#book eight spoilers

[a-soft-fluffy-nerd]

Callout post for Seanan McGuire, author of the hit book series, Wayward Children-- I mean criminal mastermind

As you can see by this very official and very clearly cited and sourced and verified claim with no basis, my adorable and precious and sweet cat has been THIEFED and SCRUNKLED and SMARTENED by none other than @seananmcguire , author of the recently published Lost in the Moment and Found, part of the Wayward Children series (which is quite good-- I mean a fiendish ploy to catnap my baby girl).

Pictured above, is the DESCRIPTION of what they had DONE to my BABY by my best friend ACE RESEARCHER.

SUCH EVIL.

Here is my poor little baby who has done no wrong ever in her whole life and is just a little creature.

Look at her. Sleek. Commanding. Pristine. Orange and therefore dumb as a bag of rocks.

How daaaare you take my baby and un-himbo her. How daaaare you scrunkle such a sleek child. This needs to be dealt with promptly with the fullest extent of my power!

MORE CAT PICTURES.

So yeah anyways if you could spread this around that'd be great because everyone needs to see my child-- I mean get more eyes on this series-- I mean BRING SEANAN TO JUSTICE.

#wayward children #seanan mcguire #cat pictures #Evil Plans of Un Himbos Your Orange Cat #wayward children spoilers #I don't wanna screw anyone over #the series really is some fantastic stuff #it's eight books in but like #they're novellas #not full length novels #and are very accessible #especially if you love neurodivergent and queer characters! #in a really well fleshed out fantasy multiverse!

[wayward-inspiration]

"No one could recognize him with his face hidden behind the mask, and he didn't want to be recognized." 天官赐福

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Eight of Swords: Negative thoughts, self-imposed restriction, imprisonment, victim mentality

Lined Ver

#myart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #heaven official's blessing #tgcf spoilers #xie lian #heaven official's blessing spoilers #tarot #tarot cards #eight of swords #mytarot #bai wuxiang #white no face #calamity xie lian #tgcf book 4

[a-mermaids-heart]

I am once again spiraling about the song of achilles (I mean, I guess I'm never NOT spiraling about it.)

here are the lines stuck in my head today~

“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.”

"‘It is time to return Hector's body to his family for burial. You have killed him and taken your vengeance. It is enough.’ ‘It will never be enough,’ he says.”

“Achilles' gaze lifts to meet hers. She is afraid, but does not draw back. ‘I hope that Hector kills you.’ The breath rasps in his throat. ‘Do you think I do not hope the same?’ he asks.”

“His ashes settle among mine, and I feel nothing.”

#the song of achilles #patroclus #achilles #madeleine miller #I WILL NEVER BE OVER IT #I don't think I've been over them since I was like eight and first read about them but ya know #tsoa #tsoa quotes #the song of achilles quotes #book quotes #tsoa spoilers #tsoa achilles #tsoa patroclus #patrochilles

[lucelockwood]

The biggest and maybe only thing I would change about this adaptation is episode three. There’s several minutes spent on Lucy in a towel sneaking around to steal Annie’s source again, and I’d cut that altogether. We’ve seen her do this already, we know she’s got a track record and is borderline obsessed with Annie, so cut out her stealing the keys to steal the source again.

Instead, spend more time on the Screaming Staircase. Make it actually scream. You can leave the chanting in over top but that staircase was traumatic for everyone, not just Lucy, it took the whole team out of commission. Put the time into really hitting how impactful and psychically traumatizing that staircase was.

Then, later, when Lockwood’s telling Fairfax they don’t have the source with them have Lucy just pull it out again. George’s horrified “she stole it again” is explanation enough. You could even flashback to brief snippets of her pulling the keys out of Lockwood’s coat and grabbing the silver glass case if you want.

I’m not going to spend much more time on things I’d change because I am honestly so pleased but this was maybe the only thing I’d have liked to see different.

#lockwood and co #lockwood and co spoilers #lockwood and co netflix #lockwood and co tv show #I mean I get it #this was episode of three out of eight #maybe they didn’t want season finale vibes? #but I would have done it this way regardless #nail the end of book one and you cement people into watching more

[basil-hallwardx]

Are you fucking kidding me where are Ivan and Fedyor.

#shadow and bone #s&b season 2 #s&b spoilers #fivan #fedyor kaminsky #ivan x fedyor #I am through and I have opinions #and I am also MAD #they went so well until they #squeezed four books into eight episodes

[paper-beats-writers-block]

thinking about how the mage (may he rest in pain) was Simon’s father and he had a mustache meaning Simon theoretically has the potential to grow a mustache????????

#I don’t think I like that tbh aldjfhkj #That might make him look TOO much like the mage #simon snow #simon snow series #snowbaz #carry on #wayward son #awtwb #the mage #Carry on spoilers I guess but if you’re seeing this you’ve probably already read the book let’s be honest #Also it’s been out for like eight years if you haven’t read it what are you doing

[hanzajesthanza]

every time i think about the season of storms epilogue i cry

Geralt of Rivia has been dead for many years. (...) But I think he would be happy, if… he’d be happy if people remembered him (...) If they remembered who he was. Why, even if they remembered the name of his horse. Yes, I think, he would be happy … if he could know it.

in-universe, this is a meeting of geralt and nimue, but in a more meta context, because this is the epilogue of the last witcher book written, this is just a conversation between the "fan" and the hero. our hero. nimue, a devout follower of the legend and the later the lady of the lake, represents the pursuers of the legend, those who become possessed by a mania, who devoured the story when young and later came to a cool, reserved relationship with it… whose every waking moment is filled with this obsession... about geralt and ciri… the legend of the witcher girl…

because it's not just nimue who remembers his name and brims with excitement about him, it's us — the readers. us, obsessed with this poor little meow meow, our tragic hero.

after all, she too knows how the story ends.

geralt's story, the witcher saga being defined by this tragic, ultimate destiny of death... nimue, like us, is powerless to prevent the tragedy from occurring, because in her time it has already occurred... no matter how much she loves the story, no matter how much she loves the heroes, that will not change the way the story ends. their deaths. like us, she is a witness "watching" the story from afar, from a distant time. we watch from so far away that the characters of the legend cannot see the future, they cannot see other universes, the readers, their audience.

and geralt, our tragic hero, as much as he loathes and curses himself through all of his difficulties, isolates himself in his otherness, doubts his ability to love and feel… he cannot know how much he is loved. he has no way of it. he doesn’t know… he could not even imagine how many people love him worldwide. how many fans follow his story, think he’s badass or pathetic (affectionate), not to mention don wolf-headed medallions, decorate their bedroom walls with posters, paint themselves with tattoos of all the witcher signs… and all the other geeky chintz which follows the fandom around… if he knew, he’d be happy… if only he could know it.

#the witcher books #HE DONT LOVE HIMSELF!!! #😭😭😭 GERALT I LOVE YOU!!! #book: season of storms #sapkowski was like ok this book is for the gamers but the epilogue? this is for my lady of the lake homies #c: geralt #c: nimue #excerpt #analysis #he doesnt even know hes the main character of an eight book series… #he died 105 years ago… #the witcher #the witcher spoilers

[pttucker]

Exactly eight hours later, I closed the book's cover, my face one of pure stupefaction. "This…" I knew of a perfect expression to describe this sort of book. "It's even more boring than 'Ways of Survival'…" I had no idea who wrote it, but if this book got published in the various platforms of the 21st century, then I was sure of it tanking as badly as the 'Ways of Survival'. Not only was it boring, it was also quite a hard read, too. "…Just what on earth was it even talking about?"

There's nothing I love more than Dokja hard shifting from going on about how much TWSA meant to him, how it's the novel he's been obsessing over for TEN YEARS, how he literally saw Joonghyuk and his party as his family, how he pretended to be Joonghyuk when his life was rough and how that gave him what he needed to survive...

...to him literally saying that TWSA is boring af. 😂

Dokja is a true fan.

Gotta recognize both the good and the bad in your favorite media.

#orv #orv spoilers #orv liveblog #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv novel chapter 421 #kdj #also doesn't dokja have a speed reading skill? #is that only for things he's read before? #or is this book literally SO long that it STILL took him eight hours???

[glorious-mysteries]

Everybody stop posting my mom's book club is reading Code Name Verity

#i GASPED when she told me #positively formative experiences with that book #i first read it in grade eight and loved it but didn't truly understand it #though i did know that julie beaufort-stuart was the character of all time #and then i read it again in highschool and really got it...absolutely took me OUT #definitely the best YA book i've ever read and also probably one of the best books period #so many killer lines that would absolutely be spoilers but ugh #i will be so sad if my mom doesn't like it. i've already said she can use my copy #i should really read it again esp. since i'm ordering the enigma game to read this summer. i've read all the other books in the series #if i do re-read prepare for some Posts on the matter

[meyerlansky]

you know how sometimes your parents show you something when you're a kid and they're like "haha hey look at this cool thing" and it burrows into your psyche forever in a way they absolutely did not intend for it to

that's me with the greco-italian war and specifically the political comics that got made about the poor widdle impovewished gweeks absolutely whipping mussolini's ass

#my dad's got a whole book about the conflict and international reactions to it [spoiler: the uk left greece in the lurch] and he let me read #it when i was like eight? because it's a lot of political cartoons and illustrations and stuff #they are all so fucking funny #there's one of il douche going 'once i start i cannot be stopped!' while falling down the stairs #i am sure this is not how anyone expected this post to end but

[birgittesilverbae]

who's your favorite wot character?

primary characters

1. Egwene has been my best girl for almost twenty years

2. Elayne

3. Rand

secondary characters

1. Siuan

2. Aviendha

tertiary characters

1. Birgitte

2. Egeanin

3. Verin

4. Mesaana

5. Teslyn

6. Bashere

#ask #anon #wot #mywot #wot book spoilers #I absolutely barely talk about Egwene in wot fandom spaces anymore for about eight different reasons #but she is forever best girl

[bookwyrminspiration]

i just finished stellarlune and i need to make up for the time i lost not hitting the “view post” button on your posts tagged as stellarlune spoilers so. ramble at me if you want. gonna go scroll your blog forever and ever now

I saw all the notifs from you scrolling my blog; did you have fun? Did you have a good time? I hope so! Anyway, I have no idea what I'm going to end up rambling about so we're about to find out together.

I feel as though both so much and nothing at all happened. And also that it was all thrown at me very quickly. When I was making the timeline there were two points where several days pass at once (there's a week taken to prepare for the Trix meeting we don't see, and Sophie goes through several days stalling for her confession) so that likely contributes to it. And I can't help but feel it's a bit jarring.

Reading through (at least the first time, that may change with rereads) it felt like we'd skipped a step or two to get to where we were. Sophie started going off about Elysian and power sources and I was sitting there like girl slow down what are you saying.

I think my overall conclusion is that this is the sokeefe book. Not in the sense that this is the book where sokeefe went canon, though that's true as well, but as in this book exists for and is dedicated to the arc of sokeefe. That was it's primary focus start to finish, from Ro's teasing and the letter in the beginning to the kiss at the end. Sophie was focused on it and thinking about it, so we couldn't get away from it, even though there were other things peppered throughout. And I think that's why it's kinda meh to me at the moment. I don't dislike it, but it's dedicated to something I don't happen to care much about.

I can understand why it was done, as this has been something building up for the better part of a series and does take more time to address, but even with a whole book focues on it sokeefe somehow still felt rushed. Truly incredible how that happened. But either way, Stellarlune is intended for an audience with different interests than mine--which is totally fine! I loved Unlocked (and still do), while many in the fandom hated it when it came out. I'm not saying it's bad, just that it's not my favorite :)

I don't have a copy of Stellarlune with me at the moment (my dad's borrowing it) so I'm probably forgetting to touch on things but like. This felt like a very character focused book, and with a limited number of characters. Even with everything else that happened in the book, that's what left the biggest impression.

Oh! Rayni! I can touch on her! To be 100% honest my first reaction was "..Rayni??? that's your name?" Something about it caught me of guard. I was very satisfied to see the tribunal from book one come back around, as I hadn't expected it to. And I do appreciate the idea of someone going through similar hardships to the rest of the kotlcrew and turning to the Neverseen instead. That part about how the Neverseen got to her first or however it went? Chef's kiss. I absolute love that idea and her connection to the Neverseen, it being her only option and all that. Rayni herself? I'm still warming up to her, but I do enjoy having her around and am pleased to know more about her, even though it seems a little late to be adding in completely new characters to the books.

OH and Elysian. Can also talk about that too! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Stellarlune feels like the first half of an arc, so I don't want to judge it until I read the next book and see how it plays out. That being said, what. What is going on. This has been planned from book one, apparently, but it also feels completely out of left field. There's a power source and it's a person? This person is their world's best kept secret? There's so much going on in that that without the full information I don't think i can nearly get into it the way I want to. Do they power the Lost Cities? Do they control it all from behind? They like, turned of people's abilities, so do they grant abilities to elves? Are they where abilities come from? Who, what, when, where, why, how? Elysian raises so many questions and I can't ask them because I don't have the info to ask the right questions!

I'll just say one more thing: Sophie is. a lot right now. She got on my nerves this book, but I also can't blame her for it because she's 14 (15 in elven years). I can completely understand why she acts the way she does but it also makes me want to shake some sense into her like please please please think about things and stop yelling at people who are trying to help you. But being 14 fills you with rage so like, i get it even if oof.

Anyway those are some of the impressions this book left on me and I am so so curious to read the next one because I need answers. I need to know. I gotta know what's been cookin in Shannon's brain for the last 14 years.

#kotlc #stellarlune spoilers #quil's queries #even-if-in-another-time #i will distract myself from whatever's happening in keeper by screaming about other books #and also screaming about keeper #i've been sucked into it I can't escape #i picked up the second book eight years ago and permanently altered the course of my life #logged onto tumblr almost five years ago and also permanently altered the course of my life

[killldeer]

rereading in need of a bellfounder is either going to fix me or make me worse and i’m very excited to find out which

#EIGHT DAYS UNTIL I GET MY HANDS ON MY COPY OF WINTER’S HEART #the matrim brainrot is becoming all-consuming. that boy is all i can fucking think about #‘the best part of WH is saidin being cleansed–‘ no. it’s the part where mat jailbreaks ebou dar towing like twelve people behind him. #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #just for these tags lol #extremely smart and incredibly lucky

[horang-07]

FNAF SPOILERS! SCROLL! TALKING ABOUT THE SPRINGLOCK SCENE!

i’ve seen so many people discussing the springlock scene in both negative and positive ways and i think it brings up really cool points about how matthew played that scene and balanced fan expectations with his own characterisation.

i think the discussions around this movie have rlly exposed the disconnect between fanon and canon in fnaf, especially talking abt the core games in isolation, bc frankly in the game universe (ignoring the books) we get Very Little characterisation for William other than the obvious, but Matthew managed to add so much in the way he talks and his body language.

in the reveal scene, we see afton at arguably his peak. in his first scene, he comes off as somewhat demeaning and judgemental until he recognises mike’s name, at which point he seems to have this nervous energy, rushing to cover it up but stumbling slightly, his reaction to the tables being turned even slightly is massive.

this is a man who committed multiple mrdrs in essentially broad daylight, hid the bodies in the most obvious place, and still got away with it, and then kept the crime scene as a trophy of his actions, and an ongoing prison sentence for his victims. he has been in complete control for decades, and is confident that he can deal with any kind of threat quickly. his confidence in his reveal is palpable

it changes when vanessa shoots him. the whole parallel with vanessa and the animatronics is hugely interesting too- how william refers to the animatronics almost endearingly as “kids” when he wants them to obey, how both vanny and the animatronics have an unearned loyalty to him, almost a pseudo-adoption through what he did to them, taking them from their parents and keeping them under his thumb, forever stuck as naive, forgiving, obedient children. vanessa breaking from that control shakes him, but the mask slips back into place almost immediately.

then, he’s outsmarted by the brother of one of his victims, and the child he planned to end next. his pseudo-children turn on him and he can no longer manipulate his appearance or shed his skin to escape. he explodes on them, and his language is incredibly telling that he is being dishonest.

he calls them small, trying to belittle them into submission, even though they are ten feet tall metal animatronics powered by rage. he is grasping at straws to regain control, and failing miserably.

finally, the springlocks go off. the locks in the movie look more like a ribcage, so the first two likely puncture his lungs. they’re slow, and painful, but he doesn’t scream or beg or sob. he grunts and groans, gritting his teeth and only letting out sounds of pain that sound almost involuntary. there is no way in hell he would visibly let himself show weakness or pain in front of these creatures that he believes he has control over. he isn’t brought to his knees until there are eight metal spikes embedded in his abdomen. he doesn’t let the mask fall for even a second, until he literally PUTS THE ACTUAL MASK ON and finally collapses. even then, he’s fighting for consciousness, twitching and writhing with no control over his body. william afton thrives on control, and his soul will not rest until he gets it back.

it’s why he keeps the pizzeria- he always comes back. he can’t help but return to the scene of the crime, putting on his old costume, continuing his killings. he revels in being a constant threat on the horizon. and now, he knows he is going to die, and he knows the suit will bring him back, and noone will be able to get rid of him then. so he puts the mask back on, and waits.

in terms of the sfx- they’re pretty accurate. with stab wounds, you need to leave the knife in the wound as long as possible for best chance of survival, as it stops the blood from escaping. in terms of the springlocks, there wouldn’t be copious amounts of blood as the locks are keeping the wounds filled- which is good because it means a slower, more painful death.

#fnaf #fnaf movie #eden rambles #william afton #matthew lillard #springtrap #five nights at freddy's #fnaf spoilers #idk i thought it was a great scene #ppl just need to manage their expectations of what fnaf 1 Actually Is in isolation #not the years of other media and fandom and lore and theory #we literally saw him get springlocked one time in 8 bit with no audio and four frames. how is this worse in comparison #wanna make another post talking abt how the film explores images vs the reality when you look deeper #specifically abby and her drawings/the drawings at freddys vs mike’s motivation being based on the images he sees in his dreams #and how it’s so perfect for fnaf 1 being a game almost entirely made of just scary images without actually exploring the reality #that these robots are Children and Scared and Lost #tldr the fort scene was necessary

[chimaerakitten]

You know, I sometimes think about how timing really effects our engagement with a story. Not in the “you love that story because it came into your life at the right moment” sense, but in the sense that where and how much you waited for it changes your reaction.

People on tumblr talk about the community that comes from weekly episodes of a show, etc but I’m talking more about like, the way watching a show after it’s over will change your reactions to it even entirely independent of spoilers. There’s lots of shows and book series I’ve liked all the way through or even loved, which have die hard contingents of fans who were disappointed the ending or bailed after hating a middle installment.

And often I can look at those things and go “yeah, I probably wouldn’t like this as much if I’d been forced to sit on that middle season for a year, or wait eight years for that final book” but even though I can see that, it’s overshadowed by the way I personally got to breeze right past the quality dip season and I picked up book 11 two days after book 10 so I didn’t have any built up expectations, and as a consequence I liked things that other people didn’t.

And I don’t think either experience—the old fan who waited and had their hopes dashed and the new fan who never built up hopes—is really more real than the other, having been in both camps in various fandoms, but I think it’s interesting that the entirely beyond the fourth wall factor of waiting time can have such an impact on the most die hard of fanbases when the canon is exactly the same

#I’m pretty sure my MASH opinions are wildly different #from anyone who didn’t watch all 11 seasons in a one-month-long fugue state #is what I’m saying #the kitten rambles

[hanzajesthanza]

thinking about the girl’s prophecy of “what is left will die. die, even that which never dies” … and how regis was condemned to, destined for death not even the moment he step foot in stygga castle, but the moment he joined the company and invested everything into these beautiful friendships. he doesn’t die by the hand of his vices, but rather, by his love for the company he became a part of.

because when he sees milva dead on the floor he feels such pain, pain of such a degree that equals the intense pain of his youth which could only then be drowned out by drinking. by spilling blood. that intensity of that pain and misery at losing his friends is so great, that he resorts to the only way of immediate coping …!

he dies not just by vilgefortz’s hand, not only by his own hand, but by the company’s hand. with the rest of the company dead on the ground, he has no choice but to die too — for both thematic purposes, as geralt sacrifices one family for another, and because of his own hopelessness and loss of the will to live, only replaced with the will to inflict harm on everyone including himself

#regis: ive only known milva for eight months and if anything happened to her id kill everybody in this castle and then myself #regis is a realistic character because he’s like ‘yeah i’m over being suicidal i havent been suicidal in a century’ #and then at the end he’s like ‘i actually want to kill myself so badly rn’ #fandom: ‘if you could save one member of the hansa who would you save’ VS. the hansa if one survived would want to die too bc they would #both in-context of the universe be so miserable at losing the others that they would develop suicidal ideations #and also in-context of the narrative feel out of place and WRONG for surviving what and when they were meant to die #choose your poison: #friends where we fatefully die together (hansa) or friends where one dies and the other is left to tell the story (geralt and dandelion) #like to me its a no-brainer that yennefer dies with geralt just like the hansa all died together three chapters earlier #except one is romantic and one is platonic. its the same thing. we are going down hand in hand intertwined and destined #the witcher books #txt #book: lady of the lake #the witcher books spoilers #lady of the lake spoilers #c: regis #f: a hansa's a hansa #c: milva #be right back adding another one bites the dust to my hansa playlist #analysis