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[colinfirth]

I used to be just like you. Someone else’s shoes on my feet, shivering myself to sleep at night, nobody in the world to care about me. So the only question is: what are you willing to do to change it? THE SERPENT QUEEN (2022) — S01

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[constantly0lost]

I slept for like, twenty minutes, we're back in business baybee.

Anyways imagine cuddling up to kittyboy Sebastian at night. Your arms wrapped around his torso, and him snuggled up to you, his face in your neck as he enjoys your smell, something so uniquely you that he cant help but enjoy it.

Maybe it's raining outside, just a light drizzle to tap against the roof as you scratch at your husband's scalp, and he's purring so softly but so hard that your entire arm vibrates from his silent happiness.

He nuzzles deeper into you, looking up at you with starstruck eyes, and tilts his head up to kiss you, being sweet to try and coerce you into more head scratches. His tail sways lazily behind him as he enjoys your moment together.

He purrs again, though slightly more audible as you scratch him again, nuzzling back into you and fully content to turn into a stain on the blanket if it meant dying right here, happy and in your arms.

[spruzu]

HOLY- CHAT TEAM DARK TEAM DARK ITS THEMMM

THATS MY NEW WALLPAPER OMFGDFGKHDFGKLJDHFJKLGDKFGDKFH

[funeralcity]

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Opening 2: Hiroko Moriguchi - Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete

[icearts]

Crazy idea that'll probably never happen but what if Sega allows Team Dark to be friends

[wiltenjoyer]

🕶️

[stormbreaker-290]

Mmmb

Preeesimbssss :]]]]

I also got a comfy pair of boots and a buncha treats too >:3ccc

@eternal-soup

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

gege akutami created such a well thought out, well written, tragic, and multi dimensional character in satoru gojo and his response to said character is "i fuckin' hate this guy"

[oorangesoda]

Callum and Alex didn’t really start off on the best foot… but to be fair they never ended up really on the right one :/

I like to think Alex isn’t homophobic or transphobic intentionally, I think he’s just really dumb and unintentionally ignorant. If you lived with your grandparents for the majority of your life and your grandpa was George you’d also be a little… dull

Eventually he comes around and isn’t put off by the fact Cal is trans, but it definitely takes some time and LOTS of explaining :)

Uncropped comic below ;)

[randomyuu]

A crossover :) (read right to left)

Would you look at that?

A gen fic fanart! :DDDD

This is a Jujutsu Kaisen x Mob Psycho 100 one-shot, density of a white nebula by heihua.

The moment I stumbled upon this fic, all I can think of is just “oh my god Y E S” and I can just imagine how the scene plays out. Hhhhhh sometimes my imagination can be a bit too demanding, but I hope you, who read this, enjoy it!

Alright, below are my thoughts. As usual:

This fan comic was actually planned months ago, right after I read it. But uh… you know. Real life stuff. It happens. So it kept being postponed, and the rough sketch on my sketchbook kept pleading for me to just start. And also it’s been a while since I do anything JJK or even MP100 related (MP100 has season THREE???), so I need more time familiarising myself with these two (actually I just watched MP100 S1-2 and took screenshots along the way lol).

One thing I learned from making this comic would be… to just take it easy. I started to not really care whether the line is connected to each other (which I usually do because it’s easier to bucket paint it), and hey, I really need to just let loose! As long as the overall impression of the image can be seen, that’s all that matters!

Drawing this comic helps me a lot with the previous GoYuu fancomic I made, "i keep the warmest truth" (you don't have to read if it's not to your taste). Yes, I make this at the same time as that comic. It was torture and fun at the same time haha.

Oh, another thing would be the crowd on page 4. At first, it was too much of a hassle so I was planning to just trace a crowd image I found. But in the end, I was like—it doesn’t need to be that detailed. Eventually I will need to learn to draw crowds, perspective, and stuff. So… yeah, I made it from scratch. It was unexpectedly quite fun, although I’m not that satisfied with the colouring. Oh well.

Overall, I finished this comic on a positive note. It was really fun, especially drawing Mob’s… uh… 100% state? On page 3? I’m not sure what that state is called, but I love playing around with the colour!

So yeah, if this crossover is your cup of tea, go give it a read! :D

[aguillar]

ɑׁׅ֮ꫀׁׅܻtׁׅhׁׅ֮ꫀׁׅܻꭈׁׅ

[ ee-ther ] the ancient Greek personification of the clear upper air of the sky.

STATS

𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: adaga 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: 28cm 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥: ferro estígio, com relevo em bronze celestial 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: pedras turquesas no cabo, fitas de couro para a prender ao cinto 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦: quando não está em uso, se converte em uma pulseira de couro com contas de turquesa

𝐈. Inicialmente ponderou escolher uma arma de alto alcance como um arco e flecha ou uma besta mas, se fosse realista, conhecia a si mesmo o suficiente para saber que partiria para cima do inimigo no impulso tão logo a oportunidade se apresentasse, o que tornava mais lógico escolher algo útil no combate a curta distância.

𝐈𝐈. Por muito que soubesse dos benefícios do ferro estígio comparado aos dois outros metais, escolhia sempre dizer que o motivo para sua preferência era puramente superficial: a cor escura combinava com a espada que tinha como arma principal, e com a estética que gostava de projetar. Quando levantou esta bandeira na forja, recebeu um resmungo em uníssono de todos os apreciadores do metal ali presentes.

𝐈𝐈𝐈. Se fosse sincero, havia um motivo especial para escolher o ferro estígio naquele momento mais do que nunca: entre traições de campistas e desconfianças, era bom ter uma arma capaz de o defender não só das criaturas do submundo, mas de pessoas.

𝐈𝐕. Na hora de reforçar seu arsenal pessoal, seu pedido foi simples: queria a adaga mais leve que fossem capazes de produzir, algo que pudesse arremessar com facilidade e que reaparecesse em sua posse caso a perdesse em batalha.

𝐕. Trata todas as suas armas como animais de estimação, e com a adaga não foi diferente. A primeira coisa que fez foi a nomear: a chamou de Aether por ser leve como o ar, em especial quando manuseada com o auxílio de sua herança divina. A palavra tem certo simbolismo para ele, que tem a própria habilidade da manipulação do ar como fraca se comparada aos poderes do pai: com aquela decisão, foi como se escolhesse por fim usar o dom que dominava não como um sinal de suas limitações, mas como medalha de honra.

𝐕𝐈. O design da arma é uma obra de arte por si só, em muito diferente da sua preferência habitual. Apesar da cor escura, a lâmina ornamentada capta a luz com reflexos alaranjados graças aos detalhes em bronze, os padrões esculpidos reproduzindo as curvas e espirais do vento ao se mover. O seu processo criativo foi um só, permeado pela visão quase niilista do Universo que lhe era característica: se ia morrer, queria pelo menos o fazer em estilo.

𝐕𝐈𝐈. Sua especialidade no combate é a espada, mas a adaga se torna especialmente útil quando lutando com vários inimigos ao mesmo tempo, tornando possível que um golpe bloqueado com a lâmina maior se transforme em um ataque surpresa com a adaga com a mão livre graças ao fato de ser ambidestro.

𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈. Tem planos claros para como imbuir a lâmina com magia uma vez passado o caos do fechamento da fenda, mas não achou oportuno perturbar os ferreiros ocupados em meio à guerra iminente. Por hora, se dá por satisfeito em ter mais uma maneira de fatiar os monstros em pedaços bem pequenininhos.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: October Wrap-Up.

Gr8 news: I am no longer very far behind on my NaNo prep reading!! I had to drop JUST LIKE HOME (reread) and HOUSE OF LEAVES, but I got through the rest of my Haunted House and/or Aliens and/or Parasite/Fungus TBR. Here they all are!

Photos and/or reviews linked:

SHRIEK - ★★★★ I think SHRIEK Is my favorite volume of the Ambergris trilogy, taken as a whole--the one-way conversation Duncan was having with Janice was a really neat narrative choice, and then the reveal in the Afterword's Afterword was, in true VanderMeer fashion, mind-blowing.

FINCH - ★★★★ I was actually surprised by how much I liked this one. It helped me figure out a LOT about what kinds of power dynamics I enjoy in borderline-dystopian fiction, and what intrigues me most about limited agency. It wrapped the story up almost too neatly, for a VanderMeer, but I did still have a good time and blitzed through it quickly. Given this one and SHRIEK, I'm counting the Whole Series as a Four-Star read--I'd like to reread it someday, now that I know what's going on.

LEECH - ★★★★★ (reread) STILL ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVES, OFFICIALLY!! It's very gothic and heavy and fucked up, but it does FASCINATING things with POV, and worldbuilding, and storytelling frameworks. PLEASE check the content warnings, but if none of those are hard no's for you, definitely pick this one up. I suspect anyone for whom Animorphs was a Formative Influence will adore this (but so far my sample size is really only 1)--please prove me right.

A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES - ★★★½ This was fun! Not my favorite Kingfisher (that award still goes to HOLLOW PLACES), but I had a good time--I laughed, I squealed over vultures, I blasted through pages to get to the end.

STARLING HOUSE - ★★★★ Alix E. Harrow always manages to write exactly my catnip, somehow. Maybe it's the ADHD, but I'm constantly finding connections to my own writing projects in her work, and STARLING HOUSE was no exception! I liked that this one was more modern, and the sibling dynamic was precious, and I love weird sentient houses where space is more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule. I'll probably reread this one for Driscoll purposes!

WOODWORM - ★★★½ So much rage in such a tiny volume, and I was Absolutely Here For It. I don't tend to read much lit fic, but I do try to read a lot in translation, and I thought this one did very cool stuff with Spanish--the prose felt natural in English, but I loved the linguistic details the translators left in Spanish and how much depth that added. I feel like this one might be a good fit for Carmen Maria Machado fans, too.

HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE - ★★★ Call this a low 3, from me. It was Fine, I guess. I liked what he did with the act structure (labeling parts as stages of grief was very cool), and I liked the family dynamics and history, but a lot of the humor didn't land for me (I got a few sensible chuckles, but a bunch of it wasn't funny), and the "oh this author is A Man, huh" moments made me roll my eyes (seriously: Who thinks about their ~breasts~ when an angry taxidermied squirrel is clawing down your shirt?? No One With Breasts, Mr. Dude). This book did at least teach me that I'm not really interested in gore (it's just boring, unlike body horror, my beloved). I might still pick up HORRORSTOR, but I probably won't look into most of his other stuff, if this one is indicative of his general style. Meh.

THE ART OF EXCESS - No rating (didn't read the whole thing). At the end of ALWAYS COMING HOME, Richard Powers mentioned this book as the reason he finally committed to ALWAYS, so I was curious what this Tom Leclair dude had to say about it back in 1989. I had a heck of a time tracking down a copy (it's very out of print, and my local library had to source it from the Library of Congress for me), but I didn't want to buy it to read just the preface/intro/epilogue, because I haven't read any of the other texts he analyzes. Leclair's style was very readable, and I was intrigued by his framework, but I found some of his conclusions eye-rolly, given his sample size. I posted this one because I think Library of Congress books are fun, but I didn't add it to my Goodreads.

BLACK TIDE - ★★★½ This one had me rolling my eyes in the first couple chapters, and I was afraid I wasn't going to like it, but once Fucked Up Shit Started Happening, the momentum really picked up and didn't stop--I blitzed through it way past my bedtime on a school night. It was fucked up and weird and tense and bloody pull-no-punches horror, but it ALSO made me laugh, and I loved our two fuck-ups surviving the apocalypse together. NOTE: Dogs (and Gulls) Are Not Safe, and the cast is small enough that it matters a lot :( if you can't stomach animal harm/death, skip this.

A HALF-BUILT GARDEN - 81/338 pages read; will report back. Enjoying it so far! Glad I put it on my NaNo prep reading list, though not quite for the reasons I planned--the reflections on motherhood as well as parenting outside the binary have been interesting, so far (and that's relevant for my own haunted house endeavors!). A much gentler ride than BLACK TIDE, and the immersive tech reminds me of Murderbot's world, just Earthbound.

Overall! Fabulous month for reading! Anytime I think "wow I need A Break™ from writing or life," this is the type of reading I mean--where I can spend a couple weeks annihilating books within a day to Refill the Words Reservoir.

Under the Cut: A Note About ~*★Stars★*~

Historically, I have been Very Bad™ about assigning things Star Ratings, because it's so Vibes Heavy for me and therefore Contingent Upon my Whims. I am refining this as I figure out my wrap up posts (epiphany of last month: I don't like that stars are Odd, because that makes three the midpoint and things are rarely so truly mid for me)(I have hacked my way around this with a ½). Here is, generally, how I conceptualize stars:

★ - This was Bad. I would actively recommend that you do NOT read this one, no redeeming qualities whatsoever, not worth the slog. Save Yourself, It's Too Late For Me. Book goes in the garbage (donate bin).

★★ - This was Not Good. I would not recommend it, but it wasn't a total waste or wash--something in here held my interest/kept my attention/sparked some joy. I will not be rereading this ever. Save Yourself (Or Join Me In Suffering, That Seems Like A Cool Bonding Activity).

★★★ - This was Good/Fine/Okay/Meh. I don't care about this enough to recommend it one way or another. Perfectly serviceable book, held my interest, I probably enjoyed myself (or at least didn't actively loathe the reading). I don't have especially strong feelings. You probably don't need to save yourself from this one--if it sounds like your jam, give it a shot! Just didn't resonate with me particularly powerfully. I probably won't reread this unless I'm after something in particular.

★★★½ - I liked this! I'll probably recommend it if I know it matches someone's vibes or specific requests, but I didn't commit to a star rating on Goodreads. More likely to reread, but not guaranteed.

★★★★ - I really enjoyed this!! I would recommend it (sometimes with caveats about content warnings or such--I tend to like weird fucked up funny shit, and I don't have many hard readerly NO's). Not a perfect book for me by any means, but Very Good. This is something I would reread! Join me!!

★★★★★ - I LOVED THE SHIT OUT OF THIS, IT REWIRED MY BRAIN, WILL RECOMMEND TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE AT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION (content warning caveats still apply--see 4-star disclaimer). Excellent book, I'll reread it regularly, I'll buy copies for all my friends, I'll try to convince all of Booklr to read it, PLEASE join me!!

[raddest-laddest]

i had a very whimsical and magical night

[skinny-beanz]

The boys when Rouge isn’t around