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nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife · 11 months ago

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Best Books I've Read in 2023

So, in 2023, I’ve read 122 books across all genres. I don’t think it’s easy to narrow it down to 10, so I will do 20, because I want to do a few from each genre I’ve read, so Let’s start: # 20: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W Fieseler (History/Non-Fiction) This book is probably one of the most underrated in terms of the history…

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#bibliophile #Biography #books #Fantasy #lgbtq #Media Studies #memoirs #Novels #poetry #Reading #Romance #The Celebrants #Top 20 Books #top 20 of 2023 #trans

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lustwithoutlore · 9 months ago

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Barbara: What did you get Dick for his birthday?

Jason: I got him a Glutemaster

Barbara: Really? Me too!

Stephanie: I also got him a Glutemaster.

Duke, gesturing to himself and Tim: Looks like we had the same idea.

Jason, sighing: Kill me. Please tell me you didn’t get Dick a Glutemaster as well.

Cass: I got him… a Glutemaster 🥰

Later-

Dick, surrounded by Glutemasters: THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!

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tea-cat-arts · 6 months ago

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Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #the fact that people think scum villain #-a series that examines and criticizes common tropes in fiction-#is somehow against criticism or being a little hater is wild to me #especially since shen qingqiu never gets punished for being a hater #heck- he's still a little hater by the end of the series #he mostly gets punished for treating life like a play and like he and the people around him are characters #(or in other words- he suffers for denying his own wants and emotions and his own sense of empathy)#I think some of y'all underestimate how much writing/art is inspired by creaters being little haters #like example off the top of my head-#the author of Iron Widow has been pretty vocal about the book being inspired by their hatred of Darling in the Franxx #I think my interpretation of Shen Yuan's transmigration is also supported by the fact that this series is an examines writing processes #side note- though i understand why people say Shen Yuan is lazy and think its a valid take it still doesnt sit right with me #i am probably biased because my own experiences with chronic pain and depression and isolation #but ya- i dont think Shen Yuan is lazy so much as he is deeply lonely and feels purposeless after denying parts of himself for 20ish years #like yall remember the online fandom boom from covid right?#being stuck completely alone in bed while feeling like shit for 20 days straight does shit to your brain #the fact that no one came to check on him + he wasn't exactly upset about leaving anyone behind supports the isolation interpretation too #+in the skinner demon arc he describes his life of being a faker/inability to stop being a faker now that he's Shen Qingqiu #as “so bland he's tempted to throw salt on himself” and “all he could do is lay around and wait for death” (<-paraphrasing)#bro wants to be doing stuff but is stuck in paralysis from repeatedly following scrips made by other people #another point on “Shen Yuan isn’t lazy” is just the sheer amount of studying that man does #also he did graduate college- how lazy can he really be #he doesnt know what hes doing but he at least tries to actively train his students #and he actually works on improving his own cultivation + spends quite a bit of time preping the mushroom body thing #+he's experiencing bouts of debilitating chronic pain throughout all this #but ya tldr: Shen Yuan's transmigration is an encouragement to write and not a punishment and also i dont think its fair to call him lazy

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 2 years ago

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putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

#apollo don't fucking touch this one #serious post #not a shitpost #hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day #fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists #i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it.#so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you?#what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown #at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal #i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid #like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies #and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line #probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored #luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap!#watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry #while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent #also eggs are $15

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svampira · 10 months ago

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you could never hurt me

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strangersteddierthings · 2 months ago

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I think if Steve Harrington ever did read The Hobbit, he would just find it 'meh'.

This would, if course, devastate Eddie.

#steddie #let's be for real guys #if and it's a BIGGGGG if Steve ever read it #he would not love it. he read it and be like welp. I've read it. it was very wordy for not having said much #and to be a shithead (whether he believes it himself or not is up for debate) he'd tell Eddie he liked the animated movie better #the hobbit is a solid book to be sure but i don't think it would make even the top 20 of books for Steve

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mllenugget · 8 months ago

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Hey remember when Baghera adopted Dapper like 8 months ago or did I make that up ? ────────────────────────────────────────── Support all the admins that spoke out (& do your daily click) ──────────────────────────────────────────

#idk why on earth i gave baghera knuckles- when i say i turn my brain off when I draw i mean it #..... sooo looks like ive got a new wa-cats type of fandom on my hands #as in i am still very emotionally attached to the memories i have from this no matter what i do itll keep coming back #but i havent read the books in several years nor do i plan to anymore and looking back i am so angry and disgusted #but also im still blown away by the creativity and the passion the fandom builds on its own #i wanted to go ahead and finish any art that ive been working on for the past almost year and decided this one would be the most fitting #i learnt last week that only the first 20 tags on an original post will show up in tumblr searches #and I think im going to take advantage of that #because i dont want to hype the server anymore and i have decided i will no longer be adding my watermark on top of my work #and i was going to refrain from tagging it because i dont want my related posts to show up #before remembering that some of my mutuals who ive been chatting to for years now #have these fandoms blacklisted #so im going to test it and hope it works #im still going to tag the characters i love though because i wanna show support to the actors and i wish them nothing but the best #baghera fanart #pomme fanart #dapper fanart #dappleduo #my art #qsmp #mcyt #fandom neg #tag this however you want #yap yap yap yap tlddr

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myreia · 3 months ago

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✦ S U M M O N E R

Summoning does not come easily. Though she understands the principles and geometries, even crafted the arcane ink required for codices, she still could not summon. It is embarrassing, in a way, to have mastered all other forms of magic but to be stuck on this one. She devours text upon text, determined to move past whatever roadblock prevented her from enlightenment. There must be some book here, some tome that will unlock the secrets, teach her in a way she understands. She just needs to find it. —level 90 compendium

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ladytron · 11 months ago

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my top 8 books of the year :-) tagged by @penusinfurs

+ heres my goodreads

#supposed to be top 10 but i only read 20 books so 8 felt more fitting

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arytha · 2 months ago

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my favourite part of the novel finally happened fhfhdjsm rip chi you

have blue balls forever

#mara reads #mr survival #chi you cornered jiang luo and before it got really heated jiang luo got teleported away by the.#talisman feng li drew on him 20 chapters ago. bc his life was in danger. sort of.#jiang luo after: wait i also got hard in that situation. i will have to think about this. anyways chi you wont get any #also jiang luo: i thought chi you was a bottom in the book why does he want to top me.

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kastukj · 7 months ago

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“I’m gonna start reading dune” I say as I buy a completely different book and start reading that instead

#this is on top of the like 20 other unread books sitting on my shelf #might not be a lot to some people but to an extremely slow reader like me it’s agony #it’s very good so far though which is nice #it seems to be a good balance of romance and political issues #which is something I’ve been looking for big time honestly #hard to find stuff I like that doesn’t lean towards the romance so much and so harshly #harsh not in like a toxic way but in a shove it in your face kind of way #TWLKING ABOUT NEW BOOK BTW not dune LOL #might wait till I’ve cleaned up my life a little so I can focus more when reading that

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themidnightcircusshow · 6 months ago

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@heartofstanding tagged me in this meme months ago and unfortunately it took me this long to get to it because I had a mild crisis over how long it's been since I've read a novel, let alone one that I loved 😅 so this is nine of my favourite novels (not books, because if I included manga/short stories/comics/etc this would be giant)

0The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde// Pyrrhus-- Mark Merlis//The Scarecrow--Ronald Hugh Morrieson//Unnatural History--Kate Osman//Tunnels of Blood--Darren Shan//The Coffin Dancer--Jeffery Deaver//Hero--Perry Moore//Frankenstein--Mary Shelley//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-- Ken Kasey

#TPODG I feel like is obvious. But a genuinely hilarious book that is also poignant and tragic and so /so/ compelling #The more work you put into it the more you get out of it and I get so sad every time I see people #not wanting to look deeper than what's beyond the surface #Pyrrhus gets the extremely high honour of Greek Myth Retelling That is Actually Good #it's less about the Trojan War and more about the journey there set in the 1980s gay scene #the cursed spot that gets Philoctetes abandoned is an effective allegory right until the moment it isn't an allegory at all #and you should see the gut punch coming but somehow you don't #The Scarecrow is my Token Kiwi Representation and it's also the one that got me into the genre I now write almost exclusively #reading it feels like watching a cheesy low budget slasher that accidentally says some really interesting things about sexism and misogyny #(I say accidentally because it is the 20s and my tutor very loudly hated this book for being sexist)#(and I both totally agree and disagree because Prue is the prototypical final girl and needs an adaptation that does her justice)#Also the story of this novel's publication is freaking hilarious and why I will only write under a pseudonym because I would be next #Unnatural History is an exact blueprint of what I love about sci-fi done well in the way we've only very recently started to see on screen #and I hate that the show of Doctor Who rarely if ever reaches this level #Tunnels of Blood is my favourite of the Darren Shan Saga but really is just a stand in for the entire series #yes it's a kids series but it's a kid series that got me into horror and surrealism #and delivers the most effective and heartbreaking plot twist that not even Hannibal pulled off as well #The Coffin Dancer is just some damn good crime fiction and I wish Jeffery Deaver wasn't so slept on #(yes I know The Bone Collector got an adaptation but The Bone Collector isn't even in the top ten of the Lincoln Rhyme series)#unfortunately Deaver's strongest point is his use of point of view #but he still manages to get the twist to be shocking (and Coffin Dancer is the best example of it) in a way that other media fails at #Hero is about a gay disabled teen with superpowers and somehow tumblr does not know about it #It is such a fun riff on superheroes while also being genuinely sweet and touching and sad #It was meant to get a tv show but the writer passed so it got stuck in production hell :(#Frankenstein is Frankenstein. It's just good on like every level. Victor is my problematic fave. I will take no criticism.#I am however on my knees hoping the Guillermo Del Toro adaptation finally gets it right #one flew over the cuckoo's nest means so much to me but no one ever talks about it beyond the Ratched and Mcmurphy stuff #who are the least interesting characters to me. And I find the debate about the sexism ignores that the novel is about the structural abuse #of the mentally ill

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baycitystygian · 2 months ago

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guys I just survived a ladder that wanted to kill me. cheers

#context- I work odd jobs in film production a lot. I recently picked up a new part timer filming high school football games #this particular one was an hour and a half away so needless to say I was already mentally preparing for a LOT #and I got there and the spot where they wanted me was on the ROOF of the press box. which I knew beforehand #what I did NOT know beforehand was that the only way up or down was a ladder that pops down from said roof #which would’ve been okay but I was carrying three equipment bags like a pack mule #so I climb the ladder and even that was fine until the top step #I faceplant straight onto the roof because there is a barrier that’s like a foot long between the ladder step and the roof floor #so. rough start. but the view is great and once I’m up there it’s kinda fun #until. UNTIL. I wanted to go pee because again. hour and a half drive to get there.#said barrier made it so you have to climb down to get to the ladder step and railing and I pissed around playing chicken with that thing for #for an HOUR playing chicken because I could not fucking handle it #so I get through the first half okay but decide that I’m booking it to the bathroom the second halftime starts #and I forced my fat arse over the ledge and I figured out a grip on the trapdoor thing that helped keep me from falling #and I felt like I’d just made a person break cause like. I genuinely was not sure how the fuck I’d make it down for a bit #after that? might’ve been the high of Doing The Scary Thing but the rest of the time I had fun #I got a nice coach in the press box to help grab my bags as I handed them to him so I could climb down to leave #drove an hour in pitch darkness on country roads to my boss’s house to drop off the footage then 20 minutes home and now #and now I think I could sleep forever and ever but I fuckin did the thing

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miralines · 2 months ago

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btw the next chapter of the rose red book is going to be delayed-- I'm reassessing my (aimed-at) posting schedule for it and briar fic, since. two longfic chapters a month on top of grad school is a lot.

current tentative plan is to keep the monthly schedule for rose red book and adjust briar fic, but I need to figure that out + finish revisions on this chapter. I'm not sure exactly when it'll come out, but it is coming, and I'll let y'all know when I have a date!

#I don't like delaying either because I'd like to be making more progress but. the monthly thing is not happening.#and I hope loosening the schedule will take off the stress + demand that makes it hard to work on even after I finish my schoolwork #the reasoning for monthly rose red book is A) it's closer to finished; that schedule will only need to run through february #and B) it's revision beta revision instead of drafting on top of that #there's also a growing chance briar fic will be even longer than I thought-- I have no more wiggle room chapters in my 20-chapter outline s #housekeeping #rose red book #my fic

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vogelmeister · 3 months ago

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i do actually want to read the book i wrote at age 11 bc its only 25 pages long (as sabrina carpenter would say, short and sweet!) but if i do so i fear id have to live blog the whole ordeal because it would be absolutely hilarious.

#also because i remember absolutely nothing about this book except the general premise #i do remember we did it for an assignment and i didn’t get full marks but i got like 17/20 or something #my friend topped the class i think #it was always between me and her #hers was a fantasy i think #ill probably have to prepare emotionally for this one actually

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rootsmachine · 1 year ago

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@prophetmutual tagged me for 9 fave books and let me just say. Difficult. decided to do like. 3 books that i loved as a child / 3 that have been important to me in the last decade or so / 3 that i loved in the last year. otherwise i would NOT be able to finish it ahah

first row, books from childhood: harriet the spy / from the mixed up files of mrs basil e frankweiler / inkheart second row, last decade: hangsaman / sula / i'jaam third row, last year: female masculinity / the thirty names of night / hijab butch blues

when this was so SO hard. i think these are less my favorite books and more books that im still thinking about / were fundamental to Who I Was as a child / teenager. i can talk about books i love forever tho so like. hmu if you want any recs or want to follow me on storygraph

oh & i tag @sapphicscience @somethinginthestatic @redundantjane @karabekian @kaftan @ladyhouseoflove @sharperandmoreprecious .. && anyone else who wants to do this!!!

#.txt #i finished this and was like. OH AND AND AND and then had to not include any of those books #&& i tried to mention books that i dont talk about as much. hangsaman excluded.#i could probably do a top 20 from the last 5ish years that would be more accurate but. had to give myself SOME kind of structure w this.

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