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!!

You’ve turned your whole life upside down multiple times over this man and have done basically nothing but bang your own brain cells out (and there was not a surplus of those to start with) for hundreds of pages but you’ve never sat on his face before? GURL your priorities are so boring 🙄

The majority of us here are self-confessed badge gremlins. But is there a readalong badge you wish you had that you don't?

I really wish I had the Dia de los Muertos badge. I love seeing it in people's bios, and all three books I really want to read somewhen. Alas, I joined right after it finished. 🥲

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) :)