#read another book!

[puppetsoftomorrow]

the reason i left twitter was in fact not because of the renewal campaign but because a user was mad netflix was adapting a book into a film rather than picking up legends, refering to it as 'some dirty old book'. that book? Lady Chatterley's Lover

i never got over that tbh

#phoebe returns #read another book! #the disconnect was just astonishing #this line goes thru my head on the daily lol

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

[f4mouspr0phets]

i literally need people to get it through their thick fucking heads that there are books written by and about lesbians including masculine lesbians that aren’t fucking stone butch blues

#READ ANOTHER BOOK!

[helpallthenamesaretakenblog]

i love how different percabeth is from different male lead narrated american middle school romances from the romantic point of view. usually, the male lead has a crush on the cold and kind of mean female protagonist cause she's pretty and not like the other girls.....she's pretty and not like the other girls....thats it oops. but annabeth and percy. annabeth fell first. even though she's cold and sassy too, she believed in percy. she saw the good in him and loved him for it. then percy fell. he didnt have to worry about whether annabeth would like a loser like him. yeah, he doubted why annabeth liked him once in a while, but it was a never a question of 'does she?' its healthy. and thats what makes rick riordan one of the best middle school authors ever thank you bye

#now i cannot read another middle school book without rolling my eyes at the romance anymore #richard free me from the chains of the standards youve set pls #percy jackson #pjo #annabeth chase #rick riordan #pjo fandom #percabeth #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #heroes of olympus #percy x annabeth #percy series #percy pjo #percy and annabeth #annabeth #perseus jackson #pjo books #chalice of the gods #hoo text post #percyjackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo fic #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #pjo hoo #hoo #rrverse #rr #rick riordanverse

[hellenhighwater]

okay, settle an argument for me. I'm being told it's weird to listen to an audiobook while simultaneously reading a different book. Do you do this? Like, audiobook in your headphones, unrelated book being read at the same time, not just alternating which you're working on by listening to a chapter, then reading a different chapter.

#i often read a book while watching tv or read a book while listening to an audiobook #not...the same book #unrelated books #mostly because tv and audiobooks are too slow to meet input threshold alone #I do tend to always have audiobooks at 3x speed because that's about as much as I can get away with before verbal comprehensibility suffers #but still not usually enough unless im doing Additional Activity #which is SOMETIMES another book

[moist-von-lipwig]

the realest Discworld reading order is simply 'whatever the hell the local library has available, in whatever order it becomes available'

#the way i absolutely rawdogged the reading order because i would just grab whatever was in the school library... effervescent #and imagine my suprise when i went to another library and there were OTHER DISCWORLD BOOKS #i think trying to work out who the hell everyone is and where in the timeline u are is half the fun sometimes #Discworld

[learnelle]

A bookish corner in my room! Nothing makes me feel more homey than being surrounded by books 📚❤️

#I have another part of my room dedicated to my current reads + Japanese/Lithuanian books ! But it doesn’t look as pretty yet :) #bookblr #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #books & libraries #cottagecore #studyblr #studyspo #uniblr #study aesthetic #readblr #bookish

[waterghostype]

masters of earth

#ninjago #lego ninjago #cole brookstone #cole ninjago #ninjago cole #lilly brookstone #ninjago lilly #lilly ninjago #guess who read quest for lost powers and died #coles story had me in TEARS ugh i love the brookstones #and lilly is just the best ARGHHH #RAGHHHHH COLE #this is another half rendered sketch #dont look to close youll see all the mistakes #OH AND BTW lilly is crying in reference to what happened in qflp #read the book guys it’s so good #aphid artisms

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #matt smith #karen gillan #arthur darvill #the beginning of this book i'm reading reminded me so much of the beginning of the power of three #and i was going to gif the part where all the cubes first started appearing #but then i just decided i needed another version of this scene :')

[finchers-ipad]

MY 1999 ‘SIGHT AND SOUND’ MAGAZINE ARRIVED!!

#HOW GOOFY IS THAT PICTURE OF THE NARRATOR ON THE COVER!! #ALSO THIS IS THE ARTICLE THAT MENTIONS THE HOMOEROTIC TONES #i learned after i had got it that i have alrady read this article on fight club in my Fincher interviews book #HOWEVER i love the silly pictures and cover that comes with it #and it has a bunch of other really cool articles like an interview with Soderbergh and one about Being John Malkovitch #(which is another of my favourite movies) #this is definitely one of my favourite articles on fight club and i’m so happy to have an og copy #fight club #tyler durden #the narrator #david fincher #fight club 1999 #edward norton #brad pitt #helena bonham carter

[murakamijeva-muza]

"Find me in another life. Find me in them all."

- Raven Kennedy

#find me in another life #find me in them all #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #raven kennedy #find me in another life find me in them all #another time #another lifetime #literature quotes #literature #libraries #library #books and coffee #books and reading #books & libraries

[dollar-store-kazoo]

Apollo :) my fav Greek deity

Based off this statue:

#i love him so much #reading the song of achilles changed me actually #I will never be the same #I could cry over that book but that post is for another day #unable to stop thinking about greek mythology for 10 seconds #the hyperfixation is hyperfixating #art #my art #greek gods #apollo #apollon #greek pantheon #greek mythology #greek mythology art #apollo art

[carlyraejepsans]

i know you could explain it all with rule of funny or ''they did it on purpose as a gag'' but

sans has the uncanny ability to read your face like a book and know exactly what you're thinking with a glance. he also constantly misses papyrus' jokes and treats them like genuine questions.

papyrus talks to you over the phone and somehow manages to conceptualize where you are and what you're doing from your tone alone. if, however, you gave him a picture of asgore and toriel, the only way he could tell them apart would be by their clothes.

tone-deaf sans/face blind papyrus. they're both autistic in perfectly mirrored ways so when they talk they keep missing each other by a hairbreadth

#papyrus jokingly: why should i buy ice cream when we've got ice cream everywhere on the ground! #sans (thinks he's being genuine): oh that's uh. snow #papyrus (thinks he's ruining his joke on purpose): UGH. WHATEVER. #autism is stored in the skeletons #undertale #sans #papyrus #they can read everyone like a book. except one another. comedy fields cancelling each other

[sbeana]

im so normal about them

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb art #its so #theyre so #and im so #and the spikes are so #heehhee #i didnt read the other books yet just gideon so please dont tell me something horrible like uhm idk something crazy like gideon dying or #whatver #this took me so long to finish i got stuck in another country in the middle of it so that was a bit of an inconvienience #also im ngl i dont understand the scenery in some scenes too well from just the first read #and also waht the fuck the doors thing is all about #but ill figure it out <3 #eventually <3 #griddlehark

[sanctus-ingenium]

Ooo!! What's the dragonriders of pern???

NOT to contest the claim of trekkies everywhere, but Anne McCaffrey of Dragonriders Of Pern fame invented sex pollen and omegaverse in the 60s. Whether or not this is a good thing is up for interpretation

Dragonriders of Pern is a series of sci-fi novels that started in the 60s about human settlers on the planet of Pern who live in a pre-industrial era. Every few hundred years, their planet comes under fire from Thread, an invasive rainfall shed by a nearby dwarf planet that destroys all organic matter it touches. To fight Thread, humans have genetically engineered dragons which breathe fire to burn the Thread before it harms anyone. The series starts during an unusually long lull between Threadfalls, and in the centuries people have neglected their dragon riders and dragons to the point where when Thread does inevitably fall again, they are completely unequipped to fight it. Nearly all common dragon riding genre tropes originate from Pern!! Anne McCaffrey was the blueprint. I adore this series, but my favourite part is how as the series go on, the characters slowly uncover the truth that they are aliens in this world, dig up ancient technology, learn to use it, and progress as a society. The genre shift from fantasy to sci-fi is one of my favourite things to experience and, as the reader, slowly realising the forgotten truths that the characters themselves are unaware of is great. In this regard, a big inspiration for my Siren setting.

The series contains scenes of sexual assault and a weird adult/minor love story so I can't in good conscience recommend it without pointing this out. It should be considered a product of its time and approached with a critical lens. It was also one of the first books I ever read with normalised gay side characters and gay sex (not any of the main characters) so that was cool. For anyone wondering my fave is obviously F'nor.

#also irish travellers as actual characters.. somewhat stereotypical but they're among the first dragon riders #ive never read another fantasy or sci-fi book that explicitly includes travellers

[stuckinapril]

every time i walk into my local library i make sure to look at the receptionists with big wet eyes before heading to my corner to study bc i really want them to hire me as a part-time aide

#not even bc i need the money like it would just be so good for my mental health #extra cash would be nice but i also just like existing there #i don't need another thing on my plate but this feels like anxiety relief more than anything #esp bc w all my pre-med stuff sometimes i feel guilty for reading recreationally. this would force me to be somewhere i love to be #i WANT to be around books for 6 hours at a time. stacking. shelving. cleaning those precious books #i will burst into tears if they don't let me #i literally know the dewey decimal system by heart i'm perfect for this #p