#I think he's in a bunch of books more

[ebthestarryknight]

Cringe little wizard with his cringe little personality

[benevolenterrancy]

(Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett) I think Shang Qinghua and Ponder Stibbons should have tea and compare notes about somehow accumulating so much behind-the-scenes power by doing menial jobs no one else wants that they could basically run the show if they wanted...

meanwhile we have Shen "meh good enough" Qingqiu

[souenkun]

Matoba is So Real actually. If I had to face the horrors of protecting 11 clans and the rest of the exorcist community as my 9-to-5 from the age of 22 or possibly younger, I deserve a little sweet treat after finishing a job. Make it three sweet treats while I'm at it

[x-enocyon]

new ldb in the works

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

the x files au where everything is exactly the same except mulder takes home the child neanderthal from the jersey devil episode and raises them as his own

[shigussy]

i keep getting tiktoks of these younger gen z kids referencing a time they did something relating to fandom in public and now they're embarrassed by it and everytime i see one i sit there thinking over all of middle and high school and having genuinely 0 moments that i feel embarrassed by, like i definitely did a lot of shit these kids would be embarrassed by but i think these are all just really fucking funny

also photographic evidence of the kinda kid i was. these are from 2014/15 when i was in 8th grade

-desolation row one shot(still on wattpad gerard way/reader smut)

-twerk it on (mcr crack fanfic no longer on wattpad but i have another fic in my library called twerking in taco bell which definitely ALSO used for my reading log)

-frank iero must die(a serial killer/assassin frerard fic, still on wattpad)

-hair (really vague maybe a phanfic? nowhere in my wattpad library rip)

my binder i used in 7th grade i had a blue one that looked pretty similar to this for 8th grade but idk where it went, also the parts i scribbled out are my full legal name i had written on it. i wrote it normally and then the big spot is where i wrote my name REALLY BIG in elysian code from the vladimir tod books. also the lines are from when i used an exacto knife to cut up some papers and forgot that my binder was underneath

in conclusion yall can now see why im so shameless about talking about shigaraki the way i do

[wienners]

one way i've been trying to convince my oomfs to get into EMH is by explaining that it is literally THE reason why everyone into online horror right now has a raging ongoing hard on for House of Leaves

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[springcatalyst]

shogun (book) does the 'characters speaking in multiple languages' thing the best ive ever seen its so fuckign. the 'defaults' are typically either portugese or japanese and so those are written normally, with the exception that the japanese we hear from blackthornes perspective is either unintelligible (not direct quotes) or short words and phrases that he picks up (things like wakarimasuka and kinjuru are written just like that, and we the english reader learn what they mean as blackthorne does, so dont need translations evey time). japanese when heard from a japanese character's perspective is written in normal english, because its still the default, its their first, usually only, language. but it gets funky when youre speaking, say, latin, which they do sometimes. because blackthorne knows it fluently, but its not his first language (though neither is portugese) and its not the one he uses the most. so its written recognizably to us, an english-speaking reader, but in a way that makes it clear it is NOT portugese (default). so its written in this kind of old-englishy very elaborate style, with thees and thous and -ith at the ends of verbs and even just a different grammatical structure than normal english. "who giveth the sign? with importance it should be given quickly." <- not a sentence that comes naturally to english but it is A: recognizable as of the meaning and B: clearly Different. it signals theyre speaking latin even when the whole book is written in English and i think its NEAT

[musubiki]

okay im actually a little emotionally attached to mochis shop being a little cat bookstore now

[caterpillarinacave]

If you think the natm 3 junior novelization is deranged now just WAIT until they meet Cleopatra! What!

No but what was that even 😭😭😭😭

[cookie-dough-writes]

Inside my head for any IP out there, there are two versions. One is canon where the fun is had with dissecting and analysing and being grounded to the actual canon and the other is sandbox peaceful mode where anything goes. and thats the dream

[suswous]

I know that, especially if it’s strangers, safety is also a big part of the concern, but I feel like a lot of (cis) women would be more comfortable sleeping in mixed gender rooms/rooms potentially with a bunch of cis guys if there was the requirement that you gotta promise to be cool about periods.

[wanderingmind867]

I want to like Infinity Inc and the All-Star Squadron. I want to, so very badly. But I don't like them. And I can't like them. Infinity Inc gets too complicated after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the All-Star Squadron is a waste of what could have been a Justice Society revival book! I don't want a book about the C-List Heroes of the 40s replacing the Justice Society, those characters could've had their own damn team!

A team of Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, Shining Knight, etc, could've been very cool, but not when it's just ww2 geopolitics and JSA replacements instead of fun adventures with these heroes. We could've had something great! I know Roy Thomas can write great! I loved some of his Avengers stuff! But The All-Star Squadron… it's not good. I want a better revival of the JSA using old heavy narration and long dialogue. I want better than the boring war drama that we got!

And Infinity Inc…it's a brilliant concept, marred by confusion and more boredom. The Infinity Inc team never got much interaction with the JSA (I don't think), they lost Power Girl and Huntress after 12 issues (because of the horrible Crisis on Infinite Earths), it's a mess and it needs to be rewritten. Rewritten immediately. Otherwise I'll never get to know the joys of these characters. And trust me, the characters seem great. They're all great concepts. It's just…too confusing and broken for me to be able to accept it. It's all a travesty. A travesty of the highest proportions.

[lord-squiggletits]

Do you ever read a post online where someone complains about how "IDW never talks about this [idea/character/plot/theme]" and you just think to yourself... this person hasn't read anything besides MTMTE have they?

Really sad when you see people complaining "the story never talked about this!" and act angry about it as if it's some oppressive flaw that the writer (JRO) was evil for never talking about but it's like. Bud if you just read exRID/OP or maybe Windblade/TAAO you would have read plenty about that.

The two worst ones I can think of off the top of my head are "Optimus is always treated like a saint, I hate how he gets away with everything just because he's a Prime" (wrong, read literally anything Barber writes) and "the Decepticons never get a sympathetic perspective, they're always just villains and the narrative is totally just treating them as if being revolutionaries makes them evil" (wrong, read several side stories that Barber wrote). Like literally the moral of the story is just "read something besides MTMTE."

And I'm not complaining about people who are just curious or don't know. I'm talking specifically about people who complain, or say MTMTE is bad, or generally act as if JRO's writing/MTMTE/LL represents the entirety of IDW1 and basically act like, if JRO didn't write it it doesn't exist and clearly since he didn't write it that means no one else did. Like please I'm begging you to read the other less popular but still good series in IDW1 and you'll find multiple stories/ideas that they tell that MTMTE/LL doesn't.

[bookwyrminspiration]

you should draw fitz in a cardigan (if you want ofc)

i'm trying to remember how to draw him, and also how to draw in general, but I have. a quick little sketch of the boy :)

I think. he's very neat. and that I don't actually remember quite what a cardigan is, so I don't know if this counts. but nevertheless! i love him <3