the visions their fathers molded for them and receive only disappointment and disdain in return. So he was afraid, because he too had been that son.

*cue a series of fluffy father/son one shots of Arthur raising Mordred until Merlin comes back, takes one look, and is is like WTF????? No, I won’t have Mordred for a step son >:(*

**Mary Stewart and Nancy Springer have several other works, not just the stories I mentioned. The ones mentioned are the ones I’m pulling inspiration from ^^

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Guinevere’s barrenness is not a headcanon I typically subscribe to for BBC Merlin. My headcanon is that after Arthur’s death, Gwen gives birth, and their child eventually succeeds her as ruler.

I’ve always seen Mordred’s appearance as the harbinger of Arthur’s downfall. Thus, the reason for the plot bunnies in my brain going crazy with this idea of how I could bring him in, still remain mostly canon compliant with BBC Merlin, and build off some of my favorite parts of the lore. (Mandatory disclaimer: for BBC Merlin, I don’t headcanon Mordred as Arthur’s son. But for the mythology, I do wholeheartedly support that canon.)

Arthur’s choice to participate and live once Camelot is gone is a decision to contrast my headcanon of how Merlin handled it. I don’t think Merlin thrived. I think he stayed busy, and tried to remain hopeful, but I think he was anxiously consumed with the anticipation of wondering when Arthur would come back. In this au, Arthur may or may not know that Merlin is supposed to come back (I’m still working on that detail), but he’s always been around others. I think he would seek camaraderie, and companionship, and that he would connect with others but only to a superficial level. I don’t think he’d exist in a void of loneliness. Plus, he doesn’t have the guilt of knowing he failed because the pressure from the prophecy is very one sided *coughcough*causemerlinnevertoldhim*coughcough*

Anyways, that’s enough rambling from me about this. I’ll probably share some snippets of writing next because there are some fantastic scenes coming together in the draft so stay tuned! ;D

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #mordred #flipping the coin #my drabbles #arthurian mythology will always be my jam #you can tear this au from my cold dead hands but it will live on #merthur #for the Merlin not wanting Mordred as a stepson joke the last Mordred he knew turned on them to join Morgana #as far as Merlin is concerned they’re the same person #he’ll come around eventually once Arthur fills him in on everything #btw Arthur’s son Mordred is unaware of all of this #he’s having to process his dad - who has never really been interested in anybody for any reason - is completely besotted with some guy #once he learns this ‘some guy’ used to be his father’s servant it does not make things better #but by then he’ll have learned enough that it does clear things up #he’s actually a big fan of Merlin #he just wasn’t prepared for love sick puppy dog Arthur 24/7 now that Merlin’s back

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easyaesthetics · 4 months

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PRESENTING… The Ultimate Persona 5 Royal quiz!!! Made because all the P5R quizzes I could find on the internet were too easy for me - and I figured some of you may feel the same! Featuring questions such as THESE:

Give it a go and test your knowledge!! The average score is less than 50% so don’t worry if you don’t score highly - it’s meant to be challenging!

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deadlyeyez · 8 months

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page one (the autism won).

mankind is dead.

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bulkhummus · 1 year

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feel free to explain in the tags

#like im an artist but i think im a verbal thinker #its very interesting — im doing some reading for my class #about how autistic minds process information and what we can learn from the way people on the spectrum interpret the world #and how teachers often fail autstic and ND students because they aren’t able to recognize the way in which they think #everyone learns differently and we dont extend that courtesy to everyone and thats so so so unfair #polls

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skyrim-dungeon-ratings · 2 months

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Roadside Ruins

RATING: 6/10

Cute little atmospheric piece with a Spriggan in the middle. Not a lot of loot and basically just a one-and-done, but I quite like it for its simplicity! Not to mention the beautiful surrounding forest courtesy of being around Falkreath. According to the UESP if I had the Bittercup creation club thing, it’d do something more? But I don’t have the Bittercup, and I don’t think I’d buy any credits either.. so I guess I’ll never know.

#dungeon ratings #roadside ruins #skyrim dungeon #elder scrolls #the elder scrolls #skyrim #spriggan #i will admit a weakness to a good open-air spot of intrigue!#i dont really think much about content creation stuff and i really only went on the uesp for here bc i clicked on a wrong link while gettin #the image but it was interesting to learn #the bittercup thing doesnt seem to do anything too intensive to roadside ruins either.. i wonder what the thought process is for modders..

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fictionadventurer · 1 month

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Well, I didn't get any writing done, but I did watch the Wiggles documentary.

#look it was a compromise!#i was babysitting #these children were cranky and driving me nuts #this gives them music and me a documentary to learn things from #bad news: songs in my head forever #good news: actually pretty interesting #i'm always fascinated by the fact that no matter how strange or niche a type of art is #there's always people behind it #with ordinary lives and thought processes that go into what they make #and it was fun to see the very sensible and human ideas that go into creating something so wild #this wouldn't have been quite so shameful except that i kept watching after the kids were gone #instead of writing anything

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couldcarefewer · 5 months

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i can't make .gifs to effectively illustrate my point but

First responder to young Shaw in the car wreck in 1993: "Hang on, kiddo; I'm coming to you, okay?"

Shaw talking on the phone to a kidnapped Gen in 2013: "Hang on, kiddo. I'm coming for you."

First responder about to pull young Shaw out of the car wreck in 1993: "Ready to get out of here?"

Shaw as she undoes Gen's restraints after killing her kidnappers in 2013: "You ready to get out of here?"

GESTURES BROADLY

DO YOU SEE

#sameen shaw #genrika zhirova #person of interest #that interaction with the EMT clearly meant so much to her #she doesn't understand or process emotions well #but she learned from him the kinds of things you should say to a child who's in trouble #and she remembered that conversation with him well enough to repeat the things he said to her to another kid #word for word #twenty whole-ass years later #i firmly believe that that childhood experience is what made her choose to go to med school and specialize in emergency medicine

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ub-sessed · 6 months

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I have knit the world's cutest sock.

#unfortunately i am much too tired to tell you all the many interesting things i learned in the process #maybe tomorrow?#knitting #sock knitting #mini stocking #my knitting

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secrettreestuffidk · 1 month

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TWSA was just "Yoo Joongheok experiences wikipedia" how do you think TLS123 was able to churn out 3500+ chapters and why KDJ knows so many obscure historical and mythological figures and also shit like How Bricks Are Made and Every Useful [Magical] Item just from reading it

TLS123 writing challenge where you roll a random Wikipedia page and have to incorporate as much of the information into your narrative as possible

#That post going around thats loling at kdj being bad at character analysis so all he was talking to his mom about #Was dragonball style power levels #No. Hes telling her that Today YJH Learned About Cellular Respiration And The Kreb Cycle #And how it relates to uhhhhhhh Popular Norwegian Deserts #Bc you gotta take that into account when youre incorporating Magical Extraplanar Seahorse Venom into your baking #Truly god gives his greatest battles to his most autistic warriors and all that #he flunked his college entrance exams bc hes only capable of processing information Through Special Interest #Orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint #Like those magic schoolbus type educational programs where The Team goes on an educational field trip every day #Imagine if The Magic Treehouse stories were rated M

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mochapanda · 4 months

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also isnt it kinda crazy how even thought kabru hates monsters and killing them is his main driving force hes never once considered learning as much as he can about monsters and instead chose to learn everything about dealing with people instead? to the point where he keeps getting killed by basic monsters but can handle just about any social conflict and kill other humans with ease

#when the fatal flaw created by trauma directly influences their main goals man.#both the dungeon in utaya and having milsiril as a mother completely warped his priorities and methods of achieving his goals #its just so. interesting to think about.#like hes so focused on the bigger picture of dismantling the dungeon altogether and dealing with the dungeon lord #he cant see the steps to getting there involve being incredibly familiar with monsters bc he has too many painful memories of them #(contrast with laios having no clue what hed do with the dungeon but enjoying learning about it and monsters instead)#biggest example of top down vs bottom up processing influencing like. the entire fucking story. so cool #AND LIKE KABRU DOESNT EVEN HAVE TO LIKE MONSTERS IN THE END! HE STILL CANT DEAL WITH THEM AND ITS PERFECTLY OKAY #he can instead hone the skills he has for a humanitarian approach to dealing with the dungeon and it works so perfectly and UGH its so good #ily kabru

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vriska · 11 months

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sometimes you know I'm of the opinion that it can be really healthy to seek out and listen to folks who's opinions contradict some of yours, like for instance theres this one youtuber I would sometimes listen to their videos because it was presented entertainingly even if I disagreed with a majority of their takes, but it really feels like they've taken a nose dive into their own ass and their opinions have shifted ever more extreme into their lil bubble world that i cant even watch their stuff anymore, its like... if you are so unwilling to go outside your comfort zone, to engage critically and in good faith with media that may not be to your specific tastes, you really shouldn't even be critiquing media anymore, you're living in an echo chamber and spouting the right buzzwords to win points that don't exist and i hate that that has been the growing trend of fandom as a whole

biases can exist and they have their place in commentary but also when you're turning that bias to pure vitriol against anything deemed "problematic" (as loose as that term gets thrown about) you just shut yourself off from new experiences and opportunities to grow and learn. art in all its forms exists to engage us, and there are more feelings out there than just the 'good' ones

#vree chatter #like im sorry u cant handle conflict in a show aimed at kids that adults can also enjoy #but i think this can be applied as a whole that like!! theres always gonna be stuff that challenges us and its in everyones best interest #if we at least tried to tackle stuff in good faith and failing that going 'this just isnt for me' is something everyone should learn #its ok to not like things! its ok to go yeah this sucks and i dont want them to go this direction #but you dont have to step all over the people who DO want that in the process #also it goes without saying there is nuance to everything including this #THIS IS IN PART ME REMEMBERING SEEING THE TAKE ONCE 'ALL ENEMIES TO LOVERS IS ABUSIVE AND BAD'

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 7 months

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I'm piggybacking a bit off of the last ask of asking for writing tips but I have an odd question... Am I the only person that struggles actually PICKING a book? It's the absolute bane of my existence because I feel like I can be so picky... Don't get me wrong, I love being a bookworm, and I'm trying to get back into reading physical books but it's so difficult to find a real taste of what the book is like without being completely spoiled or something... I miss when backs of books had an actual summary and not just NO.1 NEW YORK BESTSELLER!!!! It's so frustrating... I've been trying to get back into it by re-reading fond chapter childhood books read to me (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & A Wrinkle In Time). But at the same time I'm also trying to get into more "adult" books that isn't... Well, you try googling "adult books" and see how that goes, I didn't think too hard about what a poor decision THAT was. But I'm working up the courage to read Cat's Cradle right now to start with "Classic Authors" I guess!

Anyway I'm rambling here, I guess my question is... How do you pick out the books you read? I don't really have friends that read many books to recommend to me :')

Thank you in advance, Bog! I hope you get a callback from that interview soon!

no ok actually you've mentioned something that's been bothering me for a while - What The Hell Do Y'all Mea, Books Don't Have Summaries Anymore???? i have not once in my life found a book that didn't have a summary. i was in barnes & noble recently and everything i looked at had a summary. i have literally never seen a book without one in my life of reading & looking at new books on a regular basis

softcovers have theirs on the back. hardcovers are on the inside of the sleeve - lift the cover and it should be printed right there on the inside flap! summaries aren't legally required but both the author and Especially the publisher(s) know that no one's gonna buy a book without a summary. trust me, all books worth reading have a summary. if a book doesn't have one, it's probably not worth your time anyway. you just gotta know where to look!

so my answer to how i choose books... i read the summary lmao. if it seems interesting, ill either write it down to get later or ill get it there and then.

Before the summary though, i look for any titles that jump out at me from the shelf. then i look at the thickness. i like a bit of meat in my literature, so i tend to shy away from thinner books. thicker ones grab my attention more easily. then i look at the cover - if it interests me, then ill read the summary. i don't have specific tastes in title or cover. as long as it makes my brain "hm" thoughtfully, ill take a gander!

and really, if you have access to a bookstore (chain or not, ive found plenty of bangers in tiny used bookshops) or library, the best way to find a book is to physically browse. even if you dont buy anything, you can take pictures of books / write them down to buy online. but going to the store lets you search them out, examine the length, cover, title, summary - and easily put it back on the shelf or keep it. i hate shopping online bc there's ads, you can't examine the product, nothing really stands out since it's all portrayed similarly, there's limited pictures instead of the physical thing, and photos can lie.

plus, everything is (typically) meticulously sorted by genre & age range. when you go into a section with literature aimed at adults, you'll find exactly that instead of smut novels lmao. real life bookstores can be more accurate than online searches. & there's just something so good about walking through shelves, searching for that one book before you know it exists, smelling the paper... yeah...

#like for example i recently bought priory of the orange tree #ive been wanting it for a while and havent read it yet since im finishing something else #BUT! i remember when i first saw it #nothing had gotten my attention for a while #but then i saw the thickest fucking book ive seen in ages - which was automatically very sexy of it #and then the title was unique - priory of the orange tree??? whoah! what the fuck does that mean!!!#so automatically there was the interest of neat title + a new word that i get to learn + the implications of the word now that i understand #and then i picked the book up and it was deliciously heavy - & there was a Dragon on the cover. which. YES PLEASE #then the summary was fascinating!! the book was immediately seared into my brain! im very excited to read it #so thats a highly successful example of my book choosing Process #it checked all of my boxes so it was a win #most books dont check all of my boxes but as long as it hits most of them im down to clown yk yk #but yeah im picky too so! nothing wrong with being picky or having high standards!#rambles from the bog #my shelves are fuckin Full of books ranging from 'it was ok' to 'I WILL RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN'#and then i have a drawer filled with books that i just could not care less about / dont like #but dont have the heart to throw away bc. well putting a book in the trash kills a part of my soul #i need to donate them...#but yes! i hope that helps!#and Thank You! i hope i get a callback as well...

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