#please READ A BOOK

[hernameislover]

The world is not ending.

Get off social media and read a book. Donate money to help the places who are struggling. Maybe spread awareness on your platform about those issues (once you’re not chronically online). No, that random creator on tiktok telling you it’s the end of the world isn’t accurate. Stop spreading bullshit online. Please.

[stargirl092]

Can people stop acting like “it ends with us” is fucking classic literature??? Just saw a TikTok saying “this is what reading it ends with us sounds like” and it was black out days by phantogram 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[wewontbesleeping]

it's so fun having a feminist post get popular on tumblr bc you get two different and very distinct types of misogynistic responses: the first is the "you are not a real feminist if you do not center men in your feminism. the patriarchy affects men just as much as it does women. to the boys with soft tummies who are reading this: you are valued. you are loved. you are perfect just the way you are. hating women is a valid coping mechanism." and the second is just calling you a cunt and telling you to die. love both of them, though. <3

[fillejondrette]

i don't understand why the tiktokkers' minds are so blown by the osama bin laden letter. did they think he did 9/11 just for funsies? for no reason at all? of course he had political motivations and legitimate grievances against the US.

[tinyfrog51]

Pirates were not gay they were violent criminals who raped their own crew members because there were no other victims (women) to get their hands on out at sea and the taika waititi pirate show is not educated and respectful historical analysis

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[mahmood11]

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[fulltimecatwitch]

when they said in Dune that they needed spice for space travel i thought it was used as some sort of fuel but no apparently it's just because your pilot needs to be hight out of his mind to be able to safely navigate big ships into space

[the-antlered-one]

Oh hehe that's funny, why is the cover of this book a quarter of an inch shorter than the insid-

[frenchublog]

💃...

[shwinlsol]

I apparently have an affinity for drawing grizzled old men and their psychopathic exes

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[riant-draws]

@bapple117's fic The Theraprist is PEAK LITERATURE

(in which we do a little trolling and a lot of therapy- if you're into fluffy hurt/comfort with a good helping of angst, this fic is for you)

[zukoinmypocket]

thinking about the time in my university art theory course that the tutor asked the class if they knew what communism was and a girl raised her hand and responded ‘it’s like when you eat the rich and stuff’