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My @crowandmoonreads blog is moving! I want to make my book reviews more of a presence, and so I decided to make it a main blog.

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This blog is moving! See @crowandmoonquill

Slowly but surely moving posts there. When they're all moved, this blog will be deleted

hometoursandotherstuff

#victorian writers i am kissing u gently on the tip of your nose

thecomfywriter

hi hello breaking hiatus for a quick second because watching a video essay about booktok and book reviewers on the platform complaining about reading non-dialogue paragraphs and paragraphs in general has me absolutely BAFFLED.

like wdym you won’t read anything that isn’t dialogue and you’ll only skim the book???? that’s not reading????

#literally just watched this video lol #it's Book Chats with Shelley on YouTube #edit: never mind lol! different video but same subject

evvergreen

they don't want you to know this but rereading books is not a waste of time and is actually even more fun than the first time around

sk33thb0k

BECAUSE YOU CAN HYPERANALYZE WITHIN CONTEXTS

tobermoriansass

the thing about the way people go on and on about how smut and shipping ruins the ability to think about character or worldbuilding or whatever, is that this is inherently a skill issue. nothing better to tell you about a character and their most important internal neuroses (personal, social, cultural) than discovering how they like to fuck and who they want to fuck and the why of it all. such complainants should, rly speaking, read better smut.

#some of us are very sexual people and it's an inherently deep way to connect with characters

erensattacktitancock

A reminder to please take a chance on indie authors the same way you might indie films or indie video games. A lot of us work hard to create quality stories that are too subversive or unmarketable for a mainstream audience and if you're tired of the schlock that gets turned out by the big corps your next perfect read could be being peddled by a tiny nonentity on the corner of social media sending posts out on nothing but hope and a prayer. Don't write us off.

alinacapellabooks

As a fellow indie author who’s been reading fellow indie authors…You won’t regret it. A lot of the indie books I’ve read have been better than the ones that mainstream publishers put out

emrowene

THIS, PLEASE

the mainstream publishing industry has been getting more restrictive and more picky about what they publish. they want tropes, they want sterilized prose, and they want "marketability." if YOU want weird stories, experimental stories, stories with heart, indie and self pub is where you're going to find that.

a-ramblinrose

“But surely it is something to have been The best belovèd for a little while, To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen His purple wings flit once across thy smile.”

― Oscar Wilde, from, ’Apologia’

ettawritesnstudies

READERS: FYI BOOKSHOP.ORG HAS FREE SHIPPING FOR ANTI-PRIME DAYS

This is a cool platform that gives back to local and small businesses so I'm affiliated with them. If you want to use my link to buy anything I'll get a small cut which is appreciated, but regardless this is still a neat opportunity to dodge Amazon's monopoly especially if you don't have prime.

okamirayne

captainofthetidesbreath

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

ocean-stuck

rabbitindisguise

I think one of the most important people to ask these questions of is yourself btw I don't think this is just a general "everyone but me" type of deal. Sometimes it's easy to be dead set on turning your home depot into a milkshake stand and it's just not going to work. Easier to start with a place that has a blender to begin with.

majormeilani

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

majormeilani

literally so insane how you can never go back to the innocence of it all. you see all the signs coming and you know how it ends. but there's nothing you can do to turn a blind eye to it anymore. it hits you and you just have to keep going.

#captive prince #decimated me the 2nd read-through lol

allofthefeelings

I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example:

For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.

For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.

And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.

I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.