slinky

It sucks that the only way to begin is by beginning

In order to do good worldbuilding you need to be able to think politically and that requires understanding politics

How do the gnomes of the mushroom village govern themselves and how do they determine the legitimacy of the Giggleking who rules them? These are questions you must be able to answer.

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies

the plot chickens (becomes scared of its own premise)

morning/night person is a false dichotomy because its impossible to have any energy at any point of the day

it’s such a shame that despite the millions of books, movies, and tv shows out there, no one has EVER managed to write a woman well. yeah, believe it or not, it’s never happened, not even once! and since i’m incapable of enjoying characters that AREN’T well written, i’ll just have to keep ONLY enjoying well written men, like tony stark

What if I told you Dracula is absolutely a love story but not in the way its always been portrayed. It's about a love between two people strong enough that they'd follow each other to hell and back. A love between friends that survives rejection and some heartbreak. A love between a mentor and his mentee. Love is what drives them all to take the actions they do that lead to them defeating Dracula, and it's so much more than the dark romance that it's been marketed as for such a long time.

"maybe I should start working out" - recurring quote from person who's never demonstrated the ability to do or achieve anything

the way haymitch must have seen it as all his ghosts coming back to haunt him at once when katniss walked onto the train with the face of burdock and asterid, the pin of maysilee, the voice of lenore dove, and a background so devastatingly similar to his own. of course sweetheart slipped out. and of course he did everything he could to keep her alive

i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

my reading goal in 2026 is to have fun and be myself

a great tragedy of this world is that many things that are bad for you also look very sexy. smoking. riding a motorcycle. that crazy shit they did to saint sebastian