#kindle talk

[gucciwins]

I bought a kindle paper white in January and I love it so much. It’s really gotten me back into reading, and the books are cheaper if you buy them. Maybe 8-12 bucks for what would be 20+ dollars for a physical copy. And if you don’t want to buy the books, you can access them through Libby (from your library) on your kindle. If you have any 🏴‍☠️epub/pdf you can also upload those to your device. i’ve never tried but there are some reddit threads on how to do it.

i bought 16g but 8 is already enough to hold thousands of books. battery is great especially if you have a case that flaps like a book. once the flap is down, the kindle goes into sleep mode (the kindle itself does have a power button that will do this though). i charged my kindle fully, didn’t touch it for two weeks and it was still at 95% when i finally had time to read.

It literally never leaves my hand and it’s the easiest device to pull out on the train or wherever. Sun doesn’t bother my screen at all. I’m so happy I bought one this year. I don’t need any more features then what’s offered on it. You can highlight, type notes, and link your kindle to your goodreads account if you have to rate books and/or keep a log.

Sometimes I do wish it wasn’t just in black and white for when i’m highlighting, but overall i love ittttt. My coworker convinced to get one too!

Sorry for this long response. I get genuinely giddy when I talk about it. I’m up to book 9 in March, which is more than I read in all of 2023 combined!

What sorts of books do you like to read?

babes! this was so helpful. thank you so much 🤍 my coworker and I have talked about it, both big readers and we're just closer to saying yes because we want to decorate it. I love that it connects to

I am very much convinced now haha.

I love me a romance book. it just warms my heart recently trying to get into mystery, oh maybe a series but I'm always happy to hear suggestions 🫶

[keepthetension]

it's been days since wandee goodday episode 05 but i keep thinking about how this guy?

ended up finding someone who cares in the same way

[starmocha]

Midnight Whispers ▪︎ Snowfall Encounter

[beebfreeb]

Gregory Horror Show headcanon: James is one of the few residents who are not actually dead, he comes and goes from the hotel because he learned how to reality shift from TikTok.

[f-athr]

guess who’s read some more books >:)

[hussyknee]

You only have a book buying problem if you have disposable income. If you're poor you have a book downloading problem. Book piracy is the great equaliser because even broke people get the chance to organize and re-organize a thousand books they'll never read.

[anghraine]

this is entirely unprompted on your end, but i love your darcy and faramir takes and wanted to get your opinion on aragorn/faramir as a ship.

i'm salivating over it and nobody. cares. but i just love how it can show the possibilities of book faramir being a "threat" to aragorn's kingship in a way that nobody else is...how they can relate through their shared ancestry but the entirely different ways it impacted them in their respective lives - something about aragorn being the heir of isildur, growing up surrounded by elves, arnor. something about faramir being distinctly aware of the legacy of the stewards, his numenorean heritage and how it's fading away in the world of men, gondor (my fav world in lotr, you are so under-appreciated, gondor.) i personally adhere to the stewards-were-most-likely-also-royalty headcanon because of that extra juicy tension. throw in the i-knew-your-father-as-a-young-man aspect, the whole steward-quite-literally-serving-in-wait-of-the-true-king aspect? it's everything.

i dunno. the natural cause and effect of "return of the king" & "departure of the steward" is so interesting to play with in a romantic context, especially if it keeps both of them in the limelight when naturally, it should only be one of them? i think it's the aragorn ship that pushes his character and ambition the most, and in the same way, it can push faramir to show more machiavellian traits, more of him utilizing his political power and/or personal strengths. especially since his canonical fate is extremely satisfying but also...very conclusively an *ending* if that makes sense.

i might just want to see faramir clashing with aragorn wanting to wage more war. let him cook! let the man speak about "queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves"!!!!

also must admit that it's my contrarian ass wanting to rebel against the fanon "aragorn never ever wanted to be king" + "faramir is a pathetic meow meow" headcanons. the existing faramir x aragorn fics i've read all adhere to it which is frustrating.

anyways, any thoughts on this ship i randomly latched on to?

Anon, this is my #1 Tolkien ship and actually one of the only m/m ships I've ever been super into. I used to guiltily sneak-read Aragorn/Faramir as a teenager because I grew up in a conservative community and hadn't come to terms with my own queerness at the time, and was still figuring out how to get by in that community just as a Democrat, much less a lesbian.

Anyway, I got a huge kick out of your ask because it's basically point-for-point my own feelings about them. If you haven't seen it, I even wrote a ship manifesto for them over ten years ago.

And unfortunately I do also agree that the (very PJ film-inflected) fanons around both characters have made it very difficult to find fic for the ship that isn't deeply OOC for the original versions of the characters (tbh the last time I looked, it was hard enough to even find F/A fics where Faramir had black hair, much less his deeper canon characteristics). Add in the fanon depictions of Gondor and the Stewardship, and a lot of what appeals about the pairing is lost for me. I read some good ones a longggg time ago, but wouldn't begin to know where to find them now.

(I know I should be the change I want to see and write some myself, but apart from the AU f/f and m/f/f versions, I think the closest I ever came to it was this post about a mostly-the-same-as-LOTR AU only with Faramir/Aragorn and this feeling explosion about "Faramir actually does accepts the dream-visions obviously intending him to be the one going to Rivendell but also it's Faramir/Aragorn.")

And if you haven't found it yet, my ship tag is #otp: love was kindled.

I hope you enjoy <3

[cutekittenlady]

New KOBD adjacent idea that Ratchet was actually VERY fond of Wildbreak before Knockout was exiled. He was one of the first newborn Cybertronians Ratchet got to know and definitely the first kindled sparks he helped with post war. Which makes it really interesting if/when they reunite after knockouts exile and Wildbreak was left with Motormaster.

By the point they'd reunite Wildbreak has come to hate autobots because he perceives Knockouts exile as a huge betrayal. One that led to knockout leaving him with motormaster because of all the exiled former decepticons gunning for him and thus separating Wildbreak from his only parent. Beyond that hanging with Dragstrip and the other stunticons has also negatively influenced Wildbreaks overall views of autobots.

So yeah if he reunites with ratchet he's going to be upset with him to say the least.

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #12

I glanced at a few how-to-write-poetry books and got a bit frustrated by their assumptions that poetry needs to be this deep and laborious artistic endeavor.

*

Song of an Amateur

I am a simple poetess I take my pen in hand While others long for lasting fame My dreams aren't near so grand

All I want's a little ink A peaceful touch of time To gather up my humble thoughts And scribble out a rhyme

While others labor to create Immortal artistry I play with words as children play With sand beside the sea

Delighting in their shapes and forms In meter’s playful joys I let the words fall to create New literary toys

Capturing a simple sight A pithy turn of phrase To give my friends a bit of joy To brighten up their days

It’s not for me to take a place ‘mong lit’rature’s elite I’d rather gaze up at their heights And play beside their feet

So tell me not to labor long O'er words meant to impress I’d rather live quite happy as A simple poetess

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

Books that I have read this year (listen okay they are technically fandoms with no fanbases)

Roomba eats Satan's general (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-All the Dust that Falls

Furry is forced into a hunger games that is being live streamed on universal twitch (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-The Rise of the Winter Wolf

Girl realizes she's a lesbian only after she becomes god (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Goddess Reborn/Mirror World

Local tree starts eating people on its path to godhood (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Reborn as a Demonic Tree

Ant decides that the food chain does not define him so he equips diamond armor and start controlling gravity (proceeds to start a cult and adopt a daughter)-Chrysalis

Murderhobo -Full Murderhobo

Autistic man decides he hates mushrooms (he is one of the strongest people on earth & his best friend is also a snake god but we don't think about that to hard)-Primal Hunter

Mans sea food is so good that it is legally heresy and gives people super powers (he also has to convince people that he isn't an alien but Australian)-Heretical Fishing

Dudes mere existence angers a god (proceeds to beat up a fantasy world racist) -Gene Harvest

As you can see my taste in books is the best

[syn4k]

ok give me like two hours to write a oneshot about lag-induced chronic pain and its effects on players (specifically in minecraft)

[firstroseofspring]

memory, death and life as komerex zha, the perpetual game; klingon culture as depicted in the final reflection, by john m. ford

[mysterypigeon]

i love you the person who giggles before the music starts in Scars. i love you the person who whoops in the distance between the second pre-chorus and the chorus in Mad Dog, right on beat. i love you the person who says "just in time for the sequel players (?)" as the drumsticks clack together before Bitter Medicine. i love you the way the audience screams after the bridge in Arcturus Beaming, waiting in the silence and exploding with the guitar solo. i love you the people who become lyrics to me

[catvids]

in zeros first appearances she is just the zenos avatar. no name no identity no agency. forced to do his bidding against her will. we dont even know shes gonna be a character until later. and when we do finally meet her as a character she is literally in prison. but then our crystal resonates with her and gives her back her former appearance. and y'shtola gives her a name. a modicum of identity and agency. and more than just that. the scions dont ever force or pressure her to help them without it being an exchange. they abide by her terms. and go out of their way to look after her. and when she is dying on the ground overwhelmed by enemy voidsent. we are shown another time when she was helpless and dying in the snow. brutalized for holding her ground against violence and cruelty. and no one came to help her. but this time. they do. and it was too late to save her then. but. she is not beyond saving now. just like the thirteenth itself is not beyond saving. even though it was too late to save it so long ago. when we first meet her she stands for nothing but her own survival as far as shes concerned. but once she barred the path of those who sought to hurt others alone and fell. which she may yet do again. and it neednt be alone this time. she may not be able to taste food in the same way. but she can feel the way it burns in her mouth. and in her chest. and so even though she does not understand it fully. she chooses to fight for it.

i also . really like. her interactions with alisaie. and in general how she interacts with the source and its people . it is very emblematic of how her hard and uncompromising nature is a survival tactic. back on the thirteenth. her domain is a haven for outcast voidsent whom she knows by name. even in a world where anything but ruthless practicality gets you killed. she wants for meaning. even corrupted and imprisoned and stripped of self. the first thing she asks wol when she meets them. is. are you the friend. and in the source. when shown kindness and warmth and light. she wants to understand. and is fascinated by it. she gazes at the sky as it changes colors. she cannot stop asking questions. she is gruff and terse. but she sincerely wants to know . what is a friend. and why do you fight for others even though you have no obligation to. and they tell her. to the best of their abilities. their answers confound her. but. they do not go over her head. survival is all the meaning she has been allowed for a very very long time. but through the kindness and genuine care and attention of others. she is given the chance to live for more than just that. and perhaps. that is what the dormant part of her has wanted all along. and has always strived for subconsciously. amidst the pitch darkness of the void.

i like also . that she is tainted. she may be indistinguishable from a living person in appearance. and the crystal restored her former appearance. but she is a voidsent. on the thirteenth she is undying. she needs to eat aether to live. her body lacks a large degree of sensation. including taste. but. the others treat her like a person anyway. when she is depleted of aether on the thirteenth. the others carry her back in their arms. they feed her. they talk with her. and she cannot say whether the food they give her tastes like much. but a spicy enough dumpling still burns her mouth. being treated like a person will not undo the damage of all that happened to her. but. it can rekindle the flames. and lead her to choose to fight for more than just her own survival. she is a voidsent. and she is also. a person. even overcome by darkness. her star is not beyond hope. and neither is she.

zeros life always meant something. the thirteenths existence always meant something. even when it seems like there is nothing but strife and pain. when you hurt others and yourself. when you are not given the choice to do anything but drag yourself along numbly. even then. you are still a person. a person worth saving. and loving.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

anyway also adding "messmer was the one to burn melina" to the List until proven otherwise

[domripley]

I need to get up and get my shit ready for tomorrow and Monday but I don’t wanna get up