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get in loser we’re gonna admire moss and mushrooms in the forest

the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning

malewifesband

the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it

asyastudieskorean

5.13.2026 — Last night’s class went well, but I seriously need to go back to studying daily.

warmfigure

i wish you could smell these photos

belovedapollo

dropping hints about not being right in my head (also, rest in peace Louise Glück, I miss you dearly) 📚

reblog is ok, don’t repost / use

clonerightsagenda

Literary criticism terms I use on this blog despite making them up myself, much to the chagrin of anyone who does not have my back catalog memorized:

are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power

I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem

librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general

college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully

the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now

clonerightsagenda

#OP tell us more about the John President of Racism problem!

It hails from an immortal tumblr post by penultimate-step, except not immortal apparently because I get 'not found' when I try to go back to the original. So here's the text:

It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.

hungwy

They'll sap your body of its strength, those blankets... And as soon as you succumb and fall to the bed, those pillows will tear what little consciousness you have to shreds.

catasters

ymutate

Rene Lalique, France.

"Silenes" vase 1938

shetheyslain

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

ispyspookymansion

i may not be financially stable or professionally successful or socially well liked or attractive or funny or hopeful about my future but i can make a 3 note post like nobody’s business #hustle

a-study-in-dante

February 18th, 2026 | I must have read this book twice over the course of my phd and I'm pretty sure I'll forget everything about it again in no time.