#jokes aside i love this book

[i-am-the-vampire-of-my-own-heart]

My impression reading The Vampire Lestat so far:

Hi I'm the vampire Lestat and I'm super hot but also ethereal and off-putting but like in a sexy way. I'm also a rockstar. I wrote this book because my ex is spreading lies about me. I killed a bunch of wolves and I wasn't even scared. My hot and sexy boyfriend was jealous of my enormous talent. This old man broke into my house and turned me into a vampire and then left me all his money. I shit myself and I didn't even care. I can do somersaults now. I frenched my mom.

#the vampire lestat #vampire chronicles #anne rice #lestat de lioncourt #vampire literature #jokes aside i love this book

[highqueenofashandstars]

For anyone who argues that Chaol is not the most relatable character, during the entire duration of Tower of Dawn, I, too, wondered what Dorian was up to.

#chaol westfall #dorian x chaol #dorian havilliard #throne of glass #all jokes aside I think TOD was a great book and we love to see the character growth #but also chaol is a great character simply because he is only human and with all of his faults that all he gets to rely on #his own strength and that’s it #and his now very hot wife #we love yrene #the assassins blade #crown of midnight #heir of fire #queen of shadows #empire of storms #tower of dawn #kingdom of ash #sjm books #sjmaas #sjm #it’s possible I heard this somewhere but I literally can’t remember where so if there is an OG poster out there please feel free to let me #know so I can give credit where credit is due #i sleep deprived posted many things tonight I can’t remember

[nonasbirthday]

Memes for when you are reading Harrow the Ninth for the first time and have no idea what is going on:

i love being part of a fandom with so many smart people who can predict plot twists and make connections in the text, BUT

i need a little representation for those of us who had a blank screen with a loading bar running in our brains for the entirety of Harrow the Ninth!!!

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bonus for Nona:

#before you ask about the red herring: check the notes beloved <3 #all joking aside Harrow the Ninth IS a difficult book to read on the first try and is not super duper accessible #and i think we as a fandom should at least acknowledge that! there are lots of people who stopped after Gideon the Ninth #and therefore cannot Join Us In The Fullness Of Fandom #idk where i was going with this i love how many smart people are here i just wanted some ‘nearly gave up halfway thru HTN’ rep ig #harrow the ninth spoilers #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #nonasbirthday #sticking this on the fridge

[emrys-with-a-little-star]

They added reading to sdv

I will get all the books

I will read all the books

I will become the book master

Watch me.

#any game that lets me read books #and gain knowledge or skills from that #is a good game in my book #... #see what i did there #jokes aside #love the new update #there's so much cool stuff #stardew valley #sdv

[nicosraf]

loving the mpreg asks. i think it would be kinda cool, whether it’s sexy or not, because of the long standing tradition that exists regarding pregnancy and body horror, and for genderqueer characters that can be explored in many different ways!

damn i’m really excited for a&m

-🫀

Yeah!! In all seriousness, A&M explores body horror and, specifically, pregnancy as body horror — for the women characters and for one angel character (who explicitly identifies with manhood).

It's meant to be an element of horror and trauma, but I'm not going to pretend like it's not a little fun to joke about. And it's been really really interesting to write! I'm incredibly happy with it! I said a while ago that I figured ABM would be a standalone if it were traditionally published because I feared publishers wouldn't let me publish a book that's so uncomfortably genderqueer (especially if it's already quite problematic — Satan and Michael are gay in it)

I'm really glad I was able to self-publish so I can both continue Michael x Lucifer's story and get really strange about angel gender! It makes me very happy :)

#all jokes aside — I'm glad to be able to write this book very much #its deeply uncomfortable at times ! i love it.l #and for as body-horror-y as the pregnancy is depicted — horror and sexualization are not really opposites are they #weird gray area i think #mine #ask

[unhelpfulfemme]

I'm so happy for Dorothy Dunnett, who had it for her husband so bad that she based a proto-Tumblr-sexyman off of him.

#lymond chronicles #jokes aside if there's romance in a book you can always tell whether the author is capable of maintaining one themselves #sometimes people write about love and I'm thinking “Oh no! I'm sorry that you think that this is how it has to be :(” #and then I look them up and they've had several divorces lol #dorothy is the opposite of that for me

[boookfreeak]

if I had a nickel for everytime I've read the sentence "It is a truth universally acknowledged that" in a book, I'd have too many nickels to count, because it has happened too many times to count

#jokes aside though i love seeing it #i smile everytime #pride and prejudice is one of my all-time favorite books #pride and prejudice #jane austen #its a great reference #books #literature #classics #i was reading love on the brain btw #its been... interesting so far #her name being bee königswasser is kinda weird though for me #me being german #UPDATE #there was just a notting hill reference #'im just a girl standing in front of a boy #asking him to love her #just a bit tweeked

[invinciblerodent]

oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am

like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies

okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace

since very early in act 1.

it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)

I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.

and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.

it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.

so. um.

guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.

if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.

you'd be very wrong.

((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))

#squirrel plays bg3 #oc: iona raedir #“astarion isn't the type to do romantic gestures” false #“he does big thoughtful acts of courtship and sweeps the pc off their feet” also false #it is my belief that he isn't the type to do Big Flashy Romantic Things #and is also not the type to be vocal about them #my headcanon is that he'll do the Big Declarations and Theatrical Displays when he's taking the piss in some way #as in he'll joke and play at- and exaggerate courtship when it's all for fun and show and means nothing or very little #but when it's supposed to actually MEAN something; when it's REAL; then the ways he shows love are both small #and done without fanfare or expecting acknowledgement #not even making the slightest effort to keep hands to themselves even in public is fun of course; but the love? #that's in... a pilfered piece of that fruit she likes found randomly in her pack. a swift dagger batting aside a blade meant for her ribs #a small scratch of a pen's tip subtly marking a sweet passage in the book she “borrowed” from him #or in this case; it's something that she found among her things and put on without making a fuss about it #at least not beyond a knowing glance shared; a soft smile exchanged; and her fingers absently fiddling with the stones throughout the day #if she wasn't wearing the guidance-amulet (useful) i'd probably actually equip it on her like i did the silver one for the longest time ngl #because like i said; i'm a sentimental bitch playing make-believe with my little toys

[newvision]

I watched the entire first season of Hannibal in less than 48 hours, I think it’s done irreversible damage to my brain

#i wish someone cared about me the way Hannibal cares about Will (the eating people put aside) #also I get the strong feeling that he’s going to get will to eat a person sooner or later #cannibalism as a metaphor for love is quite visual #cannibalism in real life is very yucky #also when he fucking sniffed Will #what if Hannibal eats him #that’d be a plot twist but I don’t think that’s going to happen #please don’t tell me though I despise spoilers #also I couldn’t help but think the depictions of therapy were so clinical #my therapist is so much more chill lol we have inside jokes and recommended each other books and such #then again she’s not a psychopath obsessed with me and killing slash eating people behind my back #I Hope #Hannibal

[8aji]

im a lil embarrassed that most of the posts ive posted (duh) as of late were text posts abt me being sick LMFAO n it feels silly to write this but i think i may log out of this acc for a lil while at least on mobile <3

#not being able to write is making me feel a lil dizzy dizzy #a lil embarrassed a lil 'i do not belong' ya know??? #hm yeah i also need to get off my phone bc i start uni next week and i need to wake up early and im soooo stressed bc of another uni thingy #so...i will be deactivating 😔👊 #im joking im joking #ofc i wont deactivate i think my shrink would kill me if i did anyway /hj #she was the once that convinced me to make the writing blog #but rn the internet doesnt feel good to me and i need to be more present and more real and prioritise other aspects of my life #i wanna be more stable and journal and move my body and read books bc i like the feeling of the paper and and #i had the sweetest ask ever about my book recs and i was also a lil embarrassed to respond bc im not much of a reader but i try TT #anyway !! aside from this mildly incoherent ramble which i loved writing ngl #i havent been writing a lot and i think ive lowkey un-hyperfixated on tr and jjk so the inspo isnt inspoing #and tbh that feels a lil awful to say bc tr has taught me so many things and helped me grow and im so painfully in love with shin but idk #idk what happened i think i just hit a lil bump in the road of life and the stress has me focused more on real life and other things than #my darling beloveds. and im sure itll pass like most things in life i will feel good again #but rn it doesnt. i havent even caught up with the latest ep of tr :') but nonetheless writing is one of my truest loves as well #so i will comeback hopefully with a few stories mapped out including a lil gojo series and all that fun jazz :D #i have shin naoto izana gojo and toji in store !! and tbh im not ready to just leave them all behind #ANYWAY OKAY this' gone for too long LMFAO but thank u if u read till here i think i needed to rant #that means ill probably be less active than im already am but ill be back !! #still i dont think this exactly qualifies as a hiatus so i wont mark it down as such wait is this a semi-hiatus??? lmfao idk but eh 🤷‍♀️ #i love love love love love yall so so so much and forevever and always will #MWAH #<3

[abyssaldyke]

Only about a third of the way through the luminous dead but I am so so enraptured by the style and the story. However, you mean to tell me Gyre's mother is named Peregrine? Like, it's charming, but you gotta tell me. How's the circle? Is it holding? Tell me things are staying together... wait, who is slouching where? Well OK as long as he's smooth and not, I dunno, slouching toward Bethlehem to be b... goddammit.

#ya girl #the luminous dead #all jokes aside its a brilliant book. i love small scale scifi #especially as a debut. #also caitlin starling your mind let's link up

[sasmeo-bisaster]

@xiranjayzhao i just finished zachary ying and i just want to tell you fuck you/pos

How dare you make me so invested in this book i want to scream cause i need to know more

You are such a good writer it makes me mad

#jokes asides i loved this book so much #you are literally my favorite author #and i was so happy that i got to meet you in bologna even if it was for a very brief autograph #if you come to italy again you can be sure that it would take a lot for me to not be there

[jeanmoreaux]

i wish i could say that i’m finally making my peace with the fact that i’ll probably never own the heartstopper fairyloot editions, but, sadly, i am not.

#if i'd find a lovely soul who'd sell them for a reasonable price i'd marry them. #no but jokes aside i wish resellers weren't so evil. #i'd even pay £150 for a book bc i am stupid like that #but bestie £300 up to £400??!!?? #excuse me what #mish rambles

[demilypyro]

So I've seen a few too many people on twitter talking about The Kiss Scene from the new Scott Pilgrim anime. People saying it's fetishistic and indulgent, people calling it male gazey, etc. And while the kiss itself is certainly a bit exaggerated, I felt like writing a bit about why I disagree, and why context is important, like it always is. But it basically turned into an extended analysis on the metatextual treatment of Roxie Richter. So bear with me. It's a long post.

What really matters about this scene is not the kiss itself, but what precedes it. Not even just the fight scene just before it, but what precedes the whole anime series, really. And that's the Scott Pilgrim comic book, and the live action movie. Because in both, Roxie is a punchline.

She's a joke. Her character starts and ends with "one of the exes is actually a girl, I bet you didn't expect that." Jokes are made about Ramona's latent bisexuality, the movie especially treating it as funny and absurd, and her validity as a romantic interest is entirely written off by Ramona as being "just a phase." There's a fight scene, she's defeated by a man giving her an orgasm which implicitly calls her sexuality into question (come on), and the movie just moves on. It sucks. It really, really sucks.

The comic fares a little better. It never veers into outright homophobia like the movie does, and while the line about Ramona having gone through a phase remains, Roxie actually gets one over on Scott when Ramona briefly gets back with Roxie. But Roxie is still only barely a character. Like all the other evil exes, she's just a stepping stone towards the male protagonist's development. She barely even gets any screentime before she's defeated by Scott's "power of love." But Roxie stands out, since she's the only villain who is queer, or at least had been confirmed queer at that point (hi Todd). In a series that champions multiple gay men in the supporting cast, the single undeniable lesbian in the story is a villain. She's labeled as evil, made fun of, pushed aside in favor of the men, and then discarded. Her screentime was never about her, or her feelings for Ramona. It was about the straight, male protagonist needing to overcome her. And that was Roxie Richter. An unfortunate victim of the 2010s.

Fast forward to current year, and the new anime series is announced. Everybody sits down to watch the new series expecting another retelling of the same story, and.... hang on, that straight male protagonist I mentioned just died in the first episode. And now it's humanizing the villains from the original story. And there's Roxie, introduced alongside the other evil exes in the second episode, and she's being played entirely straight, without a punchline in sight. No jokes are made about her gender, no questions are made of her validity as one of Ramona's romantic interests. The narrative considers her important. In one episode, she already gets more respect than she did in either of the previous iterations of Scott Pilgrim. And this isn't even her focus episode yet... which happens to be the very next one.

The anime series goes to great lengths to flesh out the original story's villains and to have Ramona reconcile with them. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Roxie gets to go first. While Matthew Patel gets his development in episode 2, Roxie is the first to directly confront Ramona, now our main protagonist. This is notable too because it's the only time the exes are encountered out of order. Roxie is supposed to be number 4, but she's first in line, and later on you realize that she's the only one who's out of sequence. She's the one who sets the precedent for the villains being redeemed. She's the most important character for Ramona to reconcile with.

What follows is probably the most extensive, elaborate 1 on 1 fight scene in the whole show. Roxie fights like a wounded animal, her motions are desperate and pained. Ramona can only barely fight back against her onslaught. Different set-pieces fly by at breakneck speed as Roxie relentlessly lays her feelings at Ramona's feet through her attacks and her distraught shouts. And unlike the comic or the movie, Ramona acknowledges them, and sincerely apologizes. And the two end up just laying there, exhausted, reminiscing about when they were together.

Only after this, after all of this, does the kiss scene happen. Roxie has been vindicated, she has reconciled with the person who hurt her, the narrative has deemed that her anger is justified and has redeemed her character. And she gets her victory lap by making the nearest other hot girl question her heterosexuality, sharing a sloppy kiss with her as the music triumphantly crescendos.

It's... a little self-congratulatory, honestly. But it's good. It's redemption for a character who had been mistreated for over a decade. And she punctuates the moment by being very, very gay where everyone can see it, no men anywhere in sight. Because this is her moment. And then she leaves the plot, on her own accord this time, while humming the hampster dance. What a legend. How could anything be wrong with this.

#scott pilgrim #spto #scott pilgrim takes off #roxie richter #roxanne richter #scott pilgrim spoilers #spto spoilers

[battlecriesandroses]

school sucks the life out of you so bad it gets you excited for literally nothing i'm four weeks into school and i'm saying shit to my friends like 'i cannot wait for the class discussion about last night's chapter' jaye look at me where did my little man who got excited for stuff go

#all jokes aside i really do genuinely love class readings especially on the book we're reading rn #i thought i was stupid for not being great at reading comprehension all the time #but then i remembered i'm a literally high schooler who is still learning and shit hooray #jaye's originals ig

[exclaims]

this was MY heartstopper s2 btw

#the book shop scene in paris btwn nick & charlie #i literally screamed TINNGUN?!?!? at my screen #sorry.. msp withdrawal is real & scary #all jokes aside heartstopper s2 was very good i loved it #emily speaks