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I can tolerate the discomfort that comes from not being liked by others.
What I cannot tolerate is living out of alignment with my values and staying silent about things I care about just to make sure others like me.
I finished Osora this weekend and let me tell you something... It was ONE OF THE BEST webtoons I have ever read in my life (tho I read more manwha but you know what I mean 😅✨)
I liked the plot the art, Arias (we all know he is just hot and how he accepted Osora well it touched my heart).
But also the lil stories that also were going on from the two girls Catalina and Celia (they both have also my heart, like I said I loved this webtoon so much I read it in less than 24h)
There are still three chapters left from s1 (I didn't buy them because I'm lazy sorry) but I saw on tiktok spoilers so 🤞.
Soo does anyone know any more good webtoon bl? 💗✨
First Art is from: @dulceskull
The second and third art are from the webtoon itself!
Monday is normally the day I go to my bookstore and these memes just ran freely into my mind as I walk and (most of the times) buy a book or two 😅✨
What's your favorite book meme? ✨💗
'You could be my entire world if you let me.'
When I say I loved love, theoretically...
I FREAKING LOVED IT!!! ❤❤❤
I read this in 2024 and still till this day it's one of my favorite reads ever. Probably because I related so much to Elsie that I even bought a sweater with the quote that is written in this post (the sweater is beautiful tho).
This art is from: @maherdraws
The sweater (if someone wants to buy it) @literaturestitches
Some extra favorite quotes:
'I like to see you. When you're not trying to be someone else.'
'I want you Elsie. All the time. I think of you. All. The. F**king. Time.'
'There is no universe in which I'm not going to let you go. I want to he with you, on you, every second of the day.'
After many a redecoration I think I finally found the way that my books look best!(The books on the left were the main issue) Though this will likely have to be redecorated again when more series join the shelf
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
—Stephen King, On Writing
There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
—Jane Austen, Emma
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
—Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and
i got a book on fables and its honestly very interesting
i also got a book on viking folklore so I’m most likely gonna dedicate myself to learning about myths, folklore, other stories and such but yeah
theres really just something about fantasy books that peaks your interest you know?
If you write a book on the problems of deforestation and then you publish that book doesn't that make you part of the problem for deforestation?
This is a genuine question.
Remember when you read for fun, instead of escapism?
Good times.
Look i personally grew out of wattpad 4 years ago and went to ao3 but i have to admit ao3 didn’t hit last night so i went to a place i haven’t thought abt in years and that’s wattpad.
Let me just say there will be rare rare times that wattpad actually has a good books that make u stay up all night. Granted the one i’m reading has a few cringey parts and parts that make u go “oh…” but it’s genuinely good for something written back in 2018.
The only real problem i have with it is that it’s written in first person which is throwing me off a bit since the last time i read a first person book was 4 years ago when i was still in my wattpad phase
And i gotta admit i missed cackling at the comments on every paragraph in a chapter wattpad readers have to be some of the funniest people ever
You know you’re a book nerd when:
You’re disgusted at yourself for buying book paraphernalia rather than, you know, actual BOOKS.
My simping over interracial relationships.
As a POC who married a white guy, I didn't know I was so into these until I got a little older. It doesn't matter who is what but the moment I see POC x Non-POC, I'm immediately hooked.
Sir Torsten Unger and Olleander! I wanted them to be together so bad, I could taste it. I mean, they were together but like I needed more because I'm an addict.
I just finished Defy the Stars but this has WAY MORE PERSONAL TOUCH TO IT BECAUSEEEEEEEE THE MC is Latina and Abel is a blonde guy. Not to mention our names use the same first letter, lol.
I told my husband about Noemi and Abel and he said: "Are you fetishizing me? I'm husband." It's kinda funny because my husband has autism, so some of the funny things he says kind reminds me of Abel.
So, yes, if you are writing a poc x non-poc in your book. I will read it and project myself on it so hard.
So true Lmao
Other YA characters taking down their enemies: massive scale magical fight scenes, complex good vs evil moral conversations, love triangles, tragedy
vs crooked kingdom
kaz brekker: so, what do you fuckers know about the stock market?
A book/movie about an aroace person who pulls every human being they come by and is extremely attractive and would be an amazing partner, but is completely uninterested and just wants to have a tight nit group if friends to hang out with, and at the end they finally get they're wish by all the people who had a crush on them lose feelings and instead they all become a very close friend group that are genuinely platonically inlove with eachother.
Me whenever US politics gets too upsetting: I think it is time to reread Red White and Royal Blue
I wish I knew this sooner
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I love how when you first read Catch-22, it can be, well, kind of confusing near the beginning. However, at least in my case, since it was interesting and well written I personally didn't mind.
But slowly, everything sort of ties itself together. It also gets increasingly more and more serious. An obvious example of this would be chapter 39, 'The Eternal City.' But for me, one that really stuck out to me was chapter 32, 'Yo-Yo's Roomies.' It really did a good job of showing how much Yossarian truly missed Orr, no matter how many times Orr pissed off Yossarian.
At the same time, that chapter I also found notably funny in the way it's written. Especially the lines "They reminded him of Donald Duck's nephews," and "They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed." and I just love how it's them being nice and friendly to Yossarian with overall good intentions xD.
Also rereading this makes things so much more understandable. All the random details mentioned, its even better when you know the context behind those little references, like "It was still more frustrating to try to appeal directly to Major Major, the long and bony sqaudron commander, who looked a little bit like Henry Fonda in distress and went jumping out the window of his office each time Yossarian bullied his way past Sergent Towser to speak to him about it." It's fun reading that actually knowing who Major Major Major Major is and why he does in fact, jump out the window.
I think that's kind of why some people dislike/give up on this book (well part of the reason) because it can seem kind of random the first time through, but for me personally, that was part of the beauty of it the first time I read it. Idk though, I just personally reveled in the beginning chaos.
Matthais being killed essentially by a younger version of himself will never fail to make me sad. Even in SoC, I always had a bit of a soft spot for him. I'm not sure why, but I just...did, I guess? And I was so happy when he made it over his hurdles in SoC. When he finally accepted how much he actually adored Nina.
But mostly, it's him coming to terms with the fact that maybe Grisha aren't all that bad. I absolutely loved his arc of overcoming his own prejudices. I also love how it isn't very rushed. His acceptance didn't feel sudden to me, it made perfect sense when it happened considering everything, at least in my opinion.
I only watched season 1 and a bit of season 2 of Shadow and Bone, so if it's different in the series (which I wouldn't know myself because I don't really remeber the show other than somehow squishsing the Crows in with the main story,) disregard this post.
Character: And by the way...you look ravishing.
Me: Stay the fuck away from her you creepy ass bitch.
Me:
Me: Oh, I wrote that.