#chatterbones

[blinkbones]

yall were right about that dingy ass bathroom having homosexuals in it

[chatterbon]

Bauhaus was an English rock band formed in 1978. The band was a pioneer of the goth rock and alternative rock genres, and their music is considered a major influence on subsequent gothic, post-punk, and alternative rock movements.

[thestuffedalligator]

I feel like I’ve talked about merrenoloths before but I can’t find any post that says I have, so I’m taking this as an excuse to talk about merrenoloths.

So merrenoloths.

Merrenoloths are my favourite monsters from D&D.

Merrenoloths are a band of yugoloths, neutral evil fiends that live in the lower planes between devils and demons. In 5e lore yugoloths are fiendish mercenaries, always looking for the best opportunity to make the most reward possible, hiring themselves out to other fiends and fighting in the blood war between devils and demons, siding with whichever side is paying the most at the time

Merrenoloths like boats.

Merrenoloths fucking love boats. You can make a contract to hire a merrenoloth and have them captain a boat on the material plane, and they will love that boat so much. That boat will gain supernatural abilities, that’s how much they love that boat.

And officially they’re evil, but literally all they care about is boats. They don’t even like fighting. A merrenoloth “specifies in its contracts that it is under no obligation to fight. A merrenoloth’s first duty is always to its vessel.”

And just look at that Chatterbones Charlie up there. Boat nerd goth twink in his infernal venetian gondola. I love him

[coolyo294]

30

30. Would they smooch a ghost?

sure, why not. one of his companions was a skull named chatterbones so he’s pretty cool with the undead 

[blinkbones]

cons of playing old video games:

no fandom

visuals that aged poorly

pros of playing old video games:

no fandom

visuals that aged poorly

cheap as hell

[blinkbones]

broke: the three musketeers is a stupid title because there's four of them

woke: the three musketeers is an apt title because d'artagnan loses his letter of recommendation in chapter 1 because he can't stop picking fights with everyone and then he has to hustle until page 513/700 to get to the point where the boss of the musketeers finally let him join. his musketeer status was NOT a given

[blinkbones]

watching to wong foo: thanks for everything! julie newmar and blade back to back to experience the full breadth of wesley snipes's gender performance

[blinkbones]

aaravos is clearly set up to be The Great Evil Someone Trapped Into a Mirror but they're so beautiful i'll take whatever crumbs of them i can get. grade A fictional baddie

[blinkbones]

The three musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Surprise of the yearrrrrr. This one is truly A Brick and it took me essentially all of August to read it. I often felt a bit discouraged by the pure length of it, which hadn't happened to me in a while tbh. Yet another book from my to-read-pile that I had started reading a long time ago, and started back from the beginning.

I will say: this book is easier and more fun to read than you think. I will say: this book is not for most beginners, on account of Brick. But also, on account of its age. I distinctly remember my first reading experience, ten years ago. I had given it a solid try and given up about a third of the way down. The words were hard for me back then, and so were the sentence structures. And to be honest, even today, I had my online dictionary at the ready.

THAT SAID... It's such a fun and comedic piece of writing that it's actually crazy that it sat in my mind with the reputation of "terrible long book that i don't understand".

The Three Musketeers is basically ADVENTURE. Most of it is just WAHOO ADVENTURE. Feral countryside boy gets into town and immediately pisses off + endears for life the local good bad boy gang. (Actually, the first thing he does is "loose life-altering document and make enemies) They have SHENANIGANS and HIJINKS together. The hero and his friends often get bags of money for their heroics and then immediately lose their money, usually because they can't resist good food, and that's very relatable. There's a sugar mommy episode. It is of course a book with straight characters only but it is also a little bit gay, on account of all that brotherly devotion. Then there's an evil lady but you love to see her win because she's so smart and resourceful. Genuinely Milady is a very fun villain.

This read was a lot of fun for me personally. Also I liked that it was divided into a gajillion short chapters. It made the length more palatable. It's a little bit like watching an old TV show, from back when they made tons of short and kinda equal episodes.

And you're gonna learn new words. I recommend quizzing your local beloveds about it. Worthy summer activity. I'd show up at dinner with my 2-5 words from reading that day, and it'd entertain us for a little bit.

[blinkbones]

Title: The Deep Author: Rivers Solomon, ft Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes Sibling artwork: The Deep, song by clipping. Inspired by a song, this novella plunges into the depths of the ocean to acquaint us with the lives of its mermaids -- the descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard. Yetu is the sole bearer of the memories of her entire species -- and she suffers for it. I won't say more as I felt that discovering the lore and worldbuilding bit by bit was one of the most delightful aspects of reading this book. I've not read such short works in a while, and in that sense it gave me a "tumblr" feel. Most likely because this is where I've read novellas, although unaware. There's no room for large detours in a novella. You have to slingshot toward your ending in a straight-ish line. So what I'm saying is that it was too short, ugh, I wanted more of this!! The itinerary may have gone straight, but the plot much less so. Presumably, cisheteronormativity is a thing of the surface that mermaids have no business condescending to. I used the word "mermaid" but it isn't used at all, as far as I remember.

The heart of the story is memory. Yetu, as her people's historian, bears alone the weight of the trauma of a people born of cruelty and murder. It smothers her, chokes her. She has to contend with the dilemma of her life hanging in the balance against the history of her people. The idea that holding true information in your head might hurt feels... very real at the moment.

I really liked this book. It's poetic, it's fresh, it's well-rounded and intriguing. I'd be curious to read more from Solomon. Also the song and the cover are bangers.

[blinkbones]

PUPPY x HER obviously but instead of PUPPY being the man intended by the devs she's a butch lesbian. everything is the same she's still psychotic and mostly metal and built like a freight train and easily manipulated by beautiful women who are push-and-pull with her

[blinkbones]

absolutely effervescent to be studying puritans and find out one of the important ppl was named arthur dent. did you fuck up the timeline again hitchhiker boy

[blinkbones]

grian and joel ought to be called the Carb Commando the way they're grain and beans and setting up bomb traps

[blinkbones]

Title: Atlas des abysses / Atlas of the Abyss (?) Authors: Jozée Sarrazin, Stéphanie Brabant Art: Julie Terrazoni

Despite the name, "atlas", this is more about creatures than it is about the geography of the deep, although it does broach the topic. And despite the name again, it isn't a particularly heavy book. In fact, it's more of a discovery book for adults, you know what I mean? You've been a child? You've read magazines or books about, like, nature or the world or the countries? This feels like it.

It has both its advantages and flaws. Let's start with the latter: it doesn't go in depth too much. The format is: each double-page display contains one page of text and one page of illustration. The text introduces the creature. Then we move on. Overall I suppose it makes sense given the topic -- study of deep marine life is still full of unknown, right? It's kind of the current front of big discovery. There's much to find out still. You could feel it in some of the descriptions.

Broadly related was the organization of text on the page. Each creature description contained a quote in big letters interrupting the paragraphs, newspaper style, and can I just say I hate that shit? Especially when the big quote was pulled from the very same text you're already reading. Please. Similarly, chapters were often introduced by a white page with a single big quote about how cool the deep is, and most of those were forgettable lol. Looks nice, I guess.

Okay, so one minor flaw and a petty nitpick. Overall, it's a good book. Like I said, it's like a discovery book for adults, and that really brought me back to that sense of wonder, of shameless curiosity for anything and everything... and what a delight that is.

The art is doing A LOT for this reading experience. It's clean and somewhat gothic in vibes, always a full page save for the double-page displays. You get the dark, dark water and the artificially lit denizens of the deep... Loved it so much, gosh. There's a real cute ghost shark in there. It's so adorable, like a sleek, wet, puppy-shaped fish. Then there's plenty of weird sea life. Tubular worms. Furry crabs. Weird tiny beasts that live who-knows-how in the deepest sediment pools. big squids with scary sexual habits. As someone who already knew a bunch of species from too much youtubing, I was glad to see a mix of classics (tardigrades, vampire squids...) and things I had no idea existed.

The text manages to balance "informative" and "compelling" rather well, I thought. It tied many entries with deep sea exploration and what it entails, which made it immersive, in a way. Sometimes, it referenced videos. I never had trouble finding them and seeing it for myself, and I thought it was a nice addition.

A nice read in general :)

[blinkbones]

i didnt really like the last scene of Primal (s2) but thematically it makes perfect sense and i can't be mad at it. Primal, besides being a visual delight of cartoonized gore & character design, is a story about the continuation of life. The second season could not make it more clear, with the emphasis put on the egg-laying scene, managing to imbue the long close-up of a cloaca with a sense of poetic wonder; and even more so, with the darwin episode, in which charles darwin explains primal theory before getting to play action hero. (this episode was honestly so shameless about having fun; it's a gem). This episode being the only one with dialogue that most of the audience would understand, as well as the only one breaking away from the main story, highlights its importance and makes it almost a demonstration of the series as a whole: one that openly chucks historical accuracy to the side to play with the concept of violence as a means of survival. what it doesn't mention, however, is the subsidiary theme of the importance of "family", aka the group one belongs to. It shines through with the main duo, and of course with the subplots of the giant and the vikings. With all this in mind, I can't argue against the thematic coherence and near necessity of the final sex scene--i may not have liked it, but it fits in with the narrative. As the caveman slowly dies from the wounds inflicted by the only being that could beat him (a godlike avenger), mira gazes at his paintings and gets a sense of his loneliness. They have travelled far together and while she may have found her village again, her previous lover is long dead. In many ways, they belong to one another and are "family" already (with the lizards too, of course). It's true that the scene, while quick, does not shy away in a classic fade-to-black--i'd call it off-puttingly intimate--but the series is very adult; it spreads intestines over just about every episode. And most of all, it's not grotesque or ridiculous--it's a tender rekindling of hope, symbolized by the dinosaur-riding daughter in the last images.

[blinkbones]

The Mirror Visitor; A Winter's Promise -- Christelle Dabos

This one I bought on a whim after hearing that it was the cool new French fantasy series in town. And nothing else. So when I picked it up again recently and read 'forced marriage' listed as a marketing trope i uuhhh... Hesitated. For a second. I admit it. The romantasy genre that is popular currently is pretty unappealing to me and I wasn't keen on reading some hetero cringe -- best it delights people who love it and not my picky ass.

Anyway I shouldn't have worried, this is way good. The main character makes for a very good unreliable character and -- yes, YES! -- she's so wholeheartedly uninterested in romance and focused on, well, 'the plot', honestly I can't complain. At all. She's giving aromancy a little bit, and "married to my work" a lot, and I love her for that. Meanwhile the future husband is pretty interesting too, even though he's named Thorn even in the og french, which I find a bit funny, because giving english names to sound cool & handsome isn't effective against english majors.

Like I said I walked in pretty much blind, so I was somewhat surprised to find myself a few hundred pages of court intrigue -- not something I usually go for. But it is surprisingly to my taste, actually! I guess all the spying and lies and subtlety is pretty fun. I'll definitely read the next books. Also I love the cover art. Simple and intriguing, right?