#please read more

[writerystuff]

Especially a writer's mind.

[westernlarch]

holding my tongue....

[butchbaitdolly]

I don't understand why ppl open their mouth abt smt they know nothing about. What happened to shutting up when you don't know something? Aren't you tired to be loud AND wrong???

[shaffyreads]

Lestat fans are being weird again lmao. Nuance is a thing, you know. Have you all not ever heard "love to hate and hate to love"? Like, Lestat is a horrible person. There's no getting around it, but there's also no getting around that he is also charming, sassy, and charismatic. I can hate him and love him at the same time. I can be attracted to him without acting like a weird devotee. In fact, my discomfort with my attraction to him *and* Louis is a part of what makes the story appealing.

I promise you all it's okay to read more books and actually put in the effort to actually learn about media analysis instead of cherry-picking the key terms and using them wrong.

[writerystuff]

OMG READ MORE!

I'm currently reading a paperback reissue of a very old book. A no-doubt diligent but not well-read copy editor "corrected" a sentence to read as follows:

"Tourists came in breaks to view the dragon."

This makes no sense.

The original obviously read "Tourists came in brakes." A brake is a kind of carriage.

[slowlyrusting]

[what-breaks-my-heart]