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rubybaely · 2 years ago

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rewatched the darkest minds movie and rereading the book and i think that

a) movie still sucks but

b) i don't think they ever could have made a faithful and interesting movie bc so much of what makes the book and ruby compelling is her internal dialogue and her mental development and it's just so hard to translate to the screen in any way

(though the movie didn't seem to care abt giving ruby any development at all, even if they had tried it wouldn't have hit as hard as the book imo)

#its giving katniss syndrome #two whole ass paragraphs of character analysis is jennifer lawrence staring at the camera and we're supposed to get it?#i LOVE ruby and her thoughts i love her i'm enjoying this book and its vibe so much #im only at the first one rn (my favorite)#haven't read it in years #and i cannot stress this enough they did ruby so dirty in the movie #in the books she hates her powers!!!!! she hates herself!!! she thinks she's a monster!!!! in the movie she doesn't give a fuck #there's my 2 cents #the darkest minds #tdm #rethinking about back in the days when we wanted every single book ever to get adapted #but like some stories just correspond better to a certain medium and don't translate well to another #like a part of it is wanting the piece to receive the attention it deserves #but like not everything would be good on the screen #i mean im not against adaptations i just think some will inevitably suck or be unfaithful #don't know whats going on with the raven cycle for example but i think if they wanna do something good they are on thin fcking ice #the vibes are so strong with that one it would be easy to mess up #anyway

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fox-bright · 8 months ago

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Years before the covid pandemic began, author Naomi Kritzer wrote the charming, emotionally genuine short story "So Much Cooking," which was a pandemic log through the eyes of a cooking blog. The premise is that the author is a home cooking blogger raising her kids, and then a pandemic hits--and bit by bit she's feeding not only her own, but her sister's kids, some neighbors' kids, and so on, in a situation of pandemic lockdown and food shortages.

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.

I recommend both stories. They're uplifting in a way that a lot of what I see lately isn't. They're a bit of a panacea for constant fearmongering about intracommunity violence and grinding hatefulness. We can be good to each other, if we try.

#writing recommendation #the Year Without a Summer was a real thing in 1816 #and if you haven't read about it it's fascinating #but difficult

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eyes-of-nine · 1 year ago

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pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

#ahsjgdh i love the young xianle quartet sm they're almost barely not traumatized...kinda #they're very silly especially in retrospect #aaa i do also really want to draw young xie lian and mu qing but the idea of rendering that much gold detailing sounds like hell ywy #i'll do it but christ alive #my art #fanart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #tgcf spoilers #technically #also i haven't read past book 3 for now ywy #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #feng xin #hua cheng #...he gets one tag bc i'm not keeping track of all the aliases #every time i draw hc his hair gets worse and worse #my man has not seen a hairbrush in the past 800 or so years of his existence

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edithdraws · 19 days ago

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Hello Adam Warlock nation 🧡

#adam warlock #peter quill #star lord #quillock #marvel rivals #I'm not drawing all those lines ever again. I need them to give Rivals Adam his comic costumes so I can just put him in those #2025 year of quillock... I haven't drawn them in sooo long :') I've missed them #its been fun seeing more people get into Adam because of the game hello everybody. please read Warlock by Jim Starlin #art #oh also new fans my main is adamwarlock btw. go there for more adam 👈

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blondie-drawings · 8 months ago

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Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2

#sorry for the mercy/augustine sex jumpscare but i rly do think they have terrible sex every like. 200 years #they're like “Oh this Sucks I'm never doing this Again” and then hundreds of years pass and they get bored and they're like hmmm #maybe. it wasn't THAT bad.#the idea of bitching and complaining during sex is too funny to me #also my magnus design is pure indulgence #i just wanted to sexualise that old man. and he ended up looking like varric dragon age 😭😭#also also i gave Pal the fancy swoopy glasses that elphaba wears in the wicked trailer cos i think they're cool #okay now i gotta do some actual tagging #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gtn #harrow the ninth #htn #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow nonagesimus #griddlehark #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the third #mercymorn the first #augustine the first #palamedes sextus #palamedes the sixth #abigail pent #magnus quinn #john gaius #tlt shitposting #oh and i haven't finished Nona. i paused my reading because i found out there isn't a release date for the next book so I'm like #i need to make this last. i gotta ration this book out (<-stupid)

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egophiliac · 9 months ago

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ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU

I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.

like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers #(not me realizing that meleanor doesn't actually appear non-silhouetted until part 5 so uhhhhh. whoops.)#(i know a bunch of you read the spoiler-tagged stuff though so i'm putting my life in your hands)#revan would be the funniest one i think because it's just raven but with the vowels switched and i'd be over here going WHAT COULD IT MEAN #anyway i'm here to give the people what they crave and it's obviously references to 70s american sitcoms that spun off of happy days #mork and grimdy. i-is that anything.#the problem of course is now that i might have to actually come up with a bunch of laverne and shirley jokes #when i haven't...actually watched it in a million years #(my personal pool of media i consumed growing up is a good 60% made up of random things i found to watch at 3 am because of insomnia)#(this probably explains a lot about me) (the opinions about zorro adaptations anyway)#hold on let me marathon all eight seasons and -- wait i'm just now finding out there was also an animated series #in which they joined the army and their sergeant was a literal cartoon pig but also they went to space and fought giant gorillas?#but how does boo boo kitty factor into this

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victor-v · 8 months ago

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im obsessed with andreil winning every fucking queer tournament in existence this niche book not only seems to have a huge fansebase but also the main couple hits like coke and has everyone on a leash nora could dominate the whole world

#reading this post seems like i just discovered aftg like i haven't been in the trenches for over 10 years lmao #andreil #andrew minyard #neil josten #all for the game #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #i love them your honor i love the deranged kids

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northstarscowboyhat · 1 month ago

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Peepaw Starlo struggles. Autism 2 autism communication struggles.

#undertale yellow #uty #uty au #lucky clover au #frisk ut #starlo uty #ceroba uty #martlet uty #dalv uty #feisty four uty #the cowboy hat draws #FALLS OVER. THIS TOOK OVER A MONTH.#Mostly because of being busy IRL but also because I decided on a new rendering method #Aaaand it was ten times as time consuming and I don't like the end result at all. LMAO. You live and learn I suppose #I hope this is comprehensible um. I think a lot about Starlo being so used to understanding Clover easily and being one of their favorites #And going to Frisk and 1. not really understanding how they communicate and 2. feeling like he isn't their favorite LOL #Idk how well that reads but! Peepaw Starlo musings #Starlo tries his best and doesn't always get it right but he's in a better place now #I know Clover's absence feels very strange here but I just couldn't find a place to put them oops.#Drawing this made me realize I really gotta practice my backgrounds. Hough. Definitely in the new year!#Also I haven't played poker in years so anything that's wrong? Uh monster poker is different. Yup. Thumbs up emoji

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eleectric-city · 1 month ago

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My favorite Drarry fanfics that i read in 2024

Another year, another bunch of Drarry fics! Like in 2022 and 2023, here is the list of the fics that made 2024 such a cool year to me. Thanks to the writers for making me happy with these wonderful stories of my favorite boys <3

More than one chapter:

Dwelling by aideomai (83k)

In Every Universe by @skeptiquewrites (27k)

Can I tell you something? by GallaPlacidia (33k)

A Big Black Sky by alexmeg (90k)

All Life is Yours to Miss by Saras_Girl (114k)

Harry Potter: DILF Hunter by @vukovich (11k)

What We Pretend We Can't See by @gyzym (131k)

The Day Before the Wedding by @kbrick (39k)

Eclipse by Mijan (287k)

Secrets by Vorabiza (395k)

Twist of Fate by Oakstone730 (302k)