#plus there's the books like i do believe

[kstarlitchaotics]

Good I'm so tired of this stupid rumor

#it doesnt need one #its fine the way it is #plus there's the books like i do believe #there is a comic on them #after the movie soo #plus he said he was done #with disney theres no way #he'll come back to them #tnbc #the nightmare before christmas #tim burton

[screwpinecaprice]

A quick warm up chibi before resuming to commissions.

I might have to change my brush stroke technique to adapt to the display tab.

#Connie Maheswaran #SU #my shiz #skedoobles #Idk what she's doing. Maybe I should've given her a book or something. Lol #The glass surface made drawing a little bit new I believe. I wonder if the paperlike textured screens are actually good? #I heard XP had pen nibs that makes drawing on the tab feel like paper. But I also heard it worns out fast. Plus it doesn't seem to be avai #lable locally. Overseas shipping fees is a big no.

[viensamoimoncher]

I feel as if s2ep5 is gonna be an explosive ep for a lot of reasons, in addition to getting 70s San Francisco flashbacks and Devil's Minion scenes

primarily (and I'm probably gonna be proven wrong) — in line with Louis' unreliable recollections, I strongly suspect we're gonna see 2 Claudia 'deaths' — one through 'rose tinted glasses' (which will be in this ep), and then when the dam in his mind finally breaks and the true recollections of events come back, we're gonna see the full, unfiltered, brutal truth of the trial

this would explain Lestat's relatively untouched / normal appearance in the teasers so far; when we see the 'true'/unaltered version of events, we'll see him looking much worse for wear after all that's happened to him

#like i said probably wrong #but i can see them doing this to drive home the unreliable narrator aspect #plus there are 2 versions of Claudia's death in the books - the one Louis believes initially then what Armand describes happening later on #also i wouldn't put it past the writers to wanna traumatize us twice over (i say loving them despite how they like to hurt us) #iwtv s2 theory #iwtv theory #amc iwtv s2 theory #amc iwtv s2 spoilers #iwtv s2 spoilers #tagging spoilers just bc #iwtv #amc iwtv #claudia iwtv #iwtv armand #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #amc interview with the vampire #tvc #daniel molloy

[talesofwhimsy]

I'm 100 pages into Moby Dick and they just got on the goddamn boat

This book actually kinda fucks hard it's great?

#Moby Dick #Was not expecting a comedy out of this book tbh #Nor was I expecting homoeroticism #And I was NOT expecting Herman Melville to actually be cool about representing non-Christian religion in a Christian dominated society?? #And there's only been one (1) woman in the book so far but she was such a cool character? #Plus there's a shocking amount of class consciousness in this?? #Herman Melville Woke King?????? #This book came out in 1851 and Ishmael's saying this Pacific Islander he met a couple of days ago is basically George Washington #He does keep calling him a cannibal and the guy does keep talking about doing cannibalism #So it might not hold up to modern standards for racial sensitivity in that regard #But like the man's saying that this guy wanted to give Christianity a try #Figured out that it wasn't for him so he went back to his pagan ways and literal idol worship #And Ishmael was like “Whoa based? God said to love your fellow man and this is man is as equal to me as anyone else” #Real shit here honestly #This was pre-Civil War this is amazingly ahead of its time in terms of racial justice #Also: “hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling” is based as fuck I love this guy so much #The first chapter is a masterpiece #“This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship” #THAT IS SO FUCKING GOOD #I can't believe it's taken me this long to START THIS BOOK

[thesmokinpossum]

I can't believe y'all almost made me pay to go watch po*r th*ngs in theater without telling me that the whole thing revolves around a hardcore born sexy yesterday trope with a side dish of pseudo necrophilia where a woman with the brain of a litteral foetus who don't have periods or body hair (but do have boobs!) find joy and freedom by having a lot of sex with a bunch of men, shoving a apple up her vagina for some reason and joining a brothel (but it's a cool socialist brothel and all the girls looove being there, don't worry guys), all of that written and directed by two men, I'm never gonna trust you guys after this one lmao

#she also piss on the floor at some point and talks about fucking with the vocabulary of a toddler but i'm supposed to believe it's not sus #lmao ok sure #'there's more to the story than this!' idgaf! 'you're taking it out of context!' idgaf! 'it's actually a feminist story!' no it's not lmao #i cannot let go of the socialist brothel either like wooooow #men are so obsessed with the idea of natural born sex workers it's almost comical #also i cannot comment on the original book since i haven't read it #but apparently a big thing is that at the end it's revealed by the woman character that the male ones where bullshitting... #...about pretty much everything to look smarter and more important than they are #but in this 'feminist' movie they actually do frankenstein the woman and give her a second life fr fr #like aiiiight lmao #btw i truly don't care if you love the movie that's perfectly fine i love plenty of movies with very questionable content #plus i don't think anyone need my approbation to enjoy anything in this world #but boy does it personally gross me out #poor things spoilers #i hope this don't pop in the tag btw #if it does i'm sorry but people who wants to see it *will* complain about being spoil

[sysig]

I decided to give a go to @niennanir’s lovely print-your-own-fic recipe on my Inside and Out as a test run and I’m quite pleased with the results as a first pass :D

I wish I’d taken a few more process pictures but there was a slight lull as I had to go shopping for 12x12 cardstock lol, but! I do have a couple closeups/extras that I added for funsies :D

I went with freehanding the title and I think in the future I would opt to not do that lol, at least not without a printed template. That said, both LibreOffice and SAI refuse to recognize my SCII fonts >:0 If you notice on the first page, I used the Ace Attorney font in italic haha, it’s an okay alternative even if it’s not what I actually want |0 I am happy with the gold detailing tho :3c

I did have an unconscionable amount of fun freehanding the ship caption tho ahh <3 <3 Immediate happy stims upon completion, their names together look so pretty ♥ Credit to Zarla’s original minicomic on that one :3

I also managed to get the last sentence of the fic isolated on the last page thanks to the formatting haha ♪

I was also able to add a bookmark! Ma happened to have a couple very thin ribbons to choose from and red ended up complementing the green very prettily!

It reminds me of VUX tongues hehehehe ❤️💕💖💞

#What do I tag this lol #SCII #I am continually and incurably in love with papercrafts <3 #Hard to believe it's been since Pokemon Homestyle since I've given anything a go! These darn talented artists inspiring me! Lol #Honestly tho I would absolutely recommend this project :D The prep work is manageable and friendly and the action itself is enjoyable #Depending on how much you enjoy repetitive motions haha ♪ Folding and creasing the pages was very relaxing to me :) #I went for my own fic as a first run since y'know - I have very direct access to it lol #Plus it'd be less sad if I messed something up - I want to do right by my favourites from other artists! I'm allowed to make my own mess lol #Also finally convinced me to return to the loving embrace of LibreOffice after like a decade away lol #I just never had a reason to redownload it! Wordpad does exactly what I want 95% of the time! #But it couldn't do columns so okayyyyy fiiiiine I'll get it again (lol) I do rather like it :) #There's still some things I'd change! I'm sure you can see from the pages where you can see both edges that the layout's a bit uhmmmm #Skewed? Corner-heavy? Lol just a matter of changing the borders :) LibreOffice's measurements are wack tho :P #But I fully intend to do this again! :D Print a few test sheets first >:3c Legitimately looking forward to it! #Probably gonna do another one of mine next before I give a go to someone else's I'd like to keep #I have ideas for how to improve! And better and more plentiful supplies! It makes me want to make! :D #Oh yeah and being in the book-making mood reminded me of one of the Vargas-as-a-psuedo-bible ideas I had but didn't put anywhere lol #If I may posit for your consideration: Before as the Old Testament and After as the New Testament :3c #I'd Absolutely buy two versions - And a full version for the record lol I would easily own multiple copies of physical!Vargas lol #Fun thought to me hehehehe ♪♫

[kendallroygf]

One thing that goes crazy is those distant screaming calls for help you can hear in the background of off to the races. Like the whole basic premise is this lolita inspired dynamic between this young lonely girl and this much older man where she swears that nobody else in the world would even have her except for him and this in itself is a feat because she’s ‘crass’ and has a ‘broke down life’ etc and the whole thing is entrenched in denial. He loves her in spite of all these things wrong with her, all he asks is that she does what he wants, he’s like an omnipresent figure for her - watches her in the bathroom, getting dressed etc. and the almost hyperbolic way she describes herself smitten with him and how she believes she needs him, she’s nothing without him, the dependency borders on the paternal. It’s not that she’s unable to leave it’s that she believes she has nowhere else to go, he’s made it so she’s so enmeshed that she simply thinks she could not survive without him. he’s ‘saving’ her from herself and she’s in even more debt to him for it (sorry that im misbehaving!!!) and imo she’s almost a parody of herself bc she doubles down on this narrative that’s she’s a seductress and insane and crazy and she needs looking after by this mature older man when in reality she’s so troubled, under constant observation but she twists it so it’s like she’s running away to be caught by him rather than to escape. And in the end her calls for help can barely be heard under the passionate repetition that he’s her one true love

#plus lana’s voice going higher during the chorus as if she’s making her self sound more youthful and childish compared to ‘says it sounds #like heaven to him’ which is so sardonic and cry. almost as if she’s making fun of him. and the gimme those gold coins line. like it’s equa #*dry #in some way if she’s getting something out of it too. waving golden jewelry in her face buying her things etc #like the fire of my loins line is not misplaced at all bc this song is so obviously abt lolita. but it’s like. humbert humbert’s perspectiv #almost completely overshadowing dolores’ i.e the calls for help in the background . like soo much of it is based on lines and passages from #the book . she literally cried every night !!! . ‘you see she has absolutely nowhere else to go’ + i love you i’ll never leave you they #would rue the day i was alone without you. like it’s so obviously humberts perspective on himself and how dolores feels abt him. but #modernised in a way. like i fully believe lana knew what she doing with this one. her philosophy degree coming thru … #sorry for analysing and going crazy over a lana song do u stil think I’m sexy …. #but also! that’s why this song pertains so well to fucked up paternal dynamics this is why you see every sicko on this website use this son #like there’s so many layers to it. like sorry but if i think abt succession and breaking bad to this song no i don’t. there was a while #where i was like this is sooo pre s1 tomshiv also. but yeah lol #just.. SONG OF ALL TIME #.

[littiescorp]

Y'know, TJ Klune is known for his romance and humor, but my man's sure does enjoy his gore. He's also not afraid of a good tragic backstory. I would like to see him try a horror or horror-esque book in the future, I wonder how he'd do

#I've only read a few of his books so far but I've noticed some things #green creek series was really bloody. and had some truly chilling body horror in the third book #and I'm reading Tales from Verania right now and theres some bloody bits. not true gore yet but i wouldn't be surprised if it happens #and ALL of them plus Cerulean Sea have characters with wellbuilt and mostly believable tragic backstories. like some of them seriously hurt #so what im saying is i want him to try a Gone (by Michael Grant)-like book. i think he'd do a good job #tj klune #green creek series #tales from verania #house in the cerulean sea #littiescorp rambles

[lesbianaelwen]

i Unfortunately haven't been able to be on here bc i've been so fucking busy but i Have been keeping up with d20 stuff and just. burrow's end is so good for me specifically

#as a hardcore dystopian lover (and i mean yes thg but also like speculative fiction like parable of the sower) #this is so good for me and i cant wait to see how these stoats are animal farm-ing this #i remember there was a video d20 put out before it premiered where aabria said this is basically her graduate thesis i believe? #i cant find the video now but i heard that and i just Know this is going to be great #ill try to find it again if i can when i have time but YESS lets get into the epistemological reasoning these stoats have made to justify i #plus whatevers going on w radiation?? fun times #i do heavily appreciate aabria's ability to do body horror w/o being ableist too!! you dont have to be all #“oooh this thing that Can Happen is horrifying oooh!” NO. MAKE THAT ELK SPIKY #decomposition is Right there. its not a hard bar but for some reason so many ppl become pole vaulters instead of just walking below #does that metaphor make sense? ive been writing so much you guys :( my brain is a little bit melted #this is a direct @ at a certain book btw that is talked about as 'such good body horror and sooo scary." guys it was so bad. #like heavily ableist but also just not written well. eugh :| #anyways. fun times and Heavily looking forward to the next episode. i have to go write more now ;-; #like this is from something i started last night: #''Mrs. Hutchinson's privilege blinds her to the institutional violence and dehumanization in ''The Lottery'' #and thus is exploited herself for a gruesome generational ritual.'' #i dont love the word exploited and ill probably change it but like. thats the level we're working at. yippee #okokok bye now

[jetkast]

sometimes I think about mdzs existing with these adhd/autistic coded (by author intentionally or just claimed by fandom, idc), mutually traumatized, consensual nonconsent loving weirdo4weirdo gifted freaks who are also gorgeous and down so bad for each other like uhaul lesbians and

like who made this gift for me wow, bless, life IS worth living

ty for the food

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #mxtx #wangxian #the untamed #im fine #the void #they are kinky bastards deeply in love and it is so important to me #i still cant believe the mutual noncon fantasies are canon and just THERE in the texts what a gift #even if it does make recommending the books to normie friends SUPER AWKWARD lmao #like yeah no I... that's a plus for me do we need to talk about it because you're going to have to be cool with a lot of stuff very quickly

[killjoy-prince]

Novel and manga haul from yesterday

#prince's talk tag #i have been to 5 bookstores at this point and none of them have vol 6-8 of bloom into you #they had the sayaka light novel but im holding off on getting it until i finish the series #i was happy they had the last two volumes of witch hat i needed before catching up #also the light novels for sasaki plus the hirano novel which chronologically happened first #if im to believe the confusing timeline in the back of one of the volumes of one of these series #confusing bc of how the page was laid out i should say. the info was all over the place and a pain to read #but yea anyway #i was able to get two volumes of that phantom tales series ive become interested in. love how the owner is posed in the covers #im excited to know what happens its so cool #also happy i got the second volume of cupcake. im a sucker for office romance and i thought this one was cute #the one in the bottom right corner i saw it in another bookstore last time i went out but held off on getting it bc idk how long it is #but this time i decided to cave in and get it bc i was really curious about it #also interested in the fourth book on the top row i love the tension #ive noticed that i own a bunch of one shot yaoi books (like the fifth book in the top row) but not enough yuri one shots #so i changed that by getting the two in the bottom left area #i do want more but i dont see as much one shot yuri books in stores as i do yaoi #and now the main two in the bottom center #guardian was one i saw in a post on here from someone i follow and i liked the cover a lot so i wanted to try it out #its gonna have at least two volumes according to online #and then theres grandmaster. ive been wanting to get into this series along with the other two i see a bunch of on here #and my friend was telling me how much they love it #AND someone on here explained how i should get into it bc ive expressed interest before #but i decided to get the book now so i have it when i decide to get started #its a lot of books but bnn was having double day for all members so it felt like it was kinda worth it #(probably not but eeh) #im not a paying member i just have the basic free membership #if i got a taste of the benefits of being a paid member itll be hard to cancel when i need to so im not doing it

[ssreeder]

I felt like starting a small fandom game of going around asking some of the big fandom blogs of the Atla fandom questions about the show for funnsies to see what everyone's answers are. Feel free to answer if you wish or pass it along by asking other blogs as well. My question for you is:

"What is the most intriguing nation/kingdom/culture in the Avatar the Last Airbender world?"

Thanks for the ask!

Ummm I really find all the nations and cultures in Avatar really intriguing, there is just so much to explore. But if I had to pick one that I would focus on it would have to be the air benders…

I love world building and their world wasn’t present in the series (damn it sozin) so I’d be so curious how the different temples operated, how the air benders lived together, how they worked with the other nations and what other animals they had around that might have vanished after their demise.

They seem like a really cool culture & I would have loved to explore that more.

#I think there is a new book coming out #which is cool!! #but idk the way aang was so casual about mentioning the dragons #I like to believe there was dragons just hanging out #maybe chillen with the air bisons #their temples were so cool I’d love to know if there were different cultures of air bender in each temple #like NWT & SWT #did they travel to the other nations to do trading?? #idk just so many cool options #such a cool nation #plus like there had to be non bending air nomads #what were their lives like?! #idk so cool #so so soooo much world building to be done #SO MUCH #ask

[sochilll]

Sometimes being an English major is the biggest burden because I read movie reviews and people say “this story sucks because x y z doesn’t make sense” when those things were exPLAINED IN THE BOOK THEY DIDNT HAVE TIME IN THE MOVIE BUT ITS IN THE BOOK READ THE BOOK

#i just finished never let me go and now I’m watching it #spoilers coming in the tags #and I will say there are some pretty big changes I didn’t particularly care for #but SO many reviews were like ‘why didn’t they run away’ like and do what??? Get jobs? they can’t they r literally clones bred for organs #The entire society is built on this where would they go #and people getting mad when someone pointed out that Ishiguro said that wasn’t the story he wanted to tell because it ‘makes more sense’ #like yeah maybe it’s expected some people would try to run away but most of them don’t. this story is about the ones that don’t. #Also people saying ‘so no one questions raising people just to kill them ://‘ #which is ALSO addressed in the book #that by the time moral conversations started people were more worried about their loved ones potential illnesses than clone children #There’s a really great line about like once you cure cancer you can’t just go back to a world where it’s incurable again #Plus a lot of people didn’t believe they were real people/had souls that was the whole POINT OF HAILSHAM #like why are you reading/watching dystopians and going ‘ya but that’s not how society is why don’t they just stop?’ #same energy as people who complain that everyone bursts into song in musicals #Anyway the movie was fine. i know when books span several years like that you have to cut it down for the movie #but it was very …. idk… the relationships were different #Ruth got totally nerfed as a character #everything happened too fast #:/ #🦝

[keeps-ache]

unfortunately i enjoy these sad little tunes on the piano and my mother will simply have to Deal

#just me hi #sorry but d minor speaks to me spiritually [sunglasses drop and i start slamming on the keys] #hbfhs but i do feel a little bad about it. so ye sorry mother dearest but the sad little tunes were created specifically for my ears u-u #i must learn. more songs #i've been playing the stuff at the end of this self-teach book but that's only like 5 songs so what am i to do lol #my dad handed me. schubert #my dude i just. i don't. you believe in me too much Lmao #//crazy tho did you know that there are apparently people in this world that really truly believe i have a functioning brain?? #that's crazy man. cough #lol they're prolly not wrong but man.. i should Not have been given this thing hvfhs #feels like it operates at 2% efficiency at All Times except for 2-4 a.m. where my brain chemicals then swap places like the worst #game of musical chairs on the planet Hbfhv #//oh speaking of brains if you had to switch brains with somebody who would you trust to trade with? #i was thinking one of my siblings but dear lord. i would never want to do that to them Hfbvshfvsh #'why one of your siblings' they forgive me for a Lot of weird stuff hfsh <33 #plus. there could be worse ways of coming out Hfbhsvfhs + they'd have my perspective on it at that point so ! :> #or i think i'd leave it at an orphanage like they do in the movies. in a cardboard box n everything :) #technically not a switch but you know somebody's gotta use it for something loll #//anyway i gotta work on this thing #siiiighhghghgh why is the beginning so hard lol :') #i am ON my way !!! [runs towards you and vanishes]

[bibluebutterfly]

Someone pointed out how Colin is the first Bridgerton man to actually take initiative when it came to his love interest.

When Simon realized he was in love, he would have rather died than confront those feelings and his trauma about his father.

When Anthony realized, he still went forward with his plans to marry Edwina (until SHE was the one who broke it off at the literal last minute) as she was TECHNICALLY who he was looking for and it was better than confronting his trauma.

When COLIN realized he was in love, he broke ever social rule in the book to be able to get Pen, which includes but is not limited to interrupting her dance with Debling, and chasing down her carriage.

And YES, Simon did have trouble with his abusive father which led him to doubt if he was loveable, and Anthony had to see what his mother went through when her husband died. Yes, these did stunt them emotionally about loving people.

But REMEMBER that Colin is the son who most don’t take seriously, the odd one out, and likely the biggest people pleaser out of the bunch. Plus the last time Colin believed himself in love, he not only got his heart broken, he also got publicly humiliated, drew his family to shame, and was never able to be taken seriously until he changed his entire persona. Not saying he had it just as bad, BUT I do know people who are FAR more emotionally stunted for FAR less.

Anyway, love Colin, and kudos to him for being the first Bridgerton man to take the first initiative to get what he wants as quickly as he did.

Still love all Bridgerton men btw.

#bridgerton #colin bridgerton #colin x penelope #polin #bridgerton men #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton s3 #penelope featherington #simon hastings #anthony bridgerton #not what i usually post

[earlyspringtranscendence]

currently 500 pages into rhythm of war, am enjoying the things im enjoying very deeply (mostly shallan and adolin. and veil and radiant and shallan’s dynamics. and kal but thats easy because he’s my favourite character and besides isn’t even hitting that hard in this one its just that everything he does is everything to me) but so much of it also is just such a slog and idk if it’s me because i usually set aside a day to read like 80% of the book in one go or if it’s the fact that a friend has now also read stormlight and shared some opinions w me that i dont disagree with or if its the book itself but like. navani is such a boring POV character and adolin’s reduction down to his fashion sensibilities is a snore and the bridgemen are practically absent so kal doesn’t even have anyone to endear him even more to me and even venli’s just too like. cautious to have anything going for her. like fr the only person i don’t have any sort of a complaint towards as of rn is shallan

#it doesnt help tht i wanna be in shadesmar and instead am in the tower while it is getting invaded like girl i dont wanna say that idc #but idc #and also ok i never read the lift novella but then i dont believe in having to have read novellas to follow along the main plot #at least not how it works in publishing rn #but like. ok maybe she's still coming but how is she just not gonna sneak onto the mission to shadesmar #how is she so unimportant when even just the way she was introduced back in .. words of radiance maybe? or oathbringer doesnt rly matter #but even that was so different & broke such a routine that it makes her stick out in my mind #and now she's just sorta left by the wayside #like omg snore ! im sorry but like i just deeply dont care about dalinar and navani's chapters so like why arent those replaced by her #recently read #its also like . i do love these books but come on im 500 pages in thats not even half #that usually would bring me such joy but because so many of these chapters are making me wanna just put the book down #its a LOT to not be halfway done yet #like and all of this wouldnt matter if i just put the book down and came back to it later #but that wouldn't work out great bc then i forget what happened and also now i have that friend who just finished rhythm of war #and i wanna be able to talk to her about it even tho i am prtty sure we read these books entirely differently #PLUS i wanna get into more of the cosmere which yk i can do that without reading stormlight bc everything else is like #written before stormlight. but still i just wish it was easier to skimread sections and not miss huge chunks