left on the reads

to have your read receipts on, and read the text message, without responding. purposefully ignoring a person and/or their message.

Jessica was left on the reads by Mike, which caused an argument.

by pettygirl123 February 28, 2017

Left-reading

Interpretations of media that makes excuses for sexist/anti-lgbtq/racist themes by giving undue credit and nuance to authorial intent; especially as a way to give a pass to offensive writing in movies/books/etc you might enjoy.

"Zelda isn't actually a damsel in distress because she helps in defeating the final boss"

"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."

or

"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "

by smeefus August 28, 2019

Reading Simulator

A term typically used to describe any video game that has very little gameplay other than reading dialogues.

“Have you played (insert game here)?”

“nah I don’t play boring reading simulators.”

by mcwixard January 02, 2021