#bookish icks

[isthataraccoon]

book cover things we need to petition against:

non removable stickers 🤢🤢

real people on covers ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS JUST HOT MEN WITH ABS 🤮🤮😒😒

when one book is smaller/bigger than the rest of the books in the series (BLEHGG)

similarly when a book is just really small 😒😒😒😞😞😔😔

when the cover is smaller than the rest of the book??? like what is the purpose

[sp1dercons]

'he growled' 'he snarled' 'he barked' call animal control😭😨

[draculauralovebot]

take a shot everytime a character starts a sentence with “hey” in stellarlune

[kore-of-the-underworld]

They are just some ships that i do not wanna see smut of like some of my favourite ships need to be either angst or fluff only

i will accept it if its just not explicit and just like 1-3 line but other than that no

especially the aged up ones, they may be aged up in your fic but to the ga they are teens and barely adults

[es-al]

Yes yes

[rentedvsl]

one of my biggest writing icks is when the writer spends so much time trying to communicate the plot that they forget to develop meaningful relationships between their characters. theres no improbably tender moments, no redemption for the damned, no metaphors, no laughs shared between enemies. after consuming the media you leave with a ton of information but with no affection or ability to relate. some of the moments that we feel most deeply don't affect the plot & may appear pointless. but somewhere in that seemingly familiar scene theres a piece of you - or someone that you love - being unburied for a moment to be healed.

[starrynightsxo]

(most of) tfota fandom at the mention of -

locke / taryn / lady asha

[reyreadersblog]

I- for the authors out there who depereatly need to hear this...WE GET THAT THE FMC IS SHORT, okay? You do NOT have to mention it 500 times in every fucking chapter, WE GET IT, she is short, she is small, she is petite...PLEASE🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 idgaf how important that detail is, if you mention it more than one time, i'll understand that it's important, i'm not stupid yk? If you bring it up more than 5 times it's immediatley an ick for me. Like it's not even rep for short people or an important detail, at this point it's just disgraceful.

[bookishfeylin]

Me anytime the Barbie movie crosses my dash:

[carloroxxes]

I hate it when the FMC is childish, immature little brat, and they call it grumpy x sunshine

[linsvibe]

My bookish icks

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Real people on book covers I read books so I can escape reality I do not need reality on a book cover, thank you next. Examples: Daisy Jones & The Six, The Selection; Long chapters I have ADHD and long chapters make me loose attention and interest, long chapters make me feel disconnected and personally I think it usually adds unnecessary information. Examples: LOTR, The Secret History; Stickers and Fake Stickers Please stop ruining the cover and the book in general thank you. "It was all a dream' endings Horrible way of reminding me it was just a book thank you for making me cry out of anger. When people put tabs over a half an inch outside the book Please never do that, they will be ruined when you put the book back on your shelf, I understand you don't want to cover up text just cut it shorter. Using highlighters even if you know they leak trough the pages

If you do that stay away from me, at this point you're just ruining the book, just cut coloured tabs and stick them over text if you really want to highlight. Using weird words for genitalia Get the fuck out.

[kkayslibrary]

I think this would be the only time I would DNF a book.

[theladyofbloodshed]

my bookish ick is that if i see any quote and the fmc is called dove/bird/kitten i will never pick up that book ever

[confused-bi-queer]

Thank you for tagging me @larkral @nightimedreamersworld @artsyunderstudy @cutestkilla @blackberrysummerblog @forabeatofadrum @hushed-chorus you’re all doing such amazing works. I can’t wait to read them all

I haven’t interacted with the fandom for a bit, but now that I will go back to uni I can write and be more present. Completely stupid but I plan on habing more free time.

Currently I’m only writing and rewriting MalMage. It is an ick, I know, BUT they’re at Watford, and little. Not evil yet, so they’re alright for now:

I just posted chapter 5 of Cautionary Tale!! So here's a few sentences:

DAVID

Muttering curses at me, he stands up supporting his weight on my bed, and closes the distance between us. He grabs the teapot and hands it to me.

“Make me my tea,” he demands.

“Of course, your Majesty,” I tease. “Anything else?”

“Go fuck yourself.”

I love writing them being friends and teasing and just being extremely comfortable around each other. It's a contrast on how Simon and Baz were horrible during their Watford years.

Now tagging: @shemakesmeforget @shrekgogurt @that-disabled-princess @valeffelees @alexalexinii @rimeswithpurple @thehoneyedhufflepuff @theearlgreymage @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @ninemagicks @yeonjunenby @whogaveyoupermission @ic3-que3n @raenestee @johnwgrey @j-nipper-95 @bazzybelle @palimpsessed @aristocratic-otter @wellbelesbian @moodandmist @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @bookish-bogwitch @facewithoutheart @fatalfangirl

[starrynightsxo]

people who like aaron warner in the first book - shatter me - are freaks. (I'm a freak)

[bookishfeylin]

If Feylin was canon though all books, do you think it would be like a good choice to separate them to give feyre the time to grow on her own and like actually age up? Because even if Tamlin don't actually mean to be like that they are very apart in age... VERY. And I don't know if SJM's tried to compesated that giving all the males characters a brain of a horny teen but... the age difference it's still there. And we can observe (and I think you made a post about it) how biased Feyre can be depending of whom she is with... She doesn't complain, and WHEN she does a simple saying makes her shut again... I don't know if it something I create of her, like a mental image or if she's really like that... But my impression is that she accepted EVERYTHING so that she can still be with the person she loved. She's is so afraid of losing that she don't set boundaries or idk stood more to her morals... As we can see with Rhysand and with TamTam. She just so young. And it doesn't mare how much Sarah tries to show how strong she is and how Glowing and sparked, she's just a twenty two years woman, that was treated like nothing by her mom, ignored by her family to the point she was desperate that NO ONE tried to saved her :(. The only human relationship before the Fae was a console, but nothing more than that. When she see red flags she always tried to convince herself that it all HER, that she's the one overreacting... And all her romantic relationships look so dangerous...

(omg bookish I'm so sorry I was just gonna ask a simple question but then I get all angsty... I hope you doing fine btw)

This is actually a really good question, but if you want me to be completely honest I think the answer to that has more to do with what type of story Sarah would've written after ACOTAR had Feylin remained canon. though I will acknowledge that the age gap even makes me feel ick at times too

These books are fantasy fairytale retellings, BATB retellings to be specific, so there's no way to wholly make that healthy. If Sarah exclusively went with that angle, the "ehhhhhh its just a fairytale my readers can look the other way and accept the relationship because its just a fictional fairytale retelling", then IMO it would work just fine. Fiction doesn't need to be sanitized, after all, and especially if it were solely marketed towards adult readers who are aware of the dangers of real life age gap relationships then Sarah wouldn't really need to. We can let it be fluffy and cute with no further introspection on the age gap because it's only fiction.

It's a more nuanced convo if we're talking YA, because as @longsightmyth has pointed out before teen pregnancies are often caused by teen girls hooking up with older adult men, not boys their age, so the romanticization of the age gap in YA and how Feylin plays into that needs a more nuanced look. Maybe here I'd argue yes, they could be separated and then meet back up decades later. That's actually. Hold up. that could be a good fic idea

And if we're also going to do the whole "abuse and domestic violence and red flags" theme from ACOMAF, then IMO I'd also say yes--separate Feylin, let Feyre grow older, and then Feyre decades later, as an established adult, can be used to explore those themes of red flags and abuse as she'll be in a place mentally where she can healthily enter a relationship with someone older than her.