#popular titles

[tmarshconnors]

 Avoid being an ignorant fanboy or fangirl.

Xbox is the element of community. The Xbox player base enjoys multiplayer games and has bonds that can last for years. PlayStation is the element of single-player games. They range from being cinematic to having great gameplay. PC is the element of freedom PC gamers appreciate the most popular and niche titles and the community has some really funny mods Nintendo element of variety they love to experiment and be innovative when they find something that works. They make it incredible. It’s important to see the good in all gaming platforms. This is how you avoid being an ignorant fanboy or fangirl. The four nations lived happily until the mobile gamers attacked.

#Xbox #PlayStation #PC gaming #Nintendo #Multiplayer games #Single-player games #Gaming community #Bonds #Cinematic games #Gameplay #Freedom #Popular titles #Niche titles #Mods #Variety #Innovation #Gaming platforms #Fanboy #Fangirl #Mobile gaming #today on tumblr #new blog

[rockislandadultreads]

STEM Romances: A reading list

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon

Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just needs to find some balance and de-stress. According to her friends Samiah and Taylor, what London really needs is a casual hookup. A night of fun with no strings. But no one—least of all London—expected it to go down at her high school reunion with Drew Sullivan, millionaire, owner of delicious abs, and oh yes, her archnemesis. Now London is certain the road to hell is paved with good sex. Because she’s found out the real reason Drew’s back in Austin: to decide whether her beloved hospital remains open. Worse, Drew is doing everything he can to show her that he’s a decent guy who actually cares. But London’s not falling for it. Because while sleeping with the enemy is one thing, falling for him is definitely not part of the plan.

My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn't seem to like her either. Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they've made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM.

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup—it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom—the hot, older woman Cassie slept with. Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erin's better judgement—how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?—she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night. What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost?

#Romance #contemporary romance #lgbtq characters #lgbtq books #bipoc characters #to read #tbr #booklr #booktok #reading recommendations #Book Recommendations #book recs #STEM #women in STEM #romantic comedy #book blog #popular titles #books to read #library books #chick lit #womens fiction

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

#uh just a heads up if you expand the tags to see all there's. a lot. very long #amphibian #frog #poison dart frog #based on my most popular frog to date (day 651) #inspired by everyone pointing out what they think it looks like #here's a fun secret fact the original guy is actually a phantasmal poison dart frog (Epipedobates tricolor) #(according to the original artists title of the drawing) #not Anthony's poison arrow frog (Epipedobates anthonyi) #i feel too awkward to really point it out though because they look the exact same. i cannot tell if there is a difference #im half convinced the same frog was just discovered and named twice #its very curious btw if you go on the (english) wikipedia page for either species it doesn't mention the other #while hereptiles.info (no idea if this is a trustworthy site) lists both names as common names for the same frog (incorrectly??) #while inaturalist lists them as two different frogs. curiously with tricolor having wayyyyy fewer photos #ok anyway that's my rant i went on a whole journey trying to figure out if these are the same frog or not and i have no answer #i did some more 'research' and i am more confused. some sources seem to imply they are now considered the same species ( e. tricolor) #i think my conclusion is i am willing to agree the drawing looks more like e. anthonyi. it seems like tricolor is generally less vibrant re #and the white is darker and more green? #i feel like thumblr should stop me from typing more in the tags at this point this is a whole essay #at this point i am failry convinced this is specifically the Santa Isabel frog. isthat the real subspecies or morph or whatever #or just the name pet sites are using to sell it?? #i even found some sources (frog selling websites) refering to it as “Epipedobates Anthonyi 'Santa Isabel' Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog” lol #Anyways if you read this far hi. species are confusing. i am not a frog scientist #the first few tags are like an hour old now i just kept trying to figure it out and adding more tags

[humming-fly]

sometimes self care is putting excessive amounts of detail into excessively silly shitposts

#it's time for demigod twins Round Two! #i think they should get to be silly sometimes. as a treat. #elden ring #miquella #malenia #see the problem with these twins is they both have like 30 titles #malenia blade of miquella #miquella the unalloyed #seem like the most popular ones at least #er #my art #doodles #comic

[queerliblib]

It’s been one full week of Queer Liberation Library! Take a peek at our most popular titles from launch week ✨ Did you snag one of these on Day 1? Waiting on a hold? Reading something entirely different? Let us know, we love hearing from ya. 🥰

#queer liberation library #qll #truly the number of holds is astounding & beautiful #in our next round of purchasing we’ll be getting some more of our most popular titles to keep the wait times a bit lower #along with a bunch of new stuff!

[summers-art]

* The convenience of this shortcut-knowing skeleton fills you with determination.

#shadowtale #shadowtale au #shadow the hedgehog #sans the skeleton #alphys undertale #she doesnt have a last name or popular title in the tumblr tags thats tragic... Im making one #alphys the royal scientist

[alexjcrowley]

Leave it to ME to check out "this show people have been talking about" and the people were 15 accounts on Tumblr, 2 deactivated, 5 of them made a post about it three years ago and now I have a new hyperfixation nobody wants to listen to

#I always fall into this trap #I see like two (2) piece of content of a dead tv show that aired when I was 5 because my socials know they know I eat that shit up #I convince myself said show is actually massively popular EVERYBODY is talking about it #then I watch it and guess what #nobody is talking about it #NOBODY #The posts I saw about Severance in may 2022 are the same I found in july 2023 #Severance #Life on Mars #Leverage #The Thick Of It #Queen of Loser shows that's me that's my title

[infizero]

if "sonic x shadow generations" is actually real i will laugh my fucking ass off

#THAT CANT BE THE REAL NAME RIGHT. RIGHT. SEGA YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SOUNDS LIKE. RIGHT #why ''x'' that doesnt even really make sense ToT why not ''sonic & shadow generations'' if ur going w that title #anyways. funniest fucking name ever #sonadow got even more popular after prime and now they're capitalizing on it by releasing yaoi generations. beautiful #srsly tho if this is real i'll be interested to see what they do with it. is it just a generations remaster with added content? #if so judging from the. snort. title i assume there's more stuff involving shadow?? so maybe more stuff from sa2 will be included #or even stuff from shth???? #if they remaster stuff from shth i will lose my fucking mind. hd shadow with a gun WE WILL HAVE WON TRULY #serena.txt

[lunasdestiny]

How about a gamble?

fake cover for my jackpot storyline.

#jackpotshipping #new gods #nezha reborn #liu er mihou #sun wukong #my art #for those who dont know the title is the name of a popular domino game in china

[secretsimpleness]

hi, new follower here for the exquisite ME fanart, have you played supergiant games' hades? pretty sure that's something i'd love to see in your style

Thank you for the kindness! Regarding Hades, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that it's not my type of game, gameplay-wise. I usually don't enjoy combat for its own sake. The good news is that I did some research, because in this instance I'm perfectly fine with watching someone else suffer with combat. So, at the very least, I did some scribbles for you based on my findings :)

#I am about halfway through the yt playlist so I do not know the full story yet. but I wanted to draw nyx! love her. #I see why it's such a popular title. the art is very nice. I am very fond of zagreus' voice; most of the voices actually. #it's interesting that many of the personalities are switched in comparison to the mythology. the olympians are sooo good and kind - #and theseus is a fucking prat. #maybe there will be some reveals or twists further on but for now. yeah. we shall see! #anon ask #hades game #zagreus #(a younger version.) #nyx #pom of power #comic #supergiant games

[wavesechoes]

Sealing Arthur's doom

Merlin 1x08, The Beginning of the End / Aeschylus, Oresteia / Merlin 5x13, The Diamond of the Day (pt.2)

#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #mordred #i know i know that quote is very popular on tumblr everybody uses it but i just think is truly perfect for arthur #even the episode's title basically conveys the same message #that no matter what arthur was already doomed the moment mordred introduces himself #it was just a slow countdown to his end from that moment on #in my mind arthur still had a chance but the moment mordred's name is revealed the tragedy sets in motion and there's no turning back #and it's the same for all tragedies #that quote from the oresteia really sums it perfectly doesn't it #web weaving

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: Most Checked Out Library Books

Here are some of the past year’s most checked out library books, based on data from the New York Public Library System!

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed travels through the Midnight Library, faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one; following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist… But would any of these other lives truly be better? This dazzling novel is about the choices that go into a life well lived.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad:  the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a riveting story about the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. But then a virus that felt worlds away appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: he has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.

What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s lacrosse game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.

Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization - and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs. The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.

#fiction #Popular Books #popular titles #popular reads #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #Want To Read #to read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[montgomeryscotch]

you kids would have never survived the early 2000s.

#proship #antiship #this whole little microwar is stupid as hell #do you know what we shipped back before we had concepts of 'appropriation' and 'problematic'? #twins. enemies. shota. #look up the fushigi yugi twins #look up gravitation #look up fucking loveless #these were popular published titles back then #and now y'all are just practicing puritan politics on each other over... what exactly? i havent seen anything half as fucked up now as then

[sleepinglionhearts]

No no get started on the whole "new adult" thing, I desperately want to hear

Ok, so here's the thing about New Adult:

It's a genre that's been emerging lately in the catalogs I view when doing frontlists (essentially just pre-orders for upcoming titles) for the book store and I'd been wondering what the hell it was. I'd noticed it was especially common in the descriptors for the romance books, but it was often the ones with that sort of sexy-but-not-full-blown-erotica kind of book that also tended to have the sort of description full of fanfic trope terms and "for fans of [usually a Young Adult title]" or "like [popular title] combined with [other popular title]!!" <- and here it's important to note that the popular titles don't always sound like they would mesh well.

And finally, FINALLY, one of these books is highlighted by the sales rep who works with us and she's got a little blurb about it and I get my first useful description of what "New Adult" is:

"Imagine the golden age of YA - The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments - but aged up and spicy."

S P I C Y

Which would explain why they're not-quite-erotica type books, you see, we're not straight up PORN we're just ✨️spicy✨️

Nevermind that a lot of these books do have sex in them, but whatever, it's SPICY because that's what's popular to say on BookTok!

Oh. Right. Yeah. BookTok also gets mentioned a lot in listings for this sort of title.

And yes, this includes the Court of... books by Sarah J Maas and things like The Infatuated Fae books by Jeaneane O'Riley. In fact, I'm pretty sure O'Riley was described as a "BookTok darling" in the contributor bio part of the listing, but don't quote me on that, I'd have to look at the listing again.

Anyway, these are some of the biggest offenders regarding that whole "we will describe this with fanfic buzz terms and BookTok girlies will eat it up :)" issue.

#replies #answered #again i think Macmillan and Sourcebooks have had some of the more... interesting entries in the New Adult category #oh haha also go look up the LJ Shen Sinners of Saint books those made me laugh and also cry when I was looking at the listings #and yes another point i didn't put in the body of the post is like.. u know all those books that came out after titles like Hunger Games #where they completely miss what made it popular #yeah i feel like there's a lot of that in the New Adult stuff especially w certain character types #idk how they make every single protagonist sound exactly the same or make every male love interest cold and distant #hhhhggghh slogging through these books is soooo boring and painful sometimes but u get through it to find the couple of #interesting looking titles mixed in there #i complain a lot about the deluge of romance and new adult titles but there are some cool looking books upcoming too #i might make a post about that later but here u go i hope that answers ur question hsgshsg

[krvolok]

come watch "[title]: the most [adjective] [media] you've never [verb]," my new youtube video essay in which I spend an hour summarizing your favorite piece of media in the most boring way possible while somehow managing to express exactly 0 original or interesting ideas. it has 5 trillion views btw.

#the first few videos like this were good but then it became the clickbait title of the year and now it's all fucked!!!!! #and the amount of times it's some popular shit that's been talked about to death... I don't think you know what 'never' means

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

Pilot Parallels

Dezanitized - After being gone for decades, the Warners escape from the water tower as people run from them:

Suspended Animation Part 1 - After being gone for decades, the Warners return to the water tower as people run towards them:

#animaniacs #animaniacs 1993 #animaniacs 2020 #animaniacs reboot #yakko wakko and dot #the warner siblings #newsreel of the stars #de-zanitized #suspended animation #I like how in the og show the warners go from being feared by the public due to their zaniness to becoming pretty popular due to their show #to the point that fans are literally chasing them and giving them piles of fan letters by season 3 #they even sing “In our toon careers these are the golden years!” in “At the Big Wrap Party Tonight" #and by HfNH no WB staff or visitors flee as they traverse the lot people either smile at them or join their musical number #so I like that episode 1 of the reboot acknowledges that their popularity has grown even if they're still often treated as outcasts #also for the record “episode 1” of a show is not always the “pilot” and vice-versa I just wanted an alliterative title