Pretty boy! Everyone you draw is so pretty lmao

TYSM!!! That's very sweet of you to say! T^T <3 <3 <3

I'm piggybacking a bit off of the last ask of asking for writing tips but I have an odd question... Am I the only person that struggles actually PICKING a book? It's the absolute bane of my existence because I feel like I can be so picky... Don't get me wrong, I love being a bookworm, and I'm trying to get back into reading physical books but it's so difficult to find a real taste of what the book is like without being completely spoiled or something... I miss when backs of books had an actual summary and not just NO.1 NEW YORK BESTSELLER!!!! It's so frustrating... I've been trying to get back into it by re-reading fond chapter childhood books read to me (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & A Wrinkle In Time). But at the same time I'm also trying to get into more "adult" books that isn't... Well, you try googling "adult books" and see how that goes, I didn't think too hard about what a poor decision THAT was. But I'm working up the courage to read Cat's Cradle right now to start with "Classic Authors" I guess!

Anyway I'm rambling here, I guess my question is... How do you pick out the books you read? I don't really have friends that read many books to recommend to me :')

Thank you in advance, Bog! I hope you get a callback from that interview soon!

no ok actually you've mentioned something that's been bothering me for a while - What The Hell Do Y'all Mea, Books Don't Have Summaries Anymore???? i have not once in my life found a book that didn't have a summary. i was in barnes & noble recently and everything i looked at had a summary. i have literally never seen a book without one in my life of reading & looking at new books on a regular basis

softcovers have theirs on the back. hardcovers are on the inside of the sleeve - lift the cover and it should be printed right there on the inside flap! summaries aren't legally required but both the author and Especially the publisher(s) know that no one's gonna buy a book without a summary. trust me, all books worth reading have a summary. if a book doesn't have one, it's probably not worth your time anyway. you just gotta know where to look!

so my answer to how i choose books... i read the summary lmao. if it seems interesting, ill either write it down to get later or ill get it there and then.

Before the summary though, i look for any titles that jump out at me from the shelf. then i look at the thickness. i like a bit of meat in my literature, so i tend to shy away from thinner books. thicker ones grab my attention more easily. then i look at the cover - if it interests me, then ill read the summary. i don't have specific tastes in title or cover. as long as it makes my brain "hm" thoughtfully, ill take a gander!

and really, if you have access to a bookstore (chain or not, ive found plenty of bangers in tiny used bookshops) or library, the best way to find a book is to physically browse. even if you dont buy anything, you can take pictures of books / write them down to buy online. but going to the store lets you search them out, examine the length, cover, title, summary - and easily put it back on the shelf or keep it. i hate shopping online bc there's ads, you can't examine the product, nothing really stands out since it's all portrayed similarly, there's limited pictures instead of the physical thing, and photos can lie.

plus, everything is (typically) meticulously sorted by genre & age range. when you go into a section with literature aimed at adults, you'll find exactly that instead of smut novels lmao. real life bookstores can be more accurate than online searches. & there's just something so good about walking through shelves, searching for that one book before you know it exists, smelling the paper... yeah...

yeah sure that's how i'll [re]come out

augh speaking of doing cute stuff w ur friends I'm thinking of when my friend n her bf took me out to dinner and paid for my movie ticket 🥺 i wanted to at least pay for snacks or somethn but i just got us some popcorn to share n they still got more of their own stuff.

i love to feel taken care of ૮ – ﻌ–ა ♡⁠

would y’all be mad if i played the globetrotter challenge before finishing the bachelor challenge

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It’s been forever, I miss hockeyblr and tumblr in general 🥺

hoyo: "long-term hard combat stuff gives our players anxiety uwu"

what actually gives players anxiety: events that take a lot of time that are only around for a week or two, having to run an artifact domain 4854615451 times to get one good piece for their fave character, losing 50/50s on a character they rly want (and yeah I get that that's what encourages people to spend money, but if there's no money babe what do u think happens? they stop playing cause they're sad/pissed off/frustrated lol)

what for sure wouldn't cause anxiety in normal players: a fully optional endgame combat domain that actually shows off all the hard work people put into their characters

Sploon rant or whatever 🧍🏿🚶🏿

Alright anyway so the new season hasnt begun yet every pro player and their mamas are already calling half the new weapons bad, or 'idk if it would work :('. And not bc of like "idk if this weapon has synergy with the kit" or anything its just people looking at the kit and deciding its gonna suck bc it doesnt have a bomb and Kraken

Angle shooter is a good utility sub if you actually fuckin learn to use it. Ink mine is a good utility sub if you actually fuckin learn to use it. Ink vac and super chump are good if you actually fuckin learn to use them. Begging for kraken and bombs on every weapon isnt gonna make them good all of a sudden. Actually give different kits a chance instead of being thrown off that theyre not throwbacks from the previous games or whatever.

Like in a game thats all about endless possibilities the weapons can give you its just annoying seeing the same complaints about the same fuckin parts of kits that people dont even bother to try until further down the line, THEN theyre like "oh yeah nvm this isnt so bad" like ofc it isnt you just had to actually learn it first!!! That and literally anyone can find more than one weapon that fits their play style so sticking to the Tried and True meta weapons while calling everything new trash makes things pointless bc youre not even fuckin tryinggggg just give shit a chance first man

Guess who's broken a new sims record (played the same sims family on TWO separate days)

Living room:

Still a little cluttered, but so much FLOOR SPACE without all the many many plastic bags :D

Kitchen:

Similarly still cluttered, but the floors are clear and there's no longer a mound of bowls molding in the sink! :D

Bedroom:

.......

We can't win everything.

I fucking hate liking something around the same age as me. What the fuck. Is it so much to ask for a CD? Is it really? Gee brain, im soooOooOOoo sorry that my impulse control actually starts functioning as intended when the price of something is more than $50 im s o o o sorry. Smh.

one thing I will be doing is having travel anxiety (woot)

istg either i drastically changed or the bls got so drastically worse than they used to be

man this tuesday was entirely fuckin hectic at work, it almost wasn't worth the monday holiday (;ತ_ʖತ) but istg replies and posts and such soon darlings [pls read that in an extra vic fuentes accent] hope y'all are doing alright <3

gamer guys really need to start drinking brain juice instead of their gamer juice (whatever energy and gamer drinks they are on) bc their trash talk is absolutely tiring