#a good book

[thoselovelythings]

[augustatheghost]

thank you for thinking of me @serenabenson! excited to do this. i will follow your lead and fire out first thoughts as to not overthink it and lose my delicate mind.

Tagging @rgrdsalxndra @sarking @gayworths @livbensonfinalgirl and really anyone who wants to do.

[pringledraws]

Do you guys like strange and weird analog horror? Well I got the person just for you!

Onigiri Cat!

They have many different short stories in an analog theme and weirdcore, for an example!

1. Happy Child. If you find life boring, buy a 'Happy Child'. A simulated companion robot.

2. Happiness Microwave Oven. Feeling irritable about life? Worry about cooking or baking? Buy a Happiness Microwave Oven!

3. Children Knowledge Program. Teach your kids about the lovely animals on our planet and which one is NOT an animal.

4. Sunshine Kindergarten. We have amazing teachings for your kids

5. A Good Book. What good book you found! Let's read shall we?

6. Chimera + Record 1. She is coming.

7. Energy Biscuit. A healthy cookie, what harm can it do?

And so much more! I definitely recommend you to take a watch!

[montetrebol]

[feetbelowthesea]

[frog-0n-a-l0g]

Trying to get back into reading so I’m just gonna think of it as a 130,000 word count fic

[cowsaresushi-coral]

im reading the song of achilles with a friend (no spoilers, i’m a third of the way through) and this book is so gay. we’re live blogging about how gay this book.

sorry am i reading a fanfic on ao3 or a published novel. this book has EVERY trope.

spoilers below of me listing tropes:

AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES

AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED

AND HE WAITED

uh uh there’s so many i’m going to do doodles of my reaction to this book with a friend because we’re going apeshit

also:

stop talking about his oily feet.

[artbymyth]

[veravictorialee]

[thoselovelythings]

[augustatheghost]

I just love your writing. Do you have any author recommendations or can you share some of your favorite books? I’m trying to get back into reading 😅

hi! thank you so much for this!!! i have not been writing for svu for a handful of reasons but i do miss it and love that you are enjoying the stories i have shared.

this is a tough question so i will answer with just some of the books that have inspired me and have gotten stuck in my brain, along with some recent reads i’ve really liked.

in no particular order:

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Love by Toni Morrison

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauzner

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

tried to stick to fiction but a couple of memoirs slipped in there.

happy reading :)

[razzafrazzle]

Just Checking In! (aka Something About Red Triangles)

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[starlight-bread-blog]

Me: I shouldn't disturb Neil Gaiman. I shouldn't send an ask unless I really have no way of getting the information otherwise. I'll check old interviews and all the articles that vaguely mention the subject. Of course it goes without saying that I'll read though the FAQ in its entirety. Only then, will I send an ask. However, I'd be very polite and praise his work, as anyone would. I'd also keep it short, because I don't want to waste his time. But I'd keep it very very respectful. I'd be sending a message to a very talented, amazing author that deals with god knows how many like me. Or I'd just stay in the dark and not send him an ask. Yeah, I'll do that.

My Dash:

[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