#my books of 2021

[rotomicity]

TGCF art from 2021 which were very experimental and very much something out of my comfort zone but am still so satisfied with

(gonna ramble more under the cut 👉 )

My main inspiration for these were definitely classic storybook illustration styles and the watercolor-like illustrations included inside the tgcf books which depict hualian's daily slice of life routines as seen below

I wanted to capture that feeling of warmth i got from reading but i also went with the storybook look because their relationship (and by extension broad strokes of the entire plot) really did feel like something out of actual myth or legend; i'm chinese indonesian and was raised surrounded by chinese culture + values so tgcf felt VERY familiar to me, it threw me back to my childhood reading or listening to tales about chinese deities, i'd say the storybook image definitely came into my mind pretty quickly bc of this

I find this style somewhat hard to replicate now but if i could or have the time to, i really want to continue the 'companion pieces to chapter titles ' concept i did with the last 2 pieces (which are of the same chapter title but i was just indecisive 😭😭), i even had 3 more planned based on my favorite titles before burning out back then

#tgcf #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #mxtx #danmei #rotomic does artz #IF YOU READ THROUGH ALL OF MY RAMBLING THANK YOU VERY MUCH #as you can see i am Very Normal about this book :) #(said like a liar) #what was 2021 me cooking....like why did they go so hard on these #also bonus hozier in there bc i associate hualian with like real people do a lot #tbh a lot of hozier songs would work for them #i REALLY want to do a companion piece for chapter 243's title bc wowee #it still gets me to this day. i remember it n suddenly im like what the fuck (fond and sad)

[roseworth]

i love this one. btw. if you even care.

#no coherent thoughts just hhghhghjhfgmhghgh........ #btw i didnt realize it but its been nearly EXACTLY 2 years since i first read utrh #bc i first watched the movie ~late august 2021 then read the book a few days later #and now i read it again <3 so i guess we can all start getting ready for my next reread in august 2025 #anyways it hits even better now that i have a Nuanced Interpretation of the characters :) #during 'the son has not surpassed the father' scene i had to put the book down bc i got hit so hard with the urge to start ripping pages ou #so insane about this book it turns me into a rabid animal #jason todd #dc

[liscorrino]

the chemistry (i am delusional)

#princess irulan #dune part two #dune movie #duna #dune 2024 #paul atreides #irulan corrino #paul x irulan #dune 2021 #dune books #timothée chalamet #florence pugh #chemistry #my chemical romance #political marriage au

[matcha-b]

nevermoor fanart ✨✨

[ID: digital art of morrigan crow from nevermoor in a black dress with white sleeves. the background is solid purple with orange outlines of an umbrella, a bird and some sparkles. End ID]

#yayyy #nevermoor #morrigan crow #nevermoor fanart #great book series i love it #ok to be honest with u guys the last time i read it properly was like 2021 i just felt like drawing mog bc i finally figured out her design #dw i most certainly will get re-obsessed with it again #its like that for all my fandoms rlly #for now ive got a bunch of vocaloid and eve utaite wips to work on #ty nevermoor-described for the id btw

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #william laurence #sizes are not Quite right here but we will improve with time #I think temeraire would be Much larger by the time he gets his frills but also I was constrained by the fact that I was drawing on paper #not 100% settled on his look either but his antlers are Important to me even if they're not canonical #it has been Years since I drew any dragons I think... oh far too long :( #v. excited to sketch up some of the other excellent fellows in the coming months (starting reading throne of jade tomorrow!) #way back in 2021 eve proto-language said the way I drew pullings at the time was granby-reminiscent so I have been picturing That #let's see if I have improved since 2021 <- very probably I have done so #'specially as someone looked in my sketchbook today and saw this and told me I should be illustrating books #bestie (note: not bestie at all) you know I would if I could :/

[j1gsawz]

it makes me so upset that jigsaw & spiral flopped because now the odds that we’ll ever see logan again or get a continuation of zeke & schenk’s story are virtually non existent. i’d sell a kidney for more logan nelson or spiralshipping content at this point.

#if logan is in saw xi i’ll loose my SHIT #being a spiral enjoyer is soooo hard… #however i would not consider myself a jigsaw enjoyer #saw #spiralshipping #jigsaw 2017 #spiral 2021 #spiral from the book of saw #logan nelson #saw franchise #ezekiel banks #william schenk

[guiiay]

some inazuma ladies I did around 2021-2022!

#slayerz #honestly I made so much zine stuff last year consider that booked n busy BWAHAHAHAHA #pain. im still booked and busy now but all my stuff is so boring i cant even share it ugh #genshin impact #genshin #genshin fanart #art tag #i will literally cry i cant believe its been a year since i did these RAAAHHH #yae miko #kujou sara #genshin art #inazuma genshin impact #theyre so pretty i went CRAZYYYY #decided to throw in my ei piece from 2021 too bc yknow what she's on theme like okay! #baal genshin impact #raiden shogun #ei fanart #ei genshin #ei raiden

[loveakii]

oh i’m gonna be sick.

#liet kynes #chani kynes #don’t think chani died there at all but this comparison is ruining my life regardless #kynes supporting paul in her last moments on screen and chani leaving him in hers??? #book kynes dream for arrakis and chani being names desert spring??? #everyone leave me alone #dune #dune 2021 #dune 2024 #dune part two #mine

[notbecauseofvictories]

as a coda to yesterday's "I can only watch serious Films now" post, I do want everyone to know that I've been re-reading the same 5-7 terrible romance novels on the back end. I'm clearly going through something, it's probably fine, but I won't know for another few months or quite possibly ever.

#still don't know what triggered reading 300+ books in 2021. #my brain just makes decisions #and drags me behind it like a small woman holding the other end of a large mastiff's leash #celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge

[schwirrymartz]

goth twins (from different universes)

#different styles of goth tho #also #both are non-human and technically immortal #both act badder than they actually are (whoopsie spoiler (not really)) #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #greed fma #good omens #book omens #crowley #this post is brought to you by my “hey this greed guy looks kinda familiar” thought when i first read the manga back in 2021

[motheroftheantichrist]

It would have been hilarious if in Spiral when Zeke was chained to the pipe he didn't notice the bobby pin William had left for him and actually sawed his arm off to escape. William comes down to check on him wondering what's taking so long and is just no, dude, that's not-- Jesus Christ Zeke, there was a bobby pin right fucking there--

#saw franchise #spiral book of saw #spiral 2021 #saw 9 #ezekiel banks #william schenk #My dumb ass would do this #spiralshipping

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of 2021

#horror #horror movies #horror movie #gifs #gif #horror gif #horror gifs #my gif #my gifs #horror movie gif #horror movie gifs #2020s horror #2020s horror movie #2020s horror movies #halloween kills #candyman 2021 #wrong turn 2021 #the conjuring the devil made me do it #the black phone #v/h/s/94 #v/h/s 94 #spiral from the book of saw #malignant 2021 #last night in soho #fear street #fear street 1994 #fear street 1978 #fear street 1666 #horror edit #horroredit

[moregraceful]

folks tonight we discovered what hitting my breaking point looks like and it is: impulse three day vacation in palm desert for ahl hockey in february by myself. does anyone have any recommendations for stuff to do in coachella valley?? like restaurants or hikes or museums or anything. i don't drink and i love museums and i will have a car and my only two commitments are evening hockey games. i should probably buy my lesbian parents alcohol, snacks, and/or spices for looking after my dog and i would like to buy local. also love a local ice cream shop or creamery. literally any recs you have would be great!! no recommendation too great or too small!!

(also podcast recs that aren't true crime or horror since i have two 7+ hour drives and if i listen to my sports podcasts the entire time i will become a worse version of myself than we started with, which is already bad lmfao)

#i'm so excited i have not been on vacation since 2021 and i have never been on vacation by myself ever #we will not discuss the circumstances that led to me making this decision in 15 mins and having a room booked and the tickets bought #within an hour and a half tonight but. know that it has been very very very bad for at least a month. lol. lmao #also i am so sorry to firebirds fans where the fresh hell does your team get off charging you $30+ dollars for ahl hockey #obviously i went apeshit and bought $80 tickets close to the bench for observation purposes but like. $30 for ahl hockey?? #not even sitting close to the glass??? that's insane. i hope i get to see someone beat brisson's ass for no reason #OH FIREBIRDS FANS ALSO. WHICH LITTLE GUY SHOULD I ROOT FOR #big fan of going to minor leagues games choosing a guy at random and throwing all my emotional energy in to his game narrative #but i feel like i have. at least two firebirds fans following me maybe one of you can choose a guy for me #fresno oilers.txt #IS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN FUN

[3am-thoughts-of-achilles]

i should be sleeping i just spent the last hour crying over patrochilles they loved each other so much it drives me insane

#patrochilles #tsoa achilles #tsoa #tsoa patroclus #tsoa textpost #the song of achilles #tsoadaily #i read this book once in 2020 and then again in 2021 and you’d think i’d be over it by now #real ​tears in my eyes rn i’m not even kidding

[nonasbirthday]

a couple years ago i had zero attention span, and i hadn't properly read a book in forever. the pandemic absolutely did not help, on account of i was working long hours & also dead inside. but in early 2021 i picked up TLT and it reignited my love of reading. and over this past year i finished 22 books :')

forever grateful to the lesbian space juggalos for resurrecting the ghost of my 12-year-old self, a nerd who had to be banned from reading books while walking between classes. (she wouldn't be very impressed by my 2023 book count, but she also had zero responsibilities and limited internet access, so. who cares.)

here's to a continued love of reading for all of us in 2024, and maybe some ATN teasers!

#i'm still dead inside but now i am a person who is dead inside AND read 22 books this year #i think atn is probablt not coming out until 2025 if we're being for realsies. but maybe ARCs and promotional material in 2024! #ntn was announced in summer 2021 with a release date of fall 2022 soooooo. #incidentally if you have any queer sci fi / fantasy recs i'd love to hear them! #my most recent reads are: System Collapse - Martha Wells; Lady Hotspur - Tessa Graton; Foundryside series - Robert Jackson Bennett #nonasbirthday

[nearlydark]

"I hold at your neck the gom jabbar" she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison."

Paul tried to swallow in a dry throat. He could not take his attention from the seamed old face, the glistening eyes, the pale gums around silvery metal teeth that flashed as she spoke.

"A duke's son must know about poisons," she said. "Here's a new one for you: the gom jabbar. It only kills animals."

Dune: Part One (2021) // Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

#Dune #Dune part one #Dune 2021 #Paul Atreides #gom jabbar #reverend mother #reverend mother gaius helen mohiam #charlotte rampling #timothee chalamet #Frank Herbert #Dune books #Dune saga #might brighten it a bit but yea this scene is dark in general #my gifs