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[petrareads]

Alright FINE I read it, I ENJOYED it. This was a very good book everyone was correct

[homunculus-argument]

Hey, random writing tip: Instead of having something be a ridiculously unlikely coincidence, you can make the thing happen due to who this particular character is as a person. Instead of getting stuck on "there's no logical reason to why that would happen", try to bend it into a case of "something like this would never happen to anybody but this specific fucker." Something that makes your reader chuckle and roll their eyes, going "well of course you would."

Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...

I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?

Because he's a Warrior Guy from a culture of Loyalty And Honour, and hearing that someone's got the audacity to go about claiming to be his long-lost brother in battle, there is no other option than to immediately personally go down there to beat the ever-loving shit out of this guy. Who then turns out to actually be character B, after all.

[ellendean-intheflesh]

ME

[the-loserly-misfits-of-bca]

“Karissa, you’re weird and know weird things.. do you know any sea shanties?”

- Stephanie

[ellendean-intheflesh]

lord help me my mother is reading A Court of Silver Flames

[riverlarking]

free museum trips are wasted on unappreciative middle schoolers. let me go

[civilianplus]

@kruge-and-cens & I really used our four years of higher education to make this uquiz: which problematic classic text are you

please enjoy <3

[ellendean-intheflesh]

Great news 2021 me who got Abelard and Heloise, I have since in fact BEEN to therapy and now we got Beloved. Although I suggest reading it with both English and History professors present to help explain it 😭

[ellendean-intheflesh]

I simply cannot take getting invested in another Maas relationship if she’s just going to make the first guy not endgame anymore 😭 if this series takes 7 books to finish and they join an all out war on another continent and Bryce steps into unfathomable power and fights all the asteri and she ends up with the seventh prince of hel or whatever he is I’ll lose my shit I can’t do this again

[ellendean-intheflesh]

It’s been over a year and I still haven’t caught up in this series out of fear for what might happen

[ellendean-intheflesh]

I canNOT take what they’re doing to Grayson in book 3 and I canNOT with the soft and tender “Look at me, Gray” like yeah actually please kill me it’s only been 2 chapters

[ellendean-intheflesh]

Hi everyone I just finished the book and Nothing in the world could’ve prepared me for all of that

[ellendean-intheflesh]

I canNOT take what they’re doing to Grayson in book 3 and I canNOT with the soft and tender “Look at me, Gray” like yeah actually please kill me it’s only been 2 chapters

[motheringhell]

I don't know what I will do with my decor when I need the space for books, but we'll see.

[ellendean-intheflesh]

Seriously?! The Illyrians?! I read 650 pages and this is the thanks I get?! SJM you’re on the shit list now

[ellendean-intheflesh]

After finishing yet ANOTHER young adult dystopian novel with an unrealistic 17 year old as the Face Of The Revolution, I’m reminded of just how truly awesome The Emperors Edge is for having a main cast of actual adults

[ellendean-intheflesh]

This post was about Red Queen sorry Victoria 😔🥲

[ellendean-intheflesh]

NOT ME ROOTING FOR SILVERBOW EVEN THOUGH HE LOVES SOFIE

[ellendean-intheflesh]

I simply cannot take getting invested in another Maas relationship if she’s just going to make the first guy not endgame anymore 😭 if this series takes 7 books to finish and they join an all out war on another continent and Bryce steps into unfathomable power and fights all the asteri and she ends up with the seventh prince of hel or whatever he is I’ll lose my shit I can’t do this again

[abernarthyscigar]

[clockworkbee]

No matter how ignorant you might call Vivi Duarte, she knew Jude better.