Announcing the
We are very pleased to announce the third Barris-themed event, Blue Moon, running from the first to the last day of August 2023! There will be two full moons in August: on the 1st and on the 31st, which is both a blue moon and a seasonal blue moon. Both of these moons are also supermoons, which means they'll be closest to the Earth in their orbit, like Richard's work orbited him close to Thomas.
The prompts and fest info will be posted on this blog within the next few days!
He laughed then, in a way he hadn't done before, surprisingly loud and wonderfully unrestrained, and the afternoon sun traced every little line and crinkle that made up the infectious sight. Richard looked at him with a broad grin, not caring in the slightest about how obvious his adoring eyes must have been.
- Just a couple of random lines inspired by the awesome picture
from this post:
Goldie Williams, Arrested For Vagrancy & Refused to Unfold Her Arms and Stop Making This Face For Her 1898 Mugshot. (Omaha, Nebraska)
i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like
AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE
“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”
Dying.
Every fucking time I know what’s at the bottom and every time I still lose my shit.
I’m so happy this post is back again asdlkfjsa
I don‘t want to offend anyone with this post but as a young person who has been reading since years in a time when reading was not really considered 'cool or aesthetic' I wanted to say a few things about the reading community especially on Tiktok. I do like the fact that especially Booktok gets people into reading again but I do have some issues with the way the creators do it.
It‘s kinda funny how suddenly everyone on Tiktok / Youtube is promoting reading books so you can be a 'hot girl' or 'interesting person'.
So, first of all, you are probably only going to be a 'hot girl' / 'interesting person' if you read exactly those books you can find on Booktok / Booktube. Every other book is not good enough and almost everyone promotes the same books that are literally all over my For You page.
Second, there is almost always a certain reading aesthetic subconsciously included in those videos. But honestly, there does not need to be an aesthetic for reading. For me, reading means, sitting in my bed in my Pyjamas, perhaps some tea next to me and that‘s it.
I‘m not reading for the aesthetic.
I‘m not reading to be a 'hot girl' or 'interesting'.
I‘m reading because I actually like the process of reading, because I like diving into the storylines and falling in love with the characters.
But ironically, these seem to be the exact things which are not important to the booktok community.
Also, the constant telling of what you have to do, to be a 'true reader' almost drives me insane.
So I just wanted to tell you if you‘re a reader:
You don‘t have to read five books a month to be a 'true reader'.
You don‘t have to follow a certain aesthetic to make reading more 'appealing'.
You don't have to force yourself to read the books that are considered 'books that you must have read in your life'.
Read as much or as little as you like and feel comfortable doing so.
Read the books that you are interested in and you think are worth to buy for yourself.
Check out books in your library and buy them once you read them, if you are unsure if you really want to buy them straight away.
Make yourself comfortable for reading and don‘t force yourself to read only for the sake of reading.
Read what makes you happy.
And not what other readers expect from you.
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