fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦‍♀️

The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!

It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)

While making dinner tonight, I very very fleetingly, but very seriously and legitimately thought “I should watch Goncharov tonight”

And then I Remembered.

That it's no longer on poob?

This is incomprehensible outside of tumblr, i love a well maintained closed ecosystem

im quitting tumblr

ok see u tomorrow

this post is now 10 fucking years old

and ur ass is still here

happy 15 years to quitting tumblr

tumblr will never count as social media to me. This shit a secret hideout and we just all happen to see each others thoughts

invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

hey your cat kinda lowkey was giving god of probability and gambling and chaos so i drew her. yeah.

Divine Being: Schrodinger's Cat

*publishes this post with my paws*

A fish

With paws

Nothing out of the ordinary here

reblogs this post with my cool antenna, (left)

I bet you can’t reblog it with your trunk tho

ignores your challenge with my tendril

as far as I'm aware this is what we're following

hardcore porn: massaging his scalp until he falls asleep in my arms

The feared sting-ray

does my gay little dance

y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

What more info do you need?

A SUMMARY

WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT

i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?

I- it’s gay the gay

i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.

“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality

do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”

do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them

Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.

not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!

Artist bio by Anna Daliza

okay, I’m concerned that maybe folks are using the word “summary” in different ways here and that there might be a misunderstanding what folks are asking for.

For those of you who are in the “????? but why????” camp, let me explain: You are not being asked to write your very own book report. You are being asked to please go to the book’s Goodreads page and copy-paste the Official Description into your post, or copy it out from what is written on the back cover/dust-jacket flap. That’s it! That’s all. The book description (“cover-copy” as it is called in the biz) is a marketing tool, and it’s one of the best marketing tools a book has because it’s been precision-engineered to convince people that it’s a cool and interesting story. Just add that to your posts! It will take an extra 2 seconds.

You don’t have to STOP saying “Here are the tropes, and btw it’s gay”, because yeah, some people DO find that to be the thing that tweaks their interest – but I bet even those people read the official description before they buy the book. So if you actually want people to listen to your recs and be persuaded to read your new favorite book, including the cover-copy when you talk about it saves them a step of having to look it up themselves. You might say, “Oh but they’re just being lazy, why should I do the extra work?” – Because it’s YOUR new favorite book, hon! And because how many times in your life have you heard a book rec and vaguely thought, “Oh, maybe i should look that up later” and then straight up forgot? Trust me, including the cover-copy makes it stick in somebody’s head WAY more than just a list of tropes.

But hey, it’s up to you – maybe you don’t really care about whether or not people listen to you and read your favorite books, and that’s fine! But if you DO want to persuade people, if you DO want to support under-appreciated and/or marginalized authors… This will help. This one little addition will genuinely help.

(For a bonus-level: Include the book cover as well. The book cover is an even more powerful marketing tool!)

That moment when you’re reading a fic and your OTP finally hooks up

That gif is literally perfect

#I reblogged this in 2013

this tag dealt me psychic damage thanks

#i’m putting it in the queue to give you psychic damage again later#your post is old enough to be in middle school

@kirihana CURSE YOU

When you're driving home at night and you meet a Ford F-150 on the road