#also I really want a kindle

[bisexualsbuck]

society if I could actually concentrate for once in my life 😔 I girlbossed too close to the sun thinking I could reread the shades of magic trilogy in three weeks since I did the first time I read it forgetting 1) I didn’t have any online friends back then 2) I wasn’t hyperfixating on anything right then 3) I wasn’t playing any games either

now my library copy of the fragile threads of power is ready to pick up and I still have ~160 pages left in a gathering of shadows and the entirety of a conjuring of light (624 pages) left to reread 😬

AND I have to finish the last 10 episodes of voyager within a week before paramount plus charges me again

[grasslandgirl]

a random guy (fairly nicely) hit on me on the sidewalk while I was going to get boba after my haircut which was flattering until he told me I'd probably be even hotter w/o my glasses and asked me to take my glasses off. BITCH? I like my glasses I think I look good with my glasses I like to be able to SEE. swing and a miss dude </33 smh

[butchvamp]

struggling to read this month i think because i've been relying too much on the kindle app and then i just get distracted on my phone... i know i should pick up a physical book but i'm reading 2 ebooks and i refuse to abandon them. also not working a lot either which means i'm not getting as much audiobook time as usual lol

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

Books that I have read this year (listen okay they are technically fandoms with no fanbases)

Roomba eats Satan's general (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-All the Dust that Falls

Furry is forced into a hunger games that is being live streamed on universal twitch (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-The Rise of the Winter Wolf

Girl realizes she's a lesbian only after she becomes god (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Goddess Reborn/Mirror World

Local tree starts eating people on its path to godhood (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Reborn as a Demonic Tree

Ant decides that the food chain does not define him so he equips diamond armor and start controlling gravity (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Chrysalis

Murderhobo -Full Murderhobo

Autistic man decides he hates mushrooms (he is one of the strongest people on earth & his best friend is also a snake god but we don't think about that to hard)-Primal Hunter

Mans sea food is so good that it is legally heresy and gives people super powers (he also has to convince people that he isn't an alien but Australian)-Heretical Fishing

Dudes mere existence angers a god (proceeds to beat up a fantasy world racist) -Gene Harvest

As you can see my taste in books is the best

[judyrocks]

Fair warning rn that I definitely have a new obsession coming. I read the whole Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint manhwa this month, and have downloaded the book and started reading that too. I've already given my pitch on why its amazing to 3 people, and yet the little mind parasites keep telling me to spread the word more

[fruitycasket]

Moira Saw The Truth (7 of 7)

It's the end, baby! Moira meets a face Marvin will become very familiar with in his adulthood.

Word Count: 1,499

Notes: Obligatory link to the previous chapter and Ao3 version. Obligatory tag for @the-pastel-kitsune. School work has been creeping up on me so I made this one a little quicker than I maybe would have liked to focus on this. Ah well.

“Well... The prodigal has returned.”

It was probably about 1 AM (maybe an hour or two later than that) when Marvin got home, and he could not sleep.

There were many reasons for that. For one thing, there was a stranger in his house now, a magician he didn’t know who was doing her best not to be too awkward or frightening while also being stern enough that Marvin didn’t do anything he wasn’t supposed to.

There was also the fact that he’d been sent to sleep in the guest bedroom until his window was fixed, and he didn’t like sleeping in strange places.

And that Ramesses was sleeping on a spare air mattress next to him, snoring. Loudly.

Something else gnawed at him more powerfully than all that, though.

He still couldn’t wrap his mind around why everyone was so upset about the cats. It didn’t seem all that disturbing to him, but that many people couldn’t be wrong about whatever it was they’d seen, right? What if it was a problem with his head?

Moira and Ramesses said it (whatever “it” was to them) wasn’t his fault, it couldn’t be helped. It’s something beyond you, beyond anyone.

But Marvin was a prodigy! Smarter than anyone else as far as magic was concerned.

Before, he’d never been bothered that he wasn’t sure what he’d spent all his life drawing pictures of and collecting animals for, but now that Nico, Ramesses, and his own mother had made a point of telling him how little he knew… They hadn’t been trying to rub his nose in it, they probably didn’t even know that was how it looked to him, but it still drove him insane.

He didn’t know.

He didn’t know!

But he would learn. If anyone could, it was him.

He could hear the Cat now, singing to him again. It was a good sound, like music but not quite. It reverberated through him, made his teeth hum, his brain warm. There wasn’t any purpose to this one. It inspired no restlessness or want.

Beyond the ken of most people, Marvin thought, But not me.

Not me.

The next morning arrived and it was time for Marvin to go to school.

Moira hadn’t been expecting them to send Marvin back this fast. A few days would have seemed too soon given everything that had happened, but the day after? Had Marvin even gotten any sleep? Yesterday, he had returned home early in the morning and slept a little past noon. He would’ve had a hard time getting to bed at a reasonably hour, even without the nerves from returning to class kicking in.

Moira wasn’t going anywhere, and she’d still spent the whole night awake and worrying, only drifting to sleep in the long, dark hours of the morning.

Ramesses had slept like a baby, but the man could sleep through the End of Times.

And their new guest… Moira didn’t really know. Maybe she’d been just as restless, maybe all this was just as strange for her as it was for everyone else. It was hard to say, given she’d been quiet and out of the way for the night and all of yesterday.

When she was around or making herself known, she was nice enough. She had a chalk-white mask that covered her whole face, but she never wore it inside the house. She spoke softly and kept herself out of the way, but still knew how to carry a polite conversation. She didn’t even seem all that snippy with or unnerved by Marvin. But Moira knew why she was here. Their guest knew why she was here. It was hard to get too friendly with that mandatory wall of awkwardness between them.

Moira made breakfast for everyone once she’d cleaned herself up. She started at sunrise and was done by sunup. Ramesses had a coffee, her guest had a coffee and toast, and Marvin got himself a full plate and ate in the guest bedroom.

When he returned, he was dressed in his school uniform. He sat in the living room and did his best not to look askance at their guest too often. “It’s almost time to go,” he muttered.

Ramesses polished off his sugary coffee with flourish. “So it is,” he said. He looked at their guest, “Do you really have to walk us there?”

“I do.” The guest sighed as she stood, inclining her head respectfully at the old man. “Unless I want an earful about it later. Let’s not leave the Twins waiting too long.”

Moira stood, too. “Marvin, come here. Let me say goodbye.”

“Goodbyes” had been a hug and a kiss on the forehead for most of Marvin’s life, but as he’d gotten older, he saw them as childish and avoided them whenever he could.

Not today, though. He let Moira pull him close, squeeze him tight, and brush the hair from his face so she could plant a kiss on his forehead. “Have a good day at school,” she said.

“I’ll try,” Marvin said.

As Ramesses and the guest led him out the door, Moira looked through the window to watch them leave. The curtains were drawn but thin enough to allow her a tinted, translucent view of the word outside. They rippled in the breeze that slipped under the sliver of open window Moira had been using to prevent bacon smoke from fogging up her house.

Three person-shaped blobs became two as the guest pulled ahead. Moira stepped closer, curious to see who had slowed down and why.

It was Ramesses and Marvin. Ramesses whispered so low she had trouble hearing him, even now:

“…but you can’t trust the Magic Circle, not as long as you live.”

The two shadows walked past and disappeared, leaving behind empty, golden air.

Moira was alone again. She shuddered, convinced herself it was from the cold, and closed the window.

By the time she opened the front door, the guest, Ramesses, and Marvin were gone, disappeared into the dark, ever-moving building that was his school. She, of course, couldn’t see it. She had no reason to go in. Or perhaps her want wasn’t strong enough, or someone hadn’t flicked the right lever to allow her entry.

She retreated inside.

After she locked her door, she leaned her forehead against it. Every bone in her body felt like an anchor. She would have dragged herself to the couch and passed out if—

“Mrow.”

Moira blinked, startled wide awake. “Bloody hell.”

She hoped the Cat hadn’t come back. She didn’t think she could handle it, because then her choices would be to piss the Cat off or piss the Magic Circle off, and both sounded miserable.

Moira dragged herself up the stairs. “Hello?”

“Mew.” The sound led Moira to Marvin’s room, because of course it did.

She went back downstairs to retrieve a tin of tuna from her pantry, then entered Marvin’s room and took a deep, shaky breath.

Near-overripe fruit, cooking beef, cold winter air, organ meat, old paper. A strange motley of scents that was fading fast now that the Cat wasn’t there to maintain it. She cracked open the can of tuna and threw her own man-made addition into the mix. Hopefully the stink would clear up on its own, she didn’t want to think about cleaning a whole entire room right now.

“I know you’re in here,” she said. What noises attracted cats? “Um, pspspsps. I have food.”

A petite meow came from Marvin’s closet, then a set of green eyes, then a little kitten. White and grey. Normal looking, if not a little scrawny. It wobbled a little when it walked, like it wasn’t quite used to standing up yet. She feared for a moment that it was too young to eat solid food, but it meowed again and she saw it had a half-full mouth of baby teeth. It’d probably be able to eat from the tin, then.

Moira looked at the nonexistent window, which had been covered with a ramshackle setup of masking tape and plastic food wrap. It hadn’t held up well. She may as well have left its jagged edges open for any wild creature to blunder through.

Still, she would have expected an injured bird or something, to think such a tiny animal had ended up in here…

“You can’t stay,” Moira crouched down as the kitten regarded her from halfway inside the closet, “I don’t think Marvin would like you.”

Moira set the tuna down and the cat threw caution to the wind, hurrying over to eat with gusto. She scratched it between the ears to see how it would react, and when it didn’t hiss or scratch, she carefully picked it up and brought it into her room. She figured she had enough time to take a nap and find somewhere for the kitten to go before Marvin got home.

The chill touch of the outside still lingered on its plush fur.

[a-ramblinrose]

Did my brain decide that it only wanted to read a 1000+ page classic novel despite not being able to concentrate on anything longer than a short story for the last two months?

Absolutely!

And worse, I had to buy the behemoth because of course my brain couldn't pick one of the large classics from my gigantic TBR collection. Nope, special order only for my delightful self!

The life a chaotic bookworm my dears!

[jisnoir]

guys how do you make £250😭

[shorlinesorrows]

i'm eighteen years old and just got my phone taken away in a school library for reading on it during a free period instead of doing my (nonexistent) homework

*screams in frustration*

[sparklecryptid]

I deserve a treat I say to myself and spend money on a kobo color ereader

[bravevolunteer]

i bought the fucking fnaf movie novel. i apologize in advance!

[fitzrove]

special kind of ow: finding out about a book because the author has died 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

[fingertipsmp3]

Okay I don’t know how this is going to work exactly but I’m not reading book synopses anymore, I’ve just decided

[yuwuta]

yes!! i have a 2023 paper white (in green :p) yes, it does have ads, but you can pay to not have ads. which is a little dink bc you already pay for the subscription & the actual kindle. HOWEVER, the ads aren’t in the middle of the book or anything. it’s just when your kindle is not in use (like when it’s locked/sleeping) AND the ads are pretty much just book recommendations bc they’re books based off of the ones you read. for example, all the ads i’ve gotten/i get are books from authors who are in my library.

also: the ads are just pictures, & tbh most of the time i don’t even get them. so they’re really not a big deal….its not like a commercial plays in the middle of the book or anything. i totally recommend getting a kindle bc it’s so so convenient & easy to bring everywhere with you!

i forgot to mention, yes you can download pdfs!! :p

ah okay thank you my dear!!! all very helpful info 😙😙 it’s good to know the ads aren’t mid-book or anything but wdym when you say subscription that’s another thing i’m confused about, or maybe it varies between versions of the kindle? do you pay like a monthly subscription and then have unlimited book downloads or something? i was under the impression that you had to pay for ea individual book

[secretlantern]

any recommendations for kindle unlimited books?

[hachiane]

things that are not talked about enough in Love and Deepspace

i'm surprised i haven't found something like this for LADS, so decided to document some interesting things I found while playing. i limited myself to Main Story, Kindled Memories, Moments posts, texts, interactions, (or stuff you can proc while playing) and did not include limited time events or the chibi comics.

(i've definitely missed out on many so feel free to reblog and add your own encounters!)

read part 2!

Sylus and Xavier are big eaters

Rafayel gets seasick, despite being a fish

Sylus got lost in a train station once

Rafayel can hear fish scream

Nobody comments when Sylus polishes a gun in public at a cafe

Xavier and MC lived in the same building for 6 months before they find out

Sylus’s heart rate can reach up to 150 bpm, and he wants MC to sync to it

Nobody recognises Xavier while he’s wearing the Lumiere mask

Rafayel scolds a cat

Rafayel then made MC choose between him and said cat

This happens twice

Sylus goes ice fishing, often with little success

Xavier also goes fishing, often with more success

Nobody comments when the boys show up to the cafe in nothing but bath towels

MC has said that the dual-prong claw reminds her of a really big fork

Rafayel makes you choose between him and a cat printed on a badge

Sylus has implied that his muscles and abs are not real

Rafayel synced his phone to MC’s steps tracker at one point

Sylus also does this

Xavier names every bird that visits his house

Rafayel used a piece of bread as an eraser, then ate it afterwards

Sylus sleeps sitting up

MC loses a fight against 12 crabs

Zayne believes in mythical creatures (or, at the very least, unicorns)

Sylus’s nickname “Lil S”

Rafayel paints with the blood of his slain people sometimes

Xavier found a bird egg in one of his flower pots one day, and wants to boil and eat it

Sylus guides a scared duck back home

This happens twice

“I’m pretty sure there’s bad juju in that custard bread.” is a line Rafayel once said

MC accidentally grows garlic instead of daffodils

Zayne mistook a plastic bag for a white cat

Sylus gets his motorbike stolen

Sylus and MC were spotted on a joyride because they were wearing glow-in-the-dark glasses

Xavier’s Hunter Uniform is popular with kids

Xavier takes a photo using a public telephone

Sylus recommends tequila as a dinner option

The account named rafayel_ridable_fish_dinner

Zayne’s nickname at the cafe “Large 100% Sugar Latte To Go”

Sylus expressed an interest in baseball

MC is a true crime watcher

MC gifts Zayne a jar of air, and he recommends her to get a MRI scan