#angie reviews

[angieloveshua]

“188男团 novels.” | Angie reviews novels that she read in Spanish because she was too lazy to translate her reactions to English, pt. 1.

🫧 —Alpha Predator. | 5/5 ☆.

No carrd, unfortunately.

Alpha Predator is the latest 188男团 novel of the series, and by so far, my absolute favourite. The story follows Shen Dai, an B rate omega, who agrees to marry off on behalf of his half-brother to pay off his father's debts. Little did he know that his meant-to-be husband was Qu Moyu, the heir of the Xingzhou Group, his boss, and the man who saved him from an embarrassing situation years ago. Shen Dai knows that the best option for him is to see this marriage as a financial exchange, but he can't help falling in love with the handsome yet ruthless Qu Moyu.

This novel is an ABO classic, but who doesn't love classics? I do. I love Alpha Predator, and I read the whole book in four days. I must mention that Suida knows how to draft addictive novels. I devour this one, and I miss the feeling I got while reading it.

Before reading the novel, I saw someone ranking Qu Moyu as the scummiest gong of all the series, even worse than Shao Qun, and I was scared. What could have this man do to be worse than Shao Qun? When I finished the novel, I couldn't disagree more.

Although I am well aware that what Qu Moyu did was atrocious, to say the least, I understand why he did all of that. He was raised to always value rationality and benefits above everything, even his own feelings. And guess what? I'm weak. I never hated him. I adore how he addressed all what he did, he reflects about it (and I put this in italics because I feel like most of the love interests don't regret their mistakes and just try not to do that badly again), and he works hard to be a better husband, father, and man. In conclusion: I'm biased. Qu Moyu best 188男团 gong. 💜

Before going to the next novel, let me at these two bullet points:

The ABO. It was extremely interesting to see how alphas and omegas were divided into classes according to their pheromone level and how it played a key role in the protagonists' lives. The scenes where pheromones came into place were /screams.

The romance. QuShen is the best 188 couple, beat it.

🫧 —Winner Takes All. | 4/5 ☆.

carrd.

Winner Takes All is the first 188男团 novel I read, and I would also recommend it to be your first one if you want to get into the 188男团 world. The pace is easy to follow, and Zhao Jinxin is one of the least scummy gongs of the series.

The book's MC is Li Shuo, who is dearly loved within the fandom and had played the second love interest in other novels (Sissy, for example), and we see how he falls in love with 🥁 his enemy's cousin, Zhao Jinxin. Really, one of the greatest sins Zhao Jinxin has committed is to be Shao Qun's cousin (and this isn't even his fault, you see).

Li Shuo and Zhao Jinxin have good chemistry. They have a lot of interests in common and their families are friends. One could say it's a match made in heaven and that nothing could go wrong... right?

Well, well, well, let me tell you that I was so heartbroken that I had to listen to Bad Bunny songs to not cry. But don't worry! It's a HE.

🫧 —Additional Inheritance. | 3/5 ☆.

No carrd, unfortunately.

Additional Inheritance («Maldita herencia», Damned Inheritance in Spanish) is Luo Yi's and Wen Xiaohui's story. Everything starts when Wen Xiaohui receives her adoptive jiejie's suicide notice —but not only that, her jiejie left him a considerable amount of inheritance along with her only child, a fifteen-year-old boy named Luo Yi, who has a high IQ and is considered matured for his age.

For this novel, I remembered I posted a tweet with a theory of what could ruined Luo Yi's and Wen Xiaohui's happiness. My moots called me ‘witch,’ and for one moment in my life, I hated being right.

To say I was shocked was the least. I texted, let's say, six of my friends and told them what was going because I couldn't believe my eyes. How could he...?!

And so, yes, I can't say that I hate Luo Yi, but I also can't say that I love him. I don't want to post a spoiler here, but, hey, I was reading a little in my graduation party and I didn't know what to do with my feelings.

As for the plot, I enjoyed how Wen Xiaohui escalated in the fashion world (I like to call it that way) and I felt proud of myself for understanding the finance part (my financial market course is so useful, hehehe).

So, these were the 188男团 I've read so far and a little of what I think. I plan to read Yet You're In Love With an Idiot and Professional Body Double, so the next post of 188男团 will be of them. I hope you enjoy the reviews and give a try to any of these novels if they attracted your attention (READ ALPHA PREDATOR). Angie's off.

[brb-on-a-quest]

Application fees feel like bribes 😭

[irishanimefan]

Almost five years ago, I started working on a video about this particular topic. Five years, 41 pages, and almost 23,000 words later it became my biggest video ever -- and I'm very proud with how it turned out!

Sherlock Holmes is quite possibly the most famous fictional detective of all time. As a result, he's been the subject of many, many adaptations over the years. And anime is no exception! This is the video hbomberguy didn't want to make, so I guess I'll make it instead! Strap in folks, this is going to be a lengthy investigation!

Please enjoy Sherlock Holmes in Anime!

[sparrowsabre7]

Genuinely hate reviews that hype up a moment in a film, game, tv show etc but are super vague about it.

"There's a moment later on that I shan't spoil but it's the best thing to ever happen in anything ever."

Great! You've already spoiled it by setting expectations way too high! Now I'll either be waiting for something amazing that never quite comes, or it will and then I know that that was the high point of the film.

[featherxquill]

Fics Wot I Wrote - 2020-2024

It's been a while since I did this, to the point that calling it 'year-end' is kind of dumb, but hey, that's the tag. For the last few years, my muse has been fickle and time-poor (hello, full-time job, lesson planning, unit writing, exam marking, etc etc etc). This is the post where I round up all the fic I wrote this year (or in this case, for the last four years) and link to it, then answer some questions about my writing, purely as a record of my thoughts/an exercise in egotism. It's fun! And it's my tumblr, so I can do what I like. So there.

Overall, my assessment is that I am ENTIRELY predictable, entirely too into older ladies, and entirely too into tiny fandoms. Why can I never dabble in megafandoms where the fics get hundreds of kudos and comments? Even when the fandoms are growing my interests are niche. Ah well! If you're one of the people who left a comment on one of my fics in these or any years, know that I love you (people who left kudos get appreciation, but it's the comments that spur the muse)

Anyway, here's the fic:

25 Jan 2020: not as a lover but a messenger of death - Arc of a Scythe - Curie/both male and female OCs, Curie/Faraday - E - a multi-chaptered exploration of a scythe's relationship to sex and intimacy, re: power imbalance/responsibility/consent

9 July 2021: Tango Americano - The Infinite Bad - M - Cornelia/OMC - Cornelia and Her American are at it again, this time in Montevideo for a night, but this time they get to unpack some trauma with their fun fling.

July 2021 Bonus: Anything - Unpublished gdoc. E. The missing scene from the fade to black in the fic above. Some edging and a previously untold story about the Kama Sutra. Self-indulgent smut with an audience of almost no one, which is why I never posted it on ao3.

16 March 2022: The Fool and The Empress - The Infinite Bad - E - Cornelia/OMC, also feat. Joy - Cornelia's American comes to visit her in London, something he once never imagined doing. It's a nice end to this little series.

26 December 2022: The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday - Arc of a Scythe - Curie/Faraday - T - Scythe Curie helps Scythe Faraday disappear, which is totally not emotionally fraught at all.

17 December 2024: The Arsonist's Guide to Diplomacy - Slow Horses - Diana Taverner/Catherine Standish - E - What happens when ruthless clever bitch meets soft clever bitch?

Bonus: 1 Jan 2025: Her joe - Slow Horses - Diana Taverner/Jackson Lamb - E- When Jackson Lamb goes undercover as someone Not Physically Repulsive, Diana is suddenly very intrigued by him.

That's it! See you at the end of the year, or maybe in 2030! Who can say? Underneath the cut you'll find the silly little meme.

Longest Story Written: not as a lover but a messenger of death (37,188) - no.2 of all time, actually (One Time Thing still has gold) Shortest Story Written: The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday (2574)

My favourite story: Probably 'Tango Americano'. I think it's the best of the 'Cornelia and Her American' series, and it was a lot of fun to have this Repressed British Lady unpack some of her trauma with her tailor-made boyfriend.

My best story:  Ah, this one is hard when I'm actually writing about four years rather than one! I’ve dithered about 'Not as a lover' because I'm still so proud of it and it was such a painstakingly researched labor of love, but fuck it, I’m going to go ahead and say I think ‘Arsonist’ was better. Fuck yes older lady femslash with a convoluted plot, I did a damn good job on you.

Best received story: Not as a lover. It has 133 kudos at time of writing, and a bunch of comments. Multi-chapter fics are always going to win, there, because sometimes people comment on every chapter. It is important to take into account that it HAS been up since 2020, though. My current Yuletide one has 29 kudos and a comment from the recip plus a reader, which I'm sure will increase once I can crosspost it here (I am drafting this while the anon period is still active).

Most fun story: 'Her joe' was LOADS of fun to write. The prompt was fantastic, trying to capture Lamb's voice was loads of fun, the chance to write something so wildly canon-unlikely but that feels so circumstantially possible to me was loads of fun. Yeah, that one.

Hardest story to write: Honestly, I didn't find any of the listed particularly hard to write. The hardest thing in these last few years has been finding time and inspiration to write, so the things that would have been hard probably didn't even begin. BUT (and this is a later edit to add after MULTIPLE changes in the drafts and since posting) have YOU ever tried to render a sound-based pun as written text? Especially with a sound as difficult to capture in text as the way 'jo mama' sounds, but ALSO the second word is different, and also a weirdly pronounced Shakespeare reference? Like I will die on the hill of this joke being GOLD, but I hope people can get it from the context.

“Holy crap, that’s *wrong*, even for you” story: I don't think any of these fics qualify as 'wrong'? The Taverner in 'Arsonist' is a particularly fucked up person though, I suppose.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:  I guess that's 'Arsonist' too? I mean I definitely STARTED that fic with a silly transparent premise designed to get two women I wanted to kiss trapped in the same room, and then they turned around and said BUT WHAT IF WE PLANNED IT ALL ALONG. And I went with it. So yeah, that one?

Biggest disappointment: I guess my biggest disappointments were related to those Infinite Bad fics. I had such fun writing them, and I did it for me, but the fandom was SO SMALL to begin with, and then it dwindled even more to nothing. BUT you move on. Cornelia Cavendish is basically a permanent resident in my head now, and her American still visits her, and I want to thank the people who were interested and did read, comment and kudos, or told me privately what they thought, even if they didn't know canon at all.

Biggest surprise: That I wrote 'The Death of Scythe Michael Faraday' in 2022, evidenced by the Archive, and not 2023, which was where I'd placed it in my memory. That's another two year dry spell broken, like the one that happened before I found TiB. Thanks, Slow Horses! Also, on that, that apparently what my brain/heart wanted more than anything was to write Slow Horses smut? Idk, but when I wrote my Yuletide sign-up I actually DNWd receiving smut, I think because I hadn't thought about any of the characters in that way at that point. But then something shifted in my brain and really got into the writing of it. Who knows their own heart and mind? Not me, apparently.

Most unintentionally telling story: I am apparently way more into Kristin Scott Thomas than I thought, lol!

Sexiest story: A lot of these are explicit, actually - I am definitely down as a textual pervert, and quite happy to be here! But I think I'll have to go with 'not as a lover', mainly because its entire premise is sex and different permutations of it. Some of the sexiest bits of it aren't even that explicit, really, but that second chapter? Hoo, boy! I definitely wrote *that* before I learned that most of the fandom were teenagers, let me tell you (and I'm glad it exists; the explicit sex was important for the character's journey in that specific chapter)

Favourite summary:

Scythe Curie helps Scythe Faraday disappear, which is totally not emotionally fraught at all.

Probably apparent, since I used it in the post above. I do enjoy when a summary can have a little bit of wry authorial voice in it, which this one definitely does.

Favourite opening line:

It’s summer in London, and a cooling breeze blows through the city.

I'll pick this one because the recip cited it as something she liked, and because it was fun to channel a bit of Mick Herron even though I was writing about the show rather than the books.

Favourite lines from anywhere:

Kissing him was like stealing cookies from the jar

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They never did drink the champagne.

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“Have you considered the zoo?”

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“What about thunder?” he asks. “Have you ever seen a visual depiction of that?” He continues to look at Cornelia, and after a moment, Joy follows his gaze.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the easiest thing to depict,” she answers, with a smile of her own.

“No?” Leo asks. “I’d say it has a certain attention-grabbing intensity.”

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She kisses him, tame but lingering, and lets these moments be the answer to all they cannot say, cannot do: the way her lips press against his for a beat too long, the way his fingers tighten around her wrist like they want to hold on forever.

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I can't really pick fave lines from the new ones just yet, but I gotta say, I am SO pleased with myself for the jo'mama/joe'country/country matters pun, I can't even.

[theraininthestars]

Review of The Hate U Give

Hello darlings, I know that I have you very abandoned here. An apology, but today I want to present my review of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. The book was published in 2017 and had a film with the same name that was released in 2018.

But what is the book about?

The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16 -year -old girl who witnesses the murder of her best friend, Khalil, at the hands of the police. This being a "normalized" and even justified event in her community, because she is African-American and her neighborhood predominates African -American people. She, confused in what to do, makes an introspective trip about the racism that she lives every day, what she can do to take care of herself and her family, but also what she must do to stop this.

I am summarizing the book a lot, but it is a fairly complicated issue that touches as racism impacts all the environments of an African-American woman.

What I enjoyed from the book were the themes and the character development Starr had. I am not in her place, we live completely different experiences, but I understand that it is an experience that has to be shared. Because we must not forget that she is a 16 -year -old girl. She is barely entering a new world of maturity and how far can she help her community.

I love the diversity of lives and the empathy that had to put their difficulties without stereotyping them. I loved that Starr was always given a time to enjoy being a girl and that not all the time was tragedy after tragedy. It was a grieving process with good days and bad days.

At first, I found it difficult to read the book. Not so much because of the scenes, but because I was worried about getting attached to the characters and then something would happen to them.

The language was something strange to read, because I am not used to the dialect, however, you get used to it quickly.

I think another thing it helps is to remember that I am already an adult, reading a teenager to express herself is like an ahhh, that's why. It definitely got better until the end, it was more digestible to read and even the jokes were more fluid. This may be because it is the author's first novel, but they are aspects that are improved, because it does not take away from the contribution of the novel.

Now, another reason why it was difficult for me to read it was the conflict that is being experienced today. All of this was difficult to read because you read how the characters justify the death of their best friend, then you hear it in the news and feed, and it makes you angry. If you want to know more about the topic, I recommend looking for journalists who are reporting on the topic like Bisan or Motaz. I am going to attach some accounts that I follow on the subject on another post.

But, back to the book in terms of narrative. I would give it a 4 out of 5, because I feel like there were lines that took me out of the story. Thematically, 5 out of 5, I love the perspective it takes and the messages about: fighting for what is fair, it is a group effort to promote justice and respect, grieving processes are complicated, and let children enjoy their childhoods. It is a book that I definitely recommend and keep looking for more narratives like this in all media. Books, movies, video essays, music, documentaries, plays, series, in all formats. But the most important thing is to know how to take action.

[wolfsbanemanor]

Honestly, while I love the new pack as a whole (notwithstanding the fact that the base game update associated with it caused me to lose all my saves and mods), I don't love Cupid's Corner. I actually prefer LilMissSam's SimDa app. It lets you pick from a much larger pool of potential partners, and you can choose whether you're looking for an actual date, or just a quick woohoo. But I do love some new things about the pack. I love the new woohoo locations. Ciudad Enamorada is beautiful. (And I used MCCC to make Carmen Ortega into Bella Goth's mother. Look at her, and tell me they aren't related. I wonder if she's this continuity's answer to Jocasta, or if Jocasta is the deceased wife mentioned in her bio and Simis is out of the picture?) The "seductive dance" interaction is so extra, I love it. I love the new woohoo locations, especially the blanket. I love the new TV channels. (Caleb turns down the Bachelorette-expy for...Kyle Kyleson?!) I absolutely adore the sweetheart boxes. And I recreated Angie Sangria, and she and Caleb have been leveling themselves up, and she's been using some adorable new interactions with him. And lots more autonomous woohooing. They were doing a lot of that before, but now....dayummn! (Even though I have a "mental health" mod that I installed mostly for Caleb, to go with his lore, and he cycles quite rapidly through some moodlets, and I'm like, "Yo, are you two sure this is a good time to be woohooing?" Also, these moodlets cause him to do what he doesn't like to do: namely, bite other Sims without asking, even getting a callout text from Lilith. He always feels bad about it, and it's an uncontrollable thing; I can't even cancel the interaction.) Like, slow down, you two!

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[adamwatchesmovies]

Encanto (2021)

Encanto is an instant favorite. You watch it once, you’re blown away, you look up its songs and listen to them on repeat. Filled with memorable characters, breathtaking visuals and complicated emotions, there’s something here for everyone.

At the heart of the isolated community of Encanto is Casita, a sentient house that grants magic gifts to the members of the Madrigal family on their 5th birthday. For two generations, the Madrigals have used their abilities to serve their neighbors, except for Mirabel (voiced by Stephanie Beatriz) who mysteriously received no gift. Now 15, Mirabel notices Casita acting strangely and begins investigating. All signs point towards her uncle Bruno (John Leguizamo) - who vanished ten years ago - being tied to an incoming disaster.

Writing my summary of the plot, made me realize how complicated this story is. When animated films were drawn by hand, you usually had one to three central characters and their journey was about their own physical, internal or emotional changes. Once the era of computer-generated imagery began, plots began to shift towards characters who change/explore the world around them. Encanto takes this to a new level. While Mirabel is the protagonist, every member of her extended family & her home is given enough screen time to be called an important character and the story is ultimately about so many topics it’s a wonder they’re all squeezed into the 102-minute running time - keep in mind that includes the credits.

How does “Encanto” do it? By utilizing all the tools at its disposal with peak efficiency. The film begins with a song that lays out the groundwork for everything we need to know about Encanto, Casita and the Madrigal family. The beat and lyrics are so catchy you don’t even realize it’s a deluge of exposition. From there, we’re on a fantastical journey with plenty of real-world equivalents. Maribel’s oldest sister is Isabela (Diane Guerrero) who can make flowers bloom everywhere and can seemingly do no wrong. She always looks perfect and is constantly showered with compliments. Maribel’s second older sister is Luisa (Jessica Darrow). Her superhuman strength allows her to move buildings and everyone knows they can count on her whenever there’s an emergency. Take away the fancy superpowers, look at the family dynamics and who is Maribel? The youngest sister who will never be as good as her other siblings, no matter how hard she tries. It only takes a song and a few lines of interaction for us to “see” all the years these people have had together. Encanto is ultimately a mystery. It’s about Mirabel trying to discover why her uncle disappeared all those years ago. Beneath that, it’s about our responsibilities towards each member of our family and how we want to separate ourselves from them while also remaining connected.

As Maribel investigates her uncle Bruno and his sinister ability to see the future, we learn more about the family. The knowledge we gather often comes in the form of catchy tunes - the best Disney has produced since Moana. They’re accompanied by stunning visuals, the kind that makes you pause and wonder “How did they do that?” You know they didn’t need to get actors and animals to learn any kind of choreography but it’s so well done and there is so much detail packed in every frame you forget you’re watching computer-generated graphics. This is the kind of movie you could watch over and over and always discover something new. Either in the backgrounds, the character designs, the lyrics, the dialogue or the emotions. 

If I had to find a flaw in Encanto it’s that there are a lot of big emotions here that are resolved quickly. Familial and generational trauma, sibling rivalries, resentment because of the expectations (or lack of) placed on you and more. Love sweeps them all away so fast. That’s me looking for something. I can see many people thinking the resolutions make perfect sense and feel genuine because for the large part, they are. The way the film solves the mystery at its core and deals with all of the matters of the heart is exemplary.

Everyone who sees Encanto will find something about it to call their own. This is a beautiful, memorable, emotionally complex film with great characters and top-notch writing. You should see it if only so you can be part of the conversation because once you get going about this 2021 Disney release, you won’t want to stop talking about it. (November 5, 2022)

[handern]

Ratthi "wow, look at that SecUnit on the news threatening people and swearing at them while trying to get them to safety"

Overse "SecUnits can swear?"

Arada "ah fuck, it's OUR SecUnit."

[willmarstudios]

Bookworm Will Review 2024 ( #15 )

Title: 'The Hate U Give'

Author: Angie Thomas

Rating: 5 / 5

Review: (MILD SPOILERS)

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”

Words can't describe how emotional this book made me. The only words that I found myself left with were:

Relevant.

Powerful.

A Necessity.

I needed to pick this up sooner!

This was a continuation of the honest and hard truth about the society we live in. And I wish for so many others to pick up this book so that they can acknowledge their privilege, learn empathy and understand that just because it isn't directly happening to you, doesn't mean it isn't happening to someone else. Are the topics heavy? Yes. That uncomfortable feeling someone gets while reading about these experiences should be a motivator to actively want to see change.

This book shouldn't be challenged or banned.

This book, and many like it, should be required reading. History is ugly, the truth can be hard to accept, but its needed for real positive change. Whatever happened to learning from history so that we may not repeat it?

It is a raw and sincere retelling of brutality and seeking justice, but also about family and community. The impact the events have on society that many of us don't recognize. There is always more to the bigger picture and just because one aspect or detail is fixed, doesn't mean the job is done. It gets even harder when the outcomes are not always in your favor either, but like Starr's mother always says....

"Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right."

[bloodmaarked]

the hate u give, angie thomas

released 2017

read: 12 june 2023 – 14 june 2023

i must be the last person on the planet to have read this book (especially given the events of the years since its initial publication) and so i'm not sure what i can say that hasn't already been said. i enjoyed the book, but more than anything what makes it unique is its phenomenal message. what i also really liked were the unexpected moments of humour and levity sprinkled throughout. obviously, this book focuses on a challenging subject matter - but it's digestible, so if you still haven't read it i would very much recommend that you do.

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[girlbob-boypants]

One of the #gamers in the wf streamer discord gets soooo opinionated if you do or say anything that implies dd2 isn't a perfect game. It'd be funny if it weren't kind of sad?? Like I'm having to defend someone using an enemy hp increase mod because they prefer the fights not be oneshots and this person is trying to "educate" them on why level progression exists in the game.

[thedragonkween]

Jason Todd being number 24 most popular in all tumblr is such a power move. The pure AURA he has is unmatched 🥹❤️

Top 24 of 2024

Well, well, well, look what we have here. If it isn’t 52 weeks’ worth of data drawn from the exemplary original posts you’ve been producing day in, day out, combined with the likes, reblogs, and search data—all of it weighed, ranked, and presented here for your viewing pleasure. In news that will come as a shock to no one at all, 2024 was the year of Artists on Tumblr. But quite right, too, as just a cursory scroll through the fanart, illustrations, digital pieces, paintings, textiles, and more will attest. It’s a goldmine. But this ain’t just any goldmine, this is your goldmine, and we’ve got abundant gratitude for the wonderful work you’ve shared this last year. 

Dungeon Meshi won hearts and minds with its cozy feel, its cookery, its cast of eclectic, likable characters, and a delightfully off-center vibe. Farcille made for the sapphic love story we didn’t know we needed—and the inspiration for endless, exquisite fanart. There was much appreciation for season one, and excitement abounds for season two. But there were endings as well as beginnings, sadly, as the much-loved Jujutsu Kaisen brought six years of sublime storytelling to a close with Chapter 271. Good faced Evil, a nephew faced an uncle, and some really liked it, and others really did not. Discourse ensued, as discourse is wont to do. 

Television! And lots of it! 2024 was the year in which animation ruled supreme with an embarrassment of riches to plunder. Gravity Falls and The Book of Bill became your fall fixations and simply refused to stop trending for seemingly an age (a Good Thing). Bill Cipher and Stanford Pines both made the Top 24 in their own right as you shipped them to high hell, with Billford coming top of Ships for 2024. Speaking of Hell, Hazbin Hotel was the new kid on the block. And, after a five-year wait, the new kid charmed—it was filthier, funnier, raunchier, and more heartfelt than you could have hoped for. 

When it comes to hope, the times continue to be challenging, and the news can threaten to overwhelm. 2024 was no different. But you all painted the dash every color of the rainbow, stood loud and proud, and supported your ever-growing community online and offline in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights. While folks continue to voice their distress and concern for the ongoing crisis in Palestine, they also fight the good fight with activism and fundraising efforts across the dash. These may be dark days, but you all work tirelessly for the greater good as only you know how.

Looking after oneself is vital in these trying times, and you’ve all done just that in your own inimitable fashion. Cats still rule Tumblr as bears still poop in woods, and everyone has taken essential time to peruse the dashboard’s plethora of cat GIFs, cat art, boopin’ cats, cats of yore, and so on. You’re keeping things similarly wholesome with some more Tumblr mainstays: cottagecore, and its sister aesthetic, naturecore, imagine a simpler, greener, and quieter time. A time where the breeze billows softly through the long grass and gently turns the blades of the windmill; a time where we, too, might poop in woods.

The only thing more important than looking after oneself is treating oneself, and what better way to do that than gaming? Baldur’s Gate 3 made a most impressive leap from #21 last year to #7 in 2024, as the need for sexy monsters and beautiful beasties becomes ever more imperative with each passing year. Pokémon may have dropped a little from five to 11, but these games and shows still hold a dear place in your hearts—as demonstrated by your bountiful and beautiful fanart.

Here are the 24 most-mentioned things on Tumblr in 2024.

Artists on Tumblr

Palestine

Dungeon Meshi

Gravity Falls

Hazbin Hotel

Baldur's Gate 3

Cats of Tumblr

Jujutsu Kaisen

The Batman Universe

Pokémon

One Piece

Good Omens

Marcille Donato | Dungeon Meshi

Laios Touden | Dungeon Meshi

Cottagecore

Hermitcraft

LGBTQIA+

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

Naturecore

Doctor Who

Percy Jackson

Falin Touden | Dungeon Meshi

Stanford Pines | Gravity Falls

Jason Todd | the DC universe

Feeling inspired? Want to create a dedicated place to discuss the things you love with the other people who love them? Create a Community here on Tumblr to do just that.

[cnsnape]

Friendship and Romance in Iceland. A Book Review of Keeping A Christmas Promise by Jo Thomas

Author: Jo Thomas Publisher: Transworld Digital Published: 22nd September 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women’s Fiction Date read: 1st January 2025 Number of times read: 1 Format: Ebook Source: NetGalley Summary Four friendsTwenty-five years ago, Freya and her three best friends created a bucket list. The future seemed bright, full of hope and most importantly guaranteed . . . One…

[review-anon]

Anyone knows how to make ice sculptures? That be kinda sick to have

Wooohhooooo! I can do those!

Now I know what you are thinking "Angie you come from a tropical island, how do you know how to do ice sculptures?"

Well I AM the Ultimate Artist after all. And my speciality is sculptures, so ice sculptures I can do, especially as having them withstand the heat is a test of Atua's faith!

Still...to do it for a holiday that isn't blessed by Atua...I'm not too sure...

Nyahahahaha! Who cares about that? Its wintery and its the perfect time to do them!