I literally have no self control when I’m reading books I’ll skip like 6 paragraphs and read the dialogue and then feel bad and go back and read the paragraphs it’s a vicious cycle
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For once this is like one of those ‘genuine relateable’ posts that I am shocked by like I 100% did not know this was a thing people did, a thing 118,000 people did.
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE :D
- YA Book: wHite yoUng girl!!!1!
- YA Book: sHe is difFERenT!!!!!1!!@
- YA Book: speciAL pOWer!!!-!!
- YA Book: cute boY love HeR!!!
- YA Book: bUTttttt
- Ya Book: anOTher boy alsO??? love heR?!?!??!!!
- Ya Book: HOw will sHe cHOOse!!?!?!?!?1!! aNd save wORld?????!?!!
DEAR PEOPLE WHO MADE “THE GIVER” MOVIE:
THERE ARE NO FUCKING HOVERCRAFTS IN THE BOOK
NO HOVERCRAFTS ABDUCT JONAS IN THE BOOK
JONAS AND FIONA DO NOT FALL IN LOVE IN THE BOOK
THE INJECTIONS ARE PILLS IN THE BOOK
JUST
PLEASE
JONAS IS TWELVE IN THE BOOK.
I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS BUT HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THAT BADLY
moment of silence for all the characters who had good character development potential but their writers were pieces of shit who were either incapable of fleshing them out or absolutely refused to
I’m at a museum right now and I’m really bored so I was taking a selfie and this rly hot guard said “please do not take pictures of the artwork” and I apologized and explained I was only taking a selfie and he goes “I know” and winked
omg
That motha fucka smoooooooooooth
I’m at a museum right now and I’m really bored so I was taking a selfie and this rly hot guard said “please do not take pictures of the artwork” and I apologized and explained I was only taking a selfie and he goes “I know” and winked
omg
That motha fucka smoooooooooooth
I must not start a new book series till I’ve finished all the other ones that I’ve started.
I MUST NOT START A NEW BOOK SERIES TILL I’VE FINISHED ALL THE OTHER ONES THAT I’VE STARTED
I MUST NOT START A NEW BOOK SERIES TILL I’VE FINISHED ALL THE OTHER ONES THAT I’VE STARTED!!
*starts a new book series anyway*
*ends up reading five books simultaneously*
Imagine this magical book that the instant you touched it, it can sense what book you need at the moment and it becomes that book? NO MORE READING SLUMPS.
My jaw literally just dropped in awe. This is the best idea ever.
The Book of Requirement
Please
So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.
Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!
Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about
It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.
unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists
Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong
And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.
the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.
Anonymous asked:
Oh and for the ranking the best written to the least of the seven, may you include Grover, Reyna and Nico? :)
reynaisalesbian answered:
grover isn’t in hoo so he can’t be ranked let’s just get that out of the way early on
best to worst:
1. piper. she has a clearly defined character arc that stays relatively consistent and is easy to follow book to book. assuredly because she has a pov in every book she appears in, which, again, i think is a good choice.
2. annabeth. clearly defined role, pretty static characterization, easy to follow her arc. tons upon tons of loose ends left with her, but at least the book sort of ends with the assumption that she’s really not okay and it’s sort of okay for now but there’ll have to be Stuff she works through down the road. (that’s debatable tho frankly)
3. percy. like i’m still annoyed that percy was even one of the seven in the first place, but, again, clearly defined role and pretty stable arc. again, tons upon tons of loose ends with him, but i’ll take that over the problems with everyone else’s narrative.
4. jason. i’d probably put jason up a lot higher if we’d gotten his pov in moa because i still stand by the idea that virtually all of jason’s development happened in moa and we just couldn’t see it. but at least if you read carefully, you’re able to fill in the blanks that jason wasn’t happy at camp jupiter, never considered it home, felt threatened by percy, and then was able to find a niche and a family for himself over the course of the series. although i have a lot of issues with jason’s pov because 1. no backstory 2. no pov in moa and 3. the whole point of his arc was kind of dunked into the garbage because it was written like jason meeting his father and claiming his status as a son of jupiter was the culmination of his arc, which it WASN’T, or shouldn’t have been, seeing as jason’s whole deal is rejecting the perfect Hero Status that has been forced on him since birth because of who his dad is and manifests itself by getting over the percy comparisons and choosing chb over cj, but ☕️🐸
5. frank. frank’s arc is super messy and there’s a lot of loose ends, but if you squint you can kind of see what’s going on. still annoyed with nico’s whole “lol ur stick is fine dude u got time” comment that really doens’t make a lot of sense, but i guess i’m willing to accept that frank learned how to balance his life and that’s why the stick is fine now. his character arc in son is airtight and awesome. i’m mad about the blessing of mars being some kind of fake character development and i’m furious about his complete and total dropout from boo, but what else is new.
6. reyna. she’d be up a lot higher except for the fact that she’s even in this list represents a gigantic flaw in her writing, because sHE’S NOT A MAIN CHARACTER. why wasn’t she a main character. somebody tell me, please. i guess rick felt the same way and he decided to make her one in the last book, but unfortunately iT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT. but anyway. her story is pretty great except that it’s kind of sad and i wish there’d been more resolution to her issue with venus.
7. leo. leo’s arc is just….. weird. because it’s like, it makes sense, but it’s still… handled poorly. honestly, leo’s arc would have been great, except for caleo. because his whole deal was needing to find a family and then he apparently found one with her except that he didn’t and meanwhile the book ends and he’s, for all intents and purposes, dead, but still alive. it’s depressing as fuck that leo decided to sacrifice himself because he’d be the easiest loss to handle, and even more depressing that rick set it up so that it’s believable and rational that leo is the easiest death for the seven to handle. i understand that both this and the caleo mess is consistent with his character, because like, that’s what leo does, he gets depressed and falls hopelessly in love and obsesses about saving everyone. but it’s one thing to present him as a tragic character and another thing entirely to just pretend like “oh that’s just leo, he’s fine now” when he’s so obviously NOT and we have no reason to think he’s fine at all.
8. hazel. oh, hazel. i cry for what could have been. hazel’s plotline doesn’t even make sense. she’s a great character, but she isn’t used in the plot the way she should have been, and has no arc. she’s thrown crazy magic powers for no apparent reason except for a dues ex machina solution while her canon powers that were present from her very first chapter drop out of the plot entirely. we don’t know how her curse was resolved, i’ve no idea what that had to do with an heir of neptune, i guess we assume her dad just let her go in son and that’s the end of it, she totally and completely drops out of the plot in boo, is thrown into a poorly written love triangle with no concrete resolution, and has her important friendships and relationships pretty much completely and totally ignored, and, seriously, what the hell was the point of the bizarre sammy/leo thing
9. i’m not sure what to do with nico. i don’t know like….. i just don’t know. why does rick keep dragging him back in for more torture porn? what was the point of making him suffer in tartarus? why is his arc resolved neatly and nicely at the end of last olympian just to have an ax taken to it? enlighten me: why couldn’t nico have had cameos in hoo the same way his cameos were in toa? as in, nico, being stable and pretty happy and in a nice relationship, drops in, gives some words of wisdom, and peaces out? he could have been a great mentor for hazel, but instead hazel has to be a mentor for nico because rick keeps beating the shit out of him to make things Angsty. he could have had a cool relationship with piper if he’d been around in tlh, it would have been a fantastic way to confirm his feelings for percy while also creating more opportunity to develop what the hell was going on with piper’s feelings for jason. just. like. why did nico have to suffer so much in a way that really? accomplished nothing? and furthered the plot in no way???????? it’s one thing when a character’s suffering has meaning and impacts their behavior in a significant way (luke, ethan) but when it’s just like senseless angst that’s resolved badly it’s annoying at least and offensive at worst. and really, nico being the same way he was at the end of tlo wouldn’t have affected 1. him knowing that the doors of death were in tartarus 2. him getting captured by giants 3. him being gay 4. him deciding to take the athena parthenos, so basically. let nico be happy stop beating on him why must we make gay kids suffer so mUCh.
