since I started watching Masters of the Air and getting really invested in it WWII related things just started showing up everywhere, there's no chance that those were just freakish accidents, it happens wayyy too much for that??? (no one gives a fuck I just needed to get this out)

at a concert by myself and so happy to see so many other people here (that seem to be) by themselves!

Yooo you played in the school orchestra? What instrument(s) do you play? :D

i'm not in school anymore (that was years ago) but i went down the piano -> violin -> string bass -> cello pipeline! still have my 19 year old cello (mikey) and my 22 year old violin (sherry). i play them every now and then when i have the time :)

does anyone else get disproportionately stressed out by being given a book they already own. it's like... objectively not a big deal! i can give it away! but also somebody thought of me, and spent money on me, and i cannot benefit from the thing they have given me (even though they objectively got something right because it interests me enough to have bought it already) so i feel both ungrateful and also a little sad that i do not get a new book (and then feel guilty for being sad because i was not, like, entitled to a new book) and oh no those are bad emotions and a gift should be good emotions, help

i gotta speed run the entire trials of apollo series NO ONE tell my little sister if she asks yeah I totally read them a while back I'm definitely not frantically reading them after years of sitting on my shelf just for her <3

I got a bunch of Jancy Polaroids along a bulletin board in my room. Except for the season 4 set. Cause I ran out of tape. I bought more tape, but in that time, that piece became a bookmark. So now it is marking my place in book 23 of The Odyssey. Why do I do this?

my brain has decided i should try reading Game of Thrones again 💀

Heartbreaking News: Girl Accidentally Buys Comic Book She Already Owns

i've been trying to read any books etherane has mentioned in hc that i haven't read already and it's been so fun

my niece is being induced today, i still can’t believe she’s having a baby, like the little girl will be here within the next couple days 🥹😭😭

I’m two books away from the halfway point of my global reading challenge!!! 😭😭😭

My purchases are way too easily influenced by the media I consume

Sticker book time! I got the book itself and the first two stickers from @lespiritdesigns and I couldn’t be happier!

My neighbors fucking suck

the post thats like "as a bette enjoyer i understand jason likers just making stuff up but dont you want something good dont you want something that delivers" is so goofy like. yeah i fucking do and i want jason to deliver it

“The Poppy War” by RF Kuang is awesome. Everyone knows that. I don’t need to say more.

I am amazed that I have been hearing about this book non-stop since it came out and not once did anyone tell me it had supernatural/magic elements. I totally thought this was extremely low fantasy. It took me off guard when I realized that the otherworldly was going to be a big part of the story, but I wasn’t mad about it.

One thing about this book that really impressed me was how it teaches the reader the lore. I struggle with lore-heavy stories a lot, and I find that long paragraphs with nothing but lore in it is the fastest way for a story to lose me. I actually kept up with the lore dumps in the first part of the book, but that may have been due to my starting the book while stuck at an airport with nothing to do.

Craft-wise, I really liked how short many of the scenes within chapters would be. Kuang is really good at information economy and will only give out the minimum details she needs for a scene, which may mean that some scenes are just characters talking with no descriptions of where this conversation is taking place. This is a skill I definitely need to get better at myself, so hopefully adopting it into my writing style will go more smoothly than I fear it will