#animated audiobook

[theindexproject]

You guys voted and I'm rolling with it! Chapter 2, Part 2 is coming this week!

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Reminder that the Dazai's Entrance Exam audiobook comes out tomorrow! It's narrated by Patrick Seitz, Kunikida's English dub voice actor!

Here are all the places you can buy it:

Barnes & Noble

Audible

Google Play

Apple Books

Libro.fm

[ethanmaldridge]

Want to listen to the first chapter (and then some) of the DEEPHAVEN audiobook?

Listen if you dare . . .

I'll be honest, hearing my name and book title read over the moody orchestral opening of an audiobook made me shiver.

You can get the full audiobook now on LIBBY, Libro.fm, Audible, and Google Play!

[guitarnacle]

jeffrey combs did a series of readings of all of lovecraft's reanimator books and theyre pretty good if anyone is interested

[robinfollies]

arthurstotle not that bad animation meme because i was feeling extremely self indulgent this weekend 💖🌈🌸

[flickeringflame216]

watched the Artemis Fowl movie after reading the first few books and was grievously disappointed meanwhile the Artemis Fowl movie that exists in my head is perfect because it's not a movie but a really cool animated series in a similar style to the Spiderverse movies and it's fairly faithful to the books and in this objectively better universe I've convinced my dad to watch it with me

[porcelaintoybox23]

I've said this before and I'll say it again:

ORV is a written story about written stories. It CANNOT be properly adapted into another form of media.

ORV is a book about books.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[marvelmaniac715]

Two years ago I was browsing Audible and found an audiobook called Saving Cinderella: What Feminists Get Wrong About Disney Princesses, written by Faith Moore. I thought “Great, analysis of Disney Princesses, sign me up” but oh god, it so backwards. She hates the modern princess movies, is obsessed with ‘fairytale shorthand’ and keeps pushing the philosophy that a woman is not complete unless she has a romantic partner. She called Merida from Brave a brat and said that it’s gross that the story was about a mother and daughter, for example. She has the worst takes imaginable but sometimes it can be interesting to listen to the opinions of someone whose values entirely differ from your own - she voiced the audiobook herself - so I’ve listened to it quite a few times. There’s a chapter devoted to every Princess movie and it’s seven hours long. I might have a problem…

[balkanradfem]

I started reading the book 'Pests' by Bethany Brookshire. I thought it would be a book filled with information on how to protect your garden without causing any harm to animals. I could not have been more wrong, but soon it didn't matter, because I was drawn in immediately. This book is written by a brilliant scientist, who presents to you, the history, the data, the results and the cultural context of pests all around the world. It starts with squirrels, but then goes on to talk about pythons, pigeons, cats, rats, mice, frogs, coyotes, wolves, elephants, dogs, raccoons, deer, bears – and how they've been seen as a pest, most often for no fault of their own.

I learned about the numerous ways people in the past have created a 'pest' problem for themselves, and how they went on resolving it, and honestly I was shocked  at the most of it. I did not know that human scientists developed specific plagues for animals in order to get rid of them. I also had no idea how quickly humans turned the perception of a certain animal from 'useful' to 'pest', without even realizing they're responsible for the behaviour of the animal in the first place. Also the number of times humans have attempted to introduce a predator in order to get rid of an invasive species – only to immediately cause a new invasive species, absolutely incredible.

I was surprised to find out that some specific animals could be pests at all, for example, elephants. Absorbing the information presented to me thus far, I thought elephants were nothing short of wonderful and welcome in anyone's life – but, the story describes them eating the entire fields worth of grain, in only one night. And due to their size, they're unstoppable. They've destroyed houses, and even killed people, as a result of trying to get to the food. The elephants are a protected species, so the locals have been forced to develop different way of co-existing, namely, to stop growing grain and try to find different ways of survival and sustenance. There have been numerous other attempts to protect the fields from them, but how would you protect anything from an elephant? The only thing they're scared of, are bees. And if there's food to be gained, they'll overcome the fear of the bees too.

Did you know that if mice multiply too much, they'll have a mice plague that will wipe them out, without human interference?  Mice and rats are described as the animals closest to us – because they live where we live, eat what we eat, and learn whatever it takes to find their way in the land of humans. And it seems, we have the same problems as well.

One of my favourite little piece of knowledge in this book: the scientists studying the snakes in a lab name the snakes after Slytherins – so they have Snape, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, and Bellatrix. It was amazing to listen about Snape the snake.

The author of this book is incredibly unbiased, and shows her love for every animal mentioned, but also understanding and compassion for people who have felt wronged, violated, helpless and cornered by the animal, and how awful it feels to not be able to protect their homes and livelihoods from an animal invading their territory. In author's mind, the animals are not at fault, because all they've been trying to do is survive, get to the source of food, for them this is foraging. For us, it's nature taking from us what we intended for ourselves.

The problem of seeing animals as pests, comes often from the perception of us being the dominating species, and having the right to remove or introduce or change animals, by how convenient and pleasing we find them. She sourced the problems from negative experiences, loss, violation and danger, but also from culture, colonialism, religion, behaviours of the people around us. Most children have no concept of danger or pests – babies in a study would reach out curiously seeing a picture of snake. Perception of which animal is good and which one is bad, comes with culture, experience and the behaviour of everyone else around it. And our collective perception comes from whether the animal is rare, whether it lives close to us, if we have to adjust our lives because of it or not, if we have had negative experiences or not, whether it can hurt us, whether we have something the animal wants (food) and tries to get from us.

I recommend this book to anyone who'd like to know more about the history of humans trying to live alongside – or refusing to live alongside certain animals. And anyone dealing with any kind of pest, or just not understanding why animals act the way they do around humans.

I come out from reading this, feeling no more wise on how to keep the pests out – except for, don't leave the food outside the house where animals can get to it, that's the #1 reason for most scenarios – but feeling way more understanding and at ease about animals that are perceived as pests. I know solutions  that have been tried to deal with them, I know what didn't work, and I know how badly some collective solutions can become. I understand we need to find a way to live with them as our neighbours, not enemies, not violators of our property. And most often, just being responsible about where you leave your food, how much animals you tempt to come close to you, how you reward them for interacting with you, is more than a half of the solution.

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[aldoodles]

Hi! First of all, I love your art, it's lovely.

I've never read the HTTYD books, but I've read The Underland Chronicles. You seem to like both and wanted to ask if they're similar at all? Some of your Hiccup art seems angsty like TUC, but I thought I'd ask. The HTTYD books were always marketed to me as similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, (limited reading, limited long-term plot) which always really turned me off of them as a kid. As one TUC fan to another, how do they compare?

Thank you in advance, I love your work.

Thank you so much!!

This is a tough question!

Stylistically speaking, the titular How to Train Your Dragon book reads like a bedtime story-- a fun one-shot designed to make kids laugh. Over the next couple of books, the structure evolves from episodic into something more overarching as Hiccup "becomes a hero the hard way."

That being said, the HTTYD books are definitely a lot more goofy than The Underland Chronicles.

As time goes on in HTTYD, they get more serious and focus on topics like slavery and war, but Cressida Cowell does not linger on the horror of those things quite to the extent that Suzanne Collins would/does. (I tend to focus on the angsty stuff in my art purely bc I'm dramatic lol.)

Overall, I enjoyed HTTYD and its levity a lot and recommend people give them a chance, but the two series have very different tones, so I completely get it if fans of one story aren't as into the other one.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I am considering trying listening to podfics, but I have no idea where to start. Like, I read a lot of fanfic, but idk how one goes about listening to them? Is it like an app, or a download it kind of thing, or what? Do you have any advice or specific recommendations? In the past I have really, really struggled with books on tape because I cannot focus on just listening, but I like listening to like sort of documentary-ish videos while sewing and that's just a person talking, so probably I would be able to focus on audiobooks or podfics now?

[zee-rambles]

ANNOUNCEMENT!

This year, I want to start off by making a tournament over all the GOOD-EST boys across media! SO! RULES BELOW!

RULES!!!

NOTE! All contest events will take place on my other page @rise-april-art-challenge (I’m too lazy to change the name, lol!)

1. Contestants

There will be 32 contestants!

Contestants will be recommended by the audience!

They can be from movies, video games, TV shows, books, audiobooks, anime, cartoons and so on.

Contestants must be the goodest boi you can think of.

And yes, trans characters count!

Only ONE character per series!

2. How to recommend a contestant!

Send your recommendation through the ask box to @rise-april-art-challenge

The recommendations period will open from Midnight tonight, January 7th (US Pacific Time, UTC 12:00 am) and will close on January 13 (11:59 US Pacific time).

Contestants are first come first serve.

If there are MORE then 32 contestants, we will have a preliminary battle royal to choose the winner! I will choose 10 of the most popular recommendations and have them duke it out!

3. Contest Rules!

Every week, we’ll have a battle between two contestants on the right bracket, and two contestants on the left.

Voting will happen throughout the week, and whoever gets the most votes will move on to the next round!

SO tune in and vote for who you think is the GOODEST BOY!

4. Conduct!

Please note, this contest is for fun, not to one up anyone’s opinions! Please be kind, patient, and good sports!

5. Use the right tags!

If you’re talking about the contest, want to make art, or support it, please use #goodest boy 2024

Have FUN!

I mean…I hope y’all do!