#Booktokers

[bisexualvalve]

Inflation is so fucking bad we're fantasizing about stalkers leaving groceries

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[azure-arsonist]

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

[serial-unaliver]

babe wake up! new booktok nsfw censorship term just dropped

[animentality]

kicking a hornets nest.

[foxglovedforest]

AND THEY’RE FUCKING CORRECT

[geekpopnews]

TikTok para falar sobre literatura: O fenômeno dos Booktokers

Entenda o fenômeno dos booktokers. Quem são os criadores de conteúdo sobre literatura e do que eles falam. Comunidades com leitores e críticos de literários vêm se tornando cada vez mais comum no TikTok. #Booktokers #TikTok

Courtney Henning Novak ficou conhecida após postar no TikTok o quanto gostou de Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis. A escritora e podcaster americana tem mais de 50 mil seguidores na rede social. Ela é um exemplo entre vários influenciadores que usam a rede social para comentar sobre literatura, os famosos Booktokers. Os BookTokers são os criadores de conteúdo do TikTok,…

[sugas6thtooth]

Remember Hind. Remember Reem. Remember all the little boys and girls who are more than mere numbers. They are dreams, humanity's innocence, and most importantly they are not to be forgotten.

[podddcasttt]

Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.

As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.

[fruit-teeth]

Me: maybe I’m not cut out to be a writer…idk what if I’m not good enough

BookTok romance writers: ‘what if you were just a normal school teacher…but the MINOTAUR wanted to get you PREGNANT’

[destructive-critic1sm]

So we all know that this Olympics has been hilariously fruity BUT it’s also been the most romcom-y thing everrrr

Like we had the adorable letter from the man who lost his ring in the river

Then we had the proposals and that pole vaulter (no not that one) run up to his gf after breaking a record

AND THEN we had the tennis team who broke up but competed doubles anyway and KISSED WHEN THEY WON?!?????

Idk who they hired to write the Olympics this year but they’re doing a great job! :)

[maiarosa]

[serial-unaliver]

booktok videos should be categorized as some sort of threat to public health

[animentality]

[bloodybellycomb]

Both the hunger games before and now the ballad of songbirds and snakes proves that the young adult genre can produce some genuinely good storytelling while also examining social issues without talking down to its audience, which makes the ungodly amount of popular bad ya novels all the more embarrassing.