#children of time trilogy

[nekoprankster218]

props to Children of Ruin for turning the phrase “going on an adventure” into something terrifying and subsequently executing the rare text-based jumpscare with it

[lossis]

We're going on an adventure!

-These-Of-We

[satisaranea]

☕️ katniss’s parents

katniss was horrible towards her mother until she was put into a situation where she'd be forced to empathize with her. it is absolutely unforgivable to me for her to have swore at her incessantly when she was treating gale (in which katniss did nothing to help wih if not predominantly making it about herself/which i understand because she was also injured,) but she held no understanding of her mother's grief until it again, hit her, and just about a decent amount of understanding of her job and what she'd go through as the town apothecary. katniss did admire her mother's skills and her ability to be hands on, but a lot of the time she would undermine her instead of appreciate the parts of her she did have left.

when it came to katniss’ father, i believe she saw him through rose-colored glasses. a hunter, a good singer, a miner — the first man in her life. but i feel like she gave more credit to him than her mother who had a wider and more impactful job in terms of district care. her father is the dead one, and despite her mother living (and being in a state of deep widowing,) it's almost like they've both died in a way. only she chooses to favor one.

but when mrs. everdeen is doing her job as a healer and a mother, katniss is still indifferent. nothing will bring back her years of childhood lost from becoming the family breadwinner, but nothing will change the fact that her father died. and nothing could change the fact that her mother grieved. nothing will change the fact that things went the way they did, but no one was at fault for what happened. which includes mrs. everdeen, even if she didn't cope in a way that was healthy for her children.

[cauls-antique-pepperbox-pistol]

Would love to have that first time reading experience again with the MPHFPC books, but that would require me to forget about everything that happened and everything I’ve made up about the story and characters, so actually never mind, that sounds terrible

[linovadraws]

Love a series that gives me a guy to root for across 80% of the series as he actively attempts to capture, kill, torture, or maim the protagonists. Rasten deserves to be winning and is from Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier and its sequels.

[starwhipnspin]

cole and baby wu cuz why not

[non-anthropoidal-championship]

Round 1B Matchup 6

May the best creature win!!!

Propaganda ; None

[timcurry-imgoinghomedotmp4]

just getting back on my the batman 2022 bullshit real quick for a sec. do we talk enough about the verisimilitude of gotham’s architecture and geography? bc i feel like we don’t and personally i thought it banged

[chaoskingcornerstone]

Bionicle question time

If the toa nuva hadn't forgotten the age appropriate moral lesson again in time for the ignition trilogy and had found the mask of life on their own, who would've sacrificed themselves to safe the great spirit?

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

The Art of Destiny

book 2 in a fun wuxia-inspired high fantasy series

set a couple years after book 1, after Jian failed to live up to his chosen-once prophecy, he is once again training with Taishi who decides to recruit a bunch of her grandmaster peers to come out of retirement & finish his training

Qisami & her crew are lacking assassin work and take a job going undercover in a palace - and the change of pace & new developing friendships give her a glimpse of new possibilities

Sali leads the survivors of her exiled clan to a new home while trying to find a cure for a magical sickness she's developed

[chat-dank]

You have the right to like your Angbang intense. You have the right to like your Angbang fucked up. You have the right to like your Angbang unhinged. You have the right to like your Angbang harmful. But you also have a right to like your Angbang fluffy, too. You are not woobifying them if you like it soft or write a fic where they say they love each other or kiss or high five or take a bite from the same sandwich or whatever. You have a different interpretation, that’s all. You’re not committing some horrid unforgivable atrocity against your fandom. You’re not an “annoying fan” if you want your ships happy, even if other people dislike you for it, the same way you are not an “annoying fan” if you like your ships intense and other people dislike you for it. You’re not a mean person for having an opinion that the majority dislikes. You’re an individual human being who has an opinion and your opinion is worth JUST as much as every other opinion in your fandom. Because that’s how opinions work. You’re not disregarding canon any more than people who bend it to fit their other non-canon ships or headcanons or other interpretations of this ship or their interpretation of any other ship or anything else that JRRT or Christopher or the Tolkien estate disagree with. We all see a piece of media and interpret it differently. It doesn’t make any of us better or worse for it. Ship and let ship. 

[nekoprankster218]

the Children of… trilogy is so great because where else am I gonna read a parasitic organism colony have an existential crisis

[lossis]

Terraformers

The quality is terrible, but here ya go, there isn't enough art for this book series

The constellations in the backround are a spider, a crow and an octapus

Here's the sketch

[autism-disco]

magical john drag king is exactly what alan moore meant about the ideaspace this absolutely existed in our collective consciousness as a human species

[allysio]

twilight and harry potter getting tv series, new hunger games movie, gee, they are really trying to give me the teenagehood i wanted but never fully experienced because i was just a little too young

[humandisastersquad]

Love how I have several mutuals into the locked tomb series and despite never blacklisting the tag I still have no idea wtf it’s about. Necromancy??? Bones??? Lesbians??? Bone lesbians??? I genuinely have no idea. which is good bc I’m still ~10th in line in the hold queue for said books from my local library