There’s no bigger turn off for me than when you ask someone what their favorite books are and they respond “I don’t read.”
really
there is no bigger turn off
than someone not reading
are you sure“I killed every person I’ve ever been in a relationship with and want you to wear this mask of my grandmother while we have sex”
“okay”
“Also I don’t read.”
“Well then, that is where I walk away”
Desperately waits for Jared and Jensens Ice bucket challenge
JARED DID IT HE DID THE CHALLENGE AND JENSEN POURED THE ICE WATER ON HIM WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE
“In her childhood she learned to leave behind pain by reading books. Sometimes they took the books away—too many words, too much pleasure. She turned to poetry. Words to learn by heart—to say over and over again in the dark.”
— bell hooks, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
when i was in 5th grade we were reading books to preschoolers and we were reading the book about gay penguins and we asked if anyone knew anyone that was gay and one girl raised her hand saying that she had two moms and then from the back of the classroom a boy started crying and when we asked why he said it wasn’t fair because he only had one mom and she got two and he wanted two moms also
reading is so good for your soul. i could spend years and years and years just reading book after book while my hair grows to my ankles and my mind grows more pure and more beautiful with every page, my soul more complete with every word. books are food for the soul
the day i discovered AU fanfiction and the day i unofficially stopped reading books are probably correlated
coffee or tea
books or movies
fruits or vegetables
headphones or earbuds
laptops or pc
netflix or tv
hardcover or paperback
tv or movies
light or dark
salt or pepper
reading or writing
writing or drawing
hot or cold
talking or listening
instruments or voice
cake or cupcakes
black or white
sunset or sunrise
Fans are generally nerds. They’re people who are more thoughtful than your average person and also a little more devoted. They’re people who can obsess over things, and really get into the minutiae, and who may also be more likely to step into a fantasy world.
They spend more time at their computers, more time reading books, more time imagining. I think genre and fantasy shows like Supernatural appeal to these people, and I think that disproportionately, those are also people who are seeking greater community in their lives. I’ve met a lot of people in fandom who for one reason or another have felt like they don’t totally fit in to normal society. For them, this fandom has served as a conduit to finding one another—it has helped them forge community. And I think, in a nutshell, that feeling of community is what makes fandom so powerful.
I did a global scavenger hunt for the past two years called GISHWHES (the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen). At every convention since, at least a half-dozen people have come up to me and said something, sometimes (no joke) with tears welling in their eyes, about how transformative the experience was for them. Their best friends are now people they met on their team, or their roommates are people they met on their team, or they were agoraphobic and hadn’t left the house for years and now a curtain has been lifted. I met a woman who had not been out of her house in three years before participating in GISHWHES. She was trembling and crying; it had been a major breakthrough for her. When I hear things like that, I can’t help tearing up myself. It makes this job that I have lucked into so much more fulfilling. For some people, fandom is an essential and powerful force in their lives. For others, fandom serves as a whimsical little romp or an erotic fantasy or a writing workshop. For me, Sera Gamble was right – fandom has changed my life.
