#books obvs

[echo-shard]

I don't know what to feel... Am I happy? Am I empty inside? 📕

#grian #hermitcraft #hermitcraft s10 #hermitcraft season 10 #grian fanart #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #fanart #☆ mine #ART BLOCK IS NO MORE!!! #GRIAN IS A KINGFISHER BTW!!!! #<- fish obv and also it matches his starter base colour wise ^_^ #ive just realised the text on the book is upside down pay no attention to that

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously) #but he is just. /clenches my fists!!! #THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!! #who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war? #who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life? #who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession? #no one!!! that's who!! #ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

[suntails]

the general’s son

#why has nobody drawn silver or sebek in the Newly Dropped briar valley soldier outfits huh??? why. theyre literally training for the role #having to do EVERYTHING myself frantically shitting this out in my last 3 hrs of free time tn #sry sebek i didnt have time to draw u both </3 maybee eventually. maybe someone else will carry that torch on my behalf #the briar valley soldier fits are...so fuckign cool. like obv lilia's looks cooler than the mob guys but im assuming his gets General Perks #gestures vaguely. u know what im like. okay i cant draw for like 4 days now at LEAST and im abt to have 60hr workweeks again so uhhhhhh :) #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #twst silver #silver vanrouge #suntails

[shortnotsweet]

Rhaenyra’s relationship with her stepmother Alicent was complicated, as some days it was filled with hostility, and others…

…it was more than fond. It was baffling to the Court, to the King, and most of all, to themselves.

#rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #house of the dragon #hotd #ngl this started as an excuse to design different armor dress combos for Rhaenyra #also in my mind this is a bit of a show + book fusion + my own take obvs #the origins of the relationship and the age gap are lifted from the book #but the subtext??? the homoeroticism?? ya that’s from the show #in my mind they’re having this on again off again affair made of hate and love and everything in between #these are just rough warm up sketches tho #my art

[khattikeri]

who is going to write the essay about hua cheng's love and devotion making his life and ghost city all the more bright and rich and colorful lucky red while he xuan's hatred and dedication to revenge leaves his life and black water demon lair all the more dark, empty, and unfulfilled, much like an empty stomach

#keri chats #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hua cheng #he xuan #this is a v surface level comparison. both are obv similar (the degrees of their respective obsessions + violence etc.) #but i find them honestly fascinating allies/friends who are as similar as they are different #i really wanna reread the books just to look closer at their interactions gjkldsflk

[millionsofbooks]

life is about accepting that while i may want to be quincey “hot smooth cowboy” morris i am in fact, to the ver y depths of my soul, jack “sat on his hat and brought his emotional support scalpel to a proposal” seward

#dracula daily #dracula #honestly jack just gets more relatable as the book goes on #like obvs warning for - he is a victorian running an asylum #but when i first read dracula i knew that going in and had my guard way way way up #and he then was not nearly as bad as what my expectations were #so i was v able to fall in love with him #(but yes i might make a post at some point on what to expect from seward’s sections irt ableism and institutional abuse - #ik someone’s made a list of when his entries are but ik i’d find it helpful to have a good idea of what exactly to expect #and if i can cope with it)

[mummer]

you know how resurrected people in asoiaf get singularly obsessed with like one thing they were doing before they died so beric is obsessed with defending smallfolk from invaders and stoneheart is obsessed with revenge against the freys. i think it would be funny if jon came back and he was just tirelessly devoted to the same bland nights watch management as before. just murdering anyone who tries to tear him away from drafting architectural plans for a greenhouse or writing pointless letters. can i dwell on what i scarce remember? sometimes i think i was born on the floor of that stock room, counting barrels of turnips

#i do think it would be kinda boring if he became obsessed with taking winterfell/killing boltons/etc. i guess thinking on it now it’s fairly #likely but idk it’s just not what interests me about jon i guess. Like obv the point is that resurrection does change you but i want it to #change him differently 😡 more melancholy/detached less rageful sorry!!!! #why does this give me severance by ling ma vibes. zombies not violent per se just endlessly mindlessly repeating their patterns #man that book is good #asoiaf

[starrynightsxo]

JUDE'S POST-LOVE CONFESSION MONOLOGUE

'I first started liking you when we went to talk to the rulers of the low Courts,' I say. 'You were funny, which was weird. And when we went to Hollow Hall, you were clever. I kept remembering how you'd been the one to get us out of the brugh after Dain's coronation, right before I put the knife to your throat.'

He doesn't try to interrupt, so I have to choice but to barrel on.

'After I tricked you into being High King,' I say. 'I thought once you hated me, I could go back to hating you. But I didn't. And I felt so stupid. I thought I would get my heart broken. I thought it was a weakness that you would use against me. But then you saved me from the Undersea when it would have been much more convenient to just leave me to rot. After that, I started to hope my feelings were returned. But then there was the exile-' I take a ragged breath. 'I hid a lot, I guess. I thought if I didn't, if I let myself love you, I would burn up like a match. Like the whole matchbook.'

AH I LOVE HER SO MUCH (im basically cardan or vice versa idc)

#im also in love with cardan obv #so basically i am jurdan #jurdan #i actually love her little monologue tho #monologue #books #bookish #the cruel prince #booklr #cardan greenbriar #jude duarte #tfota #cardan #jude #the folk of the air #the folk of air #book #book quotes #book quote #quotes #tfota quotes #judecardan #cardan x jude #jude x cardan #booktok #book aesthetic #the wicked king #the queen of nothing #the stolen heir #the prisoners throne

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

I fucking loved Paul's feral chihuahua energy in that final fight scene though. He's just going for it. From like, both an acting perspective but also a character thing, he clearly gives zero fucks at that point and it is FASCINATING to see. The image of him staggering around with two knives in him still like "fuck you I fucking won" is so powerful like??? this is a dangerous dude and you SEE that

#dune #paul atreides #like fuck me what an intense scene the way it was SHOT #the QUIET #and like. he looks like such a shrimp compared to feyd. but he just keeps fucking going. #obvs. i knew the outcome already bc I'd read the book but still #it seemed for a bit like he maybe wouldn't win and yet. #the KNIFE HANDS BIT i couldn't look i felt that shit uuuughhhhh #sheer self preservation combined with dumpster raccoon vibes

[literatureaesthetic]

sorry, but the literary fiction girlies who act like fantasy/sci-fi are their kryptonite are so weird?? just say you're boring and move on.

#obv disliking the genre is fine. making the fact that you're a fantasy/sci-fi anti a whole personality trait is just odd #like why are we flexing the fact that we don't read fantasy? when is it ever that serious #literature aesthetics #books #book #bookish #bookblr #bookworm #bookstagram #dark academia #booklover #books and libraries

[kaleidemaran]

i just think ciri should get to see her fucking mom

#guy who just finished baptism of fire #obvs she should also get to see her dad too but i like drawing yennefer more #i feel like i’m in an abusive relationship w these books /hj #the witcher #yennefer of vengerberg #how the fuck are we tagging ciri #cirilla fiona elen riannon #witcher ciri #my art

[andyis-sandy]

guys, my autistic ass brain has come up with a new idea.

hear me out.

twilight stuilly.

billy is our edward here obviously, that man screams vampire to me.

but at the same time i feel like his parent situation is more applicable in being able to write him as our bella.

and then theres the whole issue of who the other members of our vampire family would be.

#i want to make this work because my gay ass loves this shit #but holy fuck theres a lot to figure out #i know i want whoever 'bella' is to have a more absentee parent than charlie is in twilight #bc more room for shenanigans obv #plus that idea just makes more sense for both of them regardless of who i make our human #and i want it to have an ending more akin to life and death #which is the 'gender bent' version of twilight that smeyer wrote #in which beau (boy bella) becomes a vampire at the end of the first book instead of after four books of bullshit #idk yall maybe ill flesh this out more tomorrow #billy loomis #stu macher #scream 1996 #stuilly #the twilight saga #billy x stu #stu x billy

[astral-schools]

best part about deciding the lemuria music is diegetic is getting to imagine the old one going absolutely crazy on the brass for the heap soundtrack

#w101 #w101 fandom #wizard101 #wizard101 fandom #sal art #lemuria #the old one #fun fact looking up references for this was what led me to discover that the old one is wearing converse #thought he had dress shoes or something but no they are 100% black chucks. lost my mind abt it #i think the old one is just dramatic enough to have given the comic book ass world he made its own ost #obvs based on that one meme btw. if you havent seen it god help you

[sherlokiness]

[...] Keep a good long spoon on hand to beat the squires off, sweetling. You will not want green boys underfoot when the knights come round to beg you for your favor."

"Who would ask to wear a bastard's favor?"

So basically Sansa's favor is a bastard's.

[Harrold Hardyng] grinned. “I will hold you to that promise, my lady. Until that day, may I wear your favor in the tourney?”

“You may not. It is promised to…another.” She was not sure who as yet, but she knew she would find someone.

And that it's been promised. To a mystery knight.

Bonus :

If she did marry Prince Joff, Arya hoped for his sake that he had a good steward.

"Saving yourself for Lord Robert?" Lady Myranda teased. "Or is there some ardent squire dreaming of your favors?"

"My steward and squire, Jon Snow."

#okay but I'm gonna look like a clown once twow comes out and sansa gives it to some random knight #ijbollllll #it is what it is #unless it's lord byron #then that's still #jonsa #byron is a sub for js obvs #ardent #is related to fire burning or glowing #rarely used in the books #only 3 times

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

#ff writers don't get paid to put hollywood level research into their stories lol #also keep in mind ff writers don't have professional editors either #ALSO i've read a lot of published books and watched massive scale high budget production tv shows/movies that have put way less #effort into researching n making sure things are cohesive n legit compared to some fanfics i've read #js thinking ab a m00tie who had an anon come for her for something like this n i'm still pissed ab it #just enjoy the fic you're getting to read for free #like obv i think realism makes for a great story and is part of what good writing entails #but?? it's ok to bend the rules in some places?? it's a STORY #that's like getting pissed at a fantasy book for having dragons cuz they don't exist irl #just say u have a bad imagination n go #the author's pen is the will of the world in the story perioddd #either accept them or dont. but don't make fun of or criticize authors if you're not fuckin w it when ur just sittin behind a keyboard #also sometimes i just wanna read stories that don't remind me of the harsh truths of reality lmfao like get outtaaa heeerreee #just writer things

[ash-and-starlight]

exorcising some of the she who became the sun brainworms 😵‍💫

#posting these in honor of myken finishing the book mwah #these bitches deranged AND gay good for them good for them #zhu chongba #ma yingzi #general ouyang #prince esen #she who became the sun #the radiant emperor #my art #once again brought to you by: being bored at work #((obv being gay and homophobic isn’t even in the top ten of reasons why ouyang needs therapy i just did it for the meme)) #fkdhdjdk