Books n' Stuff

Adventure is out there, sometimes hidden in the pages of books

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

what do you mean barbie OR oppenheimer?? they belong together they are destined to be inextricably intertwined

[fairycosmos]

i can't believe i still use tumblr in 2023 i feel like an old guy who stubbornly refuses to get a mobile cuz house phones work perfectly fine. and he's right

[filmgifs]

BRING IT ON (2000) dir. Peyton Reed

[abalonetea]

just saw someone reviewing the erin hunter books like, ‘they should publish the whole series at once, i don’t want to wait a whole year to read it’. like babe i hate to break it to you but,,,, go touch some grass and think about your relationship with consumerism okay, because it’s gotten really weird on you

[faelanvance]

I’ve heard these kinds of sentiments in regards to novels, as well as readers outright refusing to read fantasy series debuts because “they fear committing to something unfinished” (like refusing to read an incomplete fanfic on AO3…) in case the author dies, or isn’t able/doesn’t complete the work. The GRRM effect, if you will.

Regardless of how people feel towards the authors personally, I will continue to bleat, til the day I die, artists do not owe an audience anything. They are not in debt to you. They don’t owe their works to their readers, no exceptions, there is no “earned/lost trust” or “unspoken contracts.” Capitalism has got people treating artists and entertainers as though they should hop on their bicycles like a chained bear, the moment the audience cracks its whip.

[brynwrites]

There’s also this fun aspect of capitalism where your favorite (usually marginalized) author doesn’t get another book contract or have the rest of the series picked up or have the money to keep investing their time in that project because you refused to buy the thing until it was finished.

Not only do creators not owe their audience anything, but those who really truly want to give these things to their audience are directly prevented from doing so by this exact mentality!

[scifrey]

As author of such series - YES PLEASE DON’T WAIT. I know SO many friends who’ve had their series cancelled WHILE they were in the middle of writing the next book specifically because the numbers on the first book(s) weren’t “good enough™”, or who were told that the series would end with the next book so had to jam three book’s worth of plot and character development into one.

[charaznablescanontoyota]

you guys hear about tabletop games

[croaglunk]

[gunpla]

[diane-nguyen-watches-cartoons-d]

[makingmoss]

i’ll look forward to hearing your statement if you ever make it out

[hiveswap]

Do americans actually live like this

[shortgremlinman]

Ai generated photo right. Right?

[ruffboi-mags]

that looks like an entirely normal suburban american neighborhood so if its AI-generated, it’s realistically done.

[cashiers-czech-hunter]

[bogleech]

So the rest of the world watches our movies and in a lot of our movies we mock and satirize the eeriness and soullessness of these manufactured communities but I’m guessing you guys thought it was exaggeration

[theonion]

Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

[labassecour-deactivated20180423]

Would that I could turn back the hand of time and warn the onion staffer who penned this piece. “Is it worth it,” I would ask. “Is it worth it?”

[j3ssk1mo]

truly a cultural reset

[crazy-brazilian]

[wvterways]

[papasmoke]

you wouldn’t download a windows update

[sailorbrazil]

[happilyy]

that image that goes i want to do this. do it. but im scared. do it scared. changed my life

[happilyy]

[evenlarksandkatydids]

i hate you romantically involved characters who talk to each other like they’re in a couples counseling session, i hate you watering down of the word toxic, i hate you plot twists where the male love interest is actually a villain because see, silly girl? in the REAL world guys like that are DANGEROUS, i hate you relationship therapist breaks down movie couple’s relationship videos, i hate you “romeo and juliet were just stupid horny teenagers” “belle had stockholm syndrome” “wuthering heights isn’t romantic” hot takes, i hate you sanitization of romance in fiction

[areallycreativeusername]

[kvrs-deactivated20220420]

[kitttenteeth]

the color pink has always been there 4 me

[kitttenteeth]

We owe her an apology ……

[eelizabit]

So awesome of Tchaikovsky to write ballets based off of a couple Barbie movies. Cool guy!

[fakelaurent-deactivated20191028]

Are you ready to suck my dick?