#shes my favorite author ever

[crapimgay]

I totally didn't just binge read all of Radio Silence today

No bc can we talk about how great of an author Alice Oseman is????

Like the way that she tackles mental health in her books while not romanticizing it or being insensitive?

And the way that she challenges traditional book tropes and relationships

Like I love how she shows relationships (and people) that are all wildly different from each other, without making it seemed forced (like what is now very common in media)

And her writing style omg, I actually love it so much. It feels like you know the characters on a deep level, you know them as well, if not better, than they know themselves/others.

But truly, I could go on for hours about her writing. She's just such an amazing author and you can tell that she deeply cares about her writing. She's doing this because she loves it, and I'm so greatful that she has created these amazing stories and decided to share them with us. I could not be more thankful.

[sing-me-under]

I have a lot of opinions on fanon Tim. I am a fanon!Tim Drake anti. I’ve never been an anti of anything before, but I am very anti fanon!Tim Drake. He’s basically just a Mary Sue, but it’s worse because Tim Drake is a real canon character who is SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING. What the fuck did y’all do to him. Why can’t you just project your childhood trauma on a self insert like the rest of the internet. Look at him! You could replace him with a single packing peanut, and I couldn’t even tell the difference!

[tategaminu]

It's been almost 6 years since Tokyo Ghoul :re ended and I'm still not over about how the fandom treated Touka like seriously she couldn't have a single scene without people jumping at her throat. It was sickening to see

I'm so sorry Touka you were my breathing living angel and you deserve better ily

[thepartysdone]

i think every autistic person should read the The Boy Who Steals Houses trilogy which has two autistic main characters (one is only revealed later in the series) and is by an autistic author<3

[twistedappletree]

Modern!AU Zhuiling going on regular bookshop dates because Jin Ling knows how much Lan Sizhui loves books—and though he’d never admit it out loud, he loves watching LSZ zoom around the bookshop, piling several books in his arms and lighting up at all the titles that catch his interest.

Sometimes they huddle up on the floor together in an empty aisle and flip through pages while LSZ reads random passages out loud and JL rests his chin on LSZ’s shoulder, reading along and listening to his gentle ‘library’ voice.

Eventually, they grab coffee at the bookshop’s cozy little cafe filled with warm faerie lights and flickering neon signs buzzing on the walls while LSZ gushes over his new collection of books and JL watches him from across the table with the most adoring smile that he immediately tries to hide by shaking his bangs in his face and nervously sipping his coffee every time LSZ looks at him. ✨

[national-hockey-gay]

do you have any poetry collection recommendations/poet recommendations in general just to like Read?

boy do i ever!!!

okay i have two all time top favorite poets (not ranked in a particular order):

1. Louise Glück: There was actually an anthology published of all the books so published from the start of her career to 2012.

(Poems 1962-2012 is 600+ pages of incredible poetry and relatively cheap, especially for its size and considering poetry tends to cost more than fiction books)

Glück’s poetry is actually the reason I started reading more poetry in the first place. She writes both long form and short form poetry (with her more recent working being longer than a lot of her previous poems), and her language level tends to be pretty accessible.

She writes about hundreds of different topics, but reading from the anthology you get a large mix of themes about motherhood, love, and nature and she also has collections that focus on greek mythology as well as jewish religion.

She has won a Nobel Prize for her poetry, which I consider to be a pretty good way to gauge the caliber of her work!

Highly, highly recommend her work!!

2. Ocean Vuong.

I’ve read his three most recent works: Night Sky With Exit Wounds, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Time is a Mother.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is actually a novel rather than a poetry collection but it reads a lot like poetry and I consider it to be an must-read.

A lot of his works center around his his experience as a queer, Vietnamese American and his relationship with his own intrapersonal identity as well as with his mother. I cant think of a single poem of his that isn’t absolutely incredible, and I think if you’re going to talk about the best poets of our age he’s a crucial mention.

I highly recommend reading his works in publishing order (which is the way I listed them above). His poetry is genuinely life-changing and I cannot stress how much I recommend his writing.

Outside of my two favorite authors I also recommend:

–Amanda Gorman, who is the youngest inaugural poet in U. S. history and is shaping the voice of modern poetry.

You can watch her recite her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” here!

She also has published a collection of her poetry, Call Us What We Carry, which I read all in the same day I bought it because it’s brilliant and captivating.

—The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, which is a fiction novel but the main character narrates the story through her own poetry, making it a poetry collection and a novel all in one. I read this for the first time when I was 13 and I pick it up again every single year.

(I do also highly recommend looking up trigger warnings for this book before you read it, because there are a couple scenes that can be intense!)

—The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi. It’s likely you’re familiar with this quote from it (which i see circulating tumblr and pinterest all the time):

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.

I want an excuse to change my life.”

And I can guarantee the rest of this poetry collection is just as poignant and beautiful! Highly recommend, 10/10 stars always.

—Pablo Neruda is also one of my favorite poets! I own a large collection of his poetry, The Poems of Pablo Neruda, which places the original poem, written in Spanish, next to the English translation, which I enjoy a lot. He also has a lot of well-known quotes that float around tumblr a lot, so that sense of familiarity can be fun, especially when you’re not expecting it!

Hope you enjoy these recommendations!

[caffeinatedopossum]

I just heard someone say that getting married is the hardest thing they've ever done.

I'm sorry but if getting married is the hardest thing you've ever had to do, I don't think I can talk to you. That's fine, that's totally okay if that's hard for you. I just need a long moment of silence for my misjudgment of the average amount of suffering that any given human experiences.

[coconut530]

🌹🩸🕔🥀💉

[sergeantpixie]

it’s been 7 years to the day since i met my best friend in person (and nearly 8 since we became friends!) and i’m actually more obsessed with her now so i’m very much feeling bad for that person who says online friendship only last 2 months at most

[dreamcrow]

daddy's favorite

[scribe-of-monsters]

Someday I'll make a hate post for dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein but not today

[lemonverbena777]

interviews with diana wynne jones

Diana Wynne Jones author interview (bookbrowse.com)

https://misrule.com.au/wordpress/interviews/diana-wynne-jones-interview/

[cozybi]

fascinated by this woman’s writing

[odissean]

Hmmm . . . given the whole "my life is a story I am telling myself" thing going on with Maedi, it is tempting to try writing in second person. I've never really done that before. But, I'm thinking of Petty Treasons by Vict.oria God.dard where the main character copes with his circumstances by kind of. separating himself from the role he's been forced into. He doesn't even identify with his legal name or birthday. The story is from his perspective but told in second person because of that. When he says "you do this", he is saying "I do this", but he is dissociating big time. Seeing himself as a character in a story acting these events out is how he copes. That is major Maedi energy.

[hms-tardimpala]

Legendary lesbien author Emma Donoghue wrote a book based on Anne Lister's life????!!!!

[eric-the-disposable-demon]

Uh-

just found out my cousin (who lives in England) is in the art department of a bunch of shows??? And she worked oN DOCTOR WHO? AND HAD LUNCH WITH DAVID TENNANT???? and she just told me so casually because she's interested in the art, not the show? I mean, excuse me? She worked on SHERLOCK???? FOR A WHOLE SEASON?? She worked on Peaky Blinders and Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones??? And probably other things because she has a shitty memory and according to her everything is a blur?? AND AT ONE POINT SHE WAS LIKE: "oh and have you ever heard of Neil Gaiman?" And I was trying not to scream, because yes, of course I've heard of Neil, he's only my favorite author, I've only read like all of his books multiple times, and if you say you worked on Good Omens or the Sandman I'm going to lose it completely. So I said "yeah I've read a couple of his books," -you know, like a liar- "what about him?" and she goes "well I worked on one of his shows and he's brilliant i just can't remember which one" and i go "w-what do you mean he's brilliant? You're.. you're talking about his writing... his writing is brilliant, right?" And she cheerfully says "oh no I don't read books, I ment he was really nice and brilliant when I talked to him" and i go "WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT" and she thinks for a moment and goes "oh! BRICKS" WHAT IN THE WORLD YES NO THAT MAKES SENSE YOU GET TO WORK AND TALK WITH NEIL FUCKING GAIMAN AND YOU TALK ABOUT BRICKS? NO THAT'S TOTALLY NORMAL I'M NOT MAD ".... it was what I was designing at the time, I needed to know what vibe the bricks should have. Anyway want to see the spinning fireplace I made for doctor who" WHAT THE FUCK.

@neil-gaiman do you remember any brick conversations by any chance