#but none of these are that

[aroaessidhe]

hi!! i’ve been thinking about trying to get into reading via audiobooks so i was curious what are your favorite audiobooks you’ve listened to, or books that are particularly interesting in audiobook form?

hey!

hm, I feel like that's a hard question to answer because if audio is available to me, I will always read in that format (at 2x..), and all formats blend together in my memory so I usually forget about the particular audio experience....

I think the first thing that comes to mind is I really like audiobooks with strong/interesting accents - or basically anything that's not 'generic white american/generic english' accent? I think it brings a lot to the story especially since I will read everything in my new zealand accent otherwise lmao. I'm pretty bad at remembering which ones actually do that, but I recall these do:

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi, My Sister The Serial Killer, Not My Problem (like any irish or scottish YA tbh), Most contemporary books where the MC is likely to have a specific accent or dialect will do this though when it comes to fantasy they often don't :/ you can find out by listening to samples if that's something that interests you I guess!

I also really like the accents in The Unspoken Name/The Thousand Eyes! (a fantasy that Does use different accents for different people)

Some that I loved recently (well, just looking through my list from last year) and idk if it had anything to do with the audio or just that it was the book I liked:

The Spear Cuts Through Water (this has some format things that might be easier Not in audio but idk...I figured it out), When The Angels Left The Old Country, A Thousand Steps Into Night, This Rebel Heart, Space Opera (Catherynne M Valente, very Hitchhiker's Guide which I think works well in audio), The Honeys (Ryan La Sala - has some creepy well placed sound effects), The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist

Also Natalie Naudus is a narrator who I always enjoy, and she does a lot of sapphic books so I've listened to a lot by her haha

[sunriseovergotham]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[yardsards]

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[trinketbug]

"furry inflation" (2024)

[queenofthequillandink]

Where's my Jewish phrase for when you people are being irrevocably horny?

[sruba1234]

im going insane

(screenshot from Deadpool Vs. Wolverine: Slash 'Em Up Infinity Comic)

[foldingfittedsheets]

It is insane to me that timestamps are optional on this webbed site. A major context clue is just opt in so I’ll reblog something from four years ago and people think it’s happening right just now like babe. Enable your timestamps. Why are you stumbling through the world with one eye closed?

[kazieka]

so I started a new anxiety medication this past week and so far it’s been going very well except that I have extremely vivid dreams and apparently sleep texting. I seem to have sent this at 3am and i have no memory of it

but i am Right

[willgrahamscock]

“they’re queerbait this, they’re not canon that” they’re whatever i want them to be on ao3 actually

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[xgoldenlatiasx]

I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

[aphroditusiscorroded]

I love the idea that Bill’s manipulation tactics are horribly obvious but Ford is so socially inept that it works on him perfectly

“He was a masterful manipulator.”

No bestie he was just nice to you and you folded like a house of cards