#love her or lose her

[novelbeetle]

Books I‘ve read in July 2022

Another late round up of the books i‘ve read in July 2022

A good girl‘s guide to murder: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

- THIS WAS FANTASTIC!! I had no clue what to expect from this book, also I had no clue what was going to happen.

- Pip investigates an old case from her town. She digs deep into the past and the lives of her family and her friends family.

- while reading it I really wanted to solve the mystery myself and i got the impression that i could solve it. The clues were all there.

- the end really did suprise me. I started the book and couldn‘t out it down. The plot was great.

Boyfriend Material: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

- Fake dating? Yes. Two different main characters? Yes. Third act breakup? Sadly yes.

- it was good but it did bore me from time to time.

- there is a second book Husband Material but i won‘t be reading it. It just doesn‘t intrigue me that much sadly.

Mr. Wrong Number: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

- was it enjoyable? Yes it was. But sometimes the characters annoyed me with their antics.

- i mean the fmc pretended to have kids so she could write for a magazine. And ehen she got fired for lying she was suprised? Like come on! That annoyed me so much.

- if you want a short romance book with a quite fun premis then this is a good read for you.

Love her or Lose her: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

- this is a second chance book and i fell in love with the characters right away.

- Rosie and Dominic‘s marriage is on the brink of ending. Both decide to give them one last chance by going to Therapy. Their therapist is such a fun character.

- this book did make me cry in the end because it was such a good ending.

- Tessa Bailey is one of my favourite romance author. Her characters are so well written and the stories have many layers and i love them. Also they are easy reads which i appreciate so much.

Fix her up: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

- this is one of my favourites. I can identify with Georgie.

- Travis and Georgie‘s love story is basic but i still enjoyed it so much. They have amazing banter and i laughed a lot while reading it.

- this is the first book in the Hot and Hammered series but i read it last. It doesn‘t really matter if you don‘t care for spoilers. Like in Bethanys book (number 3 in the series) Georgie and Teavis get married but it didn‘t matter to me. I still enjoyed the book cery much.

Twisted Love: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

- so… i have never read a dark romance. No clue if i would like it but suprisingly i did enjoy it.

- Alex Volkov is a morally gray character. And when I say morally gray i actually mean morally black. This dude has a lot of issues and is kind of a villian. Weirdly i did enjoy it.

- The whole twist with the kidnapping etc. did suprise me. I figured out who killed Alex family before it was revealed but what happened at that house i really did not see that coming.

- Men who grovel when they fuck up big time is something i enjoy. But him kind of stalking her for a year is still kind of weird and did put me off a bit.

- the end set up Twsited Games very nicely.

#romance spicy books #romcom books #spicy books #romance books #books and reading #bookshelf #a good girls guide to murder #boyfriend material #twisted love #ana huang #mr. wrong number #love her or lose her #fix her up #tessa bailey

[melodysbookhaven]

“There is relaxation and acceptance in laughter. It’s the anti-resentment drug.”

Tessa Bailey, Love Her or Lose Her

#tessa bailey #love her or lose her #book quotes #bookblr #bookish #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

#farcille #falin touden #marcille donato #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #coming face to face with the consequences of acting out of love - marcille u will always be famous #dunmeshi is really a series that keeps on moving bc it's about so many different characters and centered on the journey #rather than like... introspectively on one singular individual so i dont think we see marcille dwell on it but we can see her fatigue #her shock and surprise in the recent ep “don't hurt her she's just confused” Gah. desperately trying to grasp everything thats going on and #not to lose hope. bc undoubtedly the remains she put together was falin's - that short moment of reprieve the party had was with falin #she was able to bring her back her magic did it!! but the violence the fatal swings was not falin at all. #just pondering about holding that guilt... it's such a huge responsibility to be in charge of life in the first place and yet it is #a burden she'll keep trudging with. defying the natural orders to keep the people she love alive... i Lauv her... #also shared sentiment with the rest of the fandom but God. Chimera Falin... she is Everything.... #ruporas art

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[chloesimaginationthings]

That's the wrong FNAF Mike, Vanny

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #michael afton #mike schmidt #fnaf vanessa #fnaf vanny #security breach #sister location #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #based off that ancient tumblr post by jacicfrost if yknow yknow #Vanny stabbed the wrong guy oops #luckily Michael is a corpse so this doesn’t affect him #the two game fnaf pals are funny both are just built so different #gotta love a girl losing her mind #gotta love a fail girl #Mike is somewhere sleeping peacefully not knowing he could of been stabbed

[bigfatbreak]

"what's the biggest difference in Tom's character in the dad villain au" you've never seen a papa-bear go so grizzy mode so fast

#my art #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #tom dupain cheng #lê chiến kim #dad villain au #also the final straw for marinette was that the day kim pulled that shitass prank on her #that gave her like. love trauma in the show #was around the same time sabine passed out for the last time and never woke up again #so marinette realized that she was publicly humiliated #by chloe via kim as a proxy for the 'prank' #was going to lose her best friend who was moving #and was going to lose her mom #basically all in the same day

[frogs-in3-hills]

hi does anyone else think about april throwing herself over leo to shield him in the shredder strikes back despite having no weapons no way to defend herself and probably assuming she was going to die. does anyone think about that all the time. every day. uncontrollably

[ID: Digital fanart of Ninja Turtles 2003 depicting a scene from The Shredder Strikes Back part 2. April kneels over an injured Leo, cradling his head and looking back over her shoulder to snarl viciously at the camera, though there is obvious fear in her eyes. Her hair has partially fallen out of her bun, the loose strands sticking to her face with sweat. She has a cut on her cheek. Only a portion of Leo’s face can be seen from behind her shoulder. He looks up at her with a sad, pained expression. He has a swollen, bloody shiner on his cheek in addition to other cuts and bruises on the rest of his body. They are on the wooden floor of a dark attic. End ID.]

#she’s so protective of her fambly man….. i think she should have gotten to call that wasp a bitch in ‘‘april’s artifact’’ #anyway. #you ever think about how in almost every version befriending the turtles leads to april having these huge moments of loss #losing her shop her job her home her father her LIFE and yet she accepts it all bc she jsut decided to fucking love them more than anything #take my hand. do you think about it…… #tmnt #tmnt 03 #tmnt 2k3 #tmnt 2003 #april o'neil #leonardo tmnt #silly sully art #described #cw blood #she rlly asked is anyone going to adopt these weird turtle children and then didn’t wait for an answer

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track) #The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more. #I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by #and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles! #Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise! #I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space. #It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is #You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together: #I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper. #I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything. #You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there. #Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite. #day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less: #'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all) #This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly. #(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)

[zombie-bait]

happiest girl in the whole entire world

thinking about my favourite kind-hearted eldritch horror trapped in the body of my favourite traumatized goth girl

(+ purple variant)

#nona the ninth spoilers #nona the ninth #the locked tomb fanart #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt spoilers #tlt #alecto the first #nona tlt #nona the ninth fanart #Vague Pyrrha & Paul in the bg #I miss reading those books man #Fanart #digital art #Recommending them to literally everyone I meet #Cuz man tlt did a number on my brain #On Harrow’s brain too lmao #I love making Harrow look inconsistent in every piece of fanart I do #My excuse is that its a book and her face on the cover of HtN and NtN is very small ok #One day I’ll settle on a design I like #That day is not today (two weeks left of my semester and I’m losing it)

[boylikeanangel]

rewatching that scene where joel talks to tommy before I go to bed cuz goddamn pedro needs an emmy and yknow the bit that gets me. where he says "I just know when I wake up, I've lost something. I'm failing in my sleep. it's all I ever do, all I've ever done, is fail her again and again" because. he doesn't specify. it's not made explicit. whether "her" is sarah. or ellie. and at this point. it's probably both

#this is the point where ellie and sarah converge in his head #hes realised just how much she means to him. how much he loves her #and its tearing him apart because he knows what losing her will do to him and he knows he cant protect her #his assumption that hes going to lose her. becuase hes lost his little girl before. and ellie is just the same #ELLIE IS THE SAME. SHES SARAH. IN HIS MIND SHES SARAH. IN EVERY WAY #the last of us #tlou #tlou spoilers

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

#911 abc #911edit #chimney han #911 gifs #madney #kevin lee #maddie buckley #glmdedit #jee yun buckley han #albert han #henrietta wilson #karen wilson #john lee #anne lee #eddie diaz #evan buckley #ravi panikkar #bobby nash #look i hope people are as emotionally damaged by this as i was making it #we only had kevin for like 25 mins but i've never gotten over him #this guy has every reason to be a horrible miserable character but no #no he's the coolest cheeriest funniest caring man alive #sick dead mom at a young age and abandoned by an absent father and taking care of sick after her diagnosis #ideas constantly shut down for owning a business and losing his brother on the job #and also sorta losing mr lee who couldn't bear to see him without being reminded of kevin bc they were so intertwined #failing in love and getting stabbed and left for dead #oh and the rebar accident where he almost died again #losing the love of his life and then finding her but not being together with her

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

this burst into my head and i Cackled Hysterically for about five minutes gay

the og meme:

#its not that funny but at the time i was losing it so i get a free pass here #might do this again but w my idiots. it fits them so well... #Murder Is Okay!!!!! and Your Feelings Matter!!! #i love this quartet theyre chaotic... even poppy in her own special way!!! #scribble salad #wh lights out au

[kurz-qw]

THIS GAME makes you LIKE WOMEN!

#SIGNALIS #im losing it . i dont know how to draw anyone but elster yet #i REALY wanna draw falke i love her shes cute #or eule or storch .. #baaically every npc ive come across so far (like 4) i would run away with and marry its insane #AND IM A GAY MAN #THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

[wyrmwright]

the love you can't even name

#d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #cassandra #ankarna #fhjy spoilers #im losing my mind over these two... #day and night conviction and doubt #deific yuri tragedy #losing someone and not even being able to speak their name back #the idea that it was cassandra's anger and feelings of unfairness of being in the precarious position she was in is what brought her back #that ankarna was still with her because even the gods cant scrub her name off of cassandras heart #the shards interacting with each other.... #this too is yuri #butch ankarna because of course #i love women

[stbot]

♡judgmental girlfriends♡ 

#jade claymore #kit tanthalos #tanthamore #willow 2022 #willow #willow disney+ #losing my absolute mind??? #like kit is louder about it but jade is right there with her #so many little moments of them just being totally in sync i love them your honor #bc kit is a mean lesbian and jade is a supportive girlfriend!! #support kit's rights but more importantly her wrongs!! #the lesbians are judging you #i think i need a gif tag #this is mostly just a joke

[blessyouhawkeye]

she's my hero. pinkpantheress is doing so much for hag kpop stan representation

#if that leaked song of hers that samples f(x) is on her new album i'll genuinely lose my mind #a western celebrity being a meuwol???? in 2023??? actually insane love you girlie #pinkpantheress #f(x) #shinee #exo #red velvet