#samreads

[maxevvans]

JOUDIE! I'M SO EXCITED FOR STAR CROSSED!! I haven't watched it yet. I hope it's gonna be on hulu. I'm so glad you're watching it too!!!

SAM WATCH IT RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY AND COME TALK TO ME ABOUT IT!!!!!

[vendegast]

"WHO'S HAND WAS I HOLDING?"

[vendegast]

so uh, if y’all have any not-too-long books that are just like, light happy reads? i would appreciate y’all sending recommendations my way.

[books-secretgetaway]

omg can I send you some of those Inuyasha asks?! 11, 12, and 13! :D

Of course because INUYASHA!

11. Would you rather have cut puppy ears or a fluffy wolf tail?

Ears! Cause they’re adorable and I’d probably squeeze them constantly like Kagome does to Inuyasha

12. Which of the Four Souls would you be: courage, friendship, wisdom or love?

I would say wisdom

13. Which female character would you be best friends with?

Sango! I’d probably have more in common with Kagome but I’d be too busy trying to steal Inuyasha from her. 

[maxevvans]

Oh god I just finished reading Pink by Lili Wilkinson and... what? One of the reasons why I hated it is because the author is biphobic. I mean that’s the only explanation for it since this book is about sexuality, because otherwise, why would someone write about something they haven’t done any research on whatSOEVER. 

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes termed pansexuality.

<spoilers and rant below>

It starts out w the main character, Ava, who the readers assume is gay because she has a girlfriend, wanting to transfer to another school. Over the course of the book, she meets a group of ‘Stews’ (stage crew students) and eventually becomes friends with them. She also realizes she’s attracted to not only females but males as well. On this discovery, she dumps her girlfriend (because she doesnt want to transfer back and pretend her transfer never happened) and meets Sam (whom the narrative suggests Ava’s attracted to). Even though the words lesbians and straight has been thrown around throughout the book, there was no mention of Ava’s actual canon sexuality which is bisexuality.

This book had so much potentially (sexuality, feminism). Even the feminist rants made me feel like the author doesn’t exactly know what feminism is (looking at the main character’s parents). When some good feminist points were brought up, it felt cheapened by how much the main character’s parents were pushing her to be different and a lesbian. Do people refer to their parents by their first names? Chill the fuck down, you’re like 12. I didn’t feel connected to the main character at all, the author didn’t give the reader a chance to later sympathize w her. I mean she’s been planing on cheating on her girlfriend for like half of the book and then when she finally makes out w a guy, she’s like oh shit.

By the end of the book, she literally learns nothing for example that she’s an idiot or like hello bisexuality is a thing. She leads Sam on: after he confesses how he feels about her and she tells him she feels the same way and shit, she’s like let’s just be friends???

The author could’ve taken advantage of this book to bring awareness to bisexuality instead of making the main character confused about her sexuality from the beginning to literally the end of the book.

[vendegast]

I finished Silence of the Lambs today 💜💜 I'm going to listen to some Eye of the World & clean before I start Hannibal, tho 😊

[bookphile]

samreads replied to your post: I hate, hate, hate how in movies a cha...

Ugh! I hate that too. Like, I need these to see dude. And same here! I love my glasses and I look freaking fierce with them.

And it happens every single time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character keep their glasses. Or suddenly they just wear contacts all the time -- it’s like, no, that’s not how it works. Even if they got contacts, they’d still be wearing their glasses half the time until they get used to them  And/or they never actually show signs of needing glasses, like they take them off like Peter Parker after the spider bite and suddenly they got super vision or some shit. 

YES TO LOOKING FIERCE WITH GLASSES!! YAAAS!! OWN IT!

[maxevvans]

OMG JOUDIE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WONDERFUL PERSON <3

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU CUTIE <3