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i read books and then talk about them on the internet 🌙• Neuroscience master student🌱 (she/they) Youtube & other socials ↷
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Wearing a mask has confronted me with the fact that my only communication style has been ✨politely smiling✨ and i can no longer rely on it
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romance books with dual POV so you experience the yearning from both perspectives >>>>>>>
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i need more romance books recs where the male love interest isn't just another stern broody asshole clone
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Give me your recommendations for fantasy books that feel like crack. I just need to feel that "omg this is so cool i cant stop reading" high again while reading
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haven't finished a single book so far in 2022 and guess what ✨it absolutely does not matter✨ I'll read again when i feel like it
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how come that books have suddenly become mainstream cool again? is it really just tiktok? what is it about booktok that found more success than booktube or bookstagram did?
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unpopular opinion: if getting spoiled for a book ruins your entire experience, it's not a very good book
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does anyone actually like hardcovers more than paperbacks or have we just been told by publishing that we should
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how am i supposed to know what i want to do as a career for the rest of my life when I can't even stick to a hobby for longer than 6 months without losing interest
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can we bring back writing way too long handwritten letters where you pour out your daily musings to each other?
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was in the bookstore today and overheard a mother introducing the Heartstopper graphic novels to her daughter and explaining that they were about lgbt and that the author was also lgbt and it the daughter seemed very interested and it was so 🥺🥺
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the world will know peace the day we stop considering reading books as some intellectual/superior pastime
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reminder that you don't have to ✨rebrand✨ yourself for the new year, despite what every advertisement/social media post tells you.
you are not a product, your individuality is not a brand, you don't have to perform yourself to the world
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being in your mid twenties is weird because one day you'll visit your friend that's getting married or owns a house and the next day you'll invite someone over to have pizza in your 4x4 student room
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remember that time Pewdiepie was a booktuber for about a year? and millions of people watched his monthly reading wrap ups? that was a time
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I want to dispel the idea that reading vlogs are shallow, low-effort videos. They are the MOST time consuming videos I make. If a vlog looks easy and smooth-going, it means a lot of effort has gone into it to make it look that way.
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everybody's always talking about big 'to be read' piles but can we talk about how horrificly long my 'currently reading' list always is??
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fooled around with colour and background for a video and accidentily turned into a painting help
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do i need to make a 'biology student reads scientist-romance book The Love Hypothesis' video or....
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i would love to post more on instagram and stories like everyone else but you have to understand my life is very boring and i just sit in my room all day
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2022 gonna be the year I just read shit that sounds interesting to me instead of keeping up with what is popular
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booktubers who work/study fulltime but still manage to upload 3+ videos a week, lend me your secrets please
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hello if you feel frustrated about booktubers who buy a lot of books, please direct that anger towards our consumerist system or amazon, not to the individuals who are just living their lives in a world that will inevitably lead you to make consumerist choices
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growing up is realising you don't have to like the characters in order to enjoy reading about them
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it's kind of sad how booktube was built on reviews/discussion vids that now barely exist bc they're just too niche and don't do well in the YT algorithm
it's just so nice to find a yt'er talk in depth about a book you've read, but i also understand why it doesn't happen anymore
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recommendations for fae books where the fae are mythologically accurate, are manipulative, can't lie etc (so no acotar)?
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✨LIFE UPDATE✨ I recently started my final research internship before graduation!
I'm a remote intern at a Harvard (!?) Neuropsychiatry group, and I'll be researching the amygdala (emotion center of the brain) and gene expression, using lots of computer data!
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who are these 100k nerds that enjoy watching videos about books🙄
no but really thank you so much for your support, i truly love making videos for you all!
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haven't finished any books in over a month but i am INHALING my current read omg new dark academia fave
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guess who got all dressed up and ready to film a scripted well researched video only to find out i forgot my camera at my parent's house
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I don't know who needs to hear this but liking a villain character doesn't make you a bad or immoral person
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i don't know why i held the idea that using sparknotes and essays while reading a classic is "cheating" but for real it 100% enhances the experience 10/10 would recommend
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fuck you sally rooney for writing such unlikable characters that i relate to
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my new favourite genre is "people at university bringing out the worst in each other"
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If you're a western non-us citizen (like me) and are now thinking 'I can't believe something like this would ever happen in a country like the USA. America is so weird wow', think again. Dangerous ideas have no borders. These ideas probably live in your country as well.
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reading a book? um no i have to go watch a 4 hour video of someone who watched all of iCarly
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sharing this because i am continuously astounded by people's willingness to write off clearly adult books as YA, just because they are enjoyed by people who also like YA books. I still get people describing me as a YA booktuber, when it is only about half the books I read. It's..
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me: chooses a masters course with more statistics and computer work to satisfy my inner ✨woman in stem✨
also me: drained and up late trying to figure out why my code doesn't work
i think i may have girlbossed a bit to close to the sun
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do you ever listen to a song you loved as a teen but haven't listenend to 5 years and YOU IMMIDEATELY REMEMBER ALL THE LYRICS best feeling
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another day, another group of people who have been taught to dislike certain things in order to not seem shallow, who then get upset when seeing other people unabashedly enjoy those very things
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i'm making a video on enemies to lovers and so far it's 10 minutes of me identifying the 7 subcategories of the trope and i can't believe this is how i'm using the critical thinking skills i learned at university
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I'm fully vaccinated babyyy i can already feel bill gates' software being downloaded into my mind
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i need food companies to understand that not all vegetarians are health freaks. we just want a no-meat option, not a broccoli rice cauliflower crust beet tortilla
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me: i should probably read a bit of a shorter, lighter book to prevent a reading slump and get some more books read
also me: *picks up dune*
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who decided adults don't need playgrounds anymore?? who says i can't enjoy climbing ropes and going down slides anymore????
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my brain has become completely stuck on shadow & bone and i can't focus on anything else, please send help
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send a link to your goodreads/storygraph and i will judge/psycho-analyse you based on your taste in books in my next video
(at your own risk)
👇👇
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i genuinly wonder what leads people to think 'oh the book went over their head, they just didn't get it'
instead of the way more rational thought 'oh this just wasn't their interest, the ideas just didn't resonate with them'
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it's finally here! all the books i read so far this year from worst to best!
+ a song recommendation for each book :)
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no thoughts head empty about 2022 book releases, only thinking about Babel by RF Kuang
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why do authors keep using the words 'male' and 'female' in lieu of positive adjectives like beautiful or hot 😭 like how is 'he looked so male' a sexy sentence, it just makes me feel like im reading the field notes of a biologist trying to determine the gender of a bird they saw
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Ok uhm so I have a magic system. I have a world. I have some character ideas. Plot? How does one plot? You're telling me something actually needs to happen?
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Im going to a neuroscience convention tomorrow to share my research wtf
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starting off my 24th birthday with a cup of tea and playing botw which is ultimate bliss tbh
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sorry i'm late, i was just having a 40 minute long imaginary political debate in my head with someone i never met
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Ok but what if I cooked the traditionally dutch meal that is mentioned in Six of Crows for a video?????
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regressing to my 18 year old self again, I'm gonna read so much ya fantasy
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Just filmed one of those chatty sit down tbr videos that's gonna be a nightmare to edit but i really liked my dress and earrings so enjoy these pictures i took with insta story filters but am now sharing on twitter
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i got an rgb light and it is the best thing i bought in months. all my videos will have cool colours. all my selfies will be colourful. nobody can stop me and my newfound powers
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i will finish shadow and bone this evening but so far what i can say is: ??????? it's so good??? like???? i forgot good adaptations were possible??????????
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can't wait for my summer break to start so i can spend all my silly little hours in the sun reading my silly little romance books
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you know you've read a good book if, after finishing it, you have to google "[title] ending explained"
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I'm at a point where i find myself wishing i could play a tiktok at 2x speed and i think this is the sign that i need to throw my phone into a volcano
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pals, i never announced it here but i✨found a research internship✨ for my masters degree!!
it's full-time so i'll only be able to upload once a week but at least i'm not a burden on society anymore woohoo
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People trust reviews of those who have similar opinions. If you give most books 5 stars, you get most out of reviewers who do the same. If you're a more critical reader, you need a reviewer who has the same faves as you. Neither is good/bad, you just need a reader/reviewer match
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anyone else get random bursts of productivity and motivation in at night?
love watching online classes and plan my life and set up goals only to lose all motivation tomorrow morning ✨✨✨
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this week's video is going to be a 30 minute chill vlog filled with book shops and sunshine 😌😌😌
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I really need to stop saying 'i didn't read a lot this month' in my videos because IT DOESN'T MATTER
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I'm in Paris!!!!✨✨✨
Any tips for hidden gems I need to visit/eat/etc?
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dutch people are really out here slapping 1 (one) slice of cheese on a piece of bread and calling it a meal
it's me i'm dutch people
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the wait has been long but i finally have a NEW BOOKMARK coming to my Etsy!✨✨
I am over the moon about this one! It's a fantasy print with rose gold foiling 😍😍
thank you all for your patience, updates on when the etsy opens will come soon!
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fake dating trope but they establish a safe word/cue to signal when they're not comfortable with sth during a fake date, when?
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i have finally managed to curate an outfit that looks exactly like the stuff i pin on pinterest
i can die in peace now
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Booktube doesn't have "too much YA" or "too much fantasy". We just know what we like and for some of us that's just one type of book. Booktubers don't owe you a more varied taste in genres.
(and if you like other genres, trust me, there are booktubers that also love that genre)
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daily reminder that having free time is A Good Thing™ actually and not something that means you're lazy
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can't wait till i graduate so i finally have time to do essay videos again
topics currently brooding in my head:
- the 'unhinged woman' trope & female rage
- "men written by women"
- "cozy" fantasy vs epic fantasy
wont promise anything though lol
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I've always been curious about getting into japanese fiction. what if...i made a video about it?👀
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the way this was an april fools joke and the category no longer exists but i was actually excited about it adsfjl
Shhhh. We're reading.
Pick up a book and join us (quietly) in the Silent Reading category:
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will i ever finish all the book series that I've only read the first book of hmmmm?
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me: this is one of my fave books of the year! I loved it so much!
also me: *has forgotten every single thing that happened in the book*
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if youtube could stop telling me that my audience is not interested in my video, that would be great
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i may be stretching here, but i feel the term "young adult" has completely lost its meaning as an age indicator in the public debate, and is now utilised in a way people used to say "women's fiction"
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shoutout to 8 y/o me who thought the uk was a rain forest because the only thing i ever heard about the country was that it had a lot of rain
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I sure hope that when people say they're 'in their fleabag era' they mean 'tired of restrictive societal expectations put on women' and not 'im becoming a kleptomaniac and ruining all my relationships🤪'
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when the meal you've been having for lunch every day for weeks suddenly starts tasting like shit😔😔😔
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I'm trying to make a playlist with songs for every book i read in 2021 but i read to many romance books and i never listen to happy love songs😩
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I just finished my 30 Day Yoga Challenge from yoga with adriene wtf i just did yoga every single day for a month?????
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i started listening to red white and royal blue and so far it feels like someone is injecting serotonin straight into my brain
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meat eaters say no meal can taste good without meat and then go and eat unseasoned chicken
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this thing turned me into a fantasy goddess omg
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20% into The Cruel Prince and Jude & Carden are already one my top ships holy shit
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just send out my first sponsored video for approval.
feeling very profesh. can't wait to finally be a sell-out✨
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