#this book is fucking insane

[unveiledshroud]

"instead of a smile or frown, a movie fragment of night sky washes across her face. A galaxy of stars and moons"

- Under Cover. A poem about mother nature

#it's actually from “haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk #but IYKYK #this book is fucking insane

[normally-blue]

Marcille im lov you <333

#dungeon meshi #marcille donato #my art #dunmeshi #BROOOO marcille is so cool like goody two shoes top of the class #who is ALSO that one guy whos like 'nooo dark magic is just misunderstood' #what a god tier combo it makes me love her so much #girlie who does everything by the book but that book is evil and forbidden #SPOILER - #when she resurrected falin in that fucked up ritual that's when I really started to love her #AUGHH like she's a straight A student. she's slightly insane. her hair is gorgeous. she's also a catastrophic lesbian #character of all time

[brungeons-and-bragons]

Me starting GTN after hearing about it from a friend: NEEEEEEED the bone lesbians to kiss

Me finishing NTN: love is all around me and god needs to die.

#these books make me insane #how the Fuck do I cope #tlt series #i came for lesbians I left with trauma. and lesbians. #this series is the reason I need therapy and the therapy itself #you can’t take loved away #tlt #tlt memes #gtn #htn #griddlehark #alecto the ninth #Gideon the ninth #ntn #nona the ninth #john gaius #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #Jod #the emperor undying #the locked tomb #1k

[anxi0usgh0st]

if you see this I’m taking you on a date to the planetarium then we’re going to a cat cafe and a library. best places on earth criticism isn’t taken

#concerts are also up there on the list of charlie’s favorite places #and science museums I fucking love science museums. #ever been to california academy of science? insane #first date I’m being a nerd you get what you see #science #cats #cat cafe #cute cats #books & libraries #safe space #date night #date ideas #planets #planetarium #space #outer space

[harrowharkwife]

i'm so used to there just being random unidentified bones laying around everywhere in these damn books that it finally occurred to me, just now, to wonder where the bones on new rho came from. y'know, the bones palamedes always tried to teach nona necromancy on.

they're his.

palamedes, who always loved teaching, living on borrowed time in a body that's not his own. palamedes, mentoring, teaching- parenting, by sixth standards, mind you. and that boy is sixth, through and through.

and the entire point of teaching nona necromancy in the first place was to try and determine if nona is, well, nonagesimus, right? so it has to be bones, it can't not be bones. bones are, like, her whole thing.

but they're not in the nine houses, anymore. things are different, on new rho.

they burn bones here. dig up the cemeteries. a society terrified of zombies will evolve to dispose of its dead differently.

the only bones he has access to now are his own. (camilla wouldn't let anyone take them- skull or hand, doesn't matter. they're still him, and she doesn't let go, remember? it's her one thing.)

palamedes woke up every morning wearing someone else's body to then gently place the shrapnel of his own in the cupped palms of a girl who's the closest thing he'll ever have to a daughter and try to teach her- how did the angel put it, again? normal school, as much as possible, for as long as possible.

(but hey, in a roundabout way, at least it's a chance for him to touch camilla again, right? nevermind that she's not there to feel any of it because he's in the driver's seat, that he can only stay for fifteen minutes at a time. it's atoms that belong to camilla touching atoms that used to belong to him, and that's close enough. he'll take what he can get, these days- if she can be their flesh, he can be the end. so what if holding his own bones is a mindfuck? so what if looking at them makes him nauseous? surely he can suck it up and deal with it for fifteen minutes. it's the least he can do— his poor camilla was the one who had to scrape the bloody pulp of them off the floors of canaan house.)

(speaking of, here's a fun fact: we actually only see nona practicing with the bones one time, on-page. camilla's final line in that scene, before palamedes takes over, is none other than: 'keep going. there are some bones left.' ow!)

remember, too, that the only part of dulcinea, the real dulcinea, that palamedes ever physically touched, was her tooth- the one that ianthe gave him, pulled from the ashes cytherea burnt her down to. he only ever touched dulcie once, and it wasn't until after she was already gone, but that doesn't matter- it still happened, and you can't take loved away.

in this same roundabout, bittersweet, by-proxy sort of way, palamedes has been physically touched by nona, too: the atoms she currently occupies, touching atoms that he used to occupy, and never will again.

the main interaction we've seen between palamedes and his mother took place back on the sixth, with her acting as mentor and him as pupil: the two of them studying a set of hand bones, juno encouraging him every step of the way.

we know that harrowhark's "most vivid memory of her mother was of her hands guiding harrow's over an inexpertly rendered portion of skull, her fingers encircling the fat baby bracelets of harrow's wrists, tightening this cuff to indicate correct technique."

they're still small for a nineteen year old, but the wrists are bigger, in this new set of memories nona's making. and it's not an inexpertly rendered portion of skull anymore- it's a hand, now, albeit one crafted from [a piece of skull reassembled (painstakingly—passionately—laboriously reassembled) from fragments, manually, and not by a bone magician, from the skull of someone who, soon after death or symptomatically during, had exploded.] and the identity and origin of these bones is no mystery at all. they belong to palamedes, and he's consented to their use for this purpose, and that matters.

but the details are just set dressing, really. the foundation of the memory is the same.

palamedes and his mother, juno and her son.

harrow and her mother; pelleamena and her daughter.

nona and her father-mother-teacher; palamedes and his daughter.

#these fucking books. every 2-3 business days i'll find some new detail to be insane about #this post took me like three hours to write. what the fuck #palamedes sextus #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #nona #palamedes the sixth #tlt #ntn #camilla hect #tlt spoilers #pal honey. im :( :( :( #spiritually that man is a MOM okay! there's a reason tamsyn specifically assigned him the same imagery in this scene #that she's been using to represent crucial bonding moments between mother/mother figure and child/child figure #that and the 'sextus you'll make a very irritating wife someday' joke and cam's 'i'll talk to your mother later' face #ie: talk to palamedes about nona #that boy is momcoded i don't make the rules!

[rillette]

(Nightwing voice) oh my god its pink 

#jason todd #dick grayson #robin #i think jason would go insane mode at the schoolastic book fair #if you tag this as ship im going to fucking drone strike your house #basketball

[chuckwon]

I was randomly thinking about this little tidbit again and realized I never posted this video on here, so I thought I'd give you all psychic damage tonight.

Misha: “Obviously Chuck would be younger [in The Winchesters], and he’d be played by a…” Jensen: “Somebody much younger than Rob Benedict, like Alex Calvert.” –August 2022 (The Winchesters started airing in October 2022 and ended in March 2023)

Yeah... that checks out.

#jack kline #chuck won #chuck won theory #they were FUCKING insane for this. #spnwin #the winchesters #jensen ackles #misha collins #video #liiiiiike.... lmao. JENSEN'S SMIRK #sometimes I think 'I'm too lazy to write a long-form meta/book about the prequel. I'll just do bits and pieces eventually' #and then I think on it again and I'm like 'maybe the world DOES need it actually'...

[waterlilyvioletfog]

See the thing is, you read HtN and like yeah, obviously lobotomizing yourself so a dead girl’s soul doesn’t get cannibalized is completely fucking wild and you probably have to love someone at least a little to do that, but Harrow has spent the whole book having tension with Ianthe and fervently claiming to be in love with the Body— and then you get to Act V and Harrow is literally weeping wailing feral about Gideon, constructing Prince!Gideon AUs (which, she doesn’t know about Gideon’s paternity!! She is simply drawing upon a (romantic!!!) genre trope!!!) and role reversal AUs and fucking coffee shop AUs about Gideon, and she’s refusing to go back to her own body, and Abigail and Magnus and Dulcie so obviously and completely believe that Harrow is in love with Gideon because they directly compare them to Abigail and Magnus, and she says she’s saving the last dance. Agh!!! Aggghhhhh!!!!!!

#when I tell you that harrow’s final chapter is fucking euphoric she’s so happy. I swear she’s so happy Gideon’s alive it’s insane #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt series #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #tlt spoilers #tlt #the locked tomb series #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark #I just re-read htn. it’s wild. #to be honest the river bubble plotline is so wonderful I’m so glad harrow got to have that. #abigail loving her. Magnus and dulcie. ortus apologizing for his role in her life etc. the ghost gang!! #fun fact: I want a TV show about the ghost gang. ortus pro marta and nonius vs the world. TELL ME you wouldn’t watch that shit #like the whole book is so miserable and act v is especially miserable but the bubble plot in act V is just. god it’s so good.

[hauntedmoors]

she's so funny

#the tumblr post that's like. the most important commentary you can make about a piece of media being saying that two characters should fuck. #text #wheel of time #lanfear

[syl-stormblessed]

everyone loves talking about the batshit worldbuilding in WoT but I feel like everybody tends to overlook the Vaguely Evil Elves From Another Dimension that have their own officially licensed chutes and ladders-esque board game that you Cannot Ever Win

#unless you're a 9 year old boy who's surrogate father just broke their entire reality #society when olver won snakes and foxes without cheating #the day I get my hands on a real life snakes and foxes game is the day that I can die happy #but idk I feel like everybody tends to overlook the aelfinn and the eelfinn in favor of like. the ogier and radioactive two rivers #and the many. many. m a n y. other insane worldbuilding Choices robert jordan made #which are all valid I mean WoT is fucking insane #but I think we should have more aelfinn and eelfinn appreciation on this webbed site #like they're so interesting!!!!!! there's so much to unpack!!!!!!!!! #vin speaks #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #wheel of time spoilers #wot spoilers #mat cauthon #the shadow rising #towers of midnight

[demadogs]

More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.

#this is the darkest fucking kiss in cinematic history i swear to god #this looks fucking insane on my phone but normal on my computer i really hope you guys have better phones than me #anyways. dont do drugs kids #actually dont do like anything from this book #except gay sex you can do that #my gifs #the goldfinch #donna tartt #boreo #theo decker #theodore decker #boris pavlikovsky #finn wolfhard #oakes fegley #usergay #lgbtsource #gay #lgbt #mlm #mlmsource #filmedit #dark academia #<- this shit is Not dark academia the whole book theyre skipping school lmao #but the book is always in those dark academia mood boards so im tagging it

[introspectivememories]

TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #7 YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

#this comic won a pulitzer prize in my house #when they told us that it would be bernard pov.... chills #and then the actual contents of the book??? #i think i went insane as i read it #genuine changed my brain chemistry #OH MY GOD WHEN WE THOUGHT BEAR WAS GONNA PROPOSE??? #AND THE NECKLACE!!!! THE FUCKING NECKLACE!!! #sorry i'm going feral just thinking about it #td:r #tim drake: robin #bernard dowd #tim drake #timbern #dc

[krash-and-co]

not to be insane about her on main but you know I never stopped thinking about jessica right. you know I never stopped thinking about jess lockwood

shes like. she's JESS.

shes haunting the narrative. she's haunting lockwood. shes haunting nothing at all, in the literal sense, which is rather strange. shes in Lucy's face and the way she stands at the door. shes got lockwoods eyes, or maybe hes got hers. she's burned into her bedset. she's burned into her house. she's burned into wood. she's a broken pot. she's a clumsy rapier. she's waiting at the apple tree. shes sleeping under her covers. she likes stickers. she's a kid, she's a guardian, she's not going to take off the baby wallpaper in her bedroom. she's clung to youth. she's forced to grow up. she's younger than her baby brother. she's the world. shes important enough to die for. she's important enough to live because of. she's blue and swollen and on the floor and dead. she's pale and smiling and holding her brother in her lap, immortalized, shoved in a dresser drawer because somebody couldnt handle seeing her face.

she's that important. she's that important.

she's a lockwood, she's a mirror, she's lucy joan carlyle and anthony john lockwood and a reminder and a child and doomed, doomed, doomed in such a way that she could save everyone else.

she's the boxes lockwood couldn't open. she's the right time. she's warm feathers and stitches purposefully undone.

in her childishly wallpapered room, she is sitting, watching, cross legged on her bed.

#she means so much to me she means so much to this whole series you dont fucking understand #oh my word oh my gosh im insane i #SHAKING YOU GOING FERAL GRRRRAGHHHHHHHHH #EXPLODES #Lockwood and co #Jessica Lockwood #Anthony Lockwood #lucy carlyle #Lockwood and co books #lockwood and co spoilers #krash’s personal faves

[hoegender]

i'm back with another black butler shitpost made with the help of @qualityrain and @crystals-trash-heap aka the '"they're a found family" every time sebastian and ciel were tender with each other' squad

#on god ive watched this movie about 10 times now #also yeah we demoted sebastian to smaller and smaller fractions of a hell of a butler every time he fucked up #sorry yin. sorry crystal #black butler #kuroshitsuji #book of the atlantic #thiha thinks thoughts #thiha goes insane

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

Daenerys book differences

{only the firsts three seasons}

In S1, we mostly see how badly Daenerys was treated by Viserys and then how, with Drogo's help, she proceeded to go against him and then become the mother of dragons. In the first book, we actually see how she herself started to outshine him; she started to grow as a leader and started to create her own circle of people. To give an example, there's this scene when she orders the khalasar to stay behind ("you're learning to talk like a queen," "not a queen, a khaleesi"), and Viserys gets mad at her (as usual). In the show, it's a man from the Khalasar who humiliates him and takes away his horse (Rakharo, if I remember correctly). In the book, it's Daenerys; she's the one who humiliates him using her dothraki knowledge. This shows not only that she was starting to defy her brother but also her leadership's growth.

Still in S1, in the last episode, there's the speech where she says, "And I swear to you, that all those that will harm you will die screaming." There's a similar speech in the book, but she says that all the men who raped a little girl will die screaming.

In s2, when she sends people away and she sees how her people are not doing well, she looks frightened, and she needs Jorah to tell her that "she needs to be their strength" (completely erasing her leadership moment). In the book, however, she already knows that she needs to be their strength and that she can show no weakness or fear.

Still in s2, when they arrive to Qarth, she just starts screaming in one of the seven that she will burn down cities and whatever ("we will lay waste on armys and burn cities to the ground"). Also when they enter and they don't agree to take her to Westeros, she gets mad again and looks childish. In the books, however, the seven let her stay in Qarth out of curiosity, and she's also the one to explain to Xaro how business works, showing her intelligence.

In S3, she wonders whether to buy the unsullied or not. In the book, she affirms that she wants people to follow her because they believe in her and not because they've been bought. Does that sound familiar to you? of course, because they gave that whole speech to Ser Barriston, again taking away her intelligence.

Also, with the second sons it's not Daario that guides her like it happens in the show. In the book, Daenerys is the one who plans the attack against Yunkai, giving them different information to trick them and getting the second sons drunk. Again, her intelligence and leadership were given to her male advisors.

#maybe i'll do another version for the later seasons #also the amount of times jorah needs to console or guide her??? insane #she's always the one that needs to put him in his place because he's too much #and when she tells him that he needs to be her strengh??? what the fuck??? the last thing he is is her fucking strenght #book daenerys targaryen #daenerys targeryan #daenerys defence squad #got #asoiaf #grrm

[dollsuguru]

this man has no fucking right to be THIS beautiful… jinshi my LOVE.

#jinshi my BELOVED… god he makes me so. insane #i say that a lot but he really makes me Clinically Unwell i just love him so so so so so so so much #him & maomao <3 my favs of all time <3 the only people EVER #i NEED to order all the apothecary diaries manga/light novels STAT #ALSO THE FUCKING SOUNDTRACK TO THE ANIME??? THE NEW EPISODE TODAY??? #BEST ANIME SERIES EVER I’M NOT EVEN REMOTELY JOKING. #the song that was used when jinshi carried maomao out after she saved his life… i teared up & got LITERAL chills holy FUCK #let me order the books rn actually like ’m not playing around #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #personal