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Jun 1, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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THE BOOKSHELF THREAD 📚

“The more colour-coordinated the Bookshelf, the worse the content will be”

“I have decided to do some investigation into photos of Bugwoman bookshelves, or #Bookshelfies as these vacuous NPCs call them”

This Thread was first posted by Mencius Moldbugman Image
Mencius Moldbugman’s Iron Rule of Bookshelves: The more colour-coordinated the bookshelf, the worse the content will be.

Real readers read books to learn, Bugpeople use books as decoration and for social status points. Image
Colour-Coordinated Bookshelves mostly belong to “Book-Obsessives”. Most of these "Book-Obsessed" Bugpeople are women. The vast majority of their books are emotional pornography AKA chick-lit. This pink selection is the female equivalent of a man showing off vintage retro nudes. Image
Needless to say, geek culture and fake book idolatry go hand in hand.

Expect lots of adult graphic novels, Neil Gaiman, Harry Potter, self-help books, George RR Martin.

Don't expect: hard sci-fi, Russian classics, anything written before 1998, Bible. Image
Aspiring Bugwomen authors tend to write Young Adult Fiction or Fantasy because they think it is easier to write, plus it's currently trendy. Instead of working on their craft they hope that surrounding themselves with similar books will help them instead. Heh, women... Image
Often these adults know deep in their hearts that reading children's books is embarrassing, which is why there exists an industry for kid's books with "mature" covers in an attempt to add authenticity to their shallow geek culture. Image
Often these book collections are used as a replacement for religion. When hard truths and old religions are removed from the shelf, expect lots of "spiritual but not religious" whimsy... and lots of Harry Potter. Image
You will never find anything of value in these bookshelves. Just decor, Bugperson narcissism, and hijacking a once intellectual pursuit for social points. It's literature as a tool for masturbation. Image
Every. Single. Time. Image
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