#like around 70 or so books

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Girls Are Never Gone

a girl does a summer internship with the historical society cleaning up an old estate where a girl died 30 years ago, so she can investigate it for her ghost-hunting podcast

she’s a skeptic who privately thinks she’ll be able to find evidence of non-supernatural, but weird things start happening to her and the other two girls in the house

spooky lake & creepy dolls

bisexual diabetic MC with a service dog, f/f

#The Girls Are Never Gone #sarah glenn marsh #this is. fine. #it’s like. not creepy until maybe 70% imo #why is she releasing episodes of her podcast every few days….even when she hasn’t discovered anything particularly? #is it not much more realistic for people to finish doing these things and form it into a coherent narrative before releasing episodes #Like that wouldn't have worked for the plot but it stood out to me #If it was one of those things where her personality and influencer-vibes is the main draw that would be feasable #but I didn't really get that feel from the two podcast excerpts we got. #Taking out some of the random stuff slowing the first half and putting bits of the podcast in the actual narrative so we got the feel for w #might have made things more interesting. And put more tension between her paranormal podcasting persona and real life skepticism #don't love stuff that engages with true crime fans without actively critiquing it. Like this doesn't get super deep into that. idk #I did laugh when they see the older lady putting salt around the door and question it & shes like 'it uh works for the boys on supernatural #ajshgfhajgf #anyway it was ok i just think it could have been better! #sapphic books #bisexual books #aroaessidhe 2023 reads

[hopecomesbacktolife]

fun new writing challenge!!! white cishet men write a scifi novel without using incredibly demeaning and sexist terms for your women character(s) 🙃

#seriously I am. two fucking pages into this book what is this bullshit #you can’t say in your foreword that you’re inspired by - and list several women sci fi writers - then turn around and do this shit 🙃😒🫠 #the self awareness here is at 0 #I had high hopes for this novel based on premise and concept and the foreword and yet we get this shit 🥲🥲 #and it’s not even like this is an old book from the 70s or something where I MIGHT excuse it slightly more!!! this is from 2005!!! #ridiculousness fr #personal #still going to read more because I’m hoping this is a blip/weird outlier and not a feature of the book but. like. canon #*c’mon not canon #like there’s just. so many other words you could’ve used here idc idc

[suddenlymicah]

has anyone considered henry possessing glamrock freddy or am i being a little silly right now

#although for one of you the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole #so don't keep the devil waiting old friend #henry being glamrock freddy makes sense to me #“my friends are down here” william? william afton? old friend? #and if we consider the henry suicide robot thing canon #maybe just maybe #henry “survived” pizzaria simulator #reinstated fazbears as a corporate entity #hired the indie developer #idk where he would stand on the glitchtrap thing but he was shown to be a little silly in he books? maybe he thought afton was fully gone #and was trying to destroy the last parts of him that remained #he realized vanessa was being recruited by afton and set up the pizzaplex #he built the glamrocks? by contextual evidence it makes sense for michael to have built the glamrocks #given the glamrocks similarities to the funtimes including freddys stomach hatch (remember funtime freddy's stomach hatch?) #so if we're saying that michael built the glamrocks then michael wouldve had to have survived pizzaria simulator #which means somewhere along the line they fucked up #and considering that theres roughly 40 years between the bite of 83 and pizzaria simulator #that would mean that henry is like 70 when he burns down freddy fazbears pizza place? #i doubt any rickety ass 70 year old is going #like btw that was a badass line #but henry would be too old for that shit💀 #so if we just take henrys suicide animatronic (named baby but probably meaning a baby version of charlie(the og book trilogy)) #so what if he got remnant in him when he killed himself and therefore was stuck alive #so he and michael could have plausibly survived pizzasim because of the remnant they were trying to burn away #bc if remnant survived the fnaf3 fire why wouldnt it survive the pizzasim fire? #so saying that henry killed himself around 2000 leaves him at ~50 forever #he couldve also killed himself around 1996 after opening fnaf 2 closing fnaf 2 and reopening/reclosing fnaf 1 #leaving him ~45 forever #doesnt matter the year it just matters that hes already dead before pizzaria simulator and after fnaf1 and fnaf2 events #not to mention with william dead around 1993 henry wouldve been the one managing circus baby's entertainment and rentals

[smooth-boob]

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#Reading the poto book for the first time and i'm only 70 pgs in and hanging on by the fingernails that i don’t liveblog this entire thing #So I’m literally annotating it instead bc have I mentioned I was an English major? #BUT (spoilers ahead) #everything is haunting and amazingly gothic #erik writes like a child w a red crayola crayon?? I have questions! and will wait for answers! #Christine is somehow MORE DERANGED than in the musical and I think I’m in love w her #Erik is so ugly that Raoul PASSES OUT upon seeing him????? #And fair enough Erik leaves him for dead bc he is not trying to do favors for this random twink #Sad boy Raoul ‘thinking around Christine but not of her’ is an incredible take by leroux #Although idk if he meant it how I’m taking it but I stand by my take #Erik being a sweet boy and leaving nice things for mme giry and having a ‘wife’ #CUT TO Christine (presumably the wife in question) #being so terrified of Erik that she is looking at Raoul like she’s not only seen a ghost but she herself is back from the dead #Aaaaaaaaaaaaa I love I love #.braindump

[camelspit]

why does libby have an amish section now

#Ok ok ok so this isnt all #I went through it a bit #And 90% of the covers are a woman in a field wearing a kapp and a blue dress #But they also all look boring #I went to goodreads for some of them #And they all had around 4 stars #Didnt take long to figure out thats because #Only middle aged amish women were reading them #But theres one popular author in the amish field named amy something #Shes southern likes hp and enjoys traditional gender roles #And shes written over 70 amish books #And i think her writing career started around 2016 #But get this gang #Shes not fucking amish #She just enjoys it or something #Which like ok but what #I also found an article she wrote about how people were wrong and #Orange is the new black wasnt actually appropriating amish culture #Havent watched the show so idk but #This is weird right. Like. This is unnatural. #Also found one goodreads review that gave amy one star #Because the book had like 3 curse words in it #And she doesnt like that 'trash' in her books #Planning to do more research later #Might even read one of the books #I found one that looked like it wouldnt be too mind numbing to get through #And saved it just in case #Deep dive into amish romance books #Would that entertain you all

[yekokataa]

oh yeah so i finally saw the new dune film and i really liked it! i remember not liking the book when i read it in middle school but maybe i’ll give it another shot one of these days

#dune is one of those weird gaps in my sci fi knowledge #i haven’t seen the 70s film #dim memories of the first book #but i’ve found that if i didn’t like a book the first time around returning to it won’t help much so who knows

[minarcana]

#sitting here like i want to talk about uri but idk what About-- #i finished the ast 70 questline fridy and it always makes me wanna rotate uri when i get more ast bullshit #anyways im gonna be at work till 2 thinking of Him #if anyone has uri questions [flutters eyelashes] #heres something random. so i hc hes ESL which is why his primary eaorzean language source in childhood was books and ive been debating what #language hed be speaking at home. probably like. french or something #but i cant decide if itd be funnier if it was just like completely normal modern french OR if his mother tongue was like #Also Latin. Just A Dead-Ass Language #part of me is tempted to make it old slavonic because i need to get around to teaching myself slavonic and itd be an excuse to at least #remember the extra letters but part of me is still charmed by like #uri speaking old ass english and then busting out with completely normal modern french #this is utterly irrelevant. thank u for ur time

[themslash]

on my pre-sleep rounds in space video land. i got sidetracked by a general google search showing me people's burning jupiter questions. mesmerized

#vesselage #i hope this doesnt sound like. too condescending. #i was a space loving child literally as long ago as my memory goes #so seeing what u would think about the planets if u werent like. slamming space books straight out the womb #honestly? it SHOULD be hot at the surface. and some people googling jupiter are brave enough to say it. #mercury should be cold and jupiter should be hot. the fact that they arent is fucked UP #if ur 70% metal u should be cold. and i dont mean the astrophysicist bullshit definition of metal i mean real. real #god. does ANYTHING orbit around jupiter??????

[balconyswirls]

dragon republic is making me want to pull my hair out

#SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! btw (just in case) #(i'm trying to make sure nothing comes up before you press see all))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) #i'm around 70% into the book #nezha must feel like shit omg #bro watched his only friends fall off a waterfall #and rin's last words to him were do something!! ffffffffffff #bro why the hell did that npc chaghan's cousin just instigate what could be a whole other unneccessary war #'oh no i killed my mom and my cousin let's blame you 🥶' i want to punch you #pls chaghan get back there before him #also kitay is such a good friend #i can't believe he practically gave up his soul for rin #rin and kitay are like the closest siblings it makes me happy she has someone like him by her side after so long #also i need more nezha lore pls 🙇‍♀️ #OKAY HELP I SEARCHED NEZHA AND IT'S USING PAST TENSE NOOO #WHAT DO YOU MEAN WAS????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM???? #don't die a third time please

[yokelfelonking]

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED. (This wasn't a bad thing, but the power-hungry on the Evangelical Right saw this as a golden opportunity to grab power and influence.)

EDIT: By Popular Demand - Freedom Fries. I initially left these off because they came a couple years after the initial panic and most people thought they were kind of absurd (and I don't recall anyone really going along with it other than maybe some local diners here and there). France didn't want to get involved in our world policing so some folks were like "TRAITORS!" and wanted to call french fries "Freedom Fries" instead, so as to stick it to the French.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

#9/11 #9-11 #september 11 #september 11 2001 #world trade center

[unpretty]

a fact about me is that i was an early bloomer who hit puberty in elementary school and was immediately, obnoxiously horny in ways that were uncomfortable for everyone because no one is prepared for an elementary schooler with b cups and a deep fascination with movies where people get tied up. another fact is that because i was considered smart for my age in the ways that mattered, i just accepted all this as a single package, the many ways that i was not really a child the way other children were children but was instead a miniature adult. i was technically a child, but not really, as far as i was concerned. it also did not occur to me until around high school that i was fat, because i instead considered myself to be sturdy, to be buff, to be built like a tank.

so somewhere around middle school i am noticing the ways in which i am Not Like Other Girls, the ways in which i am not what society says a girl is and the ways that things marketed to girls do not appeal to me. i don't know how other girls dealt with this, but i very rationally decided that i was only technically a girl, in the way that i was only technically a child. so i looked at the things that did appeal to me, and that i did enjoy, and reverse engineered my demographic to decide that on a practical and functional level i was a middle-aged man. i had also gotten really hornily into wolverine because of the first x-men movie, and ended up reading a lot of comics, so as you can imagine the comic book version of wolverine who is short and built like a tank and older than he looks despite being for all intents and purposes a middle aged man really had some appeal to me.

there are idiots who say shit about how tomboys would be considered trans these days or whatever, but i can assure you that was not what was happening here. by middle school i already had to special order bras and i was fine with that because of the many weird fetishes i was developing, none of which can be blamed on the internet because i hadn't found that shit yet and also to this day you would have a hard time finding anything similar to the things i wrote in my secret notebook and immediately destroyed. the fact that i was technically a girl was vital to all this. media where there was a big reveal that some cool dude had been a hot chick the whole time was my shit. weird feral beast people who turned out to be hot women once they took a bath? fuck yes. i would never have cut my hair because that would have ruined my chances to take off a helmet and reveal that i had girl hair. at no point did i think i was anything but a girl, it was just that i was functionally a middle-aged man, who was a girl.

what this means is that i still liked all the things i already liked, such as leather jackets and comic books and anime and old stand-up comedy, but i also did extensive research on the other things i felt i should like according to the demographic i had assigned myself. i watched vh1's 'i love the 70s' with the air of someone trying to hide their amnesia, even though my parents were children in the 70s. i got into the beatles. i tried to get into cars for a while before accepting that i only liked the vintage car aesthetic and couldn't be fucked to know actual car facts. i wore nothing but cargo shorts and aloha shirts for a while, which didn't really stand out that much because it was middle school. i bought a fedora and became a libertarian atheist. i made plans to buy a motorcycle (i could not ride a bike).

i gave up on it after a while because quite frankly my titty situation meant there was never really going to be a big reveal that i'd been a girl the whole time. it was pretty obvious even with the cargo shorts. also the older of a teen i was, the more likely it felt that i could maybe get laid, except i could tell that was never going to happen as long as i kept wearing cargo shorts. it took longer to give up the fedora because it was leather and i wore it with my leather jacket and fingerless gloves, which i convinced myself worked a lot better after i'd gone full high school goth. i lived in the desert so you can imagine how well that worked out for me, smell-wise.

anyway that's how my female socialization went, i don't think it was particularly successful tbqh

#original #the funniest part to me is the vh1 thing #i watched so much vh1 while inexplicably behaving as if i was already familiar with everything i was seeing

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I hate correcting customers who call me ma'am and miss and honey over the phone, because only about 30 percent of the time do they apologize and start calling me sir, while 70 percent of the time they double down assuming I was trans and continue misgendering me on purpose to show how little respect they have for me as a human being. "Thank you, MISS."

I'm a cis man, for the record.

Whenever I correct someone and they keep it up, I simply refuse service. "Oh, I'm sorry, we're completeley booked up the day you wanted. Yeah, no, we're booked up on your backup dates too. Looks like our next opening isn't until, hmm, mid-November. Oh, but it doesn't have enough beds for your party. We could probably fit you in around New Years, but you'd have to change rooms every day. You might wanna try [more expensive motel] a few blocks north of us, they might have vacancies. Have a good day."

I've been able to dodge what few complaints we've gotten so far because they all tell my boss that they just spoke to a very nasty woman, and she has no idea who they're talking about. "You must have dialed the wrong number, because I'm the only woman here, and I didn't talk to you." That PISSES THEM OFF, and she doesn't understand why they respond with "well we've been staying there for years, but we're never coming back." They think she's protecting me, an afab trans man, and are disgusted by it, but from her perspective they're just crazy people who are complaining about made up bullshit; it doesn't even cross her mind that they're talking about me. Why would it?

My boss is like 70 or 75, and was a Republican until 2016. It's never come up in conversation, but something tells me she wouldn't exactly be a trans ally. I'm in a weird position here, and it's hilarious.

#the customer is always wrong #all customers are bastards #terfs #confused terfs #trans #cis #phone calls #ma'am #miss #sir #southern hospitality #60k 11-28-22

[transgaysex]

also the "imaginaire" part of the class was a fucking lie the whole time all we covered was the history of quebec. which infuriates me to no end bc class 2 is supposed to be "Literature and Imagination" and class 3 is supposed to be "Quebecoise Literature" so like wtf am i gonna learn in class 3. im just gonna see the same stupid material again ?

#wind howls #a lot of the stuff i learned was just evil stuff the french canadian government has done to natives. #like did you know in 1950 (this is fairly fucking recent !) the quebecoise governemnt slaughtered a ton of dogs (specifically sled dogs)- #to force Inuits into a sedentary lifestyle in order to take even more of their land ? #this happened from the 50s to the 70s btw. around 20k dogs. #the government also pushed a lot of Inuit people up north in order to establish sovereignty of the arctic and promised them- #so many good things for it only to abadon them up there with no support in harsh conditions they were not ready for. #animal death #jic. anyway i hate this fucking province and this country LOL #and the point of this post that i kinda wish i could have seen more like imaginary books. but i do think this stuff is important to learn #especially since most of the people in my class were “de souche” white frenc canadians. they dont teach that stuff otherwise

[meowkid1000]

😭😭😭😭😭 a wattpad series is completely gone I’m sobbing, that shit was my childhood

#Lumina-Rose14 you will be MISSED RIP GIRLIE #I LOVED WHAT YOU DID 😭 #I wasn’t going to reread it bc the author basically rewrote HP for 6 of the books and then they disappeared sometime during the writing #of the 6th book but it was an extremely slow burn draco x reader and I will miss it dearly #I don’t think I even read the 5th or 6th one but they sometimes got to like 70 chapters with substantial word counts in each chapter #it was nuts #I wish they were somewhere else :( not even for rereadings purpose but to see if the author is still around #But I ate their books up in middle school it was crazy #they were called the slytherin queen books n they were so cool 😭 #I’m probably remembering it with extremely rose tinted glasses but still

[kashilascorner]

I think books official synopsis should only include things that happen very early on the book (I also think all books should include a shnopsis on the back cover or on the jacket or anywhere)

#this has happened like three times in a row now. the first twist is included in the synopsis #so in iwwv the first ''twist'' (the death of one of the students as announced in the official synopsis) happens around 35% of the book #in one last stop (the one i'm reading now) we learn about jane almost a quarter into the book (and we learn she's from the 70s the loop #hasn't been discovered yet and i'm over 20% in by now #worst case scenario so far was camilleri's the terracotta dog because the mystery (as explained on the cover) doesn't happen #until after THE FIRST HALF of the book. like that's crazy. #why can't we let books like. genuinely surprise us. especially since everyone is so obsessed with spoiler culture? #i don't care about spoilers but once i read one of these synopsis and The Thing hasn't happened yet i feel this weird thing like WHEN is #it going to happen. like I'm perpetually waiting. and in the worst cases (like the terracotta dog) it completely ruins the reading #experience for a while because i have a lingering feeling like nothing really happens until the synopsis (which is supposes to be the #premise) happens/comes to a full. it's different if you were telling a friend abt a certain book. but some premises take a bit long to come #to effect and I'd rather not know straight away? #laura reads #blabla