#books

“True humor is never far from suicidal.” - from Edward Gauven’s “Introduction” of Letters to Survivors by Gebe

hello, would anyone be willing to give feedback on a Warrior cats fanfic I’m writing (its about Oc’s heads up) I would be more than happy to have multiple people, I’ll send it in DMs

LIVES CHANGES BECAUSE OF OUR HUMANITY Lives change through faith in our shared humanity. Guided by love, compassion, and a belief in something greater than ourselves, our acts of care and sacrifice renew hope for those in need . - Tyke Clark www.heartbeatofheaven.life

I just finished Project Hail Mary and I will never get over this book

Hannah Thurman on Writing a Family Drama Set in a Mental Hospital

An interview with Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King, author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue | The Booker Prizes

Every inch of moist bruise in my memory is a slow-growing damp forest. ˘˘˘

“Did I beat you in your own game?” but it’s fitz in basically every plotline. Oh my unexpected son, and they say being mentally unstable doesn’t take you places

💋 Love Under Pressure 💋 A reality TV-inspired roleplay where every decision has consequences, every connection is questioned, and trust is far to come by. Contestants are gathered in one house with nothing but essentials. They’ll compete in challenges to win special prizes, participate in votes, suffer eliminations, and form alliances, all in hopes of finding love. *Or is it?* In the background there’s hidden ranks, social hierarchies, and hidden agendas. When every conversation matters and every choice is being watched, who will you become under pressure? What We Offer: • Fully structured roleplay experience • Character-driven drama, romance, and relationship development • LGBTQ+ friendly • Literate to semi-literate writing encouraged • 21+ community (Original Roleplay in the likes of Big Brother, Love Island, and other reality TV game/dating shows.)

Her zaman umut vardır. Hiç umut kalmadığında bile… 💫

So manyyy ppl get their sources from TT they don’t even bother to open a book, this is our problem today!!!

Wuthering Heights is like a S-minus-tier book.

I’m really enjoying Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by David Clammer, a little over half-way through. Chapter 3, “Before the Mast,” addresses women on troop transport ships and other Royal Navy vessels, and my goodness there were a lot of them. I already knew this, because of my familiarity with Captain Marryat’s works—I even compiled a Google doc of references to women aboard ships in Marryat’s novels . Of course women were a small fraction of the total number of people aboard a ship: Clammer gives the example of one troopship carrying an entire battalion of 1,200 men “and about 100 women.” Yes, the great majority of the ship’s company was male, but ONE HUNDRED WOMEN! People have some nerve pretending that warships (and merchant ships) were all-male affairs. I really think that “women are bad luck aboard ship” is a more modern invention. Like many other marginalized groups, it’s easy to erase and ignore the substantial numbers of women who accompanied their husbands to war in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The women weren’t fighting (with rare exception), and they were officially discouraged. You catch glimpses of them here and there in primary sources, which Clammer does an excellent job compiling. I find myself comparing the conditions that soldiers (and their wives) experienced in Napoleonic Europe to what I know of North America during the War of 1812 era. I had assumed that Europe would be less rough, with more towns and villages and farms and better logistics, but it seems like the troops were still starving and clothed in rags. The women also raided corpses on the battlefield for clothing and shoes; one officer described a group of wives with “many dressed in soldiers’ jackets, battered bonnets, and faded ribbons, with dishevelled locks hanging over their weather-beaten features.”

Sure you can read Lost Files but you can also read the found and extend files in The Archives of BFF Vol. 7: Before the Reign. . Free to read at thearchivesofbff.com or you can purchase a paperback on Amazon. Looks nice on a bookshelf and you don’t need wifi to read it. Choice is yours…

I was just crying in the rain, and whatever God does exist said to look at the sky, and that goofy motherfucker put two rainbows up just for me Thanks man, I needed that Don’t forget to look at the sky guys <3

Sen bir çığlık atarsın, dünya bir fısıltı duyar.

LIVES CHANGES BECAUSE OF OUR HUMANITY

This world is such a funny place. Funny in a good way, and funny in a bad way. It’s hermetic law that states every ebb has its flow. They’re not opposites, they’re simply part of the same movement. The same is true for good and bad. People may say they’re opposites, they’re really not. They’re just values that mean different things in different spots. What’s good for one, may be even better for another, and what’s bad for the same person will be good eventually. Life is a struggle. If you really want to, you could say that’s bad, but I say fuck off dude. It’s part of the dance. It’s impossible to dance in one direction, and if you tried to, you’ll eventually just hit a wall. Plus, it’s so much more fun to cry when it rains, than to just walk through it as if you’re not getting wet. Call me crazy, but it feels good to feel bad sometimes.

When I was younger, in my school library, there was this series of anthology books called “7 Facets Of [X]”, where the [X] is a genre, trope, or similar, that I used to read because a few had borrow stamps from the 90s (this was in the early 2010s btw) and I was curious. Anyways, they all started the same way, with a one and a half page long preface that talked about how You the Reader are an heir to all of humanity’s existence through reading, followed by a brief explanation of the topic of the day, and then after that, a presentation of each facet (followed immediately by its accompanying short story). I read most of the ones that were available to me, but I only remember a few, like one of the stories of “7 Facets of Fables” was based on the Fox and the Grapes, where there was a fox who wanted grapes, but couldn’t reach them, so he said the grapes were bad, and the short story was about Typical Straight Teen Boy™ who wants to date a woman, but has no luck because he is not a good person, and gets approached by Stereotypical Weird Girl™ (who, looking back at it now, was probably made with autistic people in mind, but I don’t remember if it was a good portrayal or not, and still can’t considering that the only time I saw the book was a decade ago on a different continent), and then develops an interest for her, and I think they do end up dating in the end of the book, I do not remember as it was a decade ago I remember there being a “7 Facets of the Supernatural”, where it’s 7 types of supernatural stories, and I only remember two of them, and they’re both demons. One was the Faustian deal with the devil type story, and in this one that was “Girl with young sister renounces God and makes deal with Devil to not die from a flood” and what’s interesting about that one is that the girl’s trust and eventual deal with both God and The Devil is represented with a white candle and a black candle. The other one was classic “Demon possesses guy, family calls priest, priest gets possessed” and that one was just kind of boring There was a 7 Facets of Adventure but the only thing I remember about that one is Car Accident There was also a 7 Facets of Love, but I think I never read that one because I was mysoginistic when I was 12 Anyways, reblog with something interesting you read, played, or watched you remember glimpses of from your childhood

I finished lord of the flies btw and I haven’t read 200 pages in that short amount of time in a very long time . Fucked up and it was great I really liked how it was written. WOW