#cherry picked

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood - The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Will Darling/Kim Secretan - The Will Darling Adventures by K.J. Charles 

Hawk Sunday/Jack Wyatt - Cherry Picked by May Archer

Paige Mahoney/Arcturus Mesarthim - The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

"Don't worry, he'll call." "Then why do you look worried?" Amazing. Show-stopping. The conman and the one person who can read him.

[kazureicentral]

here is all the reasons you should watch episode 8.5 of buddy daddies.

kazuki kurusu

[franticvampirereads]

This was such a delightful read! Hawk is just the sweetest book loving, Pride and Prejudice fanboy ever. I love him and I would love to swap book recs with him. And Jack! He was a little oblivious but the second he realized he had feelings, boy did he go all in. And I loved that for him and Hawk.

This book was just so much fun! And it has the same Gilmore Girls vibes that the rest of the books do. I loved getting to see more of the town and how they rallied behind Hawk to save their beloved Fogg Peak from the evil clutches of developers. It was so funny to see bits of what the knitting guild was up to (imagine 70+ year-olds popping tires on the land developer’s vehicles with very sharp knitting needles 😂).

All around, this was just such a good read. It’s got all the summery vibes you could ever ask for. Cherry Picked is getting 5 stars from me! I can’t wait to see what’s next for Sunday’s. 😊

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

PopSugar 2023: a book published in spring 2023

[millie360]

[queenie435]

I would like to thank the Atheist for keeping some of these cherry pickers in line!

[renegadesstuff]

Badass Jisbon 🔥🔥

[skylitterror]

Quiet circles of water ways

Sparkle and speckled with lowly rays

Spledored sun in squandered days

Tirelessly i sleep wide awake

In tune to death and all dismay

Ground me into fine pines soil

Spread what ash to winds and sea

Let me float away beyond the atmosphere

In wondered in wander

Come be leave here to fair a dear

We joust these words to cherry picked rigs

To break apart the love so lorn

Forging ideas for time to pass

Lines if text grown into grass

Slipping through worlds unconscious grasp

[gotstabbedbyapen]

It's always "Hades isn't bad or cruel, his deeds are just metaphors of the inevitable death" or "Hades kidnapping Persephone represent the premature death".

But when the argument "Zeus has numerous affairs and many children because he represent the fertile rain" is brought up, all nuance is suddenly out of the window and Zeus is just a womanizer who can't keep it in his pants.

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

i was REALLY surprised i hadnt seen anyone animate over anything from the prevenge script reading yet, so i took matters into my own hands. i thought this bit was hilarious

audio from here

[chalkrub]

various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual

[cowabungacarl420]

Nickelodeon: we're cancelling Rise of the TMNT because of low merch sales.

The merch they were putting out:

[cherrirui-official]

I hope u guys don't mind me posting these au doodles while I work on things ahaha

I also gave JD slightly longer hair in these doodles as a funny haha but I don't think it's funny anymore he looks genuinely good with his hair like that ahahaha I hope you're not mad at me for changing his au design a bit

[franticvampirereads]

June has been a really great reading month! I think I read 9 books this month? I haven’t done that in a while and it feels kind of nice. 😊 Here’s what I read this month:

Unhinged 5⭐️ {review}

Cherry Picked 5⭐️ {review}

Unicorn’s Forever 4⭐️ {review}

The Pride Of Garnet Run 4⭐️ {review}

Dekoboko Sugar Days: Boys Enjoy Your Youth 4⭐️

Dekoboko Sugar Days: Sugar Rush! 4⭐️ {combined review with the book above}

Ghosts Of The Shadow Market 4.5 ⭐️ {review}

Fangs vol 2 5⭐️ {review}

How Not To Date A Dragon (not pictured) -currently reading

My favorite books this month were Unhinged and Cherry Picked. Both of them were so, so good! 😊

[hobbitinthetardis]

Lines from Grímnismál from the Poetic Edda

[thebibliosphere]

Pennyworth: The Daring Young Man

Chapter ten:

Richard seemed to take that in, then nodded. “Will you be there?” he asked shakily.

“Of course,” Bruce replied, finally closing the gap between them and letting his hands rest on either side of Richard’s shoulders, rubbing his arms soothingly. “We both will, won’t we, Al?”

“Just try and stop us,” the old butler replied, closing the door on the dishwasher and turning to look at both of them. “You’ll be all right, Richard. I promise. No one can hurt you in the Manor.”

Because I’ll kill them, he didn’t add, but he knew it was implied from the sideways glance Bruce gave him.

Alfred respected Bruce’s no-killing rule, but Bruce knew better than to try and enforce it on him. The butler would do whatever he deemed necessary to keep his people safe. Martha and Thomas had known that— it was why they’d entrusted him with Bruce, and Alfred would be damned if that now didn’t extend to Richard as well.

[Read more on Ao3…]

Hey, thanks for waiting 💖 Enjoy your filler fluff with a side of plot shoe horned in.

I can’t promise regularly scheduled updates until after I hopefully start treatment in December, but I’m still enjoying tinkering away at this fic when I have the energy.