#::Log: IC Postings

[hxkerwxlf]

"No. I'm not a Strawberry rap Ninja."

[hxkerwxlf]

"..."

If there was a wall right now, Silver Wolf would be smacking her head against it. Not only did they openly trust such, but then now they can't log into that account any more. God. It's like dealing with a personal idiot.

"Do you click anything willingly nilly? Oh my god. What are you? A child?! You can't openly trust someone you've maybe only chatted too once or twice."Another sigh from Silver Wolf."Tell me your account, I'll get it back for you."

“ Nothing special, I think. Some guy I played with on Trailblox gave me a link to a website for some free Trailbucks, which is where all that ad stuff is at. I don’t know how to navigate that sight, though… Also, I can’t login to my Trailblox account anymore, which is really weird. “

He left his sense of logic in a dumpster, apparently.

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[hxkerwxlf]

"You know. It really boggles my mind when boomers, or zoomers, come into a game that they clearly have no rime, or interest in, then complain about silly shit. Could stuff be better? Sure. Always. But not the game for you buddy."

[hxkerwxlf]

"Yo. Get on my level scrubs."

[hxkerwxlf]

Seeing lot of texting, so makes me think.

Would you really want Silver Wolf's number?

Cause.

Getting a text at like 3am like 'Yo. Server is up. Come on, get up.' or 4am being like 'Fortnite n chill?'

[hxkerwxlf]

A few clicks of buttons, crashing, and bashing. The sounds of the game echo throughout the room, as she casually plays without a care in the world. Her butt sometimes moving on place, is it on purpose? Or is she truly just enjoying her spot here.

Having not heard anything for a good few moments, she pauses her game, before turning her head round to look at the other, gently poking them in the cheek.

"Yo. You doing good? Ya can't be getting too worked up like this, you know."Says you Silver Wolf, knowing what you're doing.

@hxkerwxlf asked:

Incoming Silver Wolf, casually sitting on Fischl's lap. It's her lap now. She's come to chill.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Oh okay she's just going to die and explode. This is the most harrowing feeling of all time right now, having her crush just decide that her lap is a chair.

⠀⠀⠀⠀She can't even bring herself to speak - she's just flabbergasted and entirely uncertain. And about as red as she can possibly get.

[ofliterarynature]

NOVEMBER 2024 WRAP UP

[ loved liked okay nope dnf (reread) ]

Kicking Ice • (The Bride of the Blue Wind) • Animal Farm • The Lost Manuscript • Heart's Blood • Hotel • The Liar's Knot • The Education of Pip • The Glassblower • Terec and the Wall • (The Hands of the Emperor) • The Village Library Demon Hunting Society • One Good Turn • The Silence of Bones • (The Raven Tower) • The Art Thief • Safer Places • Letters to Half-Moon Street

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Letters to Half-Moon Street - an absolutely charming epistolary regency romance told mostly through letters between the main character, his siblings, and his love interest. The mc is gay and demi-sexual (and a younger son) in a queer-norm England where gender norms have been replaced by rules about birth order, and there's magic - it's very Sorcery & Cecelia meets KJ Charles (if not quite as good). As I said, very charming, but when I read the two shorter follow ups, One Good Turn and The Education of Pip, it was pretty clear that the epistolary format (and romance) helped cover a lot of hurts. I applaud the author for including an aromantic character and trying to write stories about finding your place and self-recovery without romance, but in her attempt to create comfort she sacrificed any real development to the characters or the plot. (also, while the rich upper class characters are exceedingly nice to the lower-class characters, we still almost never see any of their servants. hmm.) There's a few more books in the series that are romances (and at least one looks like it might be epistolary), so we'll have to see if she improves. Fantastic covers though!

Safer Places - a comic collection that was supposed to be for my book club but didn't quite work out unfortunately! These comics were very strange and dreamlike, making me not quite sure what happened but very much wanting to think about it. The artist also returned to a story idea several times, sometimes taking on an entirely new shape, and it really lent a sense of connection to the book as a whole. Would recommend!

The Art Thief - I'm not really one for more narrative-type nonfiction or for true crime, but non-violent crime involving fine art? I don't know why I find the fine-art world (and crime) so fascinating, but I do, and I enjoyed this! It was actually a fairly nice, chill read to distract myself with in the middle of the election.

The Raven Tower - revisiting my first Ann Leckie 5 years later - this was incredible! Slow yes, but watching the story build itself out of all the pieces was absolutely fascinating. 100% satisfied with the ending, but it was also a bit of a cliff-hanger? I'll be absolutely fascinated to see what kind of stories Leckie felt compelled to write that take up half of the Lake of Souls collection.

The Silence of Bones - DNF @ 11%. I was very interested in this as a historical mystery with a female protagonist set in Korea, but leery of it being YA. I admit I wasn't a big fan of the audiobook narrator, but an hour and a half into the audiobook I still hadn't hadn't settled into the story, so decided to drop it.

The Village Library Demon Hunting Society - This was very high on my watch-list for 2024 due to my love for CM Waggoner's first book Unnatural Magic, but was somewhat leery of the cozy-fantasy vibes it was giving. My first shock came when it turned out to have a fairly modern and contemporary setting and was not in a fantasy other-world, though as expected it was definitely going for the cozy-fantasy and elderly-person-solves-murder vibes that are popular right now, and with which I've personally had mixed results. Overall though, it was aiming to be a sort of meta-commentary on cozy mystery tropes, which I think it was successful at! I think it definitely did better than its sci-fi cousin, the Midsolar Murders series by Mur Lafferty. I just wish it had a better title, this one is a bit of a mouthful and only semi-relevant.

The Hands of the Emperor - started slowly rereading this a few months ago with the intention of getting around to my first reread of the sequel. Honestly, the perfect book to be reading during an absolutely horrible election, I imagine I'll be burying my head in the Nine Worlds a lot in the upcoming years.

I wasn't quite ready to head directly into AtFotS after finishing Hands, so jumped around to some of Victoria's short stories I hadn't read yet. Terec and the Wall is the second Terec story - I admit I really don't have much interest in this sub-series? This one in particular was at least interesting in the second half because of its crossover with the Greenwing & Dart series, so I recommend you don't read this until you've read that. The Glassblower was...fine. It showed promise, but it was so short! I hope the second part fleshes out more, but idk. It's also related to the Ysthar collection of books, which is the only part of the Nine Worlds that I haven't bothered to revisit yet. To skip ahead a bit, the third of the Sisters Avramapul novellas is finally out! It's been a while so I decided to reread the first two books, starting with The Bride of the Blue Wind. It's a Bluebeard retelling and deals with pregnancy/body horror and is not for the faint-hearted! Sardeet was SO YOUNG in this, I don't think I quite realized before. Good but not my favorite of the series.

The Liar's Knot - loved loved loved. These books are so good even if (or because?) all of the plot twists are somewhat soap-operatic. I think this is my favorite in the series because the characters are a bit more settled but also having to learn to trust each other. And all of the secret identity reveals!!! I had a wonderful time.

Hotel -DNF @ 8%. picked this up at a recent library sale because a mystery at a hotel sounds cool! Then I started it on audiobook and realized it was a thriller (not my thing) written by a guy in the 60's (ditto). What I read was certainly passable and maybe I could have gotten through it, but I lost interest.

Heart's Blood - I've seen Marillier's work around somewhere, and picked this one up at a library book sale at some point. I got so close to DNF'ing this early on and almost wish I had. It wasn't bad I think, it has some beauty-and-the-beast vibes, but it felt excruciatingly slow, and something that I couldn't quite put my finger on was annoying the heck out of me. It made me wish more times than I should admit that I was reading Chalice by Robin McKinley instead. I'm not entirely scared off of trying Marillier's other work, but I'd proceed with extreme caution.

The Lost Manuscript - DNF @ 19%. A surprisingly lighthearted novel told in letters about a woman who finds a manuscript in a hotel bedside table and proceeds to track down the original author, only to discover someone else had added to the manuscript at some point after he lost it. She and her contacts try and trace its history back to find the mystery author. Seemed very nice, if you're looking for something calm and lighthearted? Just not what I was looking for at the time.

Animal Farm - somehow managed to escape reading this for school, and a podcast I listen to loves recommending this, so I picked up a copy at the same sale as Heart's Blood. I feel like I spent most of the book sagely nodding my head, like yup, that's how it can be! Very smart book, not a favorite but I'm glad I read it.

Kicking Ice - backed this on Kickstarter ages ago when I was still deep in my Check, Please! fervor. Finally picked it up because it was short and I needed to finish another book for my owned-tbr challenge. It was ok. Maybe a better choice if you're a young girl interested in hockey or sports in general? I also didn't like the art style used for most of the book, so a pass from me. I'm sure a lot of the info about the NWHL is also outdated by this point.

[hxkerwxlf]

"New icon, who dis?"

[mechahero]

//Boys night out! (It’s actually a revenge filled tear through a place that ends with everyone and damn near everything covered in blood by the time the sun comes up.)

[hxkerwxlf]

"That's mainly for business."

Which was true, if she's going in something business related, then best case to use such. Unless it's an activity that she can enjoy, that'd warrant her presence being there in the flesh instead. Looking round the room, as if inspected every inch, every detail within.

"Well there is certainly a charm about it."

"You can really do a lot with the place. Even got high tech advanced systems hm? Does the Astral Express really pay that well?"Not that she was interested, if anything, she can gift the games herself without paying anyways. Only thing stopping her, was Herta funny enough.

"Do you least know how to work something as brilliant and high tech? Or do you still need to learn that up there?"

Why did Silver Wolf always have to personify mystery in times like this? On one hand, it's cool, in one of those 'get teased' kinda ways.

On the other hand? Anger! Some abrupt and sudden need for correction!

Caelus however, does not bring any of these things to the limelight. That competitive glare is what holds the strongest, before an abrupt uptick of confidence gets him shaking his head.

"Yessss, Ms.Wolfie. The fact you're not even hologram'd shows you might've been rolling around in your bed, squealing for the day this arrived. So without further ado!"

Caelus proceeds to take this trustworthy, intergalactic criminal up to his new room. A place that finds itself looking more like a king's palace compacted into a singular room. A place he shows with pride while he stands by her side. "Need'cha to judge the specs first n' foremost, if there's one person who knows some quality testing, it'd be you."

[nyxsuswrites]

bhai jo bhi bolo sardi mein ice cream khane ka maza hi kuch aur hai.

Han wo alag baat hai ki mummy kutegi.😭😭

Per mummy ko bataega kon hehe.🙃

[sentient-rift]

(Continued from here.) @snatchfreedom

"Yep. The Multiverse. Turns out, there are many out there. If you think a good guy Dr. Eggman is strange, there's also an evil Sonic on the enemy team..."

Meanwhile on the Dreadnought... (@fallen-symphony)

"Alright... Ears are twitching... Who's talkin' about me?"

Back with RiFT's crew.

"Anyway, wanna go meet the guy in charge? I heard he was doing more recruiting, but I'm sure he'll still have time to answer your questions and to send you back to your dimension."

[yaoiconnoisseur]

Watching people spam hate at the official YOI Twitter every time it wishes one of the characters a happy birthday is wild. Like. They realize that’s a bot they’re yelling at, right lmao

[valeurex]

He sees everything and anything in his 5min long presence and already JUDGING.

[hxkerwxlf]

"There is no Powercreep issue with HSR. More a greed issue, with wanting to roll on basically everything in order to get best. Not poggers at all."

[prcttyinpcnk]

The morning sun gently stirs the young witch from her slumber. One eye opens to see the blurred visage of her still-slumbering friends, resting blissfully around the tv. Her gaze lazily shifts up to her darling girlfriend, softly snoring with her steady ring around her neck. A soft smile spreads across Phiona’s face. She hugs Angelica close to her chest, adjusting the newly knitted blanket from her Mama Jackie. 

Man… What a great Birthday. What a great Halloween…

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