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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Love Begins

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Stranger Things

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Origami Around

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣

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@serendipitybooks
half the fun of tea is getting to hold the warm mug
me making sure i shake my head in disgust as i walk past booktok tables in bookshops
wow look at you!!!
you are so very edgy and Not Like Everyone Else!!!
keep acting pretentious and judgy about what other people read!!! it's not insufferable i promise!!! good job on winning at being a dick!!!
you always on that damn 'Untitled Document'!
“wearing all pink to the barbie movie” “wearing full suits to the minion movie” the children yearn for themed parties
Every occasion deserves to be special! It's fun to share and immerse oneself in the experience.
Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.
all the 9 to 5ers scrolling through tumblr at 7am like we're reading the morning paper. raising our coffee cups in greeting by reblogging each others posts.
smelling that tasty whale carcass
[image description: a digital painting of a bear on a grassy hillside near the ocean. The bear has it's head tilted up to smell the air. There are sparkles all around it. End description.]
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood in the first teaser for Percy Jackson And The Olympians (2023)
people will suggest a new show to watch and i’ll be like hm none of the tumblr mutuals are posting about it it’s probably not good
happy international percy jackson day to all who observe
Gamer cats
reject booktok culture. go to the library and get a weird little novel you’ve never heard of in your life and read it all in 2 days like god intended.
this too tbh
Something I never hear anyone talk about in the 'why are Young Adults (late teens to early 30s) reading so much Young Adult (teens) fiction These Days' discussion is how surprisingly difficult it can be to transition from kids books to adult fiction.
And I don't mean in terms of content. Forget themes, characters, plots, etc. I'm talking pure practicality.
As a kid, most of the books you read are calibrated to you exactly. Your local library likely has a 'children's' section, and that section is likely split into smaller sub-sections based on age group. 0-5, 5-8, 8-12, teen. A lot of your interests and experiences are pretty easy to guess at based on average developmental stages (eg. most 16-18 year olds will relate to Coming Of Age stories), so it's probably pretty easy for you to walk into a bookshop or library and find a book aimed at you specifically.
But get to 18 (or younger) and start straying into the 'adult' section, and suddenly nothing is calibrated anymore. When people complain that all 'grownup fiction' is about white middle class heterosexual couples going through angsty divorces in their mid-forties, this is what they're complaining about. They can't find books they can personally relate to, or that are about topics that they are interested in.
And yeah, sure, books shouldn't have to be relatable to be good or enjoyable. But there's also nothing wrong with wanting to read a book about young people, when you're young. Or queer people, if you're queer. Or people from your particular culture, religion, or ethnicity.
Even if we ignore the relatability aspect entirely, there's also nothing wrong with wanting to read a fantasy book that isn't just 'Tolkien but drearier' or a sci-fi that wasn't written by some guy in the 1960s who thought that women were just another kind of alien.
The problem is, fundamentally, that finding the books you like amid the haystack is a skill that most people are not being taught.
As a result, when they get past YA and try using the old tricks of just picking up whatever is on the bestseller list at the moment, or whatever their local library is currently touting as their 'book of the week', they frequently end up with something that isn't suited to their tastes.
And maybe they love it and it opens up a whole new genre that they'd never considered, but more often they hate it but feel obliged to slog through because this is a 'grownup book' and they have decided they want to be a 'grownup reader'.
A few times being burned like this, and they come to the conclusion that all adult fiction is boring, and that the people who read it are all either mature geniuses of the type they could only hope to be, or slogging through like they were and only pretending to like it.
Thus they run back to the familiarity of YA—which is fine, to be clear, there's nothing actually wrong with reading YA as an adult— but there's every chance that somewhere on the bookshelves is a potential favourite author of theirs that they will now never know because they were never taught how to find them.
i am living for these captions both as a fan of ghost files and as a swiftie
imagine being the subject of someone's poetry
taylor's exes don't realize how good they have it
niwatober day 3 (which is day 1) - I know a spot
sometimes my cats set aside their differences so they can be on my bed at the same time lol