#dont look at my shelves!

[ustalav]

“You’re aware this is extremely offensive, right?”

He’s sitting, chair leaned back so the front legs are just off the floor. His booted feet propped up on her desk – her very clean, very organized desk – the paperwork that had occupied that space now pushed haphazardly into the corner. In his hand, he holds a book with a green cover depicting a heavily muscled elven man clutching a waiflike woman in his arms. 

“What are you doing in here?”

He begins to read dramatically from the book in his hand: “‘She presses into his body as they stride aback the majestic halla, he kicks the beast and it surges forward, his voice a soft whisper in her ear. “Hold on, da’len.”” His hair falls into his face and he pushes a heavily ringed hand through it, shoulders shaking with laughter. “There are so many things wrong in just that paragraph.”

She blinks at him, then her mouth becomes a stern line. “Did you pick the lock on my door?”

He ignores her and presses on with his rant. “Da’len means… like, child, it’s not a very sexy thing to call someone-“

“Faron.”

“And we don’t ride the halla like a horse, that’s-“

Firmer. “Faron.”

He pauses and lowers the book. “Cassandra.” 

speaking of romance novels and faron talking too much, a snippet i wrote of something a little bit ago lol

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

[bamsara]

being an adult means we can buy or make as much self-indulgent shit (as we can afford) and unironically have trinkets of our fave things cause our teen years was bullied for liking things and hiding/denying we were ever neurodivergent to the point of suicide. sucks for anyone that thinks its weird cringe but I'm going to try and allow myself to love myself in little ways now

[3-aem]

if u have been wondering geez where did three fuck off to ive been here

[lovelizards]

Lizard Book Report 📚🦎

The Young Elites by Marie Lu

The story follows Adelina Amouteru, a malfetto - cursed as a child with magic powers after a sickness in the kingdom - and her dark, violent journey as she desperately tries to find a place where she belongs in a world that only seems to want to use her.

[ I'm just a lizard and these are just my opinions ] ⤵

Writing Style: 9/10

The author's writing style is colourful, fluid, and descriptive, which makes it very easy to picture exactly the image she is trying to convey. It shifts between short sharp sentences and lingering long sentences where it needs to. It's the main reason I enjoyed the book.

I take one point off because it is written in first person present tense, which for me is a slightly jarring style of narration. Included in the removed point is the slight let down of most of the character voices blending together in dialogue.

Plot: 5/10

The general concept of the plot is very good and also very familiar - a group of young rebels with unique abilities fight against a greater power (in this case, called the Inquisition Axis) trying to destroy them and maintain the status quo.

However, I found it a little too...nothing in the middle. I was hoping that the twist introduced in the middle of the book (Adelina is forcibly recruited as a spy, and doesn't choose to share it with her new 'friends') would excite me, but it didn't. I was flipping pages, skipping certain parts to try and get to something good that I didn't find until the very last couple of chapters.

The biggest issue I had was that it all felt a little one note. MC is being used by her father, MC is being used by the group she joins (The Daggers), MC is being used by the Inquisition. It feels like she never really makes any true connections with the people around her which I could feel as the story came to a bittersweet, tragic ending.

The end of the story sets up Adelina's little sister as the only real connection she has, as written in the book: "...kindness with no strings attached, had only ever come from Violetta." But we only ever learn about Violetta through flashes of memory and short moments at the beginning of the book which didn't really paint her as this amazing sister, the connection that Adelina was searching for

Maybe I'm jaded, but it just didn't click for me.

Whump Content: 10/10

This book is absolutely chock full of hardcore whump from the first page. The main character is confined in a jail cell, she is almost executed, she has her chin tilted up by a multitude of characters both good and evil. There is fighting whump, there is magic exhaustion whump, there is permanently disfiguring whump, all that and more is in there and its ripe for the picking.

Enjoyment: 5/10

I enjoyed the book for the style of its writing, so much that I missed my bus stop when I was reading it on the bus. But the characters - mostly the main character - let it down for me pretty badly. Average to maybe slightly above average.

Overall Lizard Score: 6/10

If you can get past the slightly wonky pov tense, and are able to connect with the main character - in a way that I couldn't - I imagine this would be a nice little read given all the whump included. The author is a New York Times Bestselling author of another series, clearly not this one.

[daughterofsarenrae]

Kal-El might not be the smartest fish but at least he's pretty!

[alukaforyou]

well hewwo there thumbelina :3 i preordered the luka one from the same company yesterday cuz it was her bday and i love her 💗

how cute is this i cant wait for her to come in april :') i love sitting figures sm <3 i have this jotaro fig thats articulated and he sits really well too

hes been in his box since i moved tho cuz... space :( hope to display him again one day.. and i have not one but TWO of these and they are both in boxes that is criminal

i tried to get him to sit like hanging off a shelf but it was 2 hard with the red armor bits :( i kno its possible tho cuz i saw ppl on twitter do it, ppl were taking his clothes off and all 🤪 lmaooo ONE DAY im gonna. find a good space to put all these guys >_<....

[themyscirah]

WE GOTTEM BOYS

[vampiremourning]

anyway as soon as i pry myself off this couch im gonna share some screenshots of bg3 protags on my sideblog. just gotta like. reach the desk first.

[enbycupcake]

all of my dolls are standing by the sheer power of hope and gayness

[real-life-cloud]

im GOING to write today ........ i WILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[harrykim]

not to be no fun but ltierally what is the appeal of this barbie movie. i dont get it.

[pears-trinkets]

everything sucks so hard rn idk

[walking-circles]

i have too many knickknacks…

[intomybubble]

The manga behind all this will be a pain in the ass to access when I have to shuffle some books around

[spillways-mp3]

Gaz as that one Elliot Knight picture