Both, and I read quite a bit of it.

Book recommendations are my love language.

Not to brag, but I came home to my husband cleaning the stove. I cook more than he does, largely because he cleans better than I do. He is an amazing cook. He just lets me do it, so I can avoid other chores.

It just occurred to me that all of this will take a turn when cis men start losing to trans women in sports. I have no idea what the response to that will be.

I love them and actively seek them out. Ate some tonight at the local catfish buffet. They taste like the earth itself.

The same stuff happens at public universities, it just doesn’t get picked up by major newspapers. It’s just department gossip.

Academia breeds politics like Game of Thrones to shame and drama like the nastiest reality tv show you can think of. And it’s like this at every four year university.

a man with long hair and a beard says it is a gift . Alt: Boromir says “it is a gift .”

This is what I see when someone talks about using AI ethically.

I... I don't think it counts if you also started the war

As one of Robin Hood’s merry men, Friar Tuck does not fight crime, he commits them. For very good causes.

Do yourself a favor. If you have never heard of the Public Universal Friend, go to Wikipedia and look them up. History is wild, folks.

Y’all, The Luminous Dead is one of the best horror novels of its type. Buy that book.

I recommend taking a picture of the map at the beginning and setting it as your lock screen, so it’s easy to check it off and on as you read.

Voted for. I was so stressed that apparently I couldn’t type.

I voted Harris, Biden, and Clinton. Obviously.

Trump's threat to bomb Iran "back to the stone age" and that "a whole civilization will die tonight" is 1000% out of sync with every moral code.

To the Republican leaders: call Congress back into session NOW to stop Trump's plan to slaughter civilians.

US President being a very credible threat to commit mass genocide is bad for US, even if he does not do it.

Well, since I voted against Trump’s democratic opponents on three separate occasions, I can definitely say I did not vote for this.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency.

The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

You give the kids enormous, nearly impossible tasks, but you help them and break it down in such a way, that to the kids it feels just a little challenging, just enough for a dopamine hit.

Most of good parenting/teaching (they use the same skills) comes down to high expectations but scaffold the hell out of it.

Y’all, I have planned out exactly what I will do if word goes out in my district to remove all works with LGBT content. I have picked out my student to be a secret gay librarian, and I’m confident I can remove books from the catalog before anyone actually comes into the building to enforce it.

Holly Black writes awesome fantasy YA. And middle grade. (High schoolers are often way more willing to read middle grade than I would have guessed. They want to reread their favorites from elementary school all the time.)

You’re right! I meant English language, but am utterly brain dead.

Are we only looking at examples in American pop culture?

They forgot today’s wine moms were protesting twenty years ago against the last war or fifteen years ago with the Occupy Movement or every day since 2016.

All these people who expect having kids to make women settle down and behave don’t understand that now we just have more to fight for.

a tumblr post with a user named bvckbiter writing "is this character good or bad" "is this shop unproblematic or not" "is this arc deserving of redemption or not" girl... underneath it is a screenshot from the show shōgun of a character saying "i don't have time for this christian nonsense"

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

A lot of their books are more sci-fi, but it’s in a very “stop trying to make me fit in a box” way, so Xiran Jay Zhao has written books that will kick your actual ass.

I read most subgenres of fantasy, but I kinda hate the five pound tomes of block text where all the characters suffer and die. I like romantasy in theory, but usually don’t feel like reading it.

I’m also going to be honest about my typical reading habits, because I’m reccing only authors I have read. I read a lot more books by women than men. I just generally enjoy them more.

It’s probably why some of the books that win lots of awards don’t actually get checked out of the library. (Rick Riordan was on the other list, but he is an expert at writing books for the teens reading now. His books fly off my shelves way more than that other series.)

I’m also listing people who are still writing AND who are writing to appeal to today’s teens as opposed to authors who write for adults who like to read YA books. This is a weird requirement, I know because it’s extremely subjective, but it’s a genuine factor in YA.