#I should read the books

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

my comfort characters except they’ve never had an ounce of comfort in their life 🫶

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Just finished watching the 2018 Watership Down series

And ITS SO GOOD

I genuinely love all the characters so much akdjhfhfh

[idkimnotreal]

i rewatched the hunger games series for the first time in the best part of a decade, and i wasn’t expecting what i would call a deep experience, and it really wasn’t for the most part, but the last sentence katniss says to her baby is probably one of the deepest things i’ve heard.

“i make a list of all the good things i’ve seen people do”. and that’s surprisingly similar to my own approach to good/evil in the real world. it’s how i manage to be spiritual even though it’s so tempting as an atheist to fall down the nihilism pipeline.

good writing tends to synthesize the simplest truths about life.

[thorinds]

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[broitsf-ckingfreezing]

You know.

There are many moments when this series has made me feel very big things in my heart. But the only one that involuntarily ripped a cry of despair from me, and will continue to do so every time, is:

They took the little ones

I want to know what Tolkien line hits you hard every time. Where you are just left stunned. It can be from the books, movies, a scrap of paper the Professor wrote on once, whatever. Share your impactful line!

[givemeureyes]

day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.

[circusgoth-dotcom]

first film watched in 2024: the silence of the lambs

easily one of the best movies i've ever seen imo, anthony hopkins and jodie foster just have incredible chemistry in every scene they're together and it was less transphobic than i was expecting, like sure there's still issues with it because it was the 90s (and the books it was based on were written through the 80s and into the early 90s) but it could've been A Lot Worse

[owlbelly]

so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them

but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!

this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist

anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both

[oooocleo]

wipes brow... these are all part of tomorrow's Big Admin Round so pre-any requested edits, but im v happy w/ them so i wanted to share fdfg

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[posalis]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[auden-dahn]

"D-Don't worry about me! Focus on helping the little one, okay?" 🌠 panel redraw of @laikascomet

[feelingthedisaster]

aftg is probably the only fandom in which the fans do not recommend the books to others

[moomeecore]

thinkging about chaos demon god things

[duckysprouts]

scum twilight (name in progress) episode 2 part 2

jacob wants to make friends with edward and decides to help him with his complexion for his meeting with bella tomorrow. edward doesn’t even know who this guy is. (also, no, edward can’t read jacob’s mind cause the system blocks his thoughts out)

bonus:

[berenshand]

one of my favourite little things about the murderbot diaries is how present all secunit's friends are even if they're not actually physically present. it doesn't do the annoying thing where it jumps through hoops to bring back characters that aren't really relevant to the narrative but it also doesn't do the other annoying thing where it pretends they never existed either. like secunit talks about art and mensah all the time even when art or mensah aren't in the book. it's clear how bharadwaj has impacted its personal growth even when she's literally on another planet. it complains about gurathin and pin-lee when they're not there. it's still sad about miki and don abene and it mentions tapan and maro and rami even though it only knew them for a few days (because when you're new at being a person every interaction with other people is important even if it's short). iris reminds it of mensah. iris also reminds it of ratthi. its hair is fluffy bc it let amena play hairdresser off-screen and it messages her so she knows it's okay. it doesn't have to worry about protecting volescu anymore because volescu retired thank goodness. it's still using thiago's language module. etc etc etc

it's such good writing because it's such a little thing that gives the characterization and relationships greater depth and also reinforces the running theme of friendship in the series and then also subtly gives this sense of 'the people you love are a part of you/your story' and also reinforces secunit's role as a storyteller because it's constantly telling little stories about all its friends.