Reader and Dreamer

Watching Occupation:Rainfall on Prime Video and pleasantly surprised by both how well lit it is and how well mixed sound is. Clear speaking and sound effects. At 52mins in the darkest night scene is still brighter than a number of big budget movies day scenes I’ve watched in the last decade👏

02.01.2025 08:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dark background with Gold writing saying Happy New Year 2025 in the centre and surrounded by gold fireworks around it.

My reading streak 189 weeks in a row. 830 days in a row. 3.3 years I haven’t broken missed a full week of reading. 2.2 years since I missed a full day by minutes on either side. My goals are a page of reading or a few minutes of listening each day.

Happy New Year! May 2025 be great in whatever way you need it to be.

My reading streak continues with 189 weeks in a row. 830 days in a row. That’s 3.3 years I haven’t broken missed a full week of reading. 2.2 years since I missed a full day by minutes on either side.

All reading is reading.

31.12.2024 16:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I sometimes get stuck in a *fun* loop with variations of “you’re pregnant I won’t sell this to you” and me responding “I’m definitely not pregnant” for at least ten minutes. I appreciate their diligence but this isn’t the way.

20.12.2024 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can still remember bits of one I read when I was 8 (32 years ago) was lovely, based in Venice during carnival (maybe 1700s?) and helped shape my love for history & period films, tv, & books. I skipped over any inappropriate lovey dovey bits & pulled out the encyclopaedia + atlas when I got home.

04.12.2024 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a fairly prolific reader I assume I’m the problem not the author. That I’m not in the right headspace to be reading the book and I’ll come back to it when I’m in the right mindset for it. I can have 3-4 books going at one time as I switch between depending on how I’m receiving it at that time.

03.12.2024 21:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My post from Tumblr which reads: I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too. I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do.

The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

02.12.2024 03:38 — 👍 7558    🔁 4431    💬 48    📌 190

Yes. Queensland, Australia. So did my kids aged 20-14.

26.11.2024 05:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mejhiren’s Hunger Games FF “When the Moon Fell In Love With The Sun” 362k words sadly unfinished but I reread a few times a year just to live in her vivid cosy world for a moment.

26.11.2024 04:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The day I missed it I stopped reading at 11:57pm the first day, had a super busy second day fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow but woke up in the middle of the night and picked it up again on the third day at about 2:30am. I was so mad when I realised a few days later.

25.11.2024 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s fantastic!

I make my own goals as I found the challenges too restrictive on how I enjoy reading.

21.11.2024 09:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes to all the reading! Love physical books but audiobooks are fantastic for doing activities, for commuting and big trips, the kids listen while colouring in, ebooks so I can read at 2am and not disturb anybody with the light. Also I don’t have the space for over 7.5k books otherwise.

17.11.2024 09:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@purrinink.bsky.social if you don’t follow them you should

15.11.2024 21:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hoping this counts I send most of the purr.in.ink to my teens who are social media averse.

15.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Frequently. It’s the only way to read, if a book gets bit too intense or I don’t want it to end I just pick up the other book.

15.11.2024 01:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sharing my love of reading in a different metric than I usually see shared. My current reading streak of days and weeks. 3.5 years since I missed reading for a week. 2.1 years since I missed a day.

I aim for a couple of pages a night.

14.11.2024 09:17 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0