#i AM magic axtually

[chonnysinferno]

How is it that I mention you and not even 5 minutes later you've already liked it

What are you

Magic???

/silly

Well you see ive been watchinf these reblogs go back and forth actually so id like to say it was a coincidence but it's not (technically it kind of is an "just so happened to be there moment because i just finished updating my rentey and just got on tumblr to find u guys so :-) )

[tumblunni]

Randomly had an idea for a game where you're some famous exorcist hired to fix monster problems, but instead you LITERALLY FIX MONSTER PROBLEMS

You're like a monster whisperer and the "battle" system would instead be like a puzzle game to figure out what's troubling their soul and heal them. 99.9% of the times they're causing chaos, its just a big ol misunderstanding! Like a monster wanders into the town by accident and gets scared by all the noise, or it got its whiskers tangled in some manmade trash and now it has to scavenge for human food cos it can't sense the vibrations of prey. Or a new monster moved in on its turf and is eating all its favourite carrots, but then the new monster isnt evil either, it was just an exotic pet that got abandoned and is badly adapted to this ecosystem so it causes chaos. Also maybe you can knit lil sweaters for all of them! And those lil ankle bracelets they give to endangered birda in conservation sites so they can track their numbers. Like maybe you axtually work for am scp style organization thats all about monster kindness instead? :3

Anyway i just thought it was neat cos you could phrase the interface as like.. Collecting Troubles. Like u magically extract the energy of the sadness and use it to upgrade your abilities or as currency to buy stuff. Every happy'd friend is a new sword of justice!

[lilahisntsadanymore]

I dunno if it's because of lil help of the magic Tiktok sounds I've been encountering lately, but the exam was so easy axtually???? Tho when I was on my way I passed by some girls and one of them said "look, so scared" and idk if it was about me but firstly - I was stressed about the exam and secondly - what the heck do people do while passing by other people? Am I supposed to make aggressive eye contact with strangers instead of casually looking forward? Or shouldn't I bother with that silly aggressive eye contact and go straight to making out?

Posted my first smut ever right before going to my exam so that I don't overthink the smut being not good enough 👍 lmao

[gildedill]

good gay convo @dissectation

   YES...just give me a nice place up north where it's cool and rainy w/ foggy mornings where the birds come to roost except ofc they would go south for the winter, the migratory kind, but during the cooler months it's all corvids and owls in my house w/ knit hats and hot choco I WANT A TREEHOUSE like you need to look up to see my house, it's in the branches!! and not symmetrical or anything, it's messy inside AND outside when you come visit me you're scared the house will break and we'll fall YESSS...agreed. lopsided and looks like a safety hazard but inside is very cozy...lots of blankets, quilts, etc the stairs to it are all haphazard as well! but it also has a rope ladder and a swingset on the bottom like one of those porch rocking chairs up high but then a swingset/tire swing down low on ground level...the ideal AND A TRAMPOLINE (if you don't want to use the stairs/rope) YES...im axtually bad w. trampolines but i would Become good oooh yeah the "garden" around the tree like a children park, niiiiiice also like...a well close by, along with a pulley system! so like...for people who cant climb or just dont wanna for when carrying stuff they can get on the platform and there's a crank other people can do a vegetable garden out back w/ low-maitanence foodlike herbs/veggies/fruit that dont take much work to grow they grow by themselves....tomatos, potatos. an apple tree also a fire place inside would be kind of a safety hazard, magic aside, but a fire pit out back in the backyard...log benches and marshmallows during the autumn I HAD...one of those when i was a kid in my childhood home!! like...patched roof. either does or does not have a chimney even without a fireplace who knows tho....one of those wind turner things a terribly placed mailbox like halfway up the tree that no one can actually get to omg the mailbox detail is killing me, yes, it's perfect, I want this exact house also ofc SO MANY bird feeders. bird feeders all over that the birds and squirrels fight over. a random albino squirrel that frequents one on the very end bird houses too naturally...a pond close by i'll invite you to drink tea with too much sugar in it like past the fence maybe 5-10 min walking distance past the farm land w/ tall grass and cattle/sheep is a pond lots of waterfowl....we sometimes drink tea there together and watch the sunset/thru the morning fog oh no, witches drinking tea while watching the sunset......... you're killing me tiamat..... my heart can't take it IM NOT DONE: all your cats Love the tall grass. they Frollic. there are clover patches and dandelions and when we're by the lake the cats will lay with you and try to steal ur sandwich meat you make me want to draw SO MUCH but I'm not good at drawing houses and backgrounds CURSE YOU ME NEITHER I TOO AM SUFFERING....good practice? in the theoretical world where i actually get up to draw it. where i have the Ambition omg my cats?? how many do I have? I hope enough to make an army " in the theoretical world where i actually get up to draw it. where i have the Ambition" WE'RE THE SAME PERSON AGAIN SO MANY most of them are wild, lots of strays your house has like....lots of things they can climb on barristers and walls with ledges and the front of shelves all cleared for them to play they come and go as they please and you have lots of cat bowls scattered both inside and outside your house "the cats will lay with you and try to steal ur sandwich meat" tiamat i'm crying I love them so much I couldn't even be mad at them during winter they all stay in a lot more and during the summer they laze on your porch in the shade you always have to be extra careful cleaning tho bc they leave Gifts tucked in corners. so many lizards, mice. sparrows occasionally tho you've mostly gotten them to stop that last one not just for cats sometimes raccoons and opposums too dude I could use their gifts for potions and stuff!! YES. yes true. you have a rack of dried lizards/salamanders on your windowsill over your tiny flowers you're destroying me......... IM ALREADY DEAD IKR....not even Draw just let me live there....let me exist there until im an old grandpalike howl's moving castle style... SAME i'll ask for nothing more than this I might even stop complaining all the time if I had this (ok maybe not cause it's my passion but) i have a stool and some canvases and i go out with my oil paints by the lake sometimes....i have a nice knit shawl and it's cool but not too damp and breezy but the sun is still warm enough AGREED...i would still complain. the road is bumpy and the bugs are a pain even with mosquito netting, and we always have to give your cats tick baths and my birds get regular check ups grocery shopping is a pain and the internet connection is finicky at best but!! it's a good and lovely place with lovely company and no one to annoy us and when humans come in the wood we're like "THE FUCK WTF WHAT IS THE FUCK WHAAAAT ARE YOU DOING HERE WTF???" I HAVE EVEN MORE: so i said there's a lake nearby but! there's also a small brooklet, running diagonal to our homes between them, one of our homes is just on the edge of the forest while one is just inset and to get between them it's easiest to go into the lighter forest areas and past the small bridge between them YES..agreed. lots of "no trespassing" and "get out" signs my birds give us warnings and your cats try to scare them off

[megaweapon]

Ohh, that’s an interesting perspective, I hadn’t thought about how translations would impact the storytelling (tho it…… seems like it should be obvious ahaha)! Okay, full disclaimer: I haven’t read it since it first came out so some details are lost on me. I need to re-read it and make notes, but for now, this is what I remember/what I have to say:

But starting Absolute Midnight, I felt like there was a book somewhere along the line that I must have missed: Barker introduces many elements without explanation or lead-up, like the existence of the “abarataraba,” which we hear the characters referring to as if it’s very important, but which we don’t get defined for us until MUCH later. I don’t need everything spoon-fed to me, but it’s kind of hard to care about this significant element of its left so completely vague. There were a few other moments like that, too.

The sudden shift in Boa’s behavior was also a big disappointment. Like, before the beginning of AM her last interaction was saving Candy from Carrion, and Barker hinted at an inner darkness, but the turnaround on Boa was so abrupt and complete, and I didn’t feel like the story had EARNED that kind of twist just yet.

I theorized that Boa was going to be an ultimately harmful presence in Candy long before AM came out (Barker axtually hinted it!) but I didn’t get much satisfaction out of the reveal. It felt less like the gradual reveal of someone who had sinster motives all along and more like the author saying “she’s evil now.”

And he big plot twist at the end where everyone she’s met along the way was part of some huge network of spies who all KNEW EACH OTHER… not only was that just straight up dumb but it took a lot of the magic away from her earlier adventures and also was just… Improbable to the point of being really stupid.

Additional quibbles: where the heck did Letheo go? Why did Barker shove in an Instant Romance, when the story didn’t require a romance at all to stand on its own? If you HAD to have a romance, why not go ahead and develop it with the chapter your heroine has been building a healthy, supportive friendship with over the past two books?

I am actually a fan of Clive Barker, I love his horror fiction, I’ve read a lot o his novels and all the Books of Blood, and I genuinely enjoy his imagination and his occasionally over-the-top narrative voice! He usually makes it work.

And so as to end this on a positive note I actually loved everything with Rojo Pixler, the Kid, and Mater Motley’s attack on Commexo City—it was all so strange and yet compelling, it felt more like the first two books than almost any other part of AM. Especially the moment where the fused Rojo-Requiax still clearly remembers the Kid, and some semblance of Rojo’s loyalty is shown to still be there—love it! It’s such a Barker thing to do, to have a character sort of become the big bad monster that’s been whispered about in the first two books but make that monster interesting and compelling.

I still plan to read Kry Rising when it comes out—like I said I’ve been reading this series for a long time—and part of me feels like some elements were taking for granted (hopefully the Instant Romance) are not what they seem, but yeah… those are my immediate thoughts.

megaweapon replied to your post “just a little rant about abarat”

Thank you, thank you… I started reading the books as a teenager, I remember waiting for both books 2 and 3 to come out and I’m still not over the crushing disappointment that was Absolute Midnight. It had other issues but the terrible romance was top of the list

No but do tell, do tell! Honestly, I’ve come to accept that Im really picky when reading fiction, so to me there are no books without issues, but this looked… Idk. I mean, as I said in the post, editing becomes an issue with bigger authors, because of leverage, because of the fact that they have to cut the costs and people are gonna buy the book all the same… Things like this. I don’t know if Barker qualifies as someone without editing tbh, as I have only read the books in translation (I started reading them a couple years after the 2nd came out in Italy I think, it was 2006/2007, and I still wasn’t really that fluent in English), but the plot looked… well. The plot looked period lmao. Like there were things that were intentionally left open, and I can be okay with that (i.e. the whole dad issue), but the whole thing with the Kid (which I’m not sure has the same name in Italian tbh) when there’s the whole red herring about how Candy has to come to him? Like idk, if they went somewhere new, then I’m not sure what that was.

I mean, it’s probably that I would expect something more from someone who worked on a book for 7 years tbh, at least from a plot point of view, even if the execution might have been wonky because of, idk, health problems or whatever. But the plot. Sigh.

Anyway.