Mx-river-styx - Spunk-ster

Will Wood fans when you tell them there'll be grainy 144p live performances from 2015 where the guy sings the same songs they've heard a thousand times before at the function

I don't think Booktok is "the death of literature" or "the fall of the book industry as we know it". People who enjoy reading have and will continue to exist outside of the parameters of a social media app for youths.

now, at times I wonder about the people who say they won't read anything that hasn't been reviewed by their favorite Tiktoker. Or they won't read anything that doesn't contain the tropes they like because they know they won't like it. Or they'll only read something if it's got a high rating from the Booktok/Bookstagram community.

some people say it's about anxiety. They need the trigger warnings (which I'm not against), or they need to know how the book ends before they can even think to start it. I'd bet that for some significant percentage of readers that's true, Booktok or not.

my hot take, though, is that in most cases, the absolute worst case scenario isn't being triggered (using the word in its proper sense) , it's just disappointment. The minor letdown of getting 150 pages into The Book Thief and finding it lacking. Realistically, the Booktok boom is a lot of people who primarily read fanfiction because it can be filtered down to only show things you already know you like.

I think that's why people plant their feet when you say you didn't like their Booktok fave, and why people will fight to the death that Booktok promotes GOOD BOOKS and everyone who disagrees is being An Asshole.

It's highly unlikely that the publishing industry is going to crumble purely through the fast fashionfication of Contemporary and New Adult Lit. When Colleen Hoover finally runs out of stories to tell; when the Reylo Tag has been completely milked of publishable works; when there is no more Faerie Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️ to sate the masses, the Booktok girlies are either gonna get bored and leave or learn to like other shit. It's okay.

ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

GUESS WHO GOT TO MEET THEIR FAVORITE AUTHOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE THEIR BIRTHDAY!!?!?!!! Super fun book signing, Andrew Joseph White is such a chill nice guy. If you haven’t yet, GO READ HIS BOOKS!!!!! (if you’re okay with lots of body horror)

Also featuring: the crochet Benji doll I made. Yes I know he looks deformed in the photo, I didn’t stuff him very well so he gets like that. He’s also not used to traveling beyond my bookcase, so going on a one hour drive to Maryland was very stressful.

Here’s what he looks like under ideal conditions, more photos and info on my Pinterest:

HAPPY CHANUKAH EVERYBODY 🕎✡️!!!! FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS!!!!! SEVIVON TO PLAY WITH AND LATKES TO EAT!!!!

T-that’s what we’re all celebrating today, right?

Hello everyone. You are pleased to meet. Gingerbread Way.

When will my husband (interlibrary loan request) return from war (another library)

"Next to her--her in this dress, me in my torn and bloody nightgown--it's so obvious what I've been lacking all my life. It's so obvious what I really am. How could anyone have mistaken me for a girl when I stand beside one now, and see how clear the divide is? It is willful ignorance on the part of the entire world. I have never been anything but this. Neither of us have ever been anything but this."

Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Marie-Louise BATARDY

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