Feeding My Brain Worms

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[barsilaybdroer]

daily clicks for palestine

donate to feed refugees in rafah

spreadsheet of gofundmes to evacuate families

fundraiser for esims for gaza

orgs to donate to

[zombiecowboy65]

Reading damen’s pov is like: it’s so over. We are so back. It’s so over. We’re so back. It’s so over. We’re so unbelievably back. Laurent is so smart. Laurent is so pretty. It’s so over. Laurent is a demon incapable of human emotion. We are SO back

[starsworth]

"no," said laurent. "i know exactly what it is to want to kill a man, and to wait."

[xphandelionx]

The Captive Prince trilogy is by far, hands down, the best thing I’ve read all year. Which is why I’m devastated by the fact that I cannot, in good faith, recommend it to anyone. The one person I know would read it and understand it is the person I read it with in the first place.

[birdlord5000]

next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

[birdlord5000]

"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"

I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times

[foxofninetales]

Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

And that is why we hate James Patterson.

[iheartallthethings]

I was wondering about this when i saw the first version of this post

[morganaspendragonss]

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

[rubynye]

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

[leiaorganicsolocup]

quotes i pulled from Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás because i still cannot get over that book!! ugh it was so good

"everything was so, so perfect. what else was there to do but cry?"

"I worry our Father looks at me with disappointed eyes"

"Bleed why? Why will it hurt?"

"What else could an angel be but happy?"

"What if Lucifer enjoyed hating himself?"

"I could never deny you"

"I've been kissing him, Rosiare, I've been kissing him on the lips! I don't believe God is happy about that."

"Is Father good because He is good? Or because He says He is good?"

"I waited for him, for his touch to save me"

[laurentspetals]

i just finished angels before man and i feel like i’ve experienced the most complex character development of my entire existence. lucifer’s innocence turned into rage, love turned into worship. it’s too much, too good. definitely becoming part of my personality as we speak.

[we-are-ignited]

“Don’t You Forget (Reprise)” but it’s Eli and Victor

[homunculus-argument]

I love it when fantasy stories compare and contrast different cultures that have developed different kind of approaches to the same supernatural phenomena that has the exact same mechanics everywhere.

Like there's one culture where there are Nine Types Of Mages and they all have different sprite familiars - there are nine types of sprites, hence the division. When an apprentice first tries to summon a familiar, they have to have an expert in attendance to see which kind of sprite the apprentice is summoning, and cut the ritual to sever the connection immediately if it seems like the summoned sprite is not a match to the apprentice's type - kind of like how blood types work. If the match is not right, the sprite will just kill the apprentice instead of imprinting. And then there's also a type of demon that might show up in stead of a sprite, and they just always kill the summoner because fuck you.

Then these people encounter a different culture, who also have mages - though they call them wizards, who are far more rare, feared and revered than mages back home, and they have no different types. And when asked about their sprite summoning, they have no idea that there's different types. They don't even make a difference between sprites and demons, they just call them all "spirits". And then someone's just casually like

"Yeah you summon yourself a spirit and fight it to do your bidding, and if you lose it just fucking kills you. Young wizards die nine times out of ten but that's just a risk you have to take."

"...you do not."

[icantspellthings]

Nothing more embarrassing than accidentally using a big word wrong because now I'm simultaneously both stupid and pretentious, the worst combination of all time

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[mckitterick]

information wants to be free

[tmagp-case-connections]

The Magnus Protocol Episode 49.

Case Names in Common:

✓ - Elias Bouchard: appeared in TMA as a recurring character, this is the TMAGP version of him.

Case Locations/Companies in Common:

✓ - Elric Capital Investments: Elric companies have been mentioned in episodes 35, 36, 46, and 49.

These updates have been made to the Masterdoc.

[seven-winged-liar]

AUGUST IS OVER??????

[seven-winged-liar]

my bad gang there's one more

[estrapaded]

[we-are-ignited]

Katabasis is genuinely so fun

[viperosedae]

i know it's not exactly a New take, but god i really do adore how smoothly the environments of horror-hostile cities (i am in eskew, house of leaves, tenement) are able to blend with stories about abusive relationships. like, obviously not every story with an endless liminal cityscape in it is secretly about abuse, but--

cities are supposed to be built for us. uniquely, among any enviroment humans can occupy, they are built By and For Us. they are supposed to be spaces that are Ideal for human habitation. and so if the arctic kills you, or the dead centre of an ocean, you can at least console yourself with the thought that that environment was never meant for you. it didn't hate you as you died, it simply killed you because You Were Not Meant To Be There, as impersonal as gravity.

but if a city kills you? if a city is so hostile, so unsurvivable that your mere presence there is a struggle -- that's intentional. that was designed in. and it feels like a betrayal.

this is a place that is supposed to be hospitable, and isn't. this is a place that is supposed to be a home, and can't be. and you could leave, sure, but-- you live here. you work here. you exist within the context of a place that hurts you, but you do exist within it, and leaving would be a scattering of yourself across foreign land, a place that won't be home to you. and no matter how hostile your city is, it's still a place you can live.

right?

whether the city itself loves you or not, whether it intends or not to cause you pain -- and in all of my favourite stories about this, it's always a little unclear -- it's going to keep hurting you. no matter what face it puts on, this isn't an environment you can live in. cobbled streets don't make the arctic any less cold.

so leave, or stay. the city isn't going anywhere.

[thestarsaresapphic]

listening to horror podcasts is so silly because ill be having the worst day of my goddamn life and ill be like.. you know what i need? to listen to this sad wet cat british man have an even worse day and ya know what it actually helps