The Reading Ghost

commenting on fics is so fun because you get to read the most beautiful story about your favourite characters for free and maybe it made you cry or maybe it made you laugh or both and then you get to tell the author hey I loved this! and sometimes you’ll get a notification saying they replied with something nice back! it’s like the antithesis of that salinger quote. I DO get to call the author up and have a chat with them actually

in chess the queens can kill each other which is toxic yuri and the kings can never get within a square of each other which is doomed yaoi

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

if you want to maximize the impact of certain specific books on you, you should read them for the first time at specific points in your life, or at certain times of day, or in certain locations, or accompanied by certain music. mostly this has happened to me by accident but I think we should be telling each other how to do it on purpose. "yes go read this at the laundromat" "go to this beach in California at night to read this" "it must be 2am, you are alone, and you should put on The Disintegration Loops" "wait until a bright snowy night and make this tea" "save for the day after mdma"

This works for music albums too ❤️‍🔥

Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.

ARE THESE BIRDS❔❔❔

you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.

cop: great we have a motive, but we still need a description

hobbits win again