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Audiobook discourse is fascinating but also deeply annoying because, when someone says “listening to audiobooks isn’t reading,” they could mean anything from “it’s literally a different act from reading words on a page” to “the narrator and their choices influence how you perceive the work so it’s a different experience from reading” to “I’m concerned that people will think audiobooks are an adequate substitute for books written in Braille or a similar system” to “I’m concerned that people will think audiobooks are an adequate substitute for helping children and adults who struggle with reading comprehension” to “I don’t like audiobooks because I assume they’re the province of the lazy” to “I just saw a BookTok influencer talk about how they Consume copious amounts of Dark Romance by listening to audiobooks at double speed and the audiobooks are always from Audible, never the library, and also they asked ChatGPT to give them a list of fast fashion items to buy with their gambling money instead of voting.” And if you argue with the last two groups of people that they’re engaging in baseless unexamined snobbery and/or overgeneralizing, people from the other groups simply will not consider that you’re not disagreeing with their interesting and valid but not, at this moment, terribly relevant points.

#read the room!#or Consume it

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godlessondheimite

can we stop using “being unapologetically loud and taking up space” as the ultimate expression of joy and self-expression? i think the pendulum needs to swing back to maintaining mindful and moderate volume and being spatially considerate of others and being apologetic when necessary. no offense but i think everyone alive rn has the loudness and taking up space thing covered. if this breaks containment, i am sure everyone will be normal about the wording of this post and will have normal and good faith interpretations of it.

#my husband got a colonoscopy and this couple in the waiting room kept BLASTING a video of what sounded like a drunken argument #and I couldn’t put on my headphones because I had to listen for the staff to call me when the procedure was done #I think it’s okay for people to pause the joyful self-expression in the colonoscopy waiting room #also people are always playing TikToks in restaurants that already have bad loud music playing #it’s too many bad sounds!!!#the mass of men are living lives of NOISY desperation

maddie-grove

I saw a post that was complaining about three different ships that the OP didn’t like, and I’m still thinking about the OP’s choice to criticize all three pairings by saying that they had “no basis in canon” when:

Pairing #1 canonically had a fairly straightforward and unsexy antagonistic relationship that didn’t get a ton of narrative focus;

Pairing #2 had a significant, complex, and ultimately positive relationship that was canonically platonic (due to lack of attraction/having other love interests, not something more outré like a huge age gap); and

Pairing #3 had a significant canonical relationship with a climactic romantic kiss, but I guess they didn’t end up together because one of them died?

That’s just such a wide range!

maddie-grove

Another point in the post—that the female characters in the ships (all m/f) were “easy to project onto”—was less remarkable, because I’ve heard people say that kind of thing a million times before. It’s de rigeur if you’re going to call a ship basic or a self-insert ship or whatever. But it did get me thinking about what that actually meant, because I don’t think the female characters in question are all that similar to each other. They’re all “good guys” and they’re all gifted in some way, but those are very broad traits. They all have magical abilities, but they exist in a fantasy setting so that’s also not very distinguishing (plus the settings all vary in how rare magical abilities are, so it’s a different situation for each of them). The main thing they have in common is that they’re the most significant female character in canon (or at least in the part of canon where they appear). Also, they exist in canons that have relatively few female characters compared to male characters, tend to place female characters in more minor roles, and are slower to introduce new female characters compared to new male ones.

I don’t think that these characters are “easy to project onto” because of their personalities or abilities or circumstances so much as they’re the female characters who have the most material for fans to work with. (It’s more revealing of a fandom’s biases or other tendencies, I think, when a fandom ignores the most significant female character.) I’m saying this as someone who’s written for both major and minor female characters; it’s fun writing for both, but those are two different experiences.

And, given that the OP went on to say that the fans of these ships write the female characters OOC for shipping purposes, I feel doubly sure that I’m right. The fans are doing the heavy lifting here, allegedly. Just like they did when I was in the Sweeney Todd fandom and most everyone projected onto Mrs. Lovett, a middle-aged Victorian woman who baked humans into pies.

#do I think this person was talking about a real thing?#sure. but I don’t think it’s universal/exclusive to three ships they don’t like.#do I think it matters?#sometimes. kind of. mainly in an academic sense.#i think the self-insert thing is a non-issue #i do think people often bring more rigid gender norms than are present in canon to their fic/art/meta #exaggerating size differences and sanding off the female character’s rough edges and making the male character in control more of the time #but that’s not dependent on the ship’a relationship to canon

I’m reading a very pleasant low-stakes contemporary romance novel and the anxiety disorder of one of the heroes is stressing me the fuck out.

#i mean. good job at conveying it!

cleaningouttherooms

actually you'll find that the issue with my political enemies is that they're stupid and uneducated and illiterate and can't handle the real world and they failed english class and also shut-in losers who don't go outside and don't have friends and don't have sex and need to get some real problems and who nobody likes and also they're freaks and not normal and weirdos who need therapy or maybe to get shoved into a locker and to get some help i mean this in the nicest way possible and also hysterical bitches who look too much into things and think saying go outside is ableist and they're childish immature entitled babies having meltdowns asking for a later bedtime and also their family doesn't like them very much plus they're unemployed and don't do any physical labor so they have too much time to think about things and also they have brainrot and are brain damaged and also brainless i guess a lot of it is an issue with their brain i suppose plus they're gluttonous addicts who can't control their disgusting urges and whose will - sorry, attention span - is diseased and who are delusional and irrational and they're perverts who look strange and off-putting and they jack off to weird porn. so as you can see the evilness of their various ideologies is self evident

#my enemies live lives of abject misery to validate my worldview #but they also have no real problems. as it would interfere with my worldview if they did.#man. enemies are the best!

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I saw a post that was complaining about three different ships that the OP didn’t like, and I’m still thinking about the OP’s choice to criticize all three pairings by saying that they had “no basis in canon” when:

Pairing #1 canonically had a fairly straightforward and unsexy antagonistic relationship that didn’t get a ton of narrative focus;

Pairing #2 had a significant, complex, and ultimately positive relationship that was canonically platonic (due to lack of attraction/having other love interests, not something more outré like a huge age gap); and

Pairing #3 had a significant canonical relationship with a climactic romantic kiss, but I guess they didn’t end up together because one of them died?

That’s just such a wide range!

darkbluetennessee

we're over halfway through 2026. what are everyone's most beloved books of the year so far?

#the expendable man #rosemarys baby

aurpiment

New hairstyle “monkhawk” which is like the tonsure of a medieval European monk gelled to stick straight up forming a basket-like shape

operatorfortheboogeymen

I drew fanart.

Whenever I’m in a fandom, I always end up thinking about Nick Hornby sheepishly admitting his love of Rod Stewart to a friend and the friend sarcastically replying something like “ah, that’s a man who never lets you down.”

audivern

oh my god guys new ebook deals from chrétien de troyes??

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Is Jennifer Garner’s character in The Five-Star Weekend constantly drunk and/or recovering from oral surgery?

#I’m being bombarded with ads and I’m baffled by her line readings

Lady in the front office talking about how her older brother told her that she was adopted and her biological mother was Sarah Palin.

#crucially: this lady is black #and her brother told her that she looked like their black mom and not white Sarah Palin due to extensive plastic surgery #i only told my brother that when I went to play in the woods I was doing chores for an old lady #so he shouldn’t be jealous that Mom didn’t let him play in the woods #which did actually scare him because he thought this woman of the woods was a witch #but that was an accident

midnightssea

literally….the idea that having your father’s last name is ~just as bad~ as having your husband’s last name has always been wacky as hell to me because regardless of where it came from, that’s the name I’ve been called since birth. it’s not any less “my” name than it is my brother’s name just because I’m female. I reject the idea that I don’t truly belong to my family of origin just because of my gender. If anything, that reinforces the idea of daughters as expendable possessions to be sold into marriage.

and it’s not that there’s no valid critique to be made of patronymic traditions, but it should be obvious why many women prefer to keep the identity they were born with instead of taking on their husband’s identity upon marriage. It’s almost like we have decades of life experiences, relationships, and self-conception tied to our names.

#lbr the people who say ‘who cares you’re just keeping your father’s name’#are invariably saying you should take your husband’s name instead #not advocating for taking a family name associated with the maternal side of your family #(‘that’s just your grandfather/great-grandfather’s last name!’)#or choosing an entirely new last name #also it drives me nuts when people take the sexism aspect completely out of the discussion #and treat the decision to keep/take a man’s last name as chiefly a way to punish or reward that man

y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff

American Girl Catalogue

2000

Found on toysandcollectiblesmuseum.org

I still have the chalkboard, backpack, and green skirt outfit!

#I had this catalog!

reputayswift

“I’m coming over, you better not be Vintage American Girl Westie Coconut With Chariot And Tiara when I get there.”

my unruly ass:

#coconut was always doing her (or. briefly. his) own thing

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Patience and Prudence really established a foothold in the “mid-century pop songs put to ironic/unsettling use on movie/TV/video game soundtracks” market.

#i was watching a video of the it: welcome to derry opening credits #and (having just seen ghost world) I was like aw come on #then I watched a fan video where someone had made credits for an unreleased future season #using another of their songs #and I was like that was in fucking election!#and then I’d realized they’d done ‘tonight you belong to me’#which is in basically everything

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags the book that is physically nearest to you at this moment.

#dusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes

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