#backlog from march

[stardustandrockets]

Here are some recs to read in lieu of the Boy Wizard series.

I asked my followers for recommendations on what to read instead of That Series™ and y'all definitely delivered. I included my own recs with little descriptions and most of the others are either on my tbr or completely new to me. I made sure to list whether it was a middle grade or young adult read.

I only put two of my favorite Diana Wynne Jones books on here, but anything she's written has magic in some form or fashion.

Books listed:

My personal favorites:

Slide 2: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones (middle grade); A 7 book middle grade series that follows the world of the Chrestomanci—a nine-lived enchanter who oversees the use of magic. The 7 books follow different characters that all intersect with one another. Did I mention there are parallel worlds?

Slide 3: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (middle grade); Seen the movie? The book is just like that but far more chaotic. It's still whimsical, but there's more depth and development. It's nostalgic even if you haven't read it before. It's also book 1 of a trilogy.

Slide 4: The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin (young adult); A series of 6 books that follows the wizard Ged. Very reminiscent of Lord of the Rings to me, but in a more approachable way. (Idk, I haven't read LotR. I've just seen the movies.)

Slide 5: The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques (middle grade); A 22 book series featuring talking animals as protagonists, this series set mainly around Redwall Abbey has something for everyone. The books don't have to be read in order, but publication order is suggested.

Slide 6: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (middle grade); A retelling of Greek myths. Neurodivergent rep, badass kids, humorous, and so full of heart! This series (and the others) aren't just for kids. I got into them late in the game (maybe early high school?) and revisited them as an adult and they're so good! Perfect for anyone wanting to dive into mythology.

Slide 7: TBR/Follower Recs (MG): Witchlings by Claribel Ortega, Nevermoore by Jessica Townsend, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Slide 8: TBR/Follower Recs (MG): The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton, Fablehaven by Brandon Mull, Septimus Heap by Angie Sage

Slide 9: TBR/Follower Recs (YA): Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce, Little Black Bird by Anna Kirchner, Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane (falls between MG & YA)

Slide 10: TBR/Follower Recs (YA): Summoner Series by Taran Matharu, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (trilogy), The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper

#Chrestomanci #the chronicles of chrestomanci #howl's moving castle #diana wynne jones #dwj #a wizard of earthsea #ursula k le guin #ursula le guin #redwall #brian jacques #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #what to read #book recs #middle grade #young adult fiction #stardustandrockets #backlog from march #march 21

[geryone]

Setting big goals for myself in 2024…I think I’m going to only allow myself to buy one book per month

#I’m currently overrun by books and I have a huge physical backlog to get to #I need to read these books and figure out if I want to keep them or donate them #12 books is not a lot but I need to be strict & not purchase everything I want to read #that being said I do have the first 3 books for January February and March preordered so anything else I read will be from work or library

[akiragatr]

Was listening to a history podcast at work today and unintentionally ended up hearing about the assassination of Julius Caesar. What a serendipitous Ides of March moment.

#ides of march #it was from their backlog so it was completely accidental

[jojo-schmo]

-Foo Fighters playing in the distance-

There goes my hero 🎵

Bandana Waddle Dee! 🎶

#looking through my drawing backlog and I found this little guy I hadn’t shared on here yet #this is from march but I still like it heehee #bandana waddle dee #bandee #Kirby series #art

[3amsnek]

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#original character #dragon oc #oc art #oc design #character art #character design #creature #creature art #creature design #my art? #my oc art #Helian #we r still in March in my drafts btw I went on an icon making Spree with most of my ocs at the beginning of the cr hyperfixation and still #haven’t made it through the backlog from that here #also completely ran out of captions for them

[zombieplaguedoc]

I just realized I fell behind in my picrews, I apologize for that.

Picrew found here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/11558

Antis dni please

#Not selfship related #I have a massive backlog of them going back as far as 2021 #yes really #there's a long story for that #these ones are from March of 2021 #and it's part of the Tediz au if anyone still remembers that #this gives a look at all the members of the top-ranking special force I mentioned #just basically gives you a bit of insight into the force itself and how many people there are #consider it an unofficial lineup #the one with slicked back hair is supposed to be bald but they didn't have a bald option #antis dni #proship safe #picrew #au #crossover #hetalia #izombie #oc #2p america #2p ukraine #2p russia #2p belarus #don eberhard #don e #aph sealand #self insert #aph estonia #yogscast #lalnable hector #genderbend

[bruneburg]

good night (don’t let the moon man watch for free)

#this drawing is from march this year #and i got a huge backlog of not yet posted art #but turning that into posts in a way where i dont lose track of things #still takes time #and currently im still busy like sleeping and caughing a lot #and being a coronavirus breeding ground i guess #so no idea when i'll refill that post queue #art #drawing #sketch #cartoony #simplistic #sleep #sleeping #moon #tradart #pencil #bw #bruneburg #artists on tumblr #anita bruneburg #beakhead #star #stars #cute #weird #surreal #cloud #night #tower

[faustandfurious]

Dude I'm just saying, but If I were you I would have brought marshmallows to the Burning at Losgar

Family barbecue

#anonymous elf #answered #silmarillion #tolkien #askbox backlog cleanout #this was the oldest ask in my inbox from fucking march 2019

[anominous-user]

im so sorry for not drawing anything else But the flame-chasers I'm still hyperfixated on them even after almost a year

#i dont think any of my previous fixatioms had this tight of a grip on me artwise #i think it helps that theres not many ppl making content of them in the first place especially content id like to see #bc of all the different fandoms i was in over the past decade i have not been in a fandom thats like honkai in the sense that #i actually have to make my own food #which i dont mind but burnouts exist yk #anyway i wont be stopping any time soon if mhy wont regularly put out fc content i will #i still have wips from march that i still wanna finish if that can give you an idea on how much wip backlog i have #anominous rambling #maybe some day ill draw honkai characters who aren’t from the previous era but well

[brothertodeath]

doomed to live and age

doomed to grow and change

we chase the immortality

our childhood held with ease

Peter Pan complexes abound

neverending Neverland held in our screens

our role models never aged

stuck in a statis we could never claim

bathe in the bittersweet nostalgia

the disappointment of fictional eyes

over the one thing we could never achieve

let go of those boy who never grew up dreams

because you were always Wendy in the end

doomed to live and age

doomed to grow and change

#poetry #poem #another from the backlog #march 28th 2023 #altho i posted a lot of new stuff yesterday because the mummy issues were Oof making themself known #hopefully tomorrow is a better day #ironically the last poem format was inspired by one of my favourite cartoons #gravity falls i miss you

[stardustandrockets]

What is something that has been living rent-free in your head since it released?

That thing for me is still Our Flag Means Death. Those cheeky little queer pirates have been living in my brain since last March. And the amount of fantastic fanart and merch that has come out because of it? Immaculate.

If you want to get your hands on this OFMD affirmation deck from @bairnecessitiesco, there's a pre-order open right now. It really is such a cute deck! (Flag not included)

#bair necessities co #our flag means death #ofmd #affirmation deck #breakup robe #david jenkins #taika waititi #rhys darby #gentlebeard #the gentleman pirate #blackbeard #stede bonnet #edward teach #gay pirates #lgbtqia #stardustandrockets #backlog from march #march 3

[needlekind]

filterable picrew database!

original post updated march 7 2024

hey pals!! i'm working on a filterable, tagged collection of picrew i like. right now there's over 100 picrew (and other such makers such as those from neka or meiker) in there with tags for things like fashion, hair options, skin colors, specific features like horns or headscarves, and body types. you can search for multiple tags at a time and filter out tags you don't want. the whole thing is organized in a big grid of sample results from the picrew in question, so you can see the style at a glance and click it for more images and the url, but you can change the view and organization system however you like.

the link is here!!! feel free to share this wherever. i'm still going through my folders and adding more makers, so expect lots of updates real soon.

i'm hoping this makes it easier for people to find picrew that suit them and their characters, especially in cases where it's unfortunately harder to find certain features like dark skin options and fat bodies.

really important notes:

i do not take requests for additional tags. sorry!! please understand that every time i want to use a new tag, i have to manually go into every maker in the entire backlog and check to see if they have it. it's a pain! it takes a while! there's only one of me! the only circumstance under which i'm willing to add a new tag is if you're willing to go through the backlog and link me every picrew that needs the tag, and i can use it going forward.

if something is tagged wrong, i need to know which maker it is so i can fix it. you need to tell me! the most useful way to send me a specific picrew is a direct link, or the artist name (which will be the title when you click into the item in the database). sometimes i get vague comments like "there are makers in x tag that don't fit" and no one EVER follows up with which ones they are so i can't FIX IT.

one big thing that you can do to help me with this database is take one of the links on my tba page and tell me what tags apply to it. literally just one! enough folks see and use this resource that just a few people taking one takes a load off my plate.

💖🍵 if this resource has been useful for you, consider sending me a tip on ko-fi!!

have fun!!!! i hope this is helpful for people!!!

#picrew #dollmaker #doll maker

[lostboywriting]

OHHH, I just thought of something.

It's been bugging me that Norris, Chester, and Augustus started speaking around a year ago, and I've been wondering about the significance of that timing. At first I thought maybe it was some consequence of whatever RedCanary stumbled into at the Magnus Institute, because that was a bit over a year and a half ago--we know from the case numbering system that the episodes are taking place in the present day (episode 2 was taking place on Jan 18 2024; note for my fellow US folks that the dates are the UK standard with day first, not month). And from the dates on the forum posts, RedCanary's series of unfortunate events was in April 2022.

BUT based on their case numbers, which give the date the case's events happened even if that's not said in the episode, all the incidents Sam has looked at so far were from mid 2022. They're not perfectly grouped together; the dolls and Arthur and RedCanary were all April through May 2022, while Daria's therapy appointment was September--that last one's a bit of a jump, but it could have happened depending on how cases are being allotted among the various workers. But they're all close enough that it's a plausible assumption, I think, that FR3-D1 is generally finding these things roughly as they're posted and then adding them into people's queues for review. This would mean they're at a current backlog of around a year and a half. (Looking at you, Gwen...)

If that's the case, and if the OIAR's workers have been maintaining a roughly constant rate, then around a year ago they would probably have been reviewing a lot of cases that FR3-D1 found in early to mid-2021. Which means they'd have been opening files that have been sitting in their database untouched since that time.

MAG200 aired on March 25, 2021.

Whether Chester and Norris are a Ushanka'd JMart, or something resulting purely from Annabelle Caine's manipulation of their voices, or something else entirely... l don't know. But I am betting that they didn't start as part of the system, like Colin thinks they did. I think there was some direct consequence of MAG200's events which led to them being embedded in a post that FR3-D1 scraped up, and that they simply weren't activated and "let loose" until some unknowing office worker clicked on their file.

#apologies if someone else has said all this already! I haven't seen it in the tags but I could well have missed it. #the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers #tmagp #tmagp speculation #tmagp spoilers #tma spoilers

[doberbutts]

On March 12, 2024, I am scheduled to have top surgery! Per my surgeon, I'll be out or work for a minimum of 2 weeks, possibly longer depending on how I heal. I do have PTO and short-term disability thru my job, but it's only 80% of my income.

If anyone would like to help financially with the expense of managing my bills while unable to work due to healing from surgery, or the expense of the surgery itself (covered by insurance *after* deductible), my PayPal is paypal.me/doberbutts

This will be a pinned post until I return to work late March/early April. I will likely take a tumblr break as I won't need the stress during my recovery either. A friend got me Baldur's Gate 3 for Christmas and I had enough store scredit on my account for FF7Rebirth, and I have a serious book backlog, so I'm good on entertainment. I won't have the dogs during this time which will be quite a bit lonely.l, but also means nothing very exciting will be happening here except probably me bouncing between sleeping, playing video games, and reading for two weeks straight.

[defiledheartsblog]

I just released another monthly smut, thus increasing the smut backlog in size. This month's interactive smut and the backlog are available on my Patreon for patrons in Outraged Fox tier (and up). Now, the backlog includes:

June 2023: Kinda toxic smut with Marcus in a cave

July: Quinn wakes you up from a nightmare and is pretty weird about it

August: Niall gets ambushed by Hati in the middle of naked druid rituals (as one does)

September: Kinda toxic Legate smut

October: Fooling around with a dom Camilla in her wine cellar

November: Hati becomes the offering to Tinsae's goddess (another perfectly normal day in the peaceful town of Moguntiacum)

December: Drinking game with Niall and Marcus

January 2024: Reading poetry with Marcus

February: Quinn hogties you. As one does

March: Monster loving

This month's (April) chosen smut RO is Niall.

#defiled hearts: the barbarian #interactive fiction #smut #patreon

[siqeml]

(March 1) Darkest Moonlight

Diluc wasn’t the only one to receive a custom outfit from Crepus Ragnvindr.

I wanted to design Kaeya another outfit because I could. I just think the characters should get more fits in general honestly- I have a ton of designs backlogged so maybe I’ll make a series of new character outfits?

#genshin impact #kaeya alberich #it can be called like #fashion friday #post one every week? #that’d be cool maybe possibly #this sketch is unbelievably rough