#bc i write mostly on paper

[thelittlestspider]

January Reading Log 2023

thoughts: i think this is my mystery/thriller/weird girl lit era.

Finished

- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson: i was gripped by the mystery plot. i think i read it in like two days. i also really loved the way the project stuff was formatted and i think it made it even more fun to read.

my least favorite thing was the romance because the mc is like 17 and her li is 20. it was weird and i didn't like it.

(unfortunately, i bought the sequels before i read the first book bc they were on sale. so i feel compelled to read them to get my money's worth. which means if you're reading these, you'll probably hear about the sequels as well.)

anyway, it's about a girl who's using her senior class project to try to prove her friend's brother is innocent of murder. like ten years before a girl went missing and they suspected her boyfriend of murder. but he dies mysteriously of a supposed suicide, so the town pins it on him because he can't defend himself. and his family is ostracized by the town. so the mc sets out to find the real killer and finds herself in a tangled web of lies and deceit.

- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides: i loved this book. it was a little slow at first, but once it gets going so many things happen. the plot twist hit me like a slap to the face. i was like 😯😀. if you like books about fucked up men and fucked up women, you're probably gonna like this book.

it's about a therapist who is obsessed with this woman who killed her husband like five years before, and she's went completely silent ever since. so he wants to try to get her to talk. but not everything is as it seems.

- Black Widow (2016) The Complete Collection: i read this years ago, and i forgot what happened in it. but the art work was really pretty and i love natasha, so i figured i would give it another go. and i have to say i found the storyline kind of underwhelming.

it's one of those natasha stories where she's very serious and all business and there's someone from her past trying to take her down. it's sort of like the edmondson/noto run, but not as good lol.

the story follows natasha as she's pursued by this guy called the weeping lion, who has information he's using to blackmail natasha to do his bidding. then a bunch of other stuff happens where it's revealed someone has recreated the red room and is still creating black widows. and natasha has to save the kids.

- Sleep by C.L. Taylor: this was a fun book. i think i got it on sale for like $3. it's about this woman who gets in a car accident with her coworkers where she and only one other person survive. she then goes to work at an inn on an island, and ends up being stranded with 6 other people, one of them a murderer who is trying to kill them.

[touchlikethesun]

we talk all the time about how those characters would NOT be having well negotiated kinky sex, but i think of all the mxtx couples moshang would really benefit from a beginners course in bdsm or at the very least they should read a manuel and draw up a contract, like given their history, their communication styles, and their dynamic at the end of the novel, it would be a net positive for them

[hana-bobo-finch]

IT’S TIME FOR MY FAVORITE YEARLY TRADITION 🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥REPLAYING SUPER PAPER MARIO!! I LOVE THIS GAME SM AUUGHHHH

[llycaons]

WOULD modern au ishmael be a good natural science student or would he fucking go off the rails. like he's very smart and all but he did ignore well-known facts of the day to declare. that whale is a fish. much to ponder. mutuals feel free to jump in

[skitskatdacat63]

I meant to write more for a pt 2 lore post earlier but didn't end up doing so, so pls take these AU sketches(Mark & Jense and then some assorted sketchies)

[jays-doodle-spool]

classics professor: *chuckles* fear not STEM majors, I am a kind and benevolent authority and shall be merciful when grading ur papers bc I understand you are intimidated by writing

me, minoring in a language, about to pick up a linguistics minor as well, who has been in 2 college level writing classes and 3 college level literature/media analysis classes: ya no, i’m very scared. i’m terrible at writing. ur bar should be on the floor. i only know chemical. a page is SO much. i can barely cope.

[iloveschiaparelli]

I don't want to cite my sources I want the professor to just Trust that my logic is sound

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[cerbreus]

baking never feels more like science to me than when i'm trying to cobble together an intricate multi step recipe together from several different recipes and tutorials online because the recipe I'm imagining doesn't exist....

[sodafrog13]

*comes out of the door labeled "google docs" visibly harrowed and covered in blood* hi

[trainerethan]

I imagine red having dyslexia and a stutter. He's very smart and knows many a word but they just. Come out wrong. Struggles in school and has trouble getting help since he doesn't speak often and when he does he stutters/mixes up his words. Which just makes him frustrated which makes it harder to articulate himself. Vicious cycle.

[irritablepoe]

ok i wrote a little over 1k words today, somebody tell me they're proud of me :')

[not-so-superheroine]

deseret book is more persistent than duolingo.

i ordered 2 books for a church research project on Black saints in the early Church and also in the Reorganization, on which the one book had a small section us and all had info from the our shared early church history, and it was an ebook too!

and i get physical mail from them once a month. i have no idea how to cancel.

herald house, the community of christ publishing house, contacts me much less, and i buy books from them all the time.

and oh their church book app reminds me to read my scriptures and the words of their prophets regularly if it's not in sleep mode.

i have to admire the effort behind it, ngl.

[thegoldencontracts]

hearing other people talk about their ocs to me is such an experience bc I want to join but I also know I can't because my 'oc' isn't even an oc, doesn't fit in with canon, and is literally just Azul except he's stuck as a girl bc time-travel...

This isn't hate, in fact, just the opposite. This is my deepest admiration to all twst OC makers bc they can make these new characters with new designs and realistic personalities whom they integrate into the plot meanwhile I'm like:

I'm not gonna tag because that would be notif spam and probably get me blocked, but there's the-hollow-writer and every time I see Finn lore I'm just both silently enjoying (like a consoomer tm I'm sorryy) and also in awe of how tf someone can actually make an OC that fits so seamlessly into the plot while having an interesting personality that makes me want to know more about them and that sounds like a generic goodread review but I'm saying this bc I have TRIED and I have FAILED

Tldr: If you make OCs, please tell me how the closest thing I have to an OC is frickin' Azul-but-in-circumstances-tm (listen don't question it I love writing about the premise but I know it sounds weird just- Lemme rant about how talented good OC writers are T_T)

[skitskatdacat63]

I will read the most inane and useless stuff for hours just for my own interest/enjoyment, but reading academic papers is like pulling a tooth 😭😭 like I genuinely think I'd find the info interesting but the fact that ik it's in pursuit of doing an assignment somehow manages to kills my motivation 100%

[mortimer]

hi there, not trying to start anything weird and i hope i don't offend. i like your aesthetics, may i ask your opinions on the intrinsic connection between gothic-style nonconformity and gender presentation? or any thoughts on the matter? if that's too weird or broad of a question i'll take a gif if you've got one, no hard feelings.

in my personal experience i think the desire to subvert gender and to subvert mainstream culture often come from really similar places, alienation, cultural dissatisfaction, etc. androgyny has been a part of gothic style since it started (see specimen, dave vanian, robert smith, any random picture of a bunch of 80s goths, etc etcetc). & goth has always been to some degree political, so while obviously a lot of people dress goth for fun, the origins of the gender nonconformity of the style are imo very much ideological. a lot of early goths, even well into the 90s and now (though to a lesser extent, for better or for worse) were trying to push limits and shock mainstream audiences . often in unfortunate ways i will not lie but also gender nonconforming fashion (20+ years ago very controversial) was very much a part of that. i say "was" bc i find contemporary goth styles to be weirdly gender stratified and also subversion is dead when you have people on tiktok monetizing and sanitizing every little trend or twitch in subculture within days or even hours of it emerging.