#m: books

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[daily-spooky]

[starr-angelofnarnia]

On this Day in History Shit Went Down by James Fell is my nonfiction read.

The Princess Diaries volume 11, Quarantine Princess is my fiction read.

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[daily-spooky]

[catchymemes]

[juniperandjustice]

Yeah, it definitely traumatized me.

bridge to terebithia is such a harsh wake-up call as a kid like “surprise, sometimes main characters die. welcome to the real world motherfucker.”

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[blumenundpoesie]

a blanket of snow on fairy lights

[mysharona1987]

So, Ben is going through some things these days.

[zorya-reads]

That’s my problem! I read letters. I don’t understand how some of you have the “Wait, I’m not watching a movie?” moment. And don’t even get me started on physical characterizations. I know they’re supposed to have soft eyes in that tender moment, but I just. can’t. picture. it. Additionally, when I do try to imagine the action, I’m inevitably thrown off—completely derailed—by how it’s all happening in 3D space. The author obviously has their own vision, and the moment mine doesn’t match up (as in 99,98% of all cases) I’m lost for the rest of the chapter.

To help myself out, I use reading playlists as it makes me feel like I’m reading the book in at least the same place (e.g.I’m a Hogwarts student reading Harry Potter as some sort of biography.) and use Pinterest to visualize physical features or look up how a certain action might play out. But then—cue the chaos—I run into the issue where the characters look SOOOO different from how they’re described. This is why making fanart scares me. I want to stay true to the fandom and canon, but drawing a character in a way that doesn’t align with how I’ve gotten to know them? It feels off, like the same uncanny weirdness the fandom might feel if a character looked nothing like they’re “supposed to.” HDHDHDHND.

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[shyjusticewarrior]

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

[elzibub]

This is amazing!