#Book 1: New life

[timecapsulethoughts]

[just-seff-stuff]

Had this dream last night

The dream itself doesn't matter but there was a book in that dream

This book… I'm inferring from a lot of small details here, but I believe it was about a teensy borrower witch studying magic from in the walls of this magic academy. Prominent characters are the two friends she meets quite against her will and has to stay around due to some mishap

The borrower is a massive perfectionist, super high-strung, and her friends are:

A noble girl (maybe vampire, don't remember) who's always having her tea parties, strongly believes in rest as a cure for everything, lazy but in an elegant way, annoys the teensy witch to no end but also sews teensy clothes for her

A werewolf girl who's generally quite untidy, does whatever she wants, just wants to have fun, very impulsive, cannot follow a schedule. Is always taking the borrower gal somewhere without asking first, will be quite a task to tame.

because super well-organized and put-together borrower girl having to deal with lazy or disorganized giants is one of my absolute favourites heheeee

The three of them, over the course of a few books (I think I saw 4, but there might've been more) uncover conspiracies at the school (by which I mean the borrower girl mentions conversations she overheard and the other two go "wait wtf something's wrong here"), the borrower girl learns to loosen up a little and gets a little less judgy about the ways other people choose to live, and she helps her friends study (and makes them attend just a few more classes like c'mon guys you can't just miss EVERYTHING this is IMPORTANT how can you actually be able to attend the classes I can only LISTEN TO from inside the goddamn WALLS and just CHOOSE not to attend?!

yeah she definitely has issues

OH also the cover of the second book was her falling backwards into/off of something while shooting purple magic at a monster which, if you look closer, is a rat

[fishbloc]

feel sooooo excited the dd storybook is almost here like theres actually a set deadline (in 2 weeks) and a week after that deadline ill get it shipped off for test prints and if the prototypes are good i can look into selling them. but the point is the storybook will be real!! my first self-published book!!! this is huge!!!

[empirearchives]

Teenage Napoleon being absolutely oblivious to the significance of the French Revolution in 1789 and how much it will change his life:

[ru5t1npeac3]

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[kayzero]

Quark’s Dreamlike Defibrillation Drabble

You’re sleeping.

Nothing else makes sense.

“Clear.”

Yeah, why else would you feel your heartbeat so clearly? So strong that it’s a little bit painful, beating so heavily that it leaves achey little aftershocks in your chest after every pulse. Thundering and powerful, like you’ve received a shock of lightning from the king of gods himself.

But you only just learned of gods, of Zeus, of Olympus. It was a brand new story from a brand new book—not a super old book from Before, but something totally new. Something made just for you.

It was better than that one book that con artist tried to trick you with—that thing was super old and super thick, yeah, and normally you like that kinda stuff, but only ‘cause you like stories, and people have only barely started writing good stories again, just like people have only started having kids again.

The guy said that it was like a thousand stories in one book, that the book was only falling apart since it was so long and so old, and obviously it was worth a whole bunch just because it was a… it was… an ant-fall-chief…?

“Anthology?”

It was a stupid word, you just started calling it a book-book, ‘cause it was a book full of books, Grandpa said it had full stories instead of chapters!

Grandpa is dead.

…No, he isn’t…

“…”

Yeah… he just got you the best Christmas present ever, just last month. That con artist jerk wanted to sell you the book-book for half of that day’s scavenge, and it was a really really good day of scavenging too! He didn’t even do any work himself, and there wasn’t anything wrong with him either, ‘cause he had to run to catch up with you, and he wasn’t even puffing afterwards, and he had to carry that stupid book with both arms ‘cause that’s how bad it was falling apart.

He just wanted a bunch of your stuff for nothing, nothing but a stupid book that maybe you were a little bit interested in, sure, but you’re not stupid like he musta been, and you told him so and you walked away, pulling your smaller part of the haul while Grandpa pushed his heavier cart behind you.

Grandpa is dead.

It jolts you like a second thunderbolt, it must have gone from your chest up to your brain, because your lungs catch and your nose hurts and your face feels wet. It feels like you’re crying, which reinforces the idea that you’re dreaming, because you were crying on that day too, after you told that con artist off, because you really really did want that book, but you needed supplies more, and your scavenge was so big that Grandpa had to make three trips to trade it all.

You have to be dreaming because he can’t be dead like your brain is trying to tell you, because he wouldn’t leave you alone. Even when you thought you were alone and you it was safe to cry because you really wanted the book full of books, he must have still been there because he knew, and the very next month on Christmas Day he gave you your own story book.

Your book was brand new, made just for you. Every chapter was for a different group of gods from different religions that didn’t worship Brother and Radical-6, and every page had a different god, with their own description and summary and a few fun facts and a list of ‘Myths’, which were all super awesome stories that could be told verbally, so they didn’t take up space and make the book super huge so it would never fall apart.

Every night before bed, you could pick out a new Myth, like how Zeus saved the Olympians and became the King of the Gods, and Grandpa would tell you the story, and it would be the last thing you heard before you fell asleep, which was way better than just reading them.

Grandpa is dead.

The thought thunders through your head, another shock to your system, another bolt from the divide… No…? The defied? Delight? Dim light…?

“Divine...”

Divine. Dih v-eye nn. Godly, or of godlike quality. A new word that you just learned from your new book that you just got for Christmas just last week. Why would you use a new word you only just heard, or think about a king you only just read about, or feel your heart beat way too strong in the wrong part of your chest, direct center of your chest, the middle of your body, perfectly aligned to receive and deliver blood everywhere evenly, except every diagram ever says that it should be somewhere off to the left, between your lung and your ribs.

Painful heartbeat, impossibly centered, painful thoughts, impossibly overpowering.

But anything is possible in a dream.

So you let the distressing thought wash away, dream that it gets pushed down your bloodstream with every beat of your thundering heart, and watch it get smaller and smaller as it slowly disappears, along with the last of your divine tingles.

…You wonder if there are any gods of sleep.

Probably, right?

After you wake up, you’ll look in your book and ask grandpa—

Grandpa is dead.

—when the nightmare is finally gone.

[getbreaded]

Snippets of last week 🌿

Crocheted a bandana all in one go and it turned out pretty cute :) I love the colour of the yarn as well, can't wait to wear it when spring comes.

Saw Perfect Days with a friend, loved loved loved the portrayal of the little moments in our routines that make life beautiful.

My semester starts next Thursday and I'm excited/nervous, still need to organise everything and my thoughts.

[emberintayson]

Almost 3 minutes of zine tours in Albuquerque, New Mexico! Page 1 Books was a delightful find. I plan to make a follow up video with the rest of the zines I was trying to choose from. 

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Eternal Life and The Light of God

1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. It was shining like crystal and was flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the street of the city. The tree of life was on each side of the river. It produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of all the nations. 3 Nothing that God judges guilty will be in that city. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and God’s servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads. 5 There will never be night again. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will rule as kings forever and ever. — Revelation 22:1-5 | New Century Version (NCV) The Holy Bible, New Century Version®. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Cross References: Genesis 2:9; Psalm 36:8; Psalm 46:4; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 51:11; Ezekiel 47:12; Ezekiel 48:35; Daniel 7:18; Matthew 5:8; Revelation 3:12; Revelation 7:3

[curry-and-gunpowder]

Feeling completely normal about Oda Sakunosuke this morning.

[cxsmiicc]

honestly unsure how this happened but i feel like it sums up my mental state pretty well

[cookinguptales]

when I was a small child, I was the unenviable combination of "loves particularly haunting ghost stories" and "is incredibly terrified of everything and cries a lot."

these days my mom is constantly like YOU??? WERE READING WHAT????

I was basically a nervous wreck at all times, and it was mostly because I was constantly reading things that as an adult I reread like "wait what the fuck?" lmao

[little-mouse-adventures]

The Artemis Fowl series isn’t actually about a boy learning how to make friends and save the world with the help of fairies, it’s actually about a boy learning to become a fully-fledged necromancer.

[theflyingfeeling]

...💇‍♀️

[sadhorsegirl]

simply diabolical that one of the main thematic statements of iwtv is that the worst possible thing that can happen to you is being single

[1-800-dnkichu]

while taking an emotional break from My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry (Fredrik Backman), i decided it'd be a good idea to read The House In The Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune).

i cannot say whether or not it was a good or bad idea because i ended up finishing it in less than 24 hours (thank god for audiobooks), it left me in a "found family overthrows the government" flavor of emotional rather than an "omg fredrik backman has seen into my life and knows more than me about my own soul" emotional flavor, and i still have four and a half hours left of mgamttss to listen to when i can't stop sobbing unconsolably at the end of every chapter.

like i said. its good. its bad. either way, i'm a puddle of emotions and i still have four and a half hours left of mgamttss and the sequel for thitcs doesn't come out until september i rEQUIRE MORE CONTENT TO FEAST UPON

i think it's a good thing, then, that i bought all of fredrik backman's books AND all of tj klune's books