#this is the best book ive ever read

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[pointlessjey]

Rereading the how to train your dragon books

[the-dragon-girl-27]

"I don't know everything, I just know what I know."

So Monogatari is back and nobody told me??????

Haven't watched the new season yet but cuz i'm in a Monogatari mood I drew Hanekawa

[redbuckethat]

The Radiant Emperor duology, a roughly 900 page exploration into the best way to dismantle a monarchy:

- Fucking around and finding out (and murder)

- Unending rage (and murder)

- Gay sex (and murder)

[s-n-o-w-p-i-e-r-c-e-r]

Posting this because although there have been several aspects of the books which I don’t think the show did justice, this took the cake.

Spoilers for Slow Horses S4 finale under the cut

This is how River and Frank’s fight ended in the book. This shows how fucking insane, dangerous and willing to kill his son Frank is. The whole book turns everything in the show to 11, every character had huge moments that (although some cannot be replicated because a show can simply never be inside the mind and hear the monologue of a character), in my opinion were missed.

I should note, I love the show. So much. Jack Lowden is the best actor they could have chosen for River (I’m not just saying that because he’s my favourite actor; if nothing else, book River also literally has a mole above his lip), the entire cast portray their characters very very well. But sometimes the show does something wildly different and I just wonder why.

Side note - last season when Louisa killed Duffy? Yeah that was River in the books and it was a whole character development moment because he had such a huge amount of internalised hate for Duffy based on everything leading up to and including when he interrogated him (which isn’t funny like it is in the show it genuinely hurt River)

But these are just my opinions, and as I said, I ADORE the show. But it isn’t perfect imo.

[iivari-ii]

New favorite book just dropped

I haven't finished it yet, but it's so good?! Super well written, diverse characters and It has altered my brain chemicals, I will never be the same

[mithriel-of-mithlond]

PIERCE BROWN ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!????!?!!????!!

Me after finnishing Golden son

[0keyboard0]

im currently reading the spirit bares its teeth by Andrew Joseph white and all I have to say as of right now is

AHHHHHH

xcjdjskdjkkdsksj

[compacflt]

question: how do you find your research/sources? yours and dancing disasters' icemav fics are so inside baseball i love it, but how do you go about doing research?

I just read a lot & google stuff I don't know & am curious about. not that hard to start learning. and in terms of reading I've been interested in military history & milfiction my whole life. mostly related to the US army, actually--im extremely new to naval history and naval literature; all of that interest was driven by top gun. I've also been fortunate enough to visit a lot of the places I write about--ive been to Pearl Harbor a couple times & San Diego MANY times, for instance, and I've toured a few aircraft carriers and military bases. I've also finally bitten the bullet and kinda shifted my career path towards aerospace, so I've been learning a lot just by working in the aerospace & defense sector/spending a lot of time with people who do.

that's obviously not to say that I am somehow Educated in all this stuff. im pretty open on this blog about me being young & naive & wrong much of the time about how the real world works. so, you know, a lot of shit I just Make Up according to my preconceived notions of the military & the world.

here is my recommended military/navy reading list, some fiction and some nonfiction.

someone also asked recently if I had read anything good in the last 6 months--yes!! three new additions to my reading list: a) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. So goddamn good. If you have to read only one novel about the Iraq War, make it this one. It's more about America than it is about Iraq. b) Redeployment by Phil Klay. This one is a collection of short stories about Marines in Iraq, written by a USMC vet, talk about inside baseball. Crazy amounts of jargon in here, basically a "to-google" list. won the national book award which idk if it deserved, but it's good. c) No true glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah by Bing West. currently reading this one, really well done so far, talks a lot about how fucked the US strategy was in Iraq with Fallujah serving as a metonymy/case study for the war itself.

again... this is all mostly close-quarters-combat (infantry) literature, I really am not that interested in the navy/Air Force that much outside of top gun lol

though I did recently remember that in early 2022, before I was into top gun, I read "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, which is actually a gay US naval aviator romance set in WWII published in 1979! it's really authentic and kind of sad, obviously, since it was a 1940s navy gay love story published in 1979. I don't actually think Wingmen influenced how I wrote wwgattai or how I think of TG/TGM but I just remembered that I read that book in February 2022 and going "oh my god they were wingmen" so maybe you might find that book interesting.

[realsafari]

whoever the FUCK reviewed FUCKING LOLITA as “the only convincing love story of our century…” needs to be TORTURED,

BLOOD EAGLED,

AND HUNG IN THE TOWN SQUARE TO ROT.

[alasy]

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a book made for the girlies (me)

[sugarsnappeases]

thank you for the tag @fxreflyes this is so cute, except the format is trying to hinder my propensity to ramble, so i’ve rectified this in the tags lmao

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

no pressure tags for @static-radio-ao3 @inevitablestars @itsjaywalkers @carniferous @orbitfalls @transsexualpriest @futurequibblerjournalist <333

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

for that ask game yr still literally always gonna be the ghostbur guy of all time... nothing can change this... which. i mean. sad blue and green ghost boy a vs sad blue and green ghost boy b vs sad blue and green ghost boy c. theyre all the same picture <33 also i still haven't rewatched annihilation but for a slightly deeper cut yr the guy who turned into a mutilated lichen and fungal colony corpse at the bottom of the pool 2 me <3

OH FUCK YES. I ACCEPT THE GHOSTBOY ALLEGATIONS WHOLEHEARTEDLY BUT IM ZOOMING IN ON THAT SECOND THING. YOU MEAN MY FAVORITE VISUAL IN ALL OF MEDIA HISTORY, ANNIHILATION POOL SCENE BODY?????? FUCK YES DUDE!!!!!!!!!! HELL YES !!!!!!!! THIS IS ME THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE

YEAAAAAAAAAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! this isnt a competition but you win just for that i think. hell yes.

[goldenhallas]

I couldn't have picked a worse time to become obsessed with a new book series lol but I just read the Atlas Six and boy was it delicious. I'm starting the Atlas Paradox right away bc I simply MUST know what happens next

[ahhhhhhggggg]

OH MY GOD.

IF YOUR INTO KNY AND ARE LOOKING FOR THE MOST SCRUMPTIOUS, ETHEREAL, HEARTBREAKING X READER BOOK, PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEEEEE READ ‘star lost, var!kny x reader’ BY -wwanderlust ON WATTPAD. BRO ITS SO FUCKING GOOD I WAS ACTUALLY SOBBING AT THE END. RAAAAHHHHHG ITS SOSOSOSOSOSOOOOO FUCKING GOOD OML.

IVE READ IT ATLEAST 10 TIMES NOW UGHHHHH ITS SO GOODDDDD 😻😻

[s-n-o-w-p-i-e-r-c-e-r]

ignore me ranting in the tags i am aware i am being absolutely insufferable