Fuck, are they trying to make me fall in love with them or what?!

Mon travail actuel est destiné à un public gay ou féminin, donc même s’il a été nominé au prix du roman gay 2025 (Capax Infinity, Belgique), je ne vais en faire ouvertement la promotion en raison de sa nature explicite (et je ne vais pas te demander de me prouver que tu es majeur•e en partageant des données sensibles sur internet).

Actuellement, Bolloré contrôle Hachette édition, le plus gros distributeur de livres FR (y compris de manuels scolaires!!!) et les éditions Delcourt (bandes dessinées). Bolloré contrôle aussi les points Relay, lui permettant de faire la promo et distribuer ses petits fachos dans toutes les gares du pays. C’est comme ça qu’ils ont réussi à nous faire bouffer la merde de Bardella comme étant un best-seller, par exemple, avec la complicité des plateaux télé (évidemment). Bref, ils nous font de l’astroturfing à échelle industrielle.

En effet, l’auto-édition et l’indépendance sont maintenant les seuls moyens d’exister sans tomber sous la coupe d’éditeurs collabos ou impotents.

Then why TF are you talking to me?

… How can anybody fuck up an immutable distro?

Yes you do, you’re even answering to a thread dedicated to my business.

I am not a native english speaker too, it’s okay. I understand how it can be triggering for people who make a living out of it (book stores, librarians), but when that same interest becomes a gatekeeping fetish or a reason to take a shit on other medias (which rely on writers too! And a fucking lot of other art forms!) or other ways to come to reading, then I loose my shit. Especially when the focus is the medium and not the content. So many books are just printed shit. So many books are just outrageous propaganda, or a manifesto of their author’s utter mediocrity. It’s outrageous to put books on a pedestal just for the sake of it.

And english speakers are lucky, because they have a somewhat sane approach to reading. In France, it’s a clusterfuck. Books are only a fetish that is seized and gatekept by the collaborationist bourgoisie, and now the biggest publishers have been bought by a fascist billionaire, who’s using that very same bourgeois book fetishism to push his nazi agenda to the mass, by giving much more visibility to little nazi fucks. And because books are respected just for the sake of it, then the nazi propaganda is accepted as is! What a fucking scandal!

I am extremely belligerent against people who gatekeep joy and self-cultivation by confining it to text on paper only, because by doing so they spit on a lot more of artists and engineers’ faces.

Books are valid, audiobooks are valid, comics are valid, movies are valid, TV shows are valid, TTRPGs are valid, video games are valid, etc etc.

Especially video games, since they are at the crossroad of all art and engineering forms (drawing, 3d modelling, music, programming, writing, acting, voice acting, animation, etc etc).

Well, let them read on paper, then.

Man, people like you are why others hate reading. You hurt my business by thinking that the medium choice grants you some form of moral/intellectual superiority, and you hurt other’s enjoyment by boasting about it. Stop looking at the finger and start looking at the moon.

People, read books on the medium that you are more confortable with, be it screen or paper. Treat your books however the fuck you want. Listen to books if you don’t have the time/focus to read. Be a sleazy fuck and watch the movie/series about the book if you’re not really into it. What? There’s a video game about it? Play it.

It’s never about the cup, it’s about the wine inside it. Confront yourselves to new ideas and stories, because that’s what it is all about, not “carving mental holes in your books to put your mental wee-wee inside, because paper is sacred”.

Wanna imagine things with your brain but can’t be bothered to read boring stuff? Play tabletop roleplaying games, it’s even more effective because you’re actively engaging in it.

Got aphantasia, you were born without the capacity to imagine what you read as you read it? Watch the movie.

Got dyslexia? Bored at the gym? Stuck in traffic?Audiobook.

Etc etc.

If you have one fucking thing to take away from this rant, it’s : it’s not about the cup, it’s about the wine. If you can’t get that, you’re not a reader, you’re a fetishist and you’re hurting the one thing you care about (and probably would read the most toxic shit and swallow it just because it’s printed on paper).

I don’t care about your children but good for them, I guess. It’s never about the medium, it’s about the content, so if you like to read on screens, paper, cut books or toilet paper, it doesn’t matter. Only the content matters. Audiobooks are okay too.

Aren’t debian/ubuntu based distros a bit limited, though? I don’t like having to reinstall an entire system every time there is a major update.

I used to love Manjaro for its ease of use, but it has gone so haywire lately that I switched to CachyOS with bazaar (flatpaks) for fancy apps.

French subs are often good

But, how will Shreck feel about that?

Now using CachyOS, I recommend Bazzite to newcomers.

Author here, I don’t give a fuck, as long as the book was bought/is read. Stop fetishizing books or start fucking them.

I do wonder why this person wouldn’t just use a e-ink reader, though.

How the fuck is this terrorist state still supported by the west?

Unfortunately, as a child, you can’t do anything else than getting the fuck out of there as soon as possible. If you have lil’ bros and sis’, you have to take them with you, else they’ll destroy their minds as well.

Save yourselves.

Because he doesn’t exist, so even questioning it is irrelevant

Well, at least one country has enough decency to save our european honor by opposing the oil bully. Macron is such a little whore, he would never oppose even the pedophilest of american president cunts

Yeah-yeah, sure.