reading animorphs sequentially instead of in whatever random order you can get your hands on them is such a trip because you can see these kids getting progressively better at war and worse at being happy, you can see how traumatic events from one book echo into the next ones but never quite get dealt with because these kids have no real way to take care of their mental health, you can see their relationships deepening but simultaneously gaining friction and faultlines as they learn just how far they'd go for each other but also how far they'd go in general...
obviously this series was meant to be episodic in nature, and i actually think that might be the better way to first encounter it, but the arc of the series in publication order is extremely well-crafted
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just found a picture of Saul Goodman but Redd White?????
im not a Saul or a Redd enthusiast but what? why are they so similar?? was there some ace attorney superfan on the Saul Goodman costume department???
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im team baby. only because i am pro simp matty doting on his pregnant wife.
okay this is very true
like matty obsessively looking after you, not letting you life anything heavier than a box of cereal or do anything remotely strenuous.
you want a cup of tea? he's up. you think you might have a bath? he's running it. your neck hurts? massaging you already actually.
I especially love the idea of him doting over the bump, getting special creams and stuff to help your skin. it's also an excuse for him to touch his baby everyday and talk to them.
he fucking loves talking to the bump and playing the baby music, he'll lay down on the sofa and just narrate the TV show you're watching to the bump.
remember that vid of him singing to gabriella as she sleeps from ages ago? he's doing that to you, except it's not really to you. he's signing to the bump. sometimes it's 75 songs, sometimes it's nursery rhymes but his favourite thing to play is songs him and his dad used to sing.
and have any of you seen that thing on tiktok where someone's partner holds up their pregnancy bump from behind for a few seconds and it's like instant relief? matty is doing that whenever he can.
one, it gives you a break from the heavy weight of the baby and relaxes you. Two, because it means he's holding his baby before they're even born, and he thinks that's the best thing ever.
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Okay so a strange and stubborn endurance is maybe not the best book I've ever read peak high literature or whatever, but I'm only 1/3 of the way through and I've cried multiple times and been beset with that distinctive grief of a book really getting /me/. The title intrigued me and oh oh is it very much the heart of the book. A broken creature of odd endurance despite it all.
And I think it's because it manages to combine a serious emotional plot of assault/mental illness/homophobia/recovery with a fantasy intrigue setting. Most books do one or the other. You've got teen contemporary YA dealing with heavy issues but with teens in highschool, but I am 27 and tired of teen protags, or you've got intricately plotted fantasy masterpieces. This is neither. But it puts that recovery front and center within a larger fantasy setting and I cannot stress how much I need and crave that and how hard it is to find done even semi-decently.
Velasin makes me want to throw up from crying. His fears and shames, his desperation, and love, and nonexistent self esteem. His humour. His loyalty to his only friend. His Whole Deal with his father. Every chapter just brings a new. Huh. Recognition of the self through the other. Gut punch.
Idek what I'm saying. It's not the most insanely perfect book in the world. But it's doing something For Me that objectively better books don't. Idk. Idk. All I know is that I'm sick with weeping from it.
Like absolutely mind the author's note warning at the beginning, because it can be heavy, but it's never graphic or gratuitous. And it IS focused on recovery, just again, against a fantasy plot.
I really dk I'm rambling now but it's just. Oh. Oh. Maybe I needed this. Everything lately has felt either too lighthearted to be genuine or too desperately dark for me to handle. And I can only reread the cemeteries of amalo so many times. I eventually need other things that are both hopeful and dark, gutwrenching and reflective of the self, without grimdark. (Not that this is on the same level but who can compare to thara celehar To Me)
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i can't believe sunday fans r shitting on jade bc they wanted sunday drip marketing ☹️ be glad you have more time to save let the jade fans have their time
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Generally fucking love how today so far has been testing my will of not losing it completely, given my mom has been nothing but bitchy to me all day over the money to the point of blaming me somehow for her choosing to sell her Switch that she got for christmas that she literally hasn't touched since then and now my dad is starting on me because he's either tired or drunk.
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