#I can't wait to get the book myself!!

[checanty]

I just noticed I didn't tell you yet--which is shameful as it is Tumblr where the Mermaid Scientist was born! My Mermaid Book was picked up by Eye of Newt and is available for pre-order right now (it's coming out very soon, though, so any orders should make it until Christmas if that's a concern of yours)! If you're in North America, I'd suggest ordering directly through my publisher's website, however it's available anywhere you'd usually order books. You can ask your favourite indie book shop to order it for you or--if there's no other option or you're worried about crazy shipping costs where you live--it's available via the place starting with A, which shall otherwise not be named, as well. Please note: This is an edited version of the original book. It's shorter, but with more coherent world building and a beautiful new layout and design. It's a proper field guide now!

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[miroimirage]

[souenkun]

After watching next week's trailer again, I noticed that panels from chapter 89 were shown in it? If we're getting both chapters animated in a single episode (making it episode 11), and we also got 12 episodes in total for season 7, then what arc will be animated for the season finale? :o

[itwoodbeprefect]

it's a delightfully humbling experience to run across a video with hardcoded subtitle translations in two different languages and absolutely none of those (the spoken language or the subtitled ones) are even slightly related to the four languages i could somewhat claim to speak or the nice handful of others i can at least try to take educated guesses at. there is a wide open world out there full of words i don't know and likely never will, and not for lack of trying, but because we (humans) have SO many different languages the human lifespan just isn't long enough to learn them all. and i think that's incredibly cool, actually

[kanonavi]

I am once again tagged by @radellama, thanks a bunch!

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Last Song: Song of the Ancients / Fate, by Keiichi Okabe

Currently Watching: Still Trigun (1998), I am unfortunately too busy to watch much else (Though I do sometimes think about how much I want to rewatch TGCF season 2....)

Three Ships: Xiao/Venti, Feng Xin/Mu Qing, Minamoto Kou/Mitsuba Sousuke

Favorite Color: Still cobalt!

Currently Consuming: Nothing at the moment, last thing was some chai tea. Now I'm thinking about grilled cheese again tho...

First Ship: Leo/Takumi from Fire Emblem: Fates

Relationship Status: Unfortunately, no

Last Movie: I genuinely don't remember... It was either Spirited Away or a combined Megamind/How to Train Your Dragon movie night

Currently Working On: A lot of my current angst is actually over the fact that I'm too deep in the schoolwork trenches to actually work on any of my own personal creative projects. But, my other project besides the Genshin Poetry Gala fic that I've been working on for months now is a TGCF essay about how the main couple are representative of the story's main themes. They make my brain explode <3

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Tagging: @hollyisanonymous, @rubberbandballqueen, @tempests-bards-and-birds, @sl33pyr3v3ri3, @stardustdiiving, @h4msanta

[eightspringdays]

Just saw a TikTok complaining about fanfics that didn't have "enough dialogue" because "reading more than three sentences" was hard.

I'm not against heavy dialogue-oriented fics; they are fun, but... that's a script. You want to read a fucking script, hope you know that. A writer isn't "bad" because they are... you know, writing. Just say it isn't your thing and move on, but categorize something as "bad" because you lack the ability to fucking read... ain't the author's problem; it seems like a "you" one.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Sounds like you've got a right bitch of a co-worker based on those post tags lol

ajfksdljf TT0TT Oh that was like my 3rd version of a post I made. I had to talk myself down and censor myself akljsdflkfa orz

But yes he really is. I cannot stress it enough that everyone hates his guts and he's created such a hostile work environment.

[dirtytransmasc]

I know in my bones that Jon would have been a mama's boy, the biggest mama's boy actually, had Cat accepted him as her own. I just feel it deep within my soul, that boy would be attached to her at the hip, always holding her hand or leaning into her or latching onto her like a little leech (affectionate), and god forbid someone try and mess with her, oh lordy you better run. and honestly the other way around too, don't mess with Mama Cat or her kids.

had Catelyn accepted him as her son, the bond would be far too powerful, that's why they had to be put at such odds, it was for the world's sake, I just know it.

[non-un-topo]

God if I had the energy and brainpower I’d be drawing Quynh + Nicky being chaotic and dumb together

[elytrafemme]

long theoretical post about my friend hugging me

like. to dissect a matter that none of you are involved in and then i'll delete in the morning: my friend in college hugged me about ten minutes ago and i don't understand why. he's a physically affectionate person so we knew it was bound to happen, it was a running joke between us that we'd like schedule our hug to happen. nothing extraordinary happened tonight. in the second half -- which is when i spent the most time with him -- i was so fucked up that i barely processed what was going on? i was listening to what he was telling me, he just rambled about stuff, and it's interesting and i could recite all of it if asked and the expression he made at each part, but there was absolutely nothing in my head. and he never asked if i was okay which i think he would have if he thought something was wrong, because he's done that before. and we were alone so he could have and there would have been zero consequences. but he didn't ask me what was wrong, so it's hard to assume that the hug was for emotional consolation reasons. he wouldn't have noticed me on the brink of tears, either, he's not that observant. i would have known if he had. and i didn't do anything truly kind to him today, i listened to him talk about his interests and we hung out for a while, but that's what we do all the time. nothing happened. there was the chair thing but i thought i played that off well, i tried to have a coherent narrative about it an hour later too so he would guess what i had hoped, and i think i was successful. he wasn't distressed, i would have known. and he was tired but he's been tired a lot before and he's never acted like this. so he had zero reason to hug me unless he maybe sensed that this entire time i just really fucking wanted him to hug me, but he wouldn't have, and i would never have voiced that, because i don't want him to see me at that level. but i needed that hug badly. and i don't understand why i received it.

[strangerays]

sometimes i really wonder about this whole college thing

[syninplays]

Also, completely unrelated to my last post, but I got myself the first The Last Kingdom book like 3 weeks ago and I already finished it lol - BUT! that means I can get the second book because obviously the more I read before the movie the better 😅

Ps: I literally suck at reading, I have like 10 books sitting on a shelf that never even opened but suddenly I get this book and read it in a matter of weeks 😂

[puddingvalkyrie]

Excellent advice.

I was freaking out when I hit twenty because I 'hadn't done anything' and 'didn't have a direction', and like... yeah of course, twenty is barely out of childhood.

At 26 I was freaking out because I was 'officially late twenties' now (le gasp!) and I STILL 'hadn't done anything' (note that I had just graduated from university and got my first publishing contract, both somethings) and a family friend said:

"At 36, you'll realise how young 26 is."

And that kinda... fixed it for me? Really put everything into perspective. Now whenever I think 'oh no where am I and where am I going?' I think 'when I'm (+10 years) old, I'll think how much younger I was then' and ... it works.

Turning thirty didn't bother me. Don't get me wrong, I still have to get my act together on a bunch of stuff. But... I don't feel like there's some kind of timer or measuring stick to measure against anymore.

[morelikesin]

The amount of ideas I have that I'm too embarrassed by so I never post them. Sliving 🩷

[childofsquidward]

Books I Read In 2022 (and by read I mean actually liked)

You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

"You are my entire world, Julie. And one day, maybe I’ll only be a small piece of yours. I hope you keep that piece.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

This book hurt me a lot more than I thought it would. When I first picked it up I was like “okay, this sounds kinda sad, but I’ll be fine” and you know what, I was WRONG. I finished it all in one night and somehow powered through all the crying that I did. I honestly think this book brought up a lot of my own repressed grief and that was something that I absolutely was not ready and willing to deal with a three in the morning, so I was personally affected by this book in a way that I absolutely did not expect.

Okay, time for me to shut up about my own shit and actually talk about the writing - Dustin Thao I will be billing you for my therapy. Having the prologue be this sort of warm, beautiful montage of Julie and Sam’s relationship and then immediately hard cut to Sam’s death as if to remind the readers that he is in fact gone was a fantastic way to start the book, it really set the tone for the rest of the story. It was rude as hell, but I loved it.

Now, based on the summary alone, I had no idea where this story would go. Is this some alternative universe shit? Will Sam somehow be brought back to life at the end? Or is this all just Julie’s way of coping with her grief? Well, I was wrong on all accounts, but what else is new? There was actually this section of the book where right before Sam picks up the phone, Julie talks about how she’d do anything that she possibly could do to end up in a reality where Sam is still alive and at her side, and I thought it was an interesting nod to the many people who shared my alternate universe theory.

I love the way Dustin Thao uses transitions in this book. I think transitions are such an underused form of storytelling in books and they just worked so well for this book. A great example of this would be this section from one of the flashbacks: “The sheets fall over me, covering my face, and then rise again in the air before they shift and fall into flakes of snow as the scene changes around me.” Like, are you kidding me?! And that’s the thing about Dustin’s writing. While the language he uses seems very simplistic, there is a certain vulnerability to his writing that I found to be rather heart-touching.

No, I will not be addressing Sam’s final goodbye to Julie. But hit me up if you also wanna be destroyed by the playlist I made. x