#that book reading boy

[blondie-drawings]

can't stop thinking about those skeleton lesbians (pt 1)

#palamedes and camilla my beloveds #pal gets grey hair to match his grey eyes like an anime boy because that's how i first imagined him sorryyyyy #also i think i drew ianthe's skelly arm on the wrong side. im sorry forever #also these only cover the first two books. currently reading nona! dont know wtf is goin on!! #tlt #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow nonagesimus #gideon nav #ianthe tridentarius #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #mercymorn the first #augustine the first #griddlehark #harrianthe #harryanthe #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #tamsyn muir

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

#I finished guards guards just yesterday and I forgot that vimes and wonse were set up to be mirror images #both boys from the shades of very different natures; who made good (ish) in wildly different ways #also it's interesting reading this books from an adult perspective; my mind isn't blown that these books exist #anymore; plus I've read so many good books since #and they're not perfectly constructed novels! especially these early books; #there are plenty of spots where I can feel the narrative get thin; where there's more handwaving than I remember #but each book IS better and tighter; the jokes are funnier and the irony sharpens; the footnotes are better utilized #the characters are getting more interesting and complicated as opposed to set-ups for jokes. #it's an illustration of someone getting better at their chosen field and that in itself is more impressive than I was anticipating. #discworld

[seasicksilver]

reading the Iliad is an experience

#help how do i tag this #greek mythology #athena #ares #zeus #the iliad #genuinely this is untaggable #fan art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #doodle #my art #the autism is winning. on book 11 of the iliad boys #i love how reading the iliad book 1 is like 'ok this isnt bad at all' then BOOM book 2 hits you with the biggest list of characters EVER #like oh okay this is what we're doing

[obsob]

oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!

#mine #cats #i was like losing it over th colouring yesterday like this SUCKS and then looked at it 2day n was like. anyway #ive been unstoppable since ive figured out how 2 do glowy things #me n my partner went ice skating this evening !! so so fun #i love how girls will just peacefully hang out in the centre ice doing spins n boys will fast and furious skate around at 100mph #like we dont need to be doing all that #as soon as i see a boy w hockey skates enter the ice i am now leaving the ice #anyway....i got a slightly dubious fantasy audiobook 2day we will....see...how it is #whenever i read a fantasy book written by a man my hackles are up i am scenting the air i am growling #have i finished assassins fate u ask.....no :3 #its been sitting at 30% for like 4 months i cant bring myself 2 read more KJBDSSK #there is like so much book left. so much that can go wrong #i will finish it soon i prommy i prommy...n then listen 2 th tawny man audiobooks :3 #ngl this fitz n fool trilogy isnt super doing it 4 me im not finding it as Invigorating for sm reason #still good !! but def my least fave of th three trilogies #anyway. i am going 2 bed

[mawguai]

Four friends, four treasures.

#pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet fanart #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarvio #nemona #nemona pokemon #arven #arven pokemon #penny #penny pokemon #coming in with scarlet dominance #there's so much violet stuff im like #what about scarlet :( #whenever there's SV art and it is scarlet fanart it's always juliana #i played as the boy so I decided to make it florian #anyways these games were so good I cried #it was so fun like so so so fun #I think people should go read all the books in the game #there's a lot of tidbits of lore in the books #bonus fact I tried to represent the league members #with the marks above the compass #spoiler warning for people reading my tags #the obvious one is poppy's and larry's is the rectangle #hassel is the second biggest #rika is far left it used to be more noticeable #that it was drawn looser than the others but not so much anymore #geeta is the biggest obv #my art

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed) #there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone? #yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't) #the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution) #and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is) #it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

[raiquen]

"I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."

~ Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

#gay #gay men #gay boy #gay twink #gay twunk #art #photography #books #poetry #reading #me #mine

[bisexual-steveharrington]

I would give anything to experience "that doesn't mean I wouldn't blow you" for the very first time again

#and an experience it WAS #the gasp i gusped #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #all for the game #aftg #the foxhole court #MORE THOUGHTS #i dont even remember why i read the books???? no one rec'd it to me #wasnt aware that andreil was a thing so didnt read it specifically for those little gay boys #aftg apeared to me in a dream

[nesyanast]

“Yentl—you have the soul of a man.”

“So why was I born a woman?”

“Even Heaven makes mistakes.”

Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #judaism #jewish culture #jewish reading #Jewish books #yiddish #yentl the yeshiva boy #yentl #isaac bashevis singer #transgender

[mobydyke]

[sexting] no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

#this exact post exists for anatomy btw but other incredible paragraphs about haunted houses deserve their own imo #the haunting of hill house #i should have snagged someone to read this book w me bc currently i'm just going insane on my own #when the mimetic crisis hits the haunted house book..... ooh boy #hill house #ace txt

[tap-dancing-fool]

The Percy Jackson show is everything I wanted and so much more, but where the FUCK are my good bitches Connor and Travis Stoll

#BRING ME THE BOYS #they were such fun agents of chaos #were they in the first book? #it’s been so many years since I’ve read it #Percy Jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackon and the olympians

[starrrbakerrr]

Peeta has said many charming things, but this line always has me giggling and kicking my feet. I don’t understand how Katniss was so strong.

Suzanne really decided to create the perfect man: he can bake and paint, he’s charming but not cocky, and is really kind and caring only to then strip and distort his entire personality, thanks suzanne.

I kinda hate how they changed this in the movie. Even in the paragraphs before this they had this flirty banter that was so so good. The movies erased or changed nearly all of their banter though.

But, anyway - Peeta Mellark is the blueprint that no other book boyfriend has lived up to.

#he is so cute like ahsgsidbakdhwidgwkxo #sweetest kindest baby boy #peeta mellark #everlark #the hunger games #catching fire #katniss everdeen #text #josh and jennifer are amazing actors and have great chemistry #and it shows #but writing wise ive always felt conflicted about how everlark is portrayed #and how peeta is written… #i watch the movies and think they’re great but when i read the books i realize how disappointing they are in some aspects #i see the books and movies as separate entities kinda

[puppyeared]

Communication

#i don’t use whisper but I do remember seeing the wildest shit to ever grace my eyes from there #marriage counsellor MK real!! this boy is so nosy hes all of us rn. what the FUCK happened between u two #I also love the idea of MK going to see more of macaques shadow plays. like I hope they bring that back PLEASEE #macaque starts doing shadow plays about jttw because MK doesn’t read the book. me too MK (hasnt gotten past the first chapter) #maybe. maybe he slightly changes the hero and the warrior story when he starts talking to wukong again- #my art #myart #doodles #Lego Monkie kid #lmk #lmk fanart #Monkie kid #lmk mk #lmk xiaotian #lmk six eared macaque #lmk macaque #lmk liu er mihou #six eared macaque #comic #soysauce duo #i think that’s their tag

[purble-turble]

Red Boy Comic Part 21

It’s been awhile!! And Red Boy is back and he’s having a bit of a tantrum :U

First > Prev > Next (coming soon)

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #red boy #red boy comic #spicynoodleshipping #this was probably a bad idea on MK’s part #but yknow #how was he supposed to know about Red Boy’s trauma #it’s not like there’s a book he could read about his back story or anything haha :U #purbs art

[pannamara]

ENG/УКР

I’m Lucien, seventh son of the High Lord of the Autumn court🍁

- Я Люсьєн. Сомий син Вищого Лорда Двору Осені 🍁

#art #artwork #my art #digital painting #fantasy art #art post #digital fanart #lucien vanserra #lucien acotar #elain x lucien #acotar art #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #fox boy #bookart #books and reading #booktok #book tumblr

[liorlen]

Pyr y’n gwna ni byrhoedled? / Digawn llawryded, / kywestwch a bed.

#‘then our lives are cut short: why? / it will make for great sorrow. / that long stay in the grave.’ #translation taken from gwyneth lewis and rowan williams’ the book of taliesin #transcription of the original welsh taken from marged haycock’s legendary poems from the book of taliesin #poem is the mabgyfreu taliesin / the works of young taliesin #Read my medieval welsh poetry quotes boy #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #I know people prolly will be less likely to reblog this or whatever bc of the welsh quote. idc #I WILL subject people to medieval welsh poetry and that is a threat #also side note for folks that speak welsh that read this: medieval welsh had k it literally is just a c. and there was no dd #it’s a dd or a d based on context #I can’t remember other specifics related to this passage to explain #I learned/am learning medieval welsh alongside modern welsh so my sensibilities are kinda fucked