#bookburn

[bloodyraremedium]

we really need a better name for jontim. i mean, we have teaholding, foggyskies, doorkeay, fucking TERMINAL VELOCITY! and then there's jontim. jon + tim

I feel like we could come up with something better but i can't think of what right now. I'd love to hear suggestions

[fossys]

"system members arent actually different ppl!" okay maybe for you but. two ppl can be in our front eating the exact same thing that tastes the exact same way and one of them will love it and the other will hate it. bcs for us, we r different people.

[foxnfishstudio]

A sketch dump! They are as follows:

Azazel- my LARP character

Blink/Black Dog- from different lores

Grace and her candle- From Book Burners

Who’s Name Sounds Like Horn-ed Head, But is Not- from Old Gods of Appalachia

Val- from The Silt Verses

[fiuworks]

shhh...there's an archivist sleeping by the fire....

i haven't drawn anything from my bookburning enemies to domestic lovers to tragic yuri au since summer but trust me i think about them often

i tried to make it look like agnes's version of blushing is glowing from under her wax/skin but idk how well that turned out but im so fond of the cozy energy of the piece...i want to draw more from this au so much and now that i have time i might

[akaikali]

Gonna christen this account with a doorkeay colored sketch from Twitter (yeah its magnet bc I'm fucking cringe and a vocaloid nerd shhh)

I just love the idea of gerry calling michael those cheesy nicknames like "sunshine" "pretty boy" "blondie" "curls"

[dafodils-on-the-moon]

!!!! So many questions bc I love this with all my heart <3 First, it's freaking hilarious that he became jester because he was "difficult to handle." LOVE that. Second, I gotta know, what does everyone else think about him? Arthur? Gwen? Morgana? Is Morgana doomed to die by the hands of a COURT JESTER?????

Ok so. Crucial part of this Au: Uther knows Merlin in Balinor’s son but does NOT know abt the magic. Merlin does not know about being Balinor’s son. Uther kept him cause he thinks it would be a good idea to have a dragonlord on hand that's loyal to Camelot, given what he's keeping under the castle.

Also I'm very aroace and don't wanna write romance for a while, so no romantic Murther.

Instead, Uther raises Merlin and Arthur as brothers. He deeply encourages the loyalty to one another as keeping Merlin loyal is essetail and Merlin is a very valuable asset that bears protecting. He emphasises to Arthur that as the eldest, Merlin is his responsibility and he should take care of him. Merlin is his younger brother.

Arthur takes to this role like a wildfire. Protective as SHIT over his new baby brother (Merlin is two years younger), esp. Since he was… not doing too hot when he first got to the castle. He was greiving and seemed *terrified* and didn’t speak at all for months. He was sickly too, for reasons no-one could pinpoint. Arthur had made it his mission to cheer Merlin up, as no one should be that sad. He and Merlin communicate at first via drawings.

He only seemed to improve after he started talking quietly to an imaginary freind he named “Kiggah.” It seemed to help cause merlin slowly started talking to Arthur and then in general and his health imrpved too.

Yeah… Merlin’s imaginary freind is Killgarrah lol.

Killgarrrah, or Kiggah as a now 5 year old Merlin could pernounce, is getting a major overhaul in this AU. His is going to be far far less of a bastard. Cause dragons are too cool for him to be the absolute worst.

In this AU Kiggah actually cares more THAT HIS ENTIRE RACE WAS ERADICATED than that he was trapped under the castle. Cause, fr, that is not the part id focus on. Also I gave him a family before, sorry man. Kiggah was also really really fond of dragonlings and hatchlings and was very excited to see the hatching of his first great-grandhatchling before the purge. Ow.

Anyway, Merlin is TERRIFIED of being in Camelot. He’s terrified he’s going to say something wrong and reveal his secret and die. He blames himslef for his mother’s death (cause he’s like 4 1/2 and thats normal for kids that age) and more specifically, his magic. So he supresses the shit out of it, which is why he’s so sickly.

Kiggah senses Merlin basically killing himslef and tries coaching Merlin into using his magic again. Adopts Merlin as his own hatchling. Kiggah doesn’t know Merlin’s dad is Balinor, but he DOES know he’s emrys, magic itself. As a result, Kiggah views Merlin as a fellow magical creature and raises him accordingly. He… doesn’t really get how human hatchlings are supposed to work.

Merlin starts acting weirdly dragonlike. His growling, he’s biting people, hee’s climbing everything, hoarding things and has a major fixation with fire. He is gettign “difficult to handle” as UTHER, assumes this is just how dragonlordlings are, (good gracious), but needs a way to coverup the fact he’s raising one.

Fooleswurth, nuerdodivergent in ye-old times, sees Merlin and his like “haha verily. Reminds me of when I was that age, I was just the same. He must have “The Jester’s Spark, haha.”’ Uther goes “yes and” and now fooleswurth has an apprentice and Uther has a way to explain why his ward is so weird.

Anyway, Kiggah is NOT excited about Merlin’s new older sister, but Merlin loves her. He is very excited for whenever Morgana’s magic manifests. She grows on Kiggah. (Esp. With all teh trouble she gives Uther). Morgana’s going to be fine.

She and Merlin get on like a house on fire. Gossipy bitches. Morgana sics Melrin and his “jester’s privolegde” on bothersome nobles to insult them into the ground.

Gwen becomes Morgana’s maidservent, and she Morgana and Merlin are great friends.

[aizhits]

Season 1 jon, Colored this time! :)

Also Gerry! :D!

[thesobsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/15/american-library-association-book-bans/

Just a reminder: Conservatives prefer the electorate to be ignorant, to lack analytical and reasoning skills, to have access to no other perspectives than those produced by the party and its right-wing media.

It's not about drag queen shows or unisex bathrooms or My Two Dads. It's about the GOP's using the pretext of wedge issues to create an ignorant mass that it can manipulate across the full range of economic, social and political issues at the city, county, state, and federal levels.

That's it.

(Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) shows the audience his motivation for his entire political career.)

[thegreatyin]

So did Caeru get like, personal beef with a master or something. Did they catch the neddymen burning books...? Like, what was the context on burning neddymen alive

oh, y'know.

teatime with poor edward.

[blackpaintedeyes]

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really wish you people would give me a better nickname

[monstrouscrew]

a rare bird that didn’t disappoint me: Mr. Keay.

the soundtrack is a song “Shramy” (”Scars”) by a now nonexistent band Tracktor Bowling, the lyrics are in r*sian, the lead singress is Armenian.

old art, forgot two eyes whoopsie. imagine doorkeay if you want

(ID in the alt text)

(i tried to add a few lines from the song but tmblr doesn't let edit the post with cyrillics ..and i feel sorry for all the not r*sians who use this alphabet)

[milkcircus]

I'm just a few months away from my delusional girly pop New England bookshop vibes lifestyle...I just need to survive the hellfire FL and not perish in a hurricane for just a little longer...

[dannyhellman]

"Goebbels vs L. Ron Hubbard," illustration for NYPress, 3/2/97

[unimatrix-420]

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I found the 1969 Is the Bible really the Word of God? book at a garage sale for 25 cents. It’s mine now. Out of circulation. It will cause no more damage for the rest of its life with me.

[akaikali]

IM BEING CALLED OUT

SO WHAT IF I HAVE A THING FOR (healthy) POSSESSIVENESS HUH SO NOTHING I'LL MAKE GERRY AND MICHAEL AS OBSESSED WITH EACH OTHER AS I WANT

(to clarify, I only like harmless jealousy/possessiveness where both people are chill with it unless it's for angst purposes. Otherwise it gets icky)