#starting the second book

[egophiliac]

Of the TWST cards you own, which is your favorite (or favorites of you can't decide)?

(not that I'm still salty over that, nope, no way)

seriously though, this turned out to be harder to answer than I thought! I did actually manage to pull Stitch Lilia (THANK YOU TWSTFEST for the free bonus keys!) and he's absolutely adorable, I've literally been doing random battles just to watch him surf around and high-five Stitch. a fine addition to the Lilia collection!

in terms of proudest/most unbelievable achievement, that is 100% when I somehow managed to pull every single Scary Monsters card except one (only missing Rook!). I think I used up all my luck on that one, but at least it was for the Halloween cards! (after Scary Monsters and Glorious Masquerade, I'm so afraid of what this year's Halloween event is going to be, what if they look amazing how am I supposed to save my keys nooooo)

if I REALLY have to pick one, though...there is actually one card that I think I would call my favorite! he just makes me happy every time I look at him. :>

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #lost in the book with stitch #i love all the birthday cards but the originals hold a special place in my heart #i did show off a pull to my sister (whose only knowledge of twst is what i post) #and she just went 'the froofy little fancy boy outfits are REAL?!' #you don't understand the fact that they all become fancy little birthday princes is one of my favorite things #second only to the time they all just started throwing pies in each other's faces #birthday cards are THE best i am so excited for whatever weirdness the platinum jackets will introduce

[thespineoftherighteous]

i think my biggest ever hater aftg take is that I do not give a SHIT about robin or any new members of the team. in fact I like to pretend they don't exist and that the team somehow just stays those nine until they all graduate. you could not PAY me to acknowledge Robin beyond this and I hope she (and the rest of them) do not appear in the new books.

#and I don't feel bad for it in the slightest #I hope tsc ends before the start of the new school year #aftg #actually this tracks hugely for me. I never like characters that are introduced beyond (max) season 2 or the second book in a series #I like MY kids. the original kids. #and I don't like that they like anyone beyond their original squad #mine aftg

[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

[tiny-chubby-bird]

did they start a book club or what

#also gale is setting his robe on fire in the second one #its funny because they usually camp pretty far apart in the beginning #but then like late act 2 and act 3 (always depends on the camp location i guess) they start reading books together #gay or not they get along while reading #its so cute #bloodweave #bg3 gale #bg3 astarion #bg3 spoilers #gale dekarios #astarion ancunin #like the outdoors camp in act 3 they basically shoved their tents together #theyre sharing the same carpet and pillow #like hello????? #theyre hanging out!!!!

[lazycranberrydoodles]

i've been wanting to show off my crown prince design since november of last year lmao / follow for more xianle epic fail compilations

#i started drawing taizi dianxia and this meme popped into my head #the second panel is based off of the time the trio spent in the quarantine zone before xianle fell #when xl was trying to figure out the cure for the human face disease and bringing rain to yong’an #lemme find my favorite quotes from this book #its either #Your Highness #why do you think you can achieve anything you want to do? Rather than putting my fate in your hands #I choose to put it in my own. #… Throughout all their past meetings #this was the very first time Xie Lian had steeled his heart to kill Lang Ying. #orrrr #You don’t have a third path amd there is no second cup of water. Wake up #Your Highness! You’re running out of time. #tgcf #heaven official’s blessing #tian guan ci fu #tgcf meme #xie lian #hob #lmao #art #digital art #my art #doodle #tgcf spoilers #blood

[decarbry]

battle cats 2

#my hero academia #boku no hero academia #rooftop trio #oboro shirakumo #I barely remember what happened in those books lmao #hizashi started reading the English battle cats books to Shou in their first year #they were still working through the series in their second #Oboro doesn't get it but he enjoys listening in anyway #oh sweet summer children

[batcavescolony]

I feel like people aren't getting it. In. The. Books. Perseus. Jackson. Is. An. Unreliable. Narrator. This goes for everything he thinks. Percy loves his mother, so he writes her praises. In the show we get to see what Sally does from an outside POV not filtered through a child that idolizes his mother. It's not ooc for Sally to act like she does in the show. she's a single mother raising a neurodivergent, Demigod, and she's scared that when the Gods get to him they'll corrupt him. She's not suddenly a girl boss we're getting to see her for how she is.

#percy jackson #sally jackson #“sHe sToOd uP tO gABe sHe wOuLdnT dO tHat' she did it because percy needed to get to montock so she could tell him about how hes a demigod #sally as a character will do anything for her son. gabe being abusive doesnt negate what she needs to. do for her son. in in the book the #second gabe was no longer needed she turned him into a statue and sold him to to the highest bidder. she was putting up with the abuse for #percys sake. and this is then woman that grebbed a gun and started fighting in the battle of Manhattan. shes not weak. you can be two things #she can be motherly and strong. and obviously she has her douts. she thinks shes failing. she called posiden when it was too much and he #reassured her she was doing her best and she needs to do what she thinks is best. and we are only seeing some scenes #we're seeing whats relevant to the plot and whats relative is sally preparing Percy. and she obviously cares for her son and her son for her #she has to be a good mother cus percy is literally going to the underworld to save her. just stfu about the book #ive read the books to but some of you are awful. like no adaptation is to the letter. somethings had to be cut or glossed over and some are #changed because money or that a book is a different medium then a show or movie! you cant do everything cus its impossible. #were in a completely different pov. we're not in Percys head seeing his thoughts. #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches

[bestiarum]

#always. #like one moment i'm laughing at something jaskier says and a second later i start crying because i think about #literally anything lol #and also The Horrors of trying to make everything in the books make sense AND reconcile it with the games and whatnot #and then think of the implications of everything #like one thing that always gets me is thinking about what happens After. like how the witchers all have to die. #and all the other characters too #anyway yeah i've been thinking about this way too much lol #the witcher #wiedźmin #wiedzmin #geralt of rivia

[ivyithink]

so i’ve finished “mo du”

so, i’ve read “mo du” and it finished me

fei du’s mug! (a gift from luo wenzhou, obviously)

#my art #my doodles #mo du #silent reading #luo wenzhou #fei du #zhoudu #luo yiguo #fei qian #YES KITTIES GET TAGGED THEY ARE THE CHILDREN C’MON #should probably also tag #justice in the dark #the adaptation we will probably never get in full…. and it had such a fun start; they made some real interesting choices; and acting?? GOOD #BUT THE NOVEL #it’s been some time since I last had the feeling of ‘I NEED to read all of this RIGHT NOW #but also I desperately don’t want this book to end’ #this one was such a ride and I loved every second of it #goddamn priest did it again #she got me good with guardian and word of honor (although I’ve only watched those for now) #AND THEN THIS!?! #she’s insane I love her #and I love these two well technically four #you can’t forget the cats #especially when one of them is legit a proper character #I swear I’ve seen/read actual human characters — some of them main ones — that had less personality than that cat #and yes I did choke on air upon witnessing with my own eyes fei du’s ‘I’m the abyss’ speech #WHO ARE YOU? #KANG YOHAN??? #these dramatic bithes honestly #would die for them

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

#this post is spoiler-free btw. the narrator is very upfront about the fact that it can't lie and says this very early in the story #i'm only like 40% through my reread and i don't remember any details of what happens but i'm already losing it #and the fact that it's first-person second-person narration...completely undivorceable from the conceit of the book #might write a different post about that but probably only after i finish rereading #i finally got my sister to agree to read it and she's like 'i read the first fifteen pages! i like the style' #and i'm barely restraining myself from being like girl please read another fifty pages and get back to me #if you are not frothing at the mouth by page 100 then your money back. guaranteed. #my sister loves semantics like the linguistic subfield of semantics so i've been begging her to read this for so many years... #like i KNOW she will love it when that stuff starts becoming apparent. which is remarkably early in the book #hrrrrhughghrhrrgh i want to talk about it so bad #the raven tower #ann leckie #my posts #unreliable narrators #or not!!! actually!!! #storytelling #semantics

[tragedy-for-sale]

In case you wanted to know, in The Clone Wars novel, Rex was shaving his head literally right before Ahsoka arrives.

#his first real introduction in the book is straight up him shaving his head #and then they start getting attacked and Ahsoka arrives #my boy Rex is iconic for shaving his head the second they have down time #captain rex #clone wars

[egophiliac]

(it probably wasn't actually Idia's fault)

(or was it)

some quick initial reactions to celebrate Diasomnia Day One! it felt like a bit of a short intro, but oh, what a tasting menu of things to come.

#art #long post #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #it's been thirty seconds and already #lilia is sending himself to a farm upstate where he'll have lots of rabbits to chase #malleus does a whole flashback to his most embarrassing childhood memory #ponytail lilia CONFIRMED we have a CONFIRMED SIGHTING everybody #idia does a surprisingly good crowley impression. this is not important to the plot but it's important to me personally. #also silver is probably a cursed prince or something WHO CARES look at these COOL ACORNS #the mental image of silver and lilia having that little heart-to-heart about the ring #while sebek is five feet away sorting laundry #absolutely incredible #meanwhile yuu continues to just have no survival instinct whatsoever #if a horned man approaches you at midnight and goes 'wouldn't it be nice if we never had to say goodbye to anyone ever?' DO NOT SAY YES #also if he starts bragging to you about his sorcerer ancestress DO NOT be like 'yeah but...did she maybe kind of suck' #'was she just super unlikeable personally speaking' #we are so lucky that for some reason malleus is really into all of our weird bullshit #okay shutting up now i promise #i just have so much to say and so few tags to do it in

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

on hua cheng's morality and self esteem

on my first read of the book, i was actually convinced that hua cheng was this amoral asshole but that's just what he WANTS you to think. hua cheng actually cares a lot about ghost city (founded to combat the injustice of ghost persecution btw), he just downplays his achievements in front of xie lian because he doesn't want to 'trick' him into liking him. he also sees any accomplishments as a direct result of dianxia's influence so it would be wrong to take credit for them. perhaps hundreds of years of playing the part of the terrible calamity skewed his perception of himself even further.

in his introduction in heaven, they say how he would "Sometimes... carry out a massacre in cold blood, and sometimes he would do odd acts of kindness" (page 157, book 1) which makes me wonder what heaven defines as "cold blood." he visibly dislikes the man who bet his daughter's life and mentions killing several tyrants. in creating e'ming, he nearly destroyed himself in order to save those mortals. on the casino in ghost city, "If I don’t control a place like this, then someone else will. I’d rather that person be me." (page 107, book 2.) he has a very strong sense of justice that he hides under 3 million layers of arrogance.

xie lian gets the ability to tell if he is lying early in the book and sees him for who he really is. they're very similar in that they have this drive to do good in the world but think about it and go about it in very different ways. hua cheng even mentions that it doesn't matter how you go about saving the common people, and that xie lian over-complicates what is right and wrong and should do what he wants... but he wouldn't turn that logic on himself :/

anyway

**this is my reading btw if anybody wants to have a discussion im 100% down

#this started out as a joke about how i sometimes have very coherent analysis about him and sometimes i can only go hrgrhrghrgr #but i have too many thoughts about him. plus i'm working on a characterization reference guide and reread books 1 and 2 yesterday #so my head's full of textual evidence✨ #on your first read of an mxtx book you fall for the parts the characters are playing. on the second read you get knocked out #from how well put together and connected everything is. and on the third read your third eye opens #tgcf #i speak #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #tgcf meta #meta #tgcf analysis

[thesweetnessofspring]

k so that poll about where Katniss and Peeta live once they're together is going around and I'm not here to tell anyone their headcanon is wrong but I keep seeing one thing in some tags that bothers me and that's the idea that Peeta's house doesn't have any ghosts, and the implication that Katniss is suffering the loss of Prim more than Peeta is suffering the loss of his family. His entire family.

I know his family didn't live with him, I know he had a bad relationship with his mom and his relationship with the rest of his family is a mystery, but that doesn't mean his house doesn't have ghosts. We don't know exactly what happened there besides the fact that he lived alone. His brothers could have come by to cheer him up, bringing cards to play poker and slap jack. He and his dad could have worked on new baking recipes in his kitchen. And look, even abusive parents aren't always terrible, and maybe his mom was trying to repair their relationship when he got back. We just don't know! And even if no one ever stepped a foot in his house the whole time, that is a whole other ghost--a feeling that he was never home, a house of his nightmares and pain and loneliness following returning from the Games.

I get that Katniss's loss was devastating and she externally reacts to it more than Peeta, who tries to hide the effect of his trauma, and I understand the logic that Peeta's house is easier or he would stuff down the pain to ease Katniss's, but he has ghosts in his house, too.

#the hunger games #peeta mellark #i know you guys love peeta too i just had to say this #bby boy stuffs down his trauma so deep it's easy to forget it's there sometimes but that boy is absolutely dying inside #and as for my own propaganda on the poll i'll just say that peeta always goes to katniss #and while memories of prim are in her house from the fact that they make the memory book i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing #she WANTS to remember prim #she's afraid to forget #and i think these two things (along with my headcanon that peeta hates his house and his happy memories are in katniss's) #that they stay in katniss's house #second choice is an apartment above the bakery that peeta obviously starts up once he's well enough

[lazycranberrydoodles]

COME ON GUYS DON'T LET DIANXIA DOWN

#images i drew on my phone approximately 90 seconds before class started #tma vs tgcf is pitting two bad bitches against each other but #from the other guys propaganda he is apparently a beloved side character #which i totally understand. #BUT HUA CHENG IS THE DEUTERANTAGONIST WHO LOVED XIE LIAN SO MUCH IT UNDOOMED HIM FROM THE NARRATIVE #HE DIDNT CLAW HIS WAY OUT OF TONGLU TO BE BEATEN LIKE THIS #also tma has gay people that dont undoom each other from the narrative. L + ratio (/j/j/j/j we all love tragedies here) #hua cheng will never rest in peace and he doesn't want to because he has a smokin boyfriend #they are both angry goths but has gerry died THREE TIMES????? no. just once. lame. #gerry got his skin bound into a necromancy book that was eventually burned but hua cheng ripped out his eye to craft a sickass scimitar !!! #hua cheng haunts the narrative before he dies in a hundred tiny ways and then HEAVILY after he dies a second time #he's an awesome city owner and has violent beef with HEAVEN. and he carves statues and paints and builds temples #and is also a self conscious loser <3 #his gay awakening was intensely traumatic and religious for everybody involved. and he's had the same life mission since he was 10 #he is actively fighting ghost discrimination and getting dangerous magical items off of the normal human market #also he is always bedecked in elaborate silver and chains and eyeliner and ALWAYS in blood red clothes #HE CAN MAKE IT RAIN BLOOD!!???!?!? ALSO #he stick and poked his god's name on himself but his handwriting is so bad it's unrecognizable and the signs he puts up have evil auras #this has ceased to be propaganda. now im just gushing. only tgcf fans will see this anyway. whatever youre getting blorbo rant #tgcf #art #poll #hua cheng #lmao #my art #tian guan ci fu #hualian #xie lian #hob #heaven official's blessing

[sammypog]

some of my favorite quotes from hell followed with us ((:

#alas there is a 10 image limit #i would have also included the scene where theo sees benji’s face starting to rot #and he says ‘it’s still you’ over and over again #hate theo but that made me like him for a second #also i would have included the line i just reblogged #‘do you believe in god’ ‘i do please stop there’s so much blood’ #RAAAHHH #this book is so perfect #hell followed with us #hfwu #hell followed with us spoilers