seeker of truth, goodness, & beauty

jules. 30s. hopeless wanderer, dreamer, romantic, bookworm & pluviophile.

[stormsouls]

One of my reading goals for 2026 was to complete series I had started. My plan was for every two series completed, I could start a new one. As of right now I've finished 3 series... and started 3 😅 So, I haven't quite held to the plan, BUT my goal is to get 3 more series completed before starting any more.

Series I'd like to finish this year:

The Gael Song Trilogy Reread Harry Potter The Farseer Trilogy The Memoirs of Lady Trent Whimbrel House

This only includes series that have been completed by the author, I have quite a few on going series that I need to catch up on this year, such as:

Hierarchy The Last Legacy (caught up on this one!) The Locked Tomb

And books I'd like to progress in, but not necessarily finish:

Greenglass House The Invisible Library The Lymond Chronicles The Wheel of Time

And to start, lol:

The Liveship Traders The Stonewater Kingdom Gentleman Bastard The Roots of Chaos

[books-and-stories]

[depsidase]

[indelicateink]

painfully true

[fruityyamenrunner]

[anonymouscomrade]

Imagine saying "where sweets are baked, not bought" about the decade that invented blue raspberry

[william-ontheinternet]

This is so funny. The 90s had the most absolutely heinous hyper processed candies. Unchallenged champion of checkout counter bullshit.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We were obsessed with making every sweet a powder, a goo, novelty shaped, or unbearably sour. Often some combination of the above. 90s sweets were utterly ridiculous and it was fantastic.

[realchloesevigny1]

I am the Queen of french omelettes

[itsalessia]

[anemoneflowers]

I photographed two unknown souls under a beautiful tree.

Moments of everyday life <3

[overclassy]

[stormsouls]

You know, I really don't think it's wise to forward an email to your employees from the president of the state's library association talking about the property tax cuts on the ballot this fall and potential loss in funding and the results of that. Like, I think preparedness is great but you're just scaring people at this point.

[wildstag-blog]

[myfuzzypickle]

[stormsouls]

I can tell that voting is near due to the number of political ads that are EVERYWHERE. I get that I am not normal, but I've made my mind up about who I'm voting for WELL BEFORE the ads come out, your propaganda can not sway my opinions/beliefs ✌️

[stormsouls]

Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters is my only anticipated new release of the year, and at 30% it is everything I wanted it to be.

[meg-elle]

[macrolit]

The New Yorker July 20, 1957

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[asynca]

I watched an insane amount of TikTok and other short form videos for the story I'm writing right now. I gotta say, afterwards, I found myself picking up my phone and opening the apps, almost unconsciously. I was walking and I thought about watching some vids at the same time. I was on hold to the ATO... maybe some videos.

I also happen to specialise in gambling addiction (although I'm not practicing in that area right now), and all I could fucking think about was how these fucking apps were conditioning me in the same fucking way gambling apps do. To be constantly plugged in, consuming. To not even think about just picking it up and having a look. To feel bored when I wasn't watching them, to think about watching them when I wasn't watching them....

That shit is fucking evil.

I deleted it. I'm not exposing myself to that.

That shit will fry your dopamine/reward system so fucking bad you will never read a book or watching a movie again without it.

Love yourself and your potential enough to put that fucking shit away. Watch longer form things that require focus and engagement. Listen to podcasts and audiobooks. Read books. DO ANYTHING BUT CONSUME SHORT FORM CONTENT IN AN UNSTRUCTURED WAY.

If you MUST consume it (I'm sure people will be like 'but my classmates' or 'but my own channel'.... etc), do it in a siloed and structured way. 30 minutes between x time and x time on x day. Focus on it. Don't eat and do it. Watch each short form video to completion. Engage critically with the content. ANd never watch them first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

PLEASE. From a gambling professional, short form videos ping your SAME circuitry and you will fuck up your life and your brain so badly if you don't put up guardrails for yourself.

[thememedaddy]