#shitty talks books

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

#book 22 #im verh drunk #hi #greatest hits #not really sure why this one resonated. are u all ok #is everyone just at the shiva #yall need to stop saying you arent gonna eat then in the tags #i love that a lot of you are getting beautiful things out of this #but some of yall need to know i wrote this while incredibly drunk #this isnt meant to be all that deep this is just shitty iliad posting #more comments like this is just judaism. surprise surprise im jewish #but again this isnt about sitting shiva #this is me drunk talking about the last 3 books of the iliad #idk what to tell u man

[bruciemilf]

Comic book writers who still make Bruce hit his kids even after years of mass criticism from fans who TELL you it's a bad creative choice that pushes them away from the fan base and comics in general,,, you did this for what?

#no bc like lets talk about it. if you hate robins that much. just. don't include them. but it's a very specific case of brain rot for comic #book nerds and writers -- MALE comic book nerds & writers -- that just. stops them from understanding #we're here because we love seeing bruce being a good father? we're here because we enjoy seeing a male superhero capable of #care and love after being so heavily traumatized to OTHER traumatized people? like. why. why is it so hard #to believe we love bruce more when he's a good father? ik the answer -- its bc these creators and consumers are #shitty men in general and they're incapable of understanding we might find healthy traits cooler than the machismo toxicism they've #been regurgitating since the fucking 90s #please just let a woman or a non shitty mam write bruce because this is so tiring #bruce wayne #dc #batman #bruce wayne is a good dad

[mandareeboo]

I know I know writing is for yourself and you should write what you personally will enjoy and others will follow but personally doubt anyone would read my personal deep dive into religious trauma and guilt while being queer in second person pov.

#The Other Book #Bc that's the tag baybeee #Falc talks #Writing #I didn't have a shitty childhood with religion! #And I think that's important too #The idea that the church and pastor can be good. The community can be warm. And it's just not enough for some of us

[martyrbat]

for when dc releases a new comic that mischaracterizes him again AND the humiliating ordeal of telling ppl that arent your mutuals that bruce fucking wayne aka mr cashcow is your favorite character

#no one understands him like how me and my mutuals do.... #the bats need to stop being in other characters comic books because then the fans of that character hates it and so do i #they never characterize him right in them and because im aware of how invasive and annoying the batbitches are.... #like.. sorry about my stupid idiot blorbo ruining this characters comic. they ruined him in too if it helps. yea it fucking sucks... sorry. #anyways this was first made because i was talking to someone and said bruce was my fav and got sent ‘oh. okay.’ and the convo ended like. #yeah. i get it. hes still my favorite and for a reason but no i fully get it and understand sorry. #but also while i was getting it™ i thought about why and because god dc sucks and like. #this is just an average tuesday when a shitty comic drops and you have to suffer for being a fan of his :// #posts from the crypt

[ja3yun]

let me tell you, men?? not worth a single part of your time

#aj talks #literally went on a date and yknow... #AND NOW HE UNFOLLOWED ME ON INSTA #he will rue this day i'm blasting him on every gc i own #like how did he literally beg me to see him #i had him whimpering in the back of his car and all for him to unfollow? #its me isnt it?? 😮‍💨 #i gotta be doing something wrong or done something in a past life bc why am i attracting these shitty men #and this is a different one from the one i spoke about earlier </3 #sticking to my book men from now on

[emeraldotter]

it’s cool

#doodle #crappy art #this is peter and vic #just gonna keep making fursonas for people in my stories #i was thinking about chs 11-12 when vic begins to realize everything he assumed about peter's life is incredibly off the mark and... #listen i've had a tough weekend. no food/water for 40+ hours and caring for my very ill father. lemme talk about my shitty book i wrote

[homenecromancer]

“why would Paul drink the Water of Life, he knows it’s a lethal poison” he’s like… eighteen, maybe nineteen, at the oldest. the surprising thing is that he didn’t try it sooner

#dune #this is mostly a joke #like. he is college-freshman-aged. it’s astounding the sort of restraint he shows in *not* doing stupid bullshit constantly #yeah yeah in the book he ends up drinking the juice that kills you after his prescience getting worse and worse for awhile #he’s all fucked up and in despair about The Horrors and kinda goes. fuck it. guess ill die. or be kwisatz haderach #i just realized how old he was and imagined him doing shots at a college party in a shitty apartment #oh also feyd-rautha is only a yearish older than paul #so imagine two frat boys in a knife fight about the fate of a gigantic empire #marlowe talks dune #im having fun dammit

[elenagoeslightly]

ok this is not exactly a rant but i've been thinking, as someone who writes, about the way that we female authors present our female characters because in the vast majority of the books I've read, they are mostly the means to an end and the end is a man.

like literally so many female characters have their own growth thrown to the wind and for what? to put a ring on it?

maybe is just not appealing to me as a reader but why can't growth and love coexist? why can't a power angry woman be loved when men are idolized through every shitty and downright abusive and toxic behavior known on god's green earth?

i want my cruel and vindictive and unhinged women to be loved like they hang the moon in the sky for the vile and cruel creatures that they are why do women need to be bite sized or worst need to be punished even if their cruelty is basically a survival instinct while the man can be everything they want regardless of why and how the math isn't mathing

#look this makes me angry #women in literature #we aren't talking the gone girl kinda evil we are talking of women's nature outside of mens shitty behaviors #books #jude duarte #yes it's kinda about her my baby could have been the most powerful being ever but nope look that part doesn't make an ounce of sense #nyx triskelion #cruel babe who doesn't have 1 problem in being cruel #torture him babe who cares #the cruel prince #cruel beauty #fantasy books #Katherine pierce #i will never watch tvd in its entirety bc of reasons but she is my babe #buffy summers #especially in the last that bunch of ungrateful fucks #look i want to talk about books bc words literally saved my ass since the down of day but i also want to be real about it

[socdarlings]

this might sound petty but you can instantly tell which version dallas people are writing about in fics even if his appearance hasn’t been described yet

#if he says ‘man’ a lot i know you’re talking abt movie dallas. #if he has a southern accent and is cringefail i know you’re talking abt book dallas #if dallas is a cheater or says ‘doll’ i know it’s movie dally #if he just murdered somebody and is covered in blood it’s book dally #if hes meaner than usual but very very nice to johnny then it’s book dally #if it sounds like he’s hyper masculine it’s movie dally #if he’s slimy and does those shitty pickup lines that every girl hates it’s movie dally (even tho i know what he did was worse in the book) #if he cries it’s movie dally #this might sound very subjective to me LMAO but as someone who’s been reading outsiders fanfics since the livejournal/ffnet days #you know. you just know #the outsiders #dallas winston

[isolophilian]

me @ Disney: make Smelly Gabe a sculpture or Mickey fucking gets it

#funny because Mickey and Minnie will soon be public domain #i really hate the way gabe just. sounds impressed when percy says he got expelled for assaulting a classmate #i've rewatched too many times and every single time #i notice something that makes gabe seem more and more shitty #i wonder if disney will actually go through with his abusive step father arc #because disney is too weak to actually show impactful storylines #i'll be mad if they don't because it's so important #also you might've seen a post similar to this before and that's because i deleted that one #wasn't happy with it #i was among the people who were surprised at the changes in gabe's character #i just thought he was pathetic and wasn't sure if the statue-ification in the finale would work then because he was different from the book #but you can see how unhappy percy is to be returning home because he knows he'll have to see gabe too #and i'm glad there's so many posts on here talking about how his character is still an asshat #because him not reacting much to percy sassing him out blindsided me #honestly grateful to those posts because they really do put things in a new light #ok i'll stop being annoying in the tags now #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo tv spoilers #isoceratops

[transatoru]

this is obviously a trivial question compared to the main issue, but i'm deeply disgusted by people reading so many books & mangas with war, genocide, political propaganda, repression, imperialism & colonialism as topics – clearly addressing them as something to reflect on and to give the reader a fictional example of how they look in the real life – and said people even go to the extent of recommend them because “they are real, interesting, food for thinking” and then stay SILENT when all of the above happen in the REAL LIFE.

you all get madder about a fictional character that doesn't exist than about real events, real genocide and ethnic cleansing. you are disgusting.

#yes i'm obviously talking about palestinian question #stupid fucks who prefer to post and share about ts songs or shitty fantasy books or their shitty face #instead of sharing ONE. EVEN JUST ONE. post about palestine. ONE. #teo speaks

[labyrynth]

“shen jiu flung BOILING WATER over the FACE of a CHILD—“

so…luo binghe tried to serve him boiling hot tea, or…?

#moi #salt is salt #svsss talk #answer: no he did not. #pouring the tea over lbh’s head was rude enough #he’s already a shitty person #and that’s IT. he’s a shitty person and NOTHING MORE. he’s not horrible/evil/rancid/irredeemable/whatever #he’s just a guy with shit social skills and even shittier coping mechanisms #you don’t need to make up new things to get mad at him over #god i swear some of you stopped reading after the TITLE #you’re not supposed to take the ‘scum villain’ in the title at face value #that’s like. what the whole goddamn book is about. #i mean come on this claim is just stupid #do you know how long it takes for boiling water to inflict third degree burns? #like a second. a single second. #if that tea had been boiling hot one of them would have ended up seriously hurt #and yet 🤔 there was nothing of the sort

[bluebellthesponge]

went to the bookstore today and i just realize that true crime books look all the same like literally 95% of them look like this

#bluebell talks #enjoy my shitty recreation of what #so many true crime books look like to me #i was at half price books and we passed by the tc section #and i swear they all look like this

[piplupod]

also while im at it (and by it i mean probably making a fool of myself) i do want to say when i say that i am kind of stupid i am being so genuine. my reading comprehension is so dirt poor.

school did a shit job of teaching me anything and i suppose then it should've been on me to fill in the gaps (grand canyon sized gaps in this case but i digress) but i was struggling just to get thru the days as it was. in english class i learned to just ask my classmates what they thought the answer was to symbolism/meaning questions and then sift thru what they said to find the bits that seemed correct (based on patterns i'd noticed in previous assignments of books/plays/films/etc) and then mash it together until it resembled an original idea. so i never actually learned to think for myself and i'm SOOO MAD at myself for that. did i get thru school with decent grades because of it? yeah sure. but now i haven't even done anything w those good grades except take a couple office admin and accounting/bookkeeping college certificates that im never going to use bc [gestures at my whole situation].

and now i've got piss poor reading comprehension, and i feel foolishly proud of myself when i watch a movie and i figure smth out independently that i then end up learning is like... baby's first symbolism. just skimming the surface of understanding. the sort of thing that everyone else figured out right off the bat and it took me maybe two days of analyzing the movie to figure it out.

head in my hands !!!!!!

#i vaguely attempted to bring this up to my mother the other day #in a sort of . laughing at myself way. #and she basically said ''oh well we all have our strengths :)'' and implied that i would not be able to like... improve this #anyways i need to go start reading books again properly and get into fucking highschool reading lists or smth #where they've got like. book club questions written at the back of the book sort of thing. #if anyone wants to join me in my endeavour we can start a little book club or smth. i say knowing full well im terrified of socializing #i miss when there was a book club in like... grade 5 or 6... it was so fun to discuss books with a few classmates ;-; #also im writing this as if im talking to someone who is going to bite my head off - sorry if it comes across as aggressive or caustic 😭 #i get nervous and start thinking everyone is shaking their heads at me and being annoyed by me constantly #and then end up writing things sarcastically to like. try to avoid ppl being shitty. but that never works so idk why i keep doing that fjks #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[evelili]

my right arm is so fucked rn lmao this is what always happens, arm gets better -> i start Doing More Things -> i Do Things For Far Too Long -> arm gets worse -> i get depressed bc i Can’t Do Things -> i don’t Do Things -> arm gets better -> repeat forever

nyways, gonna keep plugging away at comms, then unearth the corpse of the last request sitting in my inbox since march, then alternate between ignoring my thesis and Being Completely Normal About Twilight Sparkle, wish me luck

#in other news bc i was reminded by some server chats yesterday i got out my old harmony books #it sucks i dont remember any of it but #i still looked through one and could convince myself i can still relearn it #the first time i touched composition in nearly 5 years was for my magnum opus #and that was terrifying. but i did it anyways #and i tried again tonite even if it was shitty and i still cant get things to sound the way i used to #i am too stubborn to let this affect me anymore #the 5 year anniversary was last month and i refuse to b in the same place for the 6th #nyways!!! i have no time and my sleep schedules fucked i hope yall r having a better time than me #lili talking

[boysborntodie]

When I say the greasers would be prejudiced, I mean they grew up and live in an environment and time period where stereotypes, ideas, propaganda, etc, were more common than today (also they still are common, to the point I don’t think there’s anyone without them to some degree) and exploring those ideas as how they culminate and manifest and how the greasers can unlearn them is much better than erasing these very real concepts and themes within the Outsiders itself as well as the era, thus doing a disservice to both.

#ofc you shouldn’t go into detail something you don’t know shit about #like that’s not your place #and like obviously don’t portray that shit as okay and normal (even though it was thought so for the time period) #but idk removing all nuance is super iffy #also the greasers are canonically all pretty misogynistic #evie rambles #the outsiders #like I really like how se hinton explores misogyny in her book #she doesn’t sht away from her characters being assholes and sexist #pony literally admits that he and the guys will talk derogatory about girls #but se hinton makes it apparent that this is shitty of them and pony himself is embarrassed admitting it #also dally bothers cherry with pony saying that if it weren’t a soc girl he would’ve helped #but se hinton writes this as a scene that feels wrong and cruel with johnny intervening because dally is scaring and upsetting them #plus even though she doesn’t give her female characters big roles (other than cherry) #it’s clearly not a bias against the girls or for the boys #because outsiders is very much a male-centric stort with masculinity and male bonds being two of the biggest themes #and it manifests in all the character from johnny who can’t fit into the normal mould of masculinity #that he sees in dally and admires #but grows as a character and understands the flaws of it and ends up denouncing #to dally who is the mould having been twisted into it by the very system he hates #to ponyboy who is constantly unsure of what end of the spectrum he should emulate #since he begins always falling short #and ends up being very much able to perpetuate and perform these gender roles #and finally does denounce them like johnny did #the female characters also have their own agency and aren’t defined by the men in their life even tho their characters seem centric to them #ugh there’s just so much to say about this book!!!