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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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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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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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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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How I Manage my personal AO3 e-library Archive
Download everything I want/hope to read in EPUB format. I try to anyways... if I notice I got too many tabs open on my browser, time to download If multi-chapter remember first to press 'Entire Work' and then 'Download'
2. I use Book Story (Android App) to manage the mess that is my downloads folder - this app is a great book database manager AND scroll reader with Big letters as well - The app has this fantastic feature that allows me put the books into 'Reading' 'Already Read' 'Planing' 'Dropped' categories; I move the books around and it helps me keep a visual tab on them - , plus if you like scroll reading this one is fantastic at that as well.
Periodically I update the BACKUP of the folder(s) were the copies of books live. KEEP A BACKUP OF YOUR BACKUP , if you mess around and don't got no backup is really painful and irreversible.
On my computer I then make a copy of my messy ass downloads folder from my phone into my computer. While looking at the visual information the app provides me I delete books that I 'Dropped' and I move 'Already Read' books into my computer E-Library Data Base (I use Calibre) that's my main book hub where I will quickly notice what books need covers and I take my time working to finding an image I like for the book , so I can recognize them books by just looking at the covers I am terrible at remembering book titles
If you are curious this is what Calibre looks like - this is just AO3
3. To read EPUB books I use Libera FD Is frankly the best reader I have tried because I prefer page turning. If you like scroll reading Book Story is much better option for scroll reading.
Libera FD can customize pretty much EVERYTHING and is very very feature rich ( it can be overwhelming) HUMONGOUS FONT SIZE , you can download any font you want to use, replace words if I want to , it has OLED dark mode for reading at 3 am, you can configure it so it reads to you (using TTS) , several reading modes including auto scroll and speed reading mode, and so much more; the dev(s) are still updating and adding functions to it is kind of amazing I am probably not using it to its full potential You can sort books by 'Genre' which is how the app recognize the tags from the website.
Here some visuals of Libera FD (I wrote in the ALT of pics, click on it)
Book Story is a neat app , less overwhelming and the UI is a lot more intuitive. It looks like this for me , you can configure the essentials to your preference. Is a fairly new app be patient with it (sometimes just give two minutes to cook) , it is still being updated. The dev is very active if you got suggestion or present bugs.
4. How to provide enrichment to glorious magnificent authors , that share their passion with us for free. When you open any ao3 .epub on either of these apps the links are underlined. I tap on the link it leads back to the original posted website page at the beginning of every book you get from A03.
Tap the link, keep it open in your browser and star reading.
Open a note taking app.
I usually take notes about my silly musings as I read, copy quotes and whatever else I want to leave in the comment section of the chapter I am on. Cut and paste and that's it. I load the next chapter in the website and then continue reading the next chapter on the reading app (I comment on all the chapters if I have something to comment, sometime I don't have anything to say so I don't . Figure it makes authors happy and i find it very fun. Sometimes they answer back it feels nice) remember to leave kudos and comments specially if you are rereading.
I use Quillpad (android app) the most important feature of any note taking app you choose, in this case in particular, is that it saves your notes automatically (I used some apps that didn't it was devastating losing all my notes like that. I though that as long as I didn't close the app it was fine turns out not - some you have to manually save - and sometimes it would timeout and gone , all my notes gone. With Quillpad I haven't lost notes)
I haven't taken the time to figure out if Librera has a feature for annotation that could be useful for commentary note taking
I think that's all I can think of sharing on this topic. I am open to questions and adding things to this post with visual aid and whatever I can do to help , do let me know.
Keeping a copy of books safe and easy to find KEEP BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS
-Updated Nov. 11 , 2024.
#ao3#e-library#personal library#ao3 is down#so keep a copy them books#managing#data#i live in fear of lost media#author deleting their work and me not having a personal copy hunts me#I forget book tittles all the time#Closing a browser tab and accepting I might have lost something that I wanted but forgot what it was is an experience#once lost ALL the tabs like at least a hundred tabs and I think about it all the time#personal archive management#this keeps me sane#will probably occasionally update this#open to questions about this#Housekeeping#KEEP BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS#I somehow managed to delete my To Be Read file with 600 plus books it was real bummer I still don't know how that happened
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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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how can they bring my books to my house on friday but i can go get them from the store on monday?
#i was gonna order them yesterday but they said theyd bring them at the store on Thursday#and we can go get them on Saturday and it didnt say for how long they keep them#so i was like its fine ill just order them tomorrow but now it wont let me go get them before monday#I'll have to stay without books until then???#(i say as if im not currently reading 1 physical. 1 digital and 1 audio book and also have like 4-5 unread physical and hundreds of digital)#jo says stuff#personal ramblings
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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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