#mars reads the novel

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #i'm starting the planet of the ood target novel!! #so i thought i should gif something from the episode :D #i also got the waters of mars one as well and i'm very excited to read that one

[add1ctedt0you]

"He hadn't even been to Jiang Fengmian's liking"

"Since birth, he taught him in many ways, yet he still couldn't change, which was why Jiang Fengmian had always seemed as though he didn't favor him too much"

jiang fengmian' parenting book, chapter 1: if you don't like your son, ignore him! Nothing bad is going to happen!

#Idk if it's a translation thing #But. jfm seems such a dick #He should have filled the paper and try to get another kid exchanging jc. Oh wait. Isn't what he kinda did in canon? #mar reading mdzs #jfm with baby jc between his arms: can we take this back inside you? I don't like him very much #Still thinking about that post were wad stated that jfm's parenting is the best parenting in the novel

[hueningkoi]

Alan Grant talks about dinosaurs like a tumblr user talks about their blorbos

#mars re-reads jurassic park #jurassic park #jurassic park novel #alan grant

[zensations35]

how do you think specific marvel characters (specifically tony stark) would sneeze? like manner of sneezing and pre and post sneeze, etc etc -

or like how would they handle a cold or allergies?

any snzcanons really :)

GODS I LOVE MARVEL ASKS (*/ω＼*)

Ok, so, I showed this off a big in my fic Viral Paradox but I'll hash it out here too!

Tony:

EH FUCK IT. Unrestrained. "Idgaf who sees me sneeze" mindset (except maybe under certain circumstances?)

He might hold back when he's hiding illness, but honestly he probably doesn't do that much, as we see him going back and forth on screen hiding and being openly fucked up on screen. He's got issues and I think it's very situational how he'd handle sneeze or illness.

Definitely a wet sneezer tho 🤭And he'd 100% indulge our kink.

Bruce:

Kittenish. Ironic. And it makes everyone snort with restrained laughter. He gets embarrassed but has a (witty?) remark for anyone who has a snipe about it (usually Tony).

"You don't want to see me when I hulk sneeze."

Tony: "That's super gross, dude."

Bruce: *glare*

Natasha:

*sneezes*

Everyone stares in shock.

Nat: *glowers*

Suddenly everyone's phones all become so interesting.

Nat absolutely stifles. I'll talk about other stiflers, but there are two Main Stiflers on the list, and it's Natasha and Loki (I'll cover him later). These two are the ones who have that 'get it on lockdown dammit!' mindset where they can't bee seen as weak (very similar trauma and backgrounds of people who make them feel weak unless certain criteria are met). Viewing illness or sneezing in general weakness is TRACK for Nat.

Also she basically RUNS the Avenger household and while Tony thinks he could do it fine, Nat knows (and Bruce knows it to lol) that things would hit shit very quickly if Nat left it in his hands, so she just Needs to take a bunch of Dayquil and muscle through ok? It'll be fiiiiine.

(Bonus, she does have a backup plan just in case and it involves putting Pepper briefly in charge of Big Brain stuff --with everyone except Tony making superhero decisions 🤣)

Side Note: Y'all, I give Tony a lot of shit, but just know he's a top tier character for me. I know he's smart and capable. His character development is fucking PEAK. I absolutely would die for him. I just love picking on early Tony.

Cap:

Used to be very sickly; asthma, allergies, the works. He's constantly expecting things to set him off. Probably still has an inhaler (just in case!) But super serum means not much makes with the sniffles. The Avenger fam, however, doesn't know anything other than "Cap is super resilient haha!"

So, when he actually does sneeze, they all freak out OMG OMG IT'S A SUPERBUG™ !! All except Bucky, who i just...reading the paper all chill.

"Relax, yall. Steve's just..." and then he shares a look with Cap and a silent convo... 'are you alright?'

Bruce does bloodwork anyway.

Cap Part 2:

I also like this hc where Cap has been under the ice for so long Steve is photic?? Even though it's not canon I Desire it. Maybe to keep it 'consistent' (i mean, do I really NEED a reason but hufhufhu~) it could be early days only.

Lots of teary eyed squinting and hitching in bright lights, especially while he's being evaluated during the early days of ice recovery. Doctors were annoyed, having to pause their work for random sneezing.

As for snz sound, I image there's a P in there somewhere. Y'all know I like my Z's, but for Cap I think more of a "psh!" or something in that vein.

Thor:

Uhhh God of Thunder. Need I say more? SURE? A pic is worth a thousand words. And this commission says it all, really.

Loud. Booming really. A THUNDER GOD SNZ ECHOS and he's...proud of it. Ahahaha...oh he'll apologize. But yeah. He's fucking proud.

-> This guy can not do the sneeze while hiding scenario. Not...um...unless it ends with getting caught. And...zapped. Which, well, I am prone to writing. Sooooo~

Here's where I'm open to interpretation with Thor. I lean more torward him being a WHINLY LIL SHIT when he's sick, because (I read a few of the Loki/Thor Marvel canon novels because I'm a huge gd nerd) and as younguns it just REFLECTS the whole 'golden child' treatment and 'Thor ate that spaghetti so welll! Good job Thor!!' So I want to say...(and we do see this in the movies, especially early on) he expects special treatment. So, getting sick? *nods sagely*

Thor laying bonelessly across the bed: "You have to take care of me. Bring me <insert special food and drink specifically from Asgard>."

Random Avenger: "....you know I can't actually go there, right?"

Loki:

Magic ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Magic ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･fuckinggg Magic chaos sneezes bitches!! Break shit! Stop time! Shit flying around space! Opportunities are endless, really.

And Mr. 'Pardon Me' and 'My Deepest Apologies' definitely has a handkerchief thanks and it's not gross because he can clean it with said ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･MAGIC⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ so.

Our Dapper Asshole stifles because sneezing is weak and how !dare! a sneeze think about making him look weak--and if he has to he will discard it as quickly as possible.

So, as with Nat above, there's the trauma of being seen as weak from younger years in Asgard. I really wish we'd had a Loki prequel or something in the Marvel movies (there's still time Marvel!! *cough!!*) But in the official Loki novels, you can see it.

I would go into detail about this but when I tried to explain it I LITERALLY TYPED FIVE PARAGRAPHS MORE OF SHIT yall 🫣If you ever think I'm making up backstory for Thor or Loki, nahhh I farm my info organically, grass fed. Just trust me. He has major Misfit Syndrome (and as a fellow Misfit Child with a Golden sibling, I think I get their dialogue down better than most of my other writing tbh)

Ok, ahem, back to snz (sorry...) And of course when Loki gets sick his sneezes become less restrained and UnForTunaTelY he just can't stifle woe is him poor baby 👿

Maria:

Soft but firm snz.

I had a paintball partner once whose nose got itchy when he got stressed. I hc that for Maria. She's in a situation where she needs her gun out, and it never fails--her nose flares up.

Scrunching it, she dips into a grated, sometimes growled, half-stifle. Something quick. Eyes closed for the least amount of time possible. Efficiency is important.

Clint:

I know him the least unfortunately. He's not a fave (don't judge me 😭) I'm still wrecked that he was chosen over Nat, my darling momma who WAS RUNNING EVERYTHING AND NO WONDER EVERYTHING IS ABSOLUTE CHAOS RIGHT NOW WHAT DID I JUST SAY EARLIER (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

*straightens bowtie* Aaaanyway. I think Clint would get sick and hole up. Avoid people like a recluse. He'd have a messy sneeze and a tissue pile and just STOP cleaning up after himself.

"I'll get to that later. Fuck it." And when he feels better, finally, there are just takeout boxes, microwave dinners, and tissues piled up in a raccoon trash nest around the couch and he's like "...I deserve this."

#oh man this ran LONG #I'm sorry it took me so long to do this BUT I had SO MUCH to say #I couldn't leave it at just snz sounds I had to FUCKING RANT??? #I'm sorry but only a little hahah #I also went off on my spouse and I'll post that too because it's hilarious #I LOVE YOU MARVEL ANONS <3 <3 PLS SMASH MY INBOX ANY DAY #and if you're a bookworm READ THOSE BOOKS there's like 8 or 12 full length novels and some are audiobooks and fskjgoaih they just slap #snz #snz hc #Mar/vel #Mar/vel hc #ask #zen answers #Lo/ki #Nat/asha #Ste/ve #T/ony Stark #M/aria #Cl/int #B/ruce Banner #T/hor #snz kink #snz things #snz headcanons

[yume-fanfare]

the biblion scout was so good

#underrated tsukasa story perfect mix of silly and in character #yeah he Would write an overpowered self-insert story and get too engrossed in it #and if you're telling me he joined biblion to: prove to tori he's not just in food-related circles AND rivalize him then #who am i to say anything #he saw tori reading some manga then chose to read the light novel it was based on for his first circle activity...! #mar's midnight rambles

[poomphuripan]

Today is the LAST filming queue/day for My Stand In series and y'all know what that mean 😏 I'm gonna be so unbearably annoying about this series for the next two months, so please... bear with me 🤣

Personal Note I really think My Stand In is going to get a late February release (perhaps on Friday after Pit Babe ends?)... This is purely me speculating though so take that with a grain of salt but...

For references of relating iQIYI originals/YYDS works KinnPorsche The Series (2022): filming wrapped March 4, aired April 2 I Feel You Linger In The Air (2023): filming wrapped July 10, aired August 18 My Dear Gangster Oppa (2023): filming wrapped August 31, aired October 26

#poom phuripan #up poompat #my stand in #my stand in the series #judging by that 1 month gap for kp and ifylita i feel like msi gonna end up with a late feb/early mar release as well #which would explain why iqiyi and yyds are basically posting HALF of the series in stills already OH MY GOD #believe me i already read the novel and im still excited af because i JUST know i will love joe so dearly with my whole heart

[arinmoss]

Mortimer Hughes (he/him)

#eugh i want to liquify his face cause the shapes are all wrong #idk like he needs to look scruffier or something #idk idk #anyways hes a mortician who is technically just a character in a horror novel that Mars was reading #in fact Thee main character #hes super haunted and all that jazz #drew his face all wrong tho so ill likely be drawing him a lot in different various ways to get the shaped right #hes def gonna be super pale with black hair and grey eyes but like......idk if i want him more weak and pathetic looking or the stony cold #sorta squared shouldered kinda guy idk ikd #oc #original character #watercolors #ink #art

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Every time I am reminded that The Mars House has some sort of reality TV elements to it i cant help but think of all the fanart i will be making once she is in my hands. What do you mean I can draw the confessionals and have it be canon GOD

#the mars house #my favorite thing about reading a natasha pulley novel is creating the insane fan content that inevitably comes afterwards.

[tortademaracuya]

You can't go two pages without this girl complaining about everyone she's such a hater but ???

#i cant decide if i like this novel or not. tbh #mars reads stuff #at times it feels like shes kind of a 'not like other girls' gal. with the bonus of her resentment of the fact she cant #show her 'uniqueness' for fear of being shunned #and so every single thing that stands out on anyone else. be it a physical or personality trait. gets terribly hated on #but also sometimes it feels like shes just horrible in general aksksmsmsl #im not even halfway on this one so who knows

[warblingandwriting]

Okay so I'm finally starting the second Dune book and the introduction states that people disliked it when it came out because it subverted Dune's 'classic hero story'??? And maybe it's just because I first read the book as an adult, but I felt like even the first book was shouting from the rafters that it is very intentionally criticizing that type of story.

Like, the only reason Paul is seen as prophecised hero is because the Bene Gesserit intentionally seeded planets with made up prophecies so that they could one day, if they ever needed to, get the people under their sway. He is completely manufactured- and that whole shebang is not presented in a good light. It's basically an out and out criticism of colonialism.

I mean, the entire novel (to me) feels like direct response to Burroughs' Barsoom series, basically upending the idea of the epic hero taking his place as king of the native people of that planet by explicitly telling the reader that it was all manufactured from the start, and that actually, at some future date, he will destroy the very people he is now claiming to want to help. Like - his final vision does not show a bright or happy future, the book ends of a very dark note.

It makes me excited for the second book that these themes are obviously going to be more present, but I am a bit taken aback that people didn't realize them in the first book at the time.

#Dune #science fiction #sci fi #classic sci fi #books #reading #my thoughts #Like aside from a lot of the political machinations I feel like the plot aligns fairly well with princess of mars? #and specifically calls it out #I mean the colonizers (really including Leto in the first novel) are pretty explicitly in the wrong thew whole time #I don't mean that it's perfect #and that it executes this message without any use of harmful tropes or stereotyping the Fremen #but like... Paul being Just A Kid following a completely fabricated prophecy and bringing ruin to a people because of it is pretty prominen #we like Jessica are supposed to be critical of-and afraid of-what he becomes at the end #entirely concerned with political motivations and losing at least a bit of the compassion he once had

[critical-quoter]

There isn't a time of day, in any state, that you are anything less than perfect, Eva.

Made and Marred - Samantha Goode

#book #books #booklr #book lover #book quotes #reading #quote #lit #literature #novel #made and marred #samantha goode

[leatherbookmark]

this is your 2:30am speaking (AND THIS IS YOUR 2:30AM SHOUTING) but sometimes the fanficcy "ew, don't be gross" whenever a couple does something barely romantic, eg hold hands or exchange glances, feels a bit like. hm. not exactly homophobia, but the "i'm not homophobic, i hate all couples equally" sort of humor. something that people copy because everyone else does it without really thinking about why? and i mean, the fics are all about m/m couples, the characters expressing Disgust are also gay men, and it's all in jokey jokes, but there's still something kinda unnecessary about making a whole thing out of how much you're disgusted with the smallest displays of gay affection. idk.

#then again kp/op is like mar/vel and kp/op fanfiction is &c &c #not every fic can be. idk. insert your favourite stupidly well written ma/rvel that reads like a whole ass novel #shrimp thoughts

[add1ctedt0you]

I am back

#Why the novel doesn't end there???? #Yunmeng bros feelings are kicking me #I love them #mar reading mdzs

[faggotwalkwithme]

i miss scream of the shalka..... that shit was silley...

#i got the novel version for my birthday i needa read that!!! #scream of the shalka #shut up mars

[yume-fanfare]

today's procrastination strategy are scp

#you know why #reading reviews for the novel and apparently its a bit of a mess hslkdjshmljdk #ITS SOOOO FUNNY i keep going 'yeah that sounds like akira' #''there is so much exposition it's all exposition and then some filler'' yeah that would be my buddy akira #''the author didnt know how to end the novel'' YEAH THAT WOULD BE MY BUDDY AKIRA AKJDSFHLKSJDFHMLKSJFD #god. #disappointed to hear its p much slice of life isekai cmon i know he could do better #but well people who like light stories did like it #it sounds like a good intro to the scp concept although without much horror #apparently the novel was listed as volume 1 and there never was a second one #he should get weirder about it #mar's midnight rambles

[erikmcmanusinc]

Book Review: Lakes of Mars

Book Review: Lakes of Mars #bookreviews #reading #scifi

Alright everyone! I am finally reviewing the oldest book on my Netgalley TBR. This one has been there since 2018 and I finally read the book. It was called Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves and this is what I thought. Synopsis: Aaron Sheridan doesn’t want to live anymore. His entire family had just died in a shuttle crash and he’d been the one flying it. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up…

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