StoryGraph March 2025 Wrap-Up

woot woot! it's time for a monthly wrap-up! 16 books, i'm still reading yay! 🎉

i think i was being dumb about not trusting the number of pages. because yes, the number on my app doesn't match the number on storygraph, so when i mark a book as finished, it says i've read a BUNCH more pages on the last day than i've actually read. but I FINISHED THE BOOK, so i did READ ALL THE PAGES! it just looks like i read a bunch at the end when in reality it was spread out differently. it still counts in the end! 👍

anywayz, i bought the batman: wayne family adventures vol 2. i love this webseries, it's SO GOOD! i had to have a physical copy. 5 ⭐️

i also continued the Princess Diaries series, and actually started reading the middle school princess spin-off series! it's SO CUTE! 4 ⭐️ all around 🥰

i read a bunch of different genres this month too. i'm trying to mark off more books on a bunch of different challenges (@batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 book bingo, youtuber ellenmadebookclub's diversity bingo, and a couple jane austen storygraph challenges), so i read some non-fiction, horror, and books from other countries. new things worth trying out every once in a while AND they're a good palette cleanser between all the romance 🙂

overall another great reading month! happy reading everyone! ❤️

Good job making Padme happy, America!

actually im curious

more addendums;

the money is not taxed meaning you are getting the entire 100k

yes the entity is actively judging you

it is not limited to your home

if you’re not american its whatever 100k us dollars would properly translate to in your economy

final addendums

- the entiry is not viewing this sexually

- you are constantly reminded you are being watched (there are visible cameras)

- you get the feeling the entity may hurt or kill you if you do something wrong

- however it’s not being made public (no nudes can or will be leaked for example$

- you are completely free to do whatever with the money

this polls tags are a division between two very different types of people with abusive childhoods

also to emphasize this isn't 100k flat out, it's a monthly thing. so like you keep getting the money until you die

100k a month would be 1.2 million yearly by the way

wait why are ppl saying Tumblr is dying (again)

<3

I need more “Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while” in ships.

Finally finished my Ranma 1/2 stickersheet!

reblog to kill an HOA manager

White supremacy, writ large.

Racists depend on no ethics, no morals, no conscience, and no integrity.

But they expect them from everyone else. That is the intrinsic double standard within all bigots.

let's get burgers 53 "movie night"

My finished piece for @goldenhourzine! I designed like 50 Ladybug merch items for this. My vision is true what of it Leftover sales are open for a little longer, until the end of August! There's still paper merch and digital zines to grab!

I need to draw men being obnoxious to their partners and getting In The Way right now immediately.

it is it's nature to Be In The Way.

Just... Pick them up??? Grab a blanket, wrap 'em up, then move them out of the way.

the consequences of doing that:

just needed to make a conclusion to this

tbh this post is Just for the it/its crowd now. keep shining.

(but for real it makes me happy other it/its folks are getting a lil joy out of an it/its character like. casually existing and having a fun gender.)

I get asked this a lot surprisingly

We argue that first contact day was an unmitigated fuckfest, but if you take a closer look at the screenshots, you'll see that Zefram was actually wearing fingerless gloves.

Wait, post cancelled, that's basically lingerie.

Gloves being Vulcan lingerie is a concept that unsettles me in a way that I can't quite articulate.

(snerk)

no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can

Oh gods. (hides eyes)

…I’ve been coughing my lungs up for the last three days now and am sick and tired of it, and seriously weary, but THIS makes me want to sit up and start ragetyping.

(reaches down into drafts folder, rummages around to grab hold of the screed I wrote in, dear sweet Thoth on his ebike, January) and then decided not to post in the heat of the moment)

(oh, and prev tags, which were good)

#this screenshot punched me in the face#war flashbacks#my immortal#writing#don't be afraid to use 'said'#the brain just skips over filler words like that#it can't skip over whatever nonsense 'he whimpered ... I roared' is#also words convey specific things such as emotions and how loud someone is speaking and you can't just use them at random#don't just use a random word from a list of 'alternatives for said' you found online#use words intentionally

Right. (pauses to cough) Now then—

Something trundled by on my dash some days back. And I got all ready to write a post about it, and then Peter had his accident in the kitchen and it got jarred out of my head for days. Until now, in fact..

Anyway. The "something" was a beautifully made chart of "dialogue tags". Someone had gone to a lot of trouble over it, clearly with the intention of helping other people. And after I spent a while admiring the design (and the ingenuity of it), I nonetheless started having, yet again, the same set of annoyed and frustrated misgivings I get every time one of these substitutes-for-“said” or suggested-dialogue-tags lists crosses my path.

These lists aren’t a new phenomenon by any means. In the last century you could buy whole books of them. They were called "saidbooks", which is kind of ironic, since "said" was about the only word they didn't include. (Look, hello-delicious-tea over here knows about them too.) But their purpose was to provide people who were nervous about repeating themselves—and thought they'd be mistaken for bad writers when they did—with lots of other words to use.

(sigh) Plainly this misapprehension is still with us.

Am I about to get prescriptive? Depends on your definition of the term. (Though it's also true that in New York state, where I was licensed, properly trained nurses can prescribe. And in this paradigm, after nearly fifty years of doing this work, and various bestseller lists, blah blah blah, maybe I can be considered properly trained.) Anyway:

(adding a cut here, as I got distracted from doing so earlier by yet another spell of coughing)