#20 books in 2024

[thecrybabydiaries]

Loved

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Please Tell Me by Mike Omer

The Last Days of Jack Sparks

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

Hated

One Wrong Turn by M. A. Hunter

The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden

How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

[browsethestacks]

Comic - Mad Magazine 2024 FCBD Special Edition (2024)

Art by Kerry Callen

[heyitsrink]

November of 2024 is a wild time to be reading The Left Hand of Darkness.

[thehauntedrocket]

Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theater #01 (2024)

Art by Tom Scioli

[takaraphoenix]

Dear Anonymous Shithead

ai wish i could like this but honestly nico/percy is kinda... wll not exactly toxic but like it really isnt something anyone should ship

It is the year 2024 and there are truly still people on AO3 who have not learned how to navigate the very easy filter-system, huh. When will you people learn that comments like these are just truly so embarrassing for you, because they make you look stupid on multiple levels...?

Can't even decide if the choice to 1. not filter when that's such an easy tool to use, 2. open fics for ships you don't like because you don't have anything joyful to do in your life I guess and 3. comment on the fics for the ships you don't like to complain about its existence like that will change anything is the more ridiculous thing or the "not exactly toxic".

The "not exactly toxic" is deadass so funny to me, like, you don't even have the balls to properly insult the ship you that you bothered to actively seek out and complain about. It's not even toxic it's just mildly inconvenient I guess?? You didn't even have the balls to call it an unhealthy age gap or anything, you're just vaguely mildly uncomfortable, like c'mon, this was the explicit "Nico is a high school student and Percy goes to college" fic, I was, like, fully setting you up for success on the unhealthy age gap angle there!

Would love to see all the hypocritical, fully toxic ships that you do ship in your private sin chamber though.

[abybweisse]

Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

⚠️ long post ⚠️

So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

[brian-in-finance]

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Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 What a sweet image: Toddler Tait and his stories. 📚

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Remember… (Astrid) Lindgren is best known for her children's book series featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children, and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brothers Lionheart. — Wikipedia

[dyketennant]

i need you guys to be so fucking genuine with me hearts on your sleeves. do you think there will be gay sex in rivals (2024)

[artemisandhersilverbow]

Ok… go off, king.

[andreai04]

I loved him, and I suspected that I would grow to love this beautiful, horrifying place if given the chance. I wanted the chance. I wanted Faerie, its every secret and its every door.

[captainderyn]

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[kgdanny02]

Just finished watching Gravity Falls for the billionth time, so here’s my version of humanized Bill Cipher 💛

[browsethestacks]

Comic - Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theater #01 Cover (2024)

Art by Tom Scioli

[readingoals]

Third Girl had me hooked from the first chapter. Poirot being so offended at being called "too old" made me giggle and then Ariadne Oliver came into it and I knew it was going to be fun.

Just another solid mystery with some fun characters. Also it referenced The Beatles! Which makes sense because it was published in the 60s so of course Christie knew who they were and would use them when referencing youth culture but idk I always get a kick out of things like that. Especially in her later novels where the reference points are just that bit more familiar.

[dhrmonth]

Dramione Month Daily Roundup

Here is the Day 20 roundup of Dramione Month works! ⏳✨ 

AO3 Links:

Day Twenty - Twilight by Peaches_on_Waffles: M, 787 words, 1/1 Chapters

The night study by Hyemi_28: E, 1,092 words, 1/1 Chapters

In Between The Silence by ohthedrarry: M, 3,842 words, 1/6 Chapters

All Our Twilights by galaxy_skies: T, 681 words, 1/1 Chapters

New Blood by RavenNiffler: T, 155 words, 1/1 Chapters

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more by LunaP999: G, 0 words, 1/1 Chapters

Tumblr Posts:

Ficlet by sodamnradd (Also on Twitter)

Fic by themaryscribbler

Fic by draqo-pctter (Also on AO3)

Fic by sailtomarina

Ficlet by autumnweeeen (Also on Instagram)

Art by sophiesstreet (Also on Twitter and Instagram)

Twitter Posts:

Art by softkombuchart (Also on Tumblr and Instagram)

Art by SiriuslyDrawing (Also on Instagram)

Ficlet by thisisntdd

Ficlet by RecklessLupin

Ficlet by nothing_devils

Art by aplthree (Also on Instagram)

Drabble by TheOther_Lore

Fic by draqo_pctter

Art by makaykirei_art (Also on Instagram)

Ficlet by PeachesnWaffles

Drabble by unaorion

Ficlet by nocteacakes (Also on Instagram)

Ficlet by theSaffronGin

Fic by arborlibrary27

Drabble by missmuwrites

Instagram Posts:

Art by saneasluna

Ficlet by ravenniffler

Art and ficlet by sly_fffangirl

Ficlet by hyemi28_fanfictions

Art by sisiwako

SocMed by the.dramione.effect

Ficlet by mermaidflete_ao3

Art by mrsmoresmorde

Fic by missusbwrites (Also on Twitter)

Art by flo.riex

Art by papercranesandapples

SocMed by dizzle0000 and astrabookshelf

Art by m_art_usia

Art by mira.sool_art Fic by hyemi28_fanfictions Fic by galaxy__skies (x-posted to AO3)

[freshthoughts2020]