Indigo Reed

Jack of all trades | author, songwriter, artist | WIP 📚: Foresight

[indigoreed1]

RIP Murder Bot you would have loved doomscrolling on Instagram.

[indigoreed1]

Ok but when are they going to cast the porcupine for SOTR he’s a star

[jdebbiel]

boys go to jupiter

[geode-crystal]

"What do you want from me? I just joined the team. I don't know anything."

"Oh, you're not here for what you know. You're here as bait for the others."

[indigoreed1]

Kaz telling Wylan he’s “passable at demo but excellent at hostage”😭😭😭

[prophetic-writer]

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

[indigoreed1]

I don’t know how to have casual hobbies. I just don’t. Every “hobby” I’ve ever had, I’ve tried to break into professionally. I take it too serious. This has led me to view the things I love as stressful instead of rejuvenating, and idk how to stop 😕

[indigoreed1]

I’ve found that I can either be very apathetic about something, or pathologically passionate about it, but never in-between.

[indigoreed1]

I was trying to make an edit of my book with that Tyler the Creator song, but I can’t. Yes, you do look like him. You ALL look like each other. I’m physically incapable of not making every character a foil for someone else.

[indigoreed1]

Writers will spend hours creating the most hyper specific playlist for their characters. No one will ever listen to it but us, and yet every lyric has to be so perfectly accurate, so meticulously selected from the depths of Spotify’s backrooms, that we can let it run on shuffle and see edits of this fictional person in our head. Meanwhile the first song in there is Bet On It from High School Musical 2 .

[indigoreed1]

“We listen and we don’t judge” but it’s just me reading The Secret History on audiobook

[regardlessicarusflew]

I relate to Richard Papen only because I have an inauspicious need to be in-the-know about things it’d be better I didn’t understand and things that I’d otherwise have no desire to.

Unrelated,I also wasn’t included in things as a child.

[pretentious-basterd]

in my richard papen era (failing academics, falling out with friends, living for the pretentious aesthetics of it all)

[indigoreed1]

So. I finally read The Secret History.

I knew next to nothing going in and, for the life of me, I don’t know what to rate it.

On the one hand, there were a lot of things I had problems with, but the book is written in such a way that I don’t know whether these were intentional winks from the author, or genuine flaws to her writing. That almost makes me respect it more. How much is cleverness and how much is us reading into it? Even more interesting, everyone seems to have their own wildly different interpretation. In the end, I wouldn’t call this book “amazing.” I can’t even say that I particularly enjoyed reading it. But I definitely can’t stop thinking about it, and the more I keep coming back to those unanswered questions, the more I appreciate the book in hindsight than I did during my read. It’s unique. I can definitely see why it’s become a cult classic.

[indigoreed1]

The secret history is a cult book. It's a cult book right? We all agree that it's a cult book? It’s important to me that we know this.

[indigoreed1]

Richard Papen really started the book by saying he’s a compulsive liar and then just went “so anyway here’s what happened.”

[indigoreed1]

New obsession unlocked: reading with a projector that matches the vibe of the book (currently reading Strange The Dreamer)

[viciousvales]

this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.