Sign in with Facebook
progress:
(19%)
"Finishes stories one and two of nine :). I'm enjoying these but you have to like some silliness and anachronisms in your stories." — Jan 18, 2026 12:22PM
"Finishes stories one and two of nine :). I'm enjoying these but you have to like some silliness and anachronisms in your stories." — Jan 18, 2026 12:22PM
progress:
(10%)
"Prologue and Chapter One done 👍 I worry that it'll end up being similar to A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing where I end up not fully enjoying the modern MCs chapters but the other timeline ones will really suit me. Good so far, though." — Jan 15, 2026 06:40PM
"Prologue and Chapter One done 👍 I worry that it'll end up being similar to A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing where I end up not fully enjoying the modern MCs chapters but the other timeline ones will really suit me. Good so far, though." — Jan 15, 2026 06:40PM
“To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.
-"Sorry to Myself”
― Under Rug Swept
-"Sorry to Myself”
― Under Rug Swept
“I still felt the burden of my involuntary role as a mammal dragging me down. In the same way that a night of sleep put wrinkles in a bedsheet, just being alive took a toll. To talk to someone you had to move the flesh on your face. You bathed to get rid of the grime that built up on your skin and clipped your nails because they kept growing. I exhausted myself trying to achieve the bare minimum, but it had never been enough. My will and my body would always disengage before I got there.”
― Idol, Burning
― Idol, Burning
“Phones and TV screens have kind of a grace built into their separation, like the distance between the stage and the audience. It was reassuring to sense someone's presence at a certain remove so that the space couldn't be destroyed by interacting directly, or the relationship ruined by anything I did.”
― Idol, Burning
― Idol, Burning
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
People have the right to resist annihilation”
―
People have the right to resist annihilation”
―
“I don’t really feel anything. I haven’t felt anything in months. It’s fascinating how busy my friends are with being the center of their own worlds, and my parents have never been very involved or perceptive of my inner life. I get good grades and I don’t act up, so they’ve never needed to understand me. Unlike my brother, who gets mediocre grades and struggles with making friends and therefore gets all of their focus and attention and energy. Decades later my mother will throw out a casual remark about how easy I was as a teenager. And I’ll be shocked anew that she never knew, that she never even tried to know.”
― Hijab Butch Blues
― Hijab Butch Blues
Marl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
815 books
|
978 friends
19,414 books
|
2,849 friends
4,513 books
|
578 friends
1,239 books
|
2,157 friends
387 books
|
477 friends
223 books
|
4,999 friends
2,170 books
|
876 friends
700 books
|
38 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Marl
Lists liked by Marl
