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i never read house of leaves and i don't know anything about it
Yep as I remembered that's the one where every instance of the word "house" is colored blue
i don't care if you're not but i'm going to take that as if you were talking about me because it made me feel great :)
oh my god i would give you the best hug you've ever got in your life if i could right now thank you
in the book house of leaves (which is a good book that i'd recommend) every time the word "house" is written it is written in blue. this is just part of a whole bunch of cool format weirdness the book plays with
As a non-binary person, my advice on how to write an accurate non-binary character is to make them a superhero that's invisible at all times. You gotta get that essential erasure trait in!
The correct way to write a bi character is to have them break up with dudes because they're actually straight and women because they're actually gay.
very funny that this shows up as green for me. not what the minotaur looks like
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It's one of my favorites. It came out when I was in my late teens and working at a library, and it really knocked my socks off with its presentation and style. You have to read the physical book, though. So much of the vibe of the story is relayed in the way the words are arranged on the page, which is very often decidedly non-standard.
People can tell how much I care for them by whether or not I've gifted them a copy of this book
Well shit, I hope things ended amicably. I don't think I'd be able to survive this book ending up labeled a 'douchebag book' because a bunch of absolute ballbags share this book in common
no lmao we're still friends. it's a good book! i am pro house of leaves!
It's extremely fun if you have the patience for it. You'll especially enjoy it if you have experience with and/or enjoy reading academic texts, because the format of the book (and the frame story) plays around with footnotes, endnotes, citations, and references quite a lot. Go into it like you're reading a Serious Academic Work and do all the things you'd usually do with that (margin notes, cross-referencing different mentions of similar ideas, etc.) and it's especially rewarding. Even without all that stuff, though, it's a banger of a horror-romance.
Go into it like you're reading a Serious Academic Work and do all the things you'd usually do with that
Skip to the end first and read maybe half of the sections before tossing it aside to read the conclusions sections of exactly 1/3 of its own citations?
The cis man who responds to the trans rep writing post may need to be reeducated.
Idek what kind of advice I'd give to cis people writing trans characters. I can count on one hand the amount of cis-written transes that are funny. Just don't be cringe nerds
to be fair it was specifically asking him, this wasn't an open post he chose to respond to. and he opens and ends his statement with "i'm cis, don't ask me ask a transmasc person," i think this is about the best he could do
