#bookified

[megaawkwardhuman]

The temptation to completely redraw the guillermo abominations in my plush things style is STRONG

But I forgot what most of the animals that were mixed so it would probably require me to rewatch the episode just to remember it AND I DON'T WANNA LOOK AT THOSE FUCKS FOR MORE THAN 5 SECONDS

[niharikaaa2]

Here's my Bookify Wrapped for this year. So you're supposed to post your top books but I want to make it a bit more interesting, so here goes--

My favourite book I read this year: I'm glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy (Might become one of my all time favourites, this is definitely a heavy book to read, so please look up the content warnings beforehand. But I recommend that you read it if you can)

The worst/least favourite book I read this year: The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaurani (Sue me, okay, I hated this book, I hate that I spent so much time on this, I hate it so much)

A book that took me by Surprise: Aru Shah and The End of Time by Roshni Chokshi (I genuinely did not think I would love it this much, and I definitely did not expect it to have such a nuanced take on morals)

A book that made me happy: Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (This one is just genuinely so wholesome, I enjoyed every second.)

So, what's your Bookify Wrapped?

[moashdeservedbetter]

I'm at over 30, and the only reason why is because I discovered audiobooks, which I can listen to even when I'm completely stuck with vertigo and need to keep my eyes shut. Thank you to all authors and narrators and people who make audiobooks accessible to the world <3 Here's a few: Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, and Frugal Wizard's Handbook - so much love there, but also some big mixed feelings about some of the themes

The Binti Trilogy - I love these books so much. I love my protective and murderous alien jellyfish Okwu <3

The Count of Monte Cristo - <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Future Home of the Living God - !!!!!! oh my this book is stunnnnnning

The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard - (mental illness + poetry = <3)

Legendborn and almost all of Bloodmarked - I love Legendborn, I felt frustrated with Bloodmarked, it'll be interesting to see how the third goes

Wild New World - our dwindling biodiversity :'(

Howl's Moving Castle - !!!!! <3 <3 <3

A Snake Falls To Earth - so so so so sweet and beautiful

The Changling - AHHHHH. The kind of book I read and think, I could never write anything so beautiful but I'm so glad to have read it. Also haunting.

Twilight Territory - This book. It broke my heart. It was beautiful. I recommend it ten thousand times.

The Black Count - about Alexandre Dumas' father, Alex Dumas. This book is so good. It adds so much pathos to the Count of Monte Cristo, and just has so much compelling story and history in its own right.

Wings of Fire books - geared towards children in a way that everyone can love. I love them. They're lovely.

Also now reading the Realm of the Elderlings and it is my newest bestest comfort tragic heartthrob.

And no. Long fanfics don't count as books!

[chic-beyond-the-wall-oc-acct]

Rhaenyra Targaryen s1 ep1 potato sack dress redesign 💛❤️

(my friend said I should call this bookifying the show's costumes so that's what this is now)

[buckartpail]

I bookified @justaboot 's Dear Fellow Traveler and my stars was it fun. It turned out so good as well and i could not be happier with the result!

[escapedaudios]

Understand that when I kill a character, I have KILLED THEM. They are DEAD. With the singular exception of the supernatural/undead characters in my Slasher series, if someone dies they are finished. Kaput. Muertos.

I can not abide by the writing convention that comic-bookified media has made, where death is only an inconvenience. It betrays heroically self-sacrificial deaths by turning their ultimate sacrifice into a minor setback. It eliminates the ability to write stories about loss, grief, and moving on when the audience believes that the loss setting that plot into motion can be simply reversed.

There is no half-measured angst here. I do not make non-canon AUs for character deaths to occur consequence-free. I do not let magic forces return them to life. I do not let time travelers appear to prevent their deaths. I send them directly to the grave. I write weapons-grade angst. We don't do diet death here.

[slavicafire]

obsessed. zero mention of Helena, Bohun, any romance. just the comic-bookified version of Yan Skshetuski and the Hmelnitski rebellion. 

[crowcoven]

Bookified Jaime screenshot redraw

[literaticat]

This is so stupid, but a while back, this editor told my agent she was bringing my work to an acquisitions meeting. Then she went silent. Nudges revealed she was busy or OOO or just not responding. It’s been almost two years, and we considered it a pass a long time ago, but for some reason, I’m just STUCK on it. I think it’s because I also received an R&R that then led to a pass, and that book was really personal to me. How do I move on? I know I have to. We’re subbing other projects now, but I’m still stuck on it mentally.

I mean probably you should unpack this with a licensed therapist, not me, but hey, until you get there, I guess I can weigh in:

She ghosted you, and beyond your agent presumably nudging / trying to get hold of her, there's not really anything you can do about it. Frustrating and upsetting, I know. So I googled "getting over getting ghosted" and this article came up. I don't know the author or if they are generally good or what, BUT, this is pretty good advice I think, though it's about relationships I've summarized and bookified it below, or you can read the whole spiel at the link.

Realize that no response IS a response. (It's a sucky and disappointing response! But it's still a response.)

Reframe the ghosting: Try not to take it personally. (This truly is them being avoidant or dealing with some kind of crisis badly or whatever -- it's NOT ABOUT YOU or your book! And by the way... perhaps you dodged a bullet, actually, and you should be THANKING them in your head. They showed you a taste of what working with them might have been like!)

Avoid the temptation to generalize future [bookish] outcomes. (Just because this happened doesn't mean the next book won't sell or even that that book will never sell -- if you're passionate about it, then let it rest for awhile and then consider tackling a revision and starting from scratch with that one. Or, maybe you will return to it and realize, actually, your new work is even better. Who knows?)

Use mindfulness and self-compassion to heal. (Sure, why not? Don't be hard on yourself anyway - YOU didn't do anything wrong!)

Find people who love and accept you -- and/or, your book. (Your agent, your critique partners and friends, the wonderful new editors you are submitting to... Also, potentially, a therapist!)

Set boundaries. (You know this person is probably going to do this again when push comes to shove -- so maybe DON'T submit to them in the future or spend more mental energy on them. You are letting them live rent-free in your head and you need PAYING tenants in there!)

Understand emotional immaturity. (Hopefully, you have empathy and perspective, and you are an emotionally healthy adult who is a good communicator and knows how to have hard convos. You probably would never ghost. It's a shame that not everyone else is that way. Hopefully, this phantom is on their own growth journey and will be better in the future, but that's not up to you.)

MOVE ON. (Which is what you are doing now! Kudos!)

Good luck out there!

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2024-01-15

back in the saddle

Listening: The Skeleton Dance, a single from Perennial which I clicked on solely because the title and band name go together so well.

Short and sweet post-punk snippet. Go check out their other albums, probably? I'm still going through those too.

Reading: New Murderbot, which I am very glad to say I actually liked. I did not really like Network Effect because it was too all over the place and felt more like three murderbot novellas in a trench coat. System Collapse is much more tightly written thing that actually fits its length.

Two big things going on that make it work: a strong focus on Murderbot having a hard time dealing with trauma because it refuses to acknowledge it is like a human in any way. Murderbot not wanting to be human and refusing all attempts to characterize it like a human are such strong parts of its personality that it's interesting to see it get hit by that revolving door.

The other thing is very tightly constraining the tools and environment. Murderbot has strict enough rules and solid enough explanations that mechanical limitations build well into actual narrative tension. Murderbot only having two camera drones and no armour is responsible for a solid half of the tension of the book, and controlling how much access it has to other systems is a big driver of the ebb and flow of that tension.

Murderbot as a series has such a delightful economy of worldbuilding. There's the entire implied world of hyperintelligent bots existing just out of view, things on par with Peri hiding in systems and allying with a select group of humans because it likes them. The whole human/construct/bot divide is repeatedly shown to be extremely blurry, which is fun because Murderbot treats it as unimpeachable truth.

Also one of the handful of book series where I read about some little thing and search for parts at my electronics supplier.

I have just started Hannah Ritchie's new book Not The End Of The World which is a bookified form of her general research on "things are getting better, there's a long way to go, but fatalism is not only unproductive it's incorrect". Having already read a lot of her work it retreads that a lot, and if you see a long patch of text without any citations you can skip over it, but it is handy to see all the numbers laid out.

Ritchie's research seems more correct than not most of the time, so while I do sometimes go "oh come on" at specific claims or propositions, it's generally interesting and worthwhile if you care about the data behind modern climate change and how it relates to economic and technological development.

It is really funny how much of climate discussion really does boil down to "for the love of god stop burning things."

Watching: Noah's Shark at Bad Movie Night, a Polonia Brothers movie about the curse laid on the secret fourth son of Noah when he brought a demonic third shark on the Ark. Yeah.

It's on YouTube in its entirety.

There's something funny about the fact that the Polonia team have put out so many movies that even their bad movies have flashes of clear competence in writing. Some genuinely good banter in between everything else going on in this movie.

Playing: Briefly picked up Dark Souls long enough to get to the Capra demon, but I have not tried to fight it yet.

Making: 3D printing a microphone holder for Dark Souls recordings because I did like editing those supercuts and the bad audio was killing me. Had a good time experimenting with dovetails and other sliding joints. Learning a lot about OnShape, especially poking at the Assembly system for the first time and finally using it enough to start picking up the shortcuts in earnest.

Tools and Equipment: Hey did you know that oranges are one million times easier to eat if you just cut them into slices and then peel the skins off. I have basically not eaten oranges for years because you can't peel them easily by hand. Oranges are great. Just cut them into quarters and go to town.

[thereviewverdict]

spotify but make it bookify <3

i finally did the 'book scenes as bookify' post! and i am loving it!!!!

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#twistedseries #alexvolkov #avachen #rhyslarsen #bridgetvonascheberg #joshchen #julesambrose #christianharper #stellaalonso

[thatbendyfan]

bookify your own

copycat and agodimous

[forbiddenfandom]

So March 7th was my birthday, and my bff @lilies-of-paper comes up with simply the most thoughtful and heartwarming gift I could ever hope for: she bookified my story!

No one has ever gone through so much trouble to make me happy and I'm lucky to be your friend ❤️

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

For the questions for fic writers, 49 and 50 please?

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

I've been bouncing back and forth between the last chapter of toy rosaries and the next chapter of nhthcth. Here's a few lines of toy rosaries:

Not two seconds later, they notice him gawping down at them like a fool. The man in the mask freezes. Claire jabs a finger at him like she’s tattling to the recess monitor. 

“He says this guy kidnapped a kid and we need him to tell us where he is.” 

Oh, so there’s where he kept the Devil. He hadn’t felt it in some time. But it’s right there, next to the pit in his chest. It seems comfortable as it finds its way up his pulse. 

“I’ve got a pair of pliers,” says Jack, jerking his head back from where he came. “If that’ll help.”

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

Let's do this one: 17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

Okay so I have one for TMA and one for Marvel.

TMA: Danny, Jon, and Gerry Buzzfeed Unsolved AU. Jon runs into Agnes Montague while at Oxford, and it changes things. He goes on the run from the Web, picks up an amnesiac man he semi-accidentally rescued from some fucked up circus freaks, starts running even faster. They find a kind goth who joins them in their scooby adventures, because Jon is HIGHLY susceptible to serial killers and Gerry is kind enough to help him escape being bookified. They end up starting a ghost hunting YouTube channel, Ghost Hunt--not to be confused with Ghost Hunt UK, who hates them on a profound level--to cover up their monster hunting supernatural shenanigans. It gains immense popularity--because of Jon's skepticism about the existence of supernatural.

Marvel: the idea is that there are many Peter Parker's in the Multiverse, and the Collector just wants the one that no one would miss. A very lonely version of Peter gets nabbed right when he's starting off his Spider-Man career, before anyone even knows the name, by a Collector who's decided he's the centerpiece of his collection. This one is so dramatic. There's TRAUMA. There's SPACE. There's a GLADIATOR ARENA. There's MIND GAMES. the REVENGERS are there. And, Yes, I found a way for the Frank Castle's dead family to be there too. This is yet another one of my defridging the castle family stories. I am obsessed with this AU and it is so ridiculously niche. If anyone wants to ever read a space odyssey featuring Peter Parker and the Punisher's dead family, by fucking god, i have you covered.

[terriblelizbians]

this drosselmeyer book scene is so funny he’s just talking on and on for so long actively being Bookified but they need the exposition so he’s standing there hand on the book speechifying

[caitsbooks]

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