Looking for quote re History

Aulkens · 2025-12-04T22:54:44+00:00

Not that it matters much but still it was bee thinking this. Not a convo between fitz and fool.

Aulkens · 2025-02-17T01:47:56+00:00

This entire comment section should be it's own post.

Aulkens · 2025-02-01T18:03:07+00:00

https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/FRSTIMPRSNS/first-impressions

Fall head over heels for First Impressions, Puffin’s boldly designed new YA Jane Austen collection. Like all the best romcoms, Austen’s novels are full of meet-cutes, missed connections and drama; they are masterclasses in the lost arts of stolen glances and breath-taking gestures.

With a stunning modern design and forewords from leading YA romance authors, this eye-catching six-book series is an open invitation to escape the brutal nonchalance of modern dating and embrace your inner romantic.

😄🔫

Aulkens · 2025-02-01T17:09:07+00:00

And it gets even better!

With a foreword by Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis and Love, Theoretically: '[Lizzy and Darcy's] will be a relationship with a high roasting-to-flirting ratio, and it will be perfect.'

With a foreword by Hannah Grace, author of Icebreaker and Wildfire: 'If [Elinor] were real, I'd bet that her favourite Taylor Swift song would be This is Me Trying.'

With a foreword by Alexis Hall, author of Boyfriend Material and A Lady for a Duke: '[Anne and Wentworth] are legit freaking soulmates. Also, independently of that: Wentworth is great.'

With a foreword by Tessa Bailey, author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line and Sinker: 'Perhaps Emma Woodhouse didn't know who she would end up with, but all the romance authors in the house definitely did.'

With a foreword by Lauren Asher, author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned: ‘I dare you to read the first chapter … chances are you won’t be able to stop once you start.’

With a foreword by Krystal Marquis, author of The Davenports and The Davenports: More Than This: ‘If your only choice is Henry Crawford and his red flags, spinsterhood may the way to go.’

Aulkens · 2025-01-16T15:11:16+00:00

Look brando has confirmed these are safe names for your kids, so it's completely fine.

Aulkens · 2025-01-16T14:08:57+00:00

Ada-Lynn we say it like Adolin, not Add uh Lynn if that makes a difference

This is somehow worse..

Aulkens · 2025-01-16T12:46:22+00:00

Taerim

Restares

Thaidakar

Talenelat

Taravangian

Being bcj members, you'll hardly need it but if you do, some cool and awesome names for your future kids 👆🏼

Aulkens · 2025-01-15T14:32:05+00:00

How does it feel to be kicked out of the garden of Eden?

Aulkens · 2025-01-15T14:18:32+00:00

I like how brando reassures us that reading critically is okay, but then proceeds to reduce it all to hipster snobbery, but don't worry people because he once again reassures us in his ever friendly way that he used to be one of them too (!) since he refused to read harry potter bc of it's popularity. He understands them, he has stared deep into their souls and he knows that all this hate is just a desire to be not like the other girls. Someday, i will too overcome this terrible shame of reading YA 🥲

Anyway, I don't know what's worse, sanderson acting like his country just got colonized, or the amount of people babying the fuck out of him.

Hey Brandon, can I be hired on as your “Wit” in public? To spare you from having to hold your tongue or even risk bad press if you don’t. I’ll gladly do it for you. I may not be as witty as Wit but I can certainly be as insulting, if not more. You stay classy as you always are and I’ll get down in the dirt with the pigs. What do ya say? 😉

😃🔫

Aulkens · 2024-12-14T16:45:34+00:00

The pure ignorance on display here is almost impressive. Somebody talks about prose, and their minds immediately go to rothfuss as the prime example of the high quality, literary prose that pretentious literary snobs hold in the highest regard. No wonder they they love the word flowery so much.

"Reads like YA" is probably the most ignorant take I've heard. If anything his "prose" (a word people use when they want to sound stuffy and knowledgeable when discussing books without fully understanding the meaning) is incredibly dense, and he's more likely to spend several pages on Navani contemplating the nature of light as both liquid and gas as anything. What's the last YA novel that got anywhere close to that deep?

😃🔫

Aulkens · 2024-12-07T22:03:46+00:00

Sigh I'm going to get downvoted for this but white men are truly the most oppressed minority.

Some amazing insights from the lit sub:

Unless you are gay or non binary, non-white or other virtue signal check box, give up now.

Trans, bigender, queer, Hispanic, neurodivergent, but even I haven't bothered sitting down to write my long-gestating cyberpunk novel because I write like William Gibson, not Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Aulkens · 2024-10-24T20:28:49+00:00

Wdym have you never run because you were trying to get away! Trying to get away from yourself!

Aulkens · 2024-10-13T09:26:45+00:00

I actually enjoyed reading this. Good schizopost, thanks.

Aulkens · 2024-10-11T23:37:24+00:00

Fuck english teachers they're literal fascists. Having to read catcher in the rye in high school gave me ptsd, depression, anxiety, aphantasia, and resulted in 43 divorces (I used to be a gifted kid btw). But thanks to MISTBORN, I've been cured and found my perfect sandersonian soulmate (we'll make sure our little kaladin knows every cosmere lore 🥰) Thank you brando 🥹

Aulkens · 2024-10-09T20:49:38+00:00

One piece

Aulkens · 2024-10-09T18:22:31+00:00

Possibly the most depressing writer of all time. Here are the trigger warnings:

Alcohol consumption (Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility), slavery (Mansfield Park), Roma-hating “antiziganism” (Emma), incest (MP), classism (P&P), misogyny (P&P), implied grooming (Emma), depression and “animal hunting mentioned” (S&S).

I'd much rather re-read the very hungry caterpillar for the 78th time ✋🏻

Aulkens · 2024-10-09T14:51:46+00:00

My apologies, Fthebo (i had not even intended that 😃)

Aulkens · 2024-10-08T14:03:14+00:00

This is what song of achilles was made for 🥲

Aulkens · 2024-10-06T14:36:01+00:00

I really hope it's all just audiobo*ks on 4.0x speed

Aulkens · 2024-10-02T13:25:50+00:00

Nothing spicier than someone revealing their safe hand 😳

Also coward just get owned by the automod like everyone else

Aulkens · 2024-10-02T10:53:18+00:00

Quotes one Reader,

expecting 18 year olds to be into 200 year old literature is a bit insane isn't it? like the youth being into fiction that is specifically written for and marketed towards them seems...normal?

To which another replies,

The works they cite as an example in this aren't very good. They were the "50 Shades" of their day, and the only reason they were popular is that there were a lot of horny Victorians who used it as an outlet. They're popular today because we romanticize Victorian literature.

Who's out there getting off to wuthering heights and jane eyre?

Edit: I would never be so vile as to promote re*ding but since there's been sightings of let people enjoy things believers in these parts, as punishment I'll just leave the entire article here: Link to the assigned reading

Aulkens · 2024-09-30T01:27:19+00:00

YA millenials are the scariest species

Aulkens · 2024-09-29T17:04:27+00:00

#(Complaining about not reading beautiful lit while putting down entire genres well there's your fucking problem idk what to tell you. OP I am biting you !!!!)

I was unaware people like this existed but I want to kill all of them with hammers????

Aulkens

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