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wiltkingart · 11 months

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What queer books do you recommend?

oh honey i have a whole rec page here if you're up for anything, but i mostly read adult m/m fiction. lots of weird and old stuff with dark tones more often than not. if you want some specific titles as a flavor list, here's a few favorites! i'll link their storygraph pages so you can read their synopses too:

Fantasy: The Rifter by Ginn Hale (dark fantasy featuring a romance that spans years and time and space in decaying world with a destroyer god, and bones. so many bones. has one of the most interesting and well written story structures i've encountered. very moody and dark, hits just right).

Scifi: Body after Body by Briar Ripley Page (erotic adult scifi novella with transmasc and transfem MCs. dreamlike and grotesque, delicate and stomach churning, it's about a group of mind-wiped laborers tending genetically engineered mutant bodies.)

Historical: The Still by David Feintuch (my book series of all tiiiiiiime. it's fantasy too but mostly medieval military fiction. don't even talk to me about Rodrigo if you're not ready to be hit with a twelve page verbal essay i'm not joking, that is a threat. not a typical romance, expect heartbreak and plenty of it and to never recover.)

Horror: Hexslinger series by Gemma Files (planning a reread of this one soon to see if it still holds up but this series has stuck with me like a fly to molasses. it's a fucked up time full of desperation, Mayan gods and godessess, faggotry, blasphemy, and witchery) go with the Bound in Flesh anthology instead if you want good trans body horror, or Down by Ally Blue for deepsea suspense horror.

Contemporary: All for the Game by Nora Sakavic (you probably know about this classic but for me it still tops most everything else i've read. it's got sports, mafia drama, and trauma). for something a little different (but still traumatic) try Mo Du / Silent Reading by Priest (dark mystery set in China that follows several disturbing cases and the psychology behind them + romance between a detective and a rich pretty boy)

but yeah i talk about books a lot on my personal/main blog @wiltking (in lieu of updating my actual rec pages these days, it seems) if you ever want more real time recs! i'm a book guy. i like books a normal amount :)

#god i really tried to keep this list short i swear #ask wilt #if you want lighthearted recs i am quite simply not your guy 😶#i mean i do have some lighthearted recs if you really want them. they're just not the ones that stick in my heart quite like these!#lgbt books

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 4 months

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the absolutely Vivid reality based chronological dream i had last night. man

#i got a job at like... an automobile warehouse or something?#we had to change a large trucks tires...#and i was sent to get some more from across the block or whatever #and its more complicated than that - there were conversations and interactions with people etc #and i was trying to find it but it was all like... in this corridor shopping mall?#the signs were western themed and listed items that you could get in that store #though i think it was all free?#anyway at some point it opened into a restaurant and i had a friend there who was carrying a plate for people who left prematurely #so i of course started shoveling it into my mouth - free food! but their manager caught us #and i had to be all 'hey i work around here im just lookin for tires and no one was gonna eat this anyway'#it was like... a rice/mango/cream thing...? strange because i dont like mangoes!#long story short i had to go back for the tires bc i wound up forgetting them. something about a dog....#i was too late in getting the tires so i had to go sort rubber bolts instead :/ at least the warehouse was cool #absolutely unprompted #but it was very. linear. and it felt very real. like it was genuinely a place and a job that could exist #like i remember what the outside loading area looked like. the packed restaurant. the corridor. the warehouse. the lockers. the hallway #IF I HAD A BETTER MEMORY I STG I COULD MAP IT OUT #god i love my dreams. they're always plot based and im rarely myself <3

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normal-person-i-promise · 2 months

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»— yandere arataka reigen headcanons —>

tw for obsessive tendencies, possessive tendencies, manipulation (guilt tripping, gaslighting, etc.) sort of. forced isolation? like cutting off ties to friends and family

★ ★ ★

× It had started out normal. Just another client. Just another forgettable face. But the more Arataka talked to you, the more he felt your skin beneath his fingertips...

× He gets a little... Interested, in you, and manages to convince you that you'll need to come again — that the spirit weighing down your shoulders has not yet left, regardless of how you feel. He'd even charge less!

× So you come again. And again. And again. He'd always greet you with a smile, offering you a cup of "purifying coffee" whilst his hands worked away at your shoulders, making pleasant conversation as he does so.

× After a few weeks of him "getting rid of that god forsaken spirit", Arataka brings you to a ramen shop. He'd said that spirits despise this place — the food exorcises your body from the inside, however that works — and that the ramen here is "blessed". He'd brought you here to do just that; an exorcism, nothing more. The food is good and the staff are polite, so you agree to go with him again.

× And so it becomes normal for him to invite you out to eat — you'd even consider him a friend. He's polite enough; he makes pleasant conversation, he always walks you home... He's nice to be around.

× Whenever you'd tell Arataka that you weren't free to get dinner together, that you weren't free to see him, his tone would be one of hurt and his voice would be one of pain. He's done so much for you, after all. He's done nothing but help you, done nothing but heal you, even charging you less for those pesky spirits! What's one little cancelled plan just to see him?

× The more you talk to him, though, the more you realize that... Your friends, your family — or so you call them — aren't as good as you perceive them to be. "I'm a psychic!" He says, flashing you a charming grin. "I'm knowledgeable in these aspects."

× And so, one by one, you begin to cut them off. It's a slow process, one that hurts a lot more than it should, but you know that this is for the best. "You deserve better than them," he'd say over takoyaki. "You deserve someone who appreciates you."

× He'd message you often ever since he got your number. He'd call you late at night to rant about how this certain customer was just being such a jerk, and how he wished every client he served was just like you. Perfect, perfect you...

× Eventually, it had become a sort of... Nightly routine. You'd text him during the day whenever you were free, then call him at night to listen to him go on about a particularly nasty spirit, or a wonderfully polite customer. You'd... Consider Arataka a good friend now. The familiar ringing of your phone was like a comfort to you in the cold of loneliness, and his warm voice always brought a smile to your face.

× Sometimes, he'd... Say that he's too tired. He'd ask to come over, and you'd always say yes. It's so... Lonely, having cut off all your friends and family, so you always enjoyed what company he brought.

× He'd stay over at your place at least once a week, cooking for you and taking care of your home — acting as though he lives there, welcoming himself inside and helping himself to anything he needed. He's always polite, and seems to leave your house cleaner than when he entered.

× ...So you begin to invite him into your home almost every day. Arataka would almost never refuse your offer, saying that it's safer to have a powerful psychic around, especially since the spirits haunting you are so great and terrible. You absolutely love when he stays over for the night; it means you won't be plagued by a silent phone, it means you'll finally have someone to talk to.

× You grow... Attached, to Arataka, trying to see him more on the streets and getting almost every meal together. He's so... Sweet, so charming, and every time you'd strike up a conversation with him, he always seems so happy to talk to you. He seems so... Wise, so knowledgeable, whenever you'd ask him questions; it's like he always knows the right thing to say, and how to say it.

× He begins to get you gifts. Nothing special, usually just a bag of salt or a few handpicked "purifying" flowers. You'd always accept them with gratitude, smiling at him as you take the gift from his hands. He always seems to... Brush his hands against yours whenever you take the gift from his hands. Not that you mind, though.

× Your mental state... You can feel it getting worse. Turns out cutting off all ties to friends and family does things to you, so you find yourself going to Spirits & Such a lot more often to just have someone to talk to, someone you trust. "They're only with you to get something out of you," he'd said. "They don't want you. Just your services."

× You begin to spend almost all your time with Arataka, almost never being seen without him. Isn't it so lonely to be in your empty, quiet house, with no one to talk to? Isn't it so painful to be without him, to not be around him? There's no one else to be around, after all. Everyone will hurt you, everyone will use you. It hurts, it hurts, so you never leave his side. You always go over to Arataka's house, or he'd go over to yours.

× There's this one day when he's staying at your house for the night that he... He gets this debilitating headache — we're talking clutching his head, writhing in pain down on the floor — and he chokes out a few words, barely audible over his noises of pain. "Don't... Go out... Spirits... Will attack..."

× ...So you don't. You stay, most of the time, in your house. Arataka's always there to bring you whatever you need from outside your door — takeout? Got it! Groceries? On the way!

× Slowly, slowly, you find yourself falling for the charming psychic. He just seems so... Perfect, so much better than everyone else. "Everyone's out to get you except me," he'd said, giving you a soft smile. "I don't know what would've happened if I hadn't found you that day."

× ...Oh, and Arataka? God, he's obsessed with you. Your voice, your eyes, your hair... You're... Perfect. And what's more, everything he's been doing to you has been working wonderfully! You've cut off all your ties, you've put him on this high pedestal in your mind — you're falling in love with him, for God's sake! Finally, he has someone to be with! Finally, he won't be alone!

× When you'd confessed to him, he had been overjoyed. This is all he could have ever wanted, to be with you, to be yours, for you to be his! The transition from being friends to dating him is smooth — you've been doing everything a couple would do already: he'd bring you gifts, he'd stay over at your place, you'd have long phone calls that lasted until morning...

...

...That's... Weird. Arataka has been acting like he's been dating you, even before you began to fall in love with him...

...

× ...There's this one day when Arataka goes out for a company trip, and you... You break. God, it's so quiet, it's so empty, it's so lonely...

...Wait.

You've never felt this way before meeting him, have you?

× You reflect a bit. Okay, so... You meet him for a spiritual consultation, he gives you an exorcism, he tells you to come by more, he brings you out to eat... Okay, now it's a little fuzzy. You think he... You remember what he'd said, that... That your friends and family are inferior to him, that they only want to use you.

...Okay, that's a little... Weird. The jump between him exorcising your spirits and knowing about your friends and family...

× Come to think of it, he... Knows a lot more than he should. He knows what food you like, he knows what size clothes you wear, he knows your schedule, he knows where you work...

× Then he... He begins to treat you like his... His lover, even prior to you confessing him and the both of you starting to date, and then he... He discouraged you from going out, saying that there's "harmful spirits"...

...You're starting to doubt whether Arataka is even a psychic.

× ...Okay, okay! So, you try to get back into contact with your family and friends, and... Okay, yeah, they just shut you out, but that's fine! You'll be fine, you're sure. But you can't just... Live without friends, right? You can't just live without seeing your family every now and then, right?

× "You can," Arataka had reassured you when he'd come back. "I'm here. I'm more than enough for you, right?"

× ...You're smarter now. You push him away, kick him out of your house, told him that he'd cut off all your friends and family. "It's not my fault they're all toxic," he'd shot back, angrily. "It's not my fault that I'm the only one who can treat you right."

× ...Okay, that... That makes a lot of sense, actually. You welcome him back in, apologising profusely for your mistake. Arataka knows better than you, after all. You're bound not to see mistakes, not to see the flaws; that's why he's here. He's here to protect you from those horrid people.

× "I love you," he'd repeated over and over. "You can't leave. It's not safe out there."

× ...So you don't.

#unfortunately yes. i am no longer interested in sans #feel free to unfollow if you wanted more if him because. haha. i dont think youre going to get it #my apologies #self indulgent #VERY sulf indulgent #this is more like an outline to a fic with chapters than it is a list of headcanons but whatever. you can be what you can be #i love writing like this. like im talking to you #reigen arataka x reader #reigen x reader #arataka reigen x reader #yandere #yandere reigen #yandere reigen x reader #god this feels so short like... i could add on to this #i dont think i will though. i dont think I will #god i feel so guilty for posting something so short #im so sorry

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t4tails · 4 months

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movies over i never want to see frank millers ugly block style EVER AGAINNN

#og post #batposting #batreviews #oh ymy god ok looking at my list. this is so funny #i have some dc shorts but after those we're doing ultimate mood whiplash. its time for teen titans go season 1.

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boygirlctommy · 11 months

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im doing so normal right now

#my post #my art #sanders sides #<- GOD. its been a while since i had to use that one #tss #lamp tss #dark sides tss #i am not listing them all out <3 love and light #but no yeah this wouldnt leave my mind i had to draw it. months late to this meme but it had ro be done #also i drew them without really looking at thomas. like i know his hair is short now but other than that ive got no clue what he looks like #its been so long sknce ive drawn him lmao #mars.art

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obsob · 2 years

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a kitty for my new business cards✷

#mine #original #oh ive been busy today!! lots of ordering of things...new prints ehehhe #also yes business cards and more bookmarks ! very exciting stuff #im sleepy...slep...y #a Man is going to be in my bedroom tomorrow bc im having some shelves put up which is like yay shelves #but also. get out of my house.#can move my alter......give my plants better space....hehehe #also for the past like 3 months ive been like wow my neck hurts a lot i wonder why oh well #and then yesterday i was like oh. ive had the same pillow for like 5 years. and it was 2nd hand #so i got a new pillow and now i can like see god #also got some new shorts........theyre....a little slutty...hhehehehehee #speaking of slutty i got some thongs and wow those just like go up ur ass huh #like way more comfy on legs n waist for sure but . ouhhgh. hello.#i need leave in conditioner. this is turning into a shopping list #okay bye

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allgremlinart · 11 months

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live action first look this Saturday...

#atla #I can handle literally anything like I have basically no standards for this all I ask is please god.. please no colored contacts..#I hate colored contacts so much literally everytime I saw gifs of that vampire show all I could think was wow... they sure look stupid #so yeah. keeping list of demands very short

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scatterpatter · 22 days

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Let me actually try and explain the brainworms I have for these two (Click for better quality since tumblr loves decimating image quality)

Peak enemies-to-lovers vibes. They're both so stubborn and ready to pick fights with each other, but once they catch feelings it's ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE

Once they catch The Feels theres no going back for either of them. They would DIE for the other if it meant protecting him. ... *nervously glances at Gigamix for Cut and Archie for Quick* haha ANYWAYS-

Also listening to All At Once while making this and feeling very normal /lying

#my art #understand my ship in 5 minutes #megaman #megaman classic #cutman #cut man #quickman #quick man #QuickCut #quickman x cutman #i know i said i was gonna make angst but the comic i wouldve made is a bit too hard to make rn #might actually make it a short fic instead and clean up one or two of the panels(?) from what i have so far #esp since ill be away this weekend so no tablet for meeeeee #just love my Lumberjack x Track Star <3 #i didnt list 'ages' bc Robots but i imagine mentally theyre like- Cut at 27ish and Quick at 25ish? Something like that #OH MY GOD #so i wanted to give Cut a bandana cuz ive seen a few other artists do that before and i really liked the idea of it #and i made it red before bc A-fits the palette and B- can match Oilman's scarf!#BUT I JUST REALIZED IT MATCHES QUICK'S RED AND *CLENCHES HEART*#Okay okay im done now i need to go to bed JBSKJGBVSKJBGSKJ

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batboybisexualism · 30 days

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ugggggggh today I had a surprise extra dog walk, and I'm already on a dog-sit so I had to leave sweet miss Bailey alone at home three times today, and she gets separation anxiety so that was hard 😭 also while walking Finn and Leo in the park I not only had to deal with every single one of the dozens of people I passed on the walk not moving out of the fucking way, like I swear people are allergic to sharing the path in that park and the path is like eight feet wide, so I always have to drag the dogs over to the grass next to the path which isn't as smooth and it's usually muddy and/or covered in fallen tree branches etc so it's harder to navigate without tripping especially with those insane dogs pulling me all over the place, ANYWAY not only did I have to deal with that but I also had maybe the worst asthma attack I've ever had and I didn't have my inhaler so my lungs have been sore all day and I can't fucking breathe normally 😭😭😭

ALSO I went to swap out the tip on the syringe for my t-shot from the drawing needle to the injecting needle and when I screwed it in I heard a cracking sound...didn't really think anything of it because when I aspirated the needle it seemed to be working fine, but once I jabbed myself and pushed the plunger down all the t oil just squirted out of the side of the base of the needle tip and all over my leg lmaooooooo so now I have to call my endo and be like "hey I spilled my boy juice can I have more" and idk what they're going to say because I just had to refill it early because I'd been giving myself a double dose because they didn't fucking tell me how much to inject into myself so I had to guess 😅😅😅😅😭😭😭😭😭😭

I feel like absolute shit I feel so sick and exhausted and I haven't been able to sleep lately because I'm in so much pain and can't ever find a comfortable position and my restless leg syndrome has been so insanely bad idkkkkkk it's just so stupid I honestly can't wait for my surgery next week because I'll be taking two weeks off to recover lmao............if my surgery even happens lol who fucking knows!!!! and like yeah I'll feel way better dysphoria-wise but I'll also be post-surgery lol so physically I'm probably going to feel even worse than I do now!!!!!!!!! why am I aliiiiivvvveeeeeeeeeeeee

#btw I don't expect people to totally move out of the way and let me have the whole path lol #just like...if you're coming from the opposite way and walking in the middle of the path maybe move over to one side?#and if you're walking a dog maybe pull that dog over?? so my dogs don't fucking attack your dog???#and so I don't have to drag them into the woods and army crawl through the fucking underbrush????????#it's my hardest walk terrain-wise AND because it's the longest AND because the dogs are insane #like they are always pulling in a different direction than we're walking #and usually each one is pulling in a different direction #and if they're both pulling to the right I'll be like okay let's go over there!! fine!!#and then we do and they're like wtf get us out of here and they start pulling in a different direction/s #they're so perfect and beautiful and I love them but god dammit you guys............#anyway this was supposed to be a short post just listing a couple of shitty things that happened today why can I never stfu

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shoutsindwarvish · 11 months

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you ever be really vulnerable with someone and it feels good and cathartic in the moment but then the next few days it sinks in and even though you feel 99.9% sure nothing bad is going to happen from it your stomach lurches when you think about it?

it’s reminding me of the time i went to the top floor of a skyscraper and went onto a viewing platform with a glass floor. the odds i’m going to fall and die are extremely low but holy shit is it high up here

#i’ve absolutely had this happen other times but #this is about talking to my rabbi about my god stuff on thursday #puts him on a very very short list of people i’ve talked to about some very specific experiences #probably the sixth person?#like i’ve talked about my family trauma to loads of people (both irl and on tumblr)#this though? this is PRIVATE private. like my partner and best friend and one ex-friend (ex just due to distance) and two priests #(ex-friend was christian and my neighbor and i’d wanted her thoughts on at least some of it)#i’m glad i told him but i feel naked and weird #and feeling anxious that i didn’t explain it right (because words are hard)#i need to stop picking at it #this is literally his job #my posts #realized i’ve told certain edited versions to a few more people #but i’ve only told ALL of it to a very tiny group

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kittleskittle · 2 months

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burnout fucking blows. that's all.

#self post #why does this always happen to me in the final stretch of a project man #we are SO CLOSE and my brain just short circuits #it's been 10 months and i've been so diligent but all of a sudden #BAM here's a near-insurmountable wall #i'm going to finish!#but at this point it's like pulling teeth #sorry for complaining i'm just goin through it #wish it didn't make me loathe my work so much as a side effect :/#this is absolutely because i've taken on SO MANY roles for FOTH #game lead/background artist/particle artist/nil route artist/part of the UI design/90% of the coding so far/the list goes on #this is entirely my fault but god #my vacation in june can't come fast enough

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ghostputty · 1 year

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hm.... i kinda like that simblr is a gaming And art (creative) community like ... me personally, i can't do gameplay for shit but there's a lot of blogs i follow that spend so much time making sure they have incredibly entertaining/enjoyable gameplay and stories. and then on the flip side of that there's blogs that absolutely put in the work to make killer edits. (and some ppl even combine those skills !!) but what makes it enjoyable to consume is the fact that u can tell the ppl making them had fun !!!

also i remember back in like 2017-2018 when we were all over saturating our pics and using the brightest blushes imaginable- just like every community, we have trends and tags and ask games !! imo this is what brings together the community and ties us into a neat lil bow. people use their favorite sims and tell a story, whether it's with an edit or with gameplay or something else entirely.

not to mention, everyone has a different aesthetic they enjoy !! find the style you like, share that, follow that, explore and learn !!

i guess the point i'm trying to make is don't force urself into something you don't like doing, share what you wanna share, you'll find other blogs who will enjoy what ur posting !! i've been here since like ... 2016, and it took me years to find what i enjoyed doing. just spend time expanding ur personal interests and curating ur blog to how you want it to be !!! i promise u will have sm more fun that way

#some of my mutuals have said some things similar to this which i absolutely agree with #i wanted to add my thoughts just cause i'm very passionate abt ppl doing what they Enjoy #i cannot stress this enough do what u enjoy do what u enjoy #life is too Short to waste ur time on things u don't like #don't like gameplay? don't like editing? don't like storytelling? don't do it !!#its not a bad thing to Want interaction either i think i should add #it's okay to want ppl to like reblog or comment on ur stuff #wanting to show off and what u made and spent time on is not a crime #yk who does the same? artists and youtubers and streamers and god this list could go on forever #i'm wrapping this up now final words #do what u want because it is Your blog #okay bye #chatter

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