Owie

[crantz]

I've been having my migraines lately and unable to sleep, so to raise my spirits I've been image searching things like prairie crocus, numbats, mouse deer, etc.

Also browsing book sales and there's a certain degree of fuckery on the amazon kindle title fields where instead of just the title they'll add some buzzwords leading to stuff like: "The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs" and also serves as warning plumage when you see books with 'A Dark Bully Romance' or 'An Uplifting Inspirational Romance' appended*

The on sale cozies my mom wants me to get her from bookbub are riddled with titles like these but thankfully since she has her bookbub set to the American one due to a misunderstanding when signing up, the books she points me out at are never on sale (thus we do not get them) and I am spared seeing 'A LAUGH OUT LOUD CAT-FILLED WHODUNNIT FOR FANS OF' appended onto the title of books in our shared library.

I'm a stickler, okay. Titles go in the title field. Summaries go in the summary field. Never shall the twain meet.



*Romance is not the warning word I'm talking about here.



EDIT: This entry reminded me to go check her favourite authors pages to see if they had any pre-orders up. There were some!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Human book titles are not intended to be Homestuck troll entertainment titles (which summarize the whole plot in the title).

[crantz]

I think I could get behind a plot summary more than buzzwords, but you are correct.

[phosfate]

The only thing I hate more than the insane subtitles in the title field are the 500,000 word postapocalyptic brony fanfics.

[crantz]

They're just competition for your 500,000 word postapocalyptic brony fanfics.

[phosfate]

I will kick you in the ankle.

[crantz]

You'll never take me alive!

[phosfate]

I am fine with that.

[crantz]

gaspu

[phosfate]

*squirrel stare*

[crantz]

I fucked up!

[phosfate]

I walked past the clinic today and startled a squirrel, who ran up the fire escape and then peered down at me. So I talked to him for a couple of minutes. I can't tell if they hate that or just wonder WTF the giant incomprehensible house chimps think they're doing.

I should've taken his picture.

[crantz]

When Elly the Elephant was over here in Manitoba I found out how different Texan squirrels were because she looked at ours and kept saying 'why is it cute and not trying to hurt us?'

[tainry]

[crantz]