#it's almost as if ppl are insufferable everywhere

[kitkatpancakestack]

"omg I love found family I love the wholesomeness that's my favorite thing about a show is how it brings everyone together!!" *is racist toward characters* *is homophobic toward characters* *tells people to kill themselves* *loudly hates everyone and everything*

[frabooks]

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Delitto e castigo

Writing this was a crime and reading it was a punishment.

Instead of reading this book, drink vodka in a dark room and think depressing thoughts. That will give you about the same experience and you'll have a better time.

I read the first 100 pages and found myself thinking at several rambling points, "my god I don't give a fuck."

I felt like I should have liked it, but just couldn't.

Life is short, don’t read this lol

Initially I gave this book two stars, but on reflection, I'm deducting one.

Oblomov

Incredibly boring. >100 pages about a man who can't get up >100 pages about his boring dream of happiness where nothing happens >100 pages about him being shaken a little bit by a woman >100 pages about him being afraid of what ppl would say > 100 pages about him falling in love with a nice and considerate housewife who moves her elbows all the time >100 pages about his friend and "ex-gf" being in love and wondering how that old damn Oblomov can be saved

I had to read this in my 19th Century Russian lit course in college. This is another "shoot me now, PLEASE" books.

Very slow and depressing, a good reminder of a lifestyle one should Not lead.

Il Maestro e Margherita

The Chicago Tribune wrote: “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant, and everywhere full of rich descriptive passages.” Hilarious and contemplative my ass, CT. This book is an interminable slog.

I understand this book is a classic. I guess any leaden, murky, plotless book can be a classic, and this is a great example of that.

I started reading this book when I was in a very bad place. Finishing this made me realise if I can survive this painfully long and tortuous piece of literature, I can do anything.

I would gladly sell my soul to Woland if he promised to erase this book from my memory!

I never review anything. Why should you care about my opinion? However, what was most disappointing to me was that this book kept appearing on multiple lists of things I might enjoy based on things I've enjoyed in the past. I expected the internet to be right, and I'm angry that it failed me.

Whoever told me The Master and Margarita is Russia's greatest literary work should be sent to Siberia.

The author died before he could finish it. I’m sure that’s why it was so…incomprehensible …

Notre Dame de Paris

i would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to read this again

I was not expecting this... I am almost lost for words - unlike HUGO of course who seemed to have words coming out of his ears..boy did this guy ramble on.

What a horror of a novel! A plot that a gargoyle would have trouble swallowing, a lecherous priest, an abysmally stupid young woman, and the hunchback who loves her but but whose misunderstandings lead indirectly to her death, and all written in the sort of dreadful Gothic style I have trouble tolerating for one chapter, much less 560 pages.

Il Signore degli Anelli

Save time... watch the movies.

can be summarised as: walking, walking, walking, bit of fighting with orcs, walking, walking, walking, anguish, walking, walking, walking, bit more fighting with orcs, walking, walking, walking.

i am tempted to go out and buy a wobbly table just so I can put this book to good use.

Based on the hit movies of the same name! The author of these novelizations took way too many liberties with the story line.

The lord of the rings wasn't even really IN this book, it was about short people who could barely manage rings at all. One star.

This book is boring, insufferable from the very first page. Those hobbits took like 100 or 120 pages to go out of their homes, cross the garden and go inside the forest. Leaving a village of 30 people took them like seven human years. Close the book to never open it again. And don't watch the movie either, it's even worst.

Se questo è un uomo

ok mi dispiace della tragedia che c’è dietro a questo libro ma è leggermente ripetitivo

noia

I fratelli Karamazov

Let me save you 900 pages and untold man hours: rich Russian asshole family members drink, yell, whore, steal one another's mates, murder, more screaming, philosophizing, more screaming, no subtlety to anything, all conversation between characters so over-the-top and full of passion as to be unrelatable. This was probably one of the biggest, most drawn-out yawns I have ever committed my time to.

Shame on you Mr Dostoyevsky.

This book was torture from start to finish. I forced myself to finish it only because I very quickly decided I would not be beaten by this pile of crap.

So that was 34 hours of my life that I can’t get back.

literally traumatizing. not a slay. nobody told dostoevsky to shut the fuck up and it shows

Memorie dal sottosuolo

They should’ve left it in Russian only

“So it is hardly literature so much as a corrective punishment” A punishment for us both Dostoyevsky.

An angry book about an angry man written for angry men. Whatever this genre of book is, I hope I never read anything like it again.

If you are suffering from a toothache or just got your wisdom teeth out, read chapter 4 of notes from underground. Or maybe don’t, it will only make you feel worse.

[thekidsarentalright]

almost 12 hours!!!! TONIGHTS THE NIGHT!!!!!! how excited are u???? personally idk how i slept at all lmao this is insane

I saw ur post abt so good right now and now i’m like shaking with excitement lmao 😄 songs like you make my dreams come true are instant serotonin for me, i love older sounding music like that (esp with trumpets) so the idea of fob having a whole song in that style… gonna explode‼️ the teaser sounds so fucking cool too! this album is gonna kill us fr

alsoooo i went to a show at metro recently, which was so so so fun but also i was just like. damn fob was here?!?! it’s Such a cool venue and the idea that ppl got to see them at a show that small… god!!! so jealous of everyone that’s been able to see them at smaller shows 😭 i also got to see the beach that pete was on in the tour announcement video (when he finds the seashell) bc we drove past it! idk it was rlly cool and i had a Moment where it made me think abt how special fob is… like i always know but recently i like. Felt It and felt that connection again if that makes sense! the fob emotion is so so strong and this all has me like… vibrating until the album drops. idk how we’re gonna survive the next 12 hours or so!! i’m gonna be absolutely insufferable today and tomorrow and i’m not even sorry 😅

- 🧋 anon

now less than 12 hours when im answering this!!!!! i am so excited excited doesn't even cut it like. oh my god it's been 5 years of waiting for a new album and now we're getting a new album?? just like that?? insane!!!! idk how i slept at all either im like buzzing w excitement fkdjhfks

ohhh if u love songs like that then ur gonna love so good right now in its entirety SO much!!! what a time to be alive has those vibes too, to me!! just funky kinda jazzy (from the trumpets lol) upbeat vibes! absolutely love it too. this album is SOOO gonna destroy devastate ruin us i cant Wait bestiefsdkjfhsk

omg that sounds so fun!!! absolutely love small venue shows like that in general but YEAH small venue fob shows feel especially incredible and special like. i feel very lucky to have gotten to go to a small venue fob show a few years ago, because idk they just. shine. in a small venue (they shine everywhere always but smthin abt small venues just makes them shine extra!!) but ough that is so cool u saw the beach too, i absolutely understand feeling that fob connection it is. literally so real and so special!! like!! they are so special they are everything, i cant wait to get this new album literally How are we gonna survive till it drops!!! i wanna be so insufferable abt it w you and everyone else Nowwwwww!

[trickstarbrave]

on today's episode of random shit ppl on tiktok have taken to being a bully over for no reason: messy "chicken scratch" sketching and lines.

line is one of the art fundamentals. however, for beginners, they're likely much more focused on stuff like shape, form, anatomy, proportions, and composition. you don't learn everything all at once. people are going to be getting the hang of things gradually, especially because no one pops out of the womb knowing perfectly how to hold a pencil and make clean lines or pull shapes out of them. short, messy strokes are what feels most natural to start with

and also: sometimes you just don't need perfect, clean lines. my sketches start off super messy to the point they're almost incoherent. really short strokes often times, not very confident lines--i'm focused on getting anatomy, shapes, and proportions down. then i will add a more refined sketch, and during the painting process i will clean it up and refine it. this is the process that works best for me. it would be insufferably annoying for someone to hop on my wip sketch and being like "EH HEM. actually your lines are messy and bad. you need to learn how to do PROPER LINE-WORK. this is ugly and gross to look at. you're clearly still a beginner and don't know much about art but its a horrible bad habit that is KILLING your art--"

and lastly. i hate the fucking increasing pressure for all art on social media to be absolutely perfect, crisp, professional quality illustrations. i hate the "sketchbook tours" which are filled with full paintings or perfectly curated linework pieces that all fit together like puzzle pieces. sketches are allowed to be messy. sketches don't have to be perfect. trying to focus on perfect, crisp lines means you are less likely to change things if they aren't actually working for the piece because "i cant get the lines to match up perfectly and i put so much effort into it". let people have messy sketches. let people have bad anatomy. let people make bad art for fucks sake.

you aren't helping them learn by mocking them relentlessly, all you're doing is making a show at how insecure you are about your own fucking art that you feel the need to dogpile others for posting something you don't think is aesthetically pleasing enough for your sensitive little eyeballs. you aren't mature enough to give proper criticism and often can't actually instruct people who want to do better on why clean, confident lines can be beneficial to a piece or how to actually study and learn how to do that. "oh just stop doing this bc it's ugly--" isn't fucking helpful. you're just annoying. letting people draw and learn on their own time is going to be infinitely better for their art journey than hundreds to thousands of people dogpiling them for something like wonky anatomy or chicken scratch lines everywhere. grow up.

i cannot. fucking stand tiktok art community shit. it is like every shitty toxic online art community on steroids bc of that rage based algorithm i fucking swear.