#PLEASE I just remembered these books

[egophiliac]

Have you heard of the "Crowley is Malleus' dad" theory going around? Where Prince Levan (or whatever his name is) didn't actually die and just went out to get some milk and is now known as Dire Crowley, the silly man? The implications of that theory is absolutely hilarious when you think about it

hold on, we can figure this out, we just need LISTS

PROS THAT CROWLEY IS SECRETLY REVAAN/LEVAN/LAVERNE/WHATEVER:

unspecified fae of some kind, with similar coloring to Mal

the animal masks are apparently a Briar Valley thing

has some kind of big blackmailable secret that was alluded to in episode 4, and then as far as I know never brought up again

(unless this was just Azul bullshitting, which is extremely possible)

based on Diablo, which...maybe means something?

has canonically worn Dad Shorts

CONS:

(gestures to Crowley's entire personality)

NO LISTEN Revaan was the guy they sent off on diplomatic missions and to take care of delicate political situations, and...look, I love this dweeb, but would you trust Crowley to be in charge of negotiating your war treaties

despite my brain insisting on reading his name as "Raven", Revaan's title does imply that he was also a dragon (or super into longan berries, I'm not ruling that out)

currently unclear why Lilia "my closest friend Revaan...he is no longer with us...I used to make fun of him for being kind of a priss about eating jerky..." Vanrouge has somehow not noticed or said anything

Malleus' Aloof Anime ~Aristocrat~ vibe had to come from somewhere, and by all accounts it was NOT his mom's side of the family

???:

turns into a bird in the opening, I don't know if that means anything but it's kinda cool, I guess

all that aside, if Malleus and Yuu are any indication, then the Draconias have...questionable taste in their social choices. so anything is possible!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #disclaimer that this is half joke and half speculation so like. please take it in good spirits and don't yell at me #right now i'm leaning away from crowley being revaan because i think the evidence is currently circumstantial at best #but who knows what the future will bring! #man. whenever i consciously remember that crowley is diablo it also reminds me #that his name is supposed to be pronounced like dear and not like the word dire #which always fucks me up a little bit. this is the worst thing about him bar none. #damnit crowley #anyway every time a new part comes out i rewatch the opening just in case there turns out to be any more foreshadowing #(there never is) #(but that ONE really quick bit where you can see overblot azul means i always have to look) #which is to say i have been carefully reanalyzing all the crowley bits and i have reached the conclusion #that i still have no idea what is going on with him #he may be the world's biggest mastermind or the world's biggest idiot and these are not mutually exclusive #(this is a strictly pro-crowley post btw) #(i'm allowed to make fun of him because i love him dire-ly)

[kreftropod]

Absolutely loving the fact that, despite Dracula being adapted to death and back by media over the last century, a lot of people don't actually know the original story. As in, here we are, in 2022, tagging spoilers for a 125 year old novel that most people thought they knew from it's countless adaptations but turned out to not know at all. It's great. I love it. Thanks for sharing your first-time reactions to this comedy of an old book.

#it's good to remember that we have 125 years of hindsight when reading this though #people back in 1897 didn't know the things we know today #their worldview was very different from ours and they didn't know all the spooky tropes we know today #since yknow this book was part of the ones who started those tropes to begin with #yes Dracula is a comedy by todays standard and please continue to make fun of our Dear Friend Jonathan and Domestic Teeabo Dracula #but also remember that this book is Old as Fuck #and very old timey English(tm) #so there's inevitably gonna be descriptions and character-opinions that reflect that #just good to keep in mind #anyway love yall #keep on what you're doing #I'm having a blast reading all of your funny Dracula posts #Dracula Daily #Dracula #Bram Stoker's Dracula #babbling in the tags I guess

[jenna-louise-jamie]

i cannot stop thinking about ian rider. more specifically, how alex had so many unprocessed feelings about him after his death. imagine being an orphan, getting adopted by your uncle as a baby, having him raise you for 14 years then discovering he lied to you your entire life. that he [unintentionally or not] trained you to be something you never wanted to be under the guise of bonding with you. never being able to ask him what his actual intentions were because he's dead. never getting closure for it. im going to throw up.

#i remember reading stormbreaker for the first time and i could not stop crying the entire book #i have big emotions dont blame me #but seeing alex follow in ian's footsteps quite literally seeing and living through what lead to his death #it fucked me up #i dont remember if it was outright stated in the books but alex wondering the entire time if ian even loved him? #it wasn't framed directly but thats how i interpreted it #i cant even coherently put into words all my thoughts about this #ontop of everything else this is one of the core things that makes me so emotional over this silly little book series like holy shit #alex my son i just want to give you a hug #alex rider #alex rider books #ian rider #please don't get me started about my thoughts of whether or not ian did in fact love him #my head might explode #these books fucked up my brain chemistry permanently

[fisheito]

@trainto1925 coincidentally i have just arrived

The soft ones ARE choosing violence 🥰

#oli in a clearly disadvantaged situation and he's still immediately ready to thrown down #you dare slander eiden? I'll punch you. I'll smack the mist. I'll slap the disembodied voice in my head #i will take your formless evil and physically beat it into submission with the holy book #there is no calculated (oohh better not anger the illusion wizard currently watching us from the forest shadows) #only (TRY ME . I KNOW YOUR TRICKS. REVEAL YOURSELF SO I CAN PROPERLY DESTROY YOU) #the softies rly are more impulsive than i remember. love that . #i need to stop woobifying all the softer boys just because theyre not all sufferthirsty murdermunchers like kuya #at the rate we're going it's a bunch of uwu nice boys just chillin until eiden gets threatened #then they're all I'LL FIGHT *THAT* GUY. I'LL FIGHT THAT TREE! I'LL FIGHT *MYSELF*!!!! U CANT STOP ME #and eiden is holding them back with his lil vermicelli arms like PLEASE CALM DOWN #olivine #eiden

[local-magpie]

“Run. Flee. I'll chase you. I will never stop. I am eternal. I am the storm.”

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#hi kaladin is my blorbo please accept this #also i dont remember what scene this quote is from. this isnt. a book illustration its just me yelling and drawing kaladin so uh. yeah #kaladin stormblessed #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #hyperionskies art #digital art #digital illustration #digital artist #artists on tumblr #ok thats enough tagging

[archgabrielangel]

I would not at all mind another Demigod Diaries. I want to read more about all the characters who didnt get alot of book time. like, you're telling me Ethan didn't write a diary?? or Silena???? like, not even Clarrise?? and it doesn't even stop at demigods. Carter Kane totally kept a diary so he wouldn't forget a single detail of his time at Brookyln House. he would write about anything that he didn't put in the recording. and Sadie??? there is no way she DIDNT write about Walt non stop. or Samirah!!!! she definitely wrote in a diary to relieve stress and talk about her double life. Blitz probably kept a diary to write down ideas for his shop!! like dude!!! there's so much to work with!!!!

#I would read an entire book about excerpts from these characters #or maybe it's just bc I'm nosy idk #but PLEASE #I need another demigod diaries #also I feel like einherjar would keep diaries so they wouldn't go crazy #like it's a way to keep busy and remember everything that happens tk them while they wait for ragnarok #idk it just seems like a cool concept #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #heroes of olympus #hoo #trials of apollo #toa #kane chronicles #tkc #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #mcga #the demigod diaries

[midnightcoffes]

it's funny to me how Hiccup snapped at his dad (book 1), his mom (book 10), toothless (different books) and even the gods in book 4 but he never snapped at Snotlout (at least in my memory), the guy he had every reason to snap. He just answers sarcastically or ignores. And even on book 11 he doesnt scream at him. He is so patient. how is that possible the boy is teenager

#httyd books #book hiccup #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #book snotlout #if im wrong correct me please #I just dont remember #fishlegs does it sometimes #but hiccup never snaps #hes so baby #book stoick

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I'm piggybacking a bit off of the last ask of asking for writing tips but I have an odd question... Am I the only person that struggles actually PICKING a book? It's the absolute bane of my existence because I feel like I can be so picky... Don't get me wrong, I love being a bookworm, and I'm trying to get back into reading physical books but it's so difficult to find a real taste of what the book is like without being completely spoiled or something... I miss when backs of books had an actual summary and not just NO.1 NEW YORK BESTSELLER!!!! It's so frustrating... I've been trying to get back into it by re-reading fond chapter childhood books read to me (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & A Wrinkle In Time). But at the same time I'm also trying to get into more "adult" books that isn't... Well, you try googling "adult books" and see how that goes, I didn't think too hard about what a poor decision THAT was. But I'm working up the courage to read Cat's Cradle right now to start with "Classic Authors" I guess!

Anyway I'm rambling here, I guess my question is... How do you pick out the books you read? I don't really have friends that read many books to recommend to me :')

Thank you in advance, Bog! I hope you get a callback from that interview soon!

no ok actually you've mentioned something that's been bothering me for a while - What The Hell Do Y'all Mea, Books Don't Have Summaries Anymore???? i have not once in my life found a book that didn't have a summary. i was in barnes & noble recently and everything i looked at had a summary. i have literally never seen a book without one in my life of reading & looking at new books on a regular basis

softcovers have theirs on the back. hardcovers are on the inside of the sleeve - lift the cover and it should be printed right there on the inside flap! summaries aren't legally required but both the author and Especially the publisher(s) know that no one's gonna buy a book without a summary. trust me, all books worth reading have a summary. if a book doesn't have one, it's probably not worth your time anyway. you just gotta know where to look!

so my answer to how i choose books... i read the summary lmao. if it seems interesting, ill either write it down to get later or ill get it there and then.

Before the summary though, i look for any titles that jump out at me from the shelf. then i look at the thickness. i like a bit of meat in my literature, so i tend to shy away from thinner books. thicker ones grab my attention more easily. then i look at the cover - if it interests me, then ill read the summary. i don't have specific tastes in title or cover. as long as it makes my brain "hm" thoughtfully, ill take a gander!

and really, if you have access to a bookstore (chain or not, ive found plenty of bangers in tiny used bookshops) or library, the best way to find a book is to physically browse. even if you dont buy anything, you can take pictures of books / write them down to buy online. but going to the store lets you search them out, examine the length, cover, title, summary - and easily put it back on the shelf or keep it. i hate shopping online bc there's ads, you can't examine the product, nothing really stands out since it's all portrayed similarly, there's limited pictures instead of the physical thing, and photos can lie.

plus, everything is (typically) meticulously sorted by genre & age range. when you go into a section with literature aimed at adults, you'll find exactly that instead of smut novels lmao. real life bookstores can be more accurate than online searches. & there's just something so good about walking through shelves, searching for that one book before you know it exists, smelling the paper... yeah...

#like for example i recently bought priory of the orange tree #ive been wanting it for a while and havent read it yet since im finishing something else #BUT! i remember when i first saw it #nothing had gotten my attention for a while #but then i saw the thickest fucking book ive seen in ages - which was automatically very sexy of it #and then the title was unique - priory of the orange tree??? whoah! what the fuck does that mean!!! #so automatically there was the interest of neat title + a new word that i get to learn + the implications of the word now that i understand #and then i picked the book up and it was deliciously heavy - & there was a Dragon on the cover. which. YES PLEASE #then the summary was fascinating!! the book was immediately seared into my brain! im very excited to read it #so thats a highly successful example of my book choosing Process #it checked all of my boxes so it was a win #most books dont check all of my boxes but as long as it hits most of them im down to clown yk yk #but yeah im picky too so! nothing wrong with being picky or having high standards! #rambles from the bog #my shelves are fuckin Full of books ranging from 'it was ok' to 'I WILL RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL WHO WILL LISTEN' #and then i have a drawer filled with books that i just could not care less about / dont like #but dont have the heart to throw away bc. well putting a book in the trash kills a part of my soul #i need to donate them... #but yes! i hope that helps! #and Thank You! i hope i get a callback as well...

[rayniscatstatue]

Do elves ever retire from their jobs? Do they just work for thousands of years on end?

That would suck

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc thoughts #kotlc theories #someone please give me your thoughts #also I lost my book that I am currently reading #I don’t know how I just left it in my school bag #and it has gone poof from existence #I legit opened my school bag at school yesterday to get my book out and it was gone #then I also remember seeing it on my bookshelf this morning in a picture I took this morning #I checked and it was also not there #I swear this book #vow of thieves. and I am starting to think a thrive stole it

[brother-emperors]

Do you have any particular websites/books/etc you go to for pose references? Your art is always so dynamic I love it.

ALAS not really, it's been seven or eight years since I've used something dedicated to pose references (I don't use the 3D modeling features that clip studio offers either), so idk if what I did use are even active anymore

mostly I do a lot of anatomy studies (this is relaxing for me lmao) and gesture drawings as warm ups (more or less daily) so I feel comfortable in my ability to put on a page what I'm imagining, although sometimes I'll seek out something specific like a sculpture if I'm looking for a certain visual vibe

THAT SAID I'd recommend checking out Mike Mattesi's Drawing with Force for anyone looking to add dynamic energy to their art!

#my anatomy & figure drawing teacher recommended reading Mattesi's book and its extremely good #anyway this probably makes me sound pretentious but i don't really like a lot of dedicated pose websites/books #its just too stiff for me (HOWEVER please remember ive been doing this for a very long time. its simply not useful for me anymore! #THAT SAID if pose references ARE useful for you. dA used to have a thriving pose community back in the day #OH and kamitokatachi. that's a website with a lot of 3D pose references #i see their 3D modeling work on twitter sometimes and they post from a lot of different views/angles) #ive done some gesture drawings off of their models with more difficult/weird angles and its very fun #ask tag

[p4nishers]

can we actually take a moment and remember swan upon leda? can we actually shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down and think about our lord and savior swan upon leda because i'm tired of doing it alone every single day guys

#the title itself!!! THE FUCKING TITLE #swan UPON leda #god he's an actual genius THANK U HOZIER SO FUCKING MUCH #i hate how that myth is portrayed and received and objectified bc they make it out to be such a funny little chuckle story like 'hahaha led #is SO easy that she fell for a swan isn't that actually the funniest thing you've ever heard omg like women are literally so easy to please #whatever whatever blahblahblah yes that's fucking hilarious matthew thank u SO much for that absolutely fascinating commentary on a women #getting raped by a god really truly an amazing insight into ur pea fucking brain #like fuck sorry but i just absolutely despises how this myth is made out to be and i remember learning abt it in class and being literally #nauseated bc guess fucking what it's literally not hard to understand wtf is happening and while u r laughing away about i repeat a WOMEN #getting RAPED some fucking of us have brain enough to be mortified #jesus ANYWAY #hozier dropped that song after roe v wade was over turned and i just i love him so fucking much he cares SO MUCH and before anything else #he's an activist and he actually gives a shit about women's rights and he dropped this song as a comfort as something to hold onto but also #as a social commentary and he linked charities and resources to help women and keep them safe and this song just means everything to me #bc greek mythology often gets reduced to children stories bc most ppl know myths from children books and obviously a book for kids not gonn #outloud say the word rape or even imply that that's what's happening and that's fine ig but bc so many ppl know it from there it gets #reduces to a joke and a raped women gets ridiculed but hozier actually took one of the few poems about leda being raped and it being a rape #at all and made it into a song during a time that was so traumatizing for ever afab person in the world basically and it just says 'i see #you i see what you're going through and i'm listening and i actually care and i want to help you' and he's helping by writing a song yes bc #he's spreading the word that way bc that's how movements are spread and people listen to him when he's singing and that's how he helps and #i did i mention that i love him? bc i'd actually do anything for him and to meet him and tell him how much he fucking means to me #the line that always gets me is 'a crying CHILD pushes a CHILD into the night' bc yes she was a fucking child who had to deliver 4 KIDS BC #AN ASSHOLE DECIDED SHE WAS PRETTY ENOUGH TO FUCK and nobody ever cares that she was just a child and her child helen was just a child when #she was abducted and raped and impregnated (JUST LIKE HER MOTHER) by theseus a supposed great hero and im genuinely sick she was just a #child like so many women or girls in greek mythology and ik it was a different time back then or wtv but they were just GIRLS and nobody #cared about that or cares now. but this song does. #bc of course it does it's hozier. #hozier #swan upon leda

[hideyseek]

this screenshot is almost unbearably low quality but i am FASCINATED by this napkin behavior. most of it in the lap but one corner anchored under the plate!

this is jing ran from my true friend but zhu yilong totally did this in guardian as shen wei also, in the scene where he and zhao yunlan have dinner with guo changcheng and gcc's uncle. notably, luo fusheng didn't do this in granting you a dreamlike life.

i'm fascinated by this behavior. is this. what is this? is this z1l's interpretation of how fastidious people use napkins?

#zhu yilong #i will find the shen wei screenshots later #i will also find proof of luo fusheng NOT doing this. i think from whenever that episode is #when he wears a suit and bowtie hehe. oh! or my beloved hampter cheekies ep #i distinctly remember rewinding the guardian scene a few times #bc in that scene shen wei is just undoing this setup. and we don't have nearly as clear a shot of what he's doing bc he and zyl are like. #Booking It out of the restaurant iirc. but it caught my attention then also. #I'M FASCINATED BY THIS #does he do this anywhere else???????? #fanbase please .... help me #hidey watches my true friend

[damianito]

Hi! I've been seeing bsd on your blog(is that what it's called? I'm new to tumblr) and I was wondering in what order to read the manga? there's so much content that it's confusing me lol

The thing about Bungou Stray Dogs is that the manga can be read as it is, without anything else, but if you want to have more depth into characters & details.

There's the light novels which are side stories from the main plot, like Dazai's entrance exam, Stormbringer, The origin of the detective agency, 15 soukoku, etc.

An order for the light novel in releasing dates

1. Osamu Dazai's entrance exam

2. Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai

3. The untold origin of the detective agency

4. 55 minutes

6. Dead apple

7. BSD Beast

8. 15 soukoku

9. Stormbringer

There's also the current going of 15 Soukoku drawn by Shiwasu Hoshikawa (Which also illustrated BSD Beast if you wanna read the manga)

We have BSD Wan which is our piece of fluff. Little chibis of our characters being silly, animated & also on manga.

#you ask i answer #side note: the BSD Beast is an alternative universe so it isn't directly connected to the main story so you can leave that at last if desire #What i remember doing is watching like the first season & then i just run around to learn about the novels & the rest #it's hard to find the novel online as well. so only a few can read them #unless you buy the books #There's also information given by a lot of people #do not trust tiktok information on bsd tho. #it's a wild ride #if you are curious about bsd please make sure you read the trigger warnings because they're something of the manga that can be triggering #it's a good story with a really good plot but it's also not easy to read so take caution with it.

[pancakehouse]

you guys never adam parrish post anymore... remember when you guys used to adam parrish post ...

#sry he just popped into my head #too lazy to read the books i just wanna see those quote compilations where adam is called a marvelous creature and other such things #and what ab his hands and smth ab him fixing cars.. see i cant even remember this is what happens when you guys get other hobbies can we #all FOCUS PLEASE

[findingcrow]

Hold on is it seriously just a thing where Flanagan is inconsistent because I’m reading kings of clonmel (again, first time reader) and Will and Gilan are drinking coffee with honey and everyone else is making fun of them and say like “So Halt is passing down his bad habits huh?” And I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER when Halt and Horace were making their way to Skandia and stopped in an inn, Horace put honey in his coffee and Halt was like “you just ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee. What the fuck” and Horace told him he learned it FROM WILL???? Am I just dumb like did I misread something 5 books ago or??,??

#rangers apprentice #john flanagan #will treaty #halt o'carrick #ranger's apprentice #gilan davidson #horace altman #crowley #books #Flanagan SOME CONSISTENCY PLEASE #am I going insane like??? #I swear to god this is what I remember but maybe i really am just dumb #was i the only person confused about this

[abolishpickles]

HELP ME FIND A FIC

(again)

ok, so this one is a hp fic I found on Wattpad.

basically, James and Lily survive voldy and maybe have a daughter, she might have been Harry's twin, idk I forgot. but anyway she ends up being raised by a deatheater who keeps her inside bc she's scared of people realizing her "daughter" is the missing Potter.

i think the "mom" is forced to send her to Hogwarts after keeping her for 2 yrs or something, but she forces her to wear this sort of necklace that conceals this birthmark she has or something that could identify her.

so at the train station the Potters see her and round up everyone to help prove this girl they bumped into is their missing daughter.

i also think it's oc x oc.

#help me find a fic #help me find this #help me find it #atyd fanart #harry potter #harry potter fandom #lily evans #james potter #please help #I just remembered this and now I cant let it go until I find it #fanfiction #wattapad #I cant find this fanfic #help me find this book #help me find the fic #hp #hp fandom #harry potter fanfic rec #hp fanfic #harry potter fanfiction #hp fanfcition #harry potter fanfic #James Potter daughter #James potter #lily evens #sirius black #remus loves sirius #remus lupin #wolfstar #atyd wolfstar