#book im reading

[deletedg1rl]

Women are loaded with expectations that men often aren’t. Society practically hands men a roadmap to leadership while telling women to be content with less and not to stir the pot. It's a pressure cooker of roles that don’t even make sense together: achieve, but don’t outshine; work hard, but prioritize family; be ambitious, but only to a point.

The truth is, navigating that requires not just grit but a willingness to challenge these norms. Sandberg makes a strong case for refusing to accept mediocrity as a woman. You can be ambitious, set your own standards, and reject the idea that kindness means shrinking yourself. The world won’t change unless more women take up space unapologetically—and you’ve got every reason to do exactly that.

[happyfoxx-art]

ARRIVING YEARS LATE TO THE HEARTSTRIKER FANDOM WITH THIS GUY

bob heartstriker everybody

[mixedmessaging]

"My body hung below me like a stranger. I had nubs and hip bones but when I looked down I half expected to see muscles and a member. This didn't concern me much, as a body is little more that a horse you don't need to stable. But it did strike me as queer to find my mount so unfamiliar."

- Whisky When We're Dry (John Larison)

[bookpdf]

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[cupidthewriter]

watch me literally start writing fanfic for Queenie and Briny because i need them to be happy so bad

ur telling me NO ONE has ever drawn ART for this book???/

[maibeloved]

Guess who is back in their gravity falls phase! (After it being dormant for almost a decade!)

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[cottaegecore]

when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

[blondie-drawings]

can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[marciaillust]

an Angel

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[fo0lizsh]

I WAS READING THE BOOK OF BILL AND IS THAT FUCKING HOOTY?!

[lilory]

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