#Ro reads

[sommerlyrik]

“Mycelium has been fine-tuned over a billion years of evolution for one primary purpose: to consume. It is appetite in bodily form.”

Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

[orchidsangel]

this weeks book purchases:

how to adhd - jessica mccabe

it - stephen king

icebreaker - hannah grace

quiet street on american privilege - nick mcdonell

the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson

anna karenina - leo tolstoy

fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury

the collected poems - sylvia plath

wuthering heights - emily brontë

the fall of the house of usher and other writings - edgar allan poe

devil house - john darnielle

1922 - stephen king

the colorado kid - stephen king

interview with the vampire - anne rice

please see us - caitlin mullen

the age of innocence - edith wharton

dark tales - shirley jackson

bunny - mona awad

[hurricane-heatt]

oh we’re just STARTING off with multi 21 okay! immediate whiplash

[ronearoundblindly]

Quick teaser with more details to come, but I HIT 900 followers overnight…

And

I figured out what I want my next celebrations to be!!!

Psst. Send me your favorite works that didn’t get the attention they deserve and I can start reading and queuing!!!

[rose-blooms-red]

Second does his best to show how much he cares about First.

(Because I love this fic and Owl's writing deserves to be read/listened to <3 <3)

[l3viat8an]

I read somebody’s headcanon that Levi would probably stalk or even doxx any demons that comments on MC’s Devilgram posts complementing them… and fair he would.

But you know who would be the real menace in MC’s comments? Mammon! He’s replying to every single comment ‘n complement saying that MC is ‘his human!!’ and everybody else better be respectful while lookin’ at his partner!

To the wilder comments he even threatens to track the poor demon(s) down and gouge their eyes out-

[bevsi]

at this point I need everyone to reread Nana and take a reading comprehension quiz before they tag my unrelated art with it

[itgr]

Something on Past! Gyrus and Kodya

desperation sits heavy on my tongue, tumblr user tullipsink / wanna be yours, arctic monkeys / tumblr user twoheadedfawnn / room of swords, webtoon / sharp objects - gillian flynn / tumblr user inanotheruniverse / virginia woolf, letter to violet dickinson / katie maria / tumblr user inanotheruniverse

[corntired]

Fanfiction is so goated actually

No monetary incentive, just writing in one's free time. Some incentive for like kudos and comments, because who doesn't want to hear that someone else enjoyed what they wrote. Just writing a story that is good and/or enjoyable, no real-life pressure to keep it going because god forbid you and other people are depending on it financially.

Writing a story because you want to write a good story, so you can write what they want the way you want, at a pace that is realistic for you, with exactly the plot pacing you want there to be.

[kakusboyfriend]

I love how Falin and Marcille have the gay ass bath scene that we can all agree is Very Yuri but Laios on the other hand is on some other type of gay shit with a guy who wants him dead but also as a friend (homosexual) but also yeah definitely dead.

The Touden siblings and the ppl that are murder crazy in love(?) with them to some extent.

[fruitsofhell]

I used to be one of those guys when I first joined the Kirby fandom, but everytime I hear a discussion of the series writing that starts with "So the Lore is InSaNe-" and not like, "Kirby has a fun writing style that takes advantage of its cute exterior to tell cool stories that reward player's curiosity and leave lots of room for imagination-" I cringe so goddamn hard.

I kinda just hate that people approach things that encourage investment when they don't expect it as inherently absurd. Like it is fun to joke about how absurd Kirby lore can be, but it really often comes with an air of disrespect or exhaustion rather than like, appreciation that these games are made by people who want to tell interesting stories when they could easily make as much money just making polished enough fluffy kiddy platformers. And when it's not met with exhaustion, it's met with - like I said before - that tone that it's stupid for a series like this TO have devs who care about writing stuff for it. Which is a whole other thing about people not respecting things made to appeal to kiddie aesthetic or tone.

Maybe the state of low-stakes YouTube video essays just blows cause people play up ignorance and disbelief for engagement, but like I STG I hear people use this tone for like actual narrative based games sometimes. Some people don't like... appreciate when a game is made by people who care a shitton in ways that aren't direct gameplay feedback. And they especially don't appreciate it when it comes from something with any sense of tonal dissonance intentional or not.

Anyways, I love games made by insane people. I love games made by teams who feel like they wanna make something work or say something so bad. I love that energy, especially when invested into something that could easily rest on its laurels or which obviously won't be taken seriously. I love this in a lot of classic campy 2000s games, I love this in insanely niche yet passionate fanworks, and I love it in the Kirby series and its writing. Can we please stop talking about it like it's an annoyance or complete joke?

[sommerlyrik]

“Lab biologists spend most of their time in charge of the pieces of life they study. Their own human lives are lived outside the flasks that contain their subject matter. Field biologists rarely have so much control. The world is the flask and they’re inside it. The balance of power is different. Storms wash away the flags that mark their experiments. Trees fall on their plots. Sloths die where they planned to measure the nutrients in the soil. Bullet ants sting them as they crash past. The forest and its inhabitants dispel any illusions that scientists are in charge. Humility quickly sets in."

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, "Introduction", Merlin Sheldrake

[sunsetcurveauto]

"rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is metatheater" "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is satire" actually rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is a tragedy and a horror story and it haunts my every waking hour

[hurricane-heatt]

“In addition to which, all the girls fancy Mark Webber!” i giggled

[scopophobia-polaris]

I didn't even conclude my Ganondorf thoughts on Bloo's poll like an idiot

[takemetodragonstone]

was watching dimension 20 and

*proceeds to spend the next 8 minutes infodumping about how swords are actually much more lethal as slashing weapons because of the more rapid rate of blood loss a slash wound allows for than a stab wound, not to mention that as a fighting technique slashing is a much more effective way to preserve your momentum and keep your grip on your sword, and—*