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book rec by me
so you want to get back into reading books but have no idea where to start and disdain booktok (if you get me started on this however i will become an unskippable cutscene so that's for another day). understandable. there is so much out there and it is all so overwhelming and you don't even know what you like now that you've been a decade out of the game. again, understandable. it does not have to be scary. i will help you. below i have created some categories that can get you started.
i want to read Literature
literary fiction, with crossover from historical fiction and magical realism
PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING by melissa fu
THE VASTER WILDS by lauren groff
THE FAMILY CHAO by lan samantha chang
OUTER DARK by cormac mccarthy
SEVERANCE by ling ma
LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS by ryka aoki
IDENTITTI by mithu m. sanyal
PIRANESI by susanna clarke
i want to read sci-fi/fantasy that won't break my brain
sci-fi and fantasy that is gentler on the brain cells. easier to grasp magic systems with multiple but not an overwhelming number of overlapping plotlines
EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by heather fawcett
KINGS OF THE WYLD by nicholas eames
THE JASMINE THRONE by tasha suri
THE CITY OF BRASS by s.a. chakraborty
A RIVER ENCHANTED by rebecca ross
JUNIPER AND THORN by ava reid
BLACK SUN by rebecca roanhorse
THE FINAL STRIFE by saara el-arifi
THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by andrea stewart
i want to read sci-fi/fantasy that forces me to lock the fuck in
i would not recommend picking these up as your first foray back into books after many years of not reading recreationally, but i'm not your mom.
THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by simon jimenez
JADE CITY by fonda lee
THE FIFTH SEASON by n.k. jemisin
THE RAGE OF DRAGONS by evan winter
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE by arkady martine
GIDEON THE NINTH by tamsyn muir
THE ART OF PROPHECY by wesley chu
THE GRACE OF KINGS by ken liu
horrify me!
there is far more to the horror literary canon than stephen king and dean koontz, i promise. consider looking up warnings for these.
TENDER IS THE FLESH by agustina bazterrica
THE RUINS by scott smith
CONFESSIONS by kanae minato
EPISODE THIRTEEN by craig dilouie
REPRIEVE by james han mattson
MARY by nat cassidy
DEAD SILENCE by s.a. barnes
AUDITION by ryu murakami
THE SALT GROWS HEAVY by cassandra khaw
don't care, i want romance
some of these feature crossover genres, like fantasy and horror.
VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by isabel cañas
DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS by sue lynn tan
SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE by tia williams
HAPPY PLACE by emily henry
ONE DARK WINDOW by rachel gillig
i want QUEER romance
again, a mix of historical, fantasy, and contemporary crossover genres.
WE COULD BE SO GOOD by cat sebastian
IN MEMORIAM by alice winn
MOST ARDENTLY by gabe cole novoa
A STRANGE AND STUBBORN ENDURANCE by foz meadows
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by freya marske
THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE by justinian huang
SPELL BOUND by f.t. lukens
SORRY, BRO by taleen voskuni
ONE LAST STOP by casey mcquiston
DELILAH GREEN DOESN'T CARE by ashley herring blake
i haven't felt anything since i read percy jackson/the hunger games in middle school/high school
adventure is still out there.
SCYTHE by neil shusterman
WE HUNT THE FLAME by hafsah faizal
SIX OF CROWS by leigh bardugo
GEARBREAKERS by zoe hana mikuta
i'll read anything that's not straight or white
many books in the above categories fit this, but here's even more, across a variety of genres.
LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by malinda lo
BABEL by r.f. kuang
WHEN THE RECKONING COMES by latanya mcqueen
THE UNBROKEN by c.l. clark
IF YOU'LL HAVE ME (graphic novel) by eunnie
LEGEND OF THE WHITE SNAKE by sher lee
THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by shelley parker-chan
"all ya books suck"
like any other genre or book age group, there are duds and there are standouts. ya is not special in this regard. try some of these!
DIVINE RIVALS by rebecca ross
STRIKE THE ZITHER by joan he
THE RED PALACE by june hur
A STUDY IN DROWNING by ava reid
EMPIRE OF SAND by tasha suri
LEGENDBORN by tracy deonn
i check out and read a lot of these books for free via my local library by using the libby app (you can even add your friends' library cards to gain access to libraries in places you don't live). when i'm feeling like reading via audiobook, i use libro fm!
look, no one HAS TO read diversely. no one is going to be reverse fahrenheit 451'd and locked in a room with no fanfic and only books and not let out until they work their way through the entire literary canon. but reading, and reading widely, and reading diversely, is what teaches people to form their own opinions and question the things they are told. it's why they hang up stuff like "READ READ READ!!" in grade school classrooms.
we live under systems that increasingly benefit from going unquestioned. no, of course reading ASSASSIN'S APPRENTICE by robin hobb is not going to dismantle these systems tomorrow, nor probably even in our lifetimes. but doing it will help set up a world capable of doing it in the future. and until further notice, we are all part of this wretched world. might as well read a good story while we're here.
anyway, i'm reading THE WEST PASSAGE by jared pechaček and the new cmq book this week.
#read books! i promise it's not 'all colleen hoover' THERE IS SO MUCH OUT THERE.#and the more attention that nonwhite noncishet narratives get the more this signals to the market that audiences are interested!#inb4 'why did fanfic catch strays 😭 fanfic is still reading' it absolutely is! and is integral to the fannish ecosystem!#they're not worse or better - but they're fundamentally different and serve a different purpose#my credentials are that i've read/written fanfic for 15 years and have written 2 million words of it through my life LIKE I'M ONE OF YOU.#anyway. i expect this will get like 12 notes but i had to know i did my part.
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boston real estate is like,"oh you want floors for 800k? who do you think you are?"
#genuinely just saw a house for 800k that had subflooring in one of the bedrooms#and they were refinishing another room#like what????/#boston#massachusetts#k mumbles#all i want to do is live in a home where i dont have any pressing issues to deal with in the first like five years of living there#i dont want to have to put flooring in the bedrooms to just live in a place#ughhhhh boston real estate market crash already#likes charge reblogs cast#paying 2 million for a house in a city that will be underwater by the next century
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「爆上戦隊ブンブンジャー」ぬいぐるみ&変身マスコット
#bakuage sentai boonboomger#boonboomger#super sentai#sakito homura#homura sakito#taiya hando#hando taiya#meita ishiro#ishiro meita#mira shifuto#shifuto mira#jou akuse#akuse jou#genba bureki#bureki genba#plush#transparent#my edit#tokusatsu#I hate to be overdramatic#but my heart sank when I saw sakito#finally...he's become a marketable plushie#I feel like I've waited a million years...#he's so cute! 😭
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they understood me better than anyone 💯
#freelancing.jpg#a little sacrifice is my ‘i hate the job market’ comfort story#the witcher short stories fuck hard because the biggest anxiety isn’t dragons or demons it’s unemployment#excerpt#story: a little sacrifice#geralt expanding services to translation and relationship counseling#you know i’d love to see him in social work. his heart would be broken to a million pieces
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stayed up late reading gotsm and now i’m sad because rosemary loved kit with her entire heart and soul that she willingly gave up her life for him and because all she ever wanted to do was keep him safe, she never truly got to meet him at all 💔
#my heart is actually breaking into a million tiny different pieces#i’m trying to pull myself together but like#fuck this made me so sad#I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP#IT’S 2AM#kit herondale#rosemary herondale#ghosts of the shadow market#the dark artifices#the wicked powers#gotsm#tda#twp#tsc
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UK 1987
#UK1987#TIGRESS MARKETING#39 STEPS#STRATEGY#C64#AMSTRAD#SPECTRUM#THEY STOLE A MILLION#THEY $TOLE A MILLION
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tranquility base hotel + casino concept ads because i love this album more than anything and i have an incurable urge to create:
inspired by!!: x - x - x
#gotta love that undercurrent of unease#and ofcourse a million lyric references#i never took graphic design in school. so please be nice 😭#ITS NOT EVEN MY FAVOURITE AM ALBUM IT JUST- UGHHGGGGGG#its got such a grip on my soul its actually insane#also love how literally NONE of these would make sense to anyone outside of a very niche market audience-#am. thankyou for blessing us with this album.#and thankyou to anyone else whos ever made anything based on tbh+c because you lot literally fuel my soul#tbh+c#tbhc#tranquility base hotel and casino#alex turner#arctic monkeys#am6#my posts!!
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the key to surviving this like/reblog ratio and content quality drop crisis is to make things you enjoy, right? right????
#life#yes yes i know that the unfortunate truth about the internet is that funny and relatable stuff will always trump artistic things#wrote enough articles and saw the millions of views streaming into 'viral' moments#compared to interviewing artists that would put so much time and skill and frankly their soul into their art#only to be quickly buried underneath more 'marketable' articles#but just because it is what it is doesn't mean it doesn't hurt the soul#it truly hurts the soul scrolling through some of my tracked edit tags#and seeing people who spent days blending and doing font work and making the most beautiful colors and overlays#get a couple of hundred notes#at best#and then someone makes a low quality gif with whatever dimensions the text ain't even centered and it's thousands of notes like#i'm all for people learning and we all start out somewhere (god just look at my own first gifs lmao)#but the ratio just ain't rationing yaknow what i mean
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I just rewatched (in two sittings, I confess) "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (2015), and I have to say, this movie is just fun and entertaining every. Single. Time. It really gets me that something where they care about the details and the storytelling and - oh! some of the cool camera shots! - didn't make the money and won't be continued. I mean, ugh, why can't we have more movies like this that "make it"? It's fun, it's clever, it's aesthetically pleasing, the characters are interesting, the story is interesting, there's no on-screen smut (there's innuendo and off-screen smut, but we don't have to see it, which means the actors didn't have to portray it, so that's good). It's just a cool movie. In fact, I don't recall much in the line of swearing? Which means that there's none of the more offensive language, because that's the stuff that always sticks out to me. I love the interactions and chemistry between the characters/actors. I love watching them go from a group stuck together, including two enemies, to a team and even friends. Oh, and it's a trip to Italy, besides.
I need more modern "Man from U.N.C.L.E.", so if anyone has some Hollywood-level funding just gathering dust and interest, have I got a suggestion for you!
(Slight spoiler below)
Also, Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander doing the accents is just fun, and Hugh Grant as the charming, chill, competent, and slightly cheeky guy behind the scenes? *chef's kiss
I also love the cuts back - here's what we showed you, and now here's all of what happened.
#man from u.n.c.l.e.#man from u.n.c.l.e. 2015 movie#henry cavill#armie hammer#hugh grant#alicia vikander#movies#i need more of this movie#it's got all the goods and didn't get the box office and that's just so stinking disappointing#where is my hundred million for funding a second film and marketing the heck out of it?#not like i have other priorities but still it's entertaining to fantasize about for a moment#movies everybody should see#if it's their type of movie anyway#rant
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I closed the ranks, and I doubled back // But, you know, I hated to close the doggone door on you.
#niche market for this post I know but if I can hurt just one other person as much as this idea hurt me to have I will have done my job <3#I was messing around trying to pair all the songs on hoom to iwtv characters and this struck me in the chest at a million miles per hour#has anyone ever been more upended unspooling unsung and blue!#baby birch#have one on me#joanna newsom#iwtv#tvc#interview with the vampire spoilers#interview with the vampire#jnew#op#'couldn't this just have been a fancam' NO I'm lazy and my computer has no space!!#claudia de pointe du lac#claudia de lioncourt#gonna go cry somewhere I think#this song already has the power to grievously injure anyone in the vicinity
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applying for a position that just opened up in the place where i did my field study
#they know and love me so there's zero reason for me not to get it#but the job market in my field is so bad that they'll probably get a million applications 🫠#wzfct.txt
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I’m sorry to have an influencer moment on here but I’m not lying when I say that these Tomato Cheddar Toasts from NYT cooking are hands down one of the best meals I have ever cooked for myself in my entire life (and I’ve been cooking daily for like 12 years lol) and they take like five minutes, most of which is spent waiting for the bread to toast. The recipe is paywalled so I’ll just say you take cheddar cheese and shred it on the tiniest side of your box grater/microplane, then mix together a 1:1 ratio of mayo and cheddar. Then when the bread is piping hot from being toasted you spread it on there (like a tbsp or two per bread) and the heat causes them to melt together into this insane creamy tangy spread. Then top with tomatoes and salt.
I have been eating tomato toasts almost every day this summer and I thought I had my formula down pat, but then I tried these and it changed my world. Genuinely a contender for last meal on earth if I had to choose. I have eaten it with every single meal since I got back from my backpacking trip except one bc I was invited to a potluck. I know my username might make you think I’m just overzealous but please for the love of god if you eat dairy and gluten and love tomatoes (and have access to some good ones) I am begging you to try this. On the left is the recipe pic and on the right is one of the ones I made. and like it doesn’t matter if no one tries this I just want this in my tomato tag to commemorate this unbelievable toast because I’m in a new era of my life for real
#TOMATOES#tomatoposting#garden tag#food#recipes#<- for my own blog sorry#I’m so lucky to have space for an amazing huge tomato garden & the skill to do it well but if u like have one good tomato from the market#and want to do it justice…please consider#and literally this morning when I ran out of bread my entire day then revolves around either buying or making bread so I could eat this aga#in lol#nyt cooking#*revolved#honestly kind of insane that I’ve cooked a million billion meals that take so much more time and effort and yet this simple shit is like#theeeeeee pinnacle
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Hm it really sucks that entertainment and especially "immersive" entertainment is rapidly going down hill in quality because the people who are in charge are being as stingy as possible, despite society leaning more heavily into fantasy and escapism every day
#jenny nicholson#everything just has echoes of something better#like so many shows games and experiences have remanents of really amazing concepts and thoughts that really passonate and creative#individuals crafted but higher ups go hm. nah. and then cut corners more and more#and opt to feature more “add ons” which is just another way to get people to shell out so they can avoid FOMO#wheres the showmanship? why is everything so openly and unashamedly stingy these days?#disney spends 10-23 million on an animatronic for a dark ride for a park no one really wants#where everything else on that said dark ride is just a looping screen or fake flora#there is such a huge market for escapism#now more than ever probably#and companies cant even provide#and its only going to grow
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hi GT! thanks again for the great chapter—loved it (as usual).
just wanted to come on here to sing you praises with just how well you write touch/physical affection especially in the most recent chapter’s first half: draco & hermione being v touchy while entering hogsmeade vs. draco’s jealousy with ron + hermione, and how you depicted draco’s reaction to both (i.e., his awareness on just how not-platonic his actions were vs failing to see that ron and hermione might not be also sharing the same thing) and the way his jealousy flares up. it’s starkly real and engaging and you just leave us wanting more.
just wondering: would there be more platon-ish (or more) moments in the realm of Lionheart, since the books were PG?
hope u have a good day!!
Thank you very much! I hope you have a good day, too.
I think of Lionheart right now as a story that rides the line between PG-13 and R (for gore, and I guess also technically for swearing, since there's been more than one "fuck.") Those things will only scale up as the story goes on, to an extent that will soon surpass the books. If the original series can be split up into "children's / young adult" around the lynchpin of Book 4, I think of the volumes of Lionheart as "children's / young adult / new adult." New adult is, naturally, more capacious as a genre than young adult is, and I'm cautiously feeling out my comfort level in the new territory it opens up.
To be completely honest, I'm still making up my mind on how far to push past canon there. I know that explicit scenes are common and welcomed in the D/H fanfic space, to an extent even expected, but the jury is out on how much it will be relevant/necessary/something that I'll enjoy writing. (I'm aware that this is a totally confusing and not helpful answer. Friend, I also wish it was not like this.) Basically, I'm just trying to figure out what the story needs.
I guess the most I can say currently is that I'd definitely be comfortable writing it — I've written it before — and for the rest, I'll play it by ear.
#greenteacup asks#lionheart spoilers#new adult is such a weird and cool genre to me it didn't exist when I was growing up#i see it as a parent genre to the new 'romantasy' species of publication#which is itself like the sentimentalist's answer to pulpy sci-fi#and fantasy has been violently segregated by age bracket in a way almost no other genre has#it's like. everything is either Teeny-Bopper Dragon Wars or fucking game of thrones#or [blatant reskin of a classic fantasy novel that probably started as fanfiction].#like i enjoyed eragon but it did start as LOTR fanfiction. which is why i (LOTR & fanfic enjoyer) enjoyed it!! why be ashamed of that??#if everyone could just drop their pride and admit they like and respect well-written fanfics#we could save the commercial publishing market for really cool new original shit! we wouldn't NEED a million eragons and HP ripoffs!#they deserve to exist! just put them on AO3 where they belong!!
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MY TRIGUN MAXIMUM BEANS HAVE ARRIVED!!!
Also behold: my Vash plush collection. All I’m missing now is that hideous(affectionate) 98 anime plush.
EDIT: HOLD ON VERY IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
WOLFWOOD HAS EYES UNDER THE SUNGLASSES
#trigun#trigun maximum#vash the stampede#Vash#wolfwood#nicholas d. wolfwood#Livio#Razlo#meryl stryfe#millions knives#legato bluesummers#random dribble#I especially love the L/R bean he’s so fucking cute#and at least in the universe of my trimax beans I can reunite him with his brother 🥲#also in the first pic I stacked them the way they are on the marketing so no one be mad at the order
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Born to love the pathetic little box man, forced to talk about his creepy little crush all the time.
#send help#i love vox#hes so babygirl#but you ask me to talk about him and#😐#but ask me about Alastor#and I’ve got a million head canons about that creepy little guy#I’m an economics history gal#and he likes the stock market crash of 1929#alastor the radio demon#hazbin alastor#hazbin hotel alastor#alastor#hazbin vox#hazbin hotel vox#vox
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