planet4546b

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the person who realised you could rearrange the letters in gossip girl to read “go piss girl” truly one of the great minds of our generation, madam your legacy

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this isn’t a particularly well researched theory so i might be off base but im starting to get the sense that there’s a massive amount of readers (and not just the ‘bad reader’ but like across the board) who really only want to read about protagonists that they can personally relate to in very specific ways which is maybe where the absolute dominance of discussions of representation in books is coming from (not that i don’t think representation isn’t important, it is, but i don’t think the way that it’s been absorbed into contemp lit is an adequate way of addressing it) and where we get the trend of like people being critical of characters because ‘well i wouldn’t have done that’ and a broad refusal to interact with classics etc…all of this is of course more nuanced and for a lot of reasons but it really is such a strange trend to me

also the most baffling thing about reading more reviews bc i’m writing more reviews is like i straight up don’t understand how a lot of people interact with characters. like it’s so often to see people say they didn’t like a book because they didn’t like the characters or check the little storygraph characters not lovable (lol) box but this will happen for like completely frictionless protagonist who is nothing but vaguely nice except for having some vague mental illness struggle or like boring everyman or like character that is clearly a protagonist but is written with 2% complexity or with characters that are specifically ‘problematic’ but written to be clearly likable or with deeply realized actually interesting characters. like in general books with leading women/teen characters/god forbid a teenage girl catch more flak for this but it is kind of everywhere like okay what characters DO you like

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also the most baffling thing about reading more reviews bc i’m writing more reviews is like i straight up don’t understand how a lot of people interact with characters. like it’s so often to see people say they didn’t like a book because they didn’t like the characters or check the little storygraph characters not lovable (lol) box but this will happen for like completely frictionless protagonist who is nothing but vaguely nice except for having some vague mental illness struggle or like boring everyman or like character that is clearly a protagonist but is written with 2% complexity or with characters that are specifically ‘problematic’ but written to be clearly likable or with deeply realized actually interesting characters. like in general books with leading women/teen characters/god forbid a teenage girl catch more flak for this but it is kind of everywhere like okay what characters DO you like

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really nothing better than storygraph putting 5 star reads right at the top of a profile every time i read a bad review i go to their account and look at the 5 star reads and laugh. just read a review that said ‘this book was too long it should have been 200 pages shorter and nothing happened’ and one of their top 5 stars is stephen king the dark tower LMAO?

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I hate being aware that my frenzy meter is filling

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a sardine just burst out of the ground and pierced me

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this just in: hyper independent control freak gets off on the idea of being completely helpless and at someone's mercy

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image id: a pencil sketch of two women wearing long dresses and headdresses holding a small child by the hands and encouraging them to walk. end id.

Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

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the last thing you see after insulting susie

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image id: deltarune fanart in a black and white lineart style of dess and noelle. the first shows noelle as a kid, as dess lifts her by the hands and swings her. both are smiling widely. the second shows the roaring knight cradling noelle, as noelle wraps her arms around her neck. end id.

Sister

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i want to study at a BOSTON university. i would spell cool as WICKED PISSA and use DEGREES FARENHEIT. i would watch GOOD WILL HUNTING all night with my ROOMMATES. i’ll have CLAM CHOWDER every day that’s worth FIVE DOLLARS. i would DO HEROIN every night. i am also more likely to meet MATTFLECK, KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA, and THE DUCKLINGS FROM MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS. i wish i was from boston :(

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i don’t feel well i’m electing to go to book sale tomorrow and go on a long ass bike ride when i get home

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generally you shouldn't write run-on sentences because they get confusing and it doesn't give the reader a break. that doesn't apply to me though my run-on sentences are fun and understandable and they have a rhythm to it that makes you want to keep reading

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When I die everyone is welcome to start shit at my funeral. Start fist fighting and killing people. It’s what I would have wanted

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go to your local library or perhaps cafe. to get some peason quiet