Today is a beautiful day to be a New Jersian.

There's nothing like being on break from your job when you get a notification from your girlfriend that just says "babe the clankers are having sex."

The 2024-2025 pro hater run is still going strong. Don't ever let someone tell you spite isn't a motivator.

Learning Naomi Novak was a prolific incest writer on a03 makes me feel so justified in not reading any of her books. Lol

The age of scorpius debacle shows me that booktok cares way more about tearing down a young queer ND author because she was a little too egotistical about it rather than criticizing the abuse rhetoric, racism, and homophobia that their favorite books perpetuate.

Im responsible for at least 4 of those quotes. Because I am unhinged ;)

Just traded a rubber duckie for soap. Huge things happening in the bath fandom rn

Summer Game Fest is cool and all but it's #PitchYaGame time! DEMON TIDES: 👟 Expressive 3D platformer 💄 Hugely customizable moveset & outfits 🌊 Open World with focused level design 🖋️ Story rich with plenty of lore 🛹 Graffiti tagging shared with other players Just pure fun!

>be me >call out an author who is using erotic art of an abuser and his victim to promote her book >get blocked What did the booktok author mean by this #booksky

Watching Reylo explode in popularity during trump's first term and now seeing the dramione Renaissance...I fear the book girlies aren't making it out with this one

White cishet Christian women can perpetuate bigotry to a degree that is almost near identical to their male counterparts and im tired of any criticism towards them being labeled as misogynistic. Privelege is a helluva drug, and I say this as a white woman who IS marginalized in multiple ways.

I love blurbs that pretend like the fmc is like some badass but then u read the story and shes just. Not #booksky

Going right on the wishlist!!!!!!! Is this coming to console in the future?

Looks like someone just got demoted to library only! I love shadow of the leviathan too. It's funny how his latest books also critique those in power but he rambles on Twitter about how worthless menial work done by interns are. Come on, man.

Every single thing I learn about Expidition 33's making convinces me that I am eventually going to be forced to tattoo its emblems onto my body

I actually love women so much that I take the (surprisingly difficult for some people) opinion that we should not be subjected to space nazi romances or other hetslop that repackage and resell womens subjugation and oppression in a nice bow. I think women deserve better writing than that.

This may be a hot take but the fanfiction community is one of the most hypocritical ones out there. You can't demand people to take your artform seriously and then foster a culture where criticism is seen as rude and harassment.

"plucky protagonist who isn't like other women" who falls in love with "literally hitler junior" is about the most popular romance genre right now and that's bad. that's a bad thing. we should be really critical of the way the global backslide into fascism is being reflected in what we consume.

I can understand a lot of "taboo" shipping tropes, but the two I will never ever understand are bully/victim and mafia. After being bullied as a child and doing so much research into how racist and misogynistic the mob are....yall wanna romanticize that???

This you, miss "fiction doesn't affect reality"?

I'm up to about 15 ways Dani can still win, and with your help, we can double that and give it to my gf by the end of the year

In 1945, a Jewish college hopeful fakes being an old money WASP to get around admissions quotas—and finds herself descending into crime to maintain the ruse. Now querying: THE TELFORD LIAR. #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #T #HF #A

I complain a lot about the oversaturation of blue eyed love interests in books and i end up with a gf who has the prettiest bluest ass eyes. Someone writing my life has a sense of humor

So I've been building up my substack content, and I'm almost ready to release my big essay on a more critical look on shadow daddies In the mean time, I'm very proud of this essay that's part review, part critique on the abuse narrative in fiction! #booksky open.substack.com/pub/jesterre...

I sensitivity read this last year to make sure judaism was represented well, and it was so good I started a cult centered around the main character. This was clearly the correct decision.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Last night I learned that crying for 2 hours straight is not physically healthy, and you will end up with a killer headache, exhaustion, and red ass eyes the next day. Do not reccomend

“What radicalized you?” I mean, nothing? I’ve just been standing here believing we should lead with empathy, everyone deserves to be treated with decency, and wealth conveys no moral authority any more than poverty conveys degeneracy. Somewhere along the line, that became radical.

There's an essay i could write about the rapid rise in #romantasy, how it pushes gender roles/essentialism and the wave of #conservatism in the world but tbh I have jobs to apply to.

The curse of 2024 being a dry year of gaming for me (I only bought 2 new games) means that this year there's like 10 50-70$ games coming out that are right up my alley. AND switch 2!!!! My poor wallet....

putting a sword on my wedding registry idc

i just learned this yesterday but: if you're trans and you were born in the state of New Jersey, there's a fastpass discounted system in place to ammend your birth documents. https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/correcting-vital/sexdesignation/ it costs 6$ if you're just doing gender marker, 8$ if

NEVER.

The sooner we dissociate marginalization from morality, the sooner we can write more interesting and thematically complete stories about marginalization.

Found an author writing age gap romances where the men are 15-20 years older than their women counterparts. Meanwhile the "age gaps" they write where the women are older are 5-6 years. Blatantly admitting to having a double standard like that is bonkers. Why are we standing for this.

kitten i'm gonna be honest. daddy is crashing tf out

Begging my girlfriend to never fall into the gacha trap while actively playing zenless zone zero on video call is certainly an experience

I think this applies to all media and genres. If you don't absorb plenty of the thing you want to make, you won't know the territory and will end up reinventing the wheel. If you ONLY absorb that thing, you end up regurgitating what's gone before.

Main writing motivations: 1. Exploring the very concept of forgiveness/redemption and how maybe we rely a little too much on it 2. Expanding the fantasy genre and engaging with lesser known concepts 3. Giving representation to actual masculine women because holy shit it's dire out here

I want an open world game that's all side quests. A game for people with executive dysfunction looking for productive tasks to help avoid the main task they don't really feel like doing. Is that so much to ask for

Love how #romantasy readers act like the genre is so empowering but most of the books i read have some of the most toe curling misogyny, racism, homophobia, and gender essentialism I've ever seen

We need more books with inscrutable themes that take a few months to digest out of the subtext and I'm not even kidding And even if you can't be the next Susanna Clarke, stop spelling out every last one of your themes or I'm gonna throw my copy of Piranesi at you

SOMEONE WHO REMEMBERS STARFY????? OMG Anyway! 4 more games you wish more people would play!!!!!!!

Me: it's weird that the popular fictional novels with trans men popular are the ones where the trans men are soft and submissive. We should be open to other interpretations of the trans experience People: so you think there's only one way to be a trans man? Me: bitch that's a whole new sentence

As someone with an MA within the creative field i can safely say at least half the people taking those classes barely know how to infer character arcs and symbolism. You're fine. Go on with your freaky self. Get analytical

The prettiness never ceases to amaze me by this account 🤣

"Post a fictional character you love and tag 5 people" Putting this diva here who had 13 year old me in a chokehold. The first stabby girl I ever loved 🥰 Tagged: @aerinjo.bsky.social @apocalypseinferno.bsky.social @m3dusasblindl0v3r.bsky.social @epona.bsky.social @mythologicalbeauty.bsky.social

who up dinosaur posting

Look, I'm not a fancy CEO guy, but if someone said to me "the key to this successful single-player IP's success is to make it purely a multiplayer game. No, not a spin off: fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved about the core game" to me, I'd probably, like, quit that job or something.