ehehehe thank you @batch-of-pengwings I always interact with you and see you in my notes so I'm glad to learn about you!!
Last/current song:
I'm currently listening to this swamp jazz music to do homework but otherwise, it was So Much (for) Stardust because in a literal week I will be seeing FOB in concert and yodeling
Last/current show:
I've been rewatching Scrubs because Lexi was rewatching it ok it's so funny and they get what it's like working in a hospital
Last/current book/fic:
I've been reading A LOT of books lately, the last book I read was The Fate of Stars (part of my pride book reads) and it was alright. If I don't give into the urge to download all of YOI and watch it on the plane on Wednesday, I'll be reading one of Sierra Simone's queer romances (The Last Crimes of Peregrine Hind or The Fae Queen's Captive).
Current obsession:
Aforementioned smut novels and FOB and TOTK because the only things getting me through grad school besides my support system are video games, smut novels, and music. I'm dangling by a fucking thread.
Tagging: @cthulhu-with-a-fez, @personally-im-feeling-pantastic, @amethystfern, @gingerbreadmonsters, @interdimensional-chaos, @frenchiefitzhere, @plutobutartsy, @themonotonysyndrome, @wingless-cupid if you want to! no pressure!!!!
tagged by the fantastic @galvanizedfriend! it's been a while, thank you for thinking of me! :D
•Nickname: howl is a technically a nickname and it's my favourite one!
•Sign: cancer like the tumblr crabs 🦀🦀🦀
•Height: 1.70m *flexes*
•Last thing I googled: "brandon lee the crow"
•Song stuck in my head: Butter by BTS (DON'T ask me how i just got into them right as they went on hiatus for military service after yearsof them being massively popular, i'm blaming this stupid gacha game for it)
•Followers: idk man, like 800 on one blog, 1k+ on another, then 300 on another.... i have many sideblogs and i'm def not gonna go through them all.
•Amount of Sleep: 😬 listen if i'm ALLOWED to i'll sleep for 10+ hours and i do this on the weekends. but work makes this impossible, and also i dread waking up to go to work in the morning, so i make that even better by only sleeping like 5-6 hours to try and wring out more free time from the day. i slept 6 hours last night and 4 the night before that. rip.
•Lucky number: 3! 7! 9! 13!
•Dream Job: just as yokan said before me, i simply do not dream of labour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ however i'd love to be an hermit writer in the middle of the woods with lots and lots of money in my bank account for whenever i chose to reenter civilization.
•What I’m wearing: men's black cargo pants, plain petrol blue shirt, fancy and fluffy teal house robes, combat boots.
•Movies/Books that summarise me:
movies: peter pan 2: return to neverland, pitch black, treasure planet, mulan, paranorman, casper (1995), barbie in the 12 dancing princesses, the rocky horror picture show, the crow
books: howl's moving castle (NO my name is not a reference), going postal by terry pratchett, juliet marillier's flame of sevenwaters, AND if comics count then also petshop of horrors
•Favorite Song: it kinda changes every week so hm. laura branigan's self control and halestorm's i am the fire are always good semi-permanent bets, though lately I've been listening a lot to light asylum's dark allies and rina sawayama's frankenstein. i am very consistent with genres i know uwu
•Favorite Book: diana wynne jones' howl's moving castle annnnnnd *throws dart at wall of juliet marillier works* probably juliet marillier's flame of sevenwaters or heir to sevenwaters? special shoutout to maggie stiefvater's the scorpio races, naomi novik's spinning silver, and holly black's the queen of nothing.
•Random Fact: i can lick my own elbow! double-jointed superiority.
I tag @malgraw @sandmancircus @arkhangelske @booksfoodmusic-minion @cthulhu-with-a-fez @omgianna @purplesigebert @fynneyseas @awishturnedwell @rebornfromash @produdfctititty @bongboybrown @snorlaxlovesme @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @rogha @ladyyatexel @nuinancawen if you guys want to do it, and whoever else thinks it sounds fun!
#searching for someone to tell him how to be a jedi. when he needs to realize that he is a jedi and he gets to decide what that means for him
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
like. yeah, okay, the ot3 is never going to be canon. we know this. we accept this. it's already a lot more than i thought we'd ever get in this day and age
BUT EVEN SO
eliot is just? so CLEARLY a part of the parker-and-hardison unit? they're a FAMILY! he and parker join breanna in teasing hardison! he and hardison have mandated Stealing Practice with parker! he had matching halloween costumes with them, for god's sake!!
like, yeah, the ot3 is never going to be confirmed as Fully Romantic, and that's a bit of a bummer. but these characters are a family anyway. parker and hardison's romantic relationship NEVER comes above their relationships with eliot. he's part of their unit! and that's so special
92 notes - Posted November 25, 2022
#4
See the full post
99 notes - Posted March 5, 2022
#3
i love rewatching firebringer because you can hear the audience get dead silent for the chorn part. all the laughter after that part is either slightly quieter than usual or much more hysterical than usual (because of the leftover shock of chorn). can you imagine. you spend months excited to watch starkid's newest musical about prehistoric society and in the last ten minutes it very briefly becomes a beautifully sung scifi opera before it IMMEDIATELY dovetails back into the emotional arc of the show. i would lose my shit.
150 notes - Posted November 14, 2022
#2
also just like. more and more, i am convinced that the way i headcanon cosette's personality isn't just interesting for me but is actually canonically supported? like, yes, she's the most classic Blonde(tm) i can think of, but also i think she's always aware of her situation and how she can affect it in a way that marius, bless his heart, just isn't. and i have receipts!
[tried to make this a bulleted list but tumblr mobile apparently CANNOT handle those anymore so! guess we're doing this formatting now]
first off, the entirety of in my life. "what's the matter with you, cosette?" shows a self-awareness that i wouldn't expect from her if she were just her archetype. immediately after, she laments how she doesn't know what her situation is, and it's making her antsy. later, she questions her father about his past, and he blows her off in a way that implies she's asked these questions before. she also criticizes him for seeing her as a child, which he ignores. (specifically i'm thinking of the way she says "i'm no longer a CHILD, and i long for the truth that you know!")
secondly, the general theme in a heart full of love of marius representing doubt and cosette representing stability. see: "i am lost" / "i am found", and "do i dream?" / "i'm awake". later, she actually seems to lead marius to realizing this is real, beginning the "and it's not a dream" line and then letting him join in.
then there's the attack on rue plumet. which, okay, we know i am obsessed with, but also the cosette characterization implied there FASCINATES me. let's go over the events of that song and the previous one from her perspective, shall we? she meets her idiot love-at-first-sight at her gate and has a beautiful duet with him. then, while she's gazing soulfully into his eyes, they hear a scream. he appears to recognize it, identifying the screamer as his friend éponine, who's trying to warn them that someone's coming. (ignoring the possibility that she recognizes the name as her childhood friend's,) marius disappears and immediately her father shows up, panicked about the scream. cosette, without hesitation, shifts tunes to a comforting song, claims that it was HER scream, and then uses her childhood melody to slip in the fact that it was three men she saw that he should look out for.
it's my theory that she does this -- literally and musically aging herself down -- to calm him down, because there's no way she did it out of the joy of her heart: she literally SAYS several songs earlier that she doesn't enjoy being treated as a child. the only reason it DOESN'T calm him down, why it instead makes things worse, is because she accidentally trips over his javert feelings, something she also told us she doesn't know anything about.
and then, of course, there's a heart full of love (reprise). where marius is drowning in his sadness and unanswered questions and cosette tries to pull him out of it. she starts off with their love melody (a heart full of love) and then reminds him, "and it wasn't a dream", which marius actually! starts off with her, instead of her having to pull him into it! she sees how he's feeling, sees how to pull him out of it, and does it successfully! i am a big fan of looking at when characters use leitmotifs and whether they're doing it "on purpose" -- i don't think valjean and javert, for example, use each other's tunes on purpose, i just think they're similar. but cosette is definitely someone who would be aware of what leitmotifs she uses, or as "aware" as a character in a musical can be, and i like that a lot about her!
158 notes - Posted March 20, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
oh ALSO i recently realized for the first time that hades challenging orpheus to not doubt eurydice on their way back to the surface is... him challenging orpheus to be better than hades himself. just like orpheus will always turn around, hades will always grow jealous again. hades let persephone go to the surface because people were starving but now cannot bear to have her leave him to go to the surface... orpheus lost eurydice to the underworld because she was hungry but now cannot believe she might follow him in the dark again...... i am thinking INTENSELY
#i have a wastebin because i do a lot of cosplay project and things like that so i need somewhere to throw away scraps and stuff
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Made a cuttlefish pokemon based on the fact that they are thought to use their flashing colors to hypnotize prey and also they look kinda like flying saucers
17 notes - Posted February 7, 2022
#4
Fuck, it just hits me every tingle time….. Techno made such a big impact on the MCYT community. Every time he gets mentioned on a stream, in any way, be it a quote of his, a clip of something he was in, or even just a passing mention, the entire chat becomes filled with o7 and other commemorations of him. We really did love him so much
51 notes - Posted December 4, 2022
#3
It’s posting day! As part pf the @voicesfortheblade charity raffle, I created this piece for @ttatters, who has recieved the unwatermarked version.
53 notes - Posted August 31, 2022
#2
My floating island base in my Origins modded world! I’m playing Avian origin and I love this base concept. Everything is getting its own island, with some terraced farms below the houses. It’s all birch, calcite and white concrete
#five getting kidnapped is the zombies run version of just another tuesday in sunnydale
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Zombies run season 9, mission 26….
The email we get after that run just broke my heart
7 notes - Posted June 29, 2022
#4
I was messing around on reels and because the only fun I have on that app is making jokes to make myself laugh, enjoy this Encanto/zombies run joke
9 notes - Posted January 19, 2022
#3
Zombies run season 9, mission 28
Janine…. You made my 5 leave behind her best friend, bleeding in the mountains. You made my 5 run into the dessert to go after the man who tortured her. You made her leave her husband on the floor of a zombie filled building.
And you have the audacity to give me a we must go on hero speech? All of Sarah smiths training, all the talk of fall apart when we’re safe behind the gates, that is all that is keeping my 5 going…5 is going to shatter if she ever makes it home. And snap on Janine if she doesn’t
11 notes - Posted July 13, 2022
#2
Because my brain has decided it’s loving Peter Lynne hours….
Spoilers for up to season 5 of zombies run….
I was just thinking today (and subsequently listened to voodoo child again) about Peter hearing that 5 and Janine were dead. I’m sure he had feelings about Maxine and Sam too but I’ve been focused on 5/Janine. How it must have felt to think your best friend and your ex are dead. What unspoken things did he regret never saying (that he still won’t say because Peter is gonna Peter)? He was so chill in that episode when he sees 5 but how did he actually react when he first heard 5 was alive? I have no idea why my brain is obsessing over this specific scenario today but here we are. Anyway….I really need the rest of season 9 now, thanks
12 notes - Posted January 18, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
The feminine urge to start a runner 5 cosplay Tiktok….
I mean did I get a Tiktok cause zombies run is there? Yeah, I did
Do I just want to start making runner 5 vids? Also yeah
Am I shocked this hyper fixation hasn’t worn itself out? Not really
1 – A casa tomada, de Julio Cortázar: Com inúmeras interpretações, a história trata de dois irmãos que cuidam com zelo de uma casa. Porém a casa vai sendo tomada.
2 – A dama do cachorrinho, de Anton Tchékhov: Uma história de adultério. Porém com a visão singular e o detalhamento psicológico de Tchékhov.
3 – A fera do abismo, de Jack London: Os contos de London são caracterizados pela luta da civilização contra o animal que há dentro do homem. Nesta peça de ficção, o autor conta a história de um boxeador. Criado em meio à natureza, o personagem encontra dificuldades quando sai do ringue. No mundo do boxe, precisa lidar com seus agentes e empresários.
4 – A teoria do medalhão, de Machado de Assis: É impossível ler e não aprender a escrever contos com Machado. Em A teoria do medalhão, ele exibe os conselhos do pai ao filho que se tornou maior de idade. Sempre presente nos contos machadianos, surge a crítica social.
5 – A terceira margem do rio, de Guimarães Rosa: Uma obra de arte do autor de Grande Sertão Veredas, este conto relata a história de um pai de família que cada vez mais vai se afastando do convívio familiar e se isolando em sua canoa, transitando por um rio, num claro simbolismo da arca de Noé.
6 – A vez de outubro, de Neil Gaiman: Com seu estilo fluído, este conto de Neil Gaiman mostra os meses como seres que se reúnem anualmente para contar suas histórias.
7 – Baleia, de Graciliano Ramos: Uma das histórias mais tristes já escrita, retrata um pai de família pronto a sacrificar a cachorra Baleia. O narrador de Graciliano nos dá uma aula de concisão neste conto.
8 – Conto (Não conto), de Sérgio Sant’Anna: Uma descontrução do mestre Sérgio Sant’Anna, na qual a ideia central é um espaço vazio que precisa ser ocupado por personagens.
9 – Dentro de um bosque, de Ryonosuke Akutagawa: Nada menos do que a reconstituição de o assassino de um samurai em sete versões diferentes.
10 – E a lua ainda brilha, de Ray Bradbury: Escrita de ficção científica com um estilo poético. Este conto de Bradbury mostra a quarta expedição á marte, onde os cientistas descobriram que todos os marcianos morreram de varicela/catapora.
11 – Gordo, de Raymond Carver: Narrado por um protagonista que observa um homem gordo que vai comer onde trabalha. O conto segue até uma epifania. Apesar de uma história tão banal, o texto prende pela técnica do autor (leia sobre a escrita dele)
12 – Janela indiscreta, de Cornell Woolrich: Um homem contempla sua vizinhança até suspeitar que um de seus vizinhos cometeu um crime (saiba mais sobre a adaptação que Hitchcock fez do conto).
13 – Me alugo para sonhar, de Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Um vislumbre do realismo mágico de Gabo. Trata-se da história de uma mulher que prevê o futuro através dos sonhos (Leia conselhos de Gabriel Garcia Marquez para escrever ficção).
14 – Minority Report, de Philip. K. Dick: A história se passa em um futuro onde os crimes podem ser previstos por um grupo de pessoas. O protagonista, líder de uma divisão da polícia que evita os crimes, descobre que ele mesmo irá cometer um crime.
15 – O Chamado de Cthulhu, de H.P Lovecraft: Clássico do horror, este conto apresenta um deus antigo que é tentado ser trazido de volta à vida por uma seita. Quer aprender a escrever contos de terror/horror? Leia Lovecraft.
16 – O cobrador, de Rubem Fonseca: Talvez a frase mais célebre da obra de Rubem Fonseca esteja neste conto: “Eu não pago mais nada, cansei de pagar!, gritei para ele, agora eu só cobro!” Trata-se de um personagem indignado com as injustiças da vida e que sai para se vingar.
17 – O gato preto, de Edgar Allan Poe: Um narrador perde o controle por causa de suas bebedeiras, tornando-se perverso. Uma brilhante história sobre a culpa. (Imagine uma oficina literária com Edgar Allan Poe! Já escrevi sobre isso). (Ler conto online).
18 – O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam, de Jorge Luis Borges: Retoma o tema do labirinto na obra de Borges. É uma história que inicia-se com uma perseguição e finda com uma abordagem metafísica.
19 – Os assassinos, de Ernest Hemingway: Primoroso por seus diálogos, este conto relata a trajetória de dois assassinos que vão acabar com a vida de um ex-boxeador (ler conto online).
20 – Os mortos, de James Joyce: Essencial para aprender a escrever contos. Nesta obra, o que aparenta ser apenas uma festa sem graça na casa das tias do protagonista. Mas vira uma revelação sobre sua esposa no ápice do conto.
21 – Um dia ideal para os peixes-banana, de J.D. Salinger: Este conto marcou uma virada na vida de Salinger, pois ao enviá-lo para a Revista The New Yorker, foi chamado para um trabalho de edição junto com o editor da publicação. O resultado das constantes revisões foi a criação deste que é, sem dúvidas, um dos melhores contos da história (até contei este acontecimento em um artigo acadêmico).
My most significant albums of 2023 [2022] [2021] [2020] [2019] [2018] [2017] [2016] [2015]
In no particular order: Six the Musical OBC | Weightless by Marconi Union | Epic the Musical Concept Album | The Visit by Loreena McKennitt | Dance Fever by Florence + The Machine | Anthologia by Artisan | Honkai Star Rail OST | Lost at Sea by Fin | Hadestown OBC
Honorable Mentions: Inu Oh OST | Go Farther in Lightness by Gang of Youths | Octopath Traveler OST | Autumn Orange’s entire discography | plus @laora-ryn’s always-fantastic Gundam 00 Playlist
Tagging: @mabel-but-slytherin, @laora-ryn, @cthulhu-with-a-fez , @ninthfeather , @hawk-in-a-tree , @puppetmaster55 , @smartass-telepath (if you want) and anyone else who’d like to! Feel free to tag me because I love seeing what other people listen to :D
tagged by jasontoddskris/@heardofbears (i think that's you???)! thank you so much <3 (i'm @commandersya btw, it's just on this blog for organizational purposes). i actually did this 5ever ago but then completely forgot this was in my drafts OTL
Thank you Moon @macabremoons for the tag! You can find her original post here!
The game: shuffle your "on repeat" playlist (or the music player of your choice) and share the first 10 songs and tag 10 people!
Call on Me (Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin)
Piece of My Heart (Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin Again!)
Of All The Gin Joints in All the World (Fall Out Boy)
Bambi (Hippo Campus)
Oysters In My Pocket (Royel Otis)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Glass Animals)
X Offender (Blondie)
Ghost in the Machine (SZA feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Take A Slice (Glass Animals Again!)
Choker ( Twenty One Pilots)
I'm not sure what this list says about me: indie snob? alternative baby? consistently inconsistent? I'll let you be the judge.
Low pressure tagging: @palebdot, @district447, @by-the-grace-of, @chaotic--lovely @cthulhu-with-a-fez, @write-gallagher, @biron-ore, @writingbyricochet, @requiemforawitchking, @properantagonist and anyone else who would like to participate!
Rules: (If I tagged you, please do not feel obligated to do this) tag some people you want to know better and/or catch up with, then answer the questions below! — tagged by @suchaspookyginger
Last Song: "Machine” by MisterWives
Three Ships: SoMa and Pynch are always my go-to but lately I’ve also been really into BakuDeku and have spent an unreal amount of time writing fics about them in my head during this season of bnha. one day i might write a fic about them OUTSIDE of my head but the jury’s still out on that
Currently Reading: under threat of bodily harm from my sister I have sworn I’m going to start Daisy Jones and the Six so we can finally watch the Amazon prime show that just came out
Last Movie: Mama Mia! and we’re watching the sequel tonight :)
Craving: giving up Cap’n Crunch for Lent was a terrible idea. is it possible to have withdrawals bc of cereal? clawing at the walls of my enclosure and dreaming of the Cap’n
#watching the scrolling comments ppl keep roasting how they pronounce x with like three separate syllables lmao
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
im soooo good at writing things for an audience of one (me)
24 notes - Posted August 20, 2022
#4
“Yeah, it’s just a little thing.” Sun Xiang nodded, before suddenly pausing as if he suddenly realized something.
“Little thing? Xiao Shiqin? Hahahahaha!”
The King’s Avatar novel ch 893 // Challenger League manhua ch 45
26 notes - Posted October 31, 2022
#3
“The King’s Avatar Manhua: Challenger League Arc” has just been announced, releasing every Sunday starting January 30! That is, the new manhua will be starting to adapt the Challenger League!
The original serialization of the new manhua (which is currently at chapter 85, right around Yu Wenzhou’s introduction) will continue to be released once a month on the first Friday of every month.
This is incredibly exciting! Out of all the many TKA adaptations, only the live action has ever adapted the CL (and it made so many changes it was hardly an adaptation at all). The new manhua has been quite faithful to the novel thus far, so I’m looking forward to it!
41 notes - Posted January 22, 2022
#2
[QZGS] S3 hints in new MV for Ye Xiu bday 2022 《虹光》
58 notes - Posted June 1, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
The King’s Avatar begins today
(translated from official Weibo)
December 2, 2022. Hangzhou’s snow is already falling. On this very evening, the story began…
One Autumn Leaf, this account card that witnessed and personally experienced Ye Xiu’s legendary splendor, eventually parted ways with him, just one day shy of ten years. Even the most easygoing of people would feel some pain in this moment, and so your hands, which had always been steady up until now, began to tremble ever so slightly as you handed it to your successor. “If you like it, then treat this all as glory, and not boasting.” You said this, and released your hand.
“I’ll rest for a year, and then return.” Even though you left, only leaving behind these eight words, this wasn’t the end;
You walked through the snowy night, lifted your head, and saw an internet cafe, lights shining in this deep night. From Area C number 47, from that simple storage room, this all began anew…
Because of The King’s Avatar, because of Ye Xiu, we are willing to believe—on December 2 2022, somewhere in the world, there must be an internet cafe called Happy, that will let you push open the door, shake off the snow, and once again begin a legend.
On this day, I was fortunate to meet you, the most incredible you. This is the final line of The King’s Avatar chapter 1726.
Ten years of Glory, never fade. And now, it really has been ten years. We still remember. And the story of The King’s Avatar, Ye Xiu’s legend, begins today.
Ye Xiu, thank you for letting this seemingly ordinary day become so distinct. The glory that we witness together will never fade.
Team Excellent Era player Ye Qiu has disconnected, Glory tenth server player Lord Grim is logging in. New journey, start!