#SAKE TO BOOKS

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[1v31182m5]

// Book of Bill spoilers //

Crisis.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Polin + Book Quotes From The First Half Of The Season

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

i hate the idea of sansa ending up as this cold ice queen when through out the books one of her defining characteristics has been kindness. kindness to dontos when joffrey wanted him executed, kindness to the woman with the baby during the riot, kindness to an injured lancel despite cersei's words, kindness through warning margaery of the type of person joffrey is, kindness to sandor clegane and sweetrobin in the vale. sansa even says that once she was queen, she'd wish to rule with kindness when cersei encourages her to rule with fear during the battle of the blackwater. i cant imagine a world where grrm would genuinely go with the idea that only once you refuse love and warmth can you rule

[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[tremendously-crazy]

does anyone else immediately lose interest in a book when there's a romantic subplot or is that just me

[suntails]

governance

[literatureaesthetic]

first read of may — a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees by yoshida kenkō

moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair. 'a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees' is a collection of fragments from the journal of a 13th-century monk, as he reflects on the pleasures of life and its passing moments. i think there's something in here for everyone to admire, with its reflective themes, philosophical undertones, and beautiful writing and imagery.

i definitely recommend!! 🌱

[icarianarts]

Wanted to redraw a gay pulp novel’s cover as devilman stuff because what else am I to do. Palette was colorpicked from various ova screenshots I just had on hand and I kept the book’s bright red background w/ bold yellow lettering because it was too perfectly vintage to deviate away from…

[cabesswtaer]

4-6 months until tsc2.. 4-6 MONTHS UNTIL TSC2

[egophiliac]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE KNIGHT OF DAWN SPIRIT IS STUCK IN A RING

Please where does it say that I must know!!!!!!!

calling him "stuck" was mostly a joke (and I don't think he's really a floating little ghostie or anything, more like...just some kind of remnant?) but when he showed up at the end of chapter 5, I read it as his spirit being in/attached somehow to the ring, and I think the implication was meant to be that he (or what was left of him) was the one guiding Silver through Lilia's memories. that may be leaning a little too hard into my personal interpretation, but that's what I thought we were supposed to get out of it! 🤷

(now watch as they turn directly to the camera in the next update to explain that I've misunderstood everything and the ring is really a tiny little robot that we all must shrink down into to pilot) (which would actually be amazing, can we have that please)

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[mysterycitrus]

also i think it kinda goes without saying that all the robins are happy and angry and smart and loving but acting as if the mantle of robin, its existence as a symbol of light in the darkness and human perseverance and joy in the face of suffering, did not originate from dick grayson, that mary grayson’s love for her son did not inspire that hope, is absolutely unhinged

[magpiedraws]

Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?

Like so?

(Bonus art under the cut)

[cup-noodle]

People reading Hunger Games as a pessimistic and misanthropic work makes me so mad. Ms Collins didn’t base a whole trilogy on the transformative power of kindness for y’all to disrespect her like that.

Like, I see it, THG is bleak as hell in places. But it’s also just about as far from ‘anti-humanity’ as one can get. Yeah, there’s bad people. That’s the point. We’ve all got the capacity to be bad but we can also be good. And that choice is what it’s all about imo - that it’ll always be worth it to do the human thing. Bury that tribute, smile to a child, give bread to your neighbour… it’s all the same and it’s all worth it. Not because of the circumstances but despite them.

[asphodeline-lutea]

Toothless's little face fell incredulously. "What do you mean, you don't know who I am?

“I’m T-t-toothless."