#seriously no one has read this book ever

[akira-swan]

In "Prey," a book written by Michael Creighton, there are hoardes of nanites that use "flock mentality" as displayed here to move around. Every time i see something like this i think of the nanites in the novel. They were the antagonists.

It's deeply chilling.

[welcometogrouchland]

my Stephanie Brown hot take is that she should get mad bitches now that she's single in comics. Yes yes shipping BUT the one time she had sex she was punished by the narrative via teen pregnancy. I think she should be allowed to have as much sex as she wants with zero consequences. Could be a lot of sex, could be a little. Point is she should get to do it without getting narratively baby trapped this time. she should get them pregnant, actually.

[best-enemies]

The Deca itself amazes me, but its fandom is on a whole other level. We have one canon source material (and a few other mentions scattered throughout the Whoniverse), but the fans have managed to tinker with it so much that fanon is actually more popular than canon and more wildly accepted. And I love y'all for it

[titsthedamnseason]

i am so disturbed. i just picked up my 12 year old sister from school and she asked me if ive ever read icebreaker because girls at school were talking about it. i don’t talk that much crap about booktok but if what it’s doing is giving smut recommendations to literal children we need to pack it up. and i know we aren’t supposed to want parents to police what their children read for various reasons but this is one of those instances where i think parents should be paying closer attention. i am probably hypocritical saying this because of what i read in middle school but for some reason there is a distinct difference to me between me hiding the fanfiction i was reading from my parents and these kids shamelessly being able to buy NA books at the store. it’s not even just the sexual content but it’s weird to me that these kids want to read books about people in college dealing with issues and having conversations they shouldn’t be able to fathom. it’s saddens me so deeply that kids aren’t kids anymore and are so eager to grow up through wearing makeup, wearing revealing clothes, and now apparently reading adult books. it’s a separate conversation but this has to be connected to the decline of YA as a genre as well. i’m spiraling now but this was just completely shocking and horrifying to me for so many reasons

[volfoss]

it is beyond infuriating how anne rice seems to insist on marius being a positive force in anyone's life ever. like she can't fully commit to exploring the fact he groomed armand and has repeatedly taken away his consent for what marius thinks is best (take the end of TVA as an example) and just kind of flatly puts it in the narrative. there's not really much interest in how these horrific events make marius come across as the worst because EVERYONE loves him. for gods sake, lestat learns from armand exactly what marius did to him in TVL and then proceeds to go find marius and be super friendly to him in the same fucking book. even armand and pandora, two of the people who have MORE than enough right to hate him, do not. it doesnt feel like shes trying to explore the toxicity of the abusive dynamic he traps them in, it just is there. and like yeah ofc the toxic vampire romance series but i think that this should be handled with more care. and it is not ever really framed in a way that she is interested in exploring how marius should easily be one of the most horrific characters in this series because it kind of feels like sa/rape/grooming/other things of that sort are just put there to further plot and not to really get the respect that they deserve in a medium.

[discjude]

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

[sskk-manifesto]

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[cultivating-wildflowers]

Fortnight of Books, Day 14

A book you didn’t read in 2024 that will be your #1 priority in 2025?

I wouldn't say it's my top priority, but I chased a reread of Little Women all over my TBR last year and never settled down to it. It's still waiting patiently on my shelf for me.

I also still have not got around to reading Emily B. Martin's Ashes to Fire (I read the first book, Woodwalker, back in 2023) so hopefully I can finally get to it this year.

New book you are most anticipating for 2025?

I'm assuming this means new releases, but I nearly always read new-ish releases by pure happenstance, so I'm going with new-to-me:

Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett. It's not actually in my Top Five anticipated reads for 2025, but it is the book I am most dreading. Because I was so stressed out at the end of the last book and where things were setting up for this installment that I broke my own rule and looked up spoilers (actually super difficult with this fandom) anddddddd it's not gonna be good. I'm gonna read it but I will suffer the entire time. (If anyone reading this has read Pawn in Frankincense, this is me holding out my hand begging for help. Please hold me.)

From my Top Five list, I'm excited to finally read Sorcery and Cecelia. I love Wrede's writing so I have no idea why it's taken so long to get to this series.

[toonfinatic]

Sherlock Holmes (2009) is an alright movie but why on earth is Holmes wearing a belt. Like yeah first of all not historically accurate, but second of all... WHY is he at times wearing BOTH a belt and suspenders??? That's fucked up don't do that. One of those things does fuck-all in that case.

[britneyshakespeare]

I can't believe the Younger Brother (1689) by Aphra Behn has the only one bed trope

[constantvariations]

Yknow, instead of basing a lackluster at best character off a nazi, Coco could have been Chajka, based off the heroic Chajka Klinger, a jewish woman who was essentially a scribe of history

You can even keep the minibag machine gun considering the history of jewish women hiding guns in their purses

[sailforvalinor]

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[riggedbones]

ppl who only watch animated stuff may be annoying but at least live action has more than one academic art theory book about it

[amplexadversary]

Please tell me Sam didn’t just make a reference to the fucking Hatchet.

[gingerswagfreckles]

I got called a Zionist seven times and told to kill myself twice for posting about the crowd of Pro Palestine protesters chanting Heil Hitler and doing Nazi salutes at the Olympics. "What universe does OP live in." The real one. Where antisemitism is alive and well, and you are perpetuating it.

The thing that people fail to understand is that antisemitism has always been a progressive value. From it's conception, the leftist movement has failed to reject the idea that Jews control the world and have a disproportionate influence over world events. Therefore, antisemitism isn't just tolerated, but celebrated, as it's seen as another version of "punching up." That's why our pleas about how antisemitic the left has become go in one ear and out the other. You say antisemitism, they hear "reverse racism." They don't care if people or movements are antisemitic, because they believe it is challenging the status quo.

Of course, Jews have never controlled the world and in every country outside of Israel are an oppressed minority. But as long as leftists continue to believe in the conspiracy theory that Jews are the ones truly in power, we will never get anywhere trying to address antisemitic bias. On the left, antisemitism is considered "speaking truth to power." Because they believe Jews are the power to be fought. Are we really surprised that antisemitism is so celebrated now?

[sweetbeck]

faeriewalker erlking is such a lesbian entity lmao. like don't do heterosexuality for the love of GOD. empty hollow useless. also here's how 2 flirt with a woman + be totally cool with her rejection of you + still be lifelong friends based on admiration + mad skills.