#i had that book Memorized

[mirkwood-trash]

If I could be anywhere it would be the great green room in goodnight moon

#pooka speaks #i had that book Memorized #that and the runnaway bunny were 🤌🤌🤌 #my happy places

[camelspit]

the current debates on sokeefe/sophitz and alden rn are so funny i feel like i was forcefully put in a time machine and blasted to a few years ago

#its so funny bc i have no stake in either arguement tbh #the sophitz/sokeefe one rn is so funny i cant take it seriously #i just havent seen the arguement this. relevant. on tumblr in a while #i had to guess id say the reactions to the keefe pov book are what set it off #as for the alden one. idk. #i think my personal opinion is that hes made some questionable desicions but not out of malice #i havent seen anyone yet bring up him sedating sophie in nightfall which. i think is one of his most memorable scenes. #for me at least!! idk #kotlc

[coquelicoq]

crashes ur board meeting n drags u out by the collar but its fine bc youre the one always saying shit like "im looking for people i can use" ok lol. get used idiot

#just tracing like. the sequence of events that had to take place in order for this to come to pass #1. natori and his shiki are skulking around homura stalking ban. possibly it's just his shiki and natori is elsewhere. #either way 2. natsume shows up and natori learns about it either bc he witnesses it or a shiki comes to tell him #3. natori gets in his little richard scarry apple car (this is my mental image for some reason) & fucking. BOOKS IT to the matoba compound #4. goes inside. presumably matoba lackeys try to stop him bc their boss is in an important meeting but somehow he gets past them #(possibilities here are v fun to think about. maybe natori does this all the time and they're used to it. maybe he's never done it before #but they're all on orders to let natori in if he ever shows up. maybe natori convinces them he's supposed to be IN the meeting #which is great because it sounds like some important clan thing so what is he in the clan now??) #5. interrupts matoba's meeting like 'i need you' and matoba's like 'bye everyone whatever this is is more important' #6. they get in natori's comical apple car (again the apple car is not canon don't worry about it) #& natori drives like a bat out of hell back to homura. (SOURCE: matoba is so scarred he refuses natori's offer for a ride later) #i wonder what they talk about on the way there? because they don't talk about why natori is stalking ban until much later #so they must be busy talking about something else. but what?? #that or they're both too distracted by all the near-death experiences from natori's crazed driving lol #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #homura cats arc #horrible exorcists #my posts #sidenote i feel like that page at the end where both matoba and sensei refuse natori's offers of a ride is really funny because #sensei's reason is that it will take too long. but sensei did you know natori drives like a speed demon? think it thru... #also like. how long did it take him to decide to involve matoba? was that his backup plan all along? #also it's pretty lucky that he found matoba at all considering he could be anywhere...the matoba have like 15 houses... #he has matoba's schedule memorized lol #natori sparkling to the assorted clan members in the meeting: sorry ladies and gentlemen i just need to borrow this~ #*throws matoba over his shoulder and fireman-carries him to the parking lot*

[distraughtlesbian]

literally the best part of this whole stupid book iwlove weird obsessed horndogs thee villain archetype of all time. he’s so silly. “we could’ve had a life together”, he says to his lesbian ex-neighbour who he’s just shot with a crossbow bolt meanwhile her girlfriend who he’s also just shot is half dead across the room. god i love it here he said me and the bad bitch im going to fumble

#WHAT A FUCKING FREAK IJBOL!!!!!! #MORE PSYCHOSEXUALLY OBSESSED WEIRDO VILLAINS PIXELBERRY I KNOW YOU HAVE IT IN U. #their villains are usually so cringe and one note at least this one is memorable #mind you this could have used more buildup. up until like chapter 19 he still had the benefit of the doubt #his ass was NOT beating the twist villain allegations but the fucking freak allegations were a whole separate beast #and he could be presumed innocent in those. like sure i guess these are just average fanatic werewolf hunter antics. #like EYE had my suspicions. him sending that frat bro to sexually harass mc was a fucking freak move #but like in general he was coming off as someone who was just a normal amount of concerned about a friend of theirs falling in w a cult #like girl why am i following my cringe fwb into the pool house to be all ‘babe this isnt u :(’ #i dont CARE i wanna go engage with the twist antagonist who at this point my mc still thinks is kind of normal/their friend!!! #but alas that’s just pb for you. we WILL NOT stick a landing ever. they make all the new writers swear to never write a villain that makes #sense or is well foreshadowed. ONLY side characters who you would never suspect bc they have like 5 lines in the whole book. #like you’ll never be duffy veilofsecrets you’ll never recapture that magic. #anyway. markus choicesalpha the fucking weirdo cringefail stalker incel loser you could have been…kermit looking out rainy window dot png #maeve speaks #playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices alpha #channing lowe #markus barnes #side note this whole thing probably has a Much different vibe with a male mc #but as it is it’s like ijbol. channing is cringe and emotionally unavailable but how could you POSSIBLY compare to a buff werewolf bitch #he is so completely not a contender that its comedic to me. you think WE could have had a LIFE TOGETHER? #even if my mc had never ever met channing SHE IS A LESBIAN!!!! SHES GAY DUDE STOP IT LOL #and with a female mc and male channing its like yeah whatever average incel number 10 billion. wow youre going to kill me bc some other guy #is hotter than you? eyeroll. at least channing canonically gives great head.

[moodyseal]

How could I ever forget what a gem The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is.........

#i genuinely forgot about it for MONTHS and only remembered today when i spotted it on my shelf #had to reread some of the more memorable parts #scipio u r my ANGELLLLLLL #i love this book so much i swear #though the fact that my favourite character is monty #only serves as further proof that i mostly like overdramatic idiots with daddy issues #this is like apollo 2 electric bungaloo #i'm a clown #anyway. i need to get the other two books in the series asap #i want to know what the other two sibs are up to #the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue #lonely thoughts

[petr1kov]

i still like a song of ice and fire so it's insane to me to think about how much the game of thrones show did both for and against it. it was quite literally the biggest show ever for a while but it ended so terribly that almost no one dares to touch it again, something that ended up hurting the reputation of the novels by association, and yet at the same time it was also the only reason why most people even read the novels to begin with. the double edged sword of popularity ig

#i will say though that the show was always much edgier than the novels and that only got worse as it strayed further from them #it's actually mesmerizing to me just how incompetent d&d are as showrunners #it's like they read the novels but only got the most basic understanding of what made it work out of it (shocking plot twists) #not to mention that whoever was writing for the show after they ran out of material to adapt can't write a dialogue to save their lives lol #the way the quality of the dialogue dropped into the depths of hell after season 4 was so abrupt and bizarre #this is most obvious to see with tyrion bc he always had memorable lines and moments back when he was on book material #then he became a shell of his former self immediately after they stopped adapting him. i almost forgot he was still alive for some seasons

[hanzajesthanza]

the fact that dandelion was able to become vaguely conversational in a completely different language within less than a month is an attestment to his skill in memory and academic intelligence. not that he needs another attestment, but it is one

#c: dandelion #book: time of contempt #txt #dandelion saw a foreign grammar structure and was like ‘ok got it’ like hello? #he had maybe two weeks to study for entering brokilon and that compounded with research and gaining political safe passage #i love how it’s not just that he had to sing a pretty song which obviously he’s good at #but he had to memorize he had to research he had to deal with political favor. ALL dandelion skills #so he was literally the perfect and only one that could do this dumb shit and the narrative just was set up so well #dandelion: ‘how am i going to prove myself to geralt’ Literally just by being yourself. literally and figuratively #the witcher books

[chrimsone]

took a quick looksies at some Cayde dialogue to make sure I was writing him right, here's some interesting bits

I'm tempted to make this lil bit part of my character canon since my newest Warlock, Oasis, kept some kind of journal when she was with the exoscience.

I swear I've mentioned this before but I didn't see anything when scanning thru my blog, but this blurb really helps. reaffirm that I wrote Rin's pre-life right. she's technically a reef born but barely acts like it

#destiny 2 #cayde #cayde-6 #Tevis larsen #I know there's a shitton of stuff to look thru so I settled with only this part for my quick research #cause I don't want to read a whole books worth of lore to figure out if cayde ever had a funny nickname for ikora #the shit I do for accuracy in literature #why can I be like everyone else #this is why I don't like to write canon characters lmao #I forever Fear that I'm writing them Wrong #cause i don't know everything like I do with my own #and i gotta memorize shit #instead of having a general idea that literally doesn't have words to give me an idea #my brains like #*produces an incomprehensible blob of KNOWLEDGE* #me: ah yes you are correct that is certainly my funny hunter Phoenix

[wander-wren]

HOLY SHIT I ALMOST FORGOT

it is the first day of november and so, today, someone will die.

even under the brightest sun, the frigid autumn sea is all the colors of the night: dark blue and black and brown. i watch the ever-changing patterns in the sand as its pummeled by countless hooves.

they run the horses on the beach, a pale road between the black water and the chalk cliffs. it is never safe, but it is never so dangerous as today, race day.

this time of year, i live and breathe the beach. my cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them, my thighs sting from the friction of the saddle, and my arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. i have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand.

i am so, so alive.

as i head down the cliffs with my father, a race official stops us. he says, “sean kendrick, you are ten years old. you haven’t discovered it yet, but there are more interesting ways to die than on this beach.”

my father takes the official’s upper arm as if the man were a restless horse. they have a brief exchange about age restrictions during the race. my father wins.

on the way down to the water, we are jostled and pushed by men and by horses. a gray uisce stallion rears up, its rider jerked at the end of a lead. i slide beneath it and find myself facing the sea, surrounded on all sides by the capaill uisce—the water horses.

they are every color of the pebbles on the beach—blue, black, red, gold, gray, brown. riders hang bridles with ribbons and flowers to lessen the danger of the dark november sea, but i wouldn’t trust a handful of petals to save my life. last year, a horse trailing red tassels and daises tore a man’s arm half from his body.

they are beautiful and deadly, loving us and hating us.

[…]

i don’t often think of my father strung out amongst the frothing surf. instead, i think of him as he was before the race: afraid.

i won’t make the same mistake.

#bird noises #scorpio races #when i was in my junior year of high school i decided randomly to memorize as much of the book as i could #at one point i had the first two and a half pages #this is about the first one and two thirds and i think instarted to fuck up at the end #plus the last lines of the prologue bc theyre Cool #can i prove that i did this from memory. no. does it serve any purpose except showing off my One Weird Trick #also no #actually it does READ SCORPIO RACES ITS COOL AS FUCK #AND NOVEMBER IS LITERALLY THE BEST MONTH TO DO IT #except october maybe but that ship has sailed #maybe i’ll try to re-memorize the prologue. for funsies

[rubberbandballqueen]

favorite part of work today was when i told the kids to get into two lines, n this one guy was like "i don't want to" n then started talking to his buddy in mandarin, n so then in chinese i was like, "hey, come here."

n he n his buddy looked at each other n then looked at me with like that faintly displeased expression that means they've realized they can't get away with not being that good at english (or feel terribly isolated from n indifferent to the adults bc they don't speak their language) anymore

and then when i told them to line up in mandarin they groaned abt it for sure but they did drag themselves into a line

#i walked in n this one kid handed me a book to read like a big hardcover graphic novel type thing n said i could look through it #so for kicks i started reading it out loud with all the silly voices n sound effects n blocking #and so then obviously the other children started to swarm me and god. kids have so much body heat #n you can feel it bc they have no personal space qwq #n anyway so i led them all to a different corner of the room and ended up reading 15 out of the 16 chapters of the book #out loud to a big chunk of the kids for like an hour w/a 5 min break halfway through for water #and when i came back the kids were organizing the chairs themselves into a semicircle to give me enough space to perform #i was sweating more than i have in Quite A While by the end bc again. children are So Warm n also being dramatic takes energy #the same kid who handed me the book today last year handed me some pokemon cards n i ended up spending all of spring camp #drawing pokemon from cards as references for kids to color n stuff bc i didn't want to go to the computer n print out coloring pages #so! i should probably stop spoiling/“yes and--”ing kids at work w/my nonsense but it gives them smth memorable at least #but also i am so fucking tired today lol i had to leave class as soon as it was done dash home to drop off my jacket n backpack #i didn't even have time to take off my shoes before entering the house so I Did An Unforgivable Sin (walked around w/shoes on) #n then put on my work jacket n dash out the door again to go to my 5.75 hr work shift o(--( #i don't regret it!! i did tell my boss i was free for afternoon camp shifts specifically bc i wanted these shifts even tho timing'd be tigh #successfully taught a kid to tie his shoelaces today though!!!!! what's w/kids n always using the very tips of their laces to mimic you tho #when you are very clearly handling the parts of the laces right next to your foot. it did click for him tho eventually #the worm speaks

[megamindsupremacy]

Digging around my old bookshelves for the Percy Jackson books so I can reread them and. Uh. Goddamn I really loved these books quite literally to pieces

#there’s three straight up missing a cover #two missing a spine #the softcover ones are in shreds #I cant even find them all im devastated i think my mom chucked them #mads Posts #percy Jackson #pjo #the mark of Athena book #I got from my jr high library #it’s missing pages 4-10 which was fine at the time #because I had them memorized #yk. like a normal person

[desperatecheesecubes]

So back in the day in 7th grade our English teacher had the Gifted Kids in his class make read The Outsiders and then he wanted us to make a short movie based on it and all four of us (there were only four in our grade in the program) has to contribute. I was big into making AMVs at the time so I knew basic video editing and in an effort to not make a fool of myself I front of the other three who were all in the popular crowd I volunteered to edit it. Anyway I never heard of any plans to make this fucker until I came into class one day to see it being played and my name in the credits. I got an A for work I didn’t do because the other kids didn’t like me enough to work with me. I wasn’t even upset i was excluded that’s the easiest A I’ve ever gotten

#mine #that was the year I got bored enough to write essays for other people for free too #and i took AR tests for anyone who was about to come up short #that English teacher fucking HATED me Lmfaoo #I remember one assignment was that we had to do a book report #but for some fucking reason the gifted kids had to memorize and recite the entire snowy road poem #and I was shit at it and didn’t want to so I did a book report for a girl I barely knew because she hadn’t read one and I helped her #present it and everything and the teacher went ‘yes hmm hmm I’m sure you both read that #but cheese you still have to receipt your poem.’ #so I ended up doing twice the work for no fucking reason #I do still have that poem memorized #and the older I get the more I feel the ‘miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep’ tattooed on me #I don’t remember if I put the words ‘want to get’ in that sentence whoops #but I am also still bitter

[pherre]

whats wild is that this is only a fraction of how insane i was about good omens when i was 13

#thankfully my english was not good enough to be that active on tumblr at the time. unfortunately that meant channeling my insanity outwards #i had select sections of the book memorized i read it in two languages a combined 10 times i sought out and compared translations #and amateur audio books #i read fanfiction to my friends out loud #on one memorable occasion we printed out the faces of neilman and tpratchett for cosplay purposes and one of them fell in the river #hoping it was neil #its me talking #the absolute gomens brainrot that was happening in my circle of friends. i miss that

[danielradcliff]

I seriously fucked up reading dune before seeing dune 2 .. dune 2 was a good movie but it was so different from the book that my dad and I came out of the theater like What Did they Do To Our Boy...

#ik if I had just seen the movie without reading it I would've enjoyed it way more #although my dad has the book memorized so he would've complained no matter what

[seconddoubt]

hi how's your summer going? read any good books? had delicious ice cream? some craft project you're working on? have you sat round a campfire with friends? do you have any juicy gossip or a new celebrity you're obsessed with?

#i've read good books. the runners by olga tokarzcuk and the castle by kafka were phenomenal. now im rereading the witcher series so i can #eloquently point out to my brother everything i hate about the netflix show. even if they're not gonna follow the story to a tee they could #at least match the vibe. the atmosphere the philosophies presented. at the very! least! the traits in the characters and their relationship #that actually endears us to them but they had to be some stupid game of thrones meets marvel with every line a chewpid quip filled w as muc #cussing as possible whether it makes sense for the character or not #uhm sorry didn't mean to rant #i've also been knitting and am in fact not yet watching the og star trek as i'm rewatching the most memorable episodes of ds9 and writing #reviews for them in a little notebook. stuff i get up to with the time gained not being on tumblr

[skitskatdacat63]

Love to go back to my desk once I've woken up and see whatever weird thing I was working on at like 5 am. This one I think is genuinely interesting but also would look so deranged to anyone else 😭 I was writing a color coded guide to how I group drivers in my head with examples with different grids(i.e. how the demographics change) and now I want to write one for all of the 2000-now grids. Completely normal behavior what are you talking about

#let me know if anyone wants to see it :D i like to do these little projects for myself bcs its fun to be meticulous #but as i said i do think its really interesting what the demographic of the grid is #(how i group them is basically about debut year which comes with certain impressions on my part) #but i say it looks deranged bcs one time i showed my dad my f1 guide book #(i have a notebook where i wrote down guides of all the grids like with teams/drivers/team changes/etc) #(and also write down all of the race wknd results from this season) #and hes like '...oooookayyyyyyy 😶' #ITS FUN FOR ME OKAY #im just fond of 'record keeping' ig and i really think the older grids are interesting #id love to do the 90s but the further back you go the more confusing it gets tbh #like only a handful of drivers ik from then and also more drivers #i actually have written grid guides twice....sry its rly fun actually 😭 #but bcs i switched notebooks and i wanted to make a better one #but it was so interesting bcs i made the first one when i was getting into f1 and then the 2nd one was like after i had watched older races #so the first time i only knew a couple drivers but then 2nd time i recognized practically every name #lmao this started bcs i had to write a 2023 guide to myself so i could memorize all the teams and drivers #and i remember really not knowing like any of them but now i think i could do back until 2018 from memory #before that gets a bit hsrd just because there's a lot of drivers that just come and go super quickly and leave not much impression imo #okay anyways now i must embark on my deranged organizational adventure #catie.rambling.txt