end of june reading update
currently reading:
the fellowship: the literary lives of the inklings
harry potter and the chamber of secrets
dawn of the firebird
taylor price
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Cosimo Galluzzi
Today's Document
noise dept.
Mike Driver

JVL

tannertan36
$LAYYYTER
we're not kids anymore.
almost home
Jules of Nature

Product Placement
Not today Justin
art blog(derogatory)

gracie abrams
cherry valley forever
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

PR's Tumblrdome
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end of june reading update
currently reading:
the fellowship: the literary lives of the inklings
harry potter and the chamber of secrets
dawn of the firebird

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Did you know that races and nations in fantasy stories aren't always representative of real life people? Sometimes a race of evil creatures who are born wicked is NOT a stand-in for whichever race the writer hates.
An evil nation can represent things like corruption, despair, sin, sickness, hatred, self-doubt, trauma- anything that poses a threat and must be overcome by good can be represented by an army of evil. Often an evil race represents evil itself and the hero defeating them is good triumphing over evil. Call it cliche, but it's rarely racist. Would it be less problematic if the good guys killed good people rather than evil monsters? If the heroes represent pure good, then their villains being evil isn't racist. It's normal.
Not to mention that even in the scenario where the evil army in a story represents a real group, it still might not be racist. Great example: Fantasy Nazis. Is it fair to say that every person in Nazi Germany was pure evil? Absolutely not. Do we need to address that nuance in a fantasy story about their victims? No!
Some people don't read stories in good faith. They make a checklist of forbidden tropes and use them as proof that a story is problematic. Instead of policing the words creatives are allowed to use, we should focus on what they use those words to say.
Also I think if you see a fantasy race and immediately think "well they're terrible! They must represent X race!" Perhaps. The problem is you.
zendaya wearing real 3000-year old ancient iranian earrings with no known track of provenance to the odyssey premiere. nasty work. even worse than the kim kardashian marilyn dress to me. they could have promoted modern greek jewelry designers but chose to do this instead. very tacky at best. especially in this geopolitical climate
Used bookstores have me so spoiled that the idea of spending over $7 on a paperback is unheard of. What do you mean this paperback is almost $20? Insane.
That markup is why a lot of publishers are dropping the mass market format.
On the note of my complaining about book prices:
There are so many books I want to read, and I would love to buy some of them but I'd like to spend less than $10 a book. Which would be doable if I liked ebooks, but I really don't. Not that I have anything against them specifically, I've just noticed that I retain almost nothing when I read a book in digital format.
I digress, my point is, I'd read a lot more if I could get these books for affordable prices!
Technically, I could do purchase suggestions at my public library. But my library is also where I work and I'm familiar with what circulates well and what doesn't in this community. Unfortunately, most of what I'm interested would not get checked out enough to justify the library using its budget just for me.

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Used bookstores have me so spoiled that the idea of spending over $7 on a paperback is unheard of. What do you mean this paperback is almost $20? Insane.
Need a shirt that says "I survived the 4 day AI in Libraries conference"
A reminder to anyone being plauged with people begging for money on gofundme claiming to be in Gaza that a gofundme is only supported in 20 countries: All three north american nations (Canada, US, Mexico), Australia, and 16 nations in western Europe. To start a gofundme you must show proof of physical address in one of these nations, a bank account, and an official ID from said nation.
Read The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, and I felt like I was reading a book that written just to be adapted into a movie directed by Guy Richie. I love Guy Richie movies but apparently I do not enjoy books that feel like they’ll be adapted into a Guy Richie movie.

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Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?
Spain
France
England
oh,
oh this is absolutely beautiful
I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.
200k notes is insane who the hell are u people
LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST
you people aren't CASTING
Got the courage to tackle Beyond Good and Evil.
PSA: stop 👏🏻 calling 👏🏻 books 👏🏻 that 👏🏻 aren’t 👏🏻 romantasy 👏🏻 romantasy 👏🏻

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breakfast! spending my morning with a new read (which is blowing me away) and beginning a new journal .𖥔 ݁ ˖𖦹⭒°。⋆
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