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steelycunt · 8 months
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a paperback book isnt alive until you break its spine btw like a long slumbering animal being carefully roused it actually needs you to do that like when you click your knuckles. for your paperback book the breaking of its spine is like the first stretch against your pillow in the morning
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deanmarywinchester · 1 month
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“baru cormorant should be at the club” baru cormorant WAS at the club and it almost got her arrested for gay sex she didn’t even have
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headphonemouse · 20 days
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"Dead wife Kim Dokja" this "dead wife Lee Seolhwa" that THE REAL DEAD WIFE WAS NA BORI
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here are some fun (ish) facts i learned today while reading snails & monkey tails: a visual guide to punctuation & symbols!
the abbreviation of pound to lb is because the word libra pondo is where the word for pound comes from and lb is short for libra
this is also why this -> £ is the sign for pound if i understand correctly
the letter w is (was?) an orthographic ligature just like the letter œ or æ
not only that but the ampersand is a ligature of the letters e and t (though you can't really see it anymore) because et was latin for and
the word ampersand comes from the phrase, "and per se and" and it in fact... was originally a mondegreen (not as cool as that jimi hendrix one though)
ampersand in french is esperluette which comes from the phrase "es per lou et" in old french, aka "c'est pour le et" which means "this is for the and"
the ampersand used to kinda be a letter? like it used to be in alphabet songs?
the plus sign is also a simplification of et
an asterisk can be used to signify birth date, as well as the dagger being able to signify death date
a single dagger can be called an obelisk and a double dagger can be called a diesis
the obelisk and asterisk are the origins of the names for the characters astérix and obélix? or maybe they just inspired them? wild
the reason we indent at the beginnings of paragraphs is because originally space was left for people to put a pilcrow to indicate the start of the paragraph but then even after we lost the pilcrow the indent still stays
at sign is the worst word for the thing possible. english is slacking. it's very sad
some of these may have been obvious but i thought they were interesting. also, you should really check out this book the whole "visual guide" thing is super cool. it's a good book.
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catastrxblues · 2 months
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i couldn’t find the artist but this is the pinterest post i used! please do tell me if you know so i can credit them
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epigonoi · 1 year
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girls when book 6 of the iliad </3
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herigo · 3 months
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dysphoria-things · 16 days
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I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe. There is no joy in that. Only fear.
—The Spirit Bares It’s Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
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I'm currently studying booktok. Some things I've observed so far:
- at least 4-5 videos recommending one of the worst thrillers I've read in recent years
- someone unironically recommending the weird stepfamily romance I saw a lengthy youtube crit of the other day
- a video of a girl reading the end section of a little life on an airplane (?!?!) and having my EXACT reaction (ugly snot sobbing)
- soooo much coho, sjm, ali hazelwood and leigh bardugo, which is more or less in line with the #booktok table at yours truly's local indigo
- a few trend formats that actually look kinda fun and a decent way to get recs (eg. "5 most [insert here] books I've read this year")
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padawankestis · 2 years
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Clown Shoes Squeaking
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just started my annual little women reread and it is just so immensely comforting and lovely to find the march sisters every year back in their little living room lamenting winter and a lack of presents <3 no matter what happens i can find them there !!!
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steelycunt · 1 year
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mutuals if we were both insomniac-suffering teens living in an old factory building together in a fictional virginian town and you awoke from a fitful sleep to discover you had extracted a magical wooden box capable of translating languages from your dream and into our physical reality and then you left your bedroom to show me it and found me sitting on the floor making a waist-high model of our town out of recycled packaging materials would you. go and get orange juice with me yes or no
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deanmarywinchester · 1 month
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everything Seth Dickinson is doing in baru cormorant re gender and lesbianism is so special to me, for ursula le guin “show the society’s traditions and then show how people break traditions” reasons but also for sex reasons. like. I love love love how he portrays cultures outside of the empire doing gender and sexuality differently from the empire, it feels very grounded in historical reality. but I especially love how we see how people inside the empire resist and evade the empire’s strict doctrines of cisnormative heterosexual marriage: third-gendered people pass as man or women to access the empire’s power structures, the rich or connected can get away with more-or-less public gay relationships, people geographically or practically far from the empire’s spies and jails do whatever they want, people like baru who are conditionally allowed into the empire’s power structures are more careful.
also he just portrays lesbian desire really well. ive read too many other unsexy descriptions of tits to not appreciate how baru looks at women and wants them for their strong shoulders and easy confidence and stomachs padded with fat. she’s allowed to want fierce old warrior women and pursue Tain Hu’s old lovers and have fucked up daydreams of sex with beautiful brainwashed Clarified operatives whose consent would be meaningless. he lets her get a little weird with it and i love that about these books
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headphonemouse · 10 months
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elivanto · 2 years
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reading timothy zahn’s novels you’re like oh yeah sure the empire is bad and there’s xenophobia and imperialism and fascism and shit but man i love these characters so much i almost forget about it
reading chuck wendig’s novels you’re like OH MY GOD. THE EMPIRE IS BAD. THEY’RE LIKE. BAD. THEY ARE NOT THE GOOD GUYS, NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. WHERE HAS THIS REALIZATION BEEN ALL THIS TIME
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catastrxblues · 3 months
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save me, gambler, convict, wayward son, lost grisha, suli girl who had become a killer, and boy from the barrel who had become something worse. save me
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