#seriously its such a good book

[maspers]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book so Imma summarize it for you. 

Basically Earth gets destroyed by aliens, but a couple humans survive, team up with a couple other aliens to… Not die, and also avoid being arrested, and then they go on a quest to find the legendary planet of Magrathea. Anything else requires an elaborate explanation of context and slash or is spoilers. Sounds lame? Surprise! It's written by Douglas Adams, who takes his narration and makes literally everything funny. And I do mean everything. 

Starring

Arthur "I just came out to have a good time, or even just a mediocre time I'm not picky, and I'm feeling so attacked right now" Dent, legendary everyman who goes from extremely fazed to extremely unfazed very fast as a coping mechanism and is famous for it

Ford "Hoopy frood who knows where his towel is" Prefect, who's spent like an entire lifetime working to get a single word added to an encyclopedia and if that doesn't perfectly describe academia I don't know what does

Zaphod "Steal your girl, Steal your ship, Steal the Presidency" Beeblebrox, who is just this guy you know and clearly thinks he's living in a completely different genre than everyone else but that's okay because it drives the plot

Tricia "Trillian" McMillian (she does actually go by that nickname) who is probably the smartest and sanest person in the cast and is still very much a case of "You're the last man in the universe and I'm still not sure about dating you."

Marvin "Life is meaningless and death approaches" the paranoid Android, who is either the funniest or the "funniest" thing you've ever seen

A host of other people random scattered across spacetime most of which have no bearing on the story but also are really important for the sake of a joke and also the plot and also a joke

And the number 42

Read this book please

[saddest-girl-in-the-whole-world]

Since it'll be a while longer until alecto releases (take your time tamsyn) I think we should try to avoid the usual insanity that befells a starved fandom by doing something unheard of: Reading another book. So uh.

What books would you recommend to your fellow locked tomb fans to help with the urges until we get alecto?

[sevenangrybees]

Man, the elden ring dlc makes me so fucking sad, like who is it at fromsoft that has such a massive boner for radahn that they have to ruin miquella's entire story?? like, having it be godwyn miquella was trying to resurrect is right fucking there, miq literally has eclipses in his eyes. did they run out of time to make a godwyn model and just decided to bork the entire story so they could recycle radahn's model??? did they forget that miq and mal had a reason to kill radahn already (he's holding back the stars which means the eclipse can't happen) and pulled some shit out of their ass last minute?????? Like what HAPPENED?!?!?!?!

[deoidesign]

HI I think I sent an ask a while back about having recently found TaTA and a) if it came off as trying to rush/guilt you. I am so sorry because that was NOT my intent, and b) I can hugely guarantee you have at least one person who will eat up any return, no matter when it happens, because I care about the guys so much 🥺 really looking forward to whatever comes next!!

Oh, I appreciate this a lot thank you!

Tbh it's a stress I would have regardless of anyone asking me about it, I'm probably the biggest one rushing and guilting myself on it. Which might contribute to some of the burnout I had...

My complaints are more about people who are demanding "more content daddy" or asking me if I'm dead or asking on every single post I make where it is... Wondering when it's coming back is completely reasonable, it's been a long time! but there's definitely a line haha

my editor also keeps randomly scheduling me and then saying "oh, btw you're scheduled to return in 3 weeks. Is that alright?" And I have to keep saying no, that's not alright??? And then dealing with that process...

I could write an essay about all the reasons it's not back yet, but that doesn't help me feel any less pressured, and it doesn't help you all get the rest of the comic any faster...

As of right now I'm scheduled to and trying to return october 21. No official announcement yet cause I have to do a lot of work in that time, but it's my official goal at least. When we get closer I'll be able to say for sure whether it's coming back on that date!

[70sscifiart]

Hi, it’s me, the 70s Sci-Fi Art guy, here with some news: You can now preorder the artbook I’ve spent the last three years writing. It’s Worlds Beyond Time, a 9x11 history of ‘60s-’80s sci-fi cover art, with 400 beautiful illustrations, out from Abrams Books next July. 

If you like the art and facts on this feed, you’ll love it. Find it, uh, wherever books are sold, I guess? I’m still getting used to self-promotion.

[kang-yina]

I have a enemies to lovers-lovers to enemies toxic yuri story with mattel i guess

[featherymainffins]

Can anyone who knows Uglies explain what the hell changed that just 10 years ago it was considered great and groundbreaking and now I see nothing but people saying that it's dumb and uninspired and has no point or meaning?

[incorrect-tbs-quotes]

Guess who just got their copy of @sshannonauthor TBS the Tenth Anniversary edition? (Me!)

I can't wait to dive into this world as I did for the first time six years ago. I get to see my OTP, Paige and Warden for the first time again which is insane. I can't believe we even get that chance so thank you Samantha, truly. This is essentially my version of early Christmas. (And now that I'm older I can actually bust out some champagne for the occasion 😂)

[fungi-maestro]

Questionable Images 1/2 - The Question #8 (1987)

[discjude]

Yeah this is about right (as always my thoughts are in the tags so there's actually kei content there lmao)

[oozeandgoo-art]

had an odd dream that i was reading a comic book. sketched a couple of the pages i could remember.

[beachyserasims]

Geneva Island Legacy┃Chapter four┃Enjoy Your Stay

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I have to give a shout out to @cinamun and @therichantsim because they simspired me to build my own secret underground lab from this post.

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[sunfloralchaos]

Once I'm done with ongoing things I'll probably take a serious break from shit,,, not feeling worth it at the moment

[kitnapz]

hellooooo! i was wondering if any of you had any book recommendations because ive really been enjoying reading lately! some genres i like are asian historical fiction and fantasy. i dont really like romance novels, but i do enjoy a little love story within a broader work...... recently i have read pachinko, little fires everywhere, and kokoro. a couple of years ago i remember i liked the cruel prince

[redr0sewrites]

i wanted to kinda talk about my opinion on some things related to Ana Huang and the romance genre in general- sorry for the rant!!!

finished king of sloth by ana huang and urgrhrgrhrhrh i actually really really enjoyed it!!!! (i say that ab everything i read tho tbh, i've just never been the type who criticizes the media i consume so PLEASE don't ever base ur opinions off of mine :)

my post isn't about the book specifically or even the author. i lowkey have a bone to pick and its NOT with ana huang or the book but moreso the reaction i've been noticing about the book (specifically from people who have been making fun of it and/or people who read it)! this isn't meant to start discourse or anything but i am open to polite discussion about some of the points im bringing up. this is generally focused around ana huang but also a lot of majority-feminine centric media has this same problem.

anyways, i'm gonna try to express how i feel as best i can without being rude or offensive ajshsjs-

it just lowkey irks me that sm people have been hating on ana huang now that she's getting attention, and since she's a romance writer, her fans and fanbase is mostly women and/or girls, (which is totally ok)!! however, i genuinely feel like this is just another barbie movie or sarah j mass or taylor swift scenario where the second something/someone that a lot of woman like starts to get publicity, people (mostly men) start excessively hating on it.

i have genuinely seen sm people dissing not only ana huang but her writing as well. now i don't know much about her as a person and i know that a lot of people are flawed so if she's genuinely done something wrong PLEASE lmk, i don't keep up w that stuff. and hey, maybe you just didn't like the book and thats ok too!!! its totally valid to not like something, but to make fun of an author and the people who enjoy her content just seems.. ehh.

a lot and i mean a LOT of people claim that she's only popular because of her smut but i actually enjoy her books more than just for the smutty/romance aspect. maybe that's just me, but i genuinely find it interesting and a lot of other people i know also enjoy it for the plot. and if u are reading for the smut that's ok as well, this is a totally safe space, and nobody should judge u on your reasons to read a book. the books are INTENDED to be fluffy and spicy and overall are just fictional romantic stories. they're smutty, funny books, not the bible. it shocks me how much people make fun of them.

i just keep seeing this trend of people negatively nitpicking anything and everything about authors and their writing ESPECIALLY when its romance and it just rubs me the wrong way. ive seen a LOT of people upset about huang including cameo's of her other characters in her latest book, and if you don't like those other characters so much then why... are u reading it??? THAT SOUNDS SO MEAN IM SORRY but its just so strange that people are upset about her including her own characters from her own series'?

its just disappointing that whenever someone or something becomes popular, there are always people who are just trying to be negative and diss it along with the people who enjoy it. i'm NOT making this post to be rude or offensive to people who genuinely don't like the author or the series, ur absolutely entitled to ur own opinion!!! however i have just seen this link SO MANY TIMES of people suddenly disliking something/someone bc a lot of woman seem to enjoy it and it just makes me a bit sad and disappointed.

(also side note can men stop hating on the romance genre and books they haven't even read? please??? can feminine people like anything anymore??? romance exists as such a successful genre bc the majority of readers are WOMEN who have to create fictional scenarios about being loved by seemingly "unachievable" men that are literally just doing the bare minimum. women fantasize about being treated with BASIC HUMAN RESPECT as though that isn't the standard, bc honestly, it isnt.)

THIS POST IS NOT MEANT TO EXCLUDE ANY OF MY FELLOW NON-FEMALE/NON-WOMAN OR GENDER NON CONFORMING FOLK WHO ALSO ENJOY ROMANCE!!!! THIS IS JUST A GENERALIZATION BASED ON THINGS I HAVE NOTICED, AND I AM NOT EDUCATED/HAVE A DEGREE ON THE MATTER!!!! THIS IS SIMPLY AN OBSERVATION!!!!! IF UVE READ THIS LONG, MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!

[the-mononoke-facade]

Every time this dude is put in a situation where I think he's about to explode in a rainbow of bitterness and entitlement, he just doesn't, and it's very bizarre

Of course he's also the pov character and I don't know that I'd call him a reliable narrator so he could be omitting the parts where he made himself out to be a dick, but still