#maybe some books or something idk

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Social security will be like: oh, you saved up 2,000$ over your limit in case your insurance doesn’t cover your dental surgery? Spend it right now or we will personally kill you on sight

#emma posts #so now I have to spend it all really fast and I don’t know when I’ll get into surgery and I have no idea what to buy because I’ve been #saving up for so long I sort of forgot how to spent over 200$ #like. I went crazy at the grocery store and it was still only 200$ #I’m sitting here like ‘even buying a new iPad and art tablet won’t get rid of all of it’ #fuck #and I still haven’t gotten my wisdom teeth cut out of my bones #maybe if I buy some art on Etsy or something? if insurance covers my surgery or I don’t get in on time #maybe some books or something idk #I could see if I can get rides to more summer event stuff #but that’s not guaranteed l #I don’t think I could just hand over all the money to my friend #‘heard you had a baby. here’s 2000$’ #i feel like they wouldn’t like that #what do I want? what things do I sort of need but haven’t gotten? #ugh. I have to be careful too because if I buy a single thing worth that much #they might count it as an asset or something #i feel like shit NEEDING to spend it all fast #like. I saved that shit up #aaahhhh #I’m too eepy for this #did they get rid of the gun emoji? even the toy gun? #I’m American they can’t do that (joking) #die you gay little catgirl 🔫🇺🇸 #I found the gun

[scudden]

Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons

#I FINALLY finished my second medieval manuscript border drawing #want to draw more but they take me soo long but its also fun #so please give me some other asoiaf characters you want a portrait of and I might get to them #thinking about doing Brienne or Jaime or Cersei next or maybe another Stark idk #soo many choices!!! #I am riding off of my limited book knowledge because ive only recently started reading so apologies if my designs are off or something!! #daenerys targaryen #daenerys stormborn #got #asoiaf #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #daenerys #khaleesi #daenerys art #my art #valyrianscrolls #agot #csp

[botlabyrinth]

the percy jackson tv show is actually great when there isn’t a little shit in your ear telling you it’s not “book accurate”

#it’s book accurate enough FOR ME #god can we just try to enjoy something for once #it’s an ADAPTATION. it is not gonna be copy and pasted from the books #but they have the tone and the humor and the CHARACTERS and the themes right #isn’t that what really matters? #and some of yall are acting like they changed the entire plot when really it’s just small changes that service the tv format #and deepen character relationships and interactions #seeing book fans say the movies are better is the most absurd thing i’ve heard in my life… like did we watch the same movies #every single thing the show does wrong is still light years better than every single thing the movies got right #can’t we just enjoy that please #can you tell i’m sick of the nitpicking😭 #anyways maybe try to have fun for once in ur life idk #also ur allowed to have constructive criticism that’s so valid. or criticism at all #ofc u should critique the media u enjoy #but saying it’s not a good adaptation is kinda crazy to me idk #when it’s so clear how much thought was put in by the creators and cast to get it right this time #pjo tv #pjo tv show #pjotv #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo spoilers #percy jackon and the olympians #ruch rambles #sorry to hide all that in the tags but it feels very angry and i don’t want to be mean😭 i have the crit tag filtered for a reason lol #i’m choosing joy #but i just wanted to put these thoughts out there

[leek-inherent]

I drew Bob’s Burgers as my little ponies :D

#bobs burgers #my little pony #my art #linda belcher #bob belcher #gene belcher #louise belcher #tina belcher #for the kids I couldn't decide on cutie marks I was happy with so they are just blank flanks for now #my general ideas are for tina an open book because a) she's an open book and b) her beautiful writing/journalling #gene something to do with noises and music - initially I thought of his megaphone thing but idk #and for louise something like a throwing star (or some other weapon) with a heart on it but that's kinda lame #anyway maybe I'll come up with something and draw them again later

[rewritingcanon]

no girl tell us what you think about jegulily!! im so here for it (tone is weird but I mean that genuinely, I don't ship them so I'm not here to be weird)

dw bae ur tone is fine ! (i’ve been waiting for an ask like this 💀) i think jegulily is... yeah its…. like usually as long as its legal idgaf as long as shippers portray their characters right but regulus fans are literally incapable 😭🙏 WHY WOULD U PAIR A MUGGLEBORN AND A BLOOD SUPREMACIST IM SO DONE WITH DIS FANDOMMMM!! that actually goes for a lot of lily ships like bartylily as well (no clue where that came from either but it’s equally as stupid lmfao).

and jegulily just feels like shoving in lily because people feel bad for ditching her, or shoving in regulus because some people like jily and jegulus and want them (for some reason) to coincide even though it makes zeroooo sense for it to. like, idk if i said this with jegulus before (i yap sm on this account i forget what i say), but like it, jegulily can be done well if a realistic dynamic is taken into account, but the marauders fandom is allergic to nuance and so just chalks up everything regulus does and believes to his neglectful homelife. hes not all-bad, sure, i do feel bad for him, but im nowhere close to shipping him with a woman whos part of the people hes trying to eradicate, or with her man who purposefully went against all pureblood tradition (which is such a large part of james’ character— he is a pureblood that chooses to be seperate from that culture hellooooo plz wake uppppp).

marauders fandom has a chronic “i can fix him” mentality when it comes to wizard neo nazis, i have never understood it. but thats a topic for another day.

jegulily should be filled with envy, toxicity and prejudice stop nerfing it to be some fluffy feel-good polyamorous stable marriage where they raise harry together. yall are looking over the potential. this ship has blood and guts in it plz act like it or else idk what to say 😭 if it doesnt end with at least one of them getting murdered i dont want it.

#imho ​it just feels willfully ignorant of all three characters to ship them #this goes with most the regulus ships tbh except like bartylus. bcuz barty is just terrible too LOL #just characterise ur characters right people. not to majority fanon interpretation but to who they are CANONLY #you may think its less fun but to me. that’s honestly what makes those three so appealing #+its generally important to understand the media u consume. and yes. that means harry potter as a book series if ur in the marauders fandom #u are not seperate from the hp books if u are attached to its characters (no matter how far youve spun their personalities away) #on a seperate note people are allowed to ship what they want and im being lowkey serious when i say im not gonna find someone weird if they- #-ship something as long as its legal #maybe some jegulily people follow me so let me just say i dont hate the shippers i just heavily dislike the ship 😭 #worse than jegulus but somehow less annoying idk how to explain it #harry potter #hp #marauders #marauders era #anti jegulus #anti jegulily #lily evans #jily #pro jily #james potter #lily potter #regulus black #anti regulus black #the marauders era #the marauders #ask #anon #rewriting #tyyyy anon for the ask i luv to yap 🫶🫶

[wofworld]

thinking about how harrow insisted that she can only share the ninth house’s secret with gideon if they are submerged in salt water. thinking about nona’s love of the ocean and about alecto being called a ‘saltwater creature’ on two (??) different occasions. also thinking about alecto’s favor to anastasia and the irony of the saltwater pool tradition being passed down through so many generations- but only on the ninth and with no real concept of where it started…

#you see where i’m going with this #i haven’t finished nona yet. sigh. but i don’t think there’s anything to disprove this in the rest of the book #if the earth’s soul gave john necromancy then why shouldn’t she be able to take it away? at least in some sort of conditions #like say..saltwater #anyways this could just be total bullshit but i feel like there’s too many coincidences for it not to tie up somehow #maybe necromancy is less effective in the water or the water drains thanergy or something idk #forgot to mention that teacher who is a lyctor’s creation fears the ocean surrounding canaan house #he shows sympathy for alecto though? he calls her a ‘poor child’ #anyways that’s a conversation for another time #tamsyn you crazy freak. why did you need to make the river be freshwater. why can’t my posts make sense? #tlt posting #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #ntn #tlt theories #tlt meta #alecto #nona #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #fluff’s fandom thoughts #fluff rants #the locked tomb triology #the locked tomb series #locked tomb #trending topic

[clanborn]

lightleap…..i miss lightleap……

#the erins just forgot abt her whole deal #in a good books series maybe nightheart abandoning sunbeam would spark a realization in her that she herself abandoned lightleap #when lightleap most needed support #or lightleap couldve been the one to leave with frostpaw and they bond over their guilt and grief or something #hence causing conflict with tigerstar’s daughter going missing and complicating tensions with riverclan #he’s justifiably angry and blaming riverclan while riverclan also deals with the sudden disappearance of their medicine cat apprentice #and the whole situation gets dire putting pressure on frostpaw and her mission and maybe splashtail takes up leadership sooner and blames #frostpaws disappearance on tigerstar #and maybe we get some context on lightleap and her emotional state and her whole red herring fight(?) she got into in the first book that #was never addressed #idk just spitballing #meowing.wav #asc spoilers

[jessicas-pi]

She did not shrink back, though the pupils of her eyes dilated. Was it the wildest thing in the world which happened to her—or was it not? Without warning—the sudden rush of a thought, immense and strange, swept over her body and soul and possessed her—so possessed her that it changed her pallor to white flame. It was actually Anstruthers who shrank back a shade because, for the moment, she looked so near unearthly.

“I am not afraid of you,” she said, in a clear, unshaken voice. “I am not afraid. Something is near me which will stand between us—something which DIED to-day.”

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behold: my artistic contribution to the small but enthusiastic You Should Totally Read The Shuttle (1907) By Frances Hodgson Burnett campaign

#I was gonna draw the full scene with Nigel too but then I remembered that I actually do not know what he looks like #so I just did betty #fun fact!! I based Betty's riding habit off of pictures of an actual extant riding habit on the Met museum website! #(though idk if hers would be fancier or not) #oh an her hairstyle is based off of an illustration of several women on horseback in that time so that's semi-accurate too! #I didn't give her the hat/veil that she would have been wearing because I couldn't get that to look right in the drawing #but hey maybe just it fell off when she fell off her horse or something #the shuttle #jessica's art #oh yeah also I spent like 20 minutes examining the book for details to clue me in to when it took place so I could be accurate lol #I know it was written in 1907 but some parts of it made me wonder if it was set before then so i did the math #judging from the references to nigel being raised in the early victorian era my best guess is probably between 1870 and 1890!

[ghostly-cabbage]

I have officially edited and updated my DP fic recommendation document

I've so far only used it for friends but now I'm wondering if any of you guys would be interested...

#lots of people make rec lists and i sorta feel like i have a lot of the same ones that everyone always does #but also that could just be the curse of knowledge where im like “yeah ofc everyone knows about X Fic!!!” #when in fact maybe they do not :wheeze: #anyway. just wanna gauge if anyone would want it #idk how often ill update the list #i have a shit ton of DP fics on my To Read/Bookmarks and if i haven't read at leaat enough to make a judgment #i dont put it on the rec list #I've been mostly focused on working on getting through my unread book collection at home rather than fics atm BUT #the list is both a way for me to keep track of my fave fics and also when friends outside the phandom wanted a rec i could ask what #flavor of thing they wanna read and then pick something or send them the doc so they could pick #Everytime I work on the list I start thinking so hard about fics I read years ago or on FFnet and I can't remember the names #Or more than a few scenes.... #Rip the real ones from back in the day #I'll at some point be making a new pinned post and so if people do want this I'll post it and then link it in my pinned post #so it's easy to find #danny phantom fanfiction #Danny Phantom fanfic recs

[batmansymbol]

hello, my sweet sweet tumblr friends. i have a new book out one month from saturday. here we are together, the book and i:

this one was fun. i wrote it with my sister! when we were young, we were cutthroat competitive. she (older) would forbid me from reading the books on her shelves, and i (gremlin) would booby-trap her room, so you decide which of us committed the greater sin. now we have a blast.

our names are pronounced REE-uh-nock and SHEE-fra, and our book was pitched as THE PARENT TRAP meets THE VANISHING HALF. it releases August 15th, 2023. logline is "Two half-Chinese half-siblings collide for the first time at a summer art camp, not knowing they're related—and begin to understand who they are as artists, as brother and sister, and as Asian-Americans."

it's a book about summer camp hijinks, about passing, about what we long for and where we belong. it also says "Robinson & Robinson" on the spine, which makes us sound like an accidental injury law firm. sweet.

of all the books with my name on it, this one is probably the "book club"-iest. if you like coming-of-age novels or stories about the AAPI diaspora, you might like this one :)

you can preorder a signed copy from my local indie here, or non-signed copies from Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon. i really cannot stress enough how much every single preorder helps, as i am what the industry calls "a midlist author," also known as "an obscure author who has difficulty placing projects with publishers because of sales figures lmao." (this is not to whinge. the majority of working authors exist in this financially & existentially precarious position)

alternatively, i would be totally thrilled if you reblogged this post, or mentioned the book to any teachers, librarians, bookstore workers, or other readers in your life :)

happy summer everybody—may it be the lazy river of your dreams. xoxoxo

#riley writes books #ya lit #ya books #aapi #aapi authors #this book is very weird and personal but i think it's quite fun #maybe i'll post some quotes from it or something idk #there will definitely be more stuff about it on ig @rileyredgate #character intros etc etc. might do them here too who knows #WAIT MAYBE I SHOULD TUMBLR BLAZE THIS POST #lol

[snorlaxlovesme]

y'know i was just thinking that in literally ep/chapter 1 it's established that Blair is a magical cat that has nine lives. and then after being "defeated" Blair continues to live with Maka and Soul and even accompanies them on several important mission, growing to truly love them. and she has all these extra lives to spare. hmm. why wasn't anything done with that

#idk if its ever established how many lives she has LEFT but #that could have been something #maka and soul almost getting killed at some point in book of eibon and blair pops out the margins to defeat an antag #with her magic but ultimately just ends up dying for them #they're stressed bc they have no idea how many lives she has left and they're so relieved when she pops back up #and tells her kittens not to worry themselves with matters like that #maybe a little panel off to the side revealing to the reader she's down to one life now #nothing else comes of that bc 1. its Ohkubo 2. we don't need Blair to ACTUALLY die for them #just show how much she loves Soul and Maka that she was willing to give up her last spare for them #without any fanfare or fuss #it could have been nice you know? #soul eater #soul eater manga #blair

[lovelaceisntdead]

should I get a ticket to a book signing on thursday.

#or is that a bad idea. #i feel like i need to get out and do something before i. yes. #but idk if I'm well enough :/ #maybeeeee if i can get my dad to drive me so i don't have to get the train but that is a big maybe #it's like a whole evening thing but the vibes sound fairly lowkey so i don't think it would be too much #idk I've been struggling a lot with not being able to do things lately so. idk! #and I'd be going on my own which i don't mind but it is always that bit harder not having someone there in case i need help #i liked the author's first book well enough and there will probably be many gay people there so it might be nice to try and meet some peopl #idk!! i know i need to do things and have things to look forward to because otherwise. the demons. but it's so hard to balance when my body #is not on the same page #I've decided i will go and see lisa frankenstein when it's out and maybe also drive away dolls #so if nothing else i have my few times a year cinema trip to look forward to so maybe that will make me not want to kill myself for a bit. #sorry for vent essay i have been very much struggling to feel human recently. microdosing interacting with people. #being online is still making my brain feel strange so. idk what's up with that.

[sevicia]

I will not lie, I kinda hate the "cozy horror" subgenre. like just the idea of it annoys me and I hate to sound like an elementary school bully but if you need your horror to be "cozy" then you're a weenie and maybe horror just isn't for you

#like what does it even MEAN ...... someone will describe something as ''cozy horror'' and I will lose all interest in it #cause do you like Not see how it's a contradiction .... the point of horror is to unsettle #if your book or game or whatever is just a regular ass story with some monsters / witches thrown in then it's just spooky #does anyone understand..... #diary #maybe I'm being kind of a dick idk I just don't like it and it sounds stupid... sorry to the cozy horror community. I will now kms #horror

[always-amity]

Potential design for Innocence, Arrogance and Patience

It's very simplistic, which I think can be good for more "main" dragons in the series, but also compared to some of the more varied designs I've made for other species it just makes them look very Generic Dragon, and I'd like to base them more on some real creature, like I've done with a lot of my other designs. I'm not quite sure what though.

#I don't *hate* this design #so if I can't find something a bit more unique that works this is still okay #but idk #I don't feel like this vs the Seadragonus Giagantus Maximus are too distinct #maybe some more detailed patterning might help? #idk #we'll see #httyd books #how to train your dragon books #httyd book fanart #deadly shadow #innocence arrogance and patience #Amity Doodles

[olibavee]

was wondering how chemistry and alchemy could work together in a world-building situation and realized i just met a historian of alchemy and chemistry today. oh my god. but i'd have to email this 75-year-old man like "hey can you help me world-build for my little brain story" and i don't know him that well so like. methinks that is not happening

#liv rambles #DAMN......BUT HE'S RIGHT THERE........awghghghaghghggh. #i could phrase it differently i suppose...he doesn't have to know what it's for. i am genuinely just curious #maybe he knows of some books or something i can look at idk

[meadowlarkx]

One of my favorite things about the worldbuilding in The Left Hand of Darkness is the "perverts" in Gethenian society—those who are permanently in one of the kemmer forms. The "normal" person on Gethen goes through a kemmer cycle with periods of somer, but that's not every Gethenian. People whose bodies don't work this way get treated with repulsion. Genly compares them to "homosexuals" in his society, and that comparison is really instructive. Gethenians may not have gender roles and identities the way we do, but they do have societal norms, including about bodies and sexuality. And those norms leave people out. They are imperfect and sometimes they are unfair. I think this is part of the point.

In subtle ways, this theme is woven throughout the book's descriptions of Gethenian cultures. To stick to sexuality, something similar can be said about the different norms surrounding incest on Gethen and the empathic treatment of Estraven's past relationship with Arek. There is no taboo about incest between siblings on Gethen, only on siblings vowing kemmering, but if a child is born of it, the parents have to separate (and it seems like Estraven is separated from Sorve because of this). The reason for including this element, in my reading, isn't to impose our own moral standards by "showing" that Estraven's relationship with Arek was "bad" (in fact, we learn fairly little about it, beyond that Estraven cared deeply for him.) Instead, I think it's partly to demonstrate the dissonance between Gethenian mores and our own, and unsettle both. Because, like Genly, we see Gethenian norms as strange, we can notice that they bring about particular situations and cause particular hurts. Even the custom of vowing kemmering monogamously for life, which sounds more familiar, is shown as double-edged. Estraven breaks a taboo by making his "false" vow to Ashe, but was trying to build a new life with Ashe really wrong?

These things are not 1:1 to any "real life" issue, but like everything else in this story, I think they're chosen because they are provocative. It's really meaningful to me that even in terms of gender and sexuality, Gethen isn't painted as a utopia, but as a real place. Le Guin shows us two sets of norms and asks us not just "are our norms arbitrary and/or constructed rather than essential truths?" but also "are norms always socially constructed? Should we question them sometimes? What harm is done to maintain them? Who is being left out?"

#the left hand of darkness #lhod #my posts #thank you alix jouissants for reading over this and aiding me to express more clearly <3 <3 <3 #and idk i am obsessed with ''estraven the traitor'' being a name from folk legend. with the way the character who comes across most moral #and most thoughtful betrays the norms of patriotism and of prejudice against ''perverts''. vows twice and had a child with his sibling #it says something powerful i think about what is really important and more important about a person ultimately. character of all time. #this is not to say the normless utopia could/should exist or that the portrayal of gethenian cultures is wholly negative btw--not at all #constructed =/= useless or without power/meaning or completely arbitrary either #just it is such a thoughtful book. and it's saying so much on so many levels #obviously i haven't even touched here shifgrethor or suicide or the budding nationalism... and i don't have my copy on me. #maybe some of this seems obvious but it feels worth highlighting #edit: there's more to say about the sibling thing and ursula's logic in why a society that places different associations on sex might be #mainly concerned with avoiding kids born of those unions--but i'm thinking here about what we see of estraven's experience