#well i finished reading the book

[tea-cat-arts]

More doodles (ft Xianle Trio mostly Feng Xin)

#heaven official's blessing #heaven official's blessing fanart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #xianle trio #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #hua cheng #hualian #idk how Feng Xin ended up in the most panels given he's probably my least favorite of the trio #oh well #there will be more doodles later #thought i had while drawing this: do you think they gave Mu Qing his slutty little choker as a reference to the shackle he gets later on? #i might be reading too much into that #didnt let myself interact with the fandom till i finished the books #so i got a lot of catch up doodles to do now

[wiltkingart]

Asche and Vindt from Ocean's Blood by Thelma Mantey

#this book comes out january 29th. i finished reading the ARC this morning and well. here i am several hours later #starting the promo early because this shit hit all my dark fantasy m/m needs and i need more people to read this as soon as its available #you can find my review in the linked goodreads page if you want to know more. but for now i leave you with this <3 #ocean's blood #asche #vindt #book fanart #lgbt books #fanart #digital #original art

[sbeana]

im so normal about them

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb art #its so #theyre so #and im so #and the spikes are so #heehhee #i didnt read the other books yet just gideon so please dont tell me something horrible like uhm idk something crazy like gideon dying or #whatver #this took me so long to finish i got stuck in another country in the middle of it so that was a bit of an inconvienience #also im ngl i dont understand the scenery in some scenes too well from just the first read #and also waht the fuck the doors thing is all about #but ill figure it out <3 #eventually <3 #griddlehark

[haunthouse]

redistributing wealth (searchable pdf of horror in architecture by joshua comaroff & ong ker-shing) to the masses (tumblr users obsessed with haunted houses)

enjoy! <3 xoxo

edit 01/06/2022: the google drive link stopped working for some reason but here's a working link to it on archive.org!

#pdfs #haunted houses #horror in architecture #architectural hauntings #hauntings #architecture #hauntology #horror #kaylee.txt #apologies for the amount of times you can see my fingers holding the pages down lmao #this book has a weird spine and does not want to stay open #but my library loan of it is due in 3 days with no renewal and i havent finished it yet so i figured i might as well scan it #so i can finish it + also so other ppl can read it !

[hedgehog-moss]

My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung

#book recs #i haven't finished the last one yet but it's been good so far! i really admire these women's resilience and solidarity #some inspiring stories of political activism + insight into aspects of korean history i didn't know about #i wanted to do a half-fiction half-nonfiction list like last year but i've read mostly disappointing fiction this year :( #my favourites were probably kivirähk's the man who spoke snakish & catherynne valente's radiance; though it wasn't as good as orphan tales #i'm reading jacques abeille's les jardins statuaires right now and it's quite frustrating because on the one hand #it's well-written and interesting with original worldbuilding. on the other i'm 300 pages in and there have been #2 female characters. the purpose of both (so far) was to have sex with the male protagonist and only 1 has a name #which makes the read feel less original and more ''same old shit as far as i'm concerned''

[dumbass-tm]

*twirls my hair* hiii tged fandom :3

idfk anymore im so tired 😭😭😭

#tged #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #llojavi #jons silly art #i wanted to put effort into an actual drawing or somethign but i. do not have the energy forthat #the last time i finished a drawing was fucking april goddamn 😭😭😭 #where the hell did my energy go im too tired to do anything ‼️‼️‼️ #guys ive been going to bed at like. 9 pm. why am i so sleepy #angway i need to find the webnovels of some of the comics im readingbc i do not have the patience for them to catch up 😭😭 #AND I GOTTA READ MY PHYSICAL BOOKS TOO... #oh well mahbe tomorrow or something #anyway. pspspsspsp can i get some tged moots or something that would be really neat

[antariies]

my new completely original concept barn owl charr guardian, soren. he uses offhand torch.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #oc: soren owlface #is this a safe space. i never finished the series #i think i stopped after the..... third? book #context i was in the warrior cats tag earlier and saw someones GORJESUS design of owlnose where he Looked like an owl #and i was like...... how hard could it be a to make an owl charr #it was just supposed to be a fun challenge. well he exists now #EDIT: to elaborate. i meant that after i saw the good good owlnose design i wanted to make an owl charr #and then i was like well i could make a barn owl. my favorite owl #but not just any barn owl. THEE copyrighted barn owl #aka soren from guardians of gahoole #<- from the series i never finished #i Did read warrior cats. so much warrior cats

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[gunkmusher]

hikaru in heaven watching his best friend/crush rearrange the insides (literally speaking) of the the mysterious forrest spirit inhabiting his body

#i just finished reading the first two books lol #i didn’t know what to call him so i guess ‘mysterious forrest spirit’ fits well enough #the summer hikaru died #tshd

[lordansketil]

I watched the first four episodes of 'The Buccaneers' and, granted I'm sick right now so I'm probably cutting it a lot of slack, but I hated the first episode, skipped through the second one, but by the third episode I was hooked. It has this tacky Bridgerton-esque exterior, is as bizarre and inaccurate as hell, but it gets SO DARK and I love that. The main character's mother puts doves in golden cages for a ball... and that's it, that's 'The Buccaneers', doves in fucking cages.

It's like the modern music and wild inaccuracies are whispering: "Come closer, child, yes... look at the modern aesthetics, that's right, you want to marry an English lord, do you? So romantic, ahahaha. Yes? Let me teach you about helplessness, let me show you some power dynamics... let's start with a fairytale and then set it on fire."

#the buccaneers #apple tv #i think i'll read the book but after i finish the show #it honestly feels like the writer deliberately set out to do this crazy tonal rug pull because wow #with bridgerton i was like “well this is fun” and then grew to hate it #with the buccaneers i was like “well this is shit” but then it grew on me

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

#I need to brush up on my post colonial reading I’m not as well read as I’d like to be #once I finish my coursework I’ll have more time for reading shit I actually want to read lol #like I’m reading so much stupid bullshit that does not matter for class #genuinely useless theory that I will never pick up again #I want to finish orientalism in particular. one of the most didactic books I’ve ever read #like said’s writing is like every sentence restates his central argument. It’s an unrelenting book in a really compelling way #Interspersed with him talking fine grain shit about a bunch of European intellectuals I’ve never heard of lol #book club

[dianagj-art]

I finally had time to watch the Percy Jackson episodes and idk if they had showed before the casting for the gods or if I just didn't see it but Dionysus? Perfect casting

I always forget that man's name but every time he shows up on a show I'm watching I know I'm about to have a great time

#he calling percy 'son' took me out #i finished the episodes and immediately pucked up my pjo books to re read #well... re read the first two i never finished the seires even when i have the whole collection #pjo series #percy jackson #dg rambles

[redactedcrowart]

regardless, i wasn't built to be alone

part of this series 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4

#[posts visceral definitely-not-vent art] anyway so how's everybody been i know it's been a little while #i just finished reading It the Book which no one should ever do probably. next up is salem's lot 👍 #also been writing ocs and shit. i'm working on their character sheets but one of them is so fucking hard to draw for no reason. i hate him #anyhow happy trans day of visibility that was Not intentional on my part. this one's not even that much about transgenderism too #well. it kind of is. but it's kind of not. but it is. but it's not as well. you understand #lycanthrope #my art #art #illustration #voidpunk #comic #poetry #(sorta) #oh hey there's not even blood this time. a win

[hanzajesthanza]

when your friend is writing a fic or analysis it feels like this

#this is a real peak company scene the dynamics all are fermenting wonderfully #that cahir when dandelion yells at him gets up and takes his stuff closer to MILVA #that he just starts listing varieties of writing is so funny. a rhapsody? an epic? a romance? a canzone? #that geralt knows dandelion well enough to know what he's writing #that regis does a pogchamp face because he's so elated about the work #that milva is conspiracy theorist levels paranoid about the writing #also what i find endearing is that i think with regis' comment that half a century is a blink of an eye #is that he intended to. be there. and read the memoir when it was published #to him ig it's like your friend saying they're gonna finish their book in a year and you're like oh yeah cool #regis was marking his calendar to be there at the book signing #if dandelion had a book signing regis would wait in line and when he got to the front dandelion would be like?? #regis you dont need to wait in line we're friends i could just give you a signed copy #regis shrugs like he just wanted the experience of waiting in line. truly a michael goodplace type moment #the elbow-high diaries #f: a hansa's a hansa

[seeleybooth]

Where are my book fans for Polin? :)

#bridgerton #polin #penelope x colin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #yes i have only read romancing mister bridgerton but i do prefer book canon over tv shows but if its done well i'll love tv #but maybe do plan on reading Benedict's story and Eloise's too #just finished the book in jan but been a bridgerton tv show fan since it came out in 2020 and always loved polin since the beginning

[cerise-on-top]

Hank with an Eldritch Horror Reader

Here's another thing I wrote two years back! It was an interesting concept which I really liked, so I actually really enjoyed writing this request!

Hank J Wimbleton was a grunt of many things, but not one to be scared unless he had a good reason to be. There were many things in this world he did not understand, you were one of them. Upon meeting you, his first instinct would have been to either fight or run away - who could blame him, it was all he knew. No matter how many times you reassured him that the very last thing you wanted to do was to harm him, he’d draw his weapon, uncertain of whether or not he should believe your words.

Once you show no resistance towards him whatsoever and simply restrain him using your powers or other methods, that’s when, thrashing around as much as he could, he would start listening. You may or may not have seen a grunt up close, but this was your chance to finally examine one. As you scrutinise him from every possible angle Hank realises that you were simply curious about his being and finally lowers weapon.

Your voice would likely hurt his head and freeze the blood in his veins, so you might have to resort to telepathy or speak through a marionette, if you can find one. Though, once Hank’s interest in you has been piqued, he’d be more than happy to find you one. A lot of people in Nevada seem to be redundant in the first place. Regarding telepathy: You will be able to have a two-way conversation with Hank like that, but, for the most part, he doesn’t think in words. Still, he can do so, if needed.

If you’re on the rather small side, he will make an effort to pick you up, or hold you, and bring you back to base. Depending on whether you can float or not, this might be rather difficult, but he’ll try. If you’re large, however, then he will simply “tell” you to follow him. As an eldritch being you could likely either change your form or scare away anyone in your path in the first place, so he doesn’t particularly worry about anyone being stupid enough to attack you.

Spend time with him, he’ll get used to you more and more and, eventually, grow a bond with you. Proud, he’ll show you to Doc so he can figure out what you are, but do not be fooled. Hank wants to know what you are to some degree too. Once comfortable with you and certain you won’t harm him, he’ll start observing you, touching you to some degree. See how you react, how you feel, how you are.

Despite your conversations being, for the most part, one-sided, Hank will ask you directly what you are and if you’re some form of eldritch deity. Since you’re an amicable creature he can’t exactly wrap his head around, it’s worth a try.

Although he would like to do so to some degree, he won’t take you with him on missions. It’s his way of saying “I care a great deal about you, I don’t want you to die or worse even if you are capable of defending yourself.” If you really insist on aiding him, he will let you, begrudgingly. But beware that he will have your back. In fact, having you around will give him a greater reason to fight and improve his overall performance. Though, it will also be a major stress factor to him if something were to happen to you, so choose wisely.

#madness combat #madness combat x reader #hank j wimbleton #hank j wimbleton x reader #I've been into eldritch horrors and stuff ever since I was a teenager #although I don't condone his beliefs in the slightest I really like Lovecraft's writing style #at one point it influenced how I wrote as well since he was rather descriptive in a pleasant to read way #I have an anthology at home that I might wanna reread again at some point #celephais was always my favorite story and I think it may be one of my favorite stories of all time #I know it interests no one but my favorite book is No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai #and yes I did get into classic literature because of a certain anime I don't wanna tag in this post #but another book I really enjoyed reading was Clockwork Orange I read it with someone I used to be close to and it was a really good read #it gave me nightmares but I really enjoyed it! gave me something to talk about with my father as well #Hier kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen is also a really good song! as is 1000 Gründe by the same band! #those songs are based on Clockwork Orange actually! #I never watched the movie and I don't think I ever will because eye gore disturbs me but the book was good! I read it bc of tboi! #I have quite a few classic at home! but I think I wanna finish reading Paradise Lost! That's also a really interesting story so far! #reading and writing are some of my favorite hobbies! #I'd also love to finishe the price of salt at some point as well! Because I have to all things considered! #I just wish I could juggle all of my hobbies a bit better! I wish I had a bit more time for everything! but oh well it be like that!