Unrelated to books, but I hope it’s okay I’m posting here.

I’ve noticed that many users on here aren’t using other social media. Not hard to guess why.

I’ve recently stopped using the one social media I used to frequent regularly: Tumblr. I was mostly there to engage with fandom output (not discourse), but it was quite helpful for providing coverage of very niche news that a lot of outlets weren’t reporting on (e.g., I got my Odyssey film news from there 🔗). Tumblr’s been acting up for me and deleting my account randomly so I decided to give myself a break from it.

Tumblr wasn’t the only place I got my news from, it wasn’t viable for that. I get it from youtube also. Only from independent outlets I can trust, mainly: Zeteo, Novara Media, The Majority Report (which is mostly entertainment for me). I know, they just happen to be left-wing lol. I haven’t really subscribed to any of them because I’m in college and my transactions are monitored.

Before I was on Pagebound, I used to get my news from Instagram, i.e. I was made aware of the gazan and the darfur genocide, and couple other issues. I won’t say it was completely wasteful, I learned a lot of important things. But it started taking a toll on me mentally and afflicting me with new, unknown insecurities + perpetual hopelessness, that I needed to get away.

I haven’t cared about cable since I started caring about politics (and I just found it boring before). I’m not from the US, and I’ll let you know that TV has been so thoroughly hijacked by the governing party in my country that it is impossible to get reliable news coverage that isn’t completely cherry-picked to further a very bigoted narrative. I won’t even mention newspapers, I cut them up and make collage out of them sometimes.

I’ve noticed that I’ve become aggressively particular about where I get any information from. I used to get perfume recs from reddit, but I’ve forgone social media so thoroughly (save for YT, I need something) these past few months that I’m forced to engage with real people about these stuff (I use Parfumo for ratings and compositions, if you’re curious).

So I’m curious where everybody gets their news from. Anywhere you think is reliable? How has the media landscape in your country affect how you get your news? Does it go further than just news for you? I’d be open to branching out myself.

You knowwww like... I have a secretly crush on someone. He likes to read books too but is kinda different than I used to read. He reads a kind of philosophy book and science. So in the end I try to read them too 😭😭😭

Okay, personally those genres are not bad at all and I actually like it. Second, I talked to him and he was surprised (and excited) that I read those genres. So we spent lunch time together and talk about it todaayy aaaa. But he has no idea that I have a crush on him.

kinda nervous hihi 😆

If you can remember whats your first ever book you read or just something you remember impacted you into reading or just you in general?

Let me go first. I think the first book I picked up was The Vampire Academy. I mean, obviously we read books in school, but this was the first book I actually chose to read on my own, and I legit think it changed my life. More in the way of like, “wow… books are actually GOOD and damn I want to consume more" I'd legit go to the library like weekly lmao ”

But also in a way is that I used to have a really bad learning disability as a child I ( still have it but is like low maintenance now ) and would act out a lot growing up, and I genuinely think picking up books and reading helped shape me into who I am today. I like to say it was almost like a switch went off in my brain. Like suddenly I wanted to try in school and the disability that held me back felt like it didnt impact me as much.

So yeah, Vampire Academy legit paved the way for my love of reading 🥹 Sorry, I rambled a lot lmao.

I just wanna know people orgin stories on discovering books lmao.

GIRLY POP YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIIIIND 😭

🖐🏼 question! at the very start of the chapter, dahye is taking a picture and says "say kimchi" similar to how some english speakers says "say cheese". is this actually a thing among korean speakers (i can't tell from the reddit boards) or is it just something the author thought might be cute?