Does our level of emotional investment in our favourite Gazan journalists' wellbeing constitute a parasocial relationship, or is that only if we get creepily invested in their love lives or smth.

P L E A S E ~🎃

some books truly do not need sequels but that a story isn't necessary doesn't always make it bad; i've said this before but stories are not perfectly calibrated plot-exporting machines, sometimes taking a side-road is fun simply because it is possible, sometimes it will add to your understanding in a way you didn't think to question, sometimes it's simply pleasurable to revisit the lives of characters you care for

"Is that Hobie Brown " @ any piece of art/picture with a dark skin dread head.

..NEVERMIND THE FACT IF THE OUTFIT OR HAIR ISNT AT ALL SIMILIAR. yall are so fucking stupid, I SWEAR.

I'm pretty sure you'd KNOW if it was Hobie. Like holy shit, yall act like his design is generic, no he doesn't look like every dark skin man with dreads.

This was commented under a damn fanart of JJK and someone draw Geto as black, like..he looked nothing like Hobie 🤨, it was so obvious who he was.

“This tall smoking cup is right.” Is there something you want to tell us BATIM Bendy?/HIHISHA JK JK

I found it necessary to say that joke for some reason LAMO!

PLELSLSLSL

nothing irritates me more than professors who give out busy work. please go to hell jail. immediately.

I know you're probably busy and focused on Roots right now (which I love so much god bless your doomed heart that wrote that fic) but is it too soon to ask when we will have more of Death of the Dusk?? I'm a simp for Jasper's dumb little head and it's even MORE dumb when he doesn't know/denies he's in love

anon I need you to know that I literally went to sleep thinking about the death of dusk last night BECAUSE i'm currently slowwwwly reading CotN to my roommate (it's a painful fucking process because god does it need an overhaul) and I needed to think of my Objectively Better Writing afterward. both as a palate cleanse and to make myself feel better about how I just assumed a fic from 2009 (CotN) would only need minimal changes/fixes to be Good (aka the 2018/19 version—psssst, I was wrong)

I had DoD on the mind because I was thinking about how spitting another chappy or two of that out this year might be a fun little exercise while I rewrite CotN!!! so while I can't give you any guess as to when that might be, I have finally OFFICIALLY started putting words onto paper in the CotN universe to finally continue that damn series this year. so its finally happening babydoll ♡

also I'm glad you love roots! I love roots too! I just finished reading the entirety of the current draft to my (same) roommate!! (well, I only read acts 5 and 6 to them but it was still a LOT.) talk about a morose bedtime story but they had as much fun as me apparently!!! thanks for telling me that you like it bc I quite literally am obsessed with that story ♡♡♡

coach - heart crossbody in colorblock - gold/true pink multi

like this was way too intense for a motherfucking opening 💀

I intend to start reading The Secret History soon, when I finish my studies. Could you give me your brief opinion about the book? I'm genuinely curious to hear your opinion

i've read TSH about three times now, front to back, and have to say that it does find its rightful place among my favorite books of all time — despite its occasionally disconcerting, highly questionable contents.

it's the dark academia book, that is no secret. in this way, it's an aesthetic gateway drug to many (me included), which i can only express my gratitude for, because i love the atmosphere and the setting and the mystery of it all. the plot is a captivating and striking one, as are the characters, as is the writing — well fleshed-out and outlined, creatively unwound, concluded on such a sudden, stunning note. masterful, even if with its handful of pretentiously-shaded references (specifically regarding the classics and antique history) that one may need a dictionary or an encyclopaedia to fully comprehend. but then again, it's so in line with the genre, isn't it? it's almost self-aware in that way. once again — masterful.

here comes the big however, however: the amount of extremely unnecessary passages (which are defined by either political incorrectness or simply distasteful matters) is — and i am serious about the term — ridiculous. i, in cold blood, detest some of donna tartt's contentual choices in TSH. some of these passages you simply read and are forced to lean back and think, why? why was that necessary? what does that contribute to the plot?

the absolute same goes for the goldfinch, jesus fuck — that book aggravated me even more in that regard, because the story and the development thereof was set up so carefully and masterfully, and then it all came crashing down by virtue of those unnecessary, plainly disrespectful parts that lack both tact and cultural awareness (and in the year of 2013, too!). but, y'know, i'm getting carried away here.

the point, concisely, reads: tartt writes unlike anyone else, sharply and compellingly, but boy does she know how to ruin a moment. i do not like her; i like the ideas that she once had and consequently developed into her novels, i like the characters she made up and nurtured, i like her eloquence and knowledge in her specific area of expertise. but that is all. that woman is an enigma to me.

sid & avis or sid & horatio?

Help me with my boy lol

Sid & Avis part 2 :3

I did part 1 over here but these two have a lot going on:

She knows way more about him than he does about her, because her policy has long been to be beholden to no one. If he asked, she'd probably tell him, but he rarely asks (he's caught up in his own stuff for sure but also if Avis doesn't feel like telling him stuff that's her business). She was also there for his teen years and got to experience firsthand parts of his life that in hers she'd rather forget. I guess the only time she's more communicative is when she's sailing with someone, because not only are they in the same space for days or weeks at a time, they have to coordinate what they're doing. Sid doesn't know the first thing about sailing, though, so she also has her work cut out for her. She struggles a little bit with him not being like her and not approaching his parents as a couple of emotional freeloaders who should be thrown out on their asses. But when he says jump ("help me figure out how they've been lying to me") she says how high ("get in the boat we're going to Diobos"). Unfortunately, if he doesn't say jump, she's not always around. She never has been, but he low key thought that when they got back to Rade she wouldn't just keep sailing off whenever, because she wouldn't be avoiding Emma and Donovan. Isn't she supposed to be his emotional support? Whereas she knows he has that handled with his whole weird friend's family.

Sid & Horatio

Horatio adores Sid, and this is only somewhat because he's had 16 years of non-contact to build him into a concept of the ideal friend. Sid surprise coming to live with him is THE most exciting thing that has happened to him, maybe ever. While he considers Marcus equally as much a best friend as Sid, he and Sid have a much longer history, given that they went to school together until Sid moved to Ensaum. Sid finds Horatio comforting, but in his current exhausted state, also tiring as fuck. As he uncovers things about his parents he also slightly resents Horatio for having perfectly good parents (and an extra bonus dad??) because why couldn't he have some too? Aside from being constantly distracted by work, Horatio also isn't really sure how to help Sid, because of a lack of personal experience and because he doesn't want it to come through that he's a little disappointed that Sid is not the same upbeat person he was even in his letters. Unfortunately what he feels is a minor disappointment in the situation Sid easily magnifies into a broad personal attack, and neither of them realize they are not on the same page. He also feels like Horatio does not truly grasp the tragedy of him having lost all of Horatio's letters. Still, despite all of the challenges, Sid feels that being here with Horatio & family is the most like being home he's felt in a long time.

I’m sorry but this is a FANTASTIC look

WHY WON'T THE GRANT NASHS LEAVE AMIR ALONE

i'm not even done with the new rwd episode but. spoilers ahead

anyway funny thing. i wasn't like, super on board with the professionals when i was first binging through the first 3 seasons and especially once we got to season 3 i tunnel visioned on VR-LA and MR-SN super hard (as is probably extremely obvious from my art) but like. 4.5?? the exchange they had??? the fucking breakup scene???? yeah. yeah i get it now. i have no idea why or what changed but i have now Gotten It at the worst possible timing. what the hell

"Anyone who said we should vote for jobiben should be ASHAMED" okay who should we vote for instead. the other fascist? the one whose party loves genocide just as much if not more? yeah what a great and cool point u made. is hasanabi gonna suck ur dick now? are you getting a good grade in online leftist