hellooooo all!!!

recently, my boyfriend has expressed an interest into (his words) "becoming a reading freak" like me! he struggles very much with dopamine reception which adhd needs in order to adjust to a task! he also struggles to finish a book once he has started it! i've been there before, myself!

for my fellow adhd havers out there (i have audhd), what are your tips and tricks you have for someone trying to get into reading but struggling to focus? additionally, if y'all could provide some simple book recommendations for him that would be lovely <333 he loves manga (he's hyperfixated on jojo's bizarre adventure rn), dnd and is a huge gamer so these might influence your recs!!

love u all xx

IT HAPPENED OMG!!!!! Getting this badge is going on my plan for February asap LMAO. I need this badge STAT! Thank you so much Liz for making this quest!!!!! I can’t express how grateful I am! I’ve probably said thank you a million times and I will say it a million more. I’M SO EXCITED!!!!! The detail and attention you put into this is incredible and I can’t wait to read all of them HAHAHA 🤭🥺🥰⭐️

HI omg!!! Welcome to our much-anticipated dystopian quest!!

In these wild unprecedented times we live in, but even since being a very disillusioned child, I loved to read dystopian literature. Sure, I do enjoy a good cozy read, too, but these books really make me think and feel seen. So this quest is really for everyone who has been told that they're overreacting to the news, because these authors clearly took a look at what was going on in the time they wrote their books and thought, "I'm going to take this ideology to the furthest logical conclusion, and I bet you it's not going to look so different from what we actually have going on around here."

Like many of you, I really hungered for a dystopian literature quest, and so when I became a TC, I started working on it right away. This was a labor of love for me, I considered 173 different books to get us down to this core initial set of 40 books. I have a long list of books that I am hoping to eventually add, but I also would love to get your recommendations, please feel free to add those to this thread.

In working on the quest, I learned a lot about the different types of dystopias we see represented in literature, and I will be making a post explaining those soon as well as which types each book presents (some are combos, which is fun!), once everyone gets to take a look around! I did make the conscious choice to avoid books that were purely post-apocalyptic, though those are often grouped with dystopian works. Instead, this quest will focus on books that present societies - some are crumbling, some are thriving, some are insular mini societies set against the outside world - but avoid those books that are comprised of a natural disaster, and the protagonists not knowing if they are the only people left alive and wandering around, if that makes sense!

Welcome, welcome, and if you'd like, go ahead and share what brings you to dystopian literature, if you have any favorites or recommendations, and anything else you'd like to share with the group! I'm excited to quest here by your side!!

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