#handling a book wrong

[starcraftt]

FUCK YOU NO YOU DIDN'T JST DO THAT TO A BOOK?? IM SORRY MY LOVE BUT NO???

[stochastiz]

seeing the concept art Tommy Arnold did for Murderbot has made me so disappointed in the SecUnit we see in the show. i already had feelings about it's organic appearance from the start of the season, but seeing what we could've had just makes me sad

look at these examples of ways they could've created mechanical joints and 'blended' them with nearby organic materials:

imagine how much cooler it'd be to see those overlapping plates of organic material whenever Murderbot isn't in it's armor! to get to see bits of the inorganic machinery it's built from when it isn't grievously injured!

but also, think about how much of a difference it would make to the audience if the construct the PresAux team was trying to personify and befriend looked more like this:

i get that it's much easier to produce a nearly-human form on film than to reapply prosthetics every day of shooting and render graphical edits for every frame, but i feel like minimizing the inhuman elements of SecUnit's form has diminished such an important part of the story of The Murderbot Diaries

Murderbot isn't human. it doesn't want to be human, nor does it want to be treated like a human by those around it. but i feel like some viewers could entirely miss that aspect of it's personality because it's so much easier to just see it as a guy

[shinyboomboom]

Lia Zhang

"I heard Lia's ragged whisper "He put them in a hole'"

[cowboy-robooty]

im not going to lie i have an illuminati type theory that fanfiction has gotten so fucking bad recently as yet another consequence of the pandemic

[spideyhexx]

screaming from the rooftops…

CORIOLANUS ISNT A PSYCHOPATH/SOCIOPATH

CORIOLANUS REALLY DID LOVE LUCY GRAY

[allagashed]

that one part in the book where patrick randomly eats several (?) handfuls of sand like it’s a normal thing that normal people do

[something-random18]

personally, i feel like one of the most tragic tropes is right person, wrong time. like WDYM they found their soulmate BUT THE STARS STILL DIDN'T ALIGN?!?! MY HEARTTT

runner up is definitely right person not enough time (CAUSE THEY DIED OR FATE PULLED SOME BULLSHIT ON THEM). makes me curl up in a ball and die

[needlesknick-knacks]

people vastly overexaggerate how hard it is to get into comics

[dewwshi]

small compilation of some lod character portraits i've done while reading

[saffitaffi]

So I just read all 914 pages of Fool’s Fate in one day. I don’t think I’ve ever read that much in one day ever. These books are so good holy snickerdoodles I love the politics and the amazing worldbuilding (robin writes matriarchies and different societal structures SO GOOD) and the realistic characters and Fitz’s unreliable narration and also the gay ass ‘friendship’ between him and the fool (fitz ‘no homo but also my bond with you is deeper than my love for anyone else including my other half bonded wolf and my wife and also sex’ farseer)

So uh. Yeah. Excuse me while I go cry in the corner. Again.

[r0ckiirose]

Someone please fire these current writers already. When we said we wanted darker, more mature themes, this is not what we fucking meant at all.

[i-will-change-this-someday]

Genuine question, does Victor actually ever compare himself to God?

Like, almost every single Victor hate post is like "this dumb idiot with a god complex is just a college dropout haha, if I made the Creature I would love and nurture it, not like loser McGodComplex over there."

But I looked it up, and the word "god" is in the book 26 times, and most of them are just exclamations.

The only time that Victor is likened to god (that is relevant, Walton does describe him as "God-like in his ruin" or something else really gay) is when the Creature claims he "should have been thy Adam, but is instead a fallen angel" or whatever he said.

So the one that sees Victor as a god is the Creature, and not Victor himself, which I think is very interesting. It's a kinda like how kids think their parents always have the answers or can fix anything.

I also wonder if the Creature thinks that Victor made him for some "divine purpose" or something. (Sorry if he already said something of the like in the book)

[taraxippos]

I don't want to read retellings of Greek mythology that are 'feminist' by virtue of the protagonists having weirdly contemporary perspectives on gender and misogyny or that tries to make men who fully participate in a culture of enslavement and rape in war Not Do That, I want the characters be fully of the historical culture that is being engaged with, with the 'feminist' component being from the narrative and a nuanced handling of an extremely misogynist society and finding the humanity in people who are very unlike the contemporary reader in terms of culture and context.

And yet 90% of it is like, the 'good' women being like "I think women are badass girlbosses and should vote and also I am SOOOO nice to my slaves" (if the slavery that is near-ubiquitous in the ancient Mediterranean is even acknowledged) and the 'good' men being like "I'm not like other guys: I think women should vote too"

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Love Points To You

YA contemporary coming of age

an artist struggling to get used to the idea of moving in with her new stepmother & stepsister can't wait to go away to art school

when her ipad is destroyed, her rich classmate offers to buy her a replacement in exchange for concept art for an otome game she’s developing, and as they work on the game, they start to fall for each other

while she tries to get used to her new family situation, and the fact that her parents seem to be more invested in her stepsister’s future while ignoring hers

bi ace MC, bi demi LI

[immortalsins]

tragic state of affairs

[ofekma]

One day I'll find Rick Riorden and shake him for changing his own lore so that a styxs oath can be broken by the gods without suffering major consequences. (or no consequences at all, if you're Zeus and possibly Posidon).

Are you seriously telling me that the culmination of your main protagonist's arc and his moment of triumph is nothing but a hollow victory? that the themes of your very first book series, which is the heart of your literature universe, don't mean anything?

That your own hero's success of finding a way between being demigods' playthings of the gods and teaming up with even worse deities to take them down was just a naive teenager thinking he can change the way the world works?

And that Percy just... Accepts this? That he accepts that demigods will be sent to deadly quests due to petty politics, that they'll be neglected by their parents and eaten by monsters, forever and ever?

That at this point, he's just trying to survive and hope that next time it wouldn't be him having to do it yet again?

That he's content with losing friends left and right, as long as he and his girlfriend can lead a relatively peaceful life, because he accepted that there's nothing he or anyone else can do about it?

Are we talking about the same character???

You are dodging the question, Percy.

Answer the question.

Did the gods honor their promises?