#this book... incredibly charming

[leojurand]

Peter: Oy!

Harriet: Hullo!

Peter: I just wanted to ask whether you’d given any further thought to that suggestion about marrying me.

Harriet (sarcastically): I suppose you were thinking how delightful it would be to go through life like this together?

Peter: Well, not quite like this. Hand in hand was more my idea.

Harriet: What is that in your hand?

Peter: A dead starfish.

Harriet: Poor fish!

Peter: No ill-feeling, I trust.

Harriet: Oh, dear no.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

#lord peter wimsey #have his carcase #dorothy l. sayers #THEY'RE SO POOKIE TO ME #this book... incredibly charming #and at the same time there are so many scenes of witnesses relating what they know i might go crazy if i read more of that #i think that's when i really feel that this book is much longer than the previous ones #but peter and harriet more than make up for it!! #so silly so fun and yet so layered <3 #also sayers just makes this book wildly entertaining to read with things like ☝️ that #what a talent #currently reading

[souldagger]

Uriel and Little Ash from When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb, one of my fav books of the year (which came out today)!

#i just think they're neat.png #it's abt an angel and a demon causing trouble in early 20th century New York it's very Jewish and queer and incredibly charming :) #cant wait for my physical copy to get here so i can reread it #my art #books #when the angels left the old country

[the-starry-skye]

hunter huntsman & dexter charming friendship requested by anon

#they rescue woodland creatures together and go grab coffee weekly #they're always talking about how incredible their gfs are #just two guys secure in their masculinity dexter borrowing hunter's flannels hunter borrowing his sweaters #dexter gives him books hunter makes him go on hikes #thanks for the request! #sorry for how late it is #eah #ever after high #dexter charming #hunter huntsman #dexter charming aesthetic #dexter charming moodboard #hunter huntsman aesthetic #hunter huntsman moodboard #ever after high aesthetic #ever after high moodboard #eah aesthetic #eah moodboard #eah hunter #eah dexter

[distraughtlesbian]

cas’s every other line of dialogue in chapters 1-8: vampires are infinitely superior to humans you are the prey and we are the predators i am so sexy and dangerous i jump off cliffs for fun i kill and murder people and no one tells me shit about it i could end you with a thought

gabe, teaching mc how to defend themselves against vampires: ya you just gotta plant your feet :)

#LIKE? THE DELUSION 😭 #i get that the self defence diamond scene is just there for the romantic tension blah blah it’s there in all action oriented choices books #but they spend the entire story prior to it establishing that vampires are so much stronger than even the strongest human #that the only thing preventing the complete extinction of humanity is the silly little magic charm bracelet #and the good nice vampire laws made by the good nice vegan vampires. #it truly does make it seem like gabe is not living in reality and it makes them SO incredibly funny. #you guys know that tiktok meme of the comment that’s like ‘how do you stay so positive?’ #and the response is ‘delusion’? that’s gabe. #society if i wrote immortal desires and it was a black comedy. pixelberry doesn’t understand her like i do. #maeve speaks #choices #playchoices #pixelberry #immortal desires #choices immortal desires #choices id #cas harlow #cassius harlow #cassie harlow #cas x mc #gabe adalhard #gabriel adalhard #gabriela adalhard #gabe x mc

[eldritchmochi]

im working on my project of "add every book i own to a spreadsheet because im insane" (roughly half done at 456 books 🫠) and i got to the shelf with one of my absolute favorites in my collection

the marvel comic edition of the og star wars, adapted way back when the og movies came out and bought by my dad new when he was a teenager. its beat to shit but would probably still be worth a hefty chunk of change except

my dad used it as a coloring book

whats extra cute is, before i accidentally stole this book from my dad, i would use manga pages for coloring practice. like father, like son

#mochi rambles #im not allowed to get rid of this book ever #partly because id feel bad because despite having it in my grubbly little hands for more than half my life at this point #i still dont consider it MY book #but also because its incredibly charming to flip thru and see what fifteen year old dad thought would be fun to color #you can tell the plan was color the whole thing #because theres large chunks of pages that have only one color filled in #just page after page of brown uniforms and hair and nothing else #but only probably like a dozen pages are fully colored like above #mostly the chapter covers

[geolato]

So spells have... conscience? And I love it??

#this book is incredibly charming #the spells wont get in his head because they're scared of the big spell that chose to go in his head #g reads #the colour of magic

[vvelegrin]

i've succumbed.

grabbed a copy of ender's game from ebay.

#specifically the 1994 version that i had for years before everyone i've ever lent to stole my copies #i think that cover is the best #saw the final FINAL book that ties the ender and bean series together #and then i pretended i did not see it #sorry i don't care anymore #i will however have an excellent time rereading ender's game and speaker for the dead #have an average time maybe eventually reading xenocide #and then probably quit children of the mind halfway through again if i even start it (third or fourth or whatever time is NOT the charm) #as the mormon god of orson scott card intended #bring me on the journey once more mr. card #to your brazilian catholic planet of the far future #oh god and also the chinese ocd planet #oh yeah there was ender in exile later? that one was okay i guess #literally only remember 1) shakespeare performance and 2) ender letting one of bean's long lost sons beat him to a pulp #literally all that i remember though that second one lives in my head rent free #also lmao not gonna lie i liked his ender short story collection a great deal #sorry folks ender's game et al was an incredibly formative thing for me in my childhood lmao

[jmawork]

I should just draw bats all of October tbh

#I bought a great book at Goodwill by Merlin Tuttle about how to live with bats! #Lots of good pics and cute sketchy illustrations #published in 1988 originally so it's incredibly charming

[badass-sunshine]

I thought about Lily Quench today and cried, this book was so formative to me.

[Image: A paperback copy of Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby by Natalie Jane Prior.]

Please reblog so I can have a larger sample size! Thank you <3

#lily quench #polls #spilled marbles #i was telling my fiancée about this and she said it has very much ''baby's first fantasy'' energy #which it absolutely was! incredibly formative! #i was flipping through it again and the art is so charming and the writing so engaging? #these books are so close to my heart. especially the first three #i read them over and over

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

man i fuckin swear to god the inconsistencies in LL are making me want to resurrect @wtflorienlegacies. getting to the end of FoF in my reread and being reminded that they completely retconned five's entire backstory without a word like

#lorien legacies #LL number five #LL crit tag #FoF: he was found by the mogadorians immediately after landing on earth; and they raised him from when he was a toddler #every single other piece of source material since: he had a roughass life and only ended up with them eight months ago #SOWHATISTHEFCKINTRUTH.GIF #like you might say he was lying; because he does lie a lot #but again; this was during his frantic climactic reveal; where he was exposing everything all cards on the table #he did not at all seem like he was intending to lie about this or thought it would help at the time #and this is the series that has casually retconned shit like 'the mogs found The Only Weapon in the Universe that could break the charm' #'and it's a sword being carried by a random soldier' #at the very beginning of the /first book/ #so it is clearly not beneath them but also i am amazed that this one wasn't just poorly handled early installment weirdness #that could be quietly waved off as a nonsequitur #this was like. a major plot point not just that a prominent character's concept was built around #but that massively impacted pretty much every other major character's arcs and dynamics with each other #/bruh/ #they also can't be assed to keep shit straight like the spelling of vatborn; or whether maggie grew up in scotland or ireland #for the space of a single book #truly incredible #anyway i'm gonna write a crossover au where the two versions of five meet; cause each other and everyone else trouble; and make out #watch this space #lorien legacies tag #the crit files #shipping #dyn: five squared

[brown-little-robin]

Ochre, evergreen, magenta <3

thank you :3

#incredibly yes for our relationship <333 #i'm happy to be your little sistercousinthing *gets patted* #and! as always I'm happy to tolerate you #for some reason your foibles charm me and make me want to hold you close to me forever #like I'm not an angel and I know you're not perfect(ly okay) and sometimes it even does me a concern. but again: I like you in that #I enjoy being around you and deeply deeply appreciate your trust #also ough your comics meta and book reviews. eating them eating them eating them. love geeking out with you #the secret to my robin I think <3

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Liberated to the Bone: Histories, Bodies, Futures by Susan Raffo (2022)

Unflattering Photos of Fascists:  Authoritarianism in Trump's America by Christopher Ketcham (2020)

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline (2012)

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)

Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (2012)

The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner (2019)

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guin (2017)

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes (2012)

The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (2007)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #liberated to the bone was. fine. if you're into healing i guess prob good and when reading i was like huh good community talk #but it left no impression on me #unflattering photos i read in like an hour it was fine #overdressed was definitely interesting but i think i would genuinely dislike the author if i met her irl #apparently ppl spend on average like $1.1k on clothes??? and this was ten years ago??? how??? #a small place should be required reading. fantastic. i'm reading everything by this author #i listened 2 it on audio book and the audio book was GREAT #faggots so afraid of faggots was. like it seemed interesting but it was just okay? #it was a bunch of works so some were hits and some were misses #fuck it diet was a good read made me rethink some food things #has a lot of nice follow ups and some journaling entries im going to try to do #road to jonestown was an incredibly well written book about the tragedy. holy fuck. highly rec #garbology was solid and horrifying read and makes me want to really look at my garbage damn #100 mile diet i wasn't sure what i was expecting but i found it genuinely moving and charming and made me #look at how i eat and my diet and stuff #f slur

[astrocassette]

the 100 year old astronomy textbook i use as a leitner when i cosplay gerry has the name delano scribbled in it from a previous owner and it makes me :)

#it is the polar opposite of a leitner in terms of vibes tho it's an incredibly charming little book #it's got poetry scribbled on the inside of the covers #there's a doodle of a baseball field in the margins of one page #one of the pages was torn out and on the part that remains someone explained how they used it to send a telegram to their prof #spoken from the stars

[vvienne]

Reading the most femdom regency romance I have ever picked up in my life. Glad the author finally went to bondage bc god knows this couple would’ve continued to have mid sex For the Cause forever if she didn’t jsut finally tie him up

#incredibly charmed by this book. they fuck so often and the sex is so bad. a real strangers to lovers lmaooo #i appreciate the representation for women who enjoy sex only in extremely specific circumstances #my posts

[nunyabznsbabes]

Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes fine that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #everlark #tbosas meta #the hunger games #thg #snowbaird

[ampleappleamble]

haven't seen this on here yet so:

in case you don't want to slog through the shitscape that is the bird/letter website, take a peek beneath the cut (shamelessly copied from the something awful forums dungeon meshi thread)

- Her first memory of video games was watching her father playing Wizardry on Famicom, also Dragon Quest, Ultima, and Fire Emblem among others.

- She was a difficult child so her parents didn't let her play. Wizardry is a boring game to watch, but the monster illustrations on the walkthrough evoked her imagination and made her keep watching.

- She only started becoming a serious gamer after the serialization of Dungeon Meshi was locked, for research purposes. Before that, she read fantasy novels such as The Neverending Story (Michael Ende) and The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien).

- The international title for Dungeon Meshi: Delicious in Dungeons was decided by her editor.

- D&D popped up a lot when she researched the history of video games, so she read the rule books, replay novels, and games inspired by D&D.

- One of the first games she studied was the Legend of Grimrock (game's 80% off on Steam atm). Originally, she wanted Dungeon Master (FTL Games) which was famous for "RPG with meals" but hunting down the game and machine was too much.

- She didn't like games other than turn-based RPGs at first, but she decided to stop being picky and play anything that piqued her interest.

- She played Zelda: BotW and TotK on a borrowed Switch from her editor due to the console's scarcity at the time.

- She enjoyed Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War for their stories. RDR2's incredible attention to detail had Kui engrossed so much that she asked her editor and other mangaka to play it so she could discuss it with them.

- Kui praised The Witcher 3 localization as something only possible with full support from the developer. Cyberpunk 2077 is one of her all-time favorites.

- Papers, Please was her first taste of indie games.

- Disco Elysium is the perfect game for her due to the lack of fighting, intriguing story, charming character interaction, and top-down perspective. She tried playing it in English at first due to an unlikely chance for JP loc, but it was out of her ability. Thus she is forever grateful to Spike Chunsoft for localizing it.

- Kui played Baldur's Gate 3 from the time it was in Early Access. Again, she's grateful for Spike Chunsoft's JP loc. She hoped BG3's success would bring the possibility of JP loc for other titles too, such as Pathfinder: wotr

- She likes games with top-down perspective because they have narration text for monologues and scenery description. Even if the graphic is lacking, the texts show the atmosphere and each character's behavior and psyche. Also, characters that react to your choices.

- She praised Unpacking and House Flipper for being able to tell what kind of person lives there only through their belongings, and that there's no right or wrong for the placements; she would make the best arrangement and then enjoy her hard work while sipping tea.

- The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi was the Cosmic Forge pen from Wizardry VI. With improved graphics from its predecessor, now it could show broken farming tools in the background and many more details that made exploration so much fun.

- At the time of the interview (Dec '23) she still hadn't watched DunMeshi anime, but she attended the recording sessions. She's embarrassed that the dialog she wrote now acted passionately by professionals. Marcille's screaming was wonderful but also made her want to flee.

- Kui was anxious about the CP2077 anime adaptation, but she was relieved it was the Night City she knows and loves.

- Other than minor adjustments, she left it to TRIGGER as to how to adapt

- She's happy that Mitsuda Yasunori was chosen as the anime composer, as she used to play Chrono Cross and rewatched the opening many times.

- Her anticipated games in 2024 are Cloudpunk, Nivalis, and Avowed.

- DunMeshi would be hard to adapt into a game because in the first place, what Kui depicted in the manga are parts that are omitted in games for the sake of brevity.

- If DunMeshi game was Wizardry-like, it'd be told through Laios' perspective and eating was essential not to die

#dungeon meshi #she only started playing video games after dunmeshi got picked up???? damn #that's dedication to the craft #i would *so* play a dunmeshi video game... #likes top-down perspective and strong narratives and character reactivity... she's just like me fr