#The Just So Song Book

[taxinealkaloids]

kill your darling, it's just that easy!

#tlt #my art #i reblogged these outfits the other day that were giving me big ianthe & naberius vibes so i wanted to draw something with them #got really funky w/ this one! i just wanted to play around i havent had the chance to draw in a while #so i just kinda let myself do whatever w/ the colors and art style and everything #idk how i feel about it but it was fun #anyway ive seen some posts suggesting that ianthe somehow cheated the system by sacrificing naberius and like... #no she absolutely did not? she paid that price exactly by the book (making her one of the few to actually do so) #and now she suffers forever for it :) #oh the line on top is a quote from the book and the caption is a lyric from 'kill your darling' by cloudy june #(which aside from that one line is not at all a ianthe&naberius song lmao)

[analogicalreasoning]

He would.

He needs that wine.

#sanders sides #janus sanders #ts janus #sanders sides fanart #sanders sides art #i love that janus has these extra limbs #cause it could be argued that the extra limbs were just a product of remus' imagination for his song #but then the moment in the court room where the books were held up #then again #they were in the mind palace and patton makes that clear when he pulls out the butterfingers #so whos to say janus actually has extra limbs #i love him either way

[watchingwisteria]

im so sorry i get it now i really do, the gay angels have me shaking screaming crying at all hours of the day and night, they mean everything to me i am literally thinking about them all the time and what it would mean to love someone steadily and silently through eternity, what it would mean to love across the lines of a divine war of supposed good and evil, what it would mean to carve out a space for oneself and ones lover in no man’s land, in the grey and moral ambiguity when you were created to be black and white without blemish. god i love them so much i just

#update from the tags : posted this after watching s1 knowing the end of s2 #and i was like hm hope im not too offbase #but imagine my surprise when they literally said ‘i love this space we carved for ourselves’ #I WAS SICK #ineffable husbands #<< u dont get it. i used to see that and it meant nothing to me. now its like a knife inside me #good omens #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #ur girl watches good omens #experiencing full brain rot. like every song is about them somehow #im imaginging edits in my head bc i do nawt have time to make them for real #i just bought the book and i am about to devour it #lol another update #the drama in this post is so HDISJSISB but i was FEELING IT #i was GOING THROUGH IT… #and when i think abt them for too long i still am

[thatsitso]

For the winter, or forever

#moomin #moominvalley #snufmin #snufkin #moomins #moomin fanart #my art #moomintroll #artists on tumblr #sketch #drawing #digital art #ibis paint x #doodle #moominvalley fanart #just finished Moominvalley in November hence I've read all Moomin books!! and the hyperfixation is back #it was so good too 🥹 one or my favs for sure #imma get back to watching the series now #muminki #title inspired by a song For The Summer Or Forever by Halftribe which I just love so so much #at first it was just For the winter but it reminded me of it #now i wanna draw something actually summery inspired by the song itself it's so fitting for them...

[manichewitz]

why is it that 90% of criticism of the song of achilles just boils down to not accepting the conventions of romance as a genre and wanting it to simply be a different book than what it is? because seriously if you can’t get with the fact that the song of achilles is a queer romance story first and a retelling of the iliad second you’re never gonna make a criticism of it that’s interesting to me. if i wanted to read a book that was accurate to the source material then i would just read the iliad. if i wanted to read a queer romance unfolding on the backdrop of a mythical war i would read the song of achilles. if you dont understand the difference between those two things then your beef with that book is just a waste of time to me

#tangential but i think tsoa had a little bit of a hunger games effect #where it inspired so many knockoffs of itself that it retroactively is percieved as worse than it actually is #also at the end of the day its obviously not meant to be about the iliad its about tragic queer love in ancient greece #it frustrates me a lot that people really just cant understand that lmaooo #.txt #alex talks #books #bookblr #the song of achilles #the iliad #the classics #patrochilles #achilles/patroclus #ya #ancient greece #ancient rome #greatest hits

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

your eyes (1996) - original broadway cast of rent (article from genius)

“in an arc that has spanned from ‘one song glory,’ we see roger finally write and perform ‘one song to leave behind.’ unfortunately, it’s bad.”

#rent #roger davis #broadway #LMAO #anyway #guess what show im working on #i fucking hate this song #i hate the end of la vie boheme #just fucking tell each other #you dont have to sing for so long #my fav song is la vie boheme tho just not that part #second is tango maureen #bc im the worst #its just fun to sing #blackout poem #blackout poetry #author #book #poetry

[duncanor]

The last page of Chapter #00 of Trigun

The last page of Trigun Maximum

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS ??? CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS??

#Trigun #trigun maximum #trimax #I NEVER REALIZED #I just opened the doc for my book club reread #and just went.. wait #WAIT #OMG #Nightow you motherfucker #you did it again #bro #and so the song of life persist #it's so cool TOT)

[dollsuguru]

this man has no fucking right to be THIS beautiful… jinshi my LOVE.

#jinshi my BELOVED… god he makes me so. insane #i say that a lot but he really makes me Clinically Unwell i just love him so so so so so so so much #him & maomao <3 my favs of all time <3 the only people EVER #i NEED to order all the apothecary diaries manga/light novels STAT #ALSO THE FUCKING SOUNDTRACK TO THE ANIME??? THE NEW EPISODE TODAY??? #BEST ANIME SERIES EVER I��M NOT EVEN REMOTELY JOKING. #the song that was used when jinshi carried maomao out after she saved his life… i teared up & got LITERAL chills holy FUCK #let me order the books rn actually like ’m not playing around #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #personal

[suntails]

MY SILVER PMV IS DONE!!!!

I've been working on this for almost a month and a half, and I'm SOSOSO excited to get to finally share it with y'all! :D it's a little love letter to his arc of the diasomnia story, and i'm so honored to get to make something special for my lil guy <3

#PLEASE if u are a silver fan PLS watch. its almost 4 minutes long and it's all abt him babey. my little GUY #genuinely the single most ambitious proj i think i've ever done. and i built a 360 master controller rig for DR once #i'm shaking a little bit i'm overwhelmed. this has been my LIFE for the past lil bit i just. augh i poured my heart into it i LOVE him #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #book 7 spoilers #ch 7 spoilers #diasomnia #this also prominently features the knight of dawn and lilia. the song will make that very clear as to Why. OUGUUGH #THANK U TO LETTIE FOR HELPING BRAINSTORM AT THE BEGINNING AND TO ELL FOR LETTING ME SEND A MILLION WIPS #suntails #sebek zigvolt #animatic #it's not an animatic at this point bc i went too crazy but i think more ppl associate fan vids w that terminology so yknow. blinks

[francy-sketches]

Hiiiii guess who finished her pmv. finally. um enjoy :3

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #cersei lannister #and a bunch of others I don't feel like tagging them #wrote some of them in the desc if you scroll past my ramblings. the others I hope you can tell by context clues i believe in u #my art #pmv #it's finally joever oh my god #i dont want to look at it ever again. this is my child and I'm abandoning it at your doorstep 🏃‍♂️💼 #btw confession time I started this before finishing adwd so like if you notice book inaccuracies. just ignore it #tbh towards the end i was just kinda going off the song lyrics more than anything #also like her hair should not be that long I think. the show poisoned my brain bc they do fuck all for like a year post walk #n e way ill talk about it more tomorrow probably. im gonna be so annoying about this btw I WILL force you to watch it #istg if it flops 🔪

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

#welcome to night vale was the first place I ever heard songs with swearing and references to sex. it was literally life changing #especially for a queer kid like me #incidentally welcome to night vale was some of the first media I ever consumed #(aside from educational children's books) #that had out queer characters #Welcome to night vale is fucking magical. #The main character is a gay Jewish dude with aids who is just. Peak queer joy. #He loves his husband so much it literally drives the story sometimes. also he's probably nonbinary #This generation is missing out #welcome to night vale

[stars-are-shining-bright]

i will never be not insane about the fact that Ivy's backstory song didn't get archived

#SHE SPENT ALL HER LIFE ARCHIVING AND DIED IN A SHIP FULL OF BORUNG BOOKS JUST SO THEY COULD SURVIVE #YET WE DO NOT HAVE A RECORD OF HER SONG #the mechanisms #ivy alexandria #i am so sos soso nornal about this information (<- lying)

[knightsickness]

I get the cristin Cole obsession because I am obsessed with him and Allicent's dynamic. it's so weird and twisted and complicated and based on religious shame and duty, it's obsession, it's actual courtly love. and f&b has some great lines but yknow the issues with it. the only thing I wish they had put in the show is Allicent saying but who will protect the princess from Cole. bc I think that just furthers their fucked up bizarre relationship. like the only man she trusts is bound to not have sex and the only woman he likes would never have sex with him.... much to consider

legit SUCH an insane line in relation to them .. delightful sicko layer to their mutual shame+misery celibate pseudo-het relationship. either she never believed that and said it anyway or does and doesn’t care .. keeps him around both as the only sane person here who realises my stepdaughter is the devil and my state-sanctioned guy who kills anyone i don’t like and as guy who represents rhaenyra’s worst crimes in my eyes fully aware he’s a dangerously unstable serial killer but he’d rather kill himself than hurt her because she’s the virgin mary. courtly love sicko eunuch besties 🫶

#main change from book cris arguably that in the show he’s worse at plausible deniability #in the book it’s clear he’s a serial killer but he covers his tracks it’s all maybes and rumours #in the show he just keeps barehands killing people in public with very little provocation #implication that the greens are so tightknit at covering atrocities that him killing a guy at the table was completely covered up is fun #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #criston cole #alicole

[scudden]

Jon Snow :) Wanted to make a portrait with him with a medieval manuscript style border!!

#this took me an embarrassing amount of time to draw #like many hours #but i really love how the border turned out!! #this is also my first time drawing any of the book characters #i just recently got into GoT and started reading the books so I have no idea what im doing with fanart and book designs haha #I do really want to make a series of these portraits with manuscript borders though!! I had so much fun designing it! #jon snow #asoiaf fanart #asoiaf #asoiaf art #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #my art #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #csp #clip studio paint #got #game of thrones #game of thrones art

[pixiecactus]

i'm going to call this post book!gendrya for dummies (it's me i'm the dummy): i had always loved the parallel that gendrya share about being the third born child (we are five books in, and still to this moment we don't have another baratheon bastard introduced to us that's older than gendry, so the order for me is: mya, bella and gendry) and (if we go with the r+l=j theory, jon obviously is not ned's son... so we have robb, sansa and arya) but something that has never ocurred to me before, is that we obviously already know the plot point of "the seed is strong" and we have gendry directly telling ned how his mother used to have yellow/blond hair (this is my own headcanon, but i like to think that she had brown eyes as well) meaning that all children sired by robert baratheon shared his hair colour and eyes colour, so gendry in his colouring and looks does not resemble at all his mother and we know exactly the same thing about arya, how of all of the catelyn tully/stark's children, she's is the only one that has none of her mother's looks, she and jon had the stark look, long face and grey eyes, like her father (and jon's mother) and like all of the starks of old time (karstarks included), and meanwhile genetics in asoiaf had always been somehow really wonky if compared to how genetics work in real life, it always interested me this fact about arya, one could simply said that arya having stark's looks and colouring is to help the narrative of arya feeling like an outsider in her own family, just like jon, and to establish even more how deeply the jon/arya bond runs, even when she knows both of her parents, and it's a true-born daughter. so this post was me discovering another gendrya parallel shared between them, i don't think it's really important but hey, it's still there alright

#and yeah i know that mostly the conversation about gendrya's looks is centered about how they look like lyanna and robert reborn #and i absolutely think that part of their looks will come to play in the next books #like arya wears the north in her face and you mean to tell me no one is going to notice that a false arya was in her stead #if arya and gendry were lyanna and robert reborn i wouldn't even ship it in the first place #is so dear to me the fact of how gendry is the complete antithesis of robert baratheon #and now going to my own headcanon territory: #that's why i prefer to depict arya with a chesnut shade of brown hair #like catelyn's genes were really strong no joke about it #so that's why i like to think that arya subtlely has hair a shade lighter than jon due to her mother's genes #in the same way canonically jon has a darker shade of grey eyes #arya with chesnut brown hair is my way of potraying one of my favourites arya's quotes #“the woman is important too” #is this post completely self-indulgent? of course #i'm just here to post my s!ms and make self-indulgent posts #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house stark #arya stark #gendry #gendrya #arya x gendry #gendry x arya

[heartofarcanum]

This girl just actually for real drew a picture of her and her crush in the margins of her notebook idk what to do I’m-😭😭😭

And the way he’s so much taller than her in the picture 🥹🥹

#Eva doodling ‘Mrs high epistates in the margins of her notebook’ #EXCEPT SHE ACTUALLY DID THAT #she’s just like me fr #this has to be the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen #so earnestly too #‘his favorite scribe’ #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #I am climbing the WALLS #rc #romance club #song of the crimson nile #scn #rc amen #amen x Evthys #HIS FAVORITE SCRIBE #no because this is now my favorite scene in this book