#Its a good book

[theunholystromboli]

I'm reading "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T Kingfisher and it's WILD because you've got some really real and heavy hitting quotes like

"You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don't ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it. How else are you gonna have heroes?"

but also, a very major part of the plot is basically this scene from Shrek 2

[wastrelwoods]

ursula k leguin said borders are the real problem we gotta dissolve borders and meant it about whole countries and about individual people....lay aside patriotism and lay aside pride and all the artificially constructed barriers that divide us and breed conflict and let yourself be driven by your love for the people around you......kindness and trust are the only way forward....all seemingly opposing forces really exist in unity with one another....light is the left hand of darkness and darkness is the right hand of light

[bunchesofcats]

I love uncle Rick as much as the next person, but I'd appreciate it if he at least kept up with the proper timeline is he's going to insist Percy is still 17 in these books. This should be around 2010-2011 based on Percy's 1993 birthday, but he just made a reference to moving the entrance to the empire state building, which didn't happen until 2018. I'm still loving Chalice of the Gods, but the insistence on keeping Percy in high school kind of takes me out of it a little bit.

[nickbutnodick]

still reading the great gatsby. it's still gay. this might become my whole personality, actually.

[zster14]

My book gave me legit shivers, like spooky.

" " And were the dinosaurs in fact attacking us?"

"Yes."

"They would kill us and eat us if yhe could?" Malcom said.

"I think so."

"The reason i ask," Malcom said, "is that I'm told large predators such as lions and Tigers are nit born man-eaters. Isn't that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that humans are easy to kill. Only afterwards do they become man-killers."

"Yes, I believe that's true," Grant said.

"Well, these dinosaurs .Just be even more reluctant than lions and tigers. After all, they come from a time before human beings- or even large mammals-- existed at all. God knows what they think when they see us. So I wonder: have they learned, somewhere along the line, that humans are easy to kill?" "

-Jurassic Park, pg 134 by Micheal Crichton

I mean it's a Thriller, and it's supposed to thrill you. Give you that zing of trepidation/fear up your spine, but like wow.

Also, as much as I love the movies, there is something cooler about the book so far? Like its feeding me so much science background that I'm getting a better idea of the implications. And how the movie tamed down all the scientists and other characters. And the inciting incident makes more sense because of all the background information.

(Also the level of dinosaur knowledge at the time, and the realistic reactions of normal people. Just... yesss.)

Not done yet though. Only like 2 people have been killed by dinosaurs and that was just the set dressing.

[naomiarai]

yes i spent most of my day under my sheets reading a good girls guide to murder for like the 3rd time :p

[pngjpeg]

>be me >used to take care of chronically (terminally) ill mother >mom dies >no job >no prospects >get weird letter in the mail asking me to go to a haunted house in the middle of bumfuck nowhere >steal sister's car (that is half mine, i helped pay for it) to go there >meet an extremely appealing woman >immediately stick to her like glue in all things at all time >get there thinking its gonna be a joke >house is turbo haunted >house is actually evil >house is repulsive >cannot look at house directly without feeling Bad >house wants to eject me from it down to the upholstery fabric of the seat cushions

[lakesbian]

“Missed me,” I said, loud enough for my voice to carry into the chamber I’d left behind. A limb struck the wall, hard enough to make a cracking sound.   Cold air blew past me, frigid enough to tear the wind from my lungs. When I’d caught my breath, I had to resist the urge to laugh. It was frustrated. Was I a little crazy? No.  Well, yes, maybe. But that wasn’t exactly it. “I’m not so afraid anymore,” I murmured to myself.  “For better or worse.”

loud cheering

[trashtalkingracoon]

i have finished my reread of Thrawn: Alliances and now i can confidently say that padmé/thrawn/anakin dynamic is pretty much "hi i'm padmé and this is my husband anakin and this is anakin's boyfriend thrawn"

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

so i read this book today called Hell Followed With Us (very good, highly recommend i finished it already it took me less than six hours) and Nick reminds me so much of Regulus

like, the morally grey bits of him of course BUT i imagine his meltdown with Erin is exactly how Regulus responds to being overwhelmed also

and and and the not liking kissing and physical touch could also be him!! my personal headcanon for Regulus is that he thinks mouths are gross and doesn’t like kissing but does enjoy a good cuddle or hand holding but just!!!

if uve ever read this book please speak to me about it none of my friends have read it, if not you should totally check the tw list and then read it if thats still comfortable for you because it was so good i loved it so very much

[razzafrazzle]

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[mosslingg]

life lessons with grunkle ford

you can support my work on kofi!

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[lakesbian]

sniffles. writing pact posts. in my brain.

[t-s-n-s-s-a-g-turnip]

book im reading uses person, or per for short, as a gender neutral way of referring to people and its neat that piercy was trying to do that, especially in the 70s, but also there is a word already to do that and of all other words person is not great in terms of how it sounds and such