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Nova, 27, she/they ♡ "I like to think that there are more stories than we can ever know in our own lifetimes." —Rin Chupeco

[channary]

hi! i'm Nova, a queer bookworm and hobbyist artist who daydreams too much ✨

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[furo-contra-machina]

Am reading PHM after seeing and loving the film and I'm realizing that it is an academic's fantasy of getting kidnapped into your dream job with, oh no, all the resources and funding and exciting important space adventures! It's like fifty shades for asexual researchers

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2025: the incandescent by emily tesh

Walden has carried a higher demon with her through the world for more than a decade, the ravenous hunter bound and quiescent. she always assumed the whole thing was her own idea.

[bashcrandicoot]

Based on a true story

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[dimity-lawn]

The Glorious 25th of May

Truth!

Justice!

Freedom!

Reasonably priced Love!

And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

I haven’t read Night Watch yet

I haven’t read Discworld (yet)

I don’t plan on reading Discworld (why?)

Other?

Voting ended onMay 26

[bluecontactlens]

"At this time! In this place!" 🪻🥚 Happy Glorious 25th of May to those who celebrate. GNU Terry Pratchett

[annabelle--cane]

tragedy protagonist categories:

yknow what yeah I think that's just about how anyone would react in this situation. fair enough.

alright this isn't how just Anyone would behave in this situation but I'm humble enough to admit that there have been times in my life when I was doing badly enough that I'd probably also fumble it like this

babygirl what the hell are you even doing

[annabelle--cane]

thank you hamlet prince of denmark for being the character ever for the 437th year in a row

[magpiesketchins]

The entire Discworld fandom on the 25th of May.

[drchucktingle]

[bruiselikeviolets]

read in 2025: bury our bones in the midnight soil by v.e. schwab

Death comes, and sometimes it is kind, and often it is cruel, and very rarely it is welcome. But it comes all the same.

[wapisiw]

“At what point, she wanted to say, do we stop being the direct product of our parents? At what point does it start being our fault?”

- Julia Armfield, Private Rites (p. 163)

[maalidoesart]

reverend daughter

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[mooncustafer]

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

[xwilltruman]

i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[maidenvault]

Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2025: last to leave the room by caitlin starling

"do you want me to open it?" it asks. yes, Tamsin wants to say. the cameras are rolling, and Prime has already opened the door once, even if it was from the other side. but she's not ready. not prepared, if another Prime should step out.

[zestoflemon]

honk shoo

[hagiomoto]

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