The Book Lover's Coffeehouse

[thebookloverscoffehouse]

Introductory Post

I realized that I never did one of these, so here it goes.  My name is Washington Irving (yes that is an alias, I don’t feel comfortable announcing my name).  I am a 20 something year old woman (she/her/hers pronouns) who loves books, coffee, dogs, and Star Trek.

Places to find me:

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Storygraph

Rednote

[ravencharm]

75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it

[windwardstar]

It is. In case you were wondering. Your story is worth the effort you are putting into it. It’s an amazing thing because you are writing it.

[roseandsalt]

[blahwithasideofblah]

Me, literally every year: I wonder if my good friend Jonathan Harker has escaped his time loop yet. Jonathan, literally every year: Left Munich at 8:35 P. M Me: JONATHAN NO!!!

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think another reason I could never be a YouTuber professionally is that you’ve kind of gotta make enough money to last you the rest of your life for when you inevitably have a sharp decline in popularity and/or burn out so hard that you can’t do it anymore and in order to do that most of the time you need to take sponsorships. And I just really don’t wanna lie about how much I love VPN company for money. All VPN does the same thing basically so why on God’s green earth would I pretend like I enjoy this company better than the other ones?

[mellowmagpie]

viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams

[dachosmin]

This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.

[thebookloverscoffehouse]

It's actually like 80% him opening the door at Helms Deep

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[synnthamonsugar]

The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"there's no such thing as the dark side of the moon" yes there is. the dark side of the moon isn't always the same parts of the moon, but whatever side of the moon is facing away from the sun is dark. imagine saying "there's no dark side of the earth" when billions of people are experiencing nighttime at any given moment. shut up Neil

[drchucktingle]

OH NO. RUN LITTLE BUCKAROO. after very successful hardcover, just heard that camp damascus paperback is trottin into its FIFTH printing today. LOVE IS REAL FOR AUTISTIC AUTHORS WRITING AUTISTIC CHARACTERS WITH AUTISTIC VOICES LETS HECKIN TROT

[tastefullyoffensive]

[roachpatrol]

i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight

[ayellowbirds]

And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”

[it-is-bugs]

I will reblog this on my deathbed.

[huggableotter-deactivated202010]

Please let him science 🐧

[mrshamill]

i think at least half of the million reblabs on this are from me

[ekjohnston]

There is an international treaty that says we’re supposed to stay 6m away from penguins, and it’s really difficult because no one told the penguins, and they all desperately want to wander up and say hi.

[mala-taste]

Good for them!

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"

like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"

that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.

y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't

[homunculus-argument]

"Don't speak ill of the dead" my ass. If you didn't want people talking shit about you when you're no longer there to defend yourself, you should've been a better person.

[bisquid]

I always took it to mean, like, don't bitch about Mrs. Obnoxious in front of her grieving children, not 'you can't say anything bad about a dead person ever' but let me tell you some people really do seem to take the latter approach and it's EXHAUSTING. "don't speak ill of the dead" are Ronald Reagan's descendants in this room right now?

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[vixensdungeon]

What if there was a mysterious hole in the ground that you could explore with your friends, finding danger and excitement, fearsome monsters and wondrous treasures?

No, surely not. Such a thing could never be.

[vixensdungeon]

[ramblinneutralfungus]

Really tearing into the D&D community today huh?

[vixensdungeon]

I haven’t had people be mad at me for something dumb for a while, gotta maintain my rep. Also I just yearn for the hole.