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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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🦇💩🤪
#Matthew Whittaker#ambassador to NATO#Bigfoot#sasquatch#time travel#bitcoin#toilets for men with big packages#World Patent Marketing#fined 26 million by the U.S. government
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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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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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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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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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listen i know there is every reason why it would make more sense in every possible way for the new witcher game trilogy to have a customizable player character but it is my biggest wish in the world that the mc would be Ciri. when do polish queer women born in the 90s get to win……….
#i know ahes op i know there were multiple endings#i know using a canon chaarcter is risky and stupid#and letting players write their own story has a million writing and marketing advantages#but i have my dreams……
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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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Friendly reminder the Dragon Age Devs AMA is happening later today for all you Americans out there! Consider me very impressed that a majority of the questions with the greatest upvotes are quite critical of the game!
I linked it below!
#its happening at like 4 in the morning for me so i won't be able to join in the live trash fire I assume it will be#if anyone wants to ramble/send me their hot takes on what the devs say my inbox is open!#going to be all over it when I wake up!#a lot of questions about world states / lack of rp options / lack of depth to companions etc...#a lot of asks for patches to add more content like BG3 has done - like EA would allow that?! they'd charge $20 for shit they had them cut#questions about how lacking the lucanis romance is in terms of content too -> in general the romances are getting a lot of criticism#a really good question about retconning solas's motivations too#surprised i only saw one or two questions about the executors -> the one I saw was asking if it was in Gaider's plan for the series lmao#a few about production troubles and a few about misleading statements devs made#i am so very proud that no one is giving them wiggle room <3#especially about how they were misleading in their marketing of this game - that was outright scummy to consumers#EA is not entirely at fault for how misleading/vague they were in their marketing#Bioware doesn't have EA holding a gun to their head every minute of the day - they're multi-million dollar company#you don't need to defend them lmao#someone please ask them to release the Joplin Cut for me lmao#bioware critical#datv critical#edit - i 100% have a lot of sympathy for individual devs and the crappy work environment they're in#but when some of them are outright misleading customers about what is in the game its just shitty all round#i feel bad for the individuals and not so much the company and execs#veilguard critical
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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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The thing is like, what exactly am I supposed to do with a one to one live action version of How To Train Your Dragon?
Like the original alreay exists, it's already out there being the original with all of the scenes they're copying, not to mention it's also a pretty new movie already, like we aren't remaking a cartoon from the 80s here, this came out in 2010. It's just like, what am I as someone who went to see the original film in theaters, what am I as someone who states this film as my favorite movie, like no seriously though what am I, a peak audience member to market this movie towards supposed to do with a one to one live action remake of How To Train Your Dragon when I can just rewatch the original and have an experience that's ten times better?
#ignore me#how to train your dragon#especially considering they literally made all of the dragons look exactly like their animated counterparts#and copied the shots and frames and the costumes one to one#like whats the point of this?#whats the purpose?#why are we spending this money to create the same movie over again but with different actors?#like we already made the best version of that film possible and all youre trying to do is recreate it but a little bit to the left#like what do i as an audience member get from that#what do i as the exact person youre trying to market this towards get from this new version?#other than a vague sense of nostalgia as youre movie slightly reminds me of the emotions i felt when watching the original version#for the first time but once again i can literally do that by watching the original version too#like i dont need you to spend millions of dollars to recreate emotions i can recreate for myself
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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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