#fuck i love this book
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I mentioned this before however I can’t find the original post, but one of my favorite books as a kid that I read over and over again and it didn’t click until recently why I was so attached to it was
Katy No-Pocket
It’s about a mother kangaroo who doesn’t have a pouch, which means she can’t carry around her kid in it, so she goes around and asks other mothers how they get around with their kids, but none of their ways work for her, eventually she finds this construction dude and tells him her plight so he gives her his apron with many pockets to mimic a pouch for her kid, and not only can she carry around her kid, but now she’s able to help the other moms by carrying their kids for them too !!
It’s most likely not meant to be taken how I’ve taken it but holy shit is this little story dear to me
#Katy no-pocket#children’s book#my gender crisis/genderfluid ass reading this book as a kid: 🥺🥺🥺#the relief I felt every time I read this and she was able to carry her kid in a ‘pouch’ like other kangaroo moms#fuck I love this book#I’m crying#the way the guy so kindly and *immediately* gave her his apron and gently tied it onto her to help her#crying
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From my upcoming young adult fantasy novel Weirdo.
#dispatches#original content? on this blog?#this is a writing blog so i should post my writing#weirdo mention#kiri's writing process#queer love#ya queer romance#fuck i love this book
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this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.
good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.
sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.
so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.
one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.
#warm up#writeblr#actually this is because again i don't go here#i don't read/write fanfic but i have nothing but respect for my troops#but i also have never played minecraft. im sorry. please ask me any question about pokemon tho i love that shit#anyway#out of some banal and thoughtless curiosity i watched the minecraft movie trailer#and again i know nothing about minecraft. i am aware im in an endangered population#but im watching this going: this is so fucking.... BAD#there is NO LOVE in it!#like if someone who has NO history in minecraft watches that and is like - ohhh this is soulless#WHO IS THE AUDIENCE????#ppl who love minecraft are gonna hate it!!!#at some point it's the ''mean girls musical movie'' problem --#some people will always hate the premise of what you're doing and some people will love it#make it for the ppl who love it#and usually that somewhat convinces the haters to like. chill enough to TRY it . bc it IS good#but when you try to make it for the haters..... nobody likes it. it doesn't have passion. energy. footwork#which is a small way of saying a big thing: if you love something. fucking make it and assume someone will love it too.#i love u . be brave . be bold. be in boston and come to my reading#where i wrote a really weird fucked up little book.#love u love u love u etc
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"just as I did, in 1983."
you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable
#my art#interview with the vampire#iwtv amc#iwtv#armand iwtv#daniel molloy#armand#armandaniel#devils minion#drew this before the finale but idk maybe this is during the unspecified amount of time between armands divorce and daniels press tour#the titian painting doesnt fit at ALL with the timeline btw#i THOUGHT it did bc i assumed 1508 was when armand was turned into a vampire BUT upon reflection thats more likely the year he was born#and even then the painting was made in like 1510 so fuck me i guess. also im foggy on when armand was taken to rome#idk man i havent read the books and i failed art history on two separate occasions i cannot endeavor for accuracy#anyway as much as i love 70s/80s devils minion i have equal love for old man daniel#his cynicism has been tempered by time... refined like a diamond... he dont gaf and bullies his loser vampire and its hilarious#like ''sure yeah fine all these old italian renaissance guys saw ur ethereal otherworldly beauty but literally anybody can see that''#''IM the only mf who gets to experience the incandescent joy of seeing you be a messy idiot''#sidenote trying to make armand look unflattering is impossible u can blame the show for casting the worlds most beautiful man
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mama a Body behind you 😰 // pt1/pt2/pt3
#NO I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED NONA PLEASE DON'T LOOK AT ME#the next book still doesn't have a release date and i don't wanna be left in lingo#and also i love nona and don't want anything bad to happen to her and i have a feeling. bad thing are gonna happen to her :')#also can you fucking believe it's december now. jesus christ#anway. tags now#tlt#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#gideon nav#harrow nonagesimus#harrowhark nonagesimus#griddlehark#ianthe tridentarius#palamedes sextus#camilla hect#nona#harrianthe#kay byeee!
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Them
#gravity falls#tbob#billford#gay#stanford pines#bill cipher#the book of bill#tumbr fyp#funny#sketch#meme#i fucking hate them#litte billy#i really love clip studios chalk brush#clip studio#cute
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the maximum ride books are so fucking insane. james patterson wrote down literally whatever he wanted about a group of weird bird kids, threw in some wild plot about eugenics or global warming or nuclear winter or whatever, did not edit or proofread the manuscript, and then sent it to his publisher. he did this nine times. not once did anything in them make sense. and the books had a CHOKEHOLD on middle schoolers everywhere
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A Lifetime Served in a Little Cup
pt.1 / pt.2 / pt.3 / pt.4
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bill, babygirl, the red flags get outta there
#gravity falls#billford#the book of bill#standford pines#bill cipher#stump art#comic#A Lifetime Served in a Little Cup comic#AND WE'RE DONE !!!!#a month of my life condensed into a frantic gay mania#i'll wanna do a post-mortem at some point because that'll be FUN#but yeah i really love this stupid comic#was just a random concept i decided to commit to . thought this would take a weekend but lol#anyways to the folks who been reading i hope you enjoyed !!!!#they're gay !!! they're going to mutually self destruct !!!!!#they're going to accidentally both buy into the same timeshare in florida and then be forced to share !!!#romantic comedy of the fucking century !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#GOOD for THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!
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God importance of food in HUNGER Games is such amazing aspect of the books and shows the mentality of both Katniss AND Snow.
Coriolanus learns that food is power. He sees Nero Prize cutting off maid's leg to eat it. He sees what tributes will do for food. He knows what Lucy Gray did for food. He knows what he would do for food.
In his eyes food is a luxury and ultimate means of manipulation. That's why there is a tessare system, that's why there are monthly packages for the winning districts, that's why Games are a yearly public spectacle in the Capitol. He keeps districts hungry for food and Capitol hungry for entertainment.
Katniss learns that food is love. It starts with Peeta throwing her the burned loaf of bread. Then goes further into her love for Prim, which is the main cause of her hunting. Then with Gale as her hunting partner. Then with Madge who is her best friend and loves strawberries. Then with Mr. Mellark who loves squirrels. Then with Rue and bread from District 11. Then with Peeta again, with the berries.
Katniss doesn't use the power of food over people. She shares it. That's how she builds connections, forms friendships, wins over people's hearts, starts and wins revolutions.
For Snow food it a tool with which you can sew starvation and chaos.
For Katniss food is a tool with which you can form bonds and find peace.
#the hunger games#am i delulu?#probably#but god food is such important aspect of the books I can't#Also line about Lucy Gray is implied not stated out right but I still believe it#summary: fuck Snow we love Katniss#hunger games#thg#the hunger games katniss#katniss everdeen#thg katniss#coriolanus snow#president snow#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosas
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Realizing Astrid is a scorpio in my reading of White Oleander sure is making me feel something.
#fuck I love this book#it wasnt obvious from the movie is all#white oleander#previously on claires life
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when you’re watching fellowship of the ring with your friends it is 100% vital to point to the screen when the balrog shows up and say “in the books this is when legolas starts screaming”
#i love you book legolas#AI!!!! AI!!!! A BALROG HAS COME!!!!!!! AAHHHHHH!!!!!!!#gandalf: can you chill. you’re scaring the kiddies (hobbits)#legolas: AAAHHHHH A BALROG!!!!! A FUCKING BALROG AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#lotr#lord of the rings#the fellowship of the ring#legolas#legolas greenleaf#tolkien#coveredinsunposting
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Yes Ford is a monster fucker and yes Bill is even more of a monster fucker but just how much more is like, hard to process.
Bill is fucking with a creature which, from his perspective, has:
Infinite sides (euclidians are basic geometry)
Infinite sides that branch off into smaller extremities (do you think he realized at first the difference between a neck and a finger)
Is made out of several unique compounds (like what's the difference between flesh and bone and spit to him)
And he convinced that thing to do exactly what he wanted for the better part of it's natural life span. At one point had that thing hanging on his every word. Like I kinda get the hubris. If I successfully convinced an existential horror like that to do my bidding you couldn't talk me down from that high. And he says he likes me. Maybe like-likes me. I kinda get it.
You can argue that Bill likely came into contact with much stranger shit than humans during the entire period between meeting Ford and destroying his own home world, and you'd be right. But also I think while manipulating/romancing horrible space creatures might not be a completely new experience I also don't see how you could get bored of it.
#the book of bill#gravity falls#billford#i love how fucked up bill is he's such a terrible person#gonna draw fanart where i give him the bojack horseman treatment#no closure for you dickhead
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Ford essentially: "Aw damn looks like you've got me such a shame lemme just-
"SIKE GET FUCKED."
#oli talks#ooc#muns ramblings#mindless ramblings of a madman#shitpost#gravity falls shitpost#kinda#gravity falls#gf#gravity falls book#gf book#gravity falls spoilers#gravity falls lost legends#gf lost legends#gravity falls stan pines#gravity falls stanley#gravity falls stanford#gravity falls ford pines#gf stanford#gf stanley#gf ford pines#gf stan pines#stanford pines#stanley pines#stan twins#pines twins#original mystery twins#I LOVE IT WHEN FORD STICKS UP FOR HIS TWIN IT'S SO FUCKING CUTE
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do skully have pokemon?
Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.
(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)
#art#twisted wonderland#pokemon#poketwst#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#(sorry for leaving anon off for a while! i've gotten a rash of spam and i'm gonna wait it out a couple days before turning it back on)#also apologies for the rest of this not really being pokemon related#i don't have anything right now for part 4 of the event so i'm gonna use this space to go off about it#because. oh man.#a sad lack of the scullsman but a FEAST of everyone else#gotta love malleus and leona uniting in the common goal of hunting trey down for trying to game their whiny pettiness#(trey doesn't know what to do with someone he can't easily distract with cake)#also further confirmation that malleus WILL kill a small child and leona WILL point and laugh the whole time#also sebek's plans revolving around what he knows he's good at: screaming extremely loudly and hoisting nerds#and let us not forget what i consider to be the crowning jewel#which is jamil figuring out IMMEDIATELY where scully has taken his prisoners#only for everyone else to just. literally refuse to do anything about it.#jamil just standing there and going 'WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE! WE CAN JUST! GO GET THEM!!!! WHYYY AREN'T WE GOING'#visibly losing his entire mind and it's beautiful#top 10 twst event moments honestly#also some delightful character consistency from jade being all#'actually my dicking around is a sign of my immense trust in your abilities to get things done :)'#'but also consider: there are currently two housewardens chasing a child'#'alternately angrily screaming poetry and begging them not to sue'#'and if you will pardon my city of flowers...there is no fucking way i'm missing that'#lock shock and barrel did not sign up for this. how did these idiots turn out to be somehow weirder than the three of them.#twisted wonderland must be a frightening place indeed
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THE LOVE TRIANGLE
ford, fidds, and bill are living in a late 70s/early 80s sci fi psychological horror film that was buried upon release due to its explicit gay themes but quickly became an underground cult hit
numerous associations would decry its depiction of homoeroticism between its principal characters, but nobody could deny the surrealist film had its merit. “it’s like someone concocted an unholy combination between the shining and space odyssey and then died of the instantaneous nuclear fallout. why would anyone make this? are they stupid?” one reviewer said.
more alternates + sketch under the cut
#gravity falls#the book of bill#tbob#ford pines#stanford pines#journal 3#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#fiddleford mcgucket#young fiddleford#bill cipher#fiddauthor#billford#billfiddlesford#bill x ford#billfiddauthor#the love triangle#love triangle#ford x fiddleford#eyestrain#my art#the shipping is implied but i still think it counts#love triangle is SUCH a better name than billfiddlesford i fucking hate that name#i’m not even a billfiddauthor truther i’m sorry i mean technically yes but it’s like#i see the three’s dynamic as it is in canon just as explicitly queer#so like. bill is manipulating ford with flattery and driving a wedge between him and his only friend. fiddleford doesn’t know bill exists#i love the art with bill and fidds interacting but like#fiddleford being in the dark the entire time fucks me up man
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you think dipper and mabel have experience deescalating fights because of their parents
#let me cook#in the book of bill he says dipper has nightmares abt the last fight he overheard with his mom and dad#before they sent them out to gravity falls for the summer#the way mabel runs to them first really makes me think shes doing all that emotional labor at home#i love them these sorry sons of bitches#gravity falls#stanford pines#stanly pines#the pines twins#and their fucked up family#mabel pines#dipper pines
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