this is what CNC is supposed to be!! there is a conversation. there is explicit consent. there is an out. this is what consensual non-consent is supposed to be. so many authors miss the mark on this and use CNC as a cop out, an excuse and it pisses me off to no end. if you want to write noncon or dubcon, do it! don't use CNC as an excuse so that people won't attack you for it (though the people that attack authors for writing whatever the hell they want are a whole other issue). explore dubcon, noncon, and CNC as separate things because that is what they are! they are all categorically different things!!

Hello everyone!

I would like to thank everyone for joining the quest, it’s been such an amazing time on Pagebound in general and I hope everyone is having just as good a time!

With this quest being focused on Villains, I’m curious as to what people’s favourite villains are? Is there a childhood favourite that you used to sweep around in a dramatical cloak-swishing fashion or is there a recent love from a book or show that you cannot stop watching edits about?

My lasting childhood favourite would have to be Madam Mim from Sword in the Stone. I adore her song and overall vibe from the film. Pink and purple theming is such a great choice 💜

Hi friends and happy Friday! One of the greatest features on PB, in my humble opinion, are all the cool niche lists that everyone is creating! I have saved so many and after some discussions in the club about how cool some badges for lists could be I decided to make a couple for fun!

Firstly, I made a Kingfisher badge for the Wonderful works of T. Kingfisher list by @endless_tbr_list as I’ve become a great fan of Kingfisher’s work and Kingfishers are just so pretty!

Then I made one for @The_bookishBug’s Marvellous Minibeasts lists! Check it out, insects are wonderful!

And thirdly, I made a badge for @notlizlemon’s nice to meet you, I’m Death list, as I’ve recently, gotten into discworld and Death personified is such a cool concept!

I just wanted to give some appreciation to all the list creators and hope it inspires more of you to create lists about any niche topics only you know about!🫶🏻

Here is the link where you can see all badges a bit more up close if you’d like!

Edit: It was brought to my attention that the links/embedded images are not accessible from the UK - so hopefully you can see them Here (I added them to a google doc) :)

Please give me book recommendations

Does it happen to anybody else that, after months of reading in English (with more or less struggle, I'm C1, so I get basically all ya and most adult books, but sometimes classics are hard) you go back to reading in your native language and you struggle just as hard?

I just read the great Gatsby. First chapters were pretty tough. Now I'm reading a book in Italian and I'm struggling just as hard as through Gatsby, and surely I'm struggling way more than reading the adult and ya books I read in English. I'm reading a ya in Italian.

I don't know, maybe I'm just having trouble reading in general due to sleeping way less than I should, and I would struggle through ya books in both languages either way.

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book where the nonbinary main character is an artist who paints murals on local buildings, falls in love, learns abt their immigrant family, finds queer community, and grieves a tragic loss by the end, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice. (Thirty Names of Night x Anders & Santi Were Here)

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book where the pale-and-purple-themed MC is raised by a nefarious girlboss with significant political power who sends 'em to a school where students are abused and made to risk their lives in learning to fight each other as well as a mysterious foreign enemy, until the MC- who is, despite being pathetic in many ways, The Best To Ever Do It, having a special magical inner strength- learns about the concept of propaganda and begins to doubt the orders and intentions of the nefarious girlboss and the political structure she's affiliated with, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice. (Homeland x Fourth Wing)

Do you have two nickels? What's the most specific pair (or maybe a few?) of not-intentionally-related books you've read? I think I was originally going to make this one w Thirty Names x The Astonishing Color of Grief because of the birds and the maternal ancestors and the family history- Anders & Santi doesn't have the same focus on history/ancestry, but the murals is just sooo specific, I know loads of folks w moms but nobody who paints on buildings. I've also read two books where an author who plays dungeons and dragons writes a story abt a miserable little orphan boy who everything bad happens to and he has to eat moldy bread until he learns to fight and do magic and then he becomes the greatest hero in all the land; but the similarities between Name of the Wind and Saga of Old City feel more derivative than coincidental, and the coincidences are simply more delightful to me than derivations. (although, if I find out Becky Yarros read abt Drizzt Do'Urden and his lavender orbs before writing abt Violet Soar In Gale I'll be pretty impressed!)