#strange practice

[maddiesbookshelves]

Got the goods

Feat bonus Ramsès

As I said, I won't read them before... September or October, depending on when I have the presentation for my thesis but at least they're here and I really can't wait to get back into reading for fun!

Also, I shopped these through Awesomebooks and got them for a really good price. Especially Strange Practice since it was used, but Pageboy was also cheaper than on a lot of websites, and I don't think it's owned by amaz*n so there's that

#pageboy #elliot page #strange practice #vivian shaw #cats and books #ramses #book haul #tiny one tho #books #booklr

[ofliterarynature]

I’ve fallen out of taking regular pictures of my current reads the last few years due to reading more digitally - so I present, some of my recent(ish) favorites!

[instagram]

#bec posts #from instagram #2023 #!!!!! new tag new year #books #bookstack #Katherine Addison #Victoria Goddard #strange practice #cm Waggoner #Gideon the ninth #check please #Murderbot #imperial radch #a natural history of dragons

[flavia8]

8 Books in 8 Seconds (but not in video form) lol

The 8 Highest Rated things I read in 2023

Jigokuraku (The only thing I rated 5*s all year lmao)

5 Survive (4.5/5)

Coraline (4.5/5)

Vicious (4/5 one of the only books of Schwab's I truly enjoy. And would read again. I've read 7. Thoroughly Enjoyed Vicious, Enjoyed A Darker Shade of Magic, The Near Witch, Meh on A Gathering of Shadows, Letdown/kinda dislike but enjoy aspects of by Addie LaRue and Vengeful, Actively dislike Gallant)

Monstrous Regiment (4/5 HELL YEAH)

Strange Practice (4/5 Title was not a lie!)

Spinning Silver (If I had a nickel for every Rumpelstiltskin retelling I've read, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. XD this one is the far superior one.)

Library of the Unwritten (4/5 Creative and fun! A thoroughly enjoyable read for me)

#eta #books #read in 2023 #reading #booklr #book #Jigokuraku #vicious #monstrous regiment #spinning silver #coraline #five survive #library of the unwritten #strange practice

[vellichorvaults]

Rereading Strange Practice and recording my favourite quotes as I go. First up is a gem from Fastitocalon, settling into Ruthven's house while his copd improves.

'he’d never met a sanguivore quite so ineffably domestic, silver-screen looks and all. Ruthven ought to be wearing pearls and a frilly apron. Possibly with little bats on it. Slowly Fastitocalon was beginning to suspect himself of being ever so slightly feverish, if the quality of his thought process was anything to go by.'

#strange practice

[bluelightningcommander]

Sir Francis Varney in a broody mood and a cuddly sweater

#varney the vampire #strange practice #vivian shaw #greta helsing #fanart #mood for 2024 #at least i didnt have to draw his reflection lolololol #art only

[bribliography]

books read in 2023

— strange practice. by vivian shaw. (@ceruleancynic) ‪★ ★ ★ ★ ★‬

"Don't you think it seems a little... backward, perhaps...to run around committing mortal sins in order to cleanse the world of sin and evil?"

goodreads review | books read in 2023

#books #bookblr #strange practice #vivian shaw #ceruleancynic #greta helsing #fantasy #found family trope makes my brain go brrr #tbr 2023

[reading-cat]

Strange Practice

Chapter 1

Why are all the vampires so adorable??? Like, they’re genuinely some of the most charismatic and polite vampires I’ve ever seen in fiction?

#i wasn’t sure what to expect from this book #but I might be a little in love with all the characters #strange practice #dr greta helsing #booktumblr

[romancefantasynerd]

My new favorite book series! Greta Van Helsing novels

#vivian shaw #greta helsing #dreadful company #strange practice

[drawings-and-sketches]

(ID: Ruthven (white, black hair, silver eyes) and Grisaille (black, brown hair silvering on the ends, and red eyes). Both are vampires from the Greta Helsing series by Vivian Shaw. Image one is Ruthven lying in a bed, eyes closed and frowning as he speaks. We just see his shoulders and chest (though under covers). Image two, the "camera" moves back to reveal Grisaille sitting on the bed, his hand over Ruthven's. He is smiling and speaking, and Ruthven is smiling, not speaking. Both are wearing dark red pajamas. Text: Ruthven: Sorry, I'm not terribly entertaining at the moment. Grisaille: You don't have to be entertaining, you just have to be you, that's all. End ID).

This is a scene in Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw.

#greta helsing #strange practice #Vivian Shaw #Grisaille #Edmund Ruthven #fanart

[mewtwo365]

Some quick drawings because I've caught up on Dracula Daily! Jonathan is NOT having a good time

Hope you enjoy, and have an AWESOME day!!

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #mina harker #also trying to practice halftone and things so sorry if it looks a little strange

[salthien]

gay bugs! as promised!

touch starved vessel gets to be impatient and politely request affection when they crave it. i don't think quirrel would mind much.

#hollow knight #quirrel #the hollow knight #quirrelhollow #thk #pure vessel #lorne art #i promised gay bugs. hollow's cloak is so much fun to mess with #quirrel tests me because it's so easy to make him look extremely silly and strange. i need more practice #which means More Gay Bugs on the horizon #i also need to Improve. like the other art from a week or so ago there are parts i like and parts i don't. #i should also try to do quicker/less in depth stuff and post more sketches and the like #i just get so concerned over 'oh its not finished enough' meanwhile i go wild over others' sketches so like. #@ me. give yourself some grace.

[ofliterarynature]

Spring Scavenger Hunt

I was tagged by @booktheraepy and @theinquisitxor, thank you!

Book that starts with ‘S’: Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Book with birds on the cover: Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

Book with insects on the cover: Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard

Book with flowers on the cover: Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb

Book that takes place during spring: Wizard’s Holiday by Diane Duane

I’m tagging @swanbooks @spiegelgold-reads @asexualbookbird and anyone who hasn’t done this yet (I am very late on doing it myself oops)

#*second guesses book choices every five seconds* #*we can’t let them know we rEAD* #ps if anyone would be ok with me tagging them in the future #leave a note in the tags or message me idk #bec posts #from instagram #2022 #ask games #because I have no good tag for these #victoria goddard #sharon creech #strange practice #young wizards

[allen-etcetera]

I finished making HFJONE Airy, my favorite non-malicious antagonist of all time.

#strange #artists on tumblr #art #unusual #surrealistic #surrealist art #collage #collage art #surreal #weird #hfjone airy #hfjone #cheesy hfj #hfj airy #you must practice good posture #osc art #osc #object show art

[dross-the-fish]

"I only hit him a little" Edward Hyde portrait

#Edward Hyde #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #Jekyll and Hyde #practice painting

[bribliography]

books read in 2023

— grave importance. by vivian shaw. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“I don't know how to do this, I don't know how to pray, I just asked questions, and there was not so much an answer as a drawing back: an invitation to speak words into that emptiness, and have them be heard.”

goodreads review | books read in 2022

#books #bookblr #vivian show #strange practice #greta helsing #tbr 2023

[lepurcinus]

Yeah, I am a little tired of the animal fiction that takes it upon itself to demonize zoos, conservation centers, responsible captivity and ex situ.

Yes, there are bad zoos, but there are also good ones. And I don't give a shit if 200 years ago it wasn't a good thing. Today their main objective and purpose is the conservation of species and that is a very important thing.

#In mind is something about the whole story of how axolotls have been saved by captivity #as their habitat is practically uninhabitable. #Ah I am strangely discouraged these days. It's just things that occasionally float through my mind. #dumb dumb ideas