#what I’m currently reading

[ajthecinephile]

I heard this book is really good so I picked it up today! It was on a list for books to read if you liked “The Substance.”

“Natural Beauty” by Ling Ling Huang

Have you read this yet?

[nekopsps]

it’s been a while so time for another webtoon rec dump at 2 am in the morning bc I can’t fall asleep

surviving romance — yes i love this. the art, the storyline, the nuance in every character is flawless

it’s on — such a good representation of everyday life?? so warm. and the art fits the nostalgic vibe so so well

dr. frost — I LOVE. so many twists and turns. so well thought out. thriller, mystery, action, and some romance. my fav

romance 101 — yes it goes into every single romance trope, yes i want to be bareum, yes they are so cute

from a knight to a lady — yes i am a sucker for body swap storylines. and what. i love the female chcs so much

superstar associate manager — cute story, office workers turned idol, a good casual read

teenage mercenary — okay this one is more indulgent the characters r all hot and i love seeing them beat up the bad guys :p

[emrosewritessometimes]

Take the attitude that what you’re thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper.

- Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird

[aboutmercy]

from angel by elizabeth taylor

[scumvillainess]

time travel au where a post-pidw shen qingqiu somehow travels back in time (either through death, the magic that still remains in yqy’s sword, etc.) to when he was the head disciple of qing jing peak.

of course, being able to travel back in time doesn’t come without a heavy price and in this case, shen qingqiu ends up having to give up the ability to feel emotions as an equivalent exchange to being brought back to the past.

shen qingqiu of course thinks this is the greatest gift that he’s ever been given and quickly moves on with his life. everyone else (read: yue qingyuan, liu qingge, etc.) on the other hand, is appropriately freaked out by this new version of shen qingqiu who just doesn’t seem to care anymore about anything or anyone.

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[inukag]

Inukag made it to AO3’s top 100 m/f ships of 2024 at number 72! The only Inuyasha ship to do so.

Credit: paulieponzie

[deathsmallcaps]

I need advice.

I’m a white intern working in a mostly white southern(ish) high school. Students of Color number at under 2%, perhaps even lower. It’s a very white, rural community - I grew up in a fairly mixed, suburban northern community, and part of my family is Black.

Several of my white students say rude things to my Students of Color. I’ve told them to knock it off *as appropriately as I can* but I’m probably one of the few adults that actively discourage that behavior.

I don’t want to let this shit fly under the radar, but I also know that if an adult of authority *who will only be here for a couple more weeks* interferes, and then doesn’t stick around, it could make things worse. Additionally, I know these kids are probably very very very used to this ‘system’ and that making a short-term change could be more harmful than helpful.

I asked one of my senior students after a very racist incident *where she was laughing along with the perpetrator but I told him to stop anyway* that I can move him, or her, so she could be more comfortable (admin either does nothing or slaps wrists, especially for seniors). She said it was fine and that he was always like that.

I must emphasize, I think they were bantering (they talk so much I think they consider each other friends?), but it was also wayyy fucking out of line, especially in a school setting. And the guy says so much out of line shit I’m surprised he isn’t rocking a full set of dentures to replace the teeth he ought to have lost by now.

Another student took me up on my offer to move people, but I ended up moving him, which sucks because he was the victim in this situation. Unfortunately, I have to keep his aggressors in their spots, as they are highly rowdy in all the ways and require a lot more supervision than he did. And the class is really full. These were also all freshmen, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that affected the victim’s reaction.

So I’d really appreciate advice as to whether I should let it be, or continue as is, or step it up even more, from People of Color in largely white, especially rural, communities. Like any advice from current or previous educators, especially Educators of Color would be appreciated, but specifically southern/rural ones would be wonderful. I’m going to talk to my family members about it, but they’ve lived in more Northern settings their entire lives and they may have less … applicable (?) experience to the situation.

Again, I’m an intern, I’m going to only be there until winter break 2024, and I don’t want to fuck things up for these kids in the long run with my northern ally ‘sensibilities’. Thank you!

[littlecrow4]

This is officially the LONGEST I’ve spent finishing a piece AND AGAIN ITS ALL BILL’S FAULT!!!

I’m gonna start sneaking in little Bill’s so it’ll be a fun little game of “Spot the Bill”

[rivalmelty]

they are fukuzawa’s boys, adopted twins, and menaces to the yokohama police

(pls do not tag as beast)

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Lockjaw

YA horror

set in a small town, where a boy died tragically in an old abandoned mill

a group of 11yos on bikes are determined to find the monster and hunt it down - while facing the monsters and prejudices haunting their small town

and some teens, including one of the kids’ sister, a genderqueer guy who tried to get out of town but was drawn back, a homeless trans guy and his dog, and the police captain’s son who get drawn into the web of it all against their will

shifting timelines and perspectives from various kids and residents of the town (plus the dog)

[dandelion-system]

It’s kinda awkward having a problematic alter (fictive)

Sometimes it’s only problematic in some circles? Like having an MHA alter. You kinda have to explain you aren’t from ‘that’ side of the fandom

Then there’s the ‘vastly popular media with a crappy creator’, current or old. People are gonna be mad at hazbin hotel alters and they’re also gonna be mad at Harry Potter alters

Sometimes they just have you know, inconspicuous enough names. Or they change their names to separate from their source. Our Alastor (conversational protector) you wouldn’t know it was him unless we told you. Deku and bakugou chose to be called clover and kat, and other than being cringe (they’re teenagers) aren’t really like source.

BUT DRACO MALFOY. he’s not proud of Rowling, and has explicitly stated many times he prefers the fan fictions to the original fiction because they’re ’far more accurate and in depth’ but also he’s a wizard and he’s a slytherin. Also would hex any sort of bigot on sight, but ITS SO AWKWARD TO EXPLAIN.

‘Hi, this is Draco. Yes he’s the weird rival from the problematic wizard series. We formed him when we were 8. And didn’t even know twitter existed. He was just relatable to us. And he told us how to say the right things. He’s still around. He’s still one of our most functional alters. But he’s also Draco malfoy. Even we don’t know how to feel about that.’

[pristina-nomine]

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Velvette: Where's the piss-baby?

Vox: Oh, he got pissed with “his star performer” again, and left through the back door.

Velvette: …We don't have a back door?

Vox: We do now

[wolke17]

what I’m gonna say now might be some what controversial, but I need you to bear with me.

there are a few posts mentioning that toji only ever cared about his wife and didn’t have any feelings or a connection to megumi. and I have to say, I don’t rly agree with this sentiment.

now, when toji leaves the zenin clan after years of abuse and mockery, he tells himself that he’d abandon such petty pride, never wanting to feel proud neither of himself nor of others again and with “others” he means both his wife and megumi.

instead, he chooses to confine himself to apathy, which is ultimately nothing more than a facade as he admits later, that he sought after gojo because he wanted affirmation by defeating him, the “pinnacle of jujutsu”.

this most probably explains why he shuts himself out of megumi’s life by running away. he tells naobito that megumi is gifted, yet he doesn’t want to be there and witness his growth because he doesn’t want to feel proud of anyone ever again.

still, it’s interesting that he still kind of shows off when he talks about his son to the head of the zenin clan nonetheless, which is an indication that he actually deludes himself into being apathetic.

now does this clarification excuse his complete abandonment of his son? not at all. personally neither his own abuse nor his intentions justify the complete neglect of his child, but it’s still important to humanize him (humanize as in seeing all his facets including his reasons and flaws). he is an awful person, but even awful people are human after all.

[salparadiselost]

Guys I may, and I know this is shocking for fanfiction readers, read a traditionally published book.