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I saw something a while ago about paranormal romance/why choose books being basically trad wife fantasies, and I have so many thoughts about that
#elumish blogs#i can't find it now#so if anyone knows the tweet? or post or whatever#and wants to link it to me#it would be much appreciated#i have read hundreds of these books#i have read so many of them#i have so many thoughts about the way they present things#and it's about relationships but it's more about things like so many of the men basically being part of paramilitary groups#and the idea that extrajudiciously murdering criminals is good#and women are constantly under threat but also can be healed by the power of love#etc etc etc#so many thoughts#those books are the equivalent of that video of the white lady barricading her house because her husband left for the day#(when i say those books i mean A Certain Type of those books)#i have written one of those books#and i promise you that it is not a trad wife fantasy
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Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2
#sorry for the mercy/augustine sex jumpscare but i rly do think they have terrible sex every like. 200 years#they're like “Oh this Sucks I'm never doing this Again” and then hundreds of years pass and they get bored and they're like hmmm#maybe. it wasn't THAT bad.#the idea of bitching and complaining during sex is too funny to me#also my magnus design is pure indulgence#i just wanted to sexualise that old man. and he ended up looking like varric dragon age 😭😭#also also i gave Pal the fancy swoopy glasses that elphaba wears in the wicked trailer cos i think they're cool#okay now i gotta do some actual tagging#the locked tomb#tlt#gideon the ninth#gtn#harrow the ninth#htn#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrow nonagesimus#griddlehark#ianthe tridentarius#ianthe the third#mercymorn the first#augustine the first#palamedes sextus#palamedes the sixth#abigail pent#magnus quinn#john gaius#tlt shitposting#oh and i haven't finished Nona. i paused my reading because i found out there isn't a release date for the next book so I'm like#i need to make this last. i gotta ration this book out (<-stupid)
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Men need to STOP bringing up Thrawn to me on a first date unprompted it’s making me crazy 😭
Most recent guy asked me who the blue guy is to test if I knew who he actually was??? And I had to refrain from being like “you should see my fucking Google docs”
#instead I smiled pleasantly and was like ‘oh yeah I’ve read all the books Zahn is my favorite author’#when I COULD have said ‘I have written over one hundred and sixty thousand words of fanfiction about ‘that blue guy’#smutty fanfiction too!!!#thrawn#thranto
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Books of 2024: THE AMBERGRIS TRILOGY by Jeff VanderMeer.
Up next! This series is how I'm bridging my current writing/revision project with the one on deck for my personal nano. They're both Weird Stories, but the one I'm working on now is Weird (genre), like VanderMeer, and the one I'm planning for November is going to be Weird (fungus), also like VanderMeer. I hope to get Driscoll vibes AND some New Book vibes out of this!
#books of 2024#book photo#book photography#jeff vandermeer#ambergris#city of saints and madmen#shriek: an afterword#finch#also these are deceptively small books#they look Slender but the shortest one is almost 400 pages lmfao#(the big one is not cumulatively numbered but IT is SEVEN HUNDRED AND FOUR PAGES!!!)#sir wtf#i suspect CITY will be vaguely ALWAYS COMING HOME#(weird to read and brainbendy and dense)#(since it's also lots of little pieces put together)#anyway i've been hanging onto this because vandermeer = driscoll vibes to me#and then i realized i wanted to do weird fungus for nano too so i'm like. ah. perfect. we'll use this for bridge material.#and then i have SO MANY HAUNTED HOUSE STORIES TO READ >:D#i am very fond of these covers#and they're a good size of paperback#i'm considering springing for the new southern reach paperbacks because i only have the collected hardback and that's not hand-friendly
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Do you have any recommendations for danmei novels that are at all like SVSSS in tone? Or MDZS?
I have already read TGCF, but while I enjoyed it, the extended downward spiral without as many mental breaks from cutting to happier times proved to me a bit much for me.
I also tried 2ha but bounced off it hard as the POV character is just too unlikable at the start (even knowing why he's like that courtesy of tumblr spoilers couldn't save the unpleasantness of his POV).
I’m gonna be honest, I don’t think I’ve read any book that quite hits the same spot as svsss while having similar quality. The only novel I can think of is that’s similar in feel is Peerless Immortal Surrounded by Demonic Disciples, but the writing quality kinda sucks. Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know feels like it has a similar comedic tone to svsss, but that’s about it with the similarities. For mdzs recs, First-Class Lawyer, Copper Coins by the same author, and Record of the Missing Sect Master comes closest. These have MCs that are most similar in personality to Wei Wuxian without also having that extended downward spiral with minimal breaks that you mentioned.
The thing about mxtx’s writing is that I think her most unique skill amongst the writers of cnovel I’ve read with serious topics is her ability to weave humor into dark moments of the story to give reprieve from the pressure without completely breaking the momentum. A lot of stories either end up dropping the humor as the plot gets serious or adding too much humor, causing the somber moments to seem goofy and unserious. However, if you want stories that are mostly humorous with a few moments of somberness expertly woven in, then I’d suggest Ascending, Do Not Disturb and The Times Spent in Pretense.
#mdzs asks#svsss asks#anon#you drive a hard bargain cause i def would’ve rec’d 2ha#if you liked mdzs and svsss#but i’d have told you to read the first few hundred pages to get a feel#and if it was too much#skip to the first time skip#that’s what i did and then i circled back around#2ha is just an intensely long book#so you spend the same amount of time on asshole mo ran#that you’d have spent finishing another novel#but then you get to spend twice as long with the mo ran who gets his act together#it’s your reward for having to deal with mo ran 1.0 for so long#but not every book is for everyone and more than just 2ha exists as a well-written story lol
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Why is my mom asking if I've read Worm?
#only explanation given was 'book talk'#she referred to it as 'worm [comma] an online series'#have i read worm? no but it does feel like i should have#'really long text only deconstruction of superhero tropes featuring hundreds of characters moral ambiguity elaborate schemes etc'#is definitely the kind of story i enjoy#and ive picked up enough via tumblr to enjoy some of the memes and meta#but the stars have never aligned for me to actually read the thing#ill get to it at some point#worm
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Sword of Kaigen
standalone fantasy set in a rural mountain village at the edge of an empire that still holds traditional values, with families of powerful water/ice magic warriors
follows a powerful young heir who begins to question his beliefs about the empire when a new boy comes to his village from the city
and his mother, a housewife who has tried to forget her youth as a warrior and vigilante in the city since she moved back home to a loveless marriage
when there’s a violent attack on their village that they’re unprepared for, everything changes, and she has to embrace her old skills to protect her family and people
#The Sword of Kaigen#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#I’ve been meaning to read this for years and I finally got around to it! a really unique fantasy novel#I had always assumed this was ur average pre-industrial high fantasy and then was immediately hit with video games/tv in the first chapter#lmao. But overall (aside from the broader worldbuilding/politics) it is closer to the average ‘historical’ fantasy narrative -#so I can see why I got that impression#Some really compelling characters and interesting narrative structure that went in some unexpected directions.#It really focuses in on one village and how devastating a single battle in a war can be to their people - and how much work the recovery is#I feel like most sff is more concerned with a single person and/or the whole war so this felt unique. did also mean that the pacing was odd#- it's a slow start; then there’s a battle that must be hundreds of pages. The last section of the book feels a little too drawn out#and brings up random hanging plot elements that don’t really go anywhere. But I think overall this works for the story.#also one thing I didn’t love - cool complex interesting female character MC sure but also there’s weird moments like:#the first scene we see her is all the housewives comparing their attractiveness; she keeps referring to herself as an old woman (when she’s#and oh so meek and useless etc. And some of this feels like it’s part of the broader portrayal of the misogynist society#but some of it felt clunky or unintentional?#And then especially the end - when she and her shitty husband finally confront each other as equals and he apologises#she basically immediately forgives him and is like oh I was equally at fault because I am a meek woman who didn’t try either#like him realising he was wrong (and her realising he had a reason for being the way he was) doesn’t negate the fact that he treated her li#she acts like it was her fault for not trying too - when we have numerous examples of him berating her if she spoke up about anything?#like im glad he’s learning. but also that doesn’t mean she needs to suddenly forgive and love him wtf#that's the only real thing that annoyed me though.#also btw that 5yo seems kinda fucked up. are you guys gonna do anything about that
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Me, at the beginning of 2024: No buying books! We’re on a book buying ban this year until you read the ones you have.
Me, right now: I wanna buy booooooks
#At the end of last year I put all my books in a spreadsheet and discovered I’d only read 51% of my library#I’m at like 73% now or something#I’m going to stick to my guns but I’m not going to be happy about it#also learned that I’m a ‘judge a boom by its cover’ girlie because I bought a lot of books because they looked cool#and then quickly discovered that they weren’t good#I think I have like 130-some unread books but I’ve read over a hundred so far this year
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Dang it... They sent me gloss books instead of matte 😭😭😭 I want the whole set to match...
I'm going to go through customer service about this, but I think their solution is to send me new books... But I have no idea what I'll do with thesw 300 extra books if they do that!!!
Any ideas???
#auuuufh#i could give some away#sell them at a discount i guess#aaa i have no idea.......#like its THREE HUNDRED WRONG BOOKS....#maybe i can do a sale to try and get them gone. $15 or something...#the books should stand alone and be fine to read in isolation#text post
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okay i have to say i am actually a strong defender of Snake That Makes You Evil. it sounds stupid on paper but thats only if u take it at face value? i do actually think the concept is crazy good what with the venom slowly corrupting how garmadon thinks about things and him being fully aware but unable to stop it.
its also not Just the venom that makes him evil. in the spinjitzu brothers books you can actively watch the fsm and wu and… really EVERYONE around garmadon become more and more wary of him despite not much really changing. it becomes a permanent blight on him that he is repeatedly told he needs to cure. but he hasnt really even changed in his own eyes
i personally prefer it to have been a pure fateful accident but the involvement of the overlord in the bite makes it arguably even more tragic. it becomes more than a childish mistake. garmadon was doomed from the moment he was born.
#ninjago#PLEASEEEEE read the soinjitzu brothers books if you can. its such crazy insight into wu and garmadons characters#every day i think abt shezada being like ‘oh youre the eveil one? makes sense’ with literally no explanation#also no offense. but i think ppl forget that his Evil Transformation happened over literlaly like. hundreds of years#its not like he got bit and was immediately evil#ik they show it kinda like that in the first flashback of the bite.m#but he was able to hold off the full effects of the venom until literally like mmmaybe a decade before the pilots#thats hundreds or even thousands of years. all that time of the venom corrupting him and he still fought for love !!!!!!!#ohhh my god also just remembered in the most recent spinjitzu bros book when they paint him as clearly having depression. Whatverrrrr#unrelated. but mann those books r so good#OH MY GOD JUST FOUND OUT THE SERIES GOT CANCELLED. KILLING MYSELF
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day 01/100 | one hundred days of books
i've spent this week reading ninth house, after finally getting my hands on it last november. i recall there being controversy when it was first released, but honestly, i still don't understand why it provoked so much anger. the book comes with its own undercurrents of anger, and with so much still unresolved i don't expect that to end any time soon, but there's also something cathartic in it, every time a man gets brutalised for his misogyny, every time alex gets to truly show who she is. this was definitely not an easy read, but it was a powerful one.
#ninth house#booklr#lit.#100daysofbooks#idk when i'm gonna get the sequel since i have 20 other books already sitting around waiting to be read!#but i definitely want to get hell bent sometime this year#in the meantime i'm not productive enough for the 100 days challenge#so i figured i'd make my own one for books!#no they will not be a hundred consecutive days just 100 days over the course of a year#something fun to try and gets me talking more about the books i'm enjoying
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i should make a spirit animals characters as wings of fire dragons au. even though i'm not into wof anymore
#okay okay okay so#amayans are skywings (northern) and rainwings (southern)#eurans are probably silkwings#zhongese are nightwings#niloans are leafwings i guess?#stetriolans are sandwings#hundred islanders are seawings#and the ardu are icewings#hivewings and mudwings don't exist#it's not perfect but it mostly works#so that means conor is a silkwing‚ abeke is a leafwing‚ meilin is a nightwing and rollan is a skywing#shane is a sandwing and worthy is a silkwing like conor#i remember making a crossover like this ages and ages ago when i was like 11 and still reading wof#and funnily enough. my choices for the main characters' tribes have stayed pretty much the same#cool powers that certain characters would have: maya would be a flamesilk and irtike would have very strong leafspeak#rollan would be under the impression that meilin has nightwing powers (she doesn't) and she would play into it to mess with him#who would be an animus... hopefully no one. too powerful#text#a revised history of erdas#spirit animals#spirit animals books#spirit animals series#conor#abeke#meilin#rollan#shane#worthy#maya#irtike
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2, 3, 5, 7, & 20 for the Distracted asks, please?
2. Name something you want to read?
I've had the urge to dig into my collection of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales.
3. 5 songs you have been recently obsessed with?
I haven't had time for listening to much music lately, but I'm obsessed with the soundtrack to The Wild Robot. It made excellent background music when prepping the blog posts for the first day of the Inklings Challenge
5. What was the last thing you watched?
Already answered! It was an episode of The Drew Carey Show.
7. Draw something that makes you happy, don't worry about your art skills!
Edited to add: Snoopy!
20. Share a recipe or two?
How about my fancy oatmeal?
Melt a little butter in a kettle. Put in your steelcut oats and toast until fragrant. Put in four times as much water as oats, then let it simmer until it's the oatmeal consistency you want. While it's cooking, toast some chopped pecans and/or sliced almonds and gather any fruit you want (I usually use chopped apples and dried cherries, but I've also used fresh blueberries or raspberries). After the oatmeal's done cooking, stir in brown sugar, cinnamon, a bit of vanilla, and your nuts and fruit. Enjoy!
#answered asks#valiantarcher#thanks!#i'm so deep into victober mindset that the book question is hard to answer#i'm so stuck on my detailed and layered reading list that i forget about all the other books in existence#and this recipe-sharing endeavor has become an exercise in 'what recipes do i have memorized?'#i'm not a hundred percent sure on the amount of water for the oatmeal#it might be three times#but i'm not about to double-check right now
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* I have already listened to a book by each of them this month (Bury Your Gays and I Was a Teenage Slasher respectively) but I really enjoyed both so I'm up for another.
These will all remain on my list so I'll get to them eventually, but I want to close out the month on theme and I can't decide.
#i should have put this last night before i finished Misery#but ah well#we live and we learn#also i tried to read the secret history a couple of times and fell off a couple hundred pages in#im hoping the audiobook will work better for me.#it may be a stretch thematically for this list#but its my list i do what i want#ks has a book tag#ks talks#audiobooks#horror books
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omg hold on i just realized something!!!
the Blackbeak Matron is the ONLY one who knew about Manon's bloodline, like-- Manon is an actual fucking queen by birthright and the Matron is the only person who knew it because Manon never learned about this.
so remember when Asterin was telling Manon what happened to her with her hunter and witchling? The Matron warned Vesta and Sorrel not to bring it up to Manon or there will be dire consequences.
Now hear me out: Manon fucking loves Asterin. If she knew what her grandmother had done, she would have probably done something like take the Thirteen and just leave or something like that.
We all know how the Matron loved threatening Manon that she'd replace her, but while it worked on Manon, her grandmother never really intended to do that.
It's the same reason why she wanted Vesta and Sorrel to remain quiet: she has a literal fucking queen at her beck and call. Manon is ready to do anything for her grandmother just to get some praise, and the Matron isn't going to let go of that. It's why she needed Manon loyal to her (through fear because Manon didn't really trust her but she fears what she'd do)
So at the end of the day, the Matron was after more power. She kept Manon by her side through unorthodox tactics because she loved having so much control over her. And also because of Manon's royal blood, she can have so much.
I think it's also why she wasn't fully against Erawan showing interest in Manon. Because with that union, she will reign supreme.
It's just-- the way she played Manon for her whole life for no other reason than being a shitty person is what irks me the most. She literally used everything that is Manon and twisted it, turning it into something ugly.
I'm sorry but when Manon just killed Rhiannon without even questioning it? Just blindly obeying her grandmother because it's what she's been conditioned to do???
Later on, we see Manon really struggling between doing what is right and doing exactly what her grandmother wants even when she doesn't agree with it. Every time, her grandmother wins (until the part where she was about to execute Asterin) and I honestly think that the Matron was happy with how she has the actual Queen of Witches under her command.
#booklr#books and reading#throne of glass#manon blackbeak#tog#asterin blackbeak#empire of storms#kingdom of ash#queen of shadows#spoilers#hello i was just talking to myself about manon and I suddenly realized this???#the matron fucking orchestrated the whole thing#starting by killing her daughter and unleashing hell on her granddaughter#it's why she hates asterin#because she's probably the only person who can have power over manon#because manon actually loves her#and this whole thing irks the matron because she's anti feelings and she hates how despite all she did manon was still capable of loving#asterin (although she's terrible at showing this love but asterin bless her knows and she loves manon just the same)#anyway is there is a limit to how evil this woman is? probably not#she hurt manon so deeply-- starting with killing her parents then making her kill her sister without her even knowing it#constantly using asterin and the thirteen against her??#saying and doing everything that she said and done???#and my poor manon endured this for over a century like don't you get tired of this bullshit??? leave the girl alone for a change???#but no she she needed to torment her like this because that was how she controlled her#she's all about power and control and will stop at NOTHING to achieve this#this is why i say that manon is emotionally fragile#she's not aware of it because she never was allowed to feel it let alone name it and (god forbid) express it. like underneath it all she ha#so much hidden deep inside. i also feel like yrene will be the one to help her navigate those emotions and just... acknowledge them and#actually feel them. but this won't be easy at all because for over a hundred years it was drilled into her that this display is forbidden s#when those feelings come to the surface she'd try to push them down because it's a trauma response. she was never safe to feel or express
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books!! couches!!! wide doors!!! hidden conduits!!!! wall lamps!! crawling???? (color theory?!) item search bar!!!!!!!!! mine vein!! clean room!!!!
#rimworld#it feels like christmas#i have a feeling anomaly is going to be a dlc i use some of the time but not all the time#(i don't want most of my playthroughs to be horror-themed y'know?)#but this update is a lot of things i really want!!#anyway this is me after reading the steam announcement#(when i first heard the rumours of the new dlc my first thought was 'oh no my current is going to break')#(which it will. there are hundreds of mods in there. not all of them is going to be updated immediately if at all)#but books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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