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This poetry comic appears in the latest issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Thanks to author Shoshana Flax for giving me the chance to illustrate her words!

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weirdtranssexual

i mean this in the nicest way possible but some of you need to learn how to be annoyed

weirdtranssexual

people are going to annoy you and that’s not a reason to burn bridges or blow up relationships

some people will even annoy you often! some people aren’t good at social cues and will therefore be frequently annoying! still not a reason to blow everything up!

weirdtranssexual

part of developing your sense of community is learning how to tolerate people being annoying to you

it’s no great hardship to include even the people you find a bit irritating in your community

weirdtranssexual

this post is about everyone who’s kind of annoying (which. everyone is annoying sometimes) but it’s also specifically about neurodivergent people who are just trying to exist in their communities without being ostracized for not doing every social interaction perfectly

forgetfulfish

Print books (or ebooks) vs audiobooks

Prefer print books; Struggle to listen to audiobooks

Prefer print books; Don't like audiobooks

Prefer print books; Audiobooks are fine

Marginally prefer print books

Like both equally

Marginally prefer audiobooks

Prefer audiobooks; Print books are fine

Prefer audiobooks; Don't like print books

Prefer audiobooks; Struggle to read print books

Nuance/Explain in comments

Voting ended onJul 16, 2025

Curious about people's reading preferences, reblogs for sample size are very appreciated ❤️

chxrry-bombs

5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

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aliteraryprincess

"When you were last here," said Aslan, "that hollow was a pool, and when you jumped into it you came to the world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of Charn. There is no pool now. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning." "Yes, Aslan," said both the children. But Polly added, "But we're not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?" "Not yet, Daughter of Eve," he said. "Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware."

C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

taigacryptid

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

bibliophilecats

Germany: use booklooker for second hand books, audiobooks, games and cds.

Library visit

We (my daughter and sister and I) went to the library on Monday.

We bought these (and three more). My daughter found one about mermaids and really loved it. It’s probably a bit difficult for her right now, but she will put it in her room to look at every day.

Afterwards she made this for me:

#books #library #snow #smiley

battyaboutbooksreviews

[ looking for book blogs! ]

hi there, book lovers! since it's a new year, I wanted to do a fresh post to call out all book-focused blogs on Tumblr! If you primarily post bookish content, like and reblog this post and I'll follow you back! here's to growing the booklr community!

Please share this and explore the previous likes/reblogs to discover more accounts!

#books #blogs

#shelfie #image #books #community

The Christmas Pig

I’ve been wanting to read this for ages so I’m really looking forward to it.

#book #Christmas Pig

scoops-aboy86

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

risingoflights

reblog to instantly disintegrate some of your peers to dust

eruden-writes

I am very amused that little writerlings must now do historical research on a time I lived through. I feel like some long-lived eldritch creature.

Bah. Humbug.

Just so you know, I’m not celebrating Christmas this year.

#christmas #holidays #humbug

Why I don’t approve of ’age appropriate books’

When I was a child, my parents let me read any book I wanted. All their books were available to me. I don’t think it ever occurred to them that some books might be unsuitable for children.

If I encountered a very violent text or one with sexual references, I would put the book back on the shelf. ’Ugh, it’s a boring book for grownups.’

Of course I learned how to read when I was 3 1/2. All the ’grownup stuff’ was boring to me. Also, mom was and still is, in a way similar to a child in that sex and violence in a book wasn’t interesting to her so there probably wasn’t anything like that to begin with. Just some ’cozy’ mysteries. Other than that she was very ’grownup’, with mostly non fiction. My dad, on the other hand loved horror, science fiction and fantasy, so there was some really sexist, gory and violent stuff in his books. Also a little sex, but that didn’t bother me so much.

I don’t think I was harmed in any way by what I saw.

However, as a mom myself, I don’t necesserarily agree with her hands off approach. I’m rather overprotective of my children and become a bit of a control freak when it comes to - well, everything to do with them. Any book I give them, I’ve already read and evaluated. My criteria are ’is it well written?’ ’does it contain any hidden messages we as a family don’t approve of?’ (i e right wing extremist, intolerance’ ’old fashioned stereotypes’ etc.)

I also think ’if a kid can read and enjoy a book’ age is irrelevant. Recommendations are fine. I’ll take them into consideration when I (or my children) choose books.

For instance, I believe that from the age of four I read and enjoyed books recommended for kids 9-12. My children are eight, nearly nine, and usually like books for ages 6-9. My nieces are six and a half and one of them likes books for ages 3-6 and the other doesn’t like books at all right now, not for any age group, unless my sister reads to her, and then she likes picture books for much younger kids (i e 0-3). Oddly enough ’Sunflower’ is probably best at reading out of my sister’s and my four.

So, I guess what I’m saying is that as long as it’s legal in my country, and it is, I will let my children choose freely (within reason) among books.