#I really really need a reread soon

[hikato-chan]

Hi dear SVSSS fandom, does anyone have any fic recommendations where SQQ is a complete badass? Please? I want to read that so badly, I got reminded of Inappropriate Use May Result in Strange Side Effects by AceOfDivineChlorophyll and how badass he is in LBH body and now I just need to read something that doesn't immediately wife plot him.

Doesn't matter if the fic is about something else as long as he's allowed to be actually strong! Please! I have no idea how to find this

[wordsgood]

it's like part of me knows that the watchmaker books are the better pulleyverse books and i adore them, they're amazing gateway drugs, pepperharrow wrecked me, and bedlam stacks is like, THEE pulleyverse book in a lot of ways, but valery k is just. no pun intended but that shit lives in my BONES. that little glass-boned questionably gendered freak is MY guy. i haven't even seen chernobyl i just think valery kholkanov and konstantin shenkov should be injected into my veins 24/7. personally speaking.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Well.

[moeblob]

For the month of November I will kinda be doing a little bit of two challenges/concepts when I have the energy. No real rhyme or reason behind what I choose when. The two concepts are:

Huevember No Shame November

Now, Huevember is something people know of already probably. But regardless of if I do it daily or whatever, I will only be using the hue for the corresponding day. So if I do No Shame stuff for a few days, I will not pick up the hues for day 2. it will be whatever hue matches that day.

No Shame is just something silly I came up with as a joke a few years ago to let myself draw more cringe-y stuff. More self-indulgent things without apologizing for it.

If any of you have a character suggestion for Huevember, feel free to reply to this post with the character/day. It should be easy to google the colors. Also! If you want to suggest someone for No Shame where you simply want me to draw something very self-indulgent, feel free to suggest "No Shame (character name)". For these I'd prefer DBH but I'm willing to consider other games I've played for hues.

[lostandbackagain]

my absolute favorite phase 2 revelation is that valkyrie and skulduggery are actually yelling and talking over each other. sorry I thought you two were talking like grown-ups this whole time, I will not make that mistake again

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Hello, uhm, may I ask if you're going to continue lonely bones? I know it's been a while but I was rereading it right now and just whoa

Have a great day <3

You are in luck, anon — chapter 3 will be posted this week (if all goes according to plan abdjnsbdjsnnajd) and I have plans to complete the final chapter before the year is out 💛 It is only 4 chapters total it will NOT be abandoned this I swear to thee.

[myinterestsvary-writes]

They know each other so well.

They love each other…

It’s a reciprocal relationship. Kyoya right after looks for Tamaki’s mother in France. 😭❤️

Bosom friend: a very close friend you can confide anything in; a best friend

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[seri-tonin]

Chat it's been over three years since we've gotten a suegiku interaction..

[spockandawe]

I don't know how to get off mister toad's wild ride. But as a change of pace, I am tired of trying to record and edit nice gifs! So instead, have a very brief video of a peller box, where you can hear my new magnet additions click home!

YEAH, BABY! Those are strip magnets lining the tip of the fore edge boards in the way described in the original class notes from hugo peller. I'm not completely in love with the technique, it's really hard to accurately cut long 2mm strips of magnet, but the effect is CHOICE. And I've still got like fourteen feet of magnet to work with, so!

Also.... my own empurata megatron fic has a new empurata themed home. Making me laugh is my highest priority! I was leafing my stash of books I haven't given away, seeking inspiration for how (besides magnets and testing metric measurements) I could add spice to this project, and the answer was cutouts! Cutouts shaped like a robot had his face amputated and swapped for a single eye. And, I won't lie, I don't do much precision cutting, but I'm pretty proud of how many quality circles I was able to cut out of board and paper to make this happen! I really need to see if I can find some other craft to catch my wandering eye soon, but boxes are truly just so satisfying

[geryone]

July is going by so quickly & I have not even begun to think about what I’m going to read for the Sealey Challenge this year

[an-theduckin]

Wait shit people might actually care about me

[no-where-new-hero]

Her ‘scribbling suit’ consisted of a black woolen pinafore on which she could wipe her pen at will, and a cap of the same material, adorned with a cheerful red bow, into which she bundled her hair when the decks were cleared for action. This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely popping in their heads semi-occasionally to ask, with interest, “Does genius burn, Jo?” They did not always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation of the cap, and judged accordingly. If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew, and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor.

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Thinking about that post saying that we have to acknowledge Jo's femininity in addition to her masculinity and this emphasis on a close connection between her clothes and her creativity feels like a good contribution to that!

[thatsitso]

Having a visceral reaction every time I see this scene

[six-of-ravens]

I am realizing now that there's this new...not genre but like, writing style (?) of book called "the author got into a fight on twitter and that became their whole book"

Babel falls into this category (see previous reblogs), as well as Seasonal Fears, where the author chose (chose!!) to make the main couple a frail, disabled girl and a big beefy football player, and then basically spent the whole book apologizing for it and explaining painstakingly that he would never abuse her oh noooo. It got to the point where the book was barely readable. I just know that came about because the author either got into a real twitter argument or made up a potential one in her head about how ~problematic~ people were going to think these characters were because of the physical/strength differences between them. I really wish the author had either stuck to her guns unapologetically (it would be a cute romance if she wasn't begging forgiveness for it every time they kissed) or just changed the characters entirely to save herself the anxiety.

I would also put Iron Widow loosely in this category, because it's a very angry book, clearly born of a lot of rage about misogyny, and I think sometimes that anger is detrimental to the plot (it just makes everything too...simple, I guess? when all the men do X and all the women do Y except our special MC who is the first woman ever to choose Z?). However, it's the one I liked the most out of the three, because the MC learning to trust (some of) the men in her life and learning that the shitty system is screwing them over too is a big part of the plot, so she doesn't just....wallow alone in anger, and the author doesn't constantly apologize for having A Man Do A Kiss On The Woman Oh Gawd (sorry, I'll stop, McGuire just HARDCORE disappointed me with SF).

Anyway. I feel like this "writing style" (idk, it's not really a genre? mood? frame of mind??) is why I hesitate to pick up a lot of new releases. It's not always bad, but those books always feel a little lacking, because the author is so obsessed with twitter arguments, extreme bad-faith takes, and trolls that they either completely fail to tell the story they wanted to tell (Seasonal. FEARS.) or it just...robs the story of that extra bit of complexity that would really make it Work.

[secretmellowblog]

"The Arkenstone is the Heart of the Mountain; it is also the heart of Thorin..."

I was listening to this cello cover and started drawing the Hobbit Comic adaptation things again <3