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having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

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Complaining and getting like. Recreationally mad is so valid and fun i hate it when people dont get that

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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Ice suggesting a white woman remove the Mexican flag sticker from her car. Can they all kill themselves already

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do you ever see something and just. get hit with the most visceral and distilled emotions over the nature of humanity

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a heem heem………………………………sshasagjkrhf………… ouhg……..

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I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

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sometimes with conversations about anti-intellectualism in media, it's hard to gauge what is reality from what is a sensational fearmongering echo chamber. there certainly are a lot of well-written and vigorously edited books being published at all times, and it is the responsibility of good readers to seek those out.

but i do think booktuber marines is correct in her analysis that many mainstream and modern books, especially in fantasy and romance, have seen a sheer drop in the deftness and subtlety of their storytelling in the past 5 or so years. even books with the most intellectual aspirations such as babel are very heavy-handed in their messaging, to the point where they read more like an essay than successful fiction with dimensional characters and organic plotting--despite being lauded as exemplary novels.

and many of the other tentpole books right now are poorly concealed rpf/fanfic or even openly marketed as such, wholly dependent on another author's story and success rather than even attempting to carve their own identity and stance.

this is a result of booktok and readership blowing up after the pandemic, and publishers sacrificing quality for quantity to meet the new market demand. it is genuinely fantastic that more people became readers after the pandemic but there's been an unfortunate breakdown of standards for what qualifies an original, artistic, and engaging work, as well as even what an author ought to be able to accomplish skill-wise before being considered for publication

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rpf and fanfic books are the live action remakes of the publishing industry

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Tiger Moth (Trichomia sp.), family Erebidae, Venezuela

photograph by Arthur Anker

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A powwow, anywhere

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reblog to bap prev with your paw

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Reblog to dramatically improve prev’s day.