disgraced and disowned, another one of the clowns

“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.

we are never going to be free until it literally doesnt matter whether a person is ugly or not

outfit repeater, movie rewatcher, same post mutiple times reblogger

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

"all you ever do is complain" that's not true. I also resent.

major turn off in fiction is when the author invokes the horror of like, Christian conservatism and then, surprise! the real horror wasn’t christofascism, it was actually demons all along!

ooooh there’s a cult? really? and you’re borrowing your religious trauma from growing up culturally Christian in America? and the reason it’s scary is because there’s a literal actual supernatural demon? I could just smash my fingertips with a jewelry hammer for the next four hours actually

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

they need to invent a staying up late that doesn't make you get less sleep