My friend and I were having a discussion/debate over the idea of living forever. We're always talking about how our TBRs are getting longer and longer, and how it would be impossible to read every book we want to, or even learn everything we want to in the world. Obviously a solution to this would be to live forever.

I truly have no desire to live forever, even if that means I won't be able to read every book I am interested in or go everywhere. The downsides of living forever seem not to be worth it to me (like the way the world/society is going these days, climate change, people, etc).

So if you knew that you could read or learn everything you want in exchange for living forever, would you? And if so, would you have caveats on that or would you just accept eternal life?

"Nona was so grateful to have had a whole six months of this. It was greedy to expect much longer" no one talk to me T-T !!!!

Was having a conversation about names that are considered 'hot' and therefore great names to use in romance/Romantasy settings, the base standard established being which names are moanable. An excellent conversation i think everyone should have, BUT☝🏽 lemme make the conversation a lil spicy: is it good writing if authors are choosing generally acknowledged attractive names to make their characters attractive? Or is it lazy? 👀

I would argue that a sign of great writing is when an author takes a previously unmoanable name and makes it moanable by virtue of the character she delivers. Case in point: Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables 💁🏽‍♀️ No offense to all the Gilberts out there, but nobody could have convinced me that your name was moanable until Anne of Green Gables😬