#Last Fragments

[philosophybits]

The educated person lives entirely for the future. His life is struggle; his sustenance and purpose: learning and art. The more one learns to live no longer in moments but in years etc., the nobler one becomes. The hurried unrest, the petty doings of the spirit are transformed into great, calm, simple, and comprehensive activity, and splendid patience arrives.

Novalis, Last Fragments

[hersurvival]

Rather than a drafts folder, I call mine fragments -

Individual lines or stanzas that haven't found

The rest of the poem yet,

Sleepy ideas that haunt me so I make note

In hopes they let me rest,

Snippets of conversations

That linger and echo within my chest.

The last fragments I wrote went:

I told her I missed her, the truth.

And she said, "I missed you, too.

I think about you probably more often

Than I should."

I want your name to fill my mouth,

Your breath inside my lungs.

@nosebleedclub May 20th - Last Fragments

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from her novel titled "The Last Man," published in 1826

[fairydrowning]

"This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand."

– Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

[twilight-gullwing]

more doodles of them 🫶💞

[nights-at-crystarium]

Fragments Friday tomorrow :>

[scriptastra]

[nellasbookplanet]

Book recs: monster/creature friendships

Do you like movies like Alien vs Predator, Venom, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes? Do you enjoy dragon riders and talking animal companions? Friendly yet deeply inhuman aliens? Monster children and monster parents? Consider yourself less of a monster fucker and more of a monster best friend? Watch horror movies and fantasize about befriending the horrifying ghosts and ghoulies? Then this is the list for you!

A note: some of these books do have romance subplots, but not as the most important relationship or focus.

A (second) note: the criteria for "monster" are subjective. I looked mainly for titles featuring creatures who neither look nor act/think human. In cases where they are more human looking, I wanted a distinctly inhuman mind and morality, meaning most books featuring vampires, werewolves, fey, etc are excluded. I may have included books you feel aren't monstrous enough, or excluded ones you feel are sufficiently monstrous but I don't agree about. Again, it’s subjective.

Feel free to leave your own recs in the notes, but please know that if you rec books featuring mostly human vampires and werewolves I will be judging. I have separate lists for those, go look there instead.

For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with * are my personal favorites. If you want more book recs, check out my masterpost of rec lists!

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir*

Ryland Grace just woke up from a coma, unable to remember anything. He finds himself alone on a space ship, and as his memories slowly trickle back, he realizes he’s been sent on a mission: to find a solution to the impending doom of the earth. Still struggling with holes in his memories, Ryland tries to fulfill his mission, but as he gets closer to his goal, he discovers someone else got there first. And they aren’t anything close to human. Funny, heartfelt, and heavy on the science.

Fragment by Warren Fahy*

The reality TV show Sealife is having a rough time - as it turns out, a ship full of scientists doesn’t make for the kind of drama they hoped for. Hoping for some excitement, they reach Hender’s Island, a fragment of a lost continent that may contain an interesting new ecosystem. But as they step foot on the island, they quickly come to realize the ecosystem isn’t just new, it’s highly dangerous and very hungry. Among all this life is one single species that may be more dangerous than any other, but which may also be the salvation of the scientists on the island. A bit wonky, but genuinely one of the most fun books I have read, I love it so much.

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis*

Francie has just traveled to Roswell to attend her college friend’s wedding to a UFO conspiracist. Not a believer herself, Francie is shocked when she finds herself abducted by an alien. Her abductor is not much what popular media would have you believe, looking more like a tumbleweed than a grey alien, and is clearly on some kind of mission it isn’t willing to put on hold for the sake of Francie attending to her duties as a bridesmaid. As more people get roped along - among those a conman, an old lady, a ufo conspiracist, and a retiree with an RV - Francie finds herself getting closer to the alien and wanting to help it succeed.

The Last Human by Zack Jordan

Young adult. Sarya is a human - the only one of her kind. Living with her adoptive mother - a vicious, insectile alien - on a space station surrounded by hundreds of other alien species, Sarya spends every day staying below the radar and hiding her true identity. But when an odd new alien arrives on the station, she may finally get an answer to her biggest question: why humanity was deemed too dangerous to be allowed to exist.

Alien vs. Predator: Prey by Steve Perry & S.D. Perry*

On desert planet Ruyshi, businesswoman Machiko Noguchi is about to take over the leading position in a small human colony. Her job is made infinitely harder when the colony comes under attack on two fronts as two species of vicious aliens choose it as their battle ground. If you're reading this list, you probably already know of the movie by the same name. The book, while completely different in setting and cast, does feature many similar plot points, among those a third act team-up between a human woman and a murderous alien.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky*

Millenia and generation spanning scifi. After the collapse of an empire, a planet once part of a project to uplift other species to sentience is left to develop on its own, resulting not in the intelligent monkeys once intended but in sentient giant spiders. Millenia later, what remains of humanity arrives looking for a new home, only to be met by the artificial remains of the ancient woman who once led the uplift project - and she is not willing to let them on her planet.

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

You can’t go wrong with a Vonda McIntyre novel just, like, in general. This one is set in 17th century France, where a young woman and her brother travel to live at the royal court, where they are to care for and study a strange captured sea monster fabled to have the ability to grant eternal life. A lot of focus on court politics as well as the cultural and biological differences between the humans and the mermaid. Also available as a movie (but it’s not very good, please just read the book).

Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys*

Lovecraftian fishpeople! Aphra and her brother are the only survivors after the government raided their home, Innsmouth. Their only living family are the amphibian people of the deep, whom they will one day join, but until then they are bound to land where they struggle to build new lives for themselves after the great loss of their home and loved ones. Then rumors start to spread of a russian agent seeking dangerous and ancient magic, forcing Aphra to involve herself as they try to stop it. Does contain horror elements but is generally a much more optimistic look on cosmic horror than most lovecraftian stories, told from the perspective of one of his monsters. Lots of focus on found family and rebuilding of community.

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky*

The Doors of Eden is something of an experiment in speculative biology, featuring versions of Earth in which various different species were the one to rise to sentience, from dinosaurs to neanderthals. Now, something is threatening the existence of all timelines, dragging multiple different people and species into the struggle, among those a pair of cryptid hunting girlfriends and a transgender scientist. Together, can they find a way to save the multiverse?

The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo*

Young adult. All teenager Zhi wants is a normal life (and possibly for her harsh aunt to be a bit nicer), but it’s hard when she’s half spider demon. Every day she must conceal her true nature and hide in human guise. When she slips up and eats a man in front of her rich, aloof classmate Dior, Zhi thinks her life is over. But Dior has secrets of her own, and she is dead set on making herself a part of Zhi's life.

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Young adult fantasy. Artemisia prefers the dead to the living, and is training to become a Gray Sister, a nun who helps the souls of the deceased pass on to the afterlife rather than remain as dangerous spirits. To defend her convent, Artemisia accepts the help of a dangerous revenant, a powerful spirit which grants her great power but also could possess her the moment her guard is lowered. As evil threatens her homeland, Artemisia and the revenant must find a way to work together.

Slewfoot: a Tale of Bewitchery by Brom

Historical horror. Young Englishwoman Abitha has only recently arrived and married into a Puritan colony when she unexpectedly becomes a widow. As she strives to save her small farm from going under in the wake of tragedy, something dark and dangerous stalks the surrounding woods. He doesn't know whether he's spirit, devil, or god, doesn't even know his own name, and in requesting Abitha's help, both their lives are changed forever.

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O'Neal*

Young adult. Priya had plans to go to Stanford, but is derailed when the fallout from lyme disease puts her back, making her question if she'll ever get back to normal. Luckily she has her discord support group with whom she can chat and vent about her illness. Even more - she has Brigid, online fandom friend and fellow chronic illness sufferer. But when Brigid disappears from the web without warning, Priya must drive to Pennsylvania to make sure her friend is okay - and finds that Brigid's condition is a bit hairier than she expected.

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Young adult. Elisabeth is a librarian, trained to handle grimoires - books of magic which, if mishandled, can turn into horrifying monsters. When an act of sabotage leads to the release of one of the library's most dangerous grimoires, Elisabeth finds herself implicated in the crime. Forced to team up with an enemy sorcerer and his loyal and unpredictable demon servant, Elisabeth sets out to find out the truth of what happened.

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

In a post apocalyptic, zombie-infested wasteland, a group of characters try to stay alive and hope to find a cure. One of the characters is Melanie, a young girl who carries the contagion inside of her and hungers for flesh, but like many children of the apocalypse has kept her humanity. Is she and children like her the answer to the cure we are looking for? Or are they the start of something entirely new? This book has also been adapted as a movie!

Malevolent by Harlan Guthrie*

Lovecraftian horror mystery. Private detective Arthur Lester wakes up in his office, his partner dead, memories fuzzy, vision gone, and the voice of a malevolent entity in his mind. Unable to see, Arthur is forced to rely on guidance from the entity as he attempts to solve the mystery of what it is and where it came from. Is this a book? No. But as someone who reads mostly audiobooks, the difference between a book and a fiction podcast is negligible, and also I love this story and its characters and want all of you to do so too.

Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaka*

Horror manga, heavy on the bodyhorror. Shinichi Izumi wakes one day after a strange dream: that an alien parasite crawled into his arm. Soon he realizes it was more real than dream, and that an inhuman creature, having failed to eat and take over his brain, now controls his arm. Forced to cooperate, the two do their best to survive as more parasites quietly infiltrate society, meaning to devour our entire species. Also available as a very faithful anime!

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy*

Young adult. Twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley's uncle, famed horror writer, just died mysteriously and left her his entire fortune. As it turns out, the stories he wrote weren't entirely made up, and that which killed him wasn't entirely human. In trying to avenge his death, Stephanie joins forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, sorcerer, detective, and living, walking skeleton.

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells

Moon doesn't know what he is. Having lost his family young he lives on the move, shifting his shape to hide his true form. The only ones similar to himself he's ever encountered are the vicious, bloodthirsty Fell, but he knows he cannot be one of them. When chance leads to a meeting with someone like him, he hopes his days of loneliness are over. But his new people stand against a dangerous enemy, and not all of them welcome Moon's help. A departure from other titles on this list in that it features only creatures, with not a single human on page.

The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco

Young adult horror. Okiku died three hundred years ago, her body thrown down a well. Now she spends her days hunting for and punishing murderers like the one who once killed her. When a strange boy bearing odd tattoos appears in her area, he catches Okiku's attention - as does something that follows after him. To save the boy, Okiku will be drawn into a journey taking both of them from American suburbia to a faraway shrine in Japan.

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

When Magos loses her son Santiago to a longtime illness, she loses herself to grief and cuts out a piece of his lung. After hearing old folktales, she begins feeding it - and is shocked to find it growing and alive. Soon finding herself in charge of a hungry and bloodthirsty creature, Magos and her family must come together to care for what they can only see as a second chance for Santiago.

Semiosis by Sue Burke

A generational story following a group of humans trying to survive on a new planet, where a strange and unkowable intelligence is finding ways to use them to its whims. As the humans come across an abandoned city wrapped in the roots of a strange plant, they slowly come to the realization that mutual communication is the only path to peace and survival. Meanwhile, the alien finds itself tied all the more tightly to the growing human community.

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

Maya Hoshimoto used to be an art thief, and a damned good one to, until a disastrous heist made her retire into academia, hoping for peace and coping with an alien disease which causes her to see glimpses of the future. When an old friend tracks her down and asks her help to find and steal a legendary artifact that could save his entire species, Maya is convinced to do one last job.

Magical Girl Dandelion by Mizuho Kaeru

Manga. Tanpopo Ohanami's parents were killed by a phantom monster when she was young, but her life was saved by Shade, another phantom. Ever since then, Shade has been her friend, watching over her and keeping her safe. But then Tanpopo is revealed to be a potential magical girl, meant to fight the phantoms and protect humanity. Her and Shade are meant to be enemies, but can they instead work and fight alongside each other?

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

It’s the height of the Napoleonic Wars, and soldiers on dragon back fight each other in the air. Will Laurence isn't a dragonrider but a sea captain, but when his ship captures a French frigate and discovers a dragon egg about to hatch in his cargo, his life changes forever when he and the dragon hatchling bond.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Middle grade. In Lyra's world, every person has a daemon: a talking animal companion who follows them throughout life. When children begin being stolen off the street, among them Lyra's friend, she must embark on a great journey to save him, taking her to the furthest north - and beyond.

A Redtail's Dream by Minna Sundberg*

Graphic novel inspired by Finnish mythology. When an irresponsible fox spirit accidentally traps an entire town in the dreamlands, it’s up to slacker Hannu and his talking, shapeshifting dog Ville to save everyone. Together the unwilling heroes must travel the dreamlands and locate the townsfolk, returning them to the waking world before the fox spirit sends them all on to death to hide his mistake. While the physical copy is all but impossible to get a hold of, the original webcomic can still be read for free here.

[saetiate]

he puts a pretty collar on you and runs his finger on the underside, pulls on your leash just slightly to check only to hear your pretty gasp. ties you up to the bedposts to watch the way your slick drips onto the sheets as he teases you open to get you ready for him

[felassan]

John Epler speaking to Eurogamer in early June -

"In Dragon Age games, BioWare games, romance is a core part," Epler said. "We wanted to give each character their own flavour, or their own style, of romance. So some characters may be a little more steamy while some characters maybe a little bit more innocent. But for each one, you can build these relationships. "And what's interesting in this game is, if you don't romance characters, they may decide to find their own romances for themselves, whether within the team or within the world itself." [source] (emphasis mine)

Companions may romance other companions (we knew this fact from elsewhere), or instead may romance other characters outwith the team, within the world itself?

[eddiestightywhities]

FRIDAY FANFIC FRAGMENTS

okies, i'm posting a bit of my crack treated seriously pov buck (losing all of his shit) ballroom dancer eddie wip for charlie, who made this request last night. i'd already written a couple hundred words on something related, so when i saw the post i just incorporated what i had into a gift to fill their 'prompt'... @playinginthunderstorms it's funny but this isn't the first time you've derailed a fic of mine in the best possible way, is it charlie? adgjkskk

(unedited so be kind! + pray i can finish in time!!)

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“Show me,” Buck says after finding out about Eddie's never-before-heard-of ballroom dancing exploits from his early teenage years. 

Eddie had been regaling the story of how he gave his folks the proverbial finger and got Christopher back home with him, where the kid belongs (in much more detail, seeing as Buck had already heard the bones of that fateful day over facetime a few months back). Which of course meant all the gory details of the chess tournament and poor Christopher's nerves, which also meant Eddie giving him the lead up to what made Eddie drive out to Lubbock in the first place ergo how ballroomgate was released as public knowledge and Eddie came out as a DanceSport athlete. Or how it came up. Whatever.

Point is, Buck now can't unknow about Eddie's ability to Walz a person to within an inch of their life, or what-the-hell-ever it is that Eddie does. Fairly, Buck supposes, the sly fucker has always said that he's an excellent dancer. But Buck has only ever seen anything close to proof of that claim via Eddie's uncoordinated tequila-fuelled moves to Chappell Roan in a hotel suite full of complete strangers, which—wasn't really any proof at all. No offence, Eddie.

“What?” Eddie smiles a funny little smile but looks confused. Ha! Dude can't be half as confused as Buck. “You want me to… With you? Now?” Eddie's looking at him with this sort of guarded expression that Buck is weirdly finding difficult to read. Weird because Buck can usually pretty much always tell what Eddie is thinking. “You seriously want to ballroom dance with me, here and now, in the living room?” 

The thing is, this.

Tommy and Maddie didn't know shit. They didn't know what the hell they were talking about when they said that Buck was in love with Eddie.

Yes, obviously, everything Buck feels for Eddie is because Buck loves Eddie. Obviously. Like, of course he loves Eddie. The guy is Buck's best friend for chrissakes, and Buck loves him with everything he has, everything that he is. Of course he does. Of course. 

That being said, however, this fact certainly absolutely one hundred percent did not mean that Buck was in love with Eddie. Jeez.

Although, if he's still trying to be fair about it all, Buck loving Eddie may not be the reason for everything he feels for his friend. 

He can explain, alright? 

It goes like this.

Since realising he is into dudes as well as chicks and everybody in between, Buck has maybe started to notice how hot Eddie really is. Or actually that's—okay, no, that's not strictly true. Buck has always known that Edmundo Diaz is hotter than the fucking sun. Like, come on. Eddie's hotness is absurdly obvious to absolutely anyone who can see. Hell, Buck would put bets on even people who can't see still knowing Eddie Diaz is hot shit, seeing as Eddie's hotness is definitely not restricted to merely his looks—even if yes, fine, the guy looks like a Greek god sent down to earth to taunt mere mortals, no point in beating around the bush about this. But, as to not digress, Eddie Diaz is hot in such myriad ways that Buck would easily lose track of them all if he ever tried looking at each and every individual one of them head on.

Competence; check. Bravery; check. Awesome parenting skills; check. Supremely kind-hearted; check. Cute as a button; check. Great at getting salsa verde stains out of your favourite pink cardigan; check. 

Check, check, check. Yada, yada, yada.

You getting it?

He could very easily go on but would probably never stop coming up with new points, and he has a point he's already trying his best to make here.

So, his point, is that before Buck's bisexual awakening, Eddie's hotness was just one of those unchangeable absolute facts of the universe. You know, one of those things you don't ever need to question, like gravity and the earth revolving around the sun and The Beatles being the best band ever.

Buck 4.0, or 5.0, or whatever the hell version he is now, he looks at the universe (men, non-binary individuals) a little differently than those who came before him. He is looking at the universe (men, non-binary individuals) in a way he never has before. Which, right, sure, fine, also isn't strictly a true fact, what with the way Buck has always checked out hot guys et al, it's just that—it's different now he realises what that is. What it means. What it can mean. 

So when Buck is looking at Eddie post-bisexual revelation, it's not just like Eddie is unfathomably hot, it is sometimes things such as Eddie's skin is so gorgeous I could lick it and Eddie's throat is so long and inviting it makes me crazy and Eddie's big hands are so fucking attractive I want them on my body STAT et cetera, et cetera. And yes, he can be big enough to admit to himself that it can get a bit distracting at times, but that's only because of Buck finally allowing these sorts of observations to mean something in his life. Mean something, you know, more.

It's just—it's all very new to him, the whole not-only-going-after-women thing, and can therefore get kind of overwhelming and certainly a little, uh, uncontrollable at times. Like, he's just suddenly so über aware of not only women's bodies, you know? In a more involved way than simply gym rat shit. He can find himself almost staring at times, if he's not careful. Therefore it stands to reason that it is especially difficult when looking at someone as smoking fucking hot as Eddie. And hey, Buck looks at Eddie a lot. He works with the guy! Plus he spends most of his spare time with Eds—or rather he did before Eddie left LA. And Eddie is back now, so. Same problem. 

Except for the fact that his ogling is obviously not something more when it comes to Eddie. Obviously. Because, well, it's Eddie, you know? 

It's Eddie. 

Eddie, who is there for Buck, always, so solid in all of his perfectly flawed brilliance; Eddie, who has a silver star and yet is the goofiest guy Buck knows, forever doing things like pulling kooky faces when he forgets stuff and pretending that raindrops careering down a window pane are racing each other; Eddie, who will get excited for Buck just because Buck is excited over something (usually something Eddie couldn't care less about, because Eddie is just nice like that); Eddie, who is the best father Buck has ever known, despite of and in spite of his mistakes, who unbelievably wants Buck to be a part of his son's world, and trusts Buck with Christopher's precious life to the extent where if Eddie's life were to ever—God, he really can't think about that; Eddie, who is not just the best father but the best man Buck has ever known, the bravest and kindest and most genuine person on the entire fucking planet, and probably the hottest to boot. 

It's just Eddie, you know? Just Eddie. 

It's Eddie.

Eddie.

It's—

Oh. 

Oh fuck.

It's Eddie. 

It's Eddie!

Aaaaand all of that is pretty much how it went when Buck realised (infuriatingly, upsettingly, devastatingly) that the thing was, Tommy and Maddie did know what the hell they were talking about when each of them said they thought Buck—actually, you know what? No. Never happened. Neither of them actually said anything at all about Buck being in love with Eddie. When he thought back to how those conversations had gone, that part was all him. Buck Buckley, filling in all the blanks he now can't ever unblank.

Kind of like the brand new deliciously exciting image of Eddie ballroom dancing which hey, brings this full circle. 

So, there we have it. Turns out that Buck is, in fact, very much in love with Eddie.

Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war… Or whatever Bill Shakespeare had Caesar say in that crazy play Buck had to study at high school. 

And now? 

Now Eddie and Christopher have been back home for just over a week, and Buck is so deliriously happy and so epically sad about it, all at once, all at the same horribly confusing time. 

Because what the fuck is he supposed to do with this?

It's like he keeps telling everyone, including himself; the true thing he is silently screaming, seemingly in vain, into the void and the universe at large...

Eddie is Buck's Very Straight best friend.

Edmundo Diaz is a straight man who Buck has idiotically gone and fallen in love with. Idiotically because 1) Buck hadn't even realised that's what he'd done and 2) EDDIE IS STRAIGHT. 

Cool, huh? 

(That's sarcasm, by the way, just in case some imaginary person did not get that).

Buck being in love with his straight best friend, you will find, is actually the single worst thing to have happened to anyone ever in the history of humanity. 

Buck cannot believe he is this clichéd.

Except for the way that yes, of course he can believe it. Of course he can. This is Evan Buckley and his terrible, no good life, right? So yeah, sure, of course he's in love with Eddie, his Very Straight best friend. Of fucking course he is. 

Fuck you, universe. 

Seriously, there are Reddit-famous posts about guys like him. 

Anyways, that is just one facet of Buck hating on himself for this whole debacle. Another is, that right here, right now, Buck is frankly disgustingly masochistic enough to have just asked Eddie to show him how to fucking ballroom dance in his—Eddie's? Their?—living room.

Like, what the everliving fuck. 

“Yes, Eddie, really,” he's confirming with a smile that ohhhhhhh, is really costing him. “I absolutely want you to show me how to ballroom dance. Like, uh, you know, to—to teach me how, yeah?” is his batshit answer to Eddie's Give Buck An Out In The Form Of A Question, because Buck is plainly some sort of lunatic.

He wonders absently if there is a full moon, and thinks there might be when he has to fight back a blood-curdling howl.

Eddie, though, he simply shrugs, an adorable expression that's giving Robert De Niro adorning his Leading Man features. Then, insanely, he is stepping into Buck's personal space and grabbing one of Buck's hands with one of his own, before he's snaking the other around Buck's waist and pulling Buck's body into his.

Buck very nearly blacks out on the spot.

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[philosophybits]

Philosophy is arbitrary, like all synthetic science such as mathematics. It is an ideal, self-invented method of observing and ordering etc. the inner world.

Novalis, Last Fragments

[fortjester]

harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir — drunk drivers/killer whales by car seat headrest — maya the psychic by gerard way — western nights by ethel cain — sex with a ghost by teddy hyde — we're in love by boygenius

[mournfulroses]

Wislawa Szymborska, from "Funeral (I),"featured in Map: Collected and Last Poems

[fairydrowning]

"But there is a clarity about September. On clear days, the sun seems brighter, the sky more blue, the white clouds take on marvelous shapes; the moon is a wonderful apparition, rising gold, cooling to silver; and the stars are so big."

– Faith Baldwin, Evening Star

[kiisuuumii]

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius