#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]

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]

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]

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]

if you wanna know how inescapable my sleep is, i was (unfortunately, AGAIN) napping in the afternoon and apparently a dry storm passed over and a thunderbolt all but felt right in my street and i only just recalled it an hour after waking up because at that moment i just vaguely blinked then went right back to the void

[blinkbones]

when the movie blurb that said "this is hamlet, staged in GTA" compelled me i thought that i might have gone off the deep end of being terminally intellectual. when the mubi logo appeared i knew it to be true

[blinkbones]

im obsessed with whatever the hell is going on between eggman and his henchman in the sonic movies. not even in a "they're fucking" way. whatever they're doing is far more depraved and bizarre