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[evilwickedme]

Ahhhhh I can't wait anymore!

Look at this gorgeous cover @not-the-blue drew for my book!!! And yes, it is already available for preorder right here (currently it's just for the kindle edition but the paperback should be available within the next couple of days)

This project has been a labor of love with much needed support from people both on and off Tumblr (special mention to, of course, Asya, who not only drew the cover but was there to help me process many of the emotions I turned into a book, and also @justafictionlover, for often reading the poems before anyone else)

I wrote these poems out of a place of grief, loss, and sadness, but I've come out the other end a better person, and also with a book. Of poetry. That I wrote. Holy shit.

The book will become available on the fifteenth of march 2022, a week from today. I'm so excited for all of you to read it. 💜💜💜

[the-kings-of-henrietta]

it's so funny to me how bluesy are just. extraordinarily bad at hiding their feelings for each other from the start, whereas pynch’s entire dynamic pre-second secret is just adam making eye contact with ronan for 0.2 milliseconds and going “fuck that guy. hope he explodes” and then proceeding to do donuts in his bmw for the next 2 hours

[critical-quoter]

'I'm not going to die,' she said. 'Not till I've seen it.' 'Seen what?' Her smile widened. 'Everything.'

A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab

[the-inner-musings-of-a-worm]

nothing in my mind except neil josten doing those gimmicky interviews

lie detector interview? he lies flawlessly. they ask him what team he’s on to test it and he says the trojans. the needle doesn’t move. no one knows what to do

answering the internet’s most googled question? neil doesn’t give away shit. (“what is neil jostens favorite hobby?” “lying to cops”) every question is answered with some version of your mother or an anecdote about something illegal

hot wings but neil and kevin do it versus each other. it quickly devolves into psychological warfare. neil adds hot sauce to kevin’s wing when he’s not looking

neil takes a buzzfeed which exy player are you the most like and when he gets riko he just walks out

literally any gimmicky pr stunt just dissolves into chaos

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

[neilarmstrong]

I love this fucking book

[osheamobile]

“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.

“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”

[magnificentbane-deactivated2019]

there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.” And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

— Éowyn, The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Paintings by Matthew Stewart, Nick Robles, Chris Rahn, Çağlayan Kaya Göksoy, Craig Spearing, and Stephen Graham Walsh

[kenziecore]

god percy jackson really was the perfect character. remember when he got to camp half blood and he discovered he could order food and just make it blue. i love that bitch idiot so much he just wanted blue food because it reminded him of his mom

[effemar]

blue sargent having inherited intractable lesbian je nais sais quoi is such a dear concept to me as a girl who also has an extensive network of gay-passing female relatives. i know in my heart blue sargent has had to come out as liking men. blue sargent talks about her boyfriend and people do a double take.... walking out of her painted lady victorian house with her thrifted doc martens and crochet market bag and sashiko jeans looking like the human embodiment of the city of portland and then going to meet her boyfriend Normal Richard? it does not compute. when gansey and blue go places together people assume gansey is her tall man-shaped butch because no other explanation makes sense. the lesbian vibe is so strong it affects the world like a gravity field it actively makes the people around her look gayer by association. if ganseyronanadam go places together people think they're weirdly codependent straight guys. if BLUEganseyronanadam go places together people assume they're a polycule on their way to the farmer's market to sell zines

[cogentranting]

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

[chesh-cat-rus]

Today I understood why Mr Bingley is important for 'Pride and Prejudice.' Of course I've heard that he's Mr Darcy's foil and he helps us see that Mr Darcy lacks manners. And probably we need him to see a man whose character trait is quickly deciding to leave a place and who might never come back, and who also - I don't know - can easily get under the influence of his friends.

And I have always seen him as a very insignificant side character, and I never understood why there was even a need for him; like why Jane Austen of all people would write such a lacking(?) side character. He is not really a commentary on something. He's just fickle.

And was there even a need for Mr Bingley & Jane's love story? They're basically 'love at first sight, destined for each other' and they look quite out of place among the other three couples -- Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Lydia and Mr Wickham, Charlotte and Mr Collins -- that are all a commentary on love and society.

Today I understood that had there been no Mr Bingley Jane would've married Mr Collins out of obligation as the eldest sister and that would have been a very different book that didn't feel like such a happy story by the end of it (my Mom calls it a fairy tale), had only one of the sisters (Elizabeth) landed herself a love match.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is an undercurrent to Jane's story that is about her being an angel and that their love with Mr Bingley is a dream that rarely comes true, I don't know. But still, apparently Mr Bingley is not as inconsequential a character as he has always seemed to be.

[ian-thebean]

I think you’re 100% right that Jane would have married Mr. Collins. She tries to convince Elizabeth that Mr. Collins isn’t all that bad, so I’d imagine she’d try to convince herself even harder. It sucks because she genuinely would try to make the best of a bad situation and wouldn’t take much action to get away from lady Katherine de Bourgh. Poor Jane would be so unhappy but wouldn’t admit it! It might end up making her bitter and sad which would be so unfortunate.

I’ve never really thought about “what if bingley never was?” but now I’m so grateful that he’s there to at least keep her heart safe from Mr. Collins’ buffoonery

[itonlytakesone]

I also think that just as both Elizabeth and Darcy learn to have LESS pride and overcome their overconfidence in their own initial impressions, opinions, etc., Jane and Bingley's arc involves learning to have MORE confidence in their instincts and overall worth.

Elizabeth and Darcy nearly sabotage their chance at love by clinging to a misguided belief in their own superior judgment and a reluctance to change their minds and concede they were wrong even when confronted with inconvenient facts.

By (I'd say deliberate!) contrast, Jane and Bingley almost miss out on love for the exact opposite reason - they're TOO easily swayed from their initial opinions, too insecure in their own judgment, and both too self-doubting to believe that they could be loved beyond a fleeting, superficial interest.

Basically, we all need to have some pride---more self-belief than the sweet, humble but uncertain and 'people pleasing' Jane and Bingley entered the story with (note that by the end Bingley declares that while he still hopes for Darcy's approval, he no longer NEEDS it!), but less overconfidence in our own judgment than Elizabeth and Darcy initially possessed :)

[winter-wise]

one of the funniest parts in Fellowship will always be when Aragorn approaches the hobbits at the Prancing Pony and he asks them "but how are you sure that I'm not a spy from Sauron sent to lead you astray" and Frodo's response is "Well I think a servant of Sauron would look hotter than you but have worse vibes" to which Aragorn responds "So I look like shit but I passed your vibe check, is that it?" and nobody denies it

[starz86]

if i were the ravens and i saw kevin day switch his racket to his left hand knowing just how good he is playing with his left hand AND i saw neil take up a backliners spot i would have just walked off the court cause at that point its over.

[harrirats]

haunted

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

Remembering that one of the bravest things Neil did was stay after running all his life and one of the bravest things Kevin did was run after staying all his life and that they were both equally as brave

[doyouknowthisbook-poll]

Do you know which book this is from?

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I’ve read this book before, and I like it!

I can tell which book this is from based on this excerpt, but I haven't read it

I started reading this, but didn’t finish it (or I am reading it currently)

I haven’t read this book, but I like this excerpt!

I’ve read this book before, and I don’t like it

I haven’t read this book and I don’t like this excerpt

Voting ended onApr 2

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Thank you @evelynrose33284 for the submission! 😄

[doyouknowthisbook-poll]

FINAL RESULT: The majority of voters haven’t read this book, but enjoyed this excerpt. 😊

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is a 1974 children's novel written by Julie Edwards, the married name of singer and actress Dame Julie Andrews. More recent editions credit the book to "Julie Andrews Edwards". From Wikipedia: “The novel follows three siblings, Ben, Tom, and Melinda Potter (better known as Lindy), who meet Professor Savant while visiting the zoo one rainy day. On Halloween, Lindy gets dared by her brother to knock on the spookiest house on the block for a quarter, which happens to belong to the Professor, and the three become more acquainted with him. After a second meeting, they begin spending time at the Professor's house, where he introduces them to games of concentration and observation. He reveals that there is a magic land called Whangdoodleland which can only be reached through the imagination, and he is training them to accompany him there.”

The book currently has a 4.25 rating on Goodreads and a 4.2 rating on StoryGraph.

[jeffgoldblumsmulletinthe90s]

I bought "Network Effect" in Japanese because of who I am as a person.

Anyway, I will be sharing things, but the first thing is that upon meeting Three,

Ratthi calls Three kimi きみ

（バリッシューエストランザ社には、きみは死んだと伝いる）

Amena calls Three anata あなた

（あなた、名前はあるの？）

And ART calls Three omae おまえ

（この人間たちに害意を待っているなら、おまえを分解して）＊

That's like...

You (friendly!)

You (textbook)

(FUCK) You

*Also that threat is SO MUCH MORE SICK (to me) IN JAPANESE. Also just... so rude. I love that Japanese has so many levels of politeness so ART can use none of them.

[mayasaura]

Needed OP's tags bc that is exactly ART no wonder this translation won awards

[twofoursixohjuan]

thinking non-stop about the Terry Pratchett Method of Deconstruction (TM) and how it works

[...] the wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays. (Witches Abroad)

Take a common concept, metaphor, idiom, trope etc. "The wages of sin is death."

Invert, reverse or subvert it to highlight the inconsistency or issue. "But so is the salary of virtue." (Well, actually, everybody dies, right?)

While everybody's contemplating the philosophy revealed, overextend the metaphor and whack them in the back of the head with the joke like a comedic quintain while they aren't expecting it. "At least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."

He does it quite often and I love it every time.