#its become a hobby now

[northseas]

books read in 2024

dont know if anyone will find this interesting... but here is a list of the books i read this year, with a short short description, and my final thoughts! a lot of good books this year, let me know if you see any you like/have read yourself, of if any spark an interest!

hamnet, maggie o'farrell (2020)

start/finish 05.01.24 - 05.02.24, 372 pages historical fiction final score: 5/6, highly recommend, a truly beautiful book, a great start to the year, the last line crushed me

the city and the city, china miéville (2009)

start/finish 08.02.24 - 20.02.24, 373 pages crime, urban fantasy, speculative fiction final score: 6/6, i knew from the moment i picked it up that this was a new favorite book, pls read this, i think i'll recommend this book to everyone forever and always from now on

left hand of darkness, urusla k. le guin, (1969)

start/finish 23.03.24 - 13.03.24, 336 pages science fiction, speculative fiction final score: 4/6, very good, glad to have read, i understand why it's a classic! gonna read some more essays of her now:)

the prisoner of heaven, carlos ruiz zafón (2011)

start/finish 26.03.24 - 02.04.24, 336 pages magical realism, books about books, mystery final score: 3/6, 3rd book in a series and this one felt rushed:/ will elaborate further down

the vampire lestat, anne rice (1985)

start/finish 03.04.24 - 04.05.24, 576 pages horror, vampires, fantasy final score: 5/6, turly vampire of all time..

annihilation, jeff vandermeer, (2014)

star/finish 06.05.24 - 12.05.24, 224 pages science fiction, horror, mystery final score: 4/6, i liked it! will continue with the series!

the bullet sallower, elizabeth gonzalez james (2024)

start/finish 14.05.25 - 1306.24, 272 pages historical fiction, magical realism, western final score: 3/6, wanted to like this book so much more than i did...

salughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut (1969)

start/finish 14.06.24 - 21.06.24, 177 pages science fiction, time travel, war final score: 6/6, second reading, first time 10 years ago, reread to confirm i still liked it, and by golly it truly is still up there as a favorite

sea of tranquility, emiliy st john mandel (2022)

start/finish 27.06.024 - 08.07.24, 259 pages science fiction, time travel final score: 6/6, i love books about time travel... haunting and beautiful, deserves a second read through, highly recommend

babel, r. f. kuang (2022)

start/finish 09.07.24 - 27.07.24, 546 pages fantasy, historical fiction final score: 4/6, i liked it fine, felt a bit predictable at times, made me want to reread jsamr...

apostels of mercy, lindsay ellis (2024)

start/finish 28.07.24 - 06.09.24, 520 pages science fiction, aliens final score: 4/6, book 3 of ? in a series i like, but for whatever reason this book was a struggle to get through. i did enjoy it however

prophet song, paul lynch (2023)

start/finish 06.09.24 -11.09.24, 309 dystopia, literary fiction, irish final score: 5/6, felt very topical and i wanted more. struggled with the formatting style in the start, but once gotten it was a cool choice

the labyrinth of the spirits, carlos ruiz zafon, (2016)

start/finish 17.09.24 - 07.10.24, 805 pages magical realism, books about books, mystery final score: 5/6, the final fourth book in a wonderful series. ended well and i recommend this series, the cemetery of forgotten books, where the first book (shadow of the wind) is by far the strongest

the amber spyglass, philip pullman (2000)

start/finish 09.10.24 - 26.10.24, 548 pages young adult, adventure, fantasy final score: 5/6, literally at a loss of words. read book 1 and 2 as a kid and stopped at the start with this one for some reason. listened through the first 2 audiobooks as i was driving a lot this autumn and decided to read the final book. why 9 year old me stopped is truly a question for the ages. philip pullman im indebted to you

the fisherman, john langang (2016)

start/finish 28.10.24 - 05.11.24, 226 pages horror, lovecraftian, mystery final score: 3/6, didnt really pull through, felt unedited

i who have never known men (1995)

start/finish 06.11.24 - 13.11.24, 188 pages dystopia, feminism, science fiction final score: 5/6, if i was still in academia this is a book id love to read more about, as it's really saying "things" at times. recommend

the other valley, scott alexander howard (2024)

start/finish 13.11.24 - 05.12.24 , 290 pages time travel, science fiction, magical realism final score: 6/6, i was so looking forward to this one, and it did not disappoint. beginning of the second part was a bit slow, but in the end that didnt matter!! highly recommend.

finishing off the year and going into the next is the familiar by leigh barduco. enjoying it so far, but it's a bit more romance than what i normally enjoy/would choose

now, that was long lol. certainly my best reading year so far, after taking a thorough overhaul with my reading process last year. it's been good! one instant favorite, some stellar, many good, and a few duds. if you have any recommendations id love to hear! onto 2025, some books im planning to read are: the marriage portait (maggie o'farrell), queen of the damned (anne rice) the master and mararita (mikahail bulgakov) rest of the southern reach/area x books (jeff vandermeer) and many more!!

xoxo frøy

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[pl4yingcards]

"we've got our beacon box, useful box, ...That One!"

you coward say Horny Time With Joel in a video. say it. say it out loud. coward. the pg server is not in fact in the room with us right now and you, my good sir, named the box that

[telesodalite]

I've got like 5+ other creative projects i want/need to do, but holiday cookies gotta be made, lol. Started with almond cloud cookies <3

Ft. A lump of soon to be choc chip cookies

[itsalwaysdark]

bedtime nowww probably ummm today qas not what i wanted it 2 be but its fine. i dont feel negative just a very very very numb day which is almost worse. but only almost 🙏

[icewindandboringhorror]

While I don't know much about it, I would probably bet there are tons of issues with the cruise industry that would make me not actually appreciate it broadly speaking - HOWEVER, I do really love a lot of the interior design of some cruise ships.. How it's almost like a miniature city crammed into one area. Multiple sections with all different aesthetic designs, a variety of shops, restaurants, activity centers, community seating areas, communal use spaces (like gyms, laundry, pools, cafeteria/buffet (which I always love anywhere)), etc. etc. but then also everyone has a little nice clean comfortable looking space of their own to retreat back to if they'd like to be alone. Maybe it's something akin to the idea of 'walkable cities', where everything you could ever want to do is kind of right there just a short walk away? I also especially love how so much stuff is stacked on top of other stuff, a layered cluster of spaces, bright open atriums, and when they're set up with little walkways down the center between a bunch of rooms so it's almost like a mini city street with apartments lining it, etc.. They often seem like they'd be SUCH a cool place to live permanently, IF only something identical was just built on solid land instead lol

[friendlynaborhooddisapointment]

the dream would be a 15hour week workday at a low stress job not that far from home but not too close it feels intimate to your home, a small mangable appartment that wont fall apartwith furnishings i like,bills that arnt stress inducing in a way that make me think about money all the time, and just chill and do my hobbies when im not doing all the other things people have to do in their adult to not be that sad life like cook and clean and talk to people

[akc-g]

feel v mean calling out soecific meta but im still kindve fuming over a post i saw w a bit too much engagement a few months ago implying erick couldve never gotten physical w emorty bc if he had emorty wouldve not put up w him as long or wouldve easily been able to defend themself actually it was a poll like. rallying abt what kind of abuse everyone thought emorty had endured like placing bets on how badly rick brutalized him. have we lost the fucking plot lol

[iguessitsjustme]

humanity is good and beautiful and genuine and kind actually i think

[sepdet]

(photos of solar panel covered shade structures over parking lots. The lower right one is being cleaned by workers on a bucket crane using a ginormous hi-tech squeegie.)

Look, now that we've moved beyond the hypothetical, with "new normal" heat waves of 110° for several days in a row, shaded parking places are the best. And they power lots of recharging stations for our plug-ins and EVs .

[faaun]

im actually becoming a littol bit annoyed by smn 😭

[felicitea-va]

i just realized i havent posted here in weeks oops

i have a youtube and a tiktok where i post mostly everything but i keep forgetting to post it to here too 😭 so if you like my stuff maybe you should follow me there instead of here

honestly i dont know if theres even like a community or interest for voice acting on tumblr or anything but im still here just less active here than other places!

[lots of rambling in the tags...]

[snekdood]

mfs cant even dress. fuckin. wearing basketball shorts and a nondescript t shirt and short ass hair and have the gall to make fun of other people for dressing different. okay background character

[alphalesbian]

When I think of the ways people have hurt me - the ways people have gone out of their way to hurt me, the ways people have changed themselves to become hurtful to me, the ways people know my hurt and hurt me right there - I can only see now, how I will not hurt back the same.

[maaarine]

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

[clockworkslick]

Alcohol is weird because bourbon whiskey smells incredible but tastes a little weird (its good but sometimes a little nauseating if i drink a lot in one gulp) but Scotch is the opposite (smells not as good but tastes incredible. like almost sweet and spicy if that makes sense.)