#yeah I'm loving this book

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Okay I’m absolutely LOVING this book so far..

Spoilers for Brotherhood by Mike Chen below

(not really big spoilers just a list of moments and details I’m obsessed with from the first 15 chapters)

I can’t stop thinking about:

Obi-Wan thinking about Anakin 90% of the time

Obi-Wan worrying about Anakin like a mama bird who’s baby has left the nest

Anakin not knowing what to do with authority and freedom now that he has it

Obi-Wan finding that ironic considering how often he had to deal with Anakin begging to be allowed to do whatever he wanted

Dex teasing Obi-Wan about Satine

Dex continuing to be Obi-Wan’s go to information guy

Anakin and Padme being really cute on their little date

Anakin taking Padme “racing” because it’s his favourite thing to do

Padme being excited about bringing Anakin to a place that sells food that might remind him of Tatooine

Obi-Wan and Anakin both making themselves feel better by imagining how the other would be making fun of them

Both Obi-Wan and Anakin using memories of Qui-Gon to centre themselves

References to other Star Wars novels that I’ve actually read!! (Padawan and Master & Apprentice)

The chapters are super short which is great for my ADHD

And the vibes are a perfect mix of AOTC and The Clone Wars

My absolute favourite part though, has been:

Anakin having to deal with the younglings (…yikes)

Also Obi-Wan finding it hilarious that Anakin has to deal with the younglings

#yeah I'm loving this book #star wars Brotherhood #brotherhood novel #brotherhood by mike chen #mike chen #star wars novel #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #ani and obi #anakin and obi wan #padme amidala #satine kryze #qui gon jinn #star wars prequels #attack of the clones #the clone wars #sw the clone wars #kate's post

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[egophiliac]

the Stitch crossover so far is just pure chaos and honestly, that tracks.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with stitch #i have never in my life drawn stitch before the event announcement #so uhhhh yeah i'm trying my best :') #love that yuu and grim are canonically getting matching outfits now #especially magic sticky clothes #man they could've just made it a barrier or something but nope #we're going to have a whole scene to establish that they can't just merperson their way out of this one because...their pants won't come of #incredible. twst really going the extra mile. #welcome to pants-stay-on island where pants are ENFORCED

[demigods-posts]

okay but we can all agree that annabeth is hella ripped right? because this girl has been training to be a soldier since she was seven. i'm just convinced her biceps become so prominent when she so much as grips a doorknob. i'm just convinced she has incredible upper body strength. i'm just convinced she could snap me like a twig.

#just to be clear #i'm referring to book annabeth #but yeah anyways #annabeth killed me in the war #and i was so honored to have her even be near me #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo #annabeth chase #annabeth chase headcanon #i love annabeth #i love her with my whole heart #we stan a legend #we stan a queen #we stan the daughter of athena #we stan annabeth chase

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

another reason i think that xie lian felt an instant connection on the ox cart is because he and hua cheng both grew up in xianle.

there are maybe 4 people still alive that grew up in that culture. based on my own experience, you can pick up on things like accent, cadence, references, and humor that suggest a person is from the same place as you without consciously noticing it. that sense of comfort and similarity probably played into their instant chemistry.

#thinking about how they are bonded together by being the only people who remember their dead culture... augh it kind of makes me want to cr #as much fighting as fengqing do they are really the only people who will EVER understand each other's childhoods #which. aughhhh #there's a lovely modern au fic by heavensturtle called ''i'm just there to admire you.'' where they talk about chinese diaspora go read it #fics that mention paradise manor being in the xianle style also make me want to bawl. especially when fxmq notice it #other people that remember xianle: qi rong. jun wu. mei nianqing. yeah. none of those people are easy to talk to #buried deep in the xianle quartets heads are things like xianxia silly bands and xianxia nickelodeon and xianxia hi chew that LITERALLY #NOBODY ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD REMEMBERS. DOES THAT NOT MAKE YOU FEEL INSANE #the immortality in tgcf and how it affects memory and sense of self and relationships. ourgh #i speak #tgcf meta #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #i guess? #tian guan ci fu #tgcf books #heaven official's blessing #hob #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #feng xin #mu qing #fengqing #xianle trio #xianle quartet

[wizardemotions]

i had to get the slytherins out of my head. also the dynamic i personally imagine for eighth year drarry

#i love a harry who's not actually the most oblivious shit in the world postwar #i also love it when he's as much of a bastard as he is in the books #movies castrated his snark i think #quill to paper #draco malfoy #harry potter #drarry #theodore nott #blaise zabini #pansy parkinson #also sorry crabbe and goyle. you're sort of just unsexy lamps to me. there to be scary lackeys for draco and not much else #i'm sure i'll take my hypodermic needle of headcanon and pump em full of personalities eventually #just havent thot abt it much this go-round with this fandom #also yeah if you're wondering my harry's hairstyle is entirely inspired by avpm harry

[kazbiter]

very interested in how the storyline of ronan's sexuality is developed in the dream thieves as a battle between kavinsky and gansey while adam is almost never present in these scenes, which makes it even more interesting that we found out in CDTH that ronan was set on adam the moment he saw him. i think that ronan is attracted on some level to both gansey and kavinsky (you can draw the lines of how much romantic intention you think he hold towards either of the yourself, that's a rabbit hole I would need a whole other post to go down) but more so I think he was attracted to the IDEA of both of them and certain qualities that each possessed, and that the real question wasn't does ronan want gansey or kavinsky because we know he wants adam but rather who's qualities resonate more with who ronan is, or who he is choosing to be at this critical moment in his character development. kavinsky is a dangerous thrill and often comes wrapped in ronan's other favorite self destructive attempts to outrun himself, while gansey is ronan's history and proof of his deep capacities for loyalty and love. he tells kavinsky it was never going to be me and you and that it's not going to be ronan and gansey because that was never the question- maggie was obviously always planning on bluesy and pynch. the answer to who ronan WANTS in adam. the question of who ronan IS- that's what he's trying to decide here. his self hatred is such a heavy weight on him and theme in tdt, and the kavinsky/gansey dichotomy represents the the path he will choose to take to deal with it- keep try to drive faster than his demons or accept that he can still be loved even if he isn't the person he once was. the dream thieves my beloved ronan lynch my beloved

#obviously I'm not the authority on this lmao these r just my thoughts but I would love to hear ur thoughts as well!!! #this has been in my drafts for a while while I kept updating and tweaking it but I think this is the best way to say what I'm trying to say #also lot of kavinsky posts here at kazbiter recently not very sure what's up w that #anyways yeah I really do think this is why she did it this way like I don't think kavinsky ever even says adams name?? i could b wrong tho #and I always found that interesting and while I appreciated he was the leader of ronsey nation I was like how does he not know abt adam #and this is my conclusion I think it was an active writing choice of Maggie's bc the dichotomy of gansey/kavinsky just really works for #ronans personal overarching plot of the book that is undoubtedly his in trc

[scificrows]

i like to make fun of murderbot for being all "i hate everyone, i don't care about anything or anyone, fuck off" while simultaneously caring very much about the people around it and the situations it finds itself in. i love how it "accidentally" ends up caring quite a lot about the friends it makes along the way. but i think something that i tend to forget is that murderbot actively decides to care - at least at some point in its story.

idk, as a person that struggles with depression, this paragraph from artificial condition really resonates with me. prior to all systems red, murderbot had contracts. it had routine and it had protocols. it knew what it had to do to just get by, how to perform so no one would notice it had disabled its governor module. it was deeply depressed, yes, but it was functioning (for lack of a better word). in artificial condition, murderbot's routine is gone. it cannot go on in that state of numbly going-from-contract-to-contract, putting in as little effort as possible, consuming media to cope. that option is gone because it escaped (and note that escaping the company was not an active choice, it kinda happened to it). murderbot has two options now: it can either gather all its energy; actively do something new and difficult and distressing; change something in its life and try. or it can let the numbness and the emptiness take over and stop trying. if murderbot wants to survive as a rogue secunit, it has to try. no matter how difficult that is. the wording in that paragraph really hits home for me. the way the non-caring sees an opportunity to slip in and to take over. does murderbot even care? does anything really matter? is anything really worth the hassle? wouldn't it be so much easier to just let your mind slip away a little, to go numb, to be passive, to watch media and wait for things to happen to you? wouldn't it be nice to stop thinking and struggling and feeling complicated things? to stop making an effort? you've been dealing with a lot lately and maybe it's time to just shut down. maybe you'll just take a little break. just slip deeper into this chair and start the show. time flies when you're not paying attention. trying is exhausting. who cares if you don't do the things you wanted to do, you were supposed to do. it'll be fine. let's just ignore those things for now. just let the non-caring take over. just stop thinking. you can deal with the aftermath later. just watch your shows. who cares. but murderbot cares. it decides to care. it decides to fight with all it has and i think that is so brave. and i think in the later books caring is less of an active decision for murderbot. once you start caring, it's easier to keep going than to stop; and murderbot, for all its "i'm a grumpy rogue secunit, leave me alone" behavior, knows just how important caring is. so it's not that it doesn't know what's happening; rather, it lets itself care. tl;dr: caring is not the default for murderbot, it's just the more difficult of two options. and it decides not to take the soft option. it decides to struggle. it decides to care. and so it does.

#sorry i'm rambling i'm a little depressed rn (hah) and i've been thinking about murderbot again #at least writing this got me out of the adhd/depression paralysis :) yeah this might be self-indulgent so what #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #i just love martha wells' writing for things like that #and i love murderbot as a character so very much #also i'm pretty sure some of this could be read in a way i did not intend #i'm not trying to say that depressed people have the option to just not be depressed #or that it's as easy as going “okay well i can either care or not care... i guess i should care! done!” #listen i know it's not like that; i know that first hand #but murderbot had just enough energy and fight in it to try and it had people in its life that cared about it and helped it #and it managed to get out of that deep dark hole #and we see it struggling with trauma etc in the later books #things are not magically better #just yeah #okay imma add #tw depression #tw suicide #(this is not about suicide though; this is about sitting on the couch while the dishes and the laundry pile up #and watching netflix because getting up and taking care of yourself and calling a friend or going outside are too difficult) #(but i can see how this might hit a little close to home if that is something someone's struggling with&better safe than sorry) #also sending lots of love to everyone who this resonates with

[stars-n-spice]

everyday I thank the Force that Tech's love interest is a black woman. god bless

#like the bad batch is already whitewashed enough as is #too many white people in star wars anyways #give em poc partners #give em alien partners #like CMON #am i biased because i'm a biracial guy #yeah maybe but still #i love her so much #need her to have her own comic or book series or tv series or SOMETHING #will not tolerate phee slander #some of the shit i've seen people say about her is absolutely disgusting #this is just me loving phee and also being bitter about how white star wars is (including their fan base) #cmon it's star wars in a galaxy far far away and you're going to make your oc white?? #like ok sure but #cmon now #anyways tech come back #or i'm stealing your wife #phee genoa #tbb #the bad batch

[darlingaffogato]

every time I think, "hm, am I a LITTLE TOO thirsty for Kurt Wagner?" something like this pops up in the comics

and I'm like, oh. no. they want us to STAY THIRSTY, and honestly? respect. nothing but love for my babe

#nina expostulates #kurt wagner my original man who's not my man #yeah fuck it guess i'm getting back into comics #gosh i love mutants #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #nina's back on her comic book bullshit

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GREAT CITIES DUOLOGY by N. K. Jemisin.

#books #books of 2024 #the great cities duology #the city we became #the world we make #nk jemisin #book photography #my photography #i SO MUCH LOVE jemisin and i'm SO EXCITED to read these!! #fifth season was world changing for me (especially on the POV front) #i own everything she's written but unfortunately i started collecting them in paperback #and now i am Trapped In Paperback lol #so i had to wait a while for book 2 to come out in paperback #and i KNOW i annihilate her series so i wanted to have them all in hand when i started the first one #but yeah i preordered the first one and it's been sitting on my shelf ever since XD #the springboard here is kaiju preservation society started and ended in NYC and had eldritch sized monster creachers #this is ALSO NYC and eldritchy monsters lmao #*I've Connected The Dots* #i do like threading my TBR for some flow/continuity #(also as a weird aside: i need to read these soon because they have to fit on This Shelf of ~Read This Year~) #(because they're too tall to fit on the next shelf down of ~Read This Year~) #space is a little tight rn lmaooo

[hualianschild]

today I present you hong'er being in the background taking care of xie lian in book 2

#yeah I finished reading book 2 #and it made me STARVE for xie lian and hong'er interactions even after everything that happened #NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY BOOK 3 HAS SO MANY HUALIAN MOMENTS #anyways HONG'ER BEST BOY !!! #i love my feisty little brat #and now I'm just sad thinking abt how this is gonna follow thru with him dying in the past storyline gosh I can never have peace #tami rereads tgcf #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #mxtx #xie lian #hua cheng #san lang #hong er #tgcf novel #hob #heaven officials blessing #danmei

[egophiliac]

oh no, I love them

(super quick doodles done between other stuff, there will be better things later I promise :')

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #spoilers spoilers spoilers #me when the shroudparents walk in: what. why. what is this. #me thirty seconds late: never mind they are AMAZING #i mean yeah idia kind of offhandedly mentioned it way back when #in episode 6 when he was like 'my parents have to wear special equipment to deal with the debilitating effects of the curse' #'and to hide their identities as a french electronic synth-pop duo' I GUESS #no no it's okay. mrs shroud you are kind of insane and i love you #GROUP HUG EVERYBODY!!!!! #mr shroud you put up with a lot but somebody's gotta remember to do the paperwork #daft punk bert and ernie is the best possible dynamic for them #and THEY LOVE THEIR ROBOT SON #i'm so happy for ortho #(hovering around the subject of dreamworld ortho. ...we'll get to that) #man though now that i know what they're like #when idia busted in to show them how he built himself a replacement brother #mrs shroud was probably just like 'this is exactly what i would have done. let mama give you some pointers on joint mechanics' #i know i'm in the minority on genuinely unironically loving overblot idia #(YES he's weird but it's a weird i'm into!) #i am DELIGHTED by the design parallels. he looks like his dad! #but with his mom's ears! #ah it's so good

[orbitalbeetle]

Nim the Prince who fell from the Sky !!

yet another oc for Welcome Home :]c

#mine #i am rotating my welcome home ocs in my head. microwaving them #i have so many character interactions planned already GWAHAGDHS #fake children's book page ideas.... etc etc.... gwah..... #nim is so sillay i love him #they're a self-proclaimed sky prince...... who fell from the sky...... like the sky is falling you get it yeah #i imagine theyd see sally as a big sister #and would spend a lot of time at rosie's garden o(-( #this isn't even the main horror aspec of the arg i'm just having fun creating characters for a fake children's show LMAO #welcome home #welcome home oc #i love seeing everyone's ocs and sonas theyre so cooool o)-( #if you have a plant or weather themed sona..... hiiii..... our characters should be friends 👉👈

[lastoneout]

My most toxic trait is that deep down I still think moving to a farm with no internet and having to do hard labor surrounded by people who are a bit rough around the edges but kind deep down who at first think I'm gonna wash out and crawl home but slowly start respecting me as I get the hang of things would somehow fix all of my problems despite the fact that I am so incredibly disabled it's not even funny and a single day hard labor would probably put me in the fucking hospital.

#I have simply played way too many farming sims #and I love books where characters have to tough up and learn to survive in harsh situations #but like yeah I'm so fucking dumb lmao

[hela-fortia]

How can you say that our story meant something to you when you don't mourn for the pages burnt away?

#thoughts #idk #writeblr #writing #existentialism #dark academia #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #creative writing #love #light academia #romantic academia #spilled writing #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #the story of us #book #pages #heartbreak #oh yeah I'm definitely procrastinating