Plots ‘n’ Thots

Here to chat about books and science for the rest of my life.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Get yourself a friend who independently publishes a queer pirate adult romance novel because you like women with swords and villains with eyeliner.

A Kiss of the Siren's Song is officially released today! It makes a great Christmas gift for yourself, your queer friends, your book nerd friends, or even your homophobic extended family who could really use some queer spicy badass romance in this lives. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1144234640

Amazon.com: A Kiss of the Siren's Song (Dark Depths): 9781738059720: Trofimenkoff, E A M: Books

[plotsnthots]

I have seen death in so many different forms so many times in my life. I now welcome her with open arms as an old friend. For hers were the last to hold my love’s.

[plotsnthots]

Writing is some sort of telepathic magic y’all. Someone writes what they’re seeing in their brain, and then based on what they tattoo on dead trees, you see it in your brain. How cool is that?

[plotsnthots]

Asking for advice on how to live this so called “dream” I’ve been hearing so much about. Because sometimes, it feels more like a nightmare.

[plotsnthots]

That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying "I’ll go to the bookstore with you," what he meant was, "I love you."

[plotsnthots]

Sometimes I want a book where it makes me think and have an existential crisis. Other times I just want the characters to get railed, you know? It’s called balance.

[rudjedet]

people who don't know anything about academics: man y'all are stuffy and boring what's up with that? actual academics: *too busy fist-fighting each other over the beryllium problem or the existence of a dentistry profession in ancient egypt to reply*

[micewithknives]

people who dont know anything about academics: *for some reason have the illusion of everyone in Fancy Academic Clothes doing Boring Research and glossing over Historical Facts Because Historians Dont Like The Truth*

actual academics: someones lying on the floor in a band tshirt they havent changed out of in three days crying over the paper they’re supposed to be writing that was due over a month ago. the whiteboard says “6 hours since our last fight about Whether Silcrete Exists”. someone wants to give their thesis the title “theyre lesbians harold” but cant figure out how to cite a tumblr post as a title because they havent eaten in 48 hours

[art-thropologist]

People who don't know anything about academics: they're keeping this grand conspiracy about these civilizations a secret!!! actual academics: can barely coordinate a time for a Zoom meeting, will infodump about their specialty for hours without prompting

[archaeo-geek]

People who don’t know anything about academics: How dare these stuffy scientists ignore this poor random dude who has a Theory That Changes Everything (and conveniently makes him a small fortune by selling books and DVDs about the Theory) Actual academics: Has already patiently explained to 40 different people why the Theory That Changes Everything doesn’t make any sense and is also kinda racist, but nobody is hyping their answer because it doesn’t make anybody money or make them feel extra special.

[rudjedet]

Also actual academics in this case: *vibrating with the only barely controlled need to throat punch Erich von Däniken the dude hawking the Theory of Racist Lies*

[roach-works]

people who blatantly and obviously hate being told real information: psh those awful gatekeeping academics just sit in their ivory towers keeping important knowledge away from us and also keeping real honest hardworking minorities out of academia which no one should want to go into anyway

academics: god’s weirdest woman desperately wants to tell you about snail poop and your life will be enriched (like snail poop) if you let her

[plotsnthots]

Every time there’s a plus-sized FMC in a romance novel, I give a good tip of my hypothetical hat to the author because damn, it’s sexy as hell.

[thoughtkick]

“Your now is not your forever.”

— John Green, Turtles All The Way Down

[plotsnthots]

Every March I re-read Looking for Alaska to kick jump me out of my seasonal depression (mostly). Every year I find something new to think about. This year, I was really entranced by the idea of getting out of this labyrinth of suffering. Here’s why.

I’ve had quite a few deaths in my close family the last two years. At times, it has felt like I’m just about to round a corner and I see the fresh air, the sun in the distance, and then bam, the labyrinth changes, Daedalus strikes again, and I’m back to wandering in a different, yet familiar darkness.

So how do we ever get out of this labyrinth? Alaska suggested straight and fast. And that’s an interesting idea. The way I interpret this is that you may always be in the labyrinth- that’s life- but there will be times of light and fresh air and fun and joy, and I think it’s important to approach these moments straight and fast. Hesitating, and being apprehensive about what might come next takes away from being present in the moment. So here’s to getting out of the labyrinth, even if it’s only for a second, or until it embraces you again: straight and fast.