#violaeade

[jane-shepard]

HAPPY N7 DAY* <33 *(to everyone except bioware!)

I'M LATE TO ANSWERING THIS but i love you my beloved mutual mwuah . may bioware perish and leave mass effect to the public domain. amen

#violaeade

[eskewcity]

hello! any recs for recent indie games you've been playing or generally any you've found this year that you'd recommend? i really want some to play over the summer (i love horror obvs but i will take any you recommend)!

of course!

if you like horror, please play the crooked man! If you’re someone who was familiar with the surge of jrpg horror games in the early 2010s, then you might have heard of this one. I decided to play it earlier this month because I completely forgot the plot and it’s totally worth it! It’s very clearly inspired by silent hill but i still think it has a style of it’s own and I really enjoyed the story. also I 🫶 David Hoover

it’s also a part of a tetralogy called the strange man series that is about… strange men. I won’t say it’s the best but it’s quite cheap if you get interested after tcm and it’s one of those series where the creator decided every past character needs to be in the next game somehow in increasingly ridiculous ways.

I’ve also been playing Eastshade which is kind of Skyrim but without the fighting and where you are a painter. It’s a very beautiful game and it’s always fun to explore to see if there’s any secret quests you can find.

not so recently I finished we happy few which is not good but not bad! It definitely did not turn out the way I remember it looked in demos years ago but I still had fun with it.

also finished old city: leviathan a few months back which was pretty neat. I definitely liked it more in the beginning than towards the end but some of the writing absolutely slaps. You’re playing as a city dweller in an abandoned sewer system learning about a war between the three ideological groups that had formed. if you’re okay with some dense reading it can actually get quite interesting.

I played the inheritance of crimson manor which was a fun spooky time. It’s basically just exploring a Victorian mansion and solving puzzles but I thought it was neat!

the painscreek killings is somewhat the same but you explore an entire abandoned town to solve a murder! it has some annoying backtracking but it was really fun for me since there was such a diversity of places to explore.

I almost forgot this but this has probably been one of if not my favorite game to play this year but mundaun!!!! It’s this beautifully created horror game where all the textures were hand sketched by the creator. It takes place in Switzerland and it’s about the protagonist visiting their old village after their grandfather passes away. It involves a lot of Swiss folklore and the character is fully voiced in Romansh which is not something I’ve encountered in games before.

If you would be interested, I also just added a lot whole bunch of game to my wishlist including - subway midnight, hylics, umurangi generation, you must be 18 or older to enter, how fish is made, how to say goodbye, scorn, scanner sombre, hypnospace outlaw, yomawari: lost in the dark, Spookware, rain world, everything, one dreamer, a little to the left, norco, glitchriders the spaces between, lone survivor, unheard, the enigma machine, world of horror, not for broadcast, anodyne, cats and the other lives, gruund, slay the princess + more i am too lazy to list

hope this helps! :)

#asks #violaeade

[bugsongs]

hey do you ever think about students who go to the library with all their books and equipment out but then they quite obviously don’t do any study at all

WHY are you antagonizing me like this 😭😭😭

#me on tumblr mobile while sitting at my desk ignoring paperwork acting like im a changed man #ask #violaeade

[wizardysseus]

🔥 for anything relating to the publishing industry or books atm?

i mean this in the least "condescending about people's taste" way possible, but as a librarian it's pretty wild to me how tiktok has affected how books circulate. it's like impossible to predict what book from 5+ years ago will suddenly blow up on tiktok so our 1 or 2 copies are not enough. i haven't seen a colleen hoover book physically sit on a shelf in 2 years because they're always checked out. and they are OLD. it's bizarre. good for circulation, i guess, but bizarre, and i don't love it mostly because i worry that new voices get drowned out in the hype.

#violaeade #ask

[midnightliar]

HELLO! I asked my friend who is a giant lesbian & prolific romance reader for book recs and she sent me this website which might help you on your noble quest for lesbian filth:

https : // www . devlib. wiki / books

(or search devlib lgbt)

You can browse by FF and then narrow it down into even more categories after that…hopefullyyyy you find something you’re after that’s not terrible 🙏

this is a very promising resource thank you!!!! and thank your giant lesbian friend!!

the only resource i knew about is thelesbianreview, which is good but not necessarily comprehensive.

anyway i just opened devlib and theres a series of dinosaur themed (???) lesbian novels so already obsessed with the energy here

#u r always coming thru for me 🙏 thank u legend #ask #violaeade

[libraryleopard]

🔥 for interview with the vampire?

One time I saw an interview with the showrunner where he said AMC was hoping for it to be a long-running show with possibly around 10 seasons and as much as I loved season 1 that statement filled me with dread because 1) I have heard nothing particularly good about the Vampire Chronicles after Queen of the Damned and I imagine the writers would have to do some serious work to get coherent TV out of the later books and 2) As a Black Sails fan I am a big fan of TV shows that concisely run for as long as they need and no longer in order to tell a complete story!

#six or seven seasons seems more reasonable imo #i am actually not sure if this is an unpopular opinion given that it was just conjecture about the show's future #but i feel strongly about this #asks #answered #violaeade #interview with the vampire #lulu watches interview with the vampire

[nightlyponder]

3, 12, 98, 22, 54!

I have a problem and its fuckin Beyonce

ITS FUCKIN BEYONCE. In my defense, its a roller-skating banger

I'm honestly surprised this song made it onto the list because I don't have any strong feelings about it. It's a solid house song.

The band that introduced me to the metal subgenre of djent. This is from their most recent album and because of it, they're my number 2 most listened to artist.

THEE roller skating song. Like there was no way this wasn't gonna be on this list.

#violaeade #thanks for asking~! #spotify wrapped 2022 #jericho.jpg

[snorlaxlovesme]

1, 3, 16 and 19!!!!!!!

book you’ve reread the most times? Do I even have to say it? lmao I've read Chaos Walking almost every year since I was 15 years old, sooo maybe 13 times? Granted I don't always make it to Monster of Men. So The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer are probably tied. I'm such a broken record about these books, but it's so so crazy to find a book as a 15 year old that's still as mind-blowingly good a close to a decade and a half later. They're my everything lol

3. what is your favourite genre? if you wanna be broad, YA Lit. but actual, categorical genres are harder. i love sci-fi and fantasy, but when I'm not in the mood for worldbuilding then contemporary lit is always there for me!

16. how many books have you read this year? 😭😭 like THREE omg. Sitting down to read has been such a struggle this year, despite the billions of books I've BOUGHT this year (including literally TODAY). I'm trying, though. I just went to a fair that had a bunch of local authors and I'm really excited to read them, I have one next to me right now just begging me to pick it up.

(shoutout to re: Dracula for being in audio drama format this year, I love being able to listen to it at work)

(OH but I HAVE been reading a lot of short stories this year!! Guts by Chuck Palahniuk was insane)

19. most disliked popular books?

I don't really have a ton of book Hot Takes tbh. I like what I like and I don't finish what I don't like lol! I guess a few years back I read Girl on the Train and that book was awfulllll to me despite it's best-seller status and movie adaptation. What a crummy protagonist. I hated her at the beginning AND the end of the book.

#violaeade #kelly got an ask #thank you for sending these!!!

[theriverbeyond]

would LOVE to hear you yell about mistborn influencing tlt if you have the time, i love both series but have never really thought of that before

pinging @ianthetridentariyes, @fire-swift, @violaeade, and @daughterofsarenrae who also sent me asks about this!

THANK YOU for asking!! For anyone who doesn't know, Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels, the standalone original trilogy published between 2006-2008. I have NOT kept up with the sequel series, but the OG trilogy is a classic favorite of mine. anyway..... cracks knuckles:

Immortal God-King who was once only a man (Rashek, John) that legend says ascended over a Great Evil that he locked away (Ruin, Alecto) to allow founding of the kingdom. The God-King now rules over an unrealistically culturally stagnant kingdom (1000 or 10,000 years with little technological change) that is structured based on his original followers gaining demigod-like power (Mistborn, Lyctorhood) and each founding a "House" that still stands in the present day timeline (the original Lyctors each founding one of the Nine Houses, Rashek's friends creating the Ten Great Houses).

The plot involves a relationship between a prince who wears white and a girl who wears black (Elend/Vin, Gideon/Harrow). The girl who wears black has repeated episodes of hallucinations and it turns out she's been on some level possessed by the Locked Away Power who speaks to her in a disguised way (Ruin speaks to Vin in Reen's voice, Alecto speaks to Harrow as The Body). She also has Extra Powers due to infant sacrifice (Vin's younger sister killed with the copper hemalurgic spike, Harrow being 200 murdered children).

Also, the entire kingdom was founded after the world was destroyed and it Came Back Wrong, being put back together by guy who was trying to save it and was Unqualified (Rashek tried to save Scadrial but almost destroyed it by moving it too close to the sun and then had to compensate, John ate the solar system when he was trying to save the world and now it's thanergetic).

Jesus is there (Kelsier, Gideon Nav).

There are probably a few more #connections (and this feeds into my other very tinfoil hat theory that John Gaius Moved the Solar System) but this post is already long enough ldsjfldskfj

I made a chart:

#tlt meta #the locked tomb #mistborn #i earned that tag #tlt thoughts #ask #anon #ANYWAY THANKS AGAIN> THIS WAS FUN #this post contains spoilers for both series #THESE CONNECTIONS ALSO MAKE ME SCARED FOR GRIDDLEHARK. BTW. like i would be satisfied in a bittersweet way I GUESS. but crosses fingers...

[aroaessidhe]

tagged by @violaeade !!

LAST SONG: underwater - mika

CURRENTLY READING: something more by jackie khalilieh, carraway of the sea by madelaine burget, (up next:) you exist too much by zaina arafat, all that consumes us by erica waters

CURRENTLY LISTENING: 3/4 of the above are audiobooks, musicwise honestly atm just my liked songs playlist on spotify which is allsorts haha!!

CURRENTLY WATCHING: scavengers reign which is SO GOOD very cool very creepy, obsessed with the moebius x ghibli vibes.

LATEST OBSESSION: as above tbh!!!! can't wait to see where it goes. the latest episode destroyed me a bit tho

tagging: @libraryleopard @thereadingchallengechallenge @nycorix @jellyfishbreaths anyone who wants to etc etc

#tag game #laya talks

[kazz-brekker]

tagged by @violaeade, thanks!

LAST SONG: Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan (a great many people I follow online have gotten into his music lately and I thought I would check it out)

CURRENTLY READING: FAR too many things at once, as is normal for me. Currently I am in the middle of Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool (fun noir fantasy about a girl who breaks curses), Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (several of my coworkers are obsessed with this book so I have succumbed to the hype in hopes of some good dragon content), Ithaca by Claire North (Greek myth retelling narrated by Hera and focused on Penelope), Star Wars: Doctor Aphra by Sarah Kuhn (listening to it as an audiobook during my commute, I love terrible women in space), and In Which Winnie Halifax Is Utterly Ruined by Alexandra Vasti (delightful regency romance novella feat. sheep and a fake marriage).

CURRENTLY LISTENING: I saw Chappell Roan over the weekend so I've been listening to The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess ever since then. Her music is SO good to hear live and also a ton of fun.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Season 2 of Dark Winds, a murder mystery show set on a Navajo reservation in the 1970s, the new season of Our Flag Means Death, also allegedly The Bear but I accidentally took a break from that for a few weeks oops.

LATEST OBSESSION: Lately, probably buying interesting clothing from thrift stores? There are a bunch of good ones not too far from where I live and I've gotten some pretty nice (and also cheap!) stuff from them in the last few months like a waistcoat with roses on it and an owl-patterned fuzzy dress.

Tagging hmmm how about @libraryleopard @luthiery @hauntedmoors @shirleyjacksons @allcountersarehipheight @anddreadful

#pie says stuff #tag game #pie reads

[feywildfiction]

Mid-Year Book Freakout 2023

so i was tagged by @violaeade (my main was tagged but its book-related so its going here)

1. Best book you’ve read so far this year

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi: My favorite book and poetry collection of the year by far. I was barely 1/4 in it when I could tell it was going to be my favorite book. It's a collection about environmental racism, climate change, xenophobia, police brutality, girl it had everything. I decided to read it because an article recommended it for people who enjoyed the science fiction novel How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu and I agree; if you liked that book, you'd enjoy this poetry collection.

2. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year

Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson: A novella that sorta kinda operates as a long epilogue for the previous Sorcery of Thorns book. I enjoyed that first book - and I love that we got a tall girl, love that for us. It was a fun time for those of us who enjoy fantasy romances (or romance fantasies??).

3. New release you haven’t read yet

Maroons by adrienne maree brown No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars edited by Erin Sharkey

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

5. Biggest disappointment

Entranced by the Basilisks by Lillian Lark: I didn't find the throuple compelling at all. Jasper felt like someone in his early 20s even though he's the director of the library. Ari and Emilia connection was based on...her being turned into a monster and him seeming inherently alluring I guess? I will say this book taught me that I don't like reptile monster sex. The hidden penis situation does nothing for me.

6. Biggest surprise

Release by Suzanne Clay: I was surprised to find that I enjoyed an age gap, employee + boss romance. It helped that the female lead is 32 years old and the man's like 55. I think the author did everything in their power to make sure male lead was super aware of the power dynamic and gave the female lead space and security in her job (because this is a complete fantasy). And they're bi4bi so that was the icing on the cake.

7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)

Kimberly Lemming: She's a new romance author to me. I found all her stories to be fun and erotic in the best way. A true monsterfucker who understands there's not enough monster romances that involve women of color.

8. Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character

Unfortunately, I haven't obtained any fictional crushes or favorites.

9. Book that made you cry

Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco: Poems by K. Iver: Okay I'll be honest, it didn't make me cry. But out of everything I've read so far this year, it made me the most emotional. It's a collection of poems where many of them are addressed to or at least speaking to the author's dead friend who committed suicide.

10. Book that made you happy

Animal Castle Vol. 1 by Xavier Dorison, Félix Delep: a graphic novel that is in a similar vein to Animal Farm but the animals aren't becoming human, it's more of a story that is so blatant in its metaphor of how exploitative capitalism is. It's some good communist propaganda and I can't wait to read the next volume.

I'm tagging: @readingrobin, @somewherereadingg, @bibliophilecats, @logarithmicpanda, @bookish-brews, @amongtomesandtales, @the-knights-who-say-book, @thebookbud, @foxingfae, @bookphile, @jorammiireads and @crookedreads

if you've done this before or don't want to do it, feel free to ignore the tag. if you want to do this but i didn't tag it, do it anyways and tag me so i can see your answers

#jericho.txt #tag memes #its called a freakout but im chillin over here

[nora-durst]

oh this is fun!! tagged by @jeynepoole (💜)

last song listened to: “black boys on mopeds” by sinéad o’connor 💔

currently reading: we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson for my book club :)

currently watching: the bear (yes i’m very behind)

tagging @violaeade @mollyfaraday @noracursd @angelfrommontgomery @moonintherock and anyone else in a silly goofy mood <3

#ty meg!!! #tag game #☺️

[bugsongs]

MY DUDE HAVE YOU SEEN ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE YET. I JUST SAW IT AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NOT YET I'M TRYING TO SEE IT SO SOON THO!!!!

#everyone's yelling abt it!! i wanna yell too!!!! #ask #violaeade

[wizardysseus]

okay okay this might seem out of left field but i was having a conversation with my sibling about this show recently & i thought of you (lmao) & even though i feel like i know some of what you're gonna say i HAVE to know:

unpopular opinions about ouat??

henry mills did nothing wrong. he a little boring (esp adult!henry) but he's the only motherfucker in the charming family tree i fully respected

#violaeade #ask

[midnightliar]

graphic novel recs!!!

mamo by sas milledge: just knowing your taste i know you'll love this...it feels a bit like kiko's delivery service but as a graphic novel

on a sunbeam by tillie walden: sci fi and loneliness and found family :O

laura dean keeps breaking up with me by mariko tamaki: this really, really does live up to the hype and is so very good.

the sleepless duology by sarah vaughan: admittedly it is het but it is also VERY very good. primary relationship i am crazy over and it has insanely cool worldbuilding.

are you listening by tillie walden: okay another tillie walden ik ik. older lesbian goes on a road trip with a much younger lesbian, feat cats and magical realism and metaphors galore. bittersweet and suchhh beautiful art.

it's lonely at the centre of the earth by zoe thorogood: oh my GOD. insane art. it's a deep-dive into depression but also general existentialism especially as young person in your 20s/30s. so so so good i cant recommend highly enough seriously!!! but also it does have a few heavy themes and topics so be warned.

cannonball by kelsey wroten: this gets a bit of flack for having a (sometimes) unlikeable main character but thats honestly why i liked it!! about a gay 20-something artist who is trying to get by and has sharp edges that other people around her keep getting cut on....kind of slice of life a bit but i enjoyed it especially for the unconvential main character

i have more but thats what i'm gonna rec you for now...hopefully you can find and/or will like some of these???

THANK U LEGEND!!!!!!! i have only read one of these (laura dean) so im excited to check the rest of these out thank youyyyy

#me and my stupid friends who can't read wanna do a book club so our idea is soft opening with a graphic novel lol #these sound soooo good wowow #ask #violaeade