#libby is great

[ivynajspyder]

When I was a kid, I really only wanted to read books about other kids, and of course talking animals.

Now as an Adult, I really only want to read books about other adults, and of course talking animals.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

You know what's ironic is all the people putting hate in the tags won't be able to vote on any future polls once they're blocked. They're ruining their chances of future victory.

Correct! But I just think that’s fair: if you’re going to ruin the fun for everyone else by being mean spirited why should you get to participate in the future fun? You don’t have to like every book submitted. There’s a lot of them; that’s very improbable. I certainly don’t like every book submitted. But it’s legitimately easier and less time consuming to say nothing than to be hateful, and also it is just literally not that deep.

These polls are silly and for fun and if you’re getting legitimately mad about them to the point that you’re hating on the competition it’s maybe time to log off. This is also a competition second and a convoluted way to recommend/find new books first. So before logging off maybe look into some of the other books submitted! Maybe one of them will calm you down! I mean this genuinely, there are so many books in round one every time this tournament happens. Read something you’ve never heard of that someone else loved enough to submit that got knocked out early because no one’s heard of it, and feel some connection to your fellow queer book fans and be reminded that this is a hobby. Reading/fandom/this tournament. It’s a hobby we’re all sharing so we should be nice to each other and appreciate that.

[reyreadersblog]

Idk if it's a good thing or not

[starwarskawaii]

I know all of this will pass(probably like a kidney stone), but right now, it's that awful part where you desperately try to stay afloat. There's a lot going on with me, my parents, my friends. It's a big year. The company I work for got bought and everything is changing, this is my dad's first year with a permanent colostomy, one of my friend's is having serious financial issues, two of my best friends are getting married, I'm trying to do more cons, I'm trying to get more healthcare(and I seem to have accidentally a high deductible plan), my allergy I developed less than a year ago makes me miserable every damn day(I am allergic to peanuts. I used to eat peanut products daily, now I could die. I'm cranky), my pain just keeps getting worse... it's a lot. It's just a lot. I know it ebbs and flows. I've been through much worse, like an entire school gossiping about me, being abused in various ways, my depression BEFORE I got ssris, but it's still hard. Going through worse doesn't make now less hard. It almost makes it harder, in fact. I've gone through so much already, how can I not be past this? This is supposed to be better. It should be better. I want to scream it out loud sometimes. It IS better. It really is. I know all of this will pass. But right now I'm just trying to stay afloat.

[solar-nightengale]

Hi, I’m new in this tag kinda and new to meta-writing overall, but not only is the August brain rot really strong but one particular part of his entire character has been on my mind for a whole weekend. Please take this as mostly an offering of very spilled thoughts cause I couldn't keep them to myself anymore, LMAO. Particularly the thing that's on my brain is his guilt

I would also like to make note of and thank @ lizardthelizard And her glorious set of tags here for setting off my spiral tonight and also when she first sent them because my goodness this is truly an eye-opener. Thank you, buddy 💖

Gosh though, August’s guilt and self-criticism of himself and his actions is something that really fascinates me personally, and just thinking of it being the cause of what turns him back to wood is both mind-blowing but it just makes so much sense. He may be real because of magic but who’s to say it’s just the magical conditions that are holding him back and not the high as heck expectations that he feels were set for him and he set up for himself.

When it feels like you can't mess up sometimes it can feel like you're stuck in place Or that your screw ups means you can't change, that you're not good, that maybe you don't deserve to be considered good and that your various flaws are all that others would see you FOR!!

Maybe it's different to anxiety but idk it’s what caught my attention about him even more than what his character already offered up in s1!

He was given this like 

Idea that he needs to be "Brave" and "Truthful" and "Selfless" all the time or else he cannot be human 

Does it work like that? no, there's no human on EARTH that's all three of those things all the time, we've all had moments of weakness and gave in 

But what does he know? Most of his life he spent on his own and as a puppet, he was expected to understand the ways of being a human and GOODNESS knows how short a time he was with his dad before he was THRUST into a world and forced once again to stand on his own two feet and expected to just, you know, know how to act once again 

He's followed by expectations that he finds himself struggling to meet because he doesn't know what the limit is or how to meet them, and sometimes if not all of the times the temptations are just better and easier 

And it's expected!!!

He stepped into TLWM as a child with no idea of what he’s getting into with no prior knowledge, no adult, no nothing.

But omg, he drags himself down so much about it because he can’t meet those expectations the way he would want to and because of that because literally who did he have to tell him that it's all okay? That you can make mistakes and move on from them? That you can make up for your mistakes and forgive yourself for them?

Did he have anyone at all? Cause The show sure didn't show him having anyone

We see one woman in Thailand but even after he discovers he's turning into wood she's no longer around, so like she's probably about as fleeting of a relationship as anything else

Imagine going 28 years at first ignoring all your problems and then the horror and thoughts that you’re not good enough catch up to you one morning and the more you see yourself a failure, the more you sink into that spiral the harder it feels to breathe.

[varian-ross-horror-author]

You don't realize just how sanitized media is for kids to day, Until you find older children's literature, and it lats that infantilization and talking down to people.

I'm listening to a book about Shackleton's expedition, and it wasn't until I checked the page count that I saw it was listed as being for 9 to 12 year olds.

The author doesn't flinch away from harsher details of the expedition, or shy away from talking about previous Ill fated voyages like the Franklin expedition.

" To our sweethearts and wives, may they never meet!" is certainly something you don't expect to find in nonfiction aimed at kids.

[winepresswrath]

i am very much enjoying the early Natsume thing where someone observes Natsume and Nyanko-sensei together and exclaims over what good friends they are only for both of them to recoil in indignation. and then they have to raise a baby together. the tropes start coming and they don't stop coming.

[hellogoodbyegirl]

Did someone order cute Supertramp?

[callixton]

got free audiobooks from spotify. vote :)

[miabrown007]

my hobbies include:

reading books

buying books

browsing Libby for books I'm never going to read

[red-umbrella-811]

The popular novel The Girl on the Train asks the question “Are the straights ok?”

And the answer to that question is emphatically “no.”

[daystarvoyage]

Hello everyone hope you have a ghoulish October, I can’t believe it’s the first week has passed and it just feels like fall has started. So I have a special video on my favorite show

TITLED the wonders and beauty that is ghost and Molly McGee video essay.

My new video has been finished that’s gonna focus on the ghost and Molly McGee, an underrated show of Disney that deserves more praise and recognize for its excellent culture rep,

Just I uploaded it after having dealing with the toxicity in certain spaces cause nothings stopping my grind, so I’ll be taking more on the positive side of animation since toxic fans have become puritans

So here’s the new video have a great one enjoy.

[punkinvsblogging]

I don't know if I'll reach my reading goal this year or not because I keep seeing other things I wanna read and getting tempted to start them. I'm looking at YOU, The Great Gatsby in Spanish and Korean.

[memorydragon]

When you sit down to read an old childhood favorite book and expect covid flashbacks, but don't expect very Loud subtextual commentary about the AIDS epidemic that only put up the most token attempt to camouflage it so the book could actually be published.

[smallblueandloud]

i had a nice weekend and now it is time to go to bed! and start a fresh week! wahoo!

some things i'm looking forward to for tomorrow/this week:

rewatching husbands of river song :D and also continuing on to series 10! (i would like to make a post about series 9 at some point, stay tuned)

responding to my texts! i am accidentally ghosting several loved ones, whoops. i would like to do this tomorrow if possible just so i start my week off strong

i would like to get my queue started again. i miss seeing my reblogs.

tuesday is gonna be SUCH a chill day at work, i'm so excited

this is my last full week of work before i go home next week!

i would like to finish the 13 meets mickey draft this week. i think it is very feasible. maybe tomorrow i can have some nice quiet writing time after friend hangout, we'll see

i have been diving back into youtube which means it's time for me to bust out the libby app again. i'm not sure what book(s) i'm going to listen to but maybe i will finally finish re-reading persuasion? or, ooh, maybe i can find some cool nonfiction

[moralchampion]

Some of you are mutuals with somebody who thinks they're better than all of you because they've watched motogp for longer than you have (they didn't, they "watched" when they were a baby and then not again until like 2021 or whatever)