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To whoever wrote out the ENTIRE game script to The World Ends With You and put it on LJ over a decade ago, I hope life's treating you well.

But if anyone would like to like, script out Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky—Special Episodes to boot—I would literally do ANYTHING. Though of course, a game like that would be MUCH harder to transcribe as opposed to something like TWEWY but like... just sayin'...

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya/Sakuraba Neku Characters: Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Sakuraba Neku Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Experimental Style, Mind Games, Possessive Behavior, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Psychological Horror, Dark, Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon-Typical Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Possessive Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya, Dreams and Nightmares, Sakuraba Neku Has PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Post-Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You, Guns, Eldritch Kiryu "Joshua" Yoshiya Summary:

In which Neku has quite the disturbing dream...

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I'm bored, and I've been OBSESSED with TWEWY for the last week or so now. So, I'd like to play a little game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill." It's simple: send me an ask starting with "Fuck, Marry Kill" and list three characters from the OG game (no Neo characters please, as I've yet to play it). Will I provide reasons for my choices? I don't know. I'll consider it. (Also, all children have been aged up.)

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Was asked this stupid Would You Rather question and I felt I just had to share it. Would you rather: let joshua style you for a day OR let beat cook you dinner? This is CRUEL. But... Joshua. He may be insufferable but at least he has some sense of fashion. Even if it's like... pretentious shibuya-kei fashion. Beat would probably try to put ramen in a smoothie or something because "protein yo!"

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So it's January 2025 and there are 70+ fics featuring my literary beloveds together. I genuinely can't believe how much I've contributed to the tag, beyond literally creating it. It'd be a dream to have 100 works under the tag by the end of 2025.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Goyou | Lucian/Shikimi | Shauntal Characters: Shikimi | Shauntal, Goyou | Lucian Additional Tags: Poetry, Love Poem, Nonet, Christmas, One True Pairing, BookshelfShipping Summary:

A nonet written from Shauntal to her one and only beloved as Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day.

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The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 1)

Context: For many years now, I have been collecting funny lines from Goodreads reviews to share with my coworkers. (I do collection development, reader's advisory, and weeding at a public library, so I read a LOT of reviews)

Are some of these, perhaps, rather mean? Yes, but they are also very funny, and come from a place of honest frustration. In the tradition of Bargepole threads and lists everywhere, names and titles have been censored.

"First, I want to say that I understand how hard it is to write a book and how amazing it is when it is actually published. Congrats to the author for that accomplishment. That said--"

"Warning: This review will be lengthy due to pure hatred."

"I found myself feeling really, really annoyed with the world that this book is allowed to exist. We live in a universe where the passenger pigeon is extinct but this book goes along merrily being read by unsuspecting lovers of words and ideas and stories? It just seems like too much, you know?"

"Don't do it. Don't spring the cash for the hardcover. Instead, eat an entire bag of Twizzlers, spend some money you don't have at a high-end department store, look up on Facebook the shady college boyfriend that made you cry, research the current value of your home or 401K and then read all about how the big hedge fund managers are faring during the economic crisis. You'll feel about the same stomach pain if you waste your time reading this book."

"This wretched novel begins with the mugging of an old lady and it appears I may be in the process of repeating that loathsome crime as [author] was 78 when she wrote it. It is not nice to put the boot into such a poor defenseless old creature lying there with only a damehood, a Booker Prize and a few million quid. It’s a nasty job but somebody has to do it."

"I think this is the way dead people would write, if they could."

"I am considering setting up SPABB: Society for the Protection of Accurate Book Blurb. This blurb appears to have been written by someone from the publishers who met [the author] the night before, got very drunk, lost his notes and then constructed something in a fug of hangover the next morning."

"I congratulate [the author] on the early half of his book, which was thoroughly fun and made me laugh and think. I congratulate [the author] on the second half of his book, for finishing it. It reads like that was difficult."

"…a woman whose taste in contemporary literature has roughly the same batting average as a pitcher in the National League."

"The author is a pompous windbag."

"Recommends it for: No one. Recommended to me by: A friend who apparently wished to cause me great suffering."

"Makes me wonder: is it possible to obtain similes at a volume discount?"

"The repeated phrases made me want to mail a thesaurus to the author."

"I'm disappointed in myself for finishing this book."

"if the author described [character's] eyes as "obsidian" one more time I was tempted to write her and ask if her thesaurus broke."

"They say that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would, if given infinite time, eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. [This book], on the other hand, would probably take the average monkey just under two hours."

"I can't imagine what the author had to do to get this nadir of Western literature printed on innocent trees, but he does seem to know a LOT about being well-connected in New York."

"This book is so bad it is almost worth reading just to make you appreciate the other books you are reading."

"Reads like it was written by a brilliant author, the night before it was due."

"raises interesting questions, like: can a book be so bad as to constitute an act of terrorism"

"has this author ever spoken to a human woman"

"This acorn has fallen so far from the tree that it can’t even see the forest."

"I’m guessing they are touted as ‘beach reads’ because no one will care if they get dropped into the ocean."

"This book begins with all the energy of a hand vacuum near the end of its battery life, and the pace doesn't quicken much from there."

"At least everybody’s eyes stayed the same color this time around."

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I hate it when people ask me what genre of music i listen to because i genuinely have no clue. It's called Music I Like genre. The best genre out there

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—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

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the resounding silence that dwells in the void

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what a beautiful horrible thing to feel so much

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think about how there’s no such thing as a complete touch—only the illusion of it… think about how you’re moved and affected and scarred and scratched and bruised and kissed and bitten by a mere illusion… think about how you’re saved from the real thing… think about how you’re bereaved of the real thing

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"Requiem", Hovhannes Grigoryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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Sonnet CXXX

by William Shakespeare

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go: My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

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“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

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I want one of those "born to fish, forced to work" shirts except it says "born to write, forced to write".

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The Magic I Know

your eyes

rescue me

your voice

an answered prayer

your arms

my sanctuary

your presence

completes me

your love

the magic i know

your heart

is my heart

your spirit

my salvation

your hands

perfect in mine

your touch

my beautiful eternity

your whispers

sweet salvation

your breath

my oxygen

☆☆☆☆☆

©️ @followcb ☆ November 24, 2024