#sorry for the rant post

[onesidedradiostatic]

new challenge is trying to see if the #aroace alastor tag can go 3 days without discourse

[a-bass-ist]

Alright, I put down another book: here's my cliff notes review of no country for old men

It was excellent, I enjoyed it, I struggled to understand it at times though. McCarthy had a very, let's say, acquired sense of writing and once I got through the novelty of not having quotation marks or many commas, I realized I just had to focus. He's a good author but if I'm gonna read say, "the road" or "blood meridian" remains to be seen.

The book itself was good, as I said, I liked how completely unnerving the scenes with Chigurh are, I felt tense reading parts because of that. Moss was a good character, but to keep it spoiler free I'd say they did him, unceremoniously dirty. Bell was good, his parts were the hardest to grasp but he was a shaded in character and very interesting. Most of the characters were well written in fact, of the main 3 that is.

Would I recommend this book? I'm not sure, if you want to start reading Cormac McCarthy, yes, it's not at all a bad place to start. If you're just curious or have seen the movie, I don't know, I enjoyed it, but it's (as I've stated like two times) hard to follow a good couple times. I guess you could say, my recommendation, is a coin toss

[frost-queen]

how did you like the season 3 of bridgertons?

I liked the first half, the second half felt like a disappointment or so out of line. After episode 5 or 6 Polin seemed to become side charachters 😒 while it was their season! The side-stories took complete control in the second half. I found their scenes sometimes awkward in part 2. I felt second hand embarrassement. The Benny scene's urgh I skipped them he was barely around and spend more time having threesomes than being around the family. It felt plain and just driven with pleasure. I have no problem with Michaela (michael) the thing that bothered me was that Fran said she loved John. Their kiss felt like she did not love him and her lovey dovey eyes to Michaela from the first second felt like she just threw her love confession for John out of the window like John who? It felt too rushed. I mean if it built up like in the book (which I have not read) I could understand it more. Now it just felt like what she built up with John by telling how she loved him and wanted to marry him, that it meant nothing! Also why let us have sympathy for Cressida to just let her be the villain once more 🤷‍♀️

I did enjoy Lady D as always 🥰 Phillipa that darn sweetie with the bugs was an absolute delight. I really enjoyed the featherintongs more this season than the Bridgertons. The Bridgerton's where all over the place 🫣

I wonder whoes next story will be and how? I do hope Sofie remains as I just love myself a Cinderella story.

What did you think?

Also i'm not saying this to start a war or something. It is just how I felt about the season. I didn't enjoy it as much as the second one which is up till now still my fav season 🥰

[miss-allsundays]

i genuinely don’t get the whole “let’s shame booktok for reading books with smut in it” argument i see people have on tiktok? sooo many think they have the moral fucking high ground because they don’t read “spicy books”, like they also haven’t read trashy and/or cringy shit while in their teens.

“well we had a wattpad phase” then why are you complaining you fucking hypocrite. if you also have read cringe smut why are you shaming others for doing so? the only difference is that you read it on your phone while they bought physical copies.

“you can go to wattpad or ao3 for that” it’s so cool when you collectively shit in fanfic writers just to feel superior. implying that the only thing you can find of fanfic websites is poorly written works is soooo cool and trendy of you to say. like those people don’t take hours out of their day to publish something enjoyable FOR FREE.

it’s especially annoying because i would get it if these teens were saying that booktok works have more educational value than the classics, but they aren’t, and it’s not like they’re spending YOUR money to buy those books, so why are you bitching about it?

(also, on that note, it’s not like these people complaining are reading Dickens, Dostoevsky, or Shakespeare on the daily??? while they’re spending 15 hours on tiktok to bitch about teenagers, said teens are spending those same hours reading🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️)

[starfleetshrimps]

unfollow me right the fuck now if you think supporting palestine is antisemitic because i have far too many nasty ppl messaging me right now accusing me of being

A) a zionist

and

B) an antisemite.

you people do not know what these words mean and i'm tired. I am a jew, and (not that it largely matters) an ethnic, cultural jew, who has been taught through deep seated intergeneration trauma, from very early childhood what genocide looks like. this is genocide. I will support Palestinian people however I can I would just really like to stop getting accused of two terrible opposite things, neither of which are true in the slightest.

fuck off.

[relatabletoaster]

It's very frustrating to read people straight up post misinformation in the name of body positivity. Like, you don't have to lie about how the human body works in order to fight against fatphobia. It's bad, actually. Health comes in many different shapes and sizes, and it's important to keep that in mind.

[mothdustts]

sorrry ive been really stressed out the past couple of days because my uni is being a fuckinf bitch about my enrolment for this upcoming semester booooo 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

also whats pissing me off more is that as an international student im literally paying these mfs 4 times the amount a local student has to pay and this is the service im receiving srsly what the fuck

[alexandersimpleton]

Frederick, on some level, understood that it was unfair. It was unfair how the CPC was allowed to insult him but he wasn't allowed to say one bad word or he got harassed to no end. It was unfair that he was expected to forgive Blaine for all he did to him while Prez almost killed Whitney. It unfair how he was held to such a high standard compared to everyone else. It was all unfair, he understood.

But it all had an explanation. These were neurotypicals! They had never made sense! Well, they never made sense to him. Because Frederick was an idiot who couldn't even be in a crowd to long without screaming. They're neurotypicals. They always know better than him

[emovulture]

"Noo, I don't have an opinion on what's going on in Palestine."

"I don't like politics so I'm neutral about all of that stuff."

"Don't send me things about the politics of Gaza or Palestine or anything like that, it just makes me really anxious and-"

Those are some real things I've seen people say before. You don't have an opinion on the literal genocide going on in Gaza and Palestine? The lives being taken? The atrocities Israel has done? You're refusing to educate yourself on all of this because it makes you anxious? (Boo hoo) That's disgusting to me. You can't be "neutral" about a literal war??

You're either with Palestine or not. I'm loud and proud about supporting Palestine, and if any of my mutuals, followers, friends or family who don't feel the same, please get away from me and this blog.

[godivaghoul]

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[femboty2k]

fucking hate that the clothes I bought to try and help make me feel more like me physically fucking hurt me. I bought the biggest sports bras I could find for a reasonable price and they destroy my shoulders and hurt my ribs. Im so tired of being shaped like this dude I wanna fucking die.

[cosmokrill]

sketch for tonight. Sebastian's situation in the fandom seems REALLY similar to Jax from TADC. An asshole the community finds cute and thus parts of said community characterize him as a soft good boy in their heads.

Once more content of said character comes out doubling down on their already established asshole behavior (Update leak where Sebastian shoves you every time you try and climb up on him because he has always disliked expendables and would actually do anything else than be forced to work with the vermin/Jax in the entirety of Candy Carrier Chaos) The aforementioned part of the community start to bemoan over how the character is "such a jerk now" and the creator(s) don't want the fandom to have any fun.

Guys. Climbing on top of Sebastian is a glitch. A glitch that can very easily get you softlocked, especially in solo runs. It was going to get patched out anyways.

Anyways I think I will use the term "Jaxtaposition" for any character whose fandom interpretation of their personality is completely different from their canonical personality to the point of sheer ridiculousness

[iwhoneverbelievedinwar]

(grabbing your face) do you remember simon fairchild's statement about how he became an avatar. how he fell and the sky embraced him. i think about it all the time. how it would feel to be embraced by the vast. the entity that is about how you are insignificant before the endless void, holding you. the fact that being an avatar of the vast means loving a contradiction: you are insignificant and the entity of the vastness of everything else holds you in its embrace and takes away your mortality.

i wonder if when simon told that one guy enjoy sky blue if the reason he laughed while saying it was because he was sharing his own joy. if in his own way he wasn't being generous, sharing the experience that changed him forever. i wonder if as much as he spreads terror, maybe what he really wanted was to share that experience, and that's why he picked someone who loves sky-diving, someone who was also in love with the sky.

i wonder if that guy who was eaten by the sky isn't out there now, saying the sky held him gently in the huge jaws of endless blue, and he cried with joy as he understood. if what for his mother was a horrible experience that killed her son, for him wasn't the liberation from his mortal life and worries before the realization that we are nothing.

i wonder if simon was afraid, too, before he was in love or while he was in love with it, if he can even distinguish his love for the vast from his fear from it or it's just another facet of his adoration, something he can offer to it, if when he said he loved the sky he meant it like that, like we often love a god, with fear as strong as our adoration.

[livvyofthelake]

beronica canon in the archie the musical dream universe btw…

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

I'm home. the air smells so sweet and everything is green and alive and beautiful.

I hang my washing on the clothesline.

I read a book in the meadow and a badger comes to check out what I'm doing, and neither of us feel threatened so we just sit there, mutually existing.

I pick the currents right off the bramble, and not nearly as many make it home because i ate them as I picked.

I eat homemade potato soup by the fire, and I can smell the burning peat.

I cuddle up in a jumper handknit by my aunt, beautifully striped in my favourite colours.

I sit in the window, curled up with a cuppa warming my hands as a rainy day passes by.

and then I wake up. because it was a dream made up of patchwork memories and an insatiable longing for where I feel I truly belong.

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel