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puppet hour was brutal
#this was a part of a comic i sketched as a warmup but it was too many panels so im posting this on its own#gravity falls#the book of bill#mabel pines#stanford pines#that one page gave me hope that ford trusts mabel and treats her better than he did in the show#cuz man it always made me so mad watching the show#like iknow its the point that ford thinks he and dipper are just like... better and smarter#not that he doesnt like mabel#but like idk!!!!! idk!!!!!!!!!!#the book of bill is redeeming ford a bit 2 me
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warmth in the cold
#gravity falls#stanley pines#grunkle stan#his first meeting with the twins!#dipper pines#mabel pines#dipper and mabel#book of bill#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#not really happy with how i did the values here but oh well#this was supposed to have a companion piece but#they didn't really connect all that well#so im posting them on their own#caption is from the song âbecause you love meâ by the rare occasions#one of my fave songs!#the book of bill
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TBR 2024
My goal for my GoodReads 2024 Reading Challenge is a lofty 200 books because I'm hoping to tackle my massive To Be Read pile this year. With the vision and concentration issues caused by my chronic condition, it's much harder to focus on reading a solid book, and so frequently default to light novels, webcomics, and manga nowadays. But... I'm still forever buying books that look great even if they just sit on my shelves in vain. I know that May is already almost over, but I'm hoping that by doing the note-taking method of summarizing each chapter as I go, it will help with the memory and focus issues and I can crack open some of these bad boys!
*Just a note to specify because I'm not sure it's the same for others, but my TBR is my list of books I already own but haven't read; books that I want to read and don't have yet, including new releases go on my Wishlist. :)
Strike the Zither (Joan He)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem)
Soul Mountain (Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee)
The Art of Prophecy (Wesley Chu)
The Ranger of Marzanna (Jon Skovron)
Blood Heir (Amélie Wen Zhao)
Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
A Magic Steeped in Poison (Judy I. Lin)
A Venom Dark and Sweet (Judy I. Lin)
The Burning God (R.F. Kung)
The Wicked King (Holly Black)
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Brandon Sanderson, Aliya Chen)
Descendant of the Crane (Joan He)
Vampire Weekend (Mike Chen)
Winter (Marissa Meyer)
Cress (Marissa Meyer)
A Bright Heart (Kate Chenli)
The Grace of Kings (Ken Liu)
The Spear Cuts Through Water (Simon Jimenez)
Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)
Peony in Love (Lisa See)
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
A River Enchanted (Rebecca Ross)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Mizuki Tsujimura)
It Didn't Start With You (Mark Wolynn)
The Night Ends With Fire (K.X. Song)
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Molly X. Chang)
#books#bookblr#amreading#danmei#manga#light novels#tbr#to be read#xianxia#POTS#adhd#goodreads#reading challenge#books i own#books i haven't read#Asian literature#fantasy#dark fantasy
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Can you draw that snail? You know the one who got out of Grian's power and started to eat Gem's lighthouse?
little guy <3
alternatively: big guy.
#hermitcraft#grian#geminitay#my art#sketch#drawing a snail with teeth wasn't on my bingo card for this year but here we are#ALSO god can you imagine a dungeon meshi au with grian as a dm and snail as his animal? all he wished for was a mending book.......#the brainrot is strong im being tormented by the demons ( my own ideas )#ALSO 2.0. does anyone remember that snail from adventure time? i mean. cmon. i mean..? hello?
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*reasonable restrictions are ones you consider fair for your own safety or wellbeing, especially for things like graphic depictions of violence in relation to your age at the time (i.e. "you can read this when you're older")
not sure if books you read were banned? here is a archive of the top 10 most banned/challenged books from 2001-2022, hosted by the American Library Association
as well as the Wikipedia page for the Most Commonly Challenged Books in the United States
Wikipedia page for Books Banned by the Government, organized by region/country
#my mom encouraged me to read banned books + owned a lot herself#(color purple to kill a mockingbird the outsiders animal farm of mice & men etc)#i had very few restrictions like reading too much or too graphic of horror because i would have frequent nightmares#the books weren't taken away from me & it was ultimately my choice
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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei
Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best
#zutara#zuko#katara#atla#my art#book 2 au#book 2 aus have been done before but i wanted to try my own take with tropes i personally enjoy akdjslkdks#also had the urge to draw zutara arguing and just not getting along in general qldjkakslsk#i recently finished natla and also just rewatched book 1 so zutara book 1 dynamic where they're quite hostile with each other is on my mind#they decide to travel together but obviously they don't get along at all at the start#they find each other annoying but that annoyance slowly turns into affection#also alsooo#short hair zuko enjoyers hello#i have switched over to the side of short hair zuko ajrskakdlksjd#also thinking about how to put short hair katara into this akdjaljdlskf#i just think short hair zutara neat :>>
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can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.
(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#unique magic posters#this was so unforseeable!#i hope malleus gets pumpkinified immediately and sebek has to carry him around on a little velvet cushion#i hope jade puts his plant knowledge to good use by being extremely judgy about the firmness of everyone's rind#i hope that everyone is still wearing their silly little hats as pumpkins#(i know they won't. but if we don't have hope we have nothing.)#and i'm still feeling like oogie's gotta show up later and menace jamil just by existing#perhaps we'll have to team up against him with the scullsman or something đ#also just to get it out before being proven entirely wrong#my theory is still that he's from the past and we gotta teach him about the True Meaning of Halloween (aka candy and funtimes)#so he can go back to his own time and become the founder of modern-day candy and funtimes halloween or something#bootstrap paradox be damned#i could be entirely off-base but that's what i'm thinking right now#idk he just has the vibe of an old-timey boy to me#he's had the great misfortune of being born before there were hot topics where he could meet other jack skellington fanatics#too late for the black plague too early for the black parade đ
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Spotted this in a second hand bookshop and the whiplash I felt was so strong that I think Iâve discovered another 12 stages of grief
#had a tumblr moment out in the wild#goncharov#it sent me into shock#plus it was under âcollectiblesâ#started questioning my own sanity Jesus Christ I started wondering if someone on here had fucking narrated it and it had somehow reached#this tiny little village shop#the book itself is oblomov by Ivan goncharov btw
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day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.
#I AM GOING INSANE#what am i supposed to do??#âyou should work on your WIPâ NO I CANTTT#â read actual books on your real bookshelfâ NUH UH#ao3#archive of our own#iâm tagging ships#malec#destiel#hannigram#jonmartin#tomgreg#kenstewy#imagine all the fics i could be reading rn
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Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.
As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.
If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.
No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.
As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.
If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.
#bookblr#library posting#pride#pride month#adding tags because i genuinely would like this to leave containment#been weeding alot and it is so demoralizing to see so many of my own community's books on the chopping block#lesbian#read with pride#booktok#the locked tomb#heartstopper#sorry for the tag spam#but if you think books like heartstopper and tlt aren't at risk because they're popular you would be wrong#alice osman's books have very low circ statistics at my library#murderbot#nona the ninth#the situation is dire#xiran jay zhao
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My interpretation on how human bill came to be, ig? (ALSO SORRY, I MEANT DD&MD.. or idk how to abbreviate it)
#sorry for cursing your eyes with both bill designs#can you tell i was struggling between using the shows style and my own? YEAH. trust me it was worse#gravity falls bill#gravity falls book#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls ford#gravity falls#bill ci the demon guy#the book of bill#billford#bill ci the triangle guy#bill cipher#gravity falls dipper#dipper pines#grunkle ford#bill x ford#ford pines#gravity falls stanford#bill x stanford#gravity falls comic#SORRY IF YOU CANT READ BILLS TEXT. AGAIN. MY BAD...#gravity falls headcanons#human bill cipher#human bill design
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New shelves!!! Iâm so excited to finally be able to display all my books for the first time since I started college! It took me a good two days to get all these up, and theyâre all double-stacked, but I should be getting a fourth bookshelf once I unpack enough to fit it in my room. I canât wait to read my physical books again after a semester abroad!
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another thing fantasy writers should keep track of is how much of their worldbuilding is aesthetic-based. it's not unlike the sci-fi hardness scale, which measures how closely a story holds to known, real principles of science. The Martian is extremely hard sci-fi, with nearly every detail being grounded in realistic fact as we know it; Star Trek is extremely soft sci-fi, with a vaguely plausible "space travel and no resource scarcity" premise used as a foundation for the wildest ideas the writers' room could come up with. and much as Star Trek fuckin rules, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic-based fantasy worldbuilding!
(sidenote we're not calling this 'soft fantasy' bc there's already a hard/soft divide in fantasy: hard magic follows consistent rules, like "earthbenders can always and only bend earth", and soft magic follows vague rules that often just ~feel right~, like the Force. this frankly kinda maps, but I'm not talking about just the magic, I'm talking about the worldbuilding as a whole.
actually for the purposes of this post we're calling it grounded vs airy fantasy, bc that's succinct and sounds cool.)
a great example of grounded fantasy is Dungeon Meshi: the dungeon ecosystem is meticulously thought out, the plot is driven by the very realistic need to eat well while adventuring, the story touches on both social and psychological effects of the whole 'no one dies forever down here' situation, the list goes on. the worldbuilding wants to be engaged with on a mechanical level and it rewards that engagement.
deliberately airy fantasy is less common, because in a funny way it's much harder to do. people tend to like explanations. it takes skill to pull off "the world is this way because I said so." Narnia manages: these kids fall into a magic world through the back of a wardrobe, befriend talking beavers who drink tea, get weapons from Santa Claus, dance with Bacchus and his maenads, and sail to the edge of the world, without ever breaking suspension of disbelief. it works because every new thing that happens fits the vibes. it's all just vibes! engaging with the worldbuilding on a mechanical level wouldn't just be futile, it'd be missing the point entirely.
the reason I started off calling this aesthetic-based is that an airy story will usually lean hard on an existing aesthetic, ideally one that's widely known by the target audience. Lewis was drawing on fables, fairy tales, myths, children's stories, and the vague idea of ~medieval europe~ that is to this day our most generic fantasy setting. when a prince falls in love with a fallen star, when there are giants who welcome lost children warmly and fatten them up for the feast, it all fits because these are things we'd expect to find in this story. none of this jars against what we've already seen.
and the point of it is to be wondrous and whimsical, to set the tone for the story Lewis wants to tell. and it does a great job! the airy worldbuilding serves the purposes of the story, and it's no less elegant than RyĆko Kui's elaborately grounded dungeon. neither kind of worldbuilding is better than the other.
however.
you do have to know which one you're doing.
the whole reason I'm writing this is that I saw yet another long, entertaining post dragging GRRM for absolute filth. asoiaf is a fun one because on some axes it's pretty grounded (political fuck-around-and-find-out, rumors spread farther than fact, fastest way to lose a war is to let your people starve, etc), but on others it's entirely airy (some people have magic Just Cause, the various peoples are each based on an aesthetic/stereotype/cliché with no real thought to how they influence each other as neighbors, the super-long seasons have no effect on ecology, etc).
and again! none of this is actually bad! (well ok some of those stereotypes are quite bigoted. but other than that this isn't bad.) there's nothing wrong with the season thing being there to highlight how the nobles are focused on short-sighted wars for power instead of storing up resources for the extremely dangerous and inevitable winter, that's a nice allegory, and the looming threat of many harsh years set the narrative tone. and you can always mix and match airy and grounded worldbuilding â everyone does it, frankly it's a necessity, because sooner or later the answer to every worldbuilding question is "because the author wanted it to be that way." the only completely grounded writing is nonfiction.
the problem is when you pretend that your entirely airy worldbuilding is actually super duper grounded. like, for instance, claiming that your vibes-based depiction of Medieval Europe (Gritty Edition) is completely historical, and then never even showing anyone spinning. or sniffing dismissively at Tolkien for not detailing Aragorn's tax policy, and then never addressing how a pre-industrial grain-based agricultural society is going years without harvesting any crops. (stored grain goes bad! you can't even mouse-proof your silos, how are you going to deal with mold?) and the list goes on.
the man went up on national television and invited us to engage with his worldbuilding mechanically, and then if you actually do that, it shatters like spun sugar under the pressure. doesn't he realize that's not the part of the story that's load-bearing! he should've directed our focus to the political machinations and extensive trope deconstruction, not the handwavey bit.
point is, as a fantasy writer there will always be some amount of your worldbuilding that boils down to 'because I said so,' and there's nothing wrong with that. nor is there anything wrong with making that your whole thing â airy worldbuilding can be beautiful and inspiring. but you have to be aware of what you're doing, because if you ask your readers to engage with the worldbuilding in gritty mechanical detail, you had better have some actual mechanics to show them.
#finx rambles#worldbuilding#for writers#honestly I quite liked the asoiaf books I read#it's a well-constructed story! it's a well-constructed world too on its own merits#none of this stuff about grain and spinning is actually important to the story#the problem is that grrm himself seems to just. not realize this#and goes about blithely insisting he's created an extraordinarily realistic fantasy world where all the tax policies make sense#he has not!#he has invited people to tear his creation apart if they can and! it turns out! they absolutely can!#this shit's got no tensile strength! it's made of glue and popsicle sticks!#you're not supposed to put weight on it
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why isnt anybody properly repressed in modern fiction like repression has been a staple of human creativity since the dawn of time but tbh i think we have been seeing a steep decrease in severely repressed fictional characters since the 80s not sure what we are going to do about it are we suddenly all too good for repression or something personally i love repression
#this is why i have to read books written by deeply unwell women from the 1950s from time to time#keeps one grounded in just how much you can u sublimate your own desires until well theres nothing left to desire#its very real to me like they really get it
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More gravity falls doodles! Currently reading and decoding Journal 3! ItsâŠits alot đ
#gravity falls#gf#standford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#bill chiper#stanley pines#human bill cipher#canon human bill cipher#his human design was so fun to draw i cannot lie lmao#fiddleauthor#billford#the book of bill#gravity falls fanart#yea drawing the pine twin brothers is very fun ahaha#btw already going nuts reading journal 3! i canât believe i finally own it.. a childhood dream come true đ„čđ
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i love that in the book poseidons sole motivation for hunting ody for A FULL DECADE is just because of his son polyphemus,, like,,, hes not even trying to teach him a lesson like in the muscial,,, just a very passionate dad!!!
also close-up under the cut cause the face rendering kind of slays
#polyphemus#poseidon#epic poseidon#odysseus#odysseus of ithaca#epic the musical#the odyssey#greek mythology#homeric epics#epic the cyclops saga#epic the ocean saga#artists on tumblr#fanart#also the fact that odysseus genious idea to get away from the cyclops#in the book#is just to hide under the sheep??#im not even sure thats physically possible i had to make it a VERY big sheep#own post
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