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Book Freak, random blog, expect some anime tho, book quotes, SHIT POSTS, drama-free zone, get yo discourse off my screen :3

[homoquartz]

what's so cool about "kevin can fuck himself" is the way it forces you to reframe what are otherwise painted as harmless sitcom antics. it makes you really think about it.

for example, the sarcastic asides typical of a sitcom are actually cruel and abusive when rooted in reality. while you're watching the scene, set up in saturated colors and a laugh track, you have to force yourself not to slip into the banter.

it's a depiction of how abusers manipulate perceptions and get everyone else to go along with it. how it's normalized as "harmless" and laughed away.

it's a really good show.

[depsidase]

[anemoneforever]

Incredibly hilarious that Vanitas complains about not being able to give Noe the slip then the very next second, tells the informant dealers to keep an eye on Noe, lest he disappears as he tends to do sometimes lol

You're not fooling anyone bruh 😭

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[violetsbookshelf]

Pointe Skirt by Darinika Atelier

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much @vicshush it’s amazing!

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[honeyscomet]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyscomet]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[saladscream]

Merlin, that you?

[anemoneforever]

Does bridgerton understand that every male lead can't just be a rake? Like jeez while I didn't enjoy Polin all that much, at least Colin had some distinction from Simon and Anthony.

To lose myself in a romance, I need Benedict to have some substance ffs

[mariakureads]

[anemoneforever]

being a woman in my late 20's is just having a dozen tiny things wrong with me all the time

[anemoneforever]

this is the funniest thing he yu has ever done tbh im crying not him recycling xie qingcheng's rejection lecture on his love rival lmaooo

[anemoneforever]

not to talk about the summer show too much but jere doesn't even really talk belly into shitty decisions, she just seems to spontaneously decide to give up so and so thing for him without much prompt like girl stand up

[thatdeadb1tch]

A lot of people hate that Sally Rooney didn’t use quotation marks, but honestly, not only does this set a nostalgic mood for the book, but it also represents the mISCOMMUNICATION

[anemoneforever]

it also evokes a feeling as if im reading telepathic conversations between the characters, it's intimate and vulnerable and further highlight how much the characters can understand each other despite the intensity of their feelings for each other

[anemoneforever]

when I first read Normal People by Sally Rooney I didn't really like it and I felt frustrated when I finished it but on watching the show in a low mood tbh, I'm starting to understand it better. I was frustrated bc of how real it all was, in all its messiness and toxicity and loneliness

[benevolenterrancy]

I can't tell you how funny I find the cover of the first book. Like at this point Li Yu is super explicitly Not A Koi. He is the most generic, grey, little fish imaginable. Everyone is judging Prince Jing so hard for doting on this dull little soup carp -- to the point that even the cover is like, nah, replace that boring thing with a koi!!! Poor Li Yu can't win for losing...

[anemoneforever]

not Mu Tianchi going back to his OG tyrant settings for a second and preparing to kill everyone in the room to protect Li Yu's secret 😭😂

[snufkinofficial]

my gf said something sooo insane about helly the other day and i cannot stop thinking about it. she was like. helena and helly’s relationship is almost maternal. the way helena created helly as an extension of herself, to serve her interests, to try and impress her own family. she scolds helly, talks down to her like a child. “i understand you’re unhappy with the life you’ve been given” “i am a person, you are not”. the way she envies and resents helly’s freedom. the way she feels entitled to helly’s life and is now living vicariously through her in the most literal sense. what if you created life and now they’re experiencing the things you’ve always wanted for yourself. what if you created life and they were flawed and loud and demanding and they were loved more than you’ve ever been. and you hated them for it. the mother/daughterisms are insane my girlfriend is insane