Okay, review time!! If you are one of the oddballs who thinks you cant be critical of something you love I suggest you stop reading now before I ruffle your feathers. Iron flame, second in the empyrean series. I am gonna start with what I was not a fan of and then go into the shit I adored.
1) what in the actual fuck was the pacing of this book?? I can tell you what, it was non existent. There was none. Where I thought there was a lot of filler in the last book there was none in this one. We got snap shots of conversations and then *boom* more plot flew at you. The timeline of this book greatly suffered for it i think bc we end only a couple weeks, if that, after threshing, which happens sometimes in October. This book was actually so wild with times.
2) while it was a spectacular cliff hanger, xaden becoming venin pisses me off. Especially if Rebecca yarros isnt going to have him tell violet. Like if that small tid bit of a conversation we got wasnt him telling vi that he was venin then the entire romantic conflict of this book was rendered pointless and their going to be having the same fucking fight for the rest of the series and at rhat point I give up.
3) I understand that the revolution is trying to take down basgaith and make the world better or whatever the fuck but can someone actually formulate a real plan for me?? Because I feel like their mission is just, giving violet and xaden something to be pissed at each other about.
4) the entirety of cats character. I get that she was set up as a spin on the typical jealous ex. Like having her be bitter about xaden picking violet over her but OH WAIT it wasnt actually about the man it was about the crown, oohh not like other girls. Im a writer too I see the point. I dont care. I think it was trashy. If you wanted her to be a bitter spiteful ex then have her be a bitter spiteful ex, the whole crown thing was shallow.
OKAY haters your time is up now onto the shit that made my heart hurt with joy and sadness
1) xadens arc in this book. I really liked that he went from "transparency is never gonna happen" to losing his fucking mind over violet and giving her everything. I love feral men and he qualifies. I think his arc was really well done and i liked it.
2) I appericiate that violet stuck to her guns for this book. She wouldnt let xaden off without a fight and I loved that. She made him bow and scrape and I was eating it up. It was spectacular.
3) the throne room scene. Violet on the throne. "Im making a temporary point not a lasting vow of maschocism" xaden being feral.
4) that gets its own point actually, just xaden being completely feral this entire book healed a part of my soul.
5) andarna's little speech at the end where she was like "I waited for you violet" made me ugly cry. That was just so hopelessly good I loved it. Andarna in general heals my heart but that part was just *chefs kiss*
6) tarin being completely and utterly ready to eat people this entire book. Just, at every turn "I want lunch their pissing me off " was spectacular
7) every scene their squad was in. Rihannon, violet, sawyer and ridoc are my roman empire. Their bond is so amazing. The fact that they launched a rescue mission for violet. Rihannon being ready to kill xaden at every turn. Ridoc being so platonically and adorably in love with violet. Just- augh happy cries happy cries. I love it all. Their so special tbh.
8) I love xaden actually, just, the whole book every scene hes in lives in my brain.
9) I liked that we saw a small bit of violet being feral this book too. I hope that we get more of that in future books. I want more of violet losing her fucking mind. Hot, badass women covered in blood
10) Liam. Fucking Liam. When violet was kidnapped and Liam was there. Now, do I logically understand that he was a hallucination, yes, do i care?? No. He was a gift from Maleck I will be hearing no critiques on that. It was so fucking sweet and amazing. I love violet and Liam and Liam being dead so horribly breaks my heart. I loved Liam. Liams death lives rent free in my skull.
The year is 2034. Kotlc book 17.67 has just been announced. The title? Unwritten. The plot? The crew has discovered a time traveling alternate self of Ryke, Sophie’s fifth love interest and this is his story through time. She has a half human half elf friend named Ebony who she spends several pages describing her dyed black hair, icy blue eyes, and red lips. Marella and Linh have still not been declared canon. The fandom has had 3 full revivals and a fandom war about love interest #3 and love interest #4. My kotlc confessions blog still only gets asks about keefe. We still don’t know what the great gulon incident is.
yo, mister white, um. you're not gonna believe this. i'm at that burnt down pizza place you told me to check out, and there's this busted up animatronic in here that's just been following me around-- i thought you told me that they were all disabled. i think it's for the daycare or something. what? what do you mean security risk? we're friends now
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A/N: So sorry this is late! Let me know if there is any errors, the links don’t work or aren’t taking you to the right place or if the @ is wrong! I tried to check it, but I’ve been really busy with school.
Thigh-ly Adored* by @thatdammchickennugget
Reading Between The Lines by @thatdammchickennugget
Ain't that the truth. If you have been enjoying these final months of the year, but felt a certain nostalgic hankering for all that Tumblr has loved (and not loved) over the past 12 months—a sentimental yearning for '23, if you will—consider today your lucky day. We released Tumblr's 2023 Year in Review this very weekend, and it's safe to say you've all reviewed the hell out of it. An entire year. Four seasons. Ships, shows, and sh*tposts aplenty. Come see.
I must admit... I came here out of curiosity. And I thought I'd be here for a short time, because I didn't expect to find any active fandom of BBC Sherlock after so long since the last ep aired, and... such a surprise to see how wrong I was!
A bit of context
I discovered BBC Sherlock thanks to my sister's recommendation after watching 'Doctor Strange' (because I absolutely loved the movie -and the actor, of course-). I fell in love with Sherlock the first time I watched it. And six years later, I rewatched it and became a sick fan. And yes, I definitely noticed the flirtation and glances between Sherlock and John 😅, so I started looking for other opinions about that on social media. This led me to Pinterest, where I discovered a treasure trove of Sherlock's meta (in screenshots) and lots of fanart. They all took me to the same place: Tumblr.
Exactly one year ago today, I opened my account. I love being here, I love the amazing and talented people from the fandom I love, and I love my tumblr friends.
This is my place now :)
PS: tysm @safedistancefrombeingsmart for your lovely gift!!
I find it ironic that people love to talk about Billy Hargrove having internalized homophobia despite the fact that homophobic Billy is only a fanon trait, meanwhile Steve Harrington used queer as an insult against Jonathan Byers and yet folks wanna act like he's the most ally to ever ally (or even pretend he was never homophobic to begin with) just because he wasn't still a dick to Robin when she came out to him.
Y'all can have whatever headcanons you want, but the canon truth is that between Billy and Steve, only one of them got a homophobic insult slung at them but never slung it back, and it wasn't Steve.
(This redesign belongs to the Wish Au "Kingdom of wishes", written by @annymation and illustrated by @emillyverse and me)
This will surely be the redesign where I have the least things to say lol, but I still have some things to comment on so let's go!
At first I hadn't thought much about how I would redesign Valentino, what I was sure of was making him more adorable and cuter so that everyone would want to have a goat as a pet, because if I'm completely honest, Valentino's official design in the Disney movie I didn't find it adorable at all (sorry Disney artists, I know they put effort into drawing and animating but I just didn't like Valentino's design)
(Do you get my point? He's just not cute or adorable, and the voice they gave him didn't help either, or the face idk ,but I thought the joke about his voice at the beginning of the movie was funny ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
So I made a mental list of things I wanted to do (which aren't many if I'm honest):
-Make it fluffier and fluffier
-Give him other clothes
-Add even one symbol in your redesign
Anny sent me several references of goats and concept art, among them I found this one, which I based myself on mainly because 1-I have always liked that animals had moles or spots on their fur or skin 2-When I saw that on their clothes You could see the seams that joined the different fabrics, I realized that it coincided with Asha's redesign (on the sleeves) so I was like: "AWWWWW it matches his mom's clothes!"
In the end I only added a part of it with a different fabric because I didn't want to complicate the design too much, but I liked how it turned out, I added some symbols of the tattoos that exist in the Amazigh culture, which is also to protect the person (or animal in this case) of the bad influences that are around them
I also liked adding that little ball of curly hair on our goat's little head, it just looks so cute!
FINAL COMMENTS!
As I said, this is not very long, but I'm satisfied with how the drawing turned out, I wanted to try something new that looks like the lighting was a sunset, I don't know if it's noticeable but at least it turned out nice lmao, as a curious fact, with this drawing I realized how MUCH my sketches change when I paint them in detail
…..BRO HOW THE HELL DID THIS CHANGE SO MUCH WITHOUT REALIZING ME? (ESPECIALLY ASHA)
its rare that i get emotional over a movie, never mind cry.
but when i say that call me by your name broke me, i mean that im in shatters.
the music was perfect, i could close my eyes and see every scene, feel the heat of the sun, the cool water, the italian breeze and the smell of cigarettes and flowers. every frame was so masterfully crafted to evoke such strong emotion that i cant even put it into words.
and the ending, how it caught me off guard, but how wonderfully it fit in. amazing