People say, “I don’t need to read fiction.” You absolutely do. The world is currently being run by rich, antisocial, amoral men who have never opened a book, and you need only look around to see the damage it’s caused. Empathy & curiosity are vanishing because people don’t read.
my first heated rivalry fic! (rated M)
Ilya starts giving Shane gifts at every opportunity. Shane investigates, and retaliates.
https://t.co/DyQlJFxzWa
"that is always the prelude to fascism... well if it's that easy, and if it's that unimportant, why the fuck do they want it so bad? and the answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human."
are you okay babe? you are researching the taiga flycatcher for a heated rivalry fanfic (I have brainworms so bad that I write like I'm running out of time ((hamilton reference in the year 2026))
'now as ever, kneeling.' - fic. iwaoi.
Hajime was burning incense when footsteps crunched behind him on the gravel path.
Or:
One year after everything falls apart, Hajime comes to the cemetery.
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Kinda crazy how middle class whites can’t afford homes with garages anymore, so their teenage kids don’t have a free place to make angsty punk rock, so we just don’t get music like this anymore
"is 21 too old for fandoms" babygirl my 40 year old acquaintance who works with the UN board of auditors brings her mingyu pc to work i promise no one can stop you from doing harmless things that make you happy
It's truly shocking what a literate culture we had a century ago. Millions of working-class people reading Austen, Sophocles, Thucydides. The decline in literacy is the result of a concerted attack by the rich on the lower classes to disempower us. You have to resist by reading.
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a book. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
how old am I? my playlist threw angel with a shotgun on shuffle and suddenly I am violently rocked back to a time when AMVs of ships with an X between the names and pixelated doujinshi slideshows were the highlight of my after school life