Tiktok is obsessed with trying to create their own Goncharov. I've seen several attempts at it, and they all fall flat. It's one of those things where it's so pathetic it's funny.
Also, the inherent failure comes from the fact that it's always someone trying to make money off it.
Meanwhile, a bunch of people are making videos about fake discourse as though they're in the omegaverse, and that's amazing. I love that.
people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway
I am finally done with The Secret History. I never have to read a single word of that awful book ever again. It is one of the worst things I've ever read and I hate that it exists. But now I'm done with it. It's over. I'm finally free.
And now, I just want to ask one little question.
How on earth are so many people hyping up a book this racist, this misogynistic, this homophobic, this incredibly overwritten?
I just don't understand how so many people can say that it's good when it's one of the most bigoted things I've ever seen.
before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. that way if you end up having to kill more people, you already have an extra grave prepared for it.
You ever read some angst and then just....sit there staring blankly at your screen trying to think of anything but what you just read because the emotional scars are too deep and if you don't become distracted soon a floodgate of emotions will open that you are in no way prepared to deal with?
In conclusion: tag your fucking angst people, wtf?!
Here’s my book rant for you. Boneyard by Seanan McGuire.
It’s set in the Deadlands setting, so basically Wild West but with monsters and some magic.
The book is about a traveling circus and the woman who has to tend to the monster exhibits while raising her mute daughter and running from her crazy narcissistic and abusive husband.
Overall, I’d say the book is really good, but there one thing that really sticks a thorn in my side.
So the circus has a collection of various monsters. There’s these red pirhanna things with teeth so sharp they bite themselves constantly, sending them into a feeding frenzy. They’ve got crazy poisonous spiders with skull patterns on their backs, they’ve got wasps the size of your forearm, an ENORMOUS catfish, a corn stalker which is this this pumpkin headed plant person.
Then, there’s the bloodwire.
What is a bloodwire you might ask?
I can’t tell you because apparently the author can’t either.
Throughout the ENTIRE BOOK they are constantly alluding to the bloodwire as a creature they have, but never once is it described or shown in action.
At one point the book even goes “and she told the little girl about the bloodwire” but NEVER ONCE DO WE AS THE READERS GET TO KNOW WHAT IT IS.
It seemed like for the entire book, the author was building up mystery around the bloodwire, deliberately concealing it so she could reveal it at the end as the circus’ most dangerous monster, maybe it would come in handy in the book’s final confrontation.
Literally all of the other circus monsters are used, except the bloodwire. I’m half convinced the author forgot about it halfway through.
That’s my book rant
I feel like a curse has been passed onto me because now I desperately want to know wtf a bloodwire is but I know that there is no answer. It is a curiosity that cannot be satisfied
Guess who's fucking sick again.
It's me. My immune system fucking hates me.
Alright, I am back home. I have internet again. Let's see how things went
I had some technical difficulties but I am back with Dragon Age Inquisition
Messy bi who dresses like a four-year-old despite being in my 30s
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