How do you guys make mutuals here? You can only see your own following and there isn’t a way to dm anyone. I’m fairly active but I haven’t really befriended anyone here yet. (Also hi if you want to be moots 😉)

I feel like I fell in love with this platform this year because why am I on here every single day?? I haven’t let up once 😭 I swear my phone hate to see me coming at this point

And the way I keep hitting the 5-post limit when I’m reading a book??? I’ll be mid-spiral and suddenly it’s like “no more posts for today” and I’m screaming LET ME INNNN I HAVE MORE TO SAYYY 🤧

AHHHHHH 🗣️

It’s time. We’re saying it out loud.

What trope makes you immediately reconsider your life choices when you see it in a synopsis?

The chosen one? Love triangles? Amnesia? Insta-love? The "I can fix him" dynamic?

Confess your literary pet peeves below. This is your safe space to vent.

Pls tell me Chaol is end game 😫

Hey everyone, small announcement that we've completed our "New Avatars" Roadmap item and just released an additional 33 avatars. Most are new color variants of our existing avatars but we have some brand new characters as well!

-"Fabio" aka long haired Victorian romance novel type character, in 2 colors variants -"Victorian", candle-holding character available in 3 color variants -"Audiobook lover", wearing headphones! available in 3 color variants -"Matcha" and "Coffee", available in the food pack avatars that are unlocked for level 4 users -"Astronaut" in 2 color variants, unlocked for level 5 users

We now have a grand total of 103 avatars to choose from ! Big shout out to our illustrator Mariam Chagelishvili (@lokokinart on Instagram) who did an amazing job bringing these characters to life. We hope these new variants and characters help everyone feel more represented in their avatar and give more variety in the avatars you see around PB !

ps, these are the avatars you can unlock as you level up:

• level 2: Pet pack, 2 cats and 2 dogs (inspired by Lucy's gray dog Rooney and my black cat Binx 🥹)
• level 3: Dragon pack, 2 eastern inspired dragons and 2 western inspired dragons
• level 4: Food pack, 2 croissants, 2 rice bowls, 2 chili peppers, coffee & matcha
• level 5: Astronaut pack, 2 astronauts

Have you ever felt a reading slump on the horizon? How do you stop it from ruining your day, your week etc?

hi boundlings, does anyone have recs for works of fiction or poetry (no memoirs or nonfiction please) that explore death and grief through an honest, unflinching lens?

i’m approaching the deathiversary of a loved one and feeling the need to dig deeper into mortality and loss rather than to seek comfort. i am agnostic rather than strictly nonreligious, but i don’t really want a solution, explanation, platitude or “greater purpose”.

i’m looking for something that captures the pain, strangeness and permanence of death as it is, and maybe examines it as a philosophical or existential problem. thanks so much in advance :)

Have you ever seen a pet name being used in a book and IMMEDIATELY gotten the ick?

The FMC in my book just called her husband sweetheart… he’s over 50. I DONT LIKE IT😭