#so this book happened huh

[isalabells]

I don't care what people think of me. I know what I did in the past, and why I did it. And I know why I'm doing this now. That's all that matters.

#For All Mankind #forallmankindedit #for all mankind spoilers #flashing cw #Margo Madison #my heart is so SO heavy #the woman who was there for Apollo 11. who made Apollo-Soyuz happen. the one who got them to Mars. who ensured the Mars programme will #continue. scratched off. deemed a (double) traitor. all of her glory erased from history books. #'there is always a cost' and she always ALWAYS paid the price herself. #her job. her science. her rep. her life. her small shot at happiness. #Margo really said 'People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is #that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess deserves to lose' and then sacrificed herself huh

[b4kuch1n]

wizard looking for a way home (aka wizard of dark space)

#pokemon #swsh #champion leon #wizard leon babeyy! #thank u to cosme for hangin out with me while I figure this one out lol #this! is the piece I used for the ''speedpaint'' thingy btw. I'll try to put together the video over the next month or so #lol. usually when I make wizard leon designs I riff with what comes up and think abt like. maybe his affinity in this set #like ''oh he'd do fabric talismans. oh he'd levitate. he does poppet stuff'' #that at most. but this. the moment I started fleshing this one out I was like #oh he's really lost. for a very long time. to the point he's learned so much he's forgotten what many of the things on his suit does #like lmao I guess I can Not be normal about any astronaut leon huh!! its chronic for me #I couldnt get to some of the questions folks asked with this one. so this video will probably not be comprehensive #but I'll make another when those things come up!! #fksjdfk sorry lads most of u guys asked abt colors but idk if this ones the best for that. its got a preddy concrete palette #guess I can save talking about the more insane color stuff for when that comes up too... #we'll see!! hope it's gonna happen #for now. one more wizard leon for the book. have a good night lads! #tie a yarn round ur wrist dont forget the way back

[naffeclipse]

thinking back on the time that I trapped myself in my room for two years and avoided as much human interaction as possible due to overbearing anxiety—and understanding now that it was an extremely unhealthy coping mechanism of self-isolation and not "laziness" or being an "antisocial weirdo" and I'm proud that I pulled myself out of that and am so much happier for it

#my parents would constantly ask me when i was going to do things because i was smart and ambitious in high school #and i didn't know why i was doing this #and i felt so dumb and defeated for the longest time #it's no one's fault that it happened because none of us understood what I was actually struggling with #but i'm right where i thought I would never be: submitting my book and going for my bachelor's degree and i'm part of a great community #like i wish i could tell myself then when i was locking my door that it's going to be okay and you're going to get out of there #naff nuh huh #vent #kind of? #anxiety

[bookwyrminspiration]

well. that just happened I guess

#malice #heather walter #(more spoilers in the tags) #called it with laurel :) #that brief breaking her out of prison thing threw me off but I was still suspicious because no one else made sense #the specifics of Kal’s thing threw me way off #I was a little confused by him in the beginning like…this random guy in a tower just so happens to have known her mother personally? #but I brushed it off as welp gotta have the mentor figure somewhere #his evil arc was like huh. okay sure I guess we can do that #anyway #aurora bbg ur gonna have a lot to wake up to #whenever you do that #that was. definitely a book

[aphsillyos]

silly lil designs for pf ez and aphelios blending into piltover :]

#me arts tag #i was going to draw smth a bit more substantial but i need a nap :'D #the monocle and glasses are just their visors disguised somehow #and the weird half vest? design for ezreal.. i imagine half of it tears off/opens (like buttons or smth) #to accommodate his arm cannon transforming. actually i imagine both their outfits kinda work like that #tearaway clothes for their pulsefire equipment somehow #although im imagining the pulsefire tech might be able to make some illusion/disguise clothes.. transforming tech? who knows #realistically im sure aphelios would cover up the glowing marks on his face but it also looked odd w/o his face markings so i just left em #ezreal monocle doesnt look as silly as i thought... maybe he should wear one normally #im meh on aphelios's coat design but maybe ill rerereredesign into oblivion... LOL #wanted to give him more of like a pilot jacket originally but idk what his vibe is. goofy lil guy. what fashion even suits you #OH.... I GUESS. HE NEEDS HIS SCARF.... ill fix it at some point probably maybe sure #i think it'd be a bit funny if ezreal is unintentionally a fashion/style person #just bc of how much blending in with timelines and worlds and stuff hes done #he just ended up absorbing so much fashion knowledge #aphelios or ekko points it out at some point and hes like. huh. im not into fashion #(said while reading a hefty book on fashion history for whatever location theyre at) #yeah im sure PEARL probably has built in search engine stuff #but ezreal just strikes me as the type of guy to research and memorize/learn stuff #''just in case i lose access to PEARL's database again'' or whatever #im sure thats probably happened like 100 times #so random but i feel like aphelios has the vibe of a guy you wanna dress up in various outfits #but also hes like :) (just happy to be included/present) so he doesnt mind #you put a goofy souvenir shop floppy hat on him and hes like. :) #my aphelios hcs are nonsense im so sorry. i want him to be happy #pulsefire ezreal #pulsefire aphelios #pulsefire #aphelios #ezreal

[quarklynx]

A seemingly never ending story full of riveting arcs and hooks that continuously built on one another time and time again, and it ends like that??? With a god damn cliffhanger???!?! Im gonna combust

#orv #orv spoilers #it took me... so long to read it #im gonna bludgeon someone istg #'oh but lynx. isn't the entire point of the last part of the book that what happens after the story can only be imagined by the reader?' #shut up. shut the fuck up. what if i just want to read a nice happy ending for them huh? what about then? #this is worse than svsss. now i HAVE to go find a fanficion that'll tell me a nice ending otherwise im gonna go insane and think too much

[yesokayiknow]

cannot believe that in 2007 the eighth doctor adventures writers just decided to put toxic yuri in their show. they did that for me

#not me going insane over 2 minor recurring villains #but literally what the fuck is going on with the headhunter and karen #what if an amoral assassin and a normal office worker decided to become partners on a whim & now they time travel and commit crimes together #like what????? #the headhunter could not give less of a shit about other people and doesn't think karen is useful at all and yet just keeps her around #and karen's like yeah she hates my guts and also she makes me kill people. it's a laugh though can't complain #and i'm just meant to be normal about that?????? huh??????? #also the way they both just flirt with lucie every time they see her is so funny #karen's like hey babe!!!! how are you!!!! do you want to join us!!!! while holding a knife to lucie's neck shdjshs #while the headhunter's like ah lucie miller the thorn in my side [saves her life] this means nothing [saves her life] you disgust me [saves- #doctor who #big finish #i've finished s3!!!! whoop!!!! #my thoughts are why does lucie miller keep getting turned evil and can it keep happening bc it's hot. who said that #my only issue with this format is that it's very adventure based. which yeah it's called the 8th doctor adventures #but i wish there was more breathing room for lucie. the doctor keeps being all sad (fair his life is awful) but lucie's going Through It #and never gets a chance to really process anything #also the retroactive continuity errors make me laugh #'i'm 900 years old' no the fuck you're not! you still have the time war yet buddy! #i like to think they're just signs of 8's swiss cheese memory #i hope there's books set in this era. i'm sure nobody will be able to tell me bc they gave up 20 tags ago agdkhsjshsjs

[cornerful]

Sméagol and the Gift

'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.

'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'

Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.

When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.

It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.

Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.

If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.

#lotr newsletter #suicide mention in tags #haunted by the au in which gollum goes into the fire with the ring On Purpose #bc he still couldnt separate himself from it but frodo's compassion had somewhat released him from its evil #in a way an honor to frodo's quest and in a way an act of mercy to be able to give up the self-torment #which gives me shrimp feelings bc of the everything but also back to the original point that it is so tragic that death is all that awaits #bc death is natural and that was taken from him. what is the will to live in the absence of natural death? #smth deeply horrible about that #matt bugg screaming we'll be dust. so famous and rent free #lotrn325 #damn it im having more thoughts #wraiths vs gollum: discuss #the nature of the ring kept affects the nature of its possession no? those rings were made FOR thralldom #sauron has power over gollum but not That Much and his own ring is all abt the domination #what would a 2000 year old gollum even be like ._. #the wraiths are probably even more tragic bc at this point they're like...undead. even death isn't freedom #on that topic what happened to the witch-king's spirit fr #I'm pretty sure he isn't ever actually called that in the book but it's epic and gender and way snappier than lord of the nazgul #anyway shoutout to i think yambits for breaking the lore and giving them peace that was sick #where's my gollum rehab fic #i know he's a horrible little man who is constantly trying to murder my boys but i love him so #the au...gollum gaining the willpower to destroy himself because he was given trust and kindness and companionship for once. FUCKED UP. #fucked up horrible i need a minute. being shown compassion and then becoming more self-compassionate. epic #that compassion entailing seeking the freedom of death your soul was denied bc this is fantasy and somehow the exact #arc that usually leads to fighting to live is now flipped. HUH. #yeah jirt alluded to his motivation being For Frodo but i maintain that the willingness to die is HUGE there and extremely relevant #me and my red string keeping me company #ugh tag championships i win i think but at what cost #who wants to spin around miserably in a pool like franknfurter with me as we listen to gollum's song #tam you're already invited i have a floaty for u

[everysongineverykey]

so-called doomerists when "If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot... no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human... Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. ...for ever."

#good omens #CRYING!!!! finished my second reread since s1 came out #this book genuinely never gets old huh. i can read it over and over. can't say that about many books. #i did love the ending shots of s1 BUT i will never forgive them for not putting this narration in. #the way the last line references 'what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches toward bethlehem to be born' #the last line from the poem the second coming #talking about the antichrist there too! #but this antichrist is just a boy. just a boy. half angel. half devil. all. human. #the last scene of the book where he eats an apple and gets in trouble for it #but 'there never was an apple- in adam's opinion- that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.' #it was all worth it!! crowley tempting eve and teaching humans that they could be evil was worth it!!! #god. this book looks at a fucked up world with so so many problems #and encourages you to focus on the good in it when all hope seems lost. #and if you want to imagine the future? imagine a happy one #and make it happen. what else can you do...?

[cinnabeat]

my favorite thing abt cale tcf is that if he really truly wanted to avoid the plot and live a peaceful life like he always says he couldve just completely avoided choi han and let him pass through or whatever but instead he personally invited him in and immediately started plans to prevent the horrors of the future war like yeah sure he was doing it to keep himself safe but he did it in THE MOST convoluted plot involving way possible like if he really TRULY wanted to stay safe and alone he couldve just not done Any of that. unfortunately for him he has a bleeding heart

#its been a while since i read tcf so excuse me if i got the beginning wrong but my point still stands #he couldve done literally anything but that you know #there was no reason #he woke up and was like huh im in the book series i was literally just reading and in the guy who gets beat up first thing #thats inconvenient #let me get the shield of vitality and avoid choi han like the plague #and in the process find more things to do to stay safe (read: prevent random strangers tragedies) and interact with choi han as much as huma #humanly possible #like hello #and then he just?? keeps doing it? #its like everytime he meets someone hes like do you have a problem? oh you do? sigh why does this always happen to me now i have to fix this #hes always like 'i didnt ask :/' when people tell him things buy then hes like #'but at leaat this conveniently fits into my ever expanding machinations' #mr 'im not a good person' my ASS #i really need to reread tcf its so funny #i miss my ultimate blorbo alberu #michi tag

[mycological-mariner]

Finished chapter 1 of Flight of the Heron. Oh my god. I thought y’all were joking but no. I was reading it at the gp waiting room and I laughed out loud. I’m not sure I was meant to but come on just. Everything is going wrong for him it is past the point of sorrow and straight into comedy

#keith’s hatred of mountains is killing me #FUCK mountains! #fuck THOSE mountains fuck THESE mountains fuck YOUR mountains #riding through a village: oh christ AND they’re Catholics??? #his face was directly in the path of the flight of the heron jfc #laying on the side of the road swearing that the flora and fauna of the highlands are out to get him lmao #’surrender if you please’ keith: wounded bleeding but v angry: ‘NO?! Fight me coward!’ #IMMEDITATLY gets his ass kicked in less than a minute #not even to MENTION the ‘fine specimen of young manhood’ WHAT #and ‘he’s handsome I bet he’s got muscles under there’ WHAT! #and finally giving in like fine. sure. but I feel bad about making you walk #this man’s misery is endless I’m revelling in it #he’s so small and angry #I love him #the flight of the heron #IM ONLY READ THE PROLOGUE AND CHP1!!! #I need to know what happens next this seems idk! #this book is a sick fic lmao #I have no idea the rest of the plot but my god #I’m gonna burn through this is no time huh

[thetimelordbatgirl]

"Stop comparing it to the animation!" ...Its a literal adaption of an animated show. Its literal existence is being an ADAPTION. What the fuck else you expect the adaption to be compared to? Because it certainly can't be treated as its own thing as again, its only excuse for existing is adapting something that already exists.

#the live action last airbender really brought the worst takes and defenses possible out huh #do you tell book fans this when their books get adapted to movies #no you fucking dont #because without the books the movies wouldnt exist #thats how adaptions fucking work #therefore comparisons will happen #so sorry people didnt come out of the latest live action last airbender loving it and came out of it hating it

[planet4546b]

one of the funniest parts of house of leaves is just knowing absolutely that i personally would not at all be immune to the house. like i would be IN those hallways. there was that whole chapter about trying to answer the question of why navidson would go back in and i was like dont need to explain it to me. i get it. im right there with you buddy id go back in too

#pers #guy who went to mammoth cave one single time literally five years ago and thinks about it constantly voice: #sometimes you read a horror book and you go yk its not the point but this would never happen to me #sometimes you read a horror book and you go. oh i would have been lost in there in .3 seconds huh #holposting #PROMISE i am almost done with this book and then ill shut up. it is just so perfectly designed to make me crazy

[fiendslothful]

Huh. That sure was a movie.

#red white and royal blue #personal #i saw a tweet yesterday saying that the rwrb movie is an instance of 'gay people deserve bad movies too' #and honestly? yeah theyre right #it was not great 😬 #it really felt like the movie only focused on alex and henry #and while i love them as characters and im aware that it is their story #i really wished that they wouldve. u know. shown the other characters #it really felt like they were forgotten abt. like in the book if a character wasnt present in a scene u kinda knew they were around #but in the movie it just felt like other characters didnt exist if they werent around alex and/or henry #nora and bea literally are never in a scene without alex or henry. same thing with pez #(and btw PERCY??? percy??? ur sticking with percy??? no pez? pez didnt roll off the tongue just percy??? fine. ok. whatever) #ellen and oscar going from divorced and on shaky ground (fueling alot of alex's issues and trauma as a result) to married? like what? #they straight up removed actors from this movie. i remember polo morin being casted and him doing interviews #why the sudden removal? what happened? #speaking of removal. it really felt like they forgot to add scenes in bcos the pacing just felt off? #like one minute there would be a scene where nothing is really happening and the next theyre in paris like huh??? #how did we get here? #there were just so many little to medium sized issues for me that kinda hindered this for me #im not saying its all bad cos it wasnt. it was a funny enough movie (the comedy both intentional and not was my fav part) #the love scene in paris was really beautiful like holy shit #i liked the performances enough? i dunno abt that one #none of them r bad actors really but tzp isnt really it for me sorry... #he was good in like the comedy scenes (actually he was really good there) but i just couldnt take him seriously during the confession like #i just felt nothing. i feel like thats my basic overall opinion for the movie. i felt nothing. still had fun tho #i watched the movie with my friends and i honestly think that added to it more. this is def a watch with friends and talk kinda movie #my friends knew i had read the book as well so throughout they would ask me questions and i kinda felt excited sharing facts abt the book #alright i need to wrap this up. it was eh. maybe i need to rewatch it without people around? maybe? #it def adds to the fun of it watching the movie with people but i def did miss 1 or 2 things #if u wanna hear more of my thoughts my dms r open. cos man do i have alooooot

[thehalfbloodfreak]

My audiobook copy from my library is missing the last two chapters of The Sunlit Man? It jumps straight from chapter 50 to the epilogue?? Thank goodness I just got my hold on the epub version so I’ll be able to read it all.

#it’s so bizarre #Elegy just saved Rebeke but then my audio book went ‘Epilogue’ #and I was like… uh? what about Zellion and the Cinder King? Huh??? #so weird #I’m not finished yet #but now im going to have to wait until after work to find out what happens #siiiigh…. #ssp4 #the sunlit man

[chiropteracupola]

animorphs continues to pair horrendous images with the most mundane comparisons possible. okay!

#em's animorphs summer #and it's always orcas too. huh. #I've noticed that the book directly after a big Plot-Developing Happening is always a weird one #so I don't have a whole lot of patience for returning to the chee arc right now when I'm still caught up in what went on in visser #it may be because I read visser before the rest of the series but I'm most captivated by all that goes on with marco + eva + visser one #that side of the plot and cassie's solo adventures have been my favorite parts so far. so I would like to get Back to that now thank you.