#THE LINES STRAIGHT FROM THE BOOK

[lilac-multifandom-multishipper]

GUYS I JUST SAW THE TRAILER FOR THE DISNEY+ PERCY JACKSON SERIES AND I AM ECSTATIC

[markmybirds]

Dear @neil-gaiman ...

You are probably not going to understand why I am writing to you until the end of this. It's kind of poetic but please stick around.. I am deathly allergic to hornet/wasp/bee stings. I live in Canada where atm in Ontario we are dealing with an invasive giant hornet species that eats bees. So. I had to save the bees. Edit: I've been educated by husband and some lovely tumblr folks about it being a European Hornet! Still very deadly if she had stung me.

I went to take a nap. And found one crawling around my room floor. You could say I did not take a nap. Instead I grabbed a glass cup and put it overtop of her. She's very pretty, but for me she's pretty deadly. The closest books to stop the paranoia of her flipping the glass over were your books. American Gods and Stardust were too thick. Posed threat of also tipping glass over. So.. The Ocean at the End of the Lane it was.

Thank you for the book. It's a lovely read. And you could say it's helping save my life while my husband is out of the house at work.

Sincerely,

Emelie.

"Words save our lives, sometimes." Literally.

Also shout out to @wardog-of-the-endless who sat in her office in Florida and listened to a panicked Canadian over Discord Voice Clips since I was shaking too much to type. I don't get scared often but when I do..

Jumpscare: Hornet.

Edit/Update: I didn't kill her, but she was not doing well prior to my trapping her. I was going to wait to get husband to decide what to do with her, he's a Biologist so I knew he'd know better. I was very scared due to the fact I was home alone and initially had no cellphone around me to call 9-1-1 if she was to sting me. But when he came home she had curled up and passed on. We're a trap and release sort of fam. We DO live in the area where trees have been killed off by invasive moth species so I was worried she was invasive. Thank you to those peoples who educated me.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[rad-roche]

that big, chunky, ink artstyle is a lot of fun to do. it's very, very forgiving, much more so than my usual painting. if i resize something and it looks artifacted, i have to paint back over it. in the ink one, that's actually not a bad thing since it feeds back into the gradient map and gives the colour somewhere to latch on to. the faster you go, the less care you take, the more you fuck up your lighting and dpi and go back over your lines, the better it turns out!

[desertdragon]

This shit is so ass I just want it to be over

[agnesandhilda]

I got a vampire erotica audiobook on libby and it's not a good book per se but by god is this voice acting funny

[coldswarkids]

one of my small, petty, and evil pleasures is completely ignoring my roommate when she's just babbling for my attention. just going about my life in silence like she's not even there. it drives her mad i know it does

[deathbydarkelves]

When straight authors include random hints in scenes that their characters fucked off-page or outright show it on-page, it's dumb and annoying and I don't care. When I do it it's to bless myself and my readers with the beauty of lesbians and also an act of spite against all the authors who are apparently allergic to letting their lesbians/sapphics get nasty.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

Adult urban fantasy

follows four witches who were childhood friends

one is high priestess of the secret government department of witches , but the others have grown apart

when a powerful child prophesised to bring evil to the world is found, she’s determined to destroy her, but the others want to protect her

exploring the current climate of transphobia in the UK

[daz4i]

i have some quotes from nlh saved on my phone in hebrew bc that's the language i read it in. and i looked for their equivalent in english for reasons that don't matter rn. and woag it's interesting to see the difference in entire vibes between the languages, wholly from the translation style. the hebrew version feels like there's way more emotion behind every line while the english version sounds... soulless (which, given the story, can def be the right vibe). idk how the original is so i can't tell which is more accurate but it does make me. Hm.

[darkwood-sleddog]

Dogs felt so fucking prime on our run today! Running on Friday def made Slash more level headed this run, he was much more focused. One problem that I’m dealing with with him is that he absolutely HATES having to turn around (this is a common problem amongst sled dogs, when you have an out and back trail they understand they are going home and the run is ending when you turn around which is why the best trails are loops). Always something to work on!

[thirrith]

oh fuck I think Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous must have been influenced by Qiu Miaojin, specifically by her Last Words from Montmartre. oh my god it's actually so obvious. oh my god

[nereb-and-dungalef]

tfw you finally find a pdf by someone who shares what you thought were just insane theories and proves those insane theories in a way that supports your even more insane theories that the previous insane theories were just a footnote for))))))

[melxncholyman]

trying to enjoy myself in a space but there’s this one person who is always so pretentious i can’t stand it argh

[blunderpuff]

an old lady came in today, followed by a frantic and hovering younger woman

Old Lady (to my coworker): “Can you see about a book I had placed on reserve?”

Younger Woman (to OL): “Ma’am, are you sure you’re alright?”

OL (to coworker): “I think it was in last week, but I didn’t get a phone call...”

YW (to OL): “I have my insurance card in my truck, are you sure you’re okay?”

OL (to coworker): “Oh, do you have a paper towel? I’ve gotten mud on your counter... I just got hit by a car.”

Me and my coworker, who had been trying to parse this relationship: “?!?!?!?!?!!?”

The Younger Woman had side-swiped the Older Lady in the parking lot and knocked her down, and the Older Lady’s priority was literally the book she put on hold. O_O

[ladyshadowqueen]

what an interesting time to be a bisexual bridgerton watcher