#ITS FUCKING FICTION

[apollos-boyfriend]

i love watching bad book review videos but tell me why half of these people’s reading comprehension is equally as bad as the book they’re reviewing. how do you make a review so bad you have me defending colleen hoover of all people

[theschizotypalsolilquy]

So this whole bullshit with this fic had me gabbing with the 30 year old nephew again about readers in general.

The man.

The myth.

The Bubba.

And I mentioned dark romances to him. Look, I love those types of stories. Obsessive stalker psychopathic sociopaths...gimme all of em!!

But I told him how I and others who read and enjoy stories like this are constantly harassed and talked down to because of liking fictional men such as Zade Meadows and Aero Westwood.

These are books that come with PAGES AND PAGES of trigger warnings.

And yet, you are reading it just so you can bitch about it.

Even worse, you tell me I'm supporting rape culture and if I got SAd I'd not want to read them.

And like I told that bitch in the comments: Bold of you to assume I haven't been.

But I'm also capable of separating fact from fiction. I'm self aware to realize that if I met Zade and Aero in real life, I don't care how hot they are or how much they love me, I'm changing my name and leaving the country.

So I'm not at all surprised that this horrific fanfic that has gotten published has shown the worst in people.

Again.

These delusional readers believe this is how Jimin truly is. That he's a slut. A homewrecker. An abuser. Whatever vile name they have for him, they use.

And why?? Simply because you don't like how close he is to someone who has been in his life for over 10 years?? Someone he loves and who loves him?? All because you want your couple to be real and true? So you post atrocious shit because you feel personally victimized by A FICTIONAL STORY

Come. The. Fuck. On. Bridget.

Remember when people used to read to fucking read?? To immerse themselves in a world better than ours and get lost for hours???

Gods, I was strong then.

I hate people.

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[yuriclown]

jonny boy for @spookyspeks dtiys bc their composition is to die for……

and…. a cheeky lil playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/06jISsYspUBiBb29mT5MoF?si=287cc11bcb6b4980

[ribbittrobbit]

[papersnatch]

a small celebration for a big man's birthday

[myballsitchaurghouchie]

Quick fanart of one of the scenes from The Rehabilitation Of Death by @bamsara that made me tear up (it's all the siblings. The siblings together make me cry)

[risetherivermoon]

i dont really like it when people dumb down Curly's characterization to just the guy enabling Jimmy. I get that that makes it easier to not like him, so that's why a lot of people do that, because they feel guilty about sympathizing with someone who's done smth fucked up like that, but i really don't think it's giving Curly the justice he deserves.

regardless of if you like him as a person or not, Curly is still a victim and he suffered greatly at Jimmy's hand. Just because he did something fucked up doesn't make him a 'monster' (sorry because i saw someone say that he looks like a monster post-crash and thats sticking with me because why TF are we saying disabled burn victims look like LITERAL MONSTERS- yall use some common sense I BEG)

Dumbing down characters is what fandom does best, but i think it particularly irks me in Mouthwashing because of the nature of the story. Jimmy already thinks of the rest of the crew poorly and doesn't see them for how they really are, we don't need to be doing that too.

I also feel like people don't really recognize the fact Jimmy manipulates and abuses Curly too, even before the crash. What Curly did was fucked up but for the love, don't dumb him down to just this one thing he did.

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

a development team that looks like this could not possibly have any preconceived biases against Black people. noooo way. its just a mistake that all of the Black people in fo4 are slaves or named after fascist colonizers or murdered or stereotypical conspiracy freaks. there is no way that the reality of this team is reflected in the art they create over and over and over and over and over and over and

[ID 1: A photo of the Fallout 4 development team taken from above and forward, showing a large crowd smiling at the camera, made up apparently entirely by white people, and almost entirely by white men. End ID.]

[thelockedchoom]

Harrow the Ninth remains my favorite book in the series like

Two girls under 25 do enemies to just deeply intimate enemies. One of those girls gets a lobotomy (from the other girl!) to try and forget her ex, setting off a cascade of events which include holding ghosts hostage to play house and the eventual resurrection of what may well be the embodied spirit of a dead planet.

All while two 10,000 year old toxic coworkers try to kill god.

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i think people so often forget that saiki is very against playing god, sometimes hes a silly little guy and goes against his rules just a little but it takes a lot for him to SERIOUSLY play god. he uses his powers to do little, easy, usually insignificant things but not usually big ones.

"why didnt saiki go back in time to prevent getting stranded on the island?" "saiki couldve easily made mera not poor" "saiki didnt go back in time to prevent aiura from finding her soulmate, he must be in love with her" "he couldve easily gone back in time to stop teruhashi from getting obsessed with him"

if saiki went back in time or changed the world to solve every single one of his problems and every single characters problems, he wouldnt be the person he is 😭 the one time he did that was over the most traumatic moment of his life... and you want him to do that casually every tuesday or what?

[fightingwithallreality]

The Enchanted Horse (1992) written by Magdalen Nabb, illustrated by Julek Heller

For @horsefigureoftheday

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

The Tingler (1959) -- dir. William Castle

[birb--birb]

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