#anyway everyone read under the pendulum sun by jeanette ng

[bethrnoora]

it's so difficult to be very into fae shit and folktales in the age of internet tryhardism

[liobi]

Rules - Fill out the thing; tag some people you’d like to know better. I got tagged by @trisshawkeye

A little bit long? so more under the cut

Four ships ah man, only four? I’ve got an entire naval fleet and I can only choose four? Okay so i’m gonna stay away from the ones Triss did soooooooo here we go. Samidare/Yuuhi (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) This was one of my first big OTP’s because These Fucking Losers have uh. Some issues. Literally the moment Yuuhi falls in love with Sami is when she says that she’s not gonna let the bad guys destroy the world because SHE’S gonna be the one to destroy the world. There’s some mutual attraction in the beginning and it’s great to see them grow as people in a way that compliments the other (and also stops them from going into the worst ends of their personalities)   Adora/Catra (She-Ra) Adele’s Rolling in the Deep starts playing in the background. Look. I’m not gonna feel guilty about this ship because it’s a very gay ship that has a lottttttt of tension in it. I like the way they played off each other, keeping the other in balance in the first two episodes. And then after that they just bring out the fucking WORST in the other because there’s just so much history and hurt (some warranted, some not) between them that it’s a big confusing knot of (the way i read it) love and hate and regret and longing and GOD do i live for that. Eliot/Quentin (The magicians) Speaking of regret and longing. Spoilers for season 4 of the magicians. That show fuckingggg betrayed me because it gave me two characters that absolutely adore each other, accept that the other is a flawed human being, but nonetheless one who is deserving of love (even if they don’t see it themselves) and then. Basically stated that it was going to be a thing, canon, endgame, but immediately killed off one of the characters in a way thatthey’re claiming isn’t undoable (and then this season gets into time travel shenanigans in order to undo the death of the straight white boy who is literally everything that is ever criticized about a straight white boy character). Anyways i just gotta remember that they were in a canon poly relationship for fifty years and raised a son together and died happily of old age and i’m just gonna live with that.  Marinette/Adrien/Kagami (Miraculous Ladybug) LOOK, ML IS JUST THAT FUCKING GOOD ON ITS SHIP GAME OKAY??? So- SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 FINALE There’s this fucking moment where Marinette gets out of a pool filled with ping pong balls and her hair is down and both Kagami and Adrien look over at her really fondly and call???? Her beautiful???????? And then later with the ice cream man of love he says that the three flavors that represent them CAN be mixed but it’d be tricky and require a lot of communication. LOOK OKAY I GET ONE POLY SHIP ON THIS LIST AND THIS ONE KICKS MY ASS. 

Last song “Grrrl like” by Dope Saint Jude! I watched Kipo recently and damnnnnn is the soundtrack good so this song immediately got added to my “songs to get murdered to” playlist. It’s got a low key but extremely energetic feel to it, also bass boosted as fuck so hell yeah. Take two; Death is the road to awe from The Fountain’s soundtrack. More on that.... next!

last movie So when i STARTED this post the last movie i’d seen was The Fountain, but NOW It’s Midsommar which sure is a movie. The Fountain; I actually watched it twice, and once was with Triss themself so. I really like it!!! the visuals are stunning, the soundtrack is amazing (death is the road to awe has been one of my top soundtrack tracks for YEARS before i ever even saw the film) and I really like it as an examination of coming to terms with death and how it intersects with love and loss. It’s a film with a lot of layers (just like Aronofsky’s other films. Or ogres) that’s hard for me to really parse out but the chemistry between the leads is great and just. It’s a good movie!! Midsommar; Oh man what a movie. Out of the two i definitely liked The Fountain more! Midsommar is very pretty with a very fae-esque feel to it’s color palette, and it was interesting that it was a horror-ish film that took place nearly entirely in the light (and had some subtext about how light doesn’t exactly mean things aren’t hidden). Personally it was a hard film for me to deal with just because of my own history with things like cults and manipulative abuse, but hoooo boy. It’s also a film that deals with loss (of self, family, the self that you give to people and don’t get back, etc) and the role death plays in life, but honestly I think Aster’s other recent film Hereditary tackled it a bit better. Also films that did it better in 2019, The lighthouse because holy fuck, that film.

Reading Aside from far too much manga? Right now i’m reading various collections of old love letters, folklore, and ideally starting House of Leaves at some point. RPG books don’t count in my mind, but the books i’ve read RECENTLY have been both Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series (which is one of my favorite works of fantasy but THAT’S a whole post of its own) and Jeanette Ng’s “Under the pendulum sun” which is a gothic novel dealing with fae and faith.  If we want to talk about the manga i’m seriously reading, it’s gotta be Blue Flag. It’s a highschool love story about how things are confusing and murky and everyone is trying to figure out who they are and how they relate to each other ALSO IT’S QUEER AS FUCKKKKKK

what food are you craving right now? Oh man, i could really go for some lasagna I guess I’m supposed to tag four people? uhhhhhh @m-azing, @xekstrin, @massochecheichei, and @acidandhoneypots. If y’all wanna do this go for it! If not, hope you have a great day!!!!