#looks good on the shelf

[junipum]

the boy is HOMEEEE ignore old plushies my bookshelf is a mess rn. why does he look so sad

#can you tell i kept my books from middle school because i havent bought new ones in years #books look so good on a shelf until you see dork diaries and classic lit from school . #speaking of i HATE lotf and love a separate peace dearly #i wrote a 1k word essay on why they were gay as fuck but also had awful internalized homophobia in 8th grade #and got 100% so my teacher agreed ! #house md #gregory house #hate crimes md #james wilson #hilson #they're on a date btw #shitpost

[foursaints]

it saddens me that hp is a text instead of an audiovisual medium because Barty Crouch Jr's Disgusting Sweaty Open-Mouthed Pervert Panting™️ is so so important to me

#him when evan looks like a particularly manhandleable little ephebe. him when evan gives him a black eye. #him when evan can't reach the top shelf & doesn't know what normal sex is. him when evan calls himself “doctor” and presses on his bruises #him when anyone wears those little lacy white socks with the frilly tops. him when evan has bandaids on his knees. him when milfs exist #t #him when someone tries to introduce him to james's mom. him when he's getting a tattoo. him when his partner gets embarrassed in public #him when a waiter calls him “sir”. him when the dentist politely orders him to “sit down“. him when his boss says ”good job“.

[aduckwithears]

Jim's fair isle sweater vest/jumper... especially the bit right by the neckline that looks like an hourglass.

Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (19/?) - Masterpost

Detail:

*Edited edit: I found the knitter! See the reblog!

#look i have further thoughts about that sweater #like is it hand knit? #should i make a pattern for it? #you know #normal thoughts #i really want to know if it was bespoke or off the shelf #i really hope the former #good omens s2 #good omens costumes #good omens costume design #i'll probably write a whole meta around this jumper one of these days #fiber arts #knitting #little things #jimbriel #jim good omens #gabriel good omens #a duck talks #good omens

[fleshdyke]

here's the video of how parrots eat spaghetti for everyone who was curious last time

#he got some extra pasta today bc he was being really good during a training session #usually we dont give them this much pasta but he earned it today #please ignore me and my coworker's voices lol #his cage looks a lot smaller than it is here. its pretty big lol #and there is stuff in it i promise. theres just not a whole lot of stuff in the way bc he loves to fly around his cage #also can you see the wall in the bg that he just chews on all day every day. we like never have to trim his beak bc of that 💀 #usually he'll have a wooden shelf or something like that in there to chew on instead of the wall but he just tore his last one to shreds and #his next one is still being made. and yk sometimes you simply cannot stop them #rambles #birds #parrots #cockatoo #birdblr #birblr #parrotblr

[bonefall]

I do feel bad for Owen. Clearly this is NOT his forte. #freeowen

I'm guessing Owen has some kind of contract to do all the covers for the "Erin Hunter" books, since he also seems to do the art for Bravelands and Survivors. Which baffles me.

When you look at his portfolio, it seems clear that animals are NOT his strong suit. He mostly designs them as monsters or setpieces, not as characters in their own right. His humans, objects, and backgrounds are excellent, while his animals are quite generic-- So why did they choose this artist to design for their xenofiction series?

The art he does for Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl is not as jilted and uninspired as his work for any of the Erin Hunter series. He does have a thing for harsh lighting (too harsh for my taste) but the composition is fine and the characters are recognizable. Certainly not "someone tried to unlock your phone" tier. It's strange.

It strikes me like he's not "comfortable" enough with animals to experiment with them, heavily referencing zoomed-in photos and leaving it there. Note how his cats are almost never doing anything, just sitting or standing around looking confused.

Has he ever even drawn a battle cat... battling?

I don't really feel "bad" for him, OR "mad" at him, because we have no idea what's happening behind the scenes, but I WILL say that I feel he is an absolutely awful match for WC. I don't understand what about his portfolio made him look like a good replacement for Wayne McLoughlin, besides some executive recognizing his style from somewhere else.

I hope he is compensated well for his work, but I don't buy hardcovers because of his art and am holding out hope that someone else takes over someday.

#Im not being mean about that last part btw i really hope that comes across #I am hoping it comes across as 'product review' and not bashing #Because I'm dead serious that his art is a major reason I never buy the books in good condition #I always get them secondhand or digital #I own the *dotc* books because of Wayne's art. The arc I notoriously hate to oblivion #But I dislike how Owen's covers *look* on my shelf. #Bone babble #Man it's unfortunate that James Barry has departed the series but Owen remains #As much as I adore the new comic direction btw!!!! God I love the upcoming art im buying it on release day

[randomducksinatrenchcoat]

Michael: aka Heaven's Elf on a Shelf

@michaelwiththegoodhair

@shynrinn

@fishyfiles

@neil-gaiman

#elf on a shelf #good omens #doon mackichan #michael good omens #look alike

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

Mutuals!!! Beasties!!!

We went to an antique mall today for my birthday and look at what I found!!

The whole top floor was full of vintage toys and dolls/Barbie’s, I wanted to buy everything 😭

#monster high #the tall ghoul on the counter wasn’t for sale I wanted her so bad 😭 #the one in box on the shelf was for sale but she was 250 bucks #I’m definitely going back there when I get paid they can take all my money #they also had an oddity room where I also wanted to buy everything 😭 #10/10 today was a good day #the lady who worked this part of the store is also autistic/has adhd #and she said one of her hyperfixations is Barbie and dolls #I swear this woman info dumped about dolls to this girl who was looking for 80s Barbie’s #for a good 30 minutes #I wanted to talk with her so bad I’ve never seen someone else info dump about dolls before I want to be her best friend 😭 #we’re going back there some time this week so maybe I’ll get to talk to her next time we go #if you live in Virginia this place is in VA beach!

[sonknuxadow]

did some minor customization to one of my neutral chao figures so cream could have cheese with her if anyone cares

#sorry the lighting in this picture is not very good its the middle of the night so i cant just use my window for good lighting #anyway. to be honest with how small cream is compared to the average sonic figure despite being the same price as all the others #they should have had her come with cheese as her accessory to make up for it #but then again a chao costs the same amount as mini figures of other characters so they would probably never consider that #also im once again trying to rearrange my sonic shelf. things are looking slightly less chaotic but im still not satisfied #so will probably mess with it some more #my main issue i have is i can never decide How exactly i want to arrange things #like do i wanna arrange them based on what kind of item it is. what character it is. the specific media its based on. #idk . i have so much stuff that i never know how to arrange it all #little guy images

[black-and-yellow]

in love

#i'm still trying to find a good spot for him #i ended up reorganising my shelves at 1am #i love organising shelves #so my mha shelf has been displaced and is now just a shelf for nice things #the manga is on one of my bookshelves #and Aizawa and Mic are currently on my desk #and Aizawa looks good cause he's high up so he looks over things #but I don't have a good space for Mic where he isn't in the way #so I'm going to have to keep fiddling around with it #near my punk Garfield figurine I expect #i ended up having to put my doctor who books on a different shelf #next to my porcelain shire horse #so now I have a very blue corner #i love my shelves so much #i have 12 of them in my bedroom alone #I don't think there's a greater peace than finally having an organised shelf #i don't know why i would do a shelf tour #but if i ever did #you'd be so jealous #anyway #yeah Mic is perfect #i wish his glasses were a bit more transparent though #so i could see his eyes without having to tip him up #and his hair is perfect and flowy #the stand on his leg is a bit ugly though #i've already dropped him once and caught him with my leg #and he survived so #pretty sturdy #call that a mic drop #mha

[saturnsorbits]

Okay, so I know we all hate him, but Mahito is a legitimately brilliant villain...

#He's what happens when the trope of 'Villain just wanting to watch the world burn' is done right. #He's the embodiment of 'Fuck around and find out'. #Does he do morally incomprehensible things? Yes. Is that what makes him such a good bad guy? Also yes. #There's no arguing either... #90% of the fan base can't stand him and if that isn't proof of him being brilliantly written as a villain idk what is. #I think what I like the most about it is that there's no attempt to humanise or moralise him - at all. #He's bad. #Full stop. #And instead of making this reduce his character to one dimension; he's jam packed full of personality instead. #He's fun and carefree and silly - trying to figure out what else he can fuck up in the world. #He still has motivations and wants... Fuck; he even learns fear when he makes the mistake of touching Sakuna. #(This fear is also then his ultimate downfall as we realise it's his most defining trait...) #Also he's super fucking fun to watch in fights; lets be honest. #And his technique is cool as fuck. #Is this me coming out to say I'm kind of down for a bit of Mahito? #- Everyone look away - #Yes. Yes it is. #Is he a horrific; gross little gremlin man that deserves the worst and is probably responsible for killing your fave? #Yes. #Do I want to squish him into a little bottle and keep him on a shelf so I can shake him when I'm annoyed - #and let him out from time to time to have a little fun with? #Also; regrettably; yes.

[ultrabananapudding]

MY JALIM PHOTOCARDS ARRIVED TODAY RAAAAHH 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

The credit for these lovely art pieces goes to @moskafleurart ❤️ I bought these mini prints from their Redbubble store 🌻

Now I have a dedicated Jalim wall to look up to whenever I'm in need of some motivation 🫡

#I chose to go with gift cards as their size and thickness worked perfectly for me #They look so good on my lil Anime shelf!!!! #Great quality too #Super happy and looking forward to buy any other Jalim art I may come across in the future 🙏 #Hurray for my fav artist ❤️ #house of ashes #dark pictures anthology #dark pictures house of ashes #jalim #jason kolchek #salim othman #hoa #captains log #me #personal #redbubble #artist #artist support

[starswallowingsea]

another post inspired by the bad books book club but it's kind of concerning how a lot of popular YA books these days feature a huge power imbalance and don't like. make it clear that it's unethical and because these are popular with teenage girls it makes me concerned that they're internalizing these messages.

like the love hypothesis for example, which i have actually read and hated so fucking much, the main romance is between a phd candidate and one of the professors at her grad school. while they make it clear that he's not her advisor and can't be on her doctoral advising committee or whatever, he's in the same department first off and can still hold power over olive and in real life that could very very quickly turn sour because of the power imbalance. he very much still has power over her in ways she might not realize yet.

and then you look at......... well everything coho. like in verity the main character is sleeping with her agent which is UNETHICAL and could very very easily lead to a lot of business problems!!!! like you cant fucking do that and there's a reason why its looked down upon for agents to be romantically/sexually involved with clients. because the agent has power over the client. and while i think a fully grown 30 something adult can tell when something is just fantasy, younger adults are much much more impressionable to this kind of stuff. i'm saying this as 22yo college undergrad and i'm not immune to this either, but i'm aware of when i need to step back and ask myself what a text is saying and what it wants me to think because i've cultivated those skills. fresh 18yos who are still in high school and have had most of their high school career online or completely fucked with because of covid might not.

you can have books aimed at young adults that don't involve this type of harmful messaging romanticizing the power imbalance between characters. i see the way people talk about colleen hoover romantic leads and relationships and it's so worrying because nothing in any coho book is romantic and the romantic leads in all these books are like the brooding bad boy stereotype dialed up to abusive and people find it hot and attractive when it should be a massive red flag instead. young adults deserve better books.

#shay speaks #bookblr #anti booktok #anti coho #anti colleen hoover #anti the love hypothesis #this is v much a publishing problem letting these books be published in the first place #but also the people who popularize specific interpretations of characters to make like. abuse look okay bc the abuser is hot #they have a responsibility for this too #i am begging on my hands and knees for booktok girlies to branch out into other genres #i will compile a list of every book i have on my shelf in my apartment to give you ideas if thats what it takes #its okay to branch out its okay to read other genres #read books you know you wont like so you can find what you do like about them and look for that #in genres you do like!!!!! #read clockwork heart idc (that book was good though actually i stand by that) #you deserve better. #dont settle for mediocre

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

#kaily and i shared a membership account for several years but she cancelled it over the summer #bc of them raising it from 25 dollars per year to 40. i'm sorry but we just were not spending enough to make that worth it #the benefits for a member used to be 10 percent off everything in-store and free shipping online. #now it's 10 percent off everything in-store AND online with free shipping. which sounds good enough #but not for a 60 percent pricehike. and a bunch of other supposed benefits no one would ask for #like a free tote (geez. thanks. yeah i really need a free tote every year) and like. a free treat at a cafe on your kids' birthday? #i dont have a kid. #between the two of us. we were not buying 400 dollars worth of stuff at b&n every year #oh and it's also 10 percent off the in-store starbucks. but im pretty sure that USED to be a benefit they had #years ago?? like i SWEAR ive gotten money off at the b&n starbucks so i guess they got RID of that at some point #and gave it BACK when they HIKED UP THE PRICE TO 40 BUCKS A YEAR #text post #barnes and noble #it's a shame bc where i live. barnes and noble is the only like fancy bookstore #and i live in an area that my barnes and noble... is like. what a boston barnes and noble eats for breakfast. #it's two floors. there are plenty of books that it doesn't have. plenty of sections that are very small #like the poetry section is just pathetic. i look at it every time i go and it just makes me sad. #i guess a lot of the book annex stuff contains poetry but still that's not really enough to entertain a rich interest in the genre for long #i outgrew the limited selection at my own local b&n poetry section by the time i was twenty. i was like i already know everything here. #which isn't to say i'm an expert in poetry. it's to say that the poetry section is barely bigger than a shelf #in fact ive never thought about it before but I OWN more poetry books than you'll find in the poetry section #at my local b&n. lol #i have a lot of nostalgia for b&n even though it is a big company that does not love me. i have very few books i bought new #that are not from barnes and noble. i got so many books that changed my life from them #i guess it's like a childhood/teenage attachment at this point bc ive had more mixed feelings abt the direction theyve been taking #for several years at this point. #and no i dont mean that theyve been expanding to selling more toys/games etc. theyve literally always done that in my lifetime. who cares. #they still have books #as an adult ive been more capable of seeing how limited their book selection is and how i have so many problems w that. #and it ultimately comes down to them being a big greedy company

[babykittenteach]

2023 in review! I made an effort to try more things and it worked mostly (at least for TV and movies). New things, new-to-me things, and new installments of old things all had characters to love even if I didn't necessarily feel fannish about them, and I'm hoping 2024 does, too.

#but yeah no I had a lot of fun with some of these #mp100 is now fully going down as one of my favorite works of art ever. i mean it. i'd stick it on a shelf with discworld. #trying Nida Manzoor's work was SO GOOD like if edgar wright knew how to make girls lovable I meant to only try one episode of WALP #and then I marathonned it all in one night right into the sunrise and I do not regret it #(look I love edgar wright but) #i had my issues with GO2 and Fionna & Cake and HxH (which I finally tried yes I am late) but still they had babies in them #one piece and the last of us did like major progress for proving those mediums *could* be adapted and not suck so seriously kudos #I didn't go into Barbie expecting it to Solve Capitalism and The Patriarchy so I appreciate what it did do #Nimona was just gorgeous #Across the spider-verse is so good it's hard to say anything about it #Peacemaker is obnoxiously good and Chris's breakdown near the end really got me #Bottoms & Marry My Dead Body & Ying-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity are just fun okay don't think about it #the strange planet show was sweet and peaceful to watch #and even with a 40% budget cut OFMD has my heart and ed is The babygirl of all time for me #thanks for reading these tags if you did and I hope you have a good new year #art i'm proud of

[soldier-poet-king]

hello!! no pressure to answer this but i was wondering do you have any recommendations for books, specifically books that made you feel things very deeply? i know that's vague and weird but like i also love the goblin emperor/baru cormorant/similar books as you and i was wondering if you had any faves you'd like to share :) i am looking for a book that will put me in agony in a good way lol

HELLO FRIEND

okay so I am a Big Emotional Dummy so everything makes me feel very deeply, whether or not it's actually any good. So I'll try to keep it to recs that I felt alot while reading, after reading, and I think are actually good.

Also idk if you want specific genres or sticking to fiction, so I'm just gonna throw a whole whack of things at you, hope that's ok!!! I'll also try to avoid super popular recs (like trc or ursula k le guin) not because i love them less, just because you've probably already heard of them?

Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard - probably my current fave book and protag, read it twice in less than a year despite it being like 1200 pages, if i loved it less i could talk about it more, and without crying. maybe it's niche and imperfect, but to ME? book of all time

The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner - fave book series for more than a decade, makes me experience shrimp emotions that nothing else will ever be able to replicate

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - how did a portal fantasy meets psychological horror become actually the most existentially comforting book in the world

Tuyo - Rachel Neumeier - technically a series, with 3 main novels and other novels and novellas about other characters (which i enjoyed less but still), but def start with tuyo. I fully went in expecting to not like it At All and was blown away???? I wept. I still weep. I can't explain why I love it without spoilers but it's technically a fantasy war story and yet is almost entirely character driven

Wind, Sand, and Stars - Antione de Saint-Exupery -reading this rn and technically it's billed as a memoir and adventure novel but actually its an existential meditation on the nature of human interaction and the soul and definitely comes from the same core as The Little Prince

If you HAVENT read the cemeteries of amalo/thara celehar spinoff of the goblin emperor PLEASE do, in many ways i love them even more than tge bc thara is up there with kip mdang in terms of characters i cant talk about without crying because it's too personal

The Sparrow Duology - Mary Doria Russell - PLEASE check the trigger warnings, unlike most of the recs on this list, this falls way more to the side of Baru in terms of dark content, but also it's maybe the closest I've ever come to being at peace

I'm definitely missing things, but these are all the books that have made me want to chew drywall in the last 2 years. I've also linked my goodreads here with the caveat that my ratings skew high because i am very much a 'i didnt say it was good, i said i enjoyed it/was entertained' type person. also i have read a lot of trash YA. oops. like yes some of it is real bad but also some of it makes me Feel Some Things even (or especially??) when it's real bad.

Friends pls chime in with your recs, and also please rec things to me!! Am seeking new and interesting emotions previously unknown to humankind.

#recs open to everyone EXCEPT rae who is spiders georg and recs me books every week #AND I CAN NEVER CATCH UP DFJHASKDL #i mean rae i love u and ur recs are so good but GIRL IM SLOW #anyway. 3 of the books on this list are rae recs so. yknow. shrimp emotions #fran reads #looking at my faves shelf on gr and like #ohhhh there is some cringe there except cringe is dead i killed it #yes terribly plotted dumb ya book is there bc it UNDERSTOOD MY EMOTIONAL ANGUISH AGED 18 #and made me want to live #so there ya go #i am inventing all new emotions everyday babeyyyy

[deadpoetsmusings]

once again trying to take a good shelf photo (and failing)

#no you don't understand #my main shelf IS pretty #(the other one is too but i cannot make them look good in photos for the life of me) #(but i will keep taking photos anyway!!!!) #my posts #lately #shelves #bookshelf #book shelves #books #bookblr #booklr #read #reading #bookworm #book photos #book photography #litblr #light acadamia aesthetic