#being a reader

[rambld]

guys, my writing is becoming redundant and it's making me feel like a wet blanket lmao so i'm gonna take a break from writing on this blog. but i will post now and then when i have something new or to update another fic.

hope you all are having a great friday! <333

[alwri-tes]

Not much makes me more aware of the passage of time than watching the due date for my Libby book get closer and closer when I haven’t even started reading it yet

[quietflorilegium]

“Reading a book was like meeting someone for the first time. You don't know if you will love them or hate them enough to learn every detail, or skim the surface never to know their depths.”

Sarah Rees Brennan, "Long Live Evil"

[the960writers]

Does your reading HURT authors? | The TRUTH about Kindle Unlimited

Maggie's Books and Stuff, 1 Dec 2023:

So....KU isn't all sunshine and rainbows unfortunately! It without a doubt is an amazing subscription to have as a reader, and is also a great platform for authors....but there is definitely some questionable things about it that you likely aren't aware of. To the point where some of your KU reading habits are likely hurting your favorite authors, and even potentially getting them kicked of the app. Anyhoo, just hear me out, cause I give you some tips on how to be a better reader as well.

[bellepeppertronix]

These Disco Elysium fanfic authors are really putting in work. Novel-length, beautifully written mysteries and stories and AHDHFUDKVNEJFUWI thank you everybody! I'm loving it! My crops, watered, my skin, clear...finally, some good fucking food...Thank You for the Delicious Meal...

[esuemmanuel]

Es todo un honor y un placer leerte ¡Bendita agua fresca que limpia el cristal del que te siente! Palabras que brotan como manantial; sin buscar nada, sólo fluyendo por el afluente del río que goza de acariciar al que se baña en él, y es que se siente lo que se lee cuando los ojos están conectados con la energía del Todo. Las palabras son vibración y energía, la misma que eres Tú, por lo tanto, lo que sale de tus manos vibra contigo; lleva tu esencia, cargando con trozos de Ti y los ojos que saben leer, lo saben. Es por eso que, a estos ojos, no los puedes engañar, pues tienen la certeza de cuándo estás bien y cuándo estás mal. Te sienten, te intuyen, te descifran... Te conocen. Las palabras son tu segunda voz, porque escribir es un acto de contrición: todo lo que escribes lo sientes, de una u otra manera. Nada pasa desapercibido ante el corazón. Eres cada una de las sensaciones que trazas. Puedes negar la veracidad de lo que escribes, pero jamás podrás ocultar lo que sentiste al escribir y, lo que sentiste, se lee. Aquél que tema a ser descubierto, no escriba. Aquél que huya de lo que Es, aléjese de la pluma y el papel. Aquél que se apene de su desnudez, cúbrase las miserias con el silencio que se oculta en la aparente complacencia... ¡La pluma no es para cualquiera!

— Esu Emmanuel©, It is an honor and a pleasure to read you. Blessed fresh water that cleans the crystal of the one who feels you! Words that flow like a spring; without looking for anything, just flowing through the tributary of the river that enjoys caressing the one who bathes in it, and it is that you feel what you read when your eyes are connected with the energy of the Whole. Words are vibration and energy, the same energy that is You, therefore, what comes out of your hands vibrates with You; it carries your essence, carrying pieces of You and the eyes that know how to read, know it. That is why these eyes cannot be deceived, because they know for sure when you are right and when you are wrong. They feel you, they intuit you, they decipher you... They know you. Words are your second voice, because writing is an act of contrition: everything you write you feel, in one way or another. Nothing goes unnoticed by the heart. You are each of the sensations you trace. You can deny the veracity of what you write, but you can never hide what you felt when you wrote, and what you felt is read. He who fears to be discovered, do not write. He who flees from what he Is, stay away from pen and paper. He who grieves for his nakedness, cover his miseries with the silence that hides in the apparent complacency.... The pen isn't for everyone!

[speedygal]

Some random person in a dead fandom tag on ao3: oh, I wish there were more fics in this tag. :(

*Years later*

Me: *makes dozens of stories, some wip, some completed, in the tag in the injustice of being the only one writing for it and providing inspiration for others to pop their own out at random*

Some random person: oh no. but oh yes. But, I didn’t mean it that way!!!!

Be careful for what you wish for.

[imboredbutnotreally]

But guys!!!

What if when Remus Lupin first met Harry in the Hogwarts Express he called him James instead of Harry.