🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 13 hours agoAnon judges books by their coversimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1262arrow-down13
arrow-up1259arrow-down1imageAnon judges books by their covers🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to Greentext · 13 hours agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·edit-27 hours agoA book’s cover really only has two functions: Protect the book Tell you little bit about the book so you can judge whether or not to read it
minus-squareZulu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·6 hours agoPrecisely. Some folks role play ‘normal’ people in public to make it easier. Others rp as ‘crazy’ people to make you keep your distance. When a book stops just being a ‘book’ and instead becomes ‘lord of the rings’, that’s when cover-judging no longer applies. In that same way, a person becomes a friend/coworker/family. Until that happens, the only thing you have is the cover.
A book’s cover really only has two functions:
Protect the book
Tell you little bit about the book so you can judge whether or not to read it
Precisely. Some folks role play ‘normal’ people in public to make it easier. Others rp as ‘crazy’ people to make you keep your distance.
When a book stops just being a ‘book’ and instead becomes ‘lord of the rings’, that’s when cover-judging no longer applies.
In that same way, a person becomes a friend/coworker/family. Until that happens, the only thing you have is the cover.