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Des | She/They Current Read: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits Current Watch: Devil May Cry Multi-fandom blog (mostly books) and lots of memes.

[theultimatemrsstein]

Update: Turtles All The Way Down was pretty good! I don’t have any real review on it except that I loved the mental health representation and it honestly gave me perspective on my own unrealistic thought patterns I battle.

Now analyzing The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and honestly I’m loving fitting in these short reads for the class this summer versus having decision fatigue from my own TBR. Anyway theme essay here I come.

[theultimatemrsstein]

Started reading Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (for a YA Lit. Class) and this actually will be my first John Green book. As someone who was recently diagnosed, the OCD representation hits close to home. Only a few chapters in and I’m interested to see where it goes.

[geekynerfherder]

'Eo from Red Rising' by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme.

Cover art for the new deluxe edition of the novel, 'Red Rising', book 1 of the 'Red Rising' saga, written by Pierce Brown, published October 2025.

[paancakeenthusiast]

The reaper aka Darrow from Red Rising!

[pvtal]

Diomedes and Sevro my favourite war criminals

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[theultimatemrsstein]

Red Rising by Pierce Brown 4/5⭐️

When I wasn’t reading this book I was consistently thinking about it and couldn’t wait to finish. This was my first time reading sci-fi in a good while and I’m so glad I chose this one!

Darrow’s character is passionate and full of rage (we love a character ready to overthrow their government). I’ve read reviews mentioning that his character is a little too perfect. But I would beg to differ. His biggest flaw is also what gives him strength; rage. He even admits so in the end of the book, he is quick to anger. I state later that his roadblocks were overcome quickly and I believe some of those hindrances were of his own doing. Thus making him flawed in ways that we can almost relate to. I love that even though he speaks so maturely through most of the novel, we can still see his age through his emotions and rash decisions. It was jarring at times to see such a contrast.

Even though it started off with a dramatic loss for Darrow, which aids in the beginnings of character development, we don’t see much after that. Once he’s at the institute many of his failings or shortcomings end up with a solution pretty quickly. That isn’t meant to minimize the gore and trauma, especially what the other students went through. I just think that many roadblocks he encountered were overcome easily and conveniently.

I enjoyed Brown’s writing style and found it easy to read, even with the world building and new terminology thrown out in the beginning. I was able to catch on but some things I had a difficult time with. I still don’t completely understand the difference in highLingo and midLingo? I can make an assumption that it has to do with formality but I couldn’t really tell when characters spoke to each other. Eventually with more description I was able to figure out what a slingBlade and other tech was. I liked the sentence structure and dialogue between characters. It was easy to read and the plot kept my attention the whole way. I truly enjoyed the story telling.

[artscoma]

rip ronan lynch you would've loved to tell everyone you know "the pope said i have to bomb openai data centers"

[aru-kii]

Sevro the stinky goblin has dug a hole inside my brain and I can’t stop thinking abt him

Impatiently waiting for a friend so we can start golden son together

Some background practice [background referenced from Pinterest]

[ouroborosesque]

something about augustus condemning eo to death with the phrase "hang the rusty bitch lest she continue to howl" and then darrow's freedom fighters being known as howlers… yeah i think abt that a lot

[rylandsgrace]

Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[thoughtcascades]

i try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything

[incorrect-batfam-quotes-mostly]

Bruce: Today I realised I'm old

Clark: What happened?

Bruce: I fell in the kitchen and instead of laughing, all my kids came running to see if I was ok

Clark:

Bruce: I saw fear in their eyes

[falseficus]

nevertheless, we ball

[herrmit]

dan da dan

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

I can literally hear this.

[celluzu]

"You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me.

[respectissexy]

One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)