#Preface chapter

[undertale-au-viciouscircle]

Preface chapter

[passion8alot]

I am reading a book on Algebraic Geometry (The Rising Sea by Ravi Vakil) along with a group (i am behind on the readings but oh well).

And I am going to dedicate this post to all my favourite quotes from the book.

beginning with the preface:

all time winner:

[thefloatingwriter]

it is not a fix-it if stanley uris is still dead. it is not a fix-it if stanley uris is still dead! IT IS NOT A FIX-IT IF STANLEY URIS IS STILL DEAD!! IT IS NOT A FIX-IT FIC—

[bekolxeram]

Comparing the act of being hung up on your first same sex relationship to a drug addiction feels kind of familiar to me...

Ah yes.

It reminds me of that time when my civics class teacher told me dead in the eye that queer people didn't need rights or acceptance, they needed conversion therapy to manage their sinful urges.

Not saying the show did it on purpose, but carefully crafted story my ass. Good representation my ass.

[tellmealittlelie]

Ocean Deep - Preface

Pain coursed though his body as he sunk deeper and deeper into the ocean. His body struggled as his movements grew weaker and weaker from the pain of his numerous wounds.

He was trapped and he doubted that he would be getting himself out of this one alive, however as he sunk even deeper into the cool water, he only felt relief, relief to finally be away from the horrible creatures who controlled him for the better part of his life.

Finally free, but at what cost?

___

As he swam through the deep ocean near his dwelling, looking for food to restock his stores for the long season ahead, Ghost smelt a sharp stinging scent. That of blood, fresh delectable mermaid blood.

As he approached he laid his eyes upon a graceful body, embraced in a fishing net, slowly sinking to the bottom of the deep, too deep, ocean.

As he swam closer and brought the body into his arms, he was conflicted, he had no need for someone to take care of, to care for, but perhaps this cute little mermaid could assist him in return...

A siren needed an assistant after all, and this little merman would be perfect.

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Next: Chapter 1

What do we think? Should I write a full chapter of merman!soap x siren!ghost?

[cottonrat]

THE G/T IN THIS CHAPTER WAS SO PERFECT 0///////0

(Adding this last one because the art is gorgeous)

[emmalovesdilemmas]

i don’t know why the universe has decided that i don’t get to read lives of the monster dogs by kirsten bakis but the first copy i tried to buy had the correct cover and then a completely different textblock inside that cover (a biography of clarence thomas) and the copy i ordered weeks later is missing part of the last chapter and the epilogue??? i don’t know what it is about my luck with this book in particular but i am now convinced that if i try to get a different copy something will be fucked up on that copy as well

[autoneurotic]

house of leaves giving me big eskew vibes

[giliath]

It is. Actually incredible that I hadn't bothered to read Hitchhiker's Guide till now

[knightoflove]

Rip ancient Greeks y’all would’ve loved audio books.

[bratbarzal]

Can I ask how long part 8 is??? I am so excited for it

right now it's 13k but I'm not finished with poppy's half I probably have a few thousand left to write so I predict 15k but who knows

[divorcetual]

gonna read an uncomfortable truth. do u think i should eat a snack while reading

Get popcorn its crazy

[curls-cat]

im listening to the audiobooks for lord of the rings. we are over 4 hours in and frodo hasn't even left hobbit country yet.

[onawhimsicot]

Currently halfway through An Unauthorized Fan Treatise off of that one tumblr post recommending it and i am RIVETED. I don't read a lot of mystery/thriller, so I'm not that good about making theories but this actually has me stopping mid-read and immediately pulling up previous chapters so I can try to cobble together what's going on.

The way the suspense is building up in the background and the way it drip feeds you information is soo well done, and you really get to relish in that horrific "can't look away from a car crash" feeling of fandom drama while enjoying the fact that its fictional.

[vynegar]

help i have such Opinions on translation now

[courfee]

Grownups don't remember what it was like to be a child. Even if they say they do. They don't know it anymore. Believe me. They forgot everything. How much bigger the world seemed to them back then. That it could be arduous to climb up on a chair. What did it feel like, always having to look up? Forgotten. They don't remember it anymore. Sometimes grownups talk about how nice it was to be a child. They even dream about being one again. But what did they dream about when they were children? Do you know? I think they dreamed about finally being grown up.

– Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord

it's actually really weird to me that a lot of adults don't seem to remember the worst bits of being a child. were you not horribly aware of when adults were talking down to you as a child? don't you remember how little autonomy you were allowed, even when it came to things that seemed pretty harmless? don't you remember the times when adults would seemingly be assholes to you for no reason? even if you had nice and reasonable parents, didn't you ever have teachers or other adults in power who treated you disrespectfully? didn't it sting no matter how people justified it?

especially when I was a teenager, it seemed obvious to me & to most of my peers when an adult wasn't treating us with respect. you could almost smell it, in certain classrooms. there would be this palpable, shifting undercurrent of teenage dissatisfaction whenever some teachers started talking. and it made a lot of the kids act out! which of course made the teachers try to exert their power, which never worked because nobody respected them, which made them get more draconian, etc.

as a teen, I didn't really get why my peers and I seemingly had a superhuman sense for when an adult was on a power trip. but now I think I get it. kids are systematically denied autonomy, respect, and consistently have the validity of their experiences denied. like, flat-out. they're a vulnerable class of people made even more vulnerable by their lack of societal rights. being disrespected as a kid is so frequent that I would say it's a defining experience for most children. is it any wonder they tend to pick up on when an adult doesn't see them as worth listening to?

so yeah, of course a ton of kids want to be treated "like an adult." to them, that's synonymous with being treated like a human being worth listening to. it's up to you, as an adult, to understand that wish for what it is, and behave accordingly. you don't gotta be a child psychologist. you don't gotta be perfect at it. all you have to do is remember how painful adult disrespect could be when you were a kid & do your best to act with some compassion.