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books and cats mostly, sometimes art and video games

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

One of the best decisions I've made was randomly picking up Assassins Apprentice during a 3 month reading slump last year. Little did I know at the time how much this series would come to mean to me, and how much it would help me through one of the worst years of my life.

[naina 🏹 @kaulfarseer]

chade fallstar they can never make me form a solid opinion on you

[‏ً @itsnwts]

unpopular opinion: gender-neutral language often ends up erasing women, not empowering them. when “mother” becomes “birthing parent,” it’s not inclusive, it’s dehumanizing.

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@radical_jam_ what tf do they think a period is lmao

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@generalfeihong whats this book omg?

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

few things are sadder than talking to a woman and slowly realizing she has built her whole existence around men

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

watching maternal instinct and all I can think of is the first half of fools assassin

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

why aren't there more romantasy books about two ABSOLUTELY despicable people falling in love? why is it always a not-actually-evil prince and a good girl, or a good princess and a supposedly morally grey character that never actually does anything bad?

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@withering_petal I was hoping too

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

am I ever gonna read anything else that makes me feel like this again 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔😭💔😭💔😭💔

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

My pen falters, then falls from my knuckly grip, leaving a worm's trail of ink across Fedwren's paper. I have spoiled another leaf of the fine stuff, in what I suspect is a futile endeavour.

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

My pen falters, then falls from my knuckly grip, leaving a worm's trail of ink across Fedwren's paper. I have spoiled another leaf of the fine stuff, in what I suspect is a futile endeavour.

[madi ☠︎ @ASTR0ZOMBIEZ]

reading the first paragraph of a book and immediately knowing you’re gonna like it is such a good feeling

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@withering_petal agree 100%, a little build up at least would have made it seem less forced

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@silverlemonad3 thank you 😔

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

this should be doing numbers smh disappointed in the #rote community 😔

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

what is trump doing in Clerres

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@withering_petal what they want, and it kind of made sense for me a little... then he got more and more annoying as I read I stopped caring about how he's written and just prayed he would die everytime I got to his POV

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@withering_petal I thought it was unrealistic at first for him to change this suddenly but then I thought about how some men only "behave" when they have a father figure or an older male figure in their lives to keep them in check and as soon as that figure disappears they start doing what they w

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

i wonder if this is about hans 🤨

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

cr:

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

genuinely thought dorilian was sending cullen to his death but I'm so glad he didn't I would've crew

[mes @whatamesyoumade]

@oh_tuntun careful they'll start calling you ableist