Reblogged whumperofworlds
"What do you want from me? I just joined the team. I don't know anything."
"Oh, you're not here for what you know. You're here as bait for the others."
Kaz telling Wylan he’s “passable at demo but excellent at hostage”😭😭😭
Writers will spend hours creating the most hyper specific playlist for their characters. No one will ever listen to it but us, and yet every lyric has to be so perfectly accurate, so meticulously selected from the depths of Spotify’s backrooms, that we can let it run on shuffle and see edits of this fictional person in our head. Meanwhile the first song in there is Bet On It from High School Musical 2 .
So. I finally read The Secret History.
I knew next to nothing going in and, for the life of me, I don’t know what to rate it.
On the one hand, there were a lot of things I had problems with, but the book is written in such a way that I don’t know whether these were intentional winks from the author, or genuine flaws to her writing. That almost makes me respect it more. How much is cleverness and how much is us reading into it? Even more interesting, everyone seems to have their own wildly different interpretation. In the end, I wouldn’t call this book “amazing.” I can’t even say that I particularly enjoyed reading it. But I definitely can’t stop thinking about it, and the more I keep coming back to those unanswered questions, the more I appreciate the book in hindsight than I did during my read. It’s unique. I can definitely see why it’s become a cult classic.
Reblogged indigoreed1
this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.
Reblogged tildeathiwillwrite
Okay, everyone kept reccomending 4TheWords, so I tried it out yesterday and it is just as fun (and useful!) as everyone was saying!
I wrote 1k words in just half an hour, and then did almost 2k words before leaving for work :D
I highly recommend checking this fun site out, and make an account so you can use it anywhere; I don't think it has a mobile app yet, but it looks like it runs just fine on a mobile web browser, so you can use it like you would Google Docs!
If you enjoy the Game aspect, you can select monsters from a list of options, each having a combination of Word Goal + Timers depending on the monsters "level"; every time you reach the required word goal, you defeat that monster and gain loot for your character, which I assume is used to upgrade your appearance and such.
I assume from a few screenshots I've seen (but haven't looked around the site just yet) that there are more optional social aspects to the game, and you can buy things to customize your character, buy house decorations, as well as different maps.
On the writing utilities side, you can keep writing even after you've defeated the monsters if you don't care about the game aspect, and it will keep track of your word count with a timer that tracks your active time writing!
All in all, a very useful and fun website!
I highly recommend if you need some fun motivation to write, to check this out!
New book I’m obsessed with? Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor.
The hopefulness? The compassion for humanity after generations of hurt at their hands? The whimsical return to childlike wonder brought on by fairytales and reading? I haven’t felt this way since watching 11’s Doctor Who. Give me 14 of them right now.