Is it just me or does the author have the most adorable voice ever? 🥹 I love listening to her so much, her narration is seriously the cutest

Hello boundlings and sorry for the delay (June has been kicking my ass!). You know the drill… what’s a complaint (no matter how big, small, dramatic, serious, silly) that you need to shout to the void?! 🗣️

It is the same here as everywhere else - if people even think you don't follow their reasoning, you get downvotes. This makes no sense and I think the feature should be removed. Especially as people can hide behind the anonymity of downvotes and don't need to think about it.

I am not sure people even try to understand what is written either, because downvotes happen (to everyone) even when they are saying the same thing from a different angle.

This is not how discourse or democracy work. If I can't have an opinion that's different from yours, then there is no point in talking at all. If you don't agree with me (or others) just don't upvote. Simple as that. By downvoting you are saying "your opinion isn't valued." Maybe that is what people want to say when they downvote. I don't know. Unless it is hate speech in any form or direct attack on someone, I don't see a reason to even think about using that feature.

If you happen to disagree, or you don't understand what is said, reply and explain or ask, please. I've seen people getting downvotes just for asking a question wrong or expressing some frustration.

My opinion is disregarded in the offline world often enough, I do not need people letting me think my opinion is worthless in places like this. It causes anxiety and confusion when I don't even understand why there would be downvotes to begin with. And I am certainly not the only one fearful of expressing opinions. Probably just the only one to say something openly, because that's me, expressing my opinions even when they aren't that popular. And I'm not pretending, like others might, that I am not affected by things.

So I won't be posting anymore unless it is in a book forum. And I know hardly anyone cares because you don't know me, or you will downvote this post because in your imagination this is somehow some sort of attention grabbing, or rage post or whatever. It is not. I'm frustrated, tired and disappointed, hurt and confused, as so often, and I think I have a reason to say so.

I hope eventually downvotes will be removed so everyone can talk without fear of being devalued.

Is it just me or does the author have the most adorable voice ever? 🥹 I love listening to her so much, her narration is seriously the cutest

For now, I struggle to get into the story. I don't know why exactly, maybe it's just that I have a hard time to figure the world, the city, the surroundings... Takes a bit of effort to immerse myself.

Everyone else felt the same? Tell me I need to keep going 😭

Hello, I've been wanting to read about ticks and wondered if this might be a good place to get recommendations! I fucking hate ticks, it feels like we are constantly under attack out here by sneaky bugs trying to give us debilitating diseases. This year I'm pulling multiple ticks off all of us every day and I really resent them. I know that resenting a bug for doing bug things is very human-centric and it isn't really how I prefer to look at things overall — so I thought maybe reading a book about ticks could help me get some perspective 😅

This book is horrific. I love dark narratives, but jeez, I'm struggling here 😫

Hello, I've been wanting to read about ticks and wondered if this might be a good place to get recommendations! I fucking hate ticks, it feels like we are constantly under attack out here by sneaky bugs trying to give us debilitating diseases. This year I'm pulling multiple ticks off all of us every day and I really resent them. I know that resenting a bug for doing bug things is very human-centric and it isn't really how I prefer to look at things overall — so I thought maybe reading a book about ticks could help me get some perspective 😅