#book person ramblings

[ilikebookssomuch]

can we

can we do another moot sleepover

@sombrathedragon @myfairkatiecat @ham-cheese-toastie @nowjumpinthewater

@imnotskyguy-remake @thishumanformislimiting @aspenaspenaspenaspenaspen @permanently-stressed

@alaydabug2 @willoillo @scrollwyrm @imobsessed123

[shorlinesorrows]

Give me a Percy Jackson who hates swim team. Who went to a public pool for swim lessons once when he was five and started to sob the second his skin hit the water

give me a Percy Jackson who is always just the slightest bit unsettled at pools because water is never meant to have the life sucked out of it and be divided into lanes or put in boxes in the ground

Water isn’t meant to be contained.

a percy jackson whose skin feels like it’s slowly beginning to burn when he tries to swim in chlorinated water, who hates any set swim stroke with a passion and can’t stick to one for the life of him

who doesn’t understand why you’d want to keep only to the surface of the water, when being cradled under the surface is everything

because swimming is supposed to be like the tides, maybe patterned, but never identical, it’s supposed to be flowing with the world around you as you please

Give me a Percy Jackson who loves the sheer nature of water so much that he can’t help but quietly despise our “pools” and their dead water with their constricted sides and restrictions on what it means to change with the world around you

A Percy Jackson who is the child of water in its most natural state, and who can hardly bear to see the way society has attempted to contain it and sterilize it and strip away its power

He hates swim team, but that’s only the half of it

[messiahzzz]

it’s been almost a year now… is the bg3 fandom finally ready to talk about how gale’s “hubris” is the sole product of actively feeding his insecurities further and straight up denying him help & guidance when he was at his lowest and needed it most. it’s not one of his core traits and never was. he isn’t some closeted power hungry monster that is just waiting to be enabled. what he wants is admiration, recognition and acceptance. which is also what he sought from mystra before the orb disaster happened. he had no desire whatsoever to become a god himself or challenge her rule, he simply wanted to be seen as sufficient in her eyes (“to serve her better”). to be as equal as he could possibly be in a relationship with a literal deity. he has a deep passion for magic and knowledge that affects almost all areas of his life and enjoys the display thereof. he wants to be the smartest person in the room and enjoys when his work is recognized. he may be perceived as arrogant when it comes to his skill, but he IS NOT hubristic. it truly takes so little for him to be wholly content.

[huginsmemory]

As someone whose asexual and a monsterfucker and knowing that there is a large subsection of the monsterfucking community that is Ace or on that spectrum, Ford being very Ace-coded and implied to have fucked a a triangle feels accurate to me. representative, even.

[wiltkingart]

home

[suntails]

duality

[secondbeatsongs]

1. Your father argued with your mother.

2. Your mother argued with your brother

3. Your brother argued with your father.

4. It was almost always cold.

5. That is all you remember.

"Nineteen eighty-something" from Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

[turquoisemagpie]

Appreciate the little things.

Not to ignorantly deny all of the big bad things in the world, but to survive them.

[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[bluerosefox]

Consorthood Via Combat

Okay I know we all love the headcanon that Danny becomes the King of the Infinite Realms after defeating Pariah Dark in a 'Keep what you kill' kind of way, only its not kill but defeat in combat, but what if Danny's future consort/husband/wife is chosen the same way.

Like what if Danny is dating one of the Bats (can be anyone tbh from any fandom, I just love the batfam) and they've been dating in secret for a while and knows each other's identities. The one he's dating even knows about the King thing as well, that's how much Danny trusts them at this point.

So when they wake up to a glowing green sticky note with the words 'Alls fair in love and war. -CW' they know of the ghost Clockwork and his riddles ways, and keep on hand the anti-ghost weapon (in their preferred weapon of choice) Danny had gifted them as a 'just in case' option, all day.

So they were fully prepared for a fight when they, and the rest of the Batfam, get pulled away from their dinner to the Infinite Realms, in a huge castle in front of an empty throne, surrounded by a bunch of weird eyeball ghosts and one angry/jealous, snobby looking ghost, whose been trying to gain Danny's eyes/favor for months now especially since they have the backing of the Observants but nothing works, and said ghost challenges the "Current lover of King Phantom to a duel for the rights of courting him!"

(This law was created by Pariah Dark who wanted his future consort strong so he let them fight it out for the spot. It was entertaining for him to watch ghosts fight for it. But it needed to be done in front of the throne, no King was needed to be present, and both fighters needed to be endorsed by powerful and old beings (the ghost fighting for Danny's hand had the Observants, meanwhile the bat Danny is dating had technically been endorsed by Clockwork when he sent the sticky note)

They fight, the Bat Danny is dating wins, and Danny returns from a 'oh so serious problem' the Observants said he needed to fix only to find the person he's dating in an argument with Clockwork over 'I only fought because Danny isn't some prize anyone can claim, we are not forcing him to stay with me even though I won. He has the right for his future.', Clockwork whose just smiling and chuckling in his all knowing way, the Observants tied up in ghost rope, the annoying as heck ghost that's been trying to get in his pants for the last few months also tied up and beaten up, and... oh boy that's the Batfam... all watching... and yep they're all looking at him.

Not the way he wanted to finally meet them.

[ilikebookssomuch]

It seems that a lot of us in keepblr are sick right now. so

Reblog this if you are sick, ill, injured, or anything along those lines.

[izoryotaro]

I just finished Night Watch and I finally understand why so many VetVimes fics include that graveyard scene. The tension is sparkling and they understand each other

Vimes will let his Patrician reward him for his special place(s) in history -- but only if it's a quiet, sentimental practical gesture. But he will not let Havelock Vetinari ask to spend more time with him when Sybil was Thought Three and she just had their child and the cigar case -- he's going home to his family and your job is to run a fair trial and make sure Carcer hangs, sir, and of course, Commander, well said

I really think the one misunderstanding (which neither catches) is that when Vetinari haggles with "in memory of John Keel" they are thinking of different men, and have different interpretations of "leaving him in the past"

[ohporcupine]

i just finished reading Ending The Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity by Michael Paramo and am incredibly thankful for it. it's a great exploration of how colonialism and imperialism and Romanticism (capital R) have shaped our modern (western) understanding of gender and sexuality and romance and attraction and it taught me so much about how we got here and how we might be able to disentangle from it.

i'm gonna take some time to reflect on the book and might expand more on my thoughts later but for now i can only highly highly recommend it

[v-a-r-g-w]

Tbh I don't think that when we discovered that "In all the universes The twins died" is in a complete serious way haha

We talking about ALL THE UNIVERSES?

No, I think they mean the universes where the twins went to Gravity Falls or lived in Gravity Falls of course

Why? Well we talking about all the universes, there is billion of them and in some.. Dipper and Mabel might not exist directly, Mabel and Dipper might have never went to Gravity Falls, or even Dipper and Mabel never were Pines! Iykwim

Maybe in a universe Gravity Falls never existed either

And I can keep going with the list

So yeah everytime I hear this of "In ALL universes the Characters loosed except this one!" I am like "Naaahhhh, that literally can't be"

Of course this is just my thought ✌️

I'm open to hear you all opinion too heheh

[ashipiko]

<3 post sleepover mornings