just a selkie in the sea

(I also go by Liz)

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you ever decide to give a book another chance, open it, read one sentence, think "man, fuck you"1, and instinctively slam the back button on the ereader so you don't have to see it anymore?


  1. for people who do not know me in person: I swear out loud maybe half a dozen times a year. in my head, maybe half a dozen times a month. when it happens, you know it's serious.


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in reply to @JhoiraArtificer's post:

In grad school I decided to give the second Robert Jordan Wheel of Time novel a chance. I had loved that series in high school until I tried to reread the first one and realized how bad it all was.

Nope. Still just as bad. I spent like an hour talking about how much I hated him with my roommate at the time lol.

Ooh I read them when I was 12, fell off at Path of Daggers when I couldn't keep up with what the characters were doing anymore—and it's worth noting I was reading them in about three days apiece, so it's not like I'd forgotten things over months. I've never tried going back 😆

That was my experience, except I was like 15? Path of Daggers was the most recent one, and I read up through it. Then the ninth one got a release date a few years later, when I was a senior in hs, and I decided to reread the series.

I didn't have any critical acumen, I hadn't studied theory or learned about gender dynamics or anything like that. I had simply read more fiction and begun to write my own, and I felt betrayed at how boring the characters were and how awful the prose was lol