Me: this looks like a really interesting book with a great plot, awesome characters, and a beautiful writing style!

Inner me: skip to the last page and read the ending.

people who type lol when theyre mad are the people you have to watch out for theyll fucking stab you in the back in a dark alley and steal your wallet whispering “lol” all passive aggressively into your ear. same goes for “lmao”. Watch out

have you ever just assumed that a word was pronounced a certain way and you end up pronouncing it incorrectly throughout your entire life and then one day someone corrects you and its like you can almost hear satan laughing as the flames of hell begin to seep up from underground and slowly burn you to death

I’ve seen characters get pushed around as Eins allowed himself to be. I get that he has a sense of loyalty to the new members of his guild, but what he doesn’t seem to realize is that they don’t have that same feeling of loyalty to him. It takes balls fight for the underdogs but it takes brains to not let the underdogs bite the hand that feeds them.

But if it never gets mentioned I just want to add this: Communism is just a red herring. 

Not sure how Communism’s a red herring considering that wasn’t what I was talking about at all. I’m talking about the fact that he’s most likely Plant Hwyaden’s informant in Akiba.

Eins isn’t a bad person himself, but he’s the type of person that wants everyone to benefit. Even before the Catastrophe, he had the animosity of other raiding guilds because he publicly gave out information about various raid dungeons. I have a feeling Nureha visited Eins while she was in Akiba for the Libra Festival, and wasn’t just there for Shiroe. It gives him enough time to become their informant by the time volume 7 comes around (around two/three months after the festival), as well as a motivation for him to join her cause, since she claimed to Shiroe that she found a way back home.

I am deeply offended by this due to its accuracy.

as much as i love the trope of a character falling fast and hard for someone, i also love the subtle decent where they don’t really think about it; where that person is just kind of there until one day they realize that person is so ingrained in their lives and they cannot do without them. where there is no conscious effort on either ends to become romantically involved but somehow the thought of them being with someone else is disconcerting. where “i enjoy being with you” unwittingly turns into “i want to be with you”

why are people so against negative character development? characters don’t need to improve and become better people they can get worse and make mistakes and end up in a worse state than when they began and it’s just as interesting and entertaining as characters developing positively

all i’m saying is if an all-girls school crashed on the island in lord of the flies then they would’ve been off the island in a week

lord of the flies doesnt show the base human condition, it shows the base privileged straight white male condition, incredibly when i point this out people get kind of annoyed

Might I direct you to Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, a YA novel in which a plane full of teen beauty pageant contestants crashes on a deserted island.  Instead of descending into violent savagery, the girls are able to work together and become more truly themselves than they could in the patriarchal world outside.  They repurpose the tools of beauty into tools of survival (and some of them work to keep up their appearances too, because that’s what makes them feel happy, while others decide they’re done with all the pressure to be a certain sort of beautiful.)  They fight against evil corporations.  Beauty Queens is enthusiastically feminist.  (Never fear, the feminism is intersectional, exploring issues of race and sexuality as well as gender.)  Also, this book is HILARIOUS, not to mention surprisingly exciting!

Oh, look at this thing I’m going to add to my reading list.

srsly read Beauty Queens, one of the girls is trans!!!

I wish in 10th grade I had the language to talk about these dynamics. My book reporta/essays would’ve looked a lot different.

I procrastinate going to sleep even when I’m sleep deprived

seriously, the worst thing you can do to me, after all we went through together, is pretend I don’t exist.

we always speak impossible words to each other subtly, subtly

people whose first instinct is to smile when they make eye contact with you are some of earth’s treasures and need to be protected

do you know how difficult it is to feel secure in your looks and personality and overall self when absolutely no one has ever shown any interest in you whatsoever like yeah you shouldn’t base all of your self-confidence on other people but still there’s like always that irritating little voice inside of you that tells you that you’ve never been worth a second glance or getting to know for anyone and you can try to ignore it all you want but it’s still there