"My ultimate dream is to get pregnant and have an abortion, just like a normal woman.

There was no small irony about tweeting my dreams of being a normal woman with the very same fingers that had just authorized a male carer to bathe me, a command that would carry me ever further from the lives of normal women."

I really feel like I'm missing some cultural context. I know that Japan has an... interesting relationship to sex, sex work and everything related to it but I'm not aware that abortion is so common it would be described as something normal women do?

(Btw just wanted to say, I'm 100% pro-choice. I'm just genuinely confused)

"The spines of all those healthy kids with their bad postures didn't bend a smidgen. After all, their bodies housed the correct blueprints."

Really great reminder that sometimes bad things just happen and we did nothing to deserve them. In a world like ours where we are often told that we get to harvest what we planted, this is important to remember. The world is not fair and we do not always get what we deserve

Reading about Snow announcing the Quarter Quell genuinely made me sick to my stomach even though I knew it was coming 😰

So I rewatch the Lord of the rings film series in the hazy five day slog that is the gap between Christmas and new years and idk guys. The emotions have really hit this year and im really feeling a hankering to read the books. I’ve never read the books, and my grandad and uncle LOVE them, but my mum, who has a very similar bookish taste to me, is not a lotr book enjoyer, finding them longwinded and boring, and only likes the films.

So I am calling my LOTR film fans who have also partaken in the books to please inform me if it’s worth it or not. Dipping into Tolkien is a whole can of worms which im still apprehensive about opening, but if they really are as tremendous as the entire genre of fantasy since the sixties would have me believe, Id give them a go.

So are they worth it? Hit me!!

EDIT: Thank you guys this has been really helpful!! I think I’ll give them a shot (eventually, who knows when I’ll find a gap in my TBR), but I’ll start with the hobbit and see how I get on from there.

I've seen a couple of these posts float around, but none in the past couple of days (or rather, I can't tell exactly when the last one was posted, but I'm assuming a week or more ago?) so: tell me, what are your niche bookish pet peeves? I have two: First: People calling any oldish book a "classic". Second: People basing their opinions of a work on a personal misconception which could easily be resolved with a google search (specifically I saw a pin about the Aeneid and everyone was complaining that Virgil "basically copied the Iliad and the Odyssey" and that "the Aeneid therefore sucks/is worthless", and as a reader and classics students, I felt it was my moral duty to go on a ran- ahem, educate the people in the comments about some of the misunderstandings that they were basing their opinions off of and hereby influencing the other people who read their comments.) Your turn :)

“Your job is to collect good ideas.”

Well that’s not going to help my Pinterest addition 😂 It is cool though to think about using Pinterest to collect good ideas that inspire me to create things myself ☺️