Hey what's your opinion on booktok

Anon I am so glad you asked >:3

I think it's shallow and built predominantly on an aesthetic of being a "bookworm". It's hoarding books and colour coding them for pinterest moodboards but never reading them.

It's full of people who think fanfiction and stories like hairy potty and twit-light should be studied in school and considered high art. I'm sometimes unlucky enough to see the odd booktok in my aimless scrolling of the internet during my commute and. I am so. I want to reach through the screen and shake these tiktokkers until they read a book with an actual synopsis on the back instead of vague reviews.

It's like. The people who mowed through kids fiction when they were 12 but haven't read a book since and make it their whole personality. Nothing they say is ground breaking or new but somehow it is always, always stupid.

These are people who put Hayloft Mother Mother on character playlists for every character from Bambi to Zorro. They fundamentally are anti intellectual to the point where they go full circle and conduct essays about why these two white people with personalities like sandpaper should fuck raw for sixty pages. And then they act like you're the dumb ones for not ass kissing their lukewarm watered down game of thrones novel 🙄

I think at this point you gotta be honest with yourself and ask "what do I want from my reading?" And if the answer to that question is "self indulgent freaky nasty sex and romance and luxury"? Boy do I have a genre for you. It's called romance. And not just any old romance, the kind specifically for repressed women with shitty sex lives and a desire for more.

Like bestie you don't have to be out here pretending to be some scholar of modern literature if all you wanna do is read self indulgent magic fantasy rags to riches porn. Admit it! That's okay! Embrace it!

Anyway I do think some of the moodboards are pretty. Love me some timber furniture with sunlight streaming in over a stack of books with droopy house plants on your windowsill. But girl at this point, are you really a bookworm if all you do is post tiktoks of your books that you never read? Or are you just a poser?

In conclusion: fuck tiktok, especially fuck booktok and I think everyone on that accursed app needs to delete it and get a hobby. A physical one. Like gardening or crafts or singing or rhythmic flexing. I don't care just get off that damned app.

If you ever see me on tiktok just know that's not me. That's my evil alien plant clone sent to take over the world one shitty viral post at a time.

One of my favorite tiktok mutuals made a video that felt very directed at me about stranger things and how none of the fans research the aids epidemic and blah blah blah. I’m an indigenous queer transman. I’ve researched the aids crisis extensively. I’ve also been going down the rabbit hole about monkeypox (even tho it’s NOT an STD) like I want to scream so loud rn. And so many comments were like “yall wanna talk about the Hanky code but not anything else”. You don’t think as a gay man I haven’t done my research?? They made me feel bad about writing Steddie fanfic when me having like Steve Harrington hair last year as a previously non-binary person made me realize I was trans. And now I just feel guilty even trying to work on my fanfic. I can both like something and be aware there’s problematic aspects to it.

I just saw a tiktok comment section where people were recognizing David Tennant as “that guy from Harry Potter”

I’m horrified and the authorities will be notified of this

i am (unfortunately) on tiktok now and i hate it So much...

My Roman Empire this, my Roman Empire that,

Well they’re my Burning of the Library of Alexandria

*inhales* tumblr is not worth it anymore

Yet another candid from that day in Bogota

Via: ???

Endeavor from BNHA is a prime example of how fandom trying to shield characters from (rightful) hate will only generate more hate toward the said characters.

Because I binge-watched the show before stepping foot in the fandom and even though I began this show hating Endeavor, he was actually starting to grow on me since his plot-line was one of the most interesting parts of the show and at certain points I even thought his “awkward dad” moments were kinda endearing? Then I looked around and saw an army of people who are so damn eager to swiftly forgive Endeavor for everything wrong he has ever done and shield him from any type of criticism, which includes shifting all the blame to his own wife & children and suddenly what little affection I had for this character is gone and now I’m back to hating him again.

Like you do realize that this is a grown middle aged man who has been emotionally and physically abusing his wife (who’s really more of a stay-at-home surrogate) and children for 25 years straight and has only turned a new leaf in-universe for only half a year max? It doesn’t matter how much you like his character, LET PEOPLE GO OFF ON HIM IF THEY WANT TO!!! You trying so hard to victimize him or to victim-blame his family for all his abuse will just make people hate him even more.

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“he’s a red flag!”

“he’s a green flag!”

baby gurl i dont care. as long as:

1. the story is very interesting.

2. the characters are well written

then that’s all that matters to me.

tiktok is the bad place for TBOSAS 💀

i need to start a collection of spideypool fics that are awful fanfic because they bare no resemblance to wade and peter but in fact scratch the house wife inch in my brain for trashy romance novels

Hey Stranger Things fandom imma need you to flame this with me because literally what in the bugfuck is this 😃??????

When will the majority of Americans realize that our country is one of the most parasitic and blood-soaked empires in history, that it’s very bones are those of the indigenous people and of slaves, and that the lifeblood that has sustained it is that of innocent people from other countries, who it terrorizes without impunity because they cannot take action against a distant leviathan entity with hoarded resources at its disposal? That it deliberately sows discord among its own people so that it can scapegoat and exploit those of us who it has deemed Undesirable and Undeserving of said hoarded resources? That its hold over media output deliberately reinforces the idea of Americans as the Everyman and everyone else as the Other, that the suffering of millions of people, yes, actual flesh-and-blood people around the world is a direct result of our egocentric nationalism and complacency?

The way that tiktok has normalised not only filming people without their consent but then uploading it to potentially millions of viewers is… I don’t like it

Sometimes those little fictional characters inside your brain take's control of you, and you spend 2 hours inside your own head thinking about little scenarios about them. And that's ok...