jim > Recent Status Updates

“this month i’m reading mansfield park for real” i say for the fourth month in a row, only to abandon ms austen once again to hang out with my good friend daeron targaryen instead (one of the very few targaryens to earn that description). its not my fault, hotd s3 made me do it

girl you cannot get away with continuity errors in a regular cast so limiteddddd you are not george rr martin creating 47299394 different families……..

you could genuinely write an essay on the gender politics in this series bc like girl wtfffff

i mustve been sleeping on road music bc ???? radiohead just moment of all time tbh

GIRL. six books in and for the first time i’m genuinely shocked speechless by a twist. girl.

the raven king AND covert gay slurs? close enough, welcome back maggie stiefvater

ive had this book on my currently reading shelf for YEARS. but this time ill read it fr.

water is wet, the sky is blue, jim is reading crush by richard siken. nobody is surprised

have to accept that this series rly isnt good but i do enjoy a good german jumpscare

rereading the beartown series broke my heart so badly i decided to reread another one of my unhinged childhood favourites 🥴

on top of everything else going on douglas stuart rly said brokeback mountain with jack and ennis alive but everyone is STILL unhappy……. king of making my me sosososo depressed

if i had a husband and he started quoting TOLSTOY at me in the middle of an argument im sorry but he would not live long enough to have an emotionally fraught encounter with a hot young soldier so this lady is already stronger than me tbh

author hates counting crows big yellow taxi, immediate 5 stars. this is not a joke, which just proves that i am the exact target audience for this book and i fucking loved it

rilo kiley mentioned?? god this author’s music taste must be fire

can’t remember the last time i felt so invested in a story while simultaneously not caring abt the prose at all

1.200 pages for such a flop ass ending………. leo tolstoy u are not seeing heaven

currently reading: violence, death and masculinity in american cinema by asbjorn gronstad. this one is DENSE. the introduction alone was 41 pages of theory that i barely understood. but we persevere bc i need to get this guys take on reservoir dogs

halfway point: reached
mind: lost
fucks given about lewin: less than zero

WHEW finished w 10 minutes left in the year. slay

i WILL finish this book before the year ends. fr

i should have dnfd after page 2 or so bc that is when i knew this would be awful. oh well!!

jesus CHRIST. was fighting for my life here. was it worth it? well no. but sometimes ill see a meme and fo “thats so shonagon core” and thats beautiful

“when i make myself imagine what it is like to be one of those women who live at home, faithfully serving their husbands — women who have not a single exciting prospect in life yet who believe they are perfectly happy— i am filled with scorn.” OKAY GIRL SAY THAT. in the year 1000 AD. okay!!

back again on my obscure german textbook grind

pretty sure its been like. more than 2 years at this point but i am FINALLY picking this back up. apparently i left off at chapter 4 but i decided to start over bc i remembered nothing xoxo

the way this has my heart racing looking around for water bombs..... sitting at my fucking desk during lunch break. i guess you could say this is....... immersive <3

using this as a placeholder for niche german academic texts abt thomas mann. can u believe i gave buddenbrooks 3 stars? me neither bc here i am reading niche german academic texts abt it now

isn’t it funny how MAGIC of all things is probably bruce’s most currently relevant album………. haha…… god.

tony buddenbrook is kinda like a horror movie final girl. to ME

moral of the story: never trust a bavarian