My orlanâs portrait, revisited
Anonymous asked:
Other than the Bell at Sealey Head, have you read any other good books recently?
I'm actually a very irregular reader (trying to fix that) so recently can be as far back as few months to a year for me but with that said the most recent stuff I enjoyed was The Dry Heart, My Tender Matador & Between Two Fires. :--)
How were 80s vampire movies gayer than the vampire movies of today and all we had back then were crumbs of subtext and a dream
So close to done đ I want to know the end but I donât want this book to end. Iâm just glad my bad book streak is broken for now though
Edit: I finished it I am sooo sad đ I want more of this world and characters.
Anonymous asked:
I hate the feel of sunscreen and the only one that has ever seemed to soak in without being greasy and still work for me is the neutrogena 30spf one that's for your face but i just put it on everywhere. I have no idea if this is a good suggestion or if you can get it where you live so im sorry and good luck also
Same itâs usually all so slimy and shiny on me. Neutrogena is one of the few brands I hear about more often online that we actually have around here so Iâll check it out, thanks!
Anonymous asked:
is there any pattern in the popular books you dislike? old, newer, writing styles? genre? we gotta get you outta bad book time
I looked through my reading history and I can't find a pattern, it's always something different đ but it's mostly been modern lit released in the last few years.
But I had a period up until very recently where I predominantly read dreary contemporary/literary fiction, and somehow I always picked up books with very surface level kiddie pool baby's first leftist politics type of writing. Good 4 people just getting into those topics I guess (when the book actually handled them well) but they did nothing for me! I also noticed that in a lot of them, the main character/s spent lengthy passages monologuing as if they were holding a podium lecture of the book's events, rather than living through them. That kinda detached, self-aware, "I've been to therapy about my problems and can clearly articulate all my issues with [x thing]" type of writing that feels like the book is beating you over the head with The Point and can very much have parts clipped out and inserted into a contextless tumblr web-weaving post just because they sound "cool" or "powerful" (or the author thinks they do). Idk if that makes sense. I prefer books where the central thesis isn't stated outright but is instead shown through the characters' actions/interactions/reactions and plot progression. Anyway I'm not discounting the whole genre but I've banned myself from it for now so I can recover.
That aside it's usually that I've had problems with cliche/bad plot twists, flat characterisation, multi-part books where the first book is just an overextended prologue (looking at the fantasy genre rn), and so forth.. but ik a lot of these can be subjective.
I'm hard to please, but damn it there's gotta be a modern popular book out there that I like.
#i also dont mind reflective monolgues but most of these ppl r not as poignant as they think they r!#a lot of these authors sound like they went to the twitter/tumblr masterclass for âand we were holy holy holyâ ripoffs.#honestly all of this could be boiled down to ââi can feel the substack article in this bookââ#text
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I understand the size difference fans who want to be destroyed by a hugetall bitch but whereâs the rep for us regular-sized bitches trying to wreck a hugetall bitch. Whenever I top my bf I feel like a terrier trying to make it with a great dane and I want to see my experiences reflected by big media
That said I also need to see the part where weâre just settling down to have a good nightâs rest and in that exact moment when Iâm on the cusp between wakefulness and the sweetest dream Iâll ever have a man the size of a draft horse rolls over onto me in his sleep and crushes half of my internal organs to dust. He also throws his arm out and smacks my nose concave into my skull
This book suddenly going into classic fantasy novel food description territory when Iâm at my most starved at work with lunch break still an hour away is some sort of cosmic punishment
Idk whatâs wrong with me but I keep having a bad time with books that r almost unanimously considered amazing by everyone else
I opened the front door this morning and a cockroach immediately crawled into our apartment like some kind of animal crossing situation
Went to the bookstore to take advantage of a sale, got a big discount coupon for the book fair going on, went to the same book store at the fair to use the coupon and they gave me a bigger coupon for in-store so I went back to the bookstore to use it. Final haul, cat for scale (she tried to eat the boxset)
Lost a couple of my white hairs all at once during the last shower and my bf is now making fun of me because my wizard powers have diminished :â/
So bored at work im drawing the worldâs wonkiest skulls in paint
Iâm bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book youâre currently reading.
Ihate that ppl seem to need everything explained to them in clear block letter print and need all art to have a clearly conveyed Point like âif I canât immediately innately understand the Meaning of this art piece it is worthlessâ or âPeople shouldnât have to think too hard to figure out the Meaning of an art pieceâ, âArt that doesnât look âbeautifulâ to me in the traditional sense is a scamâ Iâm gonna
Hi, i neED you to remember a song you recommended once, please. i donât remember anything abt it other than the album being a greyish pale blue and i think there was some dry/dead tree roots on it, or the name of the band being in the style of dead roots
I think you said you were listening to it at work and you didnât like it much, so this might be why you deleted the post, but i keep trying to find it and itâs driving me crazyđ
I think it might've been Finsterforst - Jenseits! :-) I had a... fraught relationship w/ this album because I listened to it for 5 straight hours at work and got a bad association lmao but then it became something like my dark horse of 2023 and I kept replaying it obsessively for weeks afterwards, & now I love it. (I think the specific song I posted is the first in the album).
If that's not it, I might be able to pinpoint the song if you remember anything abt what it sounded like or what genre/s it might've fallen into? My memory's absolutely terrible about album covers since I listen to so many new things all the time;
I bought a small bottle of the sticky dates shower gel from lush ages ago and Iâve slowy been refilling it since because whenever I pass by the store I go in and make a big show of smelling it and chat with the girlies a bit and they always give me a free sample that I just dump back into the bottle at home