Latest Posts by mx-river-styx - Page 3

can I be so real with you. can I be honest. totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent that; you're going to have to take it up with pulp magazines and dime novels and comic books. you guys would throw up if you found out about Fanny Hill.

ⓘ A sewing machine is a device that provides a several-fold increase of the speed at which you can make mistakes

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

the trans realization that benji and silas are right, there’s nothing objectively wrong with my chest, it’s just that people automatically associate chest with girl. my body is perfect as it is, it’s how people see it that’s the problem

I don't think Booktok is "the death of literature" or "the fall of the book industry as we know it". People who enjoy reading have and will continue to exist outside of the parameters of a social media app for youths.

now, at times I wonder about the people who say they won't read anything that hasn't been reviewed by their favorite Tiktoker. Or they won't read anything that doesn't contain the tropes they like because they know they won't like it. Or they'll only read something if it's got a high rating from the Booktok/Bookstagram community.

some people say it's about anxiety. They need the trigger warnings (which I'm not against), or they need to know how the book ends before they can even think to start it. I'd bet that for some significant percentage of readers that's true, Booktok or not.

my hot take, though, is that in most cases, the absolute worst case scenario isn't being triggered (using the word in its proper sense) , it's just disappointment. The minor letdown of getting 150 pages into The Book Thief and finding it lacking. Realistically, the Booktok boom is a lot of people who primarily read fanfiction because it can be filtered down to only show things you already know you like.

I think that's why people plant their feet when you say you didn't like their Booktok fave, and why people will fight to the death that Booktok promotes GOOD BOOKS and everyone who disagrees is being An Asshole.

It's highly unlikely that the publishing industry is going to crumble purely through the fast fashionfication of Contemporary and New Adult Lit. When Colleen Hoover finally runs out of stories to tell; when the Reylo Tag has been completely milked of publishable works; when there is no more Faerie Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️ to sate the masses, the Booktok girlies are either gonna get bored and leave or learn to like other shit. It's okay.

Seeing “uterus haver” to define afab people insane bc that excludes my cis mother who literally gave birth to me.

Like literally anyone can be with or without a uterus.

"Next to her--her in this dress, me in my torn and bloody nightgown--it's so obvious what I've been lacking all my life. It's so obvious what I really am. How could anyone have mistaken me for a girl when I stand beside one now, and see how clear the divide is? It is willful ignorance on the part of the entire world. I have never been anything but this. Neither of us have ever been anything but this."

Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

my kind of girl

There’s something very romantic about tearing off your flesh and becoming a monster of teeth and sunken eyes and claws and rage.