#favourite passages

[wintrowes]

this passage in assassin’s apprentice is always on my mind

[anetherealpoetess]

it's vital for my mental health that the show introduces celebrían and we get to see this man fall in love with his wife

[pokimoko]

Hello!! I came across a couple of your animals with pride flags series (idk what you're actually calling it lol) and I wanted to request an intersex blue-ringed octopus (I'm not intersex myself tho lol, just thought it might look neat)

Oooh, this was a fun one! Thank you for the request! 🐙

[knightforflowers]

is it being the Halloween month a good enough excuse to post abt my Ethersea Bloodborne au

in which the Coriolis Crew are amateur beast hunters subjected to the abominable victorian eldritch horror torment nexus that is the plot of Fromsoftware’s Bloodborne 2015 👍

[scaridea]

when they see the circle or something. idk i dont main bedman

[verecunda]

In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and in the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.

— The Silmarillion, "Valaquenta"

[soracities]

"You were welding something. You wore a leather apron and apart from that a pair of shorts. In front of your face was a dark metal shield.

When you emerged from behind it, you were wearing a black patch over your right eye, and your face was screwed up as if in pain.

Is your eye hurt? I asked.

It’s inflamed, you replied, and I had to go to the hospital. It happens with this—and you held up the welder.

You were wearing heavy leather boots without socks and with their laces undone.

Where are you from? you asked me.

I told you and explained how a guy in the petrol station, seeing I was taking this road that nobody takes, had asked me to deliver the battery.

You looked me up and down and murmured, thank you.

How long do you have to keep the patch on your eye? I asked.

Until I find gold! you said.

Then, smiling, you slowly strode towards me and took it off."

John Berger, From A to X: A Story in Letters

[barnabybugspeopleonline]

part of me will remember, part of me won't know. part of a hidden agenda, left hand knows what the right one don't.

[meetingpoints]

[raptorrobot]

some things that happen in violent sun are really funny if taken at face value. like the intro to chapter 9 is just hell telling icarus to kill himself

[pumpkinmetaphor]

17, 18, 29!

POWER'S BACK YIPPEE

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

I actually find Hikaru really fun to write, but I do love writing Kaoru. There's so many layers to both of them, so many contradictions and hypocrisies. Also, I enjoy just writing them being dismissively terrible spoilt brats. 18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year

I actually find Kyoya difficult to write tbh. Okay, Cupid! in general is a bit of a challenge. But I have MOST trouble writing other Ootoris, such as Yoshio and sometimes Yuuichi. We know virtually nothing about Yuuichi, he's practically a blank slate, and Yoshio is just...well he's a difficult kettle of fish. 29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

(from all dogs go to heaven (and other lies about love) )

If I were to choose one from Okay, Cupid! however, it would be much tougher because I've written 80k this year (!!!). But if I had to choose, I wrote the entire fic for this fallout scene so it would be this part of it:

(ch 9)

[gaylittlerichie]

Decided i need a pet sematary tattoo so incredibly bad. To go with my blown out sun destroyed neibolt house tattoo

[jjsanguine]

Pisaeng: I can't help thinking that if you dated some girl and not me you wouldn't have to worry or feel guilty.

Kawi: possibly? But it doesn't matter because you're the one I want. I don't want to lose you anymore.

Later probably:

[xserpx]

The way his thoughts get stuck on Jurand. During his own wedding.

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Hello hello! Somehow it’s mid-january already, 2023 has flown by at Mach 10 speed, and better late than never, here's my favourite films of 2023 (meaning that left the most lasting impression on me). This is still going to probably change in the next few days, but here’s my fluid Top 20 at the moment. Disclaimer: I have included films that were released late 2022 (particularly in France) that I watched in 2023. 1. ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE (dir. Justine Triet) 2. JE VERRAI TOUJOURS VOS VISAGES (dir. Jeanne Herry) 3. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (dir. Martin Scorsese) 4. SHE SAID (dir. Maria Schrader) 5. THE HOLDOVERS (dir. Alexander Payne) 6. CORSAGE (dir. Marie Kreutzer) 7. PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song) 8. SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN (dir. Monia Chokri) 9. LE RÈGNE ANIMAL (dir. Thomas Cailley) 10. OPPENHEIMER (dir. Christopher Nolan) 11. A THOUSAND AND ONE (dir. A.V. Rockwell) 12. ANNIE COLÈRE (dir. Blandine Lenoir) 13. THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY (dir. Morrisa Maltz) 14. SISI & ICH (dir. Frauke Finsterwalder) 15. REALITY (dir. Tina Satter) 16. SALTBURN (dir. Emerald Fennell) 17. MAY DECEMBER (dir. Todd Haynes) 18. PASSAGES (dir. Ira Sachs) 19. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) 20. BARBIE (dir. Greta Gerwig)

I’m also proud to have completed the 52 Films Directed by Women Challenge! Here's the list in case you're looking for something interesting to watch: 52 Films by Women | 2023 challenge I’m hoping for a gentle 2024 for everyone, we all need it. Big love 💗

[jetwhenitsmidnight]

FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2024

Top 15 (in order of reading)

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

He Who Drowned the World

The West Passage

A Darker Shade of Magic

Piranesi

Compound Fracture

Babel

This Fatal Kiss

The Black Hunger

Model Home

The Atlas Six

Sorcery and Small Magics

Extremophile

Record of a Spaceborn Few

The Maid and the Crocodile

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

YA FANTASY

Sheine Lende

Dark Heir

The Worst Perfect Moment

Redemptor

Gwen & Art are Not in Love

The Legend of the White Snake

ADULT FANTASY

A Power Unbound

Saint Death's Daughter

The Sins on Their Bones

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Saint of Bright Doors

The City in Glass

YA CONTEMPORARY/ROMANCE

Skater Boy

Twelfth Knight

I Wish You All the Best

Felix Ever After

Fake Dates and Mooncakes

SCIENCE FICTION

Network Effect

A Closed and Common Orbit

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

Key Lime Sky

HORROR

Take All of Us

Summer Sons

The Eyes are the Best Part

These Fleeting Shadows

NOVELLAS

The Black God's Drums

Thornhedge

Time's Agent

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Prince and the Dressmaker

Superman Smashes the Klan

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

The Tea Dragon Society + The Tea Dragon Festival