#tales from tiktok

[bereft-of-frogs]

Ok. As we head into the final seasons of the year, here’s where I predict the Booktok/Booktube/Book twitter drama phases going. The hot takes weather forecast, if you will:

Right now things are still pretty entrenched in a conversation about privilege and industry plants in publishing, but up next is for sure going to be a return of the Classics vs YA fight. It’s the start of the school year in a lot of places, so the kids going back to college are going to want to romanticize the start of the semester, so we’ll get a surge of #DarkAcademia/#LightAcademia/Etc content followed by a wave of ‘why that’s bad actually’, part of which will for sure involve a fight over Classic Literature because a lot of those #aesthetics involve Classic or Classic-inspired literature, and a good part of Tiktok is always ready to fight over whether Classics are ‘worth it’ and there’s a solid contingency that can’t keep their eyes on their own paper and take other people’s reading preferences as indictments of their own. One person will make a flippant, rude comment about YA, the YA people will strike back and condemn all Classics, and so on. I’m kind of hoping for a new book to cycle into this argument as a weird symbolic touchstone, because I rather enjoyed Crime and Punishment, and want to get another recommendation from the discourse cycles. We will also get a bunch of people feeding into this fight because they got their English class syllabus and it doesn’t have The Hunger Games on it, which is clearly the best book ever written, better than all those stuffy ‘Classics’ so that should propel us through a whole month.

That’s going to segue pretty neatly into the moral purity argument by October. Because at the start, part of the condemnation of #DarkAcademia will involve #Cancelling the long dead authors featured in the #DarkAcademiaAesthetics TikToks either for sins committed in their personal lives or, increasingly as October rolls in, for the content and themes of their books. Because for sure, posing with a pretty edition of Crime and Punishment on stone steps underneath falling leaves means you endorse murder. And October is spooky season, so we’ll also see an uptick in horror recommendations, which will then result in a backlash when people discover that horror books, shockingly, have horrifying things in them. Expect lots of character assassination of horror readers and authors, suggesting that people who read violent content are ‘normalizing’ it or suspicious because reading about it means you want it to happen, and probably accusations that horror literature is ‘exploiting’ ‘real suffering’ even if it’s fictional because things that happen in fiction probably happened to someone somewhere in the world and what if they or one of their family members found it and read it? Expect an argument about trigger warnings that just goes in a circle. (Honestly, I’m not sure what the argument here even is anymore, since StoryGraph has pretty good content warnings, and a lot of modern publications also include them, but people will have the same fight about it because there’s for sure still room for improvement in practice, so they’ll largely be agreeing in principle but doing the thing where they say essentially the same thing with minor variations and get disproportionately angry in comments sections over it.)

And then once Halloween is over we’ll get a slow creeping in of the quantity vs quality argument, as people start panicking about their final counts and try to squeeze in more novellas or short children’s books to inflate it. The Audiobook argument may make an appearance, because someone will suggest that listening to Audiobooks on 3x speed and then not revealing that you’ve done that when people ask how you’ve read 30 books this last month is kind of disingenuous, and people will interpret that as people saying that Audiobooks aren’t ‘real reading’. But the main argument will be if you should track how many books you read in the first place, if setting goals is turning reading into a competition. I expect this to continue through the new year as people start to set their next year goals, by which time we’ll probably cycle back to the start and start fighting about genre vs literary fiction, if last year is any indication.

And to be clear: there will be plenty of variations and micro-drama, and also all of these fights are happening at all times. This is just my weather forecast of what I think will dominate BookTok Drama for the rest of the year. And yes. I said I deleted Tiktok. And I did. But let’s be real, this is really entertaining, and also I actually like all the #DarkAcademiaAesthetics videos. (And other #Aesthetic videos. They’re just…neat and it pleases my brain to watch them. I am willing to wade through the drama for a video of a walk through the forest with a Lord Huron remix over it.) Also, what else are those two expensive pieces of paper on my wall for if not giving me permission to romanticize academia just a little bit, don’t come at me, if you’ve survived the actual nonsense of graduate school you’re allowed to play around with #DarkAcademia, that’s my own hot take.

Thank you for tuning in to the BookTok Drama Climate Report, it took way longer to type this up than I thought it would, I had so many other things I could have been doing with this time, will check back in December to see how accurate my forecast was. 👍

#tales from tiktok #this weather report built on being chronically online for the last 15 years #and watching the same arguments come back like the seasons #anyway #this is my favorite time of year and I’m hoping to have exciting things on the horizon for me personally #and also to be deeply entertained by whatever bullshit tiktok throws at us XD #or twitter #each argument has a 50/50 shot of originating on tiktok or twitter at this point

[sable-dream]

the concept of 'fake therians' is so twisted that a chunk of the community seems to believe that there are mass amounts of ppl faking therianthropy for malicious intent instead of genuinely attempting to discover their identity, getting terms mixed up, using a label they later realize doesn't apply to them, etc

ppl faking therianthropy for malicious intent are rare, and 90% of the time they're trolls doing it for attention. Don't feed the trolls.

The other 10% of the time: look out for someone using a therian identity to cover up bad behavior, such as abuse. "I didn't mean to abuse my girlfriend, I was having a mental shift!" is not an excuse. stfu.

Also people 'faking' on tiktok are 99% of the time just. extremely confused, or they're literally 13 years old and have no idea what they're talking about. Leave them alone. Harassment is bad, especially against kids.

#therian #therian community #tales from therian tiktok #fake therian #fake therians

[wraithdolll]

nothing but rlly productive stuff tonight

#shitpost #handsome jack #timothy lawrence #digi-jacks #rhys strongfork #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #this is so stupid #hokuto brothers next??? #obvi i dont support v*vziepop or hazbin or any of that garbage #but everyone else on tiktok was doing it which means i had to do it

[tales-from-systok]

Not me but I watched one of my friends get fakeclaimed for having An inner world At All

That's.. ?? I swear some people fakeclaim for the weirdest things

#tales from systok #systok #tales from anon #tales from the queue #did #fakeclaiming #osdd #tiktok #anti endo #innerworld #inner world #headspace #system #cdd system #system stuff #endos dni #plural #actually plural #plural community #system community

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

Evolution of Conrad Veidt 🎬

Thanks @matthew-garth for suggesting the idea and music 🫰🏻

Such a miracle does exist on TikTok

#conrad veidt #anders als die andern #different from the others #unheimliche geschichten #eerie tales #das cabinet des dr. caligari #the cabinet of dr. caligari #das indische grabmal #the last performance #rasputin dämon der frauen #rasputin demon with women #dark journey #the spy in black #the thief of bagdad #casablanca #phonk #tiktok #fanvid

[kallmeweirdhprroe]

So I’m not 100% sure but has anyone seen those vids with the moon , the sun & the earth trend?? So yeah so with that I also realized that it kinda fits the ggy trio like

(The moon needs attention from the sun to shine)

That can be Ellis but it really doesn’t fit him in my perspective

(But the sun doesn’t care about the moon)

That’s Tony since he mostly thinks about dropping Ellis because of their personality’s or how mature they are

(The sun is too focus on the earth)

That’s Greg since Tony puts most of his time in the book of trying to figure out who ggy is and not spending time with Ellis at all



#tales from the pizzaplex #gregory fnaf #tony becker #ellis #fnaf ellis #fnaf gregory #fnaf books #fnaf boots #fnaf dr rabbit #fnaf Dr rab #ggy trio #fnaf ggy #ggy #tiktok trend

[helios-kirbs]

Save a horse, ride a cowboy :3

#drawing the pant beat my ass sm i cropped them #tftsd #transmasc swag #tales from the stinky dragon #kyborg #cowboy #i mean hes riding a bear who also happen to be his friend whos a animalshift druid #the reason i drew this is actually so dumb i saw a astarion edit on tiktok with the hat and the ride a cowboy song and yea #yk i had to make him slutty tho

[incorrect-borderlands-quotes]

Sasha: One time Fiona wanted to see if the garage door was strong enough to crush a human. Sasha: So she put a helmet and knee pads on me and made me stand under it while she pressed the button, and we said our goodbyes to each other just in case.

#quite honestly. #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #sasha the kid sister #fiona the con artist #incorrect borderlands quotes #source: tiktok #submission #submitted by anonymous

[incorrectborderlandsquotes]

Salvador: Oh my god you so tall, you look like a giraffe.

Zer0: That's why you dead built like a baked bean.

Salvador: A baked- A BAKED BEAN?

#borderlands #tales from the borderlands #tftbl #incorrect quotes #s: tiktok #*i think* its from tiktok but im not sure #zer0 the assassin #salvador the gunzerker

[ace-with--a-mace]

i watched hadestown again

#ITS A SAD TALE!!!! ITS A TRAGEDY!!! #im gonna rewatch addams family i think and then a starkid show #and then finish dead poets society #and then perhaps 92sies #and then be back from spring break 💔 #but i jst needed background noise while i did my hair and hw and iknew hadestown is all song #but oh my god i was crying the whole tiem #l speaks #shut up l #and then i went on tiktok and saw an ending where orpheus and eurydice make it out cuz i think eva was leaving #and OH MY GOD i sobbed #i love hadesrown fav musical of all tume

[bereft-of-frogs]

my objection to the new feminist song on tiktok (presumably)/Instagram is not ideological but with the fact that she tries to rhyme ‘virgin’ with ‘servant’ - ‘nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant’

but because the rhyming syllable is ‘-gin’ my brain hears the line as ‘nymph then a virgin, nurse then a surgeon’

which just makes me be like ‘hm career move’ and contemplate the man who is making his wife perform home surgery on him. Which is interesting.

And it’s kind of catchy so it keeps getting stuck in my head and I cannot make myself hear the ‘right’ version

#tales from tiktok #I’m not actually back it’s filtered to Instagram #this is probably nitpicking I don’t normally hate pseudo rhymes or anything #there are others in the song that don’t stand out to me #but this one because surgeon fits in sooo much better #can’t unhear sorry

[sable-dream]

One of the funniest things on Therian TikTok I saw was someone saying they were a 'self diagnosed therian'.

Every time I think about that it makes me laugh bc I imagine someone walking into a drs office and leaving after being formally diagnosed as a therian like the mental image of that is hilarious.

#chattering #tales from therian tiktok #also no before anyone asks I don't have any issues with someone self diagnosing illness or whatever #this just tickles me and I thought it was funny

[crystal-jack-asripines]

WHY DID I ONLY FIND THIS OUT NOW

#YELLING SCREAMING CRYING #I JOINED TUMBLR FOR THE OG GAME I CANT BELIEVE ITS BACK AGAIN AND I HADNT HEARD SHIT ABOUT IT #new tales from the borderlands #ntftbl #tales from the borderlands #tftbl #mine #thanks tiktok

[kallmeweirdhprroe]

Ok so I decided to the the ’’are we soulmates in every universe’’ but but with the ggy trio so let’s do this :]] (I’ll probably regret this later/tomorrow….)

(I’ll dol different versions)

1. Tony & Ellis

Version .1

Tony:hey Ellis…. do you think that we’re soulmates in every universe??

Ellis:are even soulmates In this one Becker……/I waisted 12 years on you why would I do that again??/can’t we be more than that

Version .2

Ellis:hey Tony do ya think we’re soulmates on every universe???

Tony:we aren’t even soulmates in this one what made you think that?? /you need to let go of me Ellis I been dead for 2 years…..

2.greg & Tony

Version .1

Tony:hey Greg um do you think we’re soulmates in every universe??

Greg:Tony it’s better that we aren’t …../tony I killed you in every universe that could exist

Version .2

Greg:hey I have a question do you think we’re soulmates in every universe?? / do you think we’re friends in every universe

Tony:Greg It’s time that you let me go it’s been 2 years now / am I alive in other universe??/can’t we be more that that??

Greg & Ellis

Version.1

Ellis:hey Gregory do you think we’re soulmates in every universe??

Greg:are we even soulmates in this one?? /its the best that we aren’t

Version .2

Greg: hey el’s (Ellis) do you think that maybe we’re soulmates I every universe

Ellis:Greg we aren’t even soulmates in this one…/can’t we be more than that??

#gregory fnaf #tony becker #ellis #ggy #fnaf ggy #ggy trio #gregory #dr. rabbit #tarbell #dr.rab #boots #f #ellis fnaf #tales from the pizzaplex #beckory #tiktok trend #tiktok #ship

[benjaminutes]

YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE. YOU ARE UNSAFE.

#benjaminutes #tiktok #tales from riftdale #riftdale

[incorrect-borderlands-quotes]

Fiona: I hate when I'm lying to someone and then they're always like, "You're lying." Um, what? Are you gaslighting me?

#Please this is so her #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #fiona the con artist #incorrect borderlands quotes #source: tiktok #submission #submitted by cheryltunts