#epub book

[sides4peace]

[uhcasual]

All illustrations for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Russian Edition Exclusives, Volume 5

Finally got my hands on the russian истари/Istari publication volume 5 for Mo Dao Zu Shi, so here are high resolution scans of the art exclusive to this particular edition. The art here portrays events that occur in the post-storyline extras.

Full resolution available for download here (tumblr compresses images a little)

Illustration Artist: Marina Privalova (Baoshan Karo)

[Vol. 1] - [Vol. 2] - [Vol. 3] - [Vol. 4] - [Vol. 5] (part 1)

[crustaceousfaggot]

Legitimately obtained ebooks will kill the patient. He needs dubious PDF download links to live.

[liriostigre]

those posts and memes and videos of people saying they buy and buy books but they never read them (you know those that are like "me buying a new book: 😃, the 50 unread on my shelf looking at me: 👁️👁️. or those 100+ physical tbr booktube videos. or some bullshit like that) piss me off so much because i WISH i could afford books—the books i want to read! i read everything on my phone and all of them illegally downloaded. and no, i can't borrow books from the public library because i live at the end of the world in a small forgotten town with no local public library. i'm messing up my sight with so much screen time because i love reading while those consumerist fools can't even fathom what it's like to value things!

[iniziare]

Download: Dragon Age (.PDFs)

With my return to Dragon Age, I've sought to get my hands on copies of some of Bioware's written works until I'm able to get my hands on the physical copies. And honestly, who would I be if I didn't share them with the community? So here I am, with some December offerings a little ahead of time. Please know that this post will be updated over-time with the franchise's complete written works. But without any further ado, have some Google Drive links— and if there's any issues with the DLs, don't hesitate to let me know.

Book: World of Thedas (V1, V2)

Book: Tevinter Nights

Comics: The Missing (P1, P2, P3, P4)

And as per usual, a reblog is appreciated to help spread this to people who might find use!

[bladeofolympus]

Okay what's Deltora quest

hi Kay ilu

Deltora Quest is an Australian book series by Emily Rodda following 3 main characters;

Lief - a 16yo son of a blacksmith. he's very smart and loses his sword so often. backup moves including chucking shit at monsters

Barda - a soldier tasked with keeping Lief alive. He owes Lief's dad and also believes in the Belt of Deltora and he is the token adult

Jasmine - a 16yo girl that the other two meet by chance in a nearby forest. She has lived in the forest her whole life and can talk to animals/trees. She is so violent and i love her

(honorable mention) Kree & Filli - Jasmine's animal companions. Kree is a raven and Filli is some nebulous Furry Animal. like a squirrel or something

The three of them go on a quest through the country of Deltora looking for 7 magical gems that will complete the Belt of Deltora, a magical artifact that only works (fully) for the true heir of Deltora. Using the belt will help drive out the evil Shadow Lord from Deltora and end his reign of tyranny!!

There are so many fucked up monsters in these books and there are so many riddles too. I again have not read them in years (currently rereading the first one). My favorite book as a kid was City of the Rats because Lief almost gets eaten alive by a swarm of rats

Also they made a manga/anime of Deltora Quest and while its not super accurate to the books, it is a fun way to get the main points of the plot for anyone who doesn't have the time/energy to read at least 7 books (and apparently the two sister series I didn't know existed until this week)

[yellowmoya]

Cover art for the delightfully fluffy Natural Attraction by @kcscribbler

"In which there is a newbie transporter tech, an inconveniently-placed lake, and butterflies."

[navramanan]

ok i'm curious,

[valeries-creations]

Unmatched

Author: @elleseekeepdriv Cover: @valeries-creations Trope: exes to lovers Tags🏷️: Tinder Word Count: 6K Fuck, Fuck, fuck, unmatch, unmatch!!!!!

[muffinlance]

Hi! Hope you're doing well! I just wanted to check in and see if there is an ETA on epubs for anyone who's ordered them recently - I ordered epubs of both Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone, and The Skin Stealer's Son on the 31st of May but haven't gotten them yet. No pressure! I totally understand if you're just inundated with orders or busy, I was just curious 🤗 Anyway, thank you so much, hope everything is going good!

Very very soon! I ran into some issues with a corrupted file, which meant I had to go back to the version before that, which didn't have the final typo fixes because of course it didn't so I've been cleaning those up all week, blerg. I'm 90% done now--hoping to finalize the epub tomorrow and start getting them out the day after, assuming my computer doesn't eat things again. Since I'm now compulsively saving to three locations every few hours that should hopefully not be an issue again.

Sorry for the delay, and thank you for your support!

[sides4peace]

[sketchydmitrix]

free access digital library

hi everyone i have been collecting pdfs/epubs/mobis recently and have been considering compiling them all into an online library (through MEGA)

would anyone be interested? so far I have books on social justice theory, short stories, computer science books, language books and art theory books!!

[jesperr-fahey]

finished animorphs today !! it was my goal to finish the series before the end of the year, and i achieved it with about 5 hours to spare- 62 books, as i admittedly didn't read the choose your own adventure ones.

these books were an absolute wild ride, and i'm sure i'll have more posts and more thoughts in the days to come as i process the finale, but i just have to say. goddamn. goddamn. i'm so glad i read that series i'm so glad i got to know those characters i'm so glad i decided to experience the story, and i'm going to miss it

[gothicprep]

i'm currently reading a book called "you are what you watch" by walt hickey. the chapter i'm on right now is called "commerce and culture and commence", and what hickey is describing in this chapter is something similar to a flywheel – the idea of a book or movie or tv show leading to people buying merchandise, which in turn leads to them going to amusement parks. he's zeroing in on a very specific part of pop history that i had completely forgotten about, the warner brothers' studio store. it's discussed as the missing link between the entire history of pop culture before the 90s and everything that's followed since then.

hickey explains that, before the wb store was innovated, pop culture merch was for children. tv shows about batman, for example, didn't lead to adults wearing shirts about batman. it was all targets to kids. disney locked in on this idea of connecting merchandise to films very, very early. the empire strikes back was the one that really capitalized on this in particular, but star wars in general realized again that you can sell toys to children based on the thing they'd seen. but the thing that warner bros studio store did is that they tapped into the aging boomer audience that had money and were nostalgic. bear in mind, this is 1991, so boomers at the time would have been in their 30s and 40s.

after batman came out in 1989, it was the biggest movie of the year, so wb produced a little bit of adult merch for it, and it sold out almost immediately. then they quickly realized that there was a big demand for batman pins and memorabilia from those boomers. this wasn't just nerds in fandom spaces, these were genuinely mainstream individuals. again, this was the biggest movie of the year.

if you look at the warner brother's library, it's not the cuddly mickey mouse stuff. it's the snarky looney tunes stuff. so wb thinks to themselves, "hey, we're in the 90s. this could work." hearing the people interviewed in the book talk about the development of the store is so interesting because they immediately realized where their strengths were – ignore kids entirely, try to poach people from department stores and design studios instead, and make the kinds of things that people will want to actually buy, except it has daffy duck on it.

what really jumped out to me was that the pop culture artifacts became representations of identity, and wb basically discovered this accidentally. there's a moment in the book about the specific looney tunes characters being targeted to specific groups of people. the consumers didn't want all the looney tunes on their shirt, they wanted one specific character. they had no idea this identity component even existed until they started selling stuff.

the architect of this was a woman named linda postell, who's interviewed in the book. she mentions that, early on in development, all the men who would buy foghorn leghorn stuff would all basically look the same. if they bought harley davidson, they were a taz guy. etc.

there are a lot of looney tunes characters, and wb mined their archives to appeal to more people. before the store concept, marvin the martin was only in about 20 minutes of the cartoon in the aggregate. they slap him on merch, and suddenly, the IT guy has him on his mug because he's persnickety. within a few years, marvin is refereeing space jam. the people who pulled this off were fucking geniuses. you're not only evoking memories of someone's childhood, you're doing it in a way that articulates something about that person in the process.

i'm a millennial, and my generation sorted itself into one of four hogwarts houses. we had that burst of post-apocalyptic fiction that required people to sort themselves into one of five classes. there was star wars and their weird "are you the light side, or the dark side?" campaign. this strategy has been employed by people in the entertainment industry where content design is all a downstream of this.

this next bit isn't in the book at all. it's just my hot take. but i feel like this has been actively destructive to the world of culture criticism, consumption, and enjoyment in very real and specific ways. in what we see in so many of the arguments over things like star wars, there's this thing that's like "star wars is my identity, so i have to defend what i believe to be the correct version of star wars". or, "marvel is my identity, and i can't stand dc people". or vice versa, "dc is my identity. i love zack snyder movies. these marvel movies are trash. put them on the curb". the adaptation of culture around this tribal behavior, imo, has made it very difficult to actually make culture that's resonant while also not allowing itself to give in to that competitive nature.

if you were to consider the release pattern and the mentality around the snyder cut, it becomes difficult to disentangle it from this. there was an underdog perception around it, despite the fact that these are fans of one of the two biggest comic book universes in the world. "i have been wronged. i have ought to be compensated for this in the form of a film made to my specifications."

there are elements of it that, ugh, good isn't the word... i guess allowed us to understand a deeper reason why some things resonate with us and others don't. with sitcoms and relating to a specific character, rather than the entire ensemble cast, is sometimes how people get clued in on a specific show. that was the case with friends and cheers. having on-ramps into pop culture for different people isn't the worst thing in the world. and understanding that people do take this seriously enough that they can articulate an element of their identity through it is not bad.

that being said, these are publicly traded corporations that have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to maximize value. as a result, sometimes we're gonna get things that play off this instinct in a way that are unhealthy for pop culture and culture as a whole.

so, impressive as the development process was was, they were cracking something open there in the desert that cannot be put back.

[fictionadventurer]

So many types of books that have strong summertime associations that I spend all my time cycling through cravings for certain genres or books.

Within the last month, I have wanted to read/reread:

Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery

The Electrical Menagerie by Mollie E. Reeder

Valiant by Sarah McGuire

Retellings in general (especially Cinderella retellings)

Golden Age mysteries, especially Josephine Tey and Agatha Christie

The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart

Books set in locations that are not America or England, especially warm climates

Books set in wintery/cold weather settings

Science fiction/space opera

Superhero stories

Civil War history/Presidential history

D.E. Stevenson books (and other mid-tier vintage light fiction)

Wilkie Collins books

Graphic novels

And I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting

[brainrot-mx]

Bro... the Dragon Half-Blood... *SPOILERS FOR NOVEL*

MY BABYYYYY, MY BABYYYYYY. YOU'RE MY BABY <333

WHEN HE LOOKS AT CALE AND DECIDES HE WANTS RED HAIR LIKE CALES INSTEAD OF HIS 'FATHERS' WHITE STARS RED HAIR 😭😭😭

WHEN HE WORKS AND LIVES LIKE A NORMAL PERSON FOR SIX MONTHS EVEN THO HE'S IN IMMENSE PAIN AND DYING

WHEN HE SEES A NEW SIDE TO LIFE AFTER CALE RESCUED (Well more like captured him, but Cale didn't act icy cold and he didn't torture DHB because he realised he was a victim to WS, even if he wasn't welcoming because DHB is still someone dangerous)

WHEN HE ENJOYS MUNDANE TASKS BECAUSE HE'S NEVER DONE THEM BEFORE

WHEN HE'S THANKFUL TO CALE DESPITE EVERYTHING AND HE UNDERSTANDS WHY THE WHITE DRAGON AND THE BLACK DRAGON (raon and his mom) ARE WARY OF HIM

WHEN HE- WHEN WHEN... WHEN HE IS- HE JUST- WHEN HE. HE JUST- HE- WHEN.. WHEN HE- WHEN, WHEN- WHEN HE IS. WHEN HE. HIM. HE.