#anyways this book that changed my life

[mydaylight]

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: English covers

source

#the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #book covers #books #literature #I love most of these but #I am absolutely in love with the first cover with eleanor #unfortunately I own a penguin modern classics edition which is the most boring one ever #anyways this book that changed my life

[leverage-ot3]

I’ve talked about this before but imagine what it’s like for someone in a country/place where eliot is Top Most Wanted and then your tech guy finds a breakout star baseball player on their visual scanner that looks EXACTLY like spencer. but…there’s no way that’s him, right???

and then the next year it happens again but this time it’s some one hit wonder country singer kenneth crane that has like 78 tween-run fangirl blogs dedicated to him. you see a grainy video of him being chased by a horde of screaming teenage girls and ??? no way Eliot Last Thing You’ll Ever See Spencer is a country singer star just. signing pictures of his face right…?

a few months later your intern shows you footage of an eliot lookalike who is in san lorenzo talking about how there is dog fighting in the presidential palace and you just. sigh. because of course. a scant few days later the political geography of the country changes drastically and damien moreau is imprisoned. …interesting

and then a year of silence goes by. he still shows up as blips on the radar but he must have a good hacker working for him because his tracks on the internet are expertly erased.

every time you ask through interagency channels some random interpol guy talks in (condescending?) riddles at you and it also somehow feels like he’s threatening you

and then your friend who recently got into foreign hockey teams sends you a dropyourgloves video of someone called jacques the bear. you immediately get a headache (and watch some more videos because even you can admit this guy is a good hockey player)

and you know he’s a Bad Guy but it’s been admittedly a bit entertaining seeing what claim to fame he will come upon next. and his most recent actions over the few years make you wonder.

a few months later your phone pings because multiple heads of state evacuated from DC. the reason? eliot spencer was in town. you hear two days later a bioterrorist was taken down by… the report was redacted. your hacker tells you spencer and two teammates were behind the successful operation. which, huh.

not even a full year later it is released that spencer is dead and… you don’t know how to feel.

#sorry this turned kinda angsty I just think eliot famousaliases spencer is a great reoccurring joke #eventually an indeterminate amount of months later you see him pop up again and you breathe #at this point all the intel you’ve gotten points that he’s actually doing something good with his life #like he’s changed. and you know he’s a bad guy but he’s doing things that nobody else is really capable of doing. making changes on large #and small scales #he will face consequences eventually you are sure. but his tracks are so well covered already and he’s so slippery so maybe. maybe you just #don’t make your agents work so hard to track him down #you get to know sterling a bit better (and maybe understand him a bit better too) #sterling invites you to an off the books lunch at this brewpub in portland when you’re in the states. the head chef looks familiar #it’s the best food you’ve ever tasted. because OF COURSE it is #at this point you’re not even angry. or resigned anymore. you’re slightly impressed #anyways that’s how sterling’s leverage club gains another member #(mcsweeten was the second member btw. if you’ve seen my other posts) #eliot spencer #eliot spencer meta #headcanons #humor #leverage #jim sterling #(mentioned) #the studio job #the blue line job #the three strikes job #ficlets #mine #a post not on my queue??? more likely than you think #I should make a tag for in universe pov posts #into the leverage verse #headcanons in the tags #the rundown job

[canonkiller]

do you consider your self made?

#my art #self portrait of sorts #been musing a lot on disability recently and how being relatively freshly unable to do Most Things has changed my perspective on things #for a long time growing up i was fixated on the idea of being An Impact On The World yknow? mainly the next Big Writer #(and that it would be sooo impressive that everyone would make my books bestsellers when i was only 12 because it was That Good) #and i mean. obviously that didnt work out as originally planned because i was 12 and learning. but I've felt a lot like #I've kind of built my sense of self on those big achievements. even if they were only big to me. and a lot of them #are now out of reach or very difficult to reach. and it's been a lot to. recontextualize #to take what ive been told my whole life and ignore it in favor of just being being enough. #things will happen as they happen. i havent earned anything by suffering but it hasnt ended the world either #im here doing what i Can do for as long as I'm able to do it. and thats all i need to be for now #just making sure that i Do do the things i can do rather than assume i can do them later #anyways. love you #cw: #top nudity #artistic nudity #the dreaded ambiguously presenting nipple #if you put any pro weight loss eating disorder shit on here ill kill you btw #my body is sexy because im in it and im still alive. not because its struggling to stay that way #lindwormposting

[only-lonely-www]

So basically ATLA brain rot has hit me like a truck

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #toph beifong #what happened was I was forced to watch the live action #which is actually pretty good if you get past the first few episodes #and if you don’t have someone in your ear telling you it’s awful the whole time #first episode is definitely the weakest and that’s 50% gran gran’s fault #aang and katara are also pretty flat but whatever #sokka’s good and zuko’s fantastic actually #they did goof on a few things but overall I think it’s a fun time #just don’t expect it to be as good as the cartoon and you’ll be okay #ANYWAY it got me missing toph #so i rewatched the blind bandit episode #and then wound up watching the entirety of books 2 & 3 in a few days #and now I’m brain rotted #which is especially weird considering when I first watched it I was like #yeah that was good! and then never thought about it again #i dunno what changed but i need help it’s taking over my life #wanted to draw Sokka too but he looks hard to draw #and i had enough trouble with these two #maybe someday #sorry for rambling in the tags goodbye

[botlabyrinth]

the percy jackson tv show is actually great when there isn’t a little shit in your ear telling you it’s not “book accurate”

#it’s book accurate enough FOR ME #god can we just try to enjoy something for once #it’s an ADAPTATION. it is not gonna be copy and pasted from the books #but they have the tone and the humor and the CHARACTERS and the themes right #isn’t that what really matters? #and some of yall are acting like they changed the entire plot when really it’s just small changes that service the tv format #and deepen character relationships and interactions #seeing book fans say the movies are better is the most absurd thing i’ve heard in my life… like did we watch the same movies #every single thing the show does wrong is still light years better than every single thing the movies got right #can’t we just enjoy that please #can you tell i’m sick of the nitpicking😭 #anyways maybe try to have fun for once in ur life idk #also ur allowed to have constructive criticism that’s so valid. or criticism at all #ofc u should critique the media u enjoy #but saying it’s not a good adaptation is kinda crazy to me idk #when it’s so clear how much thought was put in by the creators and cast to get it right this time #pjo tv #pjo tv show #pjotv #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo spoilers #percy jackon and the olympians #ruch rambles #sorry to hide all that in the tags but it feels very angry and i don’t want to be mean😭 i have the crit tag filtered for a reason lol #i’m choosing joy #but i just wanted to put these thoughts out there

[obsob]

happy autumn!!!

#mine #original #heeheh ordered some new prints yesterday..... #i went to th library also! got a book ive already read to read again before reading th sequel #and also a new book...hehehe...... #ive been reading on my kindle so much it will be nice to read a real book #if anyone wants to send me £30 so i can buy th hands of the emperor by victoria goddard that would b great #why so. why costs so much money. relax #th second book comes out in nov heheheHEHEHE #book im reading rn is pretty good but also these guys are rock hard at like any given moment #theyre like we need to be sneaky...people cant know...anyway want 2 hve loud passionate sex behind this tree #which. i mean im not complaining. #th last book i read was pretty dull but all the reviews are like 5 STAR CHANGED MY LIFE did we read the same book #anyway. happy saturday! #also they updated how u do posts n i gotta say......being able 2 edit tags? godsend #gods know i cannot spell

[petricorah]

what if i got really into haikyuu again

#its back on netflix and ive been watching it #still as good as ever #i stopped watching it in high school when i stopped playing volleyball because it made me too sad but now im back... #back to my roots... #scared to draw oikawa again after so long #also cant focus on anything because of this fucking tinnitus that keeps getting worse wtf #anyway...oikawa drawing...hopefully...soon #notmyart #someone send me good oikawa screencaps to practice #god i should read the manga too... #also completely unrelated but i was thinking about learning a bit of japanese again but i think i gave away all my books...ugh #'again' i say like i didn't read a really good hq fanfic that changed the trajectory of my life

[unproduciblesmackdown]

set out to create a serious, canonesque drawing with which to say "feel free to go in my lackadaisy tag and help me mystery speculate" but only got going when i made it bowling and the rarepair agenda

#not that i imagine anything w/mordecai's Rare so much as: diluted range of possibilities lol. probably someones on that mordecai/virgil life #when it turns out it takes several tries to start to get more solid footing at drawing characters for the first time: What The????? #i actually don't think i ever tried drawing lackadaisy before; against all odds....if i had i would've had a head start lol #lackadaisy #corned beef #any collectively used pairing name here? mordenico? nicodecai? in absence of otherwise Knowing: #nicodeme savoy #mordecai heller #me in '07 going oh my GOD this ART!!!! me in '23 going oh my GOD this ART!!!! & guess how i've always felt years in between #goddd perusing the gallery bonus art afresh recently just like WOWWW i'm SOOO #the collages of full-body drawings for book purchases i think like my GOD i love to see it. plus that the Extra Stuff gallery means there's #such a variety like. stuff that's clearly noncanon; stuff that could be / kinda is; jokes; portraits; story / characters insight....waaughh #also shoutout to everyone behind all the mordecais in KS Backer Art 1 & 2 like ''sexy mordecai please'' apparently lmao. hell yeah #anyways my Marigold Bowling Team headcanons are simple and straightforward: nicodeme w/the muscle can get a strike from the force of having #hit one pin that smashes into all the others; but don't underestimate his versatility. mordecai with the precision / method & absolutely #who you want trying to hit the only pin left on the lane. serafine's got like serpentine curveballs changing velocity halfway down the lane #and they've All got pointing a gun at the people setting pins / returning balls b/c that wasn't automated back in the twenties #back when everyone had customized printed tees....oh fun fact. a real live kitty cat crinkled that first pic's paper by jumping on it #or really; ricocheting off of it. classic #also the ''i want people to seriously consider nicodeme/mordecai. but also sillily'' purposes have me using Close Contact as a shorthand #it's earnest and can sure be [longhand] too but you go ''You Could Never HC Datingly Affection ft. An Always Touch Averse Character'' & i? #well i scoff derisively and slowly swivel my chair around to face you; arms crossed; smhing....hah. how greatly you underestimate my power. #you're throwing [hcs for a romance ft. an autistic character] & [that ft. an asexual character] & i'm grabbing them midair & Sips Them #ha ha why these replenish my health And experience bars.... #Never Be Afraid To Forget To Draw Mordecai's Glasses Or That You Also Put Your Thumb In A Bowling Ball....he's warming up. or w/e. #nicodeme w/the boxing experience shoulders massage trope. giving that pep talk #or you can go ''get a strike or we kill you'' b/c you never have to find out if he's joking or not #mordecai unfazed b/c that's the stakes in this business (bowling) & he's autistic so always having to ignore Everyone being weird/confusing #haven't come up with a lackadaisy's team bowling pun name lol. #still feel free to go in my lackadaisy tag and help me brainstorm mitzi n mordecai's murder mystery ;w; enrichment

[chiropteracupola]

The love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.

#em draws stuff #travel light #this image has been about a year in the making (I wanted to draw it when I first read it but I only got to it now) #my thoughts on travel light are. well they are this image primarily. #been a while and a while since I drew in this style and it feels GOOD to be doing it again!! #wish I'd figured out a way to fit steinvor into the composition but it was a hard squish even to include tarkan der (and he's very tiny) #the way I've done the mountains are purposefully referencing one of the earlier covers of the hobbit as I love jirt's painting style #and it seemed apt for various things about the way travel light exists and the kinds of things it has to say #it is right on the edge of where legend meets life when it comes to depicting early medieval europe and it's. well. read it actually. #book that makes you want to listen to 'to holmgard and beyond' by turisas except exactly backwards #(in the varangian way they are going the other direction and also they are much more (to put it as halla would) dragonish about it) #song I first heard in the context of an absolutely wild 8tracks playlist in 2015 which changed my music taste forever. anyway. #really I must read more naomi mitchison except that no library in the entire state of california appears to have a copy of the big house :/ #anyway anyway. if I ever get my own copy of this book I Will be rebinding it to have this for a cover I like it so very much

[stealingfromwoolworths]

I’m sorry but the fact that Kerch and Ketterdam are based off 18th/17th century Nederland and they are all just dress… blegh? Unforgivable. I know you all have the notion of Dutch traditional dress being boring and bland and black but that is SO FAR from the truth especially in the 18th century like…

(A lot of this is modern but like it was even prettier and more elaborate back when it was widely worn.)

“But it doesn’t go with the ✨vibe✨ of Ketterdam

YES IT DOES 😭

Klederdracht is so diverse and so beautiful… idk just seeing what everyone is wearing in Ketterdam makes me sad because it was such a missed opportunity

#also men’s traditional clothing in parts of Nederland? it’s so stunning and elaborate and shiny and colourful life #you can’t tell me Wylan wouldn’t buy so many shirts and jackets for Jesper like 😭 #the detail about Poffertjes made me so happy by the way #My opa used to make them for me before he moved across the country #when I started dating my now ex boyfriend who is from Panama I made him poffertjes #idk as a Dutch Australian giving people random food of my homeland is my love language #This may make no sense canonically idk #it’s been a hot minute since I read the books and I’ve just recently watched the shows #this was spurred on by me seeing a photo of a Dutch man with a cane dressed in all black klederdracht #kaz would have killed that look change my mind #anyway #pls #I need better representation then just sexualised girls wearing Edam-Volendam caps pls #Shadow and bone #shadow and bone tv #Sab #kaz brekker #the v is lowercase you uncultured swines (old meme makes a return #Wyland van Eck #Netflix #Klederdracht #Dutch culture #Liesbeth? dutch posting at 9pm at night?? no one is shocked #traditional clothing #cultural clothing #Streekdracht #actually autistic #can you tell

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

omg i'm so silly. look at me at the library on a saturday ready to write because i've just finished my reread of cleanness by garth greenwell.

#cleanness just gets better and better the more u read it lol #like yeahhhhhh gonna reread it again like immediately after i'm done my reread of his other book what belongs to you #which I'm not as attached to as cleanness lol but that I wanna experience again to see what I take from it #BUT THE CLEANNESS AUDIOBOOK IS LIFE CHANGINGGG #anyway <3 changing states time <3

[essektheylyss]

I gotta do some editing because I've been putting it off for WEEKS but also I did read about the current nuclear armament climate and I need to lay face down in moss until the forest takes me.

#anyway i need to finish this book so I can work on my other much larger project. #which is absolutely a thinly-veiled analogue for nuclear warfare #it's fine we don't have to talk about it i just think about this everyday of my life #know that if you ever passively wonder what's on my mind it's probably the state of nuclear armament worldwide. #I am considering changing my icon for the election year to the nuclear jesus statue in the Vatican. #there are two things the Vatican and I agree on wholeheartedly when much of America fails me #and those things are nuclear armament and capital punishment. anyway #ANYWAY.

[clarabowmp3]

like I’ve been generally fine in my teenage years (no more unhappier than from the average dose of teen angst) but man do I miss the excitement I’d get from those fantasy Geronimo Stilton books

#like my worldview on life was so different then #Obv it was Pri school so it was more chill (I was arguably too chill and messed up my psle) #But you know what I’m actually so fine w that! I’m happy that at least in some point in my life studies weren’t hanging over my head #Like a guillotine #And I would find so much joy in the little things like hell yeah new book!!! #because a part of me feels like I’m never going to feel that undiluted childlike joy ever again #And I’ve killed myself so much on every exam since #baby me deserved to have a little happiness in her life #I still think 12 is way too young for the first major board exam #Esp one so heavily surrounded by stigmas/reputation/prestige of the school you get into #like you’re setting a child up for the rest of their life and they’re not even a teen yet #thankfully it’s gotten a lot better (in terms of tangible change in sg societys mindset) #but god was it brutal for me in 2018/2019 #anyways trip down memory lane over heheh

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

Everyone always cites the same characters as the reason their standards are so high but no one ever cites Rudy Steiner and therefore everyone else is wrong

#I read the book thief for the first time when I was like 13 or something #and I have reread it pretty much every year since #and I will never not love rudy #he's the epitome of 'asshole but in a friendly way' and he's one of the most kind and selfless people in the book #(second to hans obviously but everyone is) #(I will also love hans hubermann for the rest of my life) #I read about rudy when I was 13 and goddamn it irrevocably changed my standards. If they can't be compared to rudy then they're not worth it #anyway I am finishing up my annual read of the book thief #and I want to cry (as always) #the book thief #rudy steiner

[jackmerrideeznuts]

me and my irls do an every so often presentation night type thing where we all make slideshows and present them to each other....

this time i'm going to be doing a lord of the flies deep dive presentation from everything to the book to the fandom to the misinterpretations of teachers everywhere

So if anybody has any fun info bites i might not already know DROP THEM PLEASE!!!!!! Will add to the presentation 😎

#peaches speaks #lotf #thats about as far as i'lll be tagging that lmao #going to get started over the weekend probably.. #my friends do not understand my lotf love at all. #also its this blogs one year birthday coming up soon!!! in a week i think? i'll probably make a lil thing in celebration of that #this book rlly changed my life and i met so many lovely people and had so much fun with it #it'll always have a special spot in my hesrt #heart #anyways GIVE ME OBSECURE KNOWLEDGE I MIGHTNOT KNOW!!!

[lexalovesbooks]

I remember reading fangirl when I was like thirteen and there being that mini plot thread throughout the novel where for the longest time Cath was too scared to go to her college’s dining hall because she didn’t know how it worked and was terrified she’d accidentally embarrass herself so instead she just spent half a semester eating peanut butter and granola bars until her roommate noticed and forced her to go with her. And that just really stuck with me because even at the time it felt like something I would do and I thought about it for years and years and then when I was finally at college on my own and I knew. that I needed to go to the dining hall and get food and eat but I was scared to do it on my own because I didn’t know the rules and what if I did something wrong or embarrassed myself and I couldn’t even ask my roommate to go with me and make it less scary because I didn’t have a roommate (covid protocol). Anyways Cather Avery most relatable character ever.

#fangirl rainbow rowell #thinking about it and yeah. i had mixed feelings about that book at the time but it was really the first main character that i could #see myself in. every description of cath’s social anxiety felt so familiar to me and it was also the book series that sort of. helped me #understand fanfiction? (before that i disliked it (had never read it) because i had a really incorrect understanding of what it was and why #people wrote it. i didn’t love it after finishing the book but i didn’t despise it anymore either) #anyways. books that probably did change my life a little bit #also i did eventually make it to my dining hall. there was a girl there who i knew from high school and when i mustered up the courage to #text her she was super nice and immediately invited me to have dinner with her. so i didn’t have to live off peanut butter for an entire #semester thankfully lol