🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agoAnon judges books by their coverssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1369
arrow-up1369imageAnon judges books by their coverssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67·edit-21 day 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-up13·1 day 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.