#anyway they have 50 years in the books

[ottopilot-sfw]

When I was a kid, my mom would erupt into a meltdown at the dinner table and storm off to her room. I would just sit there in stunned silence, and my little sister would try not to cry. But my dad never got mad or upset, he just put away the food and washed the dishes.

Somehow, I ended up just like both of them.

Someone being patient with you on your bad days is one of the softest forms of love

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

[domokunrainbowkinz]

Ok these are the last ones I swear (lie)

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

my greatest asset as a "smart kid" was knowing that i really wasn't all that smart. every monday my pops would take me to the library, where i'd max out my library card to check out the full twenty-five books, and read them all by the next monday so i could get another twenty-five. this went on from ages 5 to 18, and everyone around me would say "oh, wyatt is so smart they read so much so fast". but i knew this wasn't the case. for one thing, it's easy to read a lot of books when you're homeschooled with no one friends

for another, i wasn't reading academic texts. i wasn't reading classics. i read plenty of that kind of thing as part of my school curriculum, so i saw the library as a source of leisure reading 90% of the time. i was reading horror novels and trashy romance and manga and comics. i'd read nonfiction, but only about whatever topic i was fixiated on at the time. dog grooming, parasitology, the elephant man, and cat breeding, to name just a few. i wasn't trying to better myself! was trying to chill!

adults would tell me how smart i was, how i should be a doctor or lawyer. and all i could think was: "i don't see how reading Anne McCaffrey could possibly translate to my getting into med school." this has got to be why i can't relate to any of the posts about burnout or ego death i see from the gifted kid program refugees on here. being smart for small town* white trash isn't the same as being smart in the grand scheme of things. i do feel bad that so many of y'all bought your own hype, but once i found out adults lied about santa claus, i figured they would lie to you about everything and took everything they said with a grain of salt.

[fuck-kirk]

Been moving my book collection by myself and am on the verge of death

[nat-20s]

I'm rapidly becoming a huge audiobook stan like especially as a lover of many books that I have a hard time reading and keep track of (looking at YOU high fantasies and certain more academic texts) now whenever I'm like "I want to read this book but IDK if I'll be able to process a damn thing" I go ough..what if..there's an audiobook...Like Hell Yeah slap some character voices on those motherfuckers and I suddenly Get It

[camgoloud]

anybody on here read fucking. uh. the magicians

[chaoticeddie]

y'all I knew my fellow student was a t**** supporter but like. she's a SUPPORTER supporter

[redvanillabee]

you ever started doing research for a fic but then the research itself was so interesting you kind of get distracted from the writing?

[saintbuffy]

got some new books at the library today 😈 hehehe

[essektheylyss]

Listen, some of us would actually like to get through our eternally-growing reading lists, and if someone was like, "Hey, do you want to get reincarnated and get all of your memories back," I would simply say yes.

rip to Essek Thelyss and all of his concerns about dunamancy or whatever but I'm built different.

[tothelasthoursofmylife]

Trains

If you read the end chapter notes for "Ecstasy," I already bored you about gangway connections and corridor coaches and how both of these things were generally/widely introduced in Great Britain around the late 19th century/early 20th century. Before corridor coaches, there were compartment coaches. Now, let me bore you a bit more XD

With compartment coaches, you open the door and are already inside the cabin! You cannot move between compartments as there's no corridor connecting them. It's great for solitude, I suppose, but horrible if you have a weak bladder.

(Source)

I decided to check the manga and, as you can see, the train Smile and Sebastian board in Ch36 has a lot of doors, an indicator of compartment coaches!

When they step inside, it also looks like they go in and are already in their compartment!

In the anime, however, they go in

and there's clearly a corridor!!!

EDIT:

Note that Sebastian also closes the door differently in the anime! In the manga, he closes the door where Smile opened it; in the anime, it is a sliding door instead and he closes it from the other side!

Interestingly, the train in the anime also has a lot of doors outside. I guess they must have adopted the train's exterior from the manga without understanding why it looks like it does.

Yana might have messed up in the earliest arcs (for understandable reasons), but she certainly stepped up with research since^^

[elvesofnoldor]

the vampire lestat in audiobook format is 24 hours long and i finished listening to it in a week, meanwhile merrick is only 8 hours long and it took me three weeks to chew through the whole fucking thing. it's not even very badly written, i just really hate it when anne rice turned the dial up to 11 on her Sympathy with the P*dophile bullshit

[miabrown007]

the Night Circus is fiction because there's no way an Adrien-level sheltered guy goes out to the streets in the 19th century and kisses a girl in an hour

[waugh-bao]

*

[mysunshine-youremoonlight]

14 + 25?

14. Favorite book you read this year?

umm i don't read much on my own but for school my favorite was probably Ready Player One? we're currently reading a book called Sabriel though and that's been super good...

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

oooh i can talk about my pokemon character :D his name is Hyacinth and he's a silly little farmer boy who has no fucking clue what's going on. his ace is a shiny mareep named Candy (who i am currently hunting for), and his team rn is Fidough, Sprigatito (who isn't going to evolve), Wooper, Ralts, Mareep, and Fletchinder :) the endgame team tho is shiny mareep, shiny sylveon, shiny fidough, clodsire, sprigatito, and fidough's evo that i can't remember the name of. it's not a mega-effective team but it's his team <3