and the sun was shining

Aspiring Writer | All Things Bookish | Title: Maugham | CotIG, Bros. K, Watership Down, The Sea Wolf, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Moby Dick, Of Human Bond, Woman in White, Little Women, assorted YA, historical T.E Lawrence content (60s film @scottffolliott)

[woodspurg]

40s Porter, wherein he starts scaring the shit out of the wrong people and then consequences happen 🤪

[playwrongs]

there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar

[fuchsiafoxes]

scarlett sweetheart, rhett and melanie make more sense as a couple than you and ashley

[deacons-wig-archive]

hey so your boyfriend hasn't circulated since 1996. no, yeah he's only been checked out once so I had to weed him to make room for new materials. he got donated to the Friends of the Library book sale so you can probably buy him there for three dollars. sorry about that.

[xenosaurus]

it’s a shame more vampire media doesn’t pull from vampire bat behavior because they’re such sweeties. they can only survive their incredibly specialized diet because bats will share blood with colony members that didn’t find a meal! there’s evidence that suggests the donors sometimes initiate this behavior themselves by approaching hungry bats! the colonies are mostly harems of females with a few males but they’ve been observed letting unrelated males in when it gets cold so they can all stay warm! cute little social critters!

[xenosaurus]

@yupekosi your tags have created such a beautiful world

[astromechs]

for context, bella is about to pour cheerios

[extremebookreader]

edward is the SIMP-er supreme frl

[westwingwolf]

Li Lan, you have to go while you still can. I’ll take it from here.

Who will be your lookout if I go?

I’m a Heavenly Guard, remember? I don’t need a lookout.

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: the ghost bride by yangsze choo (★★★★☆)

"I have trespassed where no living person ought to have. I have spoken with the dead, served in their houses and eaten spirit offerings. My two worlds overlap like distorted pieces of glass."

[wiltkingart]

from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

[ischleepzzz]

"But what about <thing that literally kills people>?"

[firedragon1321]

This was on a non rebloggable post so I'm setting it free.

[howly]

edward and bella's relationship is so normie but also forbidden, and it's toxic but at the same time it's healthy, it's going against your nature but finding where you were meant to be, it's about finding a love that brings you peace but that doesn't stop it from being unhinged, it's an embodiment of purity while still being horny, and y'all expect me to hate it???

[thatbirdrestaurant]

I just watched the entire Twilight series for the first time and, not to be dramatic, but I will never forgive the internet for convincing me Edward doesn’t care about Bella. That man was pathetically obsessed with her; he did not take a minute to try and die the second he thought she was dead. Man was prepared to swear off sex with his wife because he thought he hurt her. He is a boy loser.

[midnight-sunnydale]

Bella x Edward text posts part 2

[theliterarygnome]

Nooo don't turn into a dragon

and sacrifice your life for

mine you're so sexy aha...

The Ghost Bride reading experience

[itsfortheplants]

guys. I think we go too easy on edward cullen.

[midnight-sunnydale]

When does Edward Cullen Accountability Week start??? Because I am READY

[edwardskhakipants]

The problem is that I love everything that's wrong with him. Edward Cullen Accountability Week and Edward Cullen Appreciation Week are the same week.

[midnight-sunnydale]

This is absolutely true

[edwardskhakipants]

I mean I'll obviously start ... My favorite things that are wrong with Edward Cullen:

1. He's got no rizz for the entirety of Twilight. Cannot believe that Bella still likes him after All That.

2. Finds out the girl he's crushing on likes him back and his first thought is to send her to a mental hospital

3. Stalks a girl and confesses to stalking her (this charms her????)

4. Blinded by love, he makes zero good decisions in New Moon. Complete buffoonery.

5. Tortures himself and is shocked to discover that hurting himself hurts those who care about him. (this seems deeply unfair but okay...)

6. Threatens marriage at every inconvenience.

7. Does not want to fuck in honor of The Lord.

[midnight-sunnydale]

This is it, THE definitive list of all the reasons why I love Edward Cullen. Everything he's ever done wrong is also everything he's ever done right. Thank you for the delightful summary.

Also @edwardsvirtue what are you doing hiding gold in the tags??????

[midnight-sunnydale]

Edward Cullen text posts part 2

[ross-hollander]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.