How do your reads influence you in your creative journey?

I do a lot of creative stuff, and here are all of the things I made, inspired by books!🥰 📚Writing: I am working on a soft scifi/horror novel, and it wad inspired by a lot of things I've read, mainly "Az utolsó emberig" by Zoltán Benyák, "Arc of a Scythe trilogy" by Neil Shusterman, "The Mirror Visitor quartet" by Christelle Dabos and the "Evillious Chronicles light novels" by mothy/Akuno-p. ✏️Poetry: I have to admit, I don't read eough poetry, but I still adore Attila József and Miklós Radnóti and they inspire me a lot! 🎨Art: I mostly draw characters from my stories, but I still make a great deal of fanart for my favourite reads, and also the stuff we read in literature class. My latest fanarts were little character portraits from Anyegin by Puskin. 🧸Crochet and sewing: I love makig little fantasy creatures! I also ended up accidentally sewing a cat that resembles that one button eyes creature from Coraline (never read it lol). 🌄Photgrapy: I only began taking photos not so long ago, but I really wanna take pictures with dystopian vibes! 📔Bookbinding: I printed out the entire fantranslation of the first Evillious book, sewn and binded it! I just really wanted to hold it in my hands. 📿Jewlery making: I made some little fantasy mushroom themed earrings out of air dry putty!

If anyone wants pics of them Ill try to add them in a reply!

Sooo, what kinda creative stuff do you do?

Coming back from vacation and Pagebound is the first app I open 🙂‍↕️ book tracking is actually that serious I fear. Saw little else these past twoish weeks except my kindle and the ocean

Happy Friday Everyone! I would like to consider myself as a lover not a hater, but there are just some books I read that I can't stand. And it just irks me when I see so many people love them. So, what is a book that just gets on your specific nerves that no one else seems to understand. For me it's The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, Alchemised by SenLinYu and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Ok I just had to get that off my chest. Also, I will say this is my personal preference, and I have chosen to die on this hill.

hi everyone hope you’re all taking care of yourselves & staying safe! the world has been such an ugly place lately, if you live in the bay you know that ice troops have been sent to the city which DISGUSTING! please know your rights, stay safe, & hug your loved ones! sending everyone love❤️‍🔥 know that no one is illegal one stolen land.

i am so glad that books exist & we’re able to escape to another world, one with cool, funny, hot men/ people (:

on a lighter note: what character do you have the fattest crush on & why? ( I’d love if we could add pictures lol )

for me it’s: kade from insatiable he sounds so yummy, rafe visconti from sinners consumed, alessandro zannetti from burned dreams or my top choice dante russo from the king of wrath hehehe

Anything Is A Bookmark Jellybeans, what is the strangest thing you have used as a bookmark?

Me, a booksleeve, even while the book was inside a larger booksleeve

Or it could be a mug coaster

List your favourite trope.

If your trope is more niche, feel free to define it so others can know more about it! Can be common or niche tropes!

Beneath it, put your favourite book recommendations for that trope!

Let's see what tropes are the most popular on this platform!!!

So, I inherited a gargantuan amounts of old books from my grandma. They are your typical soviet era ugly hardbacks with a plain cover and a text like "the masterpieces of world literature". Many were bought as a subscription service that you could sign up to with newspapers in the sixties. Eastern Europeans will know. Now many of these are classics, or more unpopular works by classic authors. However, there are a LOT and I really want to sort out which ones are worth reading, and which ones are just old junk. Of course I wouldn't throw those away, just maybe use them for craft projects and such. I compiled a list on my profile with the title "Classics I own, please help" (not just "Classics", those are the ones already on my tbr). If some classic/old book lovers would look trough it, and tell me which ones do they recommend, and are worth reading, i would appreciate a lots❤️❤️❤️

Edit: thank you so much for everyone who helped, it really means a lot!! I already managed to add some to my tbr!

Hello guys. I feel like I need to have this discussion because a lot of people don't know what cultural appropriation is. Adopting something after mocking the culture the thing comes from or mocking the originators for doing it or renaming it to suit your needs without crediting its origins is cultural appropriation! If you, however, as non poc wear a bindi— call it a bindi— and appreciate what it represents; it's not cultural appropriation! I've seen a lot of people from various cultures absolutely love when white people try something from their culture. PROVIDED you give the credit where it belongs! In real life, you can minimise cultural appropriation by buying things from the original creators 🫶

That being said, I would like to put some of this in for budding authors here. If you decide to use any of these in your books, please do some research for its origins! I can only speak of south asian origin of course. So guys, please start a thread of what's been culturally appropriated from your culture and how would you like people to address that?

So here you go!

Checks - Originated from Madras fishermen! During colonisation, these were exported and made a exclusive to mobility of the British! Because the quality was so good!

Bandana - originated as Bandhani, which mean to to Tie! worn by people in the northern parts of India. Especially Kashmir and you might see it on Romani people as well!

Boho Jewellery - THESE ARE JHUMKAS AND HAARS. I kid you not, I used to die searching for JHUMKAS in london until someone told me to type boho jewellery. Oxidised jewellery and big ass jewelleriew have been worn india for centuries. Visit any temple and you'll see it. So Jhumkas are south asian in origin. Hope that helps!

Kohlapuri Chappals- the sandals with the band around your big toes originated from Kohlapur and is the lifeblood of Dalits and was worn ORIGINALLY by Dalits.

Maang Tikas- these are the things that you see in coachella where you wear jewellery in the middle part of your hair. Love to see it, but please. give credit to the people it originated from!

Bindi - it's been boiled down to a fashion accessory but Bindis often symbolised the third eye and Shakti or the Goddess Durga and her various forms. Women in India wear it not just because it looks fashionable but it's been culturally passed down to us from our foremothers

"Scandinavian Scarf* - This one pisses me the hell off. It's a DUPATTA. Y'al look hella pretty with it but it's a dupatta. It's a long cloth draped over your neck and shoulder. It's different from a scarf because you don't use the same material, print and stitching for scarf and you don't drape it like a scarf.

Okay that's it for today! Again, I love seeing people of different cultures wear these things. But again, buy from the original creators, and use appropriate words and enjoy looking slay as hell! Please share your cultural thing appropriated below and what people should call them and how they should acknowledge them instead.

Guilty pleasures are typically seen as harmless and silly things. Like enjoying a publicly disliked book or having a treat that goes against your usual diet. However, what about those guilty pleasures that aren't so harmless (of not meaning anything like causing physical harm or anything illegal), more like can be a little mean.

Like I'm normally a pretty decent human being. I don't really like going out of my way to being cruel to people, especially people that I don't know. Though, I have a guilty pleasure that can be not so nice. When there is a book I really hate, I take pleasure in reading the lowest rating reviews on those books. Especially when I'm upset and need a pick me up boost.

What is your guilty pleasure(s), nice and mean welcome? Lol