#i love that book so damn much

[simonnebethel]

900 words done today for my romantasy novel 🥳 i’m trying to get halfway by the end of the month. As a reward, I’ll start editing a chapter a day of A Chant for Blood to get it ready for beta readers. I’m like, jittering with excitement because i havent felt this motivated in a while, but it’s 2 am and I must slumber 😔

[pinespittinink]

got thoughtful about opinions on bad books so here’s an inverse: what’s a book you had to read for school that you actually enjoyed/have grown to like? mine is Lord of the Flies

[turtletoria]

the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid

[platoapproved]

The building had been crawling with gentle humans who noticed not a thing as they’d stolen the clothes they now wore, uniforms of the young, and left by a broken door into an alley. Not my brothers and sisters anymore. — QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

[forwantofacalling]

this is how book 3 went right

[lemonavocado]

"oh i love frankenstein! my favorite quote from the novel is i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine-" grabs you by the throat and chokes you violently

[deoidesign]

I met the me who made different choices

[ricky-mortis]

I’ve been thinking about these four a lot over the past four days, so I thought I’d draw them!

Individuals under the cut <3

[diana-daphne]

Best book ever written, nothing will ever be funnier than this, Jane Austen I love you more than anyone else in the world <3

[mionkings]

GRAVITY FALLS SPOILERS MAYBE? FOR THISISNOTAWEBSITEDOTCOM.COM — AT LEAST WITH BILL CIPHER AND STAN PINES/GRUNKLE

This involves thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com and Bill's PTSD involving Stan along with a theory of Bill Cipher possibly still in Grunkle Stan's mind.

So I've been seeing some people concerned over the idea that Bill Cipher hasn't left Stan's mind at least not fully, and while I do also have some belief that maybe some remnant is still there—perhaps it's just Bill's remains left behind all while his soul is trapped in Theraprism.

But the idea that Bill still has access to Stan like before, nah.

In reality; I highly doubt it, it feels just like at the end of The Book of Bill: where Bill snaps over the mere idea that Stanley must've influenced the reader not to join him, just him viscerally screaming out Grunkle Stan's name— resulting with Bill in the void swearing that someone will let him out.

Bill Cipher is labeled with Max Security Rec in the Theraprism, that implies that he's clearly being watched even if they had this one 'slip up' with the Book of Bill. They still hold more power over him since they confiscate his book after five minutes :)

To me, it feels like he's lashing out now—Bill is now what he considers his lowest and is raging at Stanley for not only beating him, for being a cheaper version of Sixer, but for also being happy. To me: Bill is desperate; he's trying to plant doubt that they fully purged him from Stan's mind in which I highly doubt that either the Axolotl or the Theraprism wouldn't notice.

—

But we'll see what happens if any updates come again, maybe I'm wrong and Bill isn't truly gone from the Pines Family 🤷‍♀️ but from what we've been seeing, Bill is grasping at straws now and clearly he's mad that he underestimated Grunkle Stan lmao get rekt loser

[royaltea000]

I’ve never felt so conflicted about a franchise in my life but at least this dude was hot

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 785: Sakamichi's orders!!

Pag 1

1: From this year

2: I went from the one who receives orders

3: Onoda

Onoda!!

4: to the one who gives orders!!

Pag 2

1: Onoda Sakamichi, third Inter High

Pag 3

1: carrying the same bib number 3 as Makishima, as captain he will make history by making Sohoku win their third championship in a row!!

Pag 4

1: I'll give you your orders

When we enter the mountain, go ahead

Take the lead and climb!!

2: It's your order, take the mountain stage on the second day

When times are tough, all you need is one good goal to achieve!! “We'll carry you to the mountain”!!

I'll do my best to preserve my strength!!

3: Think....

Think of what's ahead, of what's happening now, and about the team

Pag 5

1: I have to make the best choice!!

2: Calm down....!!

Pfuuu...

Calm down

Pfuuu...

3: Look around you

4: I have to have a clear picture!!

5: The start of the mountain is approaching

6: The pack's atmosphere is changing!!

Pag 6

1: One person jumped ahead!!

2: The balance is broken!!

3: And several people are following!!

4: It's here, Onoda-kun, are you ready?

Yeah!!

5: The climbers are starting to move!!

Pag 7

1: We're entering the mountain!! From here on we're on the national highway 500!!

Pag 8

1: It's the mountain stage, climbing Mt- Hiko, once a sacred groun in Fukuoka!!

Pag 9

2: Once they pass one of the archways of the huge Shinto shrine made of stone of Mt. Hiko....

3: The real climb starts!!

Pag 10

1: Here Kyushu's Kumamoto Daichi's climber, Fujiwara, is moving!!

Kumadai is moving, chase him!!

2: I'm Higo's new generation, mokkosu!!

3: Waaaa things are getting hectic all of a sudden, teh.....!! They're going one by one chasing Kumadai-san!!

4: Calm down, Rokudai

For now, it's enough that we stay at the front fo the pack. Our problem is....

Waaa, I'm calm...!!

Pag 11

1: Our problem....

2: Our main issue....

3: is when will he move!?

6: Ha.... Hakogaku is moving!?

Is the Sky Prince going!?

He stood up

Pag 13

3: Not... yet!?

4: He just reached out to take the bottle

That scared me...

We've only just entered the mountain so from their point of view it's not time to start yet?

6: Tch

7: Not yet.....?

Pag 14

1: His opponent is Onoda, so it will most probably turn into a close battle... so, thinking about that, he plans on starting from the most efficient place?

2: Could it be that he's waiting for the Mountain King to go?

The other way around....?

3: He plans on going once the “Mountain King” moves?

Manami is

4: waiting for the Mountain King

Is that so?

Waiting for me....

Pag 15

1: …. no!!

2: That's not it!!

3: Think of what's ahead, of what's happening now, and about the team

Teh!?

4: I have to make the best decision

Everyone!!

Pag 16

1: These are your orders!!

2: “Orders”!!

3: “Orders”!!

5: Onoda-san!!

6: Onoda-kun!!

Pag 17

1: 200m from now Manami-kun will move, I'll chase him, and leave everything else to you!!

2: Danchiku-kun!!

Yessir!!

3: Please get ahead, pull the team, and clear the mountain safely

4: Yessir!!

5: Imaizumi-kun and Naruko-kun, from now on preserve your strength and get ready for the finish line

Yeah...

6: Rokudai-kun....

Teh!!

Wait, Onoda

7: How...

Pag 18

1: do you know that Manami is going to move 200m from now!?

5: Telepathy...

6: He's waiting

7: Most likely!!

“Maybe”!!

8: The beginning of this mountain is full of zigzags

9: And Manami-kun's ranks are choosing to ride on the right side very close to the guardrail

10: On the mountain, the pack

Pag 19

1: when it's time to turn a series of zigzags, temporarily stretches vertically

If it's a left turn then the cyclists on the left will take the lead, and if it's a right turn then the cyclists on the right will do that

3: From the course map it says that from the next curve the slope will slightly increase

4: It's just a conjecture, but

5: I think Manami-kun will move there

So he's waiting

For the most advantageous position for jumping forward

Pag 20

1: the next right curve!!

Pag 21

1: Manami?

2: He's going to jump forward!?

3: At the next right curve!!

Pag 25

1: Manami jumped forward!! Here!?

Huuh!?

From the lead of the vertical line!!

He opened a gap too large to close in an instant!!

2: He really jumped forward!!

3: Hakogaku' Manami is pushing on

4: I'm going to accelerate at full throttle!!

Go, Onoda-kun!!

[frozen-orbit]

NO BUT THIS ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😭😭😭😭

GIRLS WHEN A CHARACTER WHO ONLY KNOWS HUMAN CONTACT IN A VIOLENT/DEFENSIVE WAY LEARNS HOW IT FEELS TO TOUCH/BE TOUCHED BY SOMEONE IN A TENDER/LOVING WAY: 🥺😩🛐🫣🥹🫠🫂🫨😵😪😵‍💫😔😫🤯😨🫡🙇‍♀️😮‍💨🫢😶‍🌫️🥲💆‍♀️😍🥳🥰💃😟🧎‍♀️🤩☹️😱😣🧍‍♀️💥

Like Marissa Meyer had the opportunity to make the character with the ability to put people to sleep by touching them also the most touch-deprived/touch-starved AND SHE DID and i think that's insane of her.

Bonus points cause this kind of characters are usually male but in this case it's a girl 🤌✨

[ash-tree-eyes]

No but Dracula wearing Jonathan’s clothes while going out presumably into town is legitimately horrifying from every different angle I can think of.

Most obviously is what Jonathan assumes; that the villagers will mistake Dracula for Jonathan and think that he’s fine, or be able to say that he was still going about his business while in reality he was locked up in the castle.

But then, the villagers also aren’t stupid from what we’ve seen. Maybe they see this and recognise that the person going about town isn’t the kind Englishman they sent off to the castle. They recognise the man who has been striking fear into their hearts for so many years. They know that babies have been going missing lately. Maybe they look at the thing in the foreigner’s clothes, realise what it means, and quietly mourn him as another lost to the Count’s tyranny.

But maybe worst of all is if they don’t notice that it isn’t Jonathan.

Imagine you just sent a man off to a place where people go to die, where girls and children disappear and never come back from. You know he will not return. You regret his loss. And a few weeks later… you see him back in town. Maybe only a glimpse from afar, but you remember his clothes. They stick out between the locals. And… he looks fine. Not hurt, or terrified, or running for his life. And you begin to wonder… how? How could a man go to that place and return safely when no others have? What kind of monster could go to that place and return sane?

What has the kind Englishman become? Has he been turned into something that you dare not imagine? Or… was he always that way, and you were just too blind to see it until now?

All this, while the real Jonathan remains imprisoned with even his identity stolen from him.

[felix-krain]

I feel like reading the Phantom of the Opera book before any other media was a mistake

because I fear no other interpretation of Erik will do what book Erik did for me

now I have overly high standards for his interpretation help

[syn0vial]

the way murderbot keeps saving people with stories. it (well, technically 2.0) saved three with its own story and now it's saving the adamantine colonists with the stories of its friends. because stories are what saved it when it first broke free of its governor module and stories are what keep saving it again and again, and that's why the series is called "the murderbot diaries," it's a killing machine trying to save everyone with a story, i—