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A PORN BOT UNFOLLOWED ME?

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

You’re a monster

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.

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Keefe is actually more emotionally mature and less problematic on this KOTLC reread than I expected which I think says a lot about the fics I write

It is so human and so not romance novel that after Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice reads Mr. Darcy's letter and accepts that Wickham was the real villain and not him, her reaction is not, "Oh no, I loved and lost him!" it's "Oh shit, I fucked up! I hope I never see that man again in my entire life."

i feel like a lot of the hate towards keefe would be fixed by forcing people in this fandom to learn the definition of grooming and if i see one more post about him and alvar im gonna lose my mind

unpopular opinion ik but i actually love flowery. so much. and i love all of chapter 5 so much

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

anyways interesting that while the metanarrative of the princess bride (1987) is one of all-american nostalgia, the metanarrative of the novel is specifically of an immigrant story. the story itself has a meandering half-folktale, half-memory sense of time and place (set before europe but after stew, shortly after the invention of america but long after the invention of fortunes). florin, geographically located in roughly the area of poland, is framed as the homeland of both s. morgenstern and the goldman family, and the “original novel,” s. morgenstern’s paean to the history and culture of his left-behind home, is pared down to bare bones by two generations of goldmans as the florinese-american fathers try to adjust it to appeal to their increasingly americanized sons. hell, the inciting incident of the narrative is when westley “gambled on america and lost,” returning home changed beyond recognition—but he is able to return and to parlay that loss into victory, the way william goldman-the-character’s father is never able to. super interesting stuff