#gonna fix the tags later

[curry-and-gunpowder]

This blog's been around for a year now, time sure flies!

Anyway, once again, Happy Birthday Odasaku, the guy that you are ❤️❤️❤️

Happy birthday to the most guy ever!

No better time to get this blog going I guess. I'm J, and I love Odasaku, nice to meet you.

[rwrbmovie]

[heartorbit]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NENE 🐠💚

[asexualbookbird]

25 in 2025

Sigh. I've been bullied. I guess. I did a big swing and a miss on last years list, but I have a Plan this time. A Theme. A Goal. This will be mostly comprised of my Illumicrate books so I can decide if it is in fact worth it to keep my subscription going until the Alecto edition gets announced. If I don't actually enjoy the majority of the books in these boxes then what's the point, yknow?

So here's this years color key:

Green - Carry over from last year (not carrying over every missed book, which probably means I should just get rid of them huh)

Purple - Illumicrate books

Blue - I own these in physical form, but they're not from Illumicrate

Labyrinth's Heart by MA Carrick

The Faithless by CL Clark

The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

City of Bones by Martha Wells

Witch King by Martha Wells

After the Forest by Kell Woods

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

The Phoenix Keeper by SA Maclean

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

Mistress of Lies by KM Enright

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart

The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by James Alan Gardner

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

In the Ravenous Dark by AM Strickland

A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab

PHEW. Okay. A fw things to note. A Dark and Drowning Tide is an Illumicrate book, but I didn't pay for it. A friend gave it to me after I skipped that month because she wasn't interested. I always look up book spoilers and skip if I'm not interested and if I'm uninterested in any of the stuff I'll skip even if the book seems neat. That month the box was full of fandoms I didn't care about, so my friends said "here, take my copy" and I said "yay! Free book!"

The Last Hour Between Worlds I think was also an Illumicrate book? They do fanart for it so I assume it was at some point. I did not get it. This is not the IC edition. I was not thrilled about The Tethered Mage so I was going to get this out of the library. Then my mom bought it for me for the holidays. So yay! Free book!

I think I would also like to keep track of books I purchase this year. I'd like to cut down on buying books that I won't love. So I'd like to utilise my library more. Win win, I think! And that seems easier than a full out ban since yeah sometimes I do enjoy little treats! Books purchased for other people do not count, obviously.

There are also some books I'd like to reread this year, mainly The Bone Maker because I've been saying that since I read it the first time. And honestly, I've been chasing the same vibes and haven't been able to match it (Godkiller got close!).

As usual, I reserve the right to pretend this post doesn't exist, but I think I've set myself up for success here :)

I don't know who hasn't done this by now @logarithmicpanda ? Have you?? Consider yourself tagged >:3c

oh right I was bullied tagged by @bigcats-birds-and-books

[maudiemoods]

Does Viesh like video games?

Yeah but they're not very good 💔

Thought id include this little doodle because he's a pain to draw sometimes

[skgtp-vn]

Happy 1 Year Anniversary!!!!

Technically still July 1st somewhere in the world, right?

[pineappical]

🌭!!

[evienyx]

My next post will be the next Fractures update.

I’ve finally finished the first chapter of Book 2, which took so long because I did in depth chapter outlines for all of Book 2 first, which should make future updates quicker. I hope.

I WOULD have published it by now, but unfortunately I couldn’t finish the tagging of the new work and putting all the links in before I had to go to work. Woe is me.

Anyway, give it a few hours. Look out for those two new chapters tonight (or today depending on your time zone).

Typing of mobile makes it hard for me to express how exciting this is. I’m very excited. Thrilled. I swear.

[predoom]

xxx

[daycordatthreepm]

I love Mizu5 and it emotionally devastated me but can we PLEASE talk about Mizuki’s dress

it’s so well made and AUGH it hurts. the way it looks like it’s been ripped, making her vulnerable and showing something so raw but so vibrant underneath. and the rip doesn’t look intentional; obviously, it looks like someone was grabbing at her to either make them stay or to try and expose her for “what she really is”. it could also be said that it looks unfinished, just like she never got to finish telling Ena about her secret.

I think it’s a bit of both, personally. especially paired with how the rest of the cards look and how they all have something of Mizuki’s. Ena has a bright pink ribbon for Mizuki (and the card looks like Mizuki’s trained Uncompromising Obsession card, and with the way that Ena is looking at the puddle and touching it longingly? I’m going to explode), KAITO has a ribbon from Mizuki’s dress, same as Mafuyu, but Mafuyu’s is a pale pink and she has a rose in her umbrella that she’s looking at with a sort of detached sadness (note how Ena and KAITO have rose petals too, there’s something there that I don’t have the mental energy to work out). Kanade has a bow that (and and from what I can see on twt, other people think this too) like the one on Mizuki’s Feelings That I've Come to Realize dress.

Back to Mizuki’s card though— there’s so much detail in it that makes me go a little insane. Like the broken mirror in the back. Excuse my dramatics, but it breaks my heart to see that her mirror is broken like that. Don’t have too much more to say on that besides YEEEOUCH

Going back to the connection between this card and the Feelings That I've Come to Realize card, I’m pretty sure it’s the same room? It looks like that to me, but I don’t know if I’m just fully loosing it at this point gonna be honest. Again; don’t have too much more to say on that other than I think it’s neat. maybe I’m just reading into things too much, but I’ll still put both side by side to show what I’m talking about because I swear this means something that I don’t have enough braincells at the moment to put into words

Unrelated to the cards: I also love how Mizuki feels set apart from everyone, even in the song, they don’t sound like they fit with the rest of the group, and it’s so heart breaking especially with how she’s not going to be in the real world in the game until this gets resolved [probably] (hopefully in ena5 or I’m gonna lose it /hj)

and another thing —I think colorpale really did a good job of portraying the absolutely paralyzing fear of coming out and the horror of being outed, and the ena’s and Mizuki’s VAs performance was SO GOOD, especially at the last chapter. there’s a reason why Mizuki’s va said she was crying

anyways sorry for the incoherent ramble I stayed up all night for this after a long and frustrating week at work, but the TLDR is that this event was so good and all of the detail is amazing AND this is definitely one of my favorite events ever

[ask-vinsmoke-sanji]

@ask-blackpants-sanji werewolf meets vampire

read <- taht way

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[kerosnes]

hi

so there’s a fire like really really near my place lol (you prolly dont care lol)

i might die /gen :3

[dawdlecentric]

Yeag...

[mc-tummy-blur]

Didn't expect the year of our Lord 2025 to get into Alan Rickman, but I guess that's how it goes sometimes

The year of getting into an actor that so far I have only seen portray maladjusted men

[sevicia]

Mary sketch be upon ye btw