there’s been ‘audiobooks aren’t reading’ discourse on booktok lately (embarrassing), and in the margins of that - and also on here recently - I keep seeing this idea that reading ‘too much’ or too fast’ is bad............genuinely, who cares? how is that anyone’s business?
‘people are focusing on numbers instead of reading quality books just to post about it on social media!!!!’ do you actually know that? if an individual realises themselves that they’re doing that, and thinks it is bad....they can stop. if you are not that person how would you know?
similarly it goes hand in hand with this vitriol against skim reading - oh no! someone is reading fast and not taking in every single word! sometimes they miss things! clearly this is because they’re obsessed with showing off how many books they read in a year and they’re not comprehending anything in the books. Not, i don’t know, they’re a bookseller and it’s literally their job to know about as many different books in all sorts of genres as they can. or, maybe they just want to have a broad understanding of lots of books even if they’re not obsessed with all of them! maybe they like listening to things in the background while they work. stop treating every single book as if it’s the pinnacle of literacy that deserves your utmost attention!!! like if you can understand people can watch random movies or tv shows for fun, or in the background while they’re focusing on other things....you can understand people do that with some books too right? and it doesn’t inherently mean they do that with every book they read?
it seems to be this mindset that skim reading is like......a binary thing that you do or don’t do. Not something you can choose to do on certain books, certain chapters, certain paragraphs, and also vary the speed of your reading.. I skim read books sometimes because I know they’re not personally for me but I want to finish them so I can form a full opinion of them, or be able to recommend them to someone I know might like it. I am an illustrator and listen to audiobooks all day while I work and use the library so it’s no cost of time or money to do this a lot. and if I’m skim reading a book and then I realise I am actually loving it...get this.....I can start reading it slower. I can even read it again.
in conclusion it’s truly so embarrassing to watch people arguing about how other people consume media?
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Still tho… Imagining my scumbag parents having the hall to visit after selling me because they want something from Eren. Except where’s Eren? I just explain cheerfully that he’s working and continue to chat them up for about 30 minutes. Then he comes out of the kitchen looking so pretty in a lovely Victorian maid outfit, carrying a tray of tea and sandwiches. He keeps his head down at all times, and his hideous potty mouth has been replaced by a perfectly submissive vocabulary, like I’ve taught him 🤤
HUH????? PLEASEEEE LMFAOOOO THIS SHIT IS TOO FUNNY😭😭😭 IM PICTURING IT & IT MAKES ME SO UNCOMY😭😭😭
Man i really don't know abt this one!!! Bc CW Eren would NEVER😭 it's just not anything that would happen in this au, like at all 😭 Plus if you've read Suffocate, the dynamic between u & Eren makes it very clear that you're far from a light-hearted situation like this. And that you have no power whatsoever over him, like at all😭
But hey if it makes u happy then by all means I'm all for the sub Eren fantasies ig?
In my fics tho, this is how all my Erens are:
Zero subbiness, unfortunately!
But power to u & all the sub maid Eren lovers as well🙏🏼
Btw all the tags are in general & not directed towards u, just me speakin my thoughts lmao
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@jeoseungsaja sent in: BUT ALSO "You can tell me." (Hyurick iN THE BLACK KNIGHT VERSE 👀) || emotional vulnerability all of my muses’ worst nightmare great 🙃 ( ft. you can tell me meme )
A bitter laugh. His arm stings, a bullet having grazed it, ripping through the fabric above. It’s like a wall, wound after wound piling on top of one another. But it’s all good, the human body is meant to be regenerative- as long as he can walk and fight, he can take as many as NECESSARY.
Although perhaps the Black Knight would have preferred for the bullets to graze well, maybe lower.
Anywhere that doesn’t intersect with the burn scars. But then again, he supposes that would quite the demand- asking the bullets to avoid his arms, his shoulders, and his neck. The easiest places for someone to strike.
( The oil they poured on him trickled down like water and when the roads were paved, the FLAMES followed that path. )
It doesn’t take an expert to know they’re scars from long ago, but Hyuk would know from first glance they’re burn scars. He’s seen his fair share of burns throughout his time at Gangnam Station. That, and that young woman taking up his apartment, the one who occasionally feeds the pigeons with Myungdae, Suki, he’s probably seen her scars up close for long enough to recognize severe ones when he sees them.
“And why would you want to know? I’m not your friend. You’ve already made it very clear you couldn’t care less about what happens to me.” Well it’s the TRUTH, isn’t it? The Black Knight keeps breaking into his office, threatens to stab him on a frequent enough basis, and spits on the memory of himself Hyuk’s dear dead friend. Understandably, Hyuk would be hostile. Bitter. The only reason Hyuk doesn’t fight him on it is that the Black Knight is his only means of getting closer to the truth. Or so the detective thinks.
( Perhaps it’s getting to be that time. Breaking the partnership, for Hyuk’s SAFETY. Patrick will be alone again, but at least Hyuk will be safe. )
And yet the Black Knight averts his gaze, chastised. The hat shifts to one side- he readjusts it, finger rubbing over the brim. He shouldn’t have said that. That’s not like him, this bitterness welling up and bleeding through like an open wound.
But then again, it not like Hyuk either, showing open concern. Let alone insisting the Black Knight’s arm needs treatment.
Ironically though, it’s probably the most open Patrick has been with his dear friend in years. So Patrick can’t lie to Hyuk, even with the mask and the tall collar covering his face. That doesn’t mean he can’t withhold information or EMOTIONS for that matter.
That doesn’t count as lying. Not really.
( Pawn would point out that sounds more like an excuse. )
“You think you’re the only one with a vendetta?” He turns away sharply, ripping his arm out of Hyuk’s grasp. It burns now, unable to differentiate between current pain and GHOST of older ones. “You do realize you’re your friend wasn’t the only one ANACHRON made an example out of.”
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with ba2umia eps coming out abt every other week and taz e going back to a biweekly schedule i wish they came out on alternating weeks instead of within 24 hours of each other
n part of that is bc it would make the wait for both seem shorter but also bc then i wouldn’t have to go from being merely whelmed by the ep of taz e to going mad over whatever shit brian murphy decides to pull over in naddpod
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