#so pick up that book and read it

[expectiations]

Why you should read the Day of the Doctor novelization

10 and River in a bath

River

River

just, you know, mentions of River that weren't in the show

inner monologue of the Doctor about River

the Doctor saying "I'm Mr. Moon!"

River

moments with River that weren't in the show

#i haven't finished reading it yet actually #but yes 10 and River were in a bath #and 10 is so enamoured of River #but we don't see that on the show #so pick up that book and read it #and squeal with me #doctor x river #river song #yowzah #doctor who #eleventh doctor #war doctor #day of the doctor #day of the doctor novelization #tenth doctor #remember Doctor Moon in the Library?

[piosplayhouse]

"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"

#dont ask why binghe gets to be a human but sqq has to be a unicorn #maybe hes prince lir in this au actually wait omg that would be good #half human half red bull sxy was freakay #the unicorn turning human to disguise herself is obviously sqqs plant body allegory #binghe sniffing around the castle: where is shizun i can still smell him? suspiciously sqq shaped human: gulp #binghe's tragic backstory in this au i guess is that he meets shen qingqiunicorn as a kid and sqq can sense that hes half fae and so #takes him semi under his wing but is like a prick about it until binghes seal breaks and they find out that hes a red bull fae #and shen jiu stabs him into the ocean something something abyss he comes back gets adopted by haggard kills every unicorn by throwing them #into the ocean as well before picking off shen jiunicorn last. and then sy fucks it all up #it's been like a decade since i read the book sorry #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #sqq #lbh #luo binghe #my art #svsss last unicorn au

[somegrumpynerd]

Dust's nightmare

Dust has nightmares about fighting and killing here and there, but the ones that really stick with him are the ones that are just... memories. Things he can never have again.

What he can have though, is a distraction when he wakes up to help him settle and make sure he's not alone with his thoughts for too long

#UTDR #UTMV #Dust Sans #Nightmare Sans #My Art #Truce au #Bad dreams comic #<-That's the tag I've decided on for these now #Bet you thought I forgot about drawing the rest of these >:3c #Well I did. but yesterday I remembered! #Dust was who I was going to leave for last since his is kind of different #He doesn't have an imaginary terrible scenario like Killer #He just torments himself with what he's lost #Not to keep pushing my Killer and Dust are the same but different propaganda but #Killer fears the future where he might lose his family #And Dust looks back in anguish at the family he already lost #But!!!!!! Boss is here #He has a book he picked out specifically with themes Dust likes #He is reading it aloud to get Dust hooked so he'll continue reading it himself instead of stewing in misery #And when Horror wakes up he will also help #He'll be fine I promise!! Pinky swear and everything #Speaking of Horror actually... he's next

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

#witches and wizards #kids need to be able to play games without knowing the extended universe #playing was easy #i knew i wasn't gonna be able to explain chronicles of christomancy #but we could pick up a stick and run around #nd say we were magic that would be enough backstory #and i think the last time i felt that sense of community #was the summer of pokemon go #it's about cross-generational connectivity bro #yes there are insular communtities but EVERYONE had fucking read harry potter #which is me saying - i think maybe people don't miss HER or the ACTUAL BOOK tbh #they miss... feeling connected #think about how so many people felt so weirdly ashamed and lost after Game of Thrones ended - #they did SUCH a bad job that the entire community just... vanished. #where beforehand people would have GoT weddings #we are just animals who love stories and love feeling like we speak the same language #btw i am not on twitter so i hadn't seen some of the shit she was doing #and then when i was 19 she published the ''american school'' hogwarts stuff #and was reading it casually bc again a huge nerd #and in it shes like ''the british taught the natives their more civilized magics'' #and that was like..................... oh okay. okay. so.....

[gorgonsagainstrape]

do you think forgiving rapists / abusers is necessary for healing? i've been reading a lot of essays and articles that all basically boil down to the same thesis: i couldn't heal until i forgave him. many of them also say that they wanted to reject the idea that survivors are all angry and want their rapists / abusers to die, which is something i have been struggling to find anywhere. there's margaret cho [Margaret Cho Explains Why She Wants To Kill Her Rapist] but beyond that i couldn't find much on this topic aside from people criticizing it.

there seems to be a consensus that all survivors want is accountability. all they want is their rapist / abuser to admit they did it and apologize. and then that's it? what about the research that sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated? there is no known program to rehabilitate sex offenders that works in any meaningful way. they go through the program(s), learn how to game the system, get released, and immediately go back to harming women and girls.

why is it so taboo to hate them? hating them doesn't make us the same as them. it's quite literally the opposite. they love the violence they do and we abhor it, there is no way anyone can look at it and say our hatred is just as bad as theirs. we hate them for what they do, they hate women and girls for what we are. massive difference. if they don't want to be hated, they shouldn't rape. it's that simple.

i think a reason why it's generally frowned upon to want any kind of meaningful justice or to hold any rage or hatred in your heart for rapists is because men as a whole are aware of how many of their own are rapists. they know that if every rapist was imprisoned or killed, there would be maybe 5% of men left in the general population. and that scares them. i wish we lived in the world they think we live in, the one where being a rapist and being called out for it means your life is ruined or even ended. wouldn't that be nice.

#radblr #notes #i'm going to keep doing research on this topic tho so this isn't my final opinion by any means #i might compile a reading list if i find enough resources #i heard judith herman's new book deals with this topic.... will definitely have to pick that up soon

[nerdy-girlramblings]

Just want to put this out there: you are not less of a fan if a movie or show adaptation led you to reading the books.

#Ive seen some gatekeepy posts about being real fans because they read the books first lately so I wanted to say this #some of my favorite books I picked up because I was interested in the adaptation first and there's nothing wrong with that #nerdygirlramblings #bookish #fandom #booklr

[teabutmakeitazure]

Chrollo doesn't understand why you don't react to him the same way you do to the books you read. To him, you groan and look away before doing everything in what little power you have to move away from him, but while reading those books, you flush and giggle adorably, smile plastered on your face for a considerable amount of time.

When he pins you to the wall while conversing, you're quick to duck under his arm and get away with a quite random excuse, but reading about the same gesture being done by the male lead in a book makes you sigh happily. Is his execution wrong? Should he flirt with you more? The previous try at that had been a disaster with you calling him creepy.

Maybe he should slowly work his way up, classify the gestures and actions into categories of teasing and more intimate. He could start testing the waters with the former and slowly work up to the latter, making the eventual victory of finally, finally getting you to flush and fluster with a non-sexual act all the more sweeter.

#he drops off all kinds of romance books around so that you pick them up and read them #then he monitors you to check your reactions and tries mirroring the actions #its to find out your tastes and what will get you reduced to a blushing mess #unfortunately you arent having it lmao #chrollo lucifer x reader #chrollo x reader #chrollo imagine #yandere chrollo #yandere chrollo x reader #yandere chrollo lucilfer

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

#I need to brush up on my post colonial reading I’m not as well read as I’d like to be #once I finish my coursework I’ll have more time for reading shit I actually want to read lol #like I’m reading so much stupid bullshit that does not matter for class #genuinely useless theory that I will never pick up again #I want to finish orientalism in particular. one of the most didactic books I’ve ever read #like said’s writing is like every sentence restates his central argument. It’s an unrelenting book in a really compelling way #Interspersed with him talking fine grain shit about a bunch of European intellectuals I’ve never heard of lol #book club

[the-lake-lily-alchemist]

Dany’s vision of Rhaegar in the HotU

So, I want to beat an already dead and over-beaten horse, and talk a bit about Dany’s vision of Rhaegar in the House of the Undying.

Now, I want to preface it by saying that I know this subject has been talked about thousands of times and it’s boring and tiring to talk about the same shit over and over again, but I just saw “Rhaegar is a prophecy-obsessed groomer/rapist” discourse on my twitter feed and thought I’d toss my two cents in.

Firstly, let’s look a bit at this vision as it appears in the books, shall we?

Viserys, was her first thought the next time she paused, but a second glance told her otherwise. The man had her brother’s hair, but he was taller, and his eyes were a dark indigo rather than lilac. “Aegon,” he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. “What better name for a king?”

As we can see here, Dany, on her quest to find her children, stumbles upon this little moment long past. The text tells us that the three people shown here are Rhaegar, his wife Elia, and their son Aegon.

“Will you make a song for him?” the woman asked.

“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.” He looked up when he said it and his eyes met Dany’s, and it seemed as if he saw her standing there beyond the door.

This passage specifically has been interpreted numerous times. The text tells us that Rhaegar thought that his son, Aegon, was The Prince that was Promised. However, Rhaegar looks up when he says the prophecy, and looks directly at Dany, as if talking to her.

This to me reads as not-very-subtly being told the answer to the prophecy. Dany is TPTWP, as the author tells us through vision-Rhaegar. Thus, she is made aware of the prophecy, part of which we can find in the title of the book series.

I’ve seen the theory that Rhaegar seeing Dany was a time-space continuum bubble, of the present looking at the past, or, for Rhaegar, the present glimpsing at the future. How I see it, however, is that when he says those fateful words, and looks up to meet his sister’s eyes, he becomes both the gods’ and the author’s channel to make Dany and the reader aware of the answer to the prophecy. He sceases to be just a vision of the past and becomes the gods’/R’hllor’s voice, informing Dany. He tells her about the PTWP prophecy, because she is TPTWP!

Thus, when he continues with this,

“There must be one more,” he said, though whether he was speaking to her or the woman in the bed she could not say. “The dragon has three heads.”

we can infer that he’s saying this to Dany, because the gods want her to know this (and the author wants us to know this).

Mind you, these are visions, not just excerpts from the past/present/future. The conversation as it’s shown might not have taken place exactly like this, if it ever did. With how abrupt the cut from Rhaegar saying this to him going and playing the harp, I think he’s never said those words himself. Again, I believe that, in that moment (given that “There must be one more” and “The dragon has three heads” do not tie at all with the PTWP prophecy), it’s the gods using this vision of him to tell Dany (and the reader) an important message.

I shall say it one more time, just to be perfectly clear: IT’S NOT RHAEGAR TALKING ABOUT THE THREE HEADS AND A THIRD CHILD, IT’S THE GODS!

“There must be one more”, because Rhaegar has three children, not just two. Dany is fated to meet Rhaegar’s third child (and very probably fall in love and marry said third child, but that’s another overly-beaten, dead horse), and we as readers have been getting clues about who this child is since book one.

In no passage is it stated or implied that Rhaegar sought to have another child. He doesn’t go on and say, “When the maester has cleared you, we shall try for a third.” or “Because you can’t get pregnant again, I shall look for another woman to bear my third child.” The theory that he wanted another one, presumably a girl, to name her Visenya, is just that, a fan theory.

“The dragon has three heads. There are two men in the world who I can trust, if I can flnd them. I will not be alone then. We will be three against the world, like Aegon and his sisters.” (ASOS, Dany VI)

It’s clear (or it should be) that “the dragon has three heads” it’s specifically for Dany to know that there are two people out there whom she can trust and with whom she shall stand “against the world, like Aegon and his sisters.”

It’s not about Rhaegar thinking that his children are “the three heads of the dragon”. It’s about Dany. You would think it’s obvious given that it’s her chapter, but whatever.

#i also want to add that nowhere in the books does it say that ‘a song of ice and fire’ means Stark + Targaryen #this is also a fan theory that has become so popular it’s regarded as canon #Dany is TPTWP and she’s also Azor Ahai as it’s shown when she fulfilled the prophecy in her last chapter in AGOT #most of you are dumb tho #full offence #you guys are not reading the books properly #pick ‘em up and start reading because this shit is getting ridiculous #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #rhaegar targaryen #how tf do you read about a duty-bound melancholy book-ish beautiful prince #who loves going outside to play his harp for the people of kl #and say he’s prophecy-obsessed and a rapist #are you guys robert baratheon or smth? #my meta #asoiaf meta #asoiaf

[thestalwartheart]

Okay you've all witnessed my descent into madness over Slow Horses, but seriously, I cannot recommend it enough. A spy thriller with a main character so anti-James Bond that he gets stuck in revolving doors! An unapologetic look at the complete lack of ethics in the security services! A found family story made up of MI5's greatest fuck-ups! Gary Oldman playing the world's most repulsive character! Strong, well-developed, complex female characters! Two calculating, criminal women who have definitely fucked and now despise each other leading MI5!

Go watch it. Seriously, it's so good. It's funny, thrilling and completely fucked up.

#slow horses #reading the books now #i'm so pissed i never picked them up while i was working at waterstones and they were books of the month #because now i can't find the paperbacks for love nor money #anyway GO WATCH THE TV SHOW #it's on apple tv

[skellydun]

do you guys have any book recommendations? i like horror, mystery, ones that just take u on a little feel good adventure. really anything other than fantasy and YA stuff.

#im going to the bookstore to pick up a new book so why not get TWO books that way I have something to read while camping #i was thinking of reading the band of brothers book before watching the series but i need a bit more fiction in a book #on the road by jack kerouac and the reddening by adam neville are probably two of my fave books of all time AND i am not a serial killer #omg and prey by michael crichton #im apparently just gonna list my favorite books alkjlafda

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

motorcycle sketch featuring cross!! >:)

#art #illustration #utmv #xtale #xtale sans #cross sans #cross!sans #cross #sorry about the empty space at the side hh xD that's where my references were #i mixed so many different motorcycle poses and parts and honestly? i'm so happy with this!!! #i got inspired by a guy riding his (full leather jacket- sleek black helmet and leather pants) in the city and idk it looked so PRETTY!!! #it was the type you see in movies it was so impressive! but he also stood out cause who wears black (LEATHER) jackets in SUMMER?? #i was dying in my t-shirt and jeans but i guess the wind blowing while driving would negate the stifling warmth hhh x) #so when i decided to make it i knew i didn't wanna color the piece- nor spend ungodly amounts of time drawing clean-ish lineart #for a machine with sooo many details like damn xD so i went the sketch-y route! comic book style hehehe >;) #if alex sees this then i was also inspired by your killer drawing!! i finally understand how satisfying your sketching method is waa<3333 #i would tag you but i'm always unsure if i should unless the au belongs to them/it's fanart so aaa hope you read the tags? muah ty again!! #(btw cross is human here- fem or not is up to interpretation; but then i realized it could kinda be interpreted as a skeleton too soo #just forget the skele knuckles and you have all versions in one piece!! >B) #i couldn't pick which one of the two end results was my fav so you get both versions >;) <333 #and not using blurs or effects this times makes me love it even more waa >:'D the only thing i used a layer option for was the watermark!! #like goshh this was so fun to draw hhh hopefully you guys like it too :D <3333

[applebees4prez]

the thing is about supernatural is that in its too-long history there about forty million producers and directors and writers and showrunners and so on and none of the agreed on anything

#there are so many annoying contradictions throughout the show #especially in how the characters are portrayed #sometimes dean is like oh i’m not dumb actually i am incredibly knowledgeable in my chosen field and am a driven leader #and then in the next episode he’s like uhhhhh what’s reading i’ve never even picked up a book #supernatural #spn #destiel

[dejwrld]

jjk fics (outside of my mutuals) has lost its flavor.

#everybody knows that jjk is quick notes fic fanbase and they no longer write fics anymore #just quick attention grabs #i want to scream #cause jjk have such wonderful characters where you can create such deep plots with #sobs i want to scream in my hands #i have so much fics to read #and i no longer even venture into x reader tags anymore #like i am tired #maybe this is sign to actually pick up my last book for my reading goal

[tart-miano]

re-entering the cirque du freak fandom in 2023 be like

#tw eye strain #cirque du freak #the saga of darren shan #im sure the manga version is particularly expensive bc its out of print or something- #but gd what a bummer! i remember back in the 2010s i could buy all of em at a used book store for like 5$ a pop #and now im so disappointed in myself for not picking them up when i could T-T #to y'all its probably no fucking surprise i read this is my formative years?? #if you've seen my J&H ocs you'll likely find my version of Hyde bears a resemblance to manga!Steve lmao #it was completely unintentional during the designing process but ig this series was more formative for me than i thought bc i unconciously- #mimicked that style??? soul eater lookin ass

[hauntswitch]

This Is How You Lose The Time War will always be so special and important to me as a book, I come back to it so often and always try to bring my highlighted, annotated, dog-eared copy with me whenever I go places. It really is beautiful, and is objectively one of my absolute favourites. Alas. It makes me feel sick in the head

#it might actually be my favourite book but i have a few contenders. i remember the day i bought my copy - i was in my town's bookshop and #saw the title - i picked it up because it reminded me of doctor who. i flipped it open to a random page and on said page had a quote from #my favourite poem so i bought it. ive tried recommending it to people before and have offered my own copy but im kinda glad no one has #taken me up on that offer actually because if someone read my notes and the bits i highlighted i would become so emotionally exposed 💀 #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #books