#now i have to reblog a bunch of nice things as a palate cleanser before i log off

[thevioletcaptain]

Hey, so ODAAT has been renewed for another season - despite not winning that stupid poll. Hope it feels good knowing you supported a bully for nothing. But on the upside, at least we know what you're truly like now.

Which of these two things legitimately sounds like bullying to you, anon?

Person uses harsh language to address an issue that is important to them, and then immediately and sincerely apologises for the way they went about it as soon as they realise that they unintentionally hurt someone with their poor method of delivery.

Person sends antagonistic and insulting anonymous messages dredging up week-old wank to someone who has stated—twice—that they are done talking about the topic at hand, with the sole purpose of mocking them for having taken a stand on something that succeeded without their help.

Honestly, anon. Tell me.

Which one of those scenarios actually meets any kind of standard for bullying?

I think we both know which one fits. And I also think that if you weren’t at least a little bit aware of that, you’d have had the guts to send me this message without hiding behind a grey face.

So, yeah. You know what I’m “truly like” now, but in case there’s anyone who still doesn’t get it, I’ll spell it out:

I’m the kind of person who would rather be disliked for taking a stand on something that I think is meaningful than be liked for my silence.

I’m the kind of person who thinks that it’s more important to follow my moral compass than to ignore it just to gain the approval of some strangers on the internet.

I’m the kind of person who looks at this message—spiteful, gloating, generally mean-spirited—and wonders how on earth she ever had anyone who would send something like this among her followers. Because this is some straight up bronly-level garbage I’m seeing here.

And shockingly, when people send me anonymous messages that read like they could have been ghostwritten by k*lios, I struggle to find any reason to want them--or anyone who thinks like them--to approve of me.

So if you do? Unfollow me. 

Sure, I’ll be sad to see that number drop, but on the upside--at least I’ll know what you’re really like.

[unhallowedarts]

A couple weeks back I asked the internet for help finding something to read, and man did the internet pull through! This is a masterpost of answers I got. If you’re tagged in it, it’s just so I can tell you this: thank you for responding! I got some recommendations I’ve already read, some that have been on my list for ages, some I’ve never heard of before and am excited to have learned about! It was fun seeing such a variety, and now I have a nice list here to come back to next time! If you’re wondering which I ended up reading, the answer is actually that my wife reminded me that I’d been meaning to read Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, so I played favorites and took that suggestion. But I just finished it, so, I’ll try to pick one of these for the next thing!

@metalpannda​ answered: John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series.

@vivaciouscactus​ answered: Jewels of the Rebellion is one of my favorite fantasy novels. Its only $3 on Amazon, too.

@theneuroknight​ answered: The Fionavar Tapestry. Recommended by a friend. Not sure what I think of it yet. You might like.

@rabiastudies​ reblogged this from suchprettypride and added:

The Catcher in the Rye

@janeandthehivequeen​ reblogged this and added:

The giver series by Lois Lowry maybe? It’s kind of quiet fantasy, the plot can’t really be described as action at all. Death does enter the plot at one point but it doesn’t dwell on it. You can start at any book in the series and read any of them as a stand-alone as well.

But like, everyone has read that so you probably already have too lol

Oh, there’s the princess bride, which is hilarious and fantasy. There’s action but it’s not action packed, and it’s self-aware and campy and fun. If you’ve seen the movie, it’s like that, but with a very self-aware frame narrative.

Howl’s Moving Castle is like a subversion of different fantasy tropes, also very funny and also relatively light-hearted. The main character has been turned into an old lady so there’s little action.

@jannhpps​ reblogged this from youthbookreview and added:

Little Women by Louise May Alcott is one of my favorites.

@linguist25  reblogged this and added:

I have few palate cleanser books for you @suchprettypride. You might like….

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Roz Chast (Illustrations)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre #1) by Gail Carson Levine

The Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 by Linda Medley, Jane Yolen

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles by Kim Newman

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link etc.

The Wizard’s Promise (The Hanna Duology #1) by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Spirit’s Key by Edith Cohn

Alistair Grim’s Odditorium (Odditorium #1) by Gregory Funaro (Goodreads Author), Vivienne To (Illustrator)

Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Magical Fiction by Kelly Ann Jacobson etc.

Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School #1) by Jen Calonita

Cranky Ladies of History by Tehani Croft Wessely etc.

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix

The Marvels by Brian Selznick

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Topper (Topper #1) by Thorne Smith

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats

Plain Kate by Erin Bow

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Foxheart by Claire Legrand (Goodreads Author), Jaime Zollars (Goodreads Author)(Illustrations)

My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1)  by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton (Goodreads Author), Jodi Meadows

Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

The 10th Kingdom by Kathryn Wesley

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1-2) by Lewis Carroll

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1) by L.M. Montgomery

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales) by Robin McKinley

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket #1) by Roald Dahl

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

East by Edith Pattou

I hope one of these books serves as a good in-between read. Happy reading to you!

@12minutestomidnight​ reblogged this and added:

This book is pretty well-known, but if you haven’t yet read it: try Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami. It’s fantasy, and it’s a contemporary book - so it might be post-modern, though I’m not sure what counts as a post-modern book to you.

@readingbooksinisrael​ reblogged this and added:

I just took out a bunch of Edward Eager books because I needed exactly what you are talking about. They are children’s books about groups of kids who suddenly find magic. They are all great.

Recommended reading order:

Half-Magic-summer of 1924, four kids find a magic coin on the ground that only grants wishes in halves.

Magic By the Lake-summer of 1925, same four kids go to vacation at a summer house near a lake, and find a talking turtle who can grant wishes

Knight’s Castle-the children of the four in the two previous books have to spend a summer together, and end up adventuring much of it when they are turned tiny

The Time Garden-same children go vacation at a summer house near a lake with a thyme garden. they discover the thyme can take them through time

Seven-Day Magic-five kids from a different universe discover a book that takes them on hazardous adventures when they make a wish on it

Magic or Not?-two kids move to a new neighborhood during the summer, and discover a wishing well and try to do Good Deeds

The Well-Wishers-same kids come upon a magic desk, and immediately lose it to the bully of the street

And these sound generic, but they’re not, and every chapter is action-packed, and the characters are great. If you like E. Nesbit’s books, these are based on those. And the illustrations are great! (at least in my copies)

@anassarhenisch​ reblogged this and added:

Orlando by Virginia Woolf - Modern, not post-modern, with a definite fantasy slant and slower pace; about an Elizabethan immortal who slides between genders Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon - About a twelve-year-old girl auditioning to be the Wicked Witch of a castle, with a fair bit of whimsy and humour; fast-paced because it’s a kids’ book but it doesn’t feel frantic in the same vein, the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede, about a princess who volunteers as a Dragon’s Princess because it’s the only accepted role that allows her independence Uprooted by Naomi Novik - slow burn of a fantasy, occasionally creepy and with fast sections and side character deaths, but the focus is on friendship and saving the kingdom and fighting evil Robin McKinley’s fairy tale retellings if you’re looking for something big, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is basically Austen does fantasy; there are deaths and depression but again, I wouldn’t say they’re the focus; it’s two wizards fighting Napoleon, reinventing magic, and messing with forces they can’t control