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[micamicster]

They'll turn me in your arms, lady, into an esk and adder, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your husband dear. They'll turn me to a bear sae grim, and then a lion bold, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your own true love.

The Perilous Gard (1974) by Elizabeth Marie Pope

[boycritter]

pink and green one of the color combos of ALL TIME

[weaverofink]

Howl Pendragon, Wizard Extraordinaire VS Howell Jenkins, Loser from Wales

[the-ace-reader]

Thanks for the tag Megs! 💜

3 Ships I Like: Tony Stark/Loki Laufeyson (MCU), Leona Kingscholar/OC (Twisted Wonderland) - yes I’m an OC/Yuu girl don’t @ me 😂, and Jason Todd/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (DC x Miraculous Ladybug) - obviously either they meet as kids and age together or Mari is aged up please don’t start drama

First Ship: Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase

Last Song: Well, last song I truly listened to, it was the song I fell asleep to, which was “Caribbean Blue” by Enya, but if we choose the song that’s currently going through my head in bits and pieces, it’s “People I Don’t Like” by UPSAHL. Two VASTLY different vibes 😅

Favorite Childhood Book: My favorite childhood book series was The Unicorn’s Secret by Kathleen Duey. My mom read it to me when I was very young. I still have them for the nostalgia

Currently Reading: Fanfiction lmao. Ironically, despite my first ship being Percabeth, I am currently reading Percy Jackson/Nico di Angelo fics. And no, I have no idea how I got dropped down that rabbit hole, considering I’ve never read PJ fanfics before now???

Currently Watching: EPIC: The Musical animatics on YouTube.

I am a bit obsessive and so I have literally gone through every full animatic made for each song that is properly labeled and go back through each song periodically to see if there are new ones to watch lol. I not only have a playlist with one fav animatic per song, so it’s the whole musical in animatic form (yes it was and is always hard to narrow it down to one animatic per song), but also playlists for each saga that include my favorited animatics from each song from said saga, because I was tired of going back through my liked videos.

Currently Consuming: Stouffer’s Romano Crusted Chicken. I had to go look at the box to get the name - we just call these “Nom-Noms” in our house 😭

Currently Craving: Anyone have any spare motivation lying around they’d be willing to give me? Or ambition? Maybe just a crumb of mental stability? 🤣

Tagging (but no pressure!): @crookedlynerdywriter , @elysia-nsimp , @pinkbeeps , @ceruleancattail , and anyone else that wants to play! 💜

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Thanks for the tag @lovelyllamasblog <33

3 ships I like: LeoVil no kidding (Leona / Vil - Twisted Wonderland) Xehaqus ( Xehanort / Eraqus - Kingdom Hearts) XueXiao (Xue Yang / Xiao Xingchen - Mo Dao Zu Shi)

First Ship: Ooof let’s see… Scrooge x Goldie? Huge fan of The life and Time of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa, I read it A LOT when I was a kid and well, the Klondike arc was my favorite! Otherwise, probably Spike x Buffy from my teen years xD

Last Song: “Les gens qui n’ont pas d’enfants” by GiedRé

Favorite Childhood Book: Hard to say… but the first that flashes before my eyes is The Witches by Roald Dahl.

Currently Reading: ……Ao3. Witch Hat Atelier otherwise.

Currently Watching: The Empress season 2

Currently Consuming: Orange blossom water navette biscuits and clementines (Yes, I’m a Mediterranean girl.)

Currently Craving: Time. Or a clone. Let me draw my comics AND play BG3 please…

I tag (no pressure as always <3): @saph-y @eldstunga @mellosdrawings @tempo-takoyaki @broh3m3

[the-halfling-prince]

Oooooooh the urge to make a pixie hollow-sona

[eerna]

Dara is sooooo funny for being a 1400 year old 30 year old and beefing with a teenager. my guy there's an entire palace of 100+ year old politicians for you to turn into your enemies and your primary target is the ONE HIGH SCHOOL AGED KID? ok

[meadowlarkx]

One of my favorite things about the worldbuilding in The Left Hand of Darkness is the "perverts" in Gethenian society—those who are permanently in one of the kemmer forms. The "normal" person on Gethen goes through a kemmer cycle with periods of somer, but that's not every Gethenian. People whose bodies don't work this way get treated with repulsion. Genly compares them to "homosexuals" in his society, and that comparison is really instructive. Gethenians may not have gender roles and identities the way we do, but they do have societal norms, including about bodies and sexuality. And those norms leave people out. They are imperfect and sometimes they are unfair. I think this is part of the point.

In subtle ways, this theme is woven throughout the book's descriptions of Gethenian cultures. To stick to sexuality, something similar can be said about the different norms surrounding incest on Gethen and the empathic treatment of Estraven's past relationship with Arek. There is no taboo about incest between siblings on Gethen, only on siblings vowing kemmering, but if a child is born of it, the parents have to separate (and it seems like Estraven is separated from Sorve because of this). The reason for including this element, in my reading, isn't to impose our own moral standards by "showing" that Estraven's relationship with Arek was "bad" (in fact, we learn fairly little about it, beyond that Estraven cared deeply for him.) Instead, I think it's partly to demonstrate the dissonance between Gethenian mores and our own, and unsettle both. Because, like Genly, we see Gethenian norms as strange, we can notice that they bring about particular situations and cause particular hurts. Even the custom of vowing kemmering monogamously for life, which sounds more familiar, is shown as double-edged. Estraven breaks a taboo by making his "false" vow to Ashe, but was trying to build a new life with Ashe really wrong?

These things are not 1:1 to any "real life" issue, but like everything else in this story, I think they're chosen because they are provocative. It's really meaningful to me that even in terms of gender and sexuality, Gethen isn't painted as a utopia, but as a real place. Le Guin shows us two sets of norms and asks us not just "are our norms arbitrary and/or constructed rather than essential truths?" but also "are norms always socially constructed? Should we question them sometimes? What harm is done to maintain them? Who is being left out?"

[amphibifish]

song: kyu-kurarin!!

color: YELLOW !!!!!

book: i'm gonna be real it was probably to kill a mocking bird or anthem for a summer assignment

movie: honestly idk. it might have been that kids movie " hero of color city " cause me and my friend were rewatching it since we had very vague feverish memories of it from when we were 8

tv show: supernatural specifically that one episode where sam gets timelooped in like season 3 cause my friends loved that ep

sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet most of the time but rn savoury. i'm soooo hungry tbh but it's like middle of the night and i don't wanna get up...

relationship: nonexistent 👍

last thing i googled: "uzumasa" i was trying to find what thor was referencing in my stupid maloki translation . its a theme park / film set btw very cool

current obsession: maloki. still. this is a prison. and norse mythology ❤️

looking forward to: TAKE MY ASS TO CAMBODIA URGENT !!! i neeeeeeed to travel with my friends immediately. 6 months..... 6 months..... and closer to present day is holiday break orugh

tyyy 4 for the tag :3 tagging @mothalas @sigyn-foxyposts @ryebread-x @2dlovley if you all don't mind !!! ^_^

Thank you @abiiii-ineffable for the tag!!

Last song: Casual by Chappel Roan

Favourite colour: Anything on the blue/green spectrum

Last book: First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitc Albom (rated 6/10 but this is just my opinion.)

Last movie: Bones and All dir. Luca Guadagnino

Last tv show: Rivals (wait wHAt! I haven't watched anything else since then!)

Sweet/spicy/savory: all of the above

Relationship status:sad loner loser

Last thing I googled : types of equitable mortgage on legal estate (I'm not buying a house I'm studying property law lol 😆)

Current obsession: My OCs!!!! (like I always say OC brainrot is real you guys! 😭)

Looking forward to: Finishing my painting wip!

Tagging: @a-singing-lunatic @davidtennantgenderenvy @aq2003 @sakuranova07 @glitterypin

@paintedpineleaf @pan-bookish-ent @goodoldfashionedlunatic @princeloww @dreamsfrozenincandyland

@mystic-mae @shadesofecclescakes and anyone else who wants to ;P

[cicadasides]

omg whats interactive fiction? it sounds cool :0

eeeee hi anon! it's basically like a choose your own adventure novel. i'm fairly new to it, but i've been obsessed....there are a bunch on itch.io <3 some of my recent faves are speaker and wayfarer

[goldiipond]

happy pride to them specifically

[francy-sketches]

just randomly remebered a book series i read as a kid ok no actually i just read books 3 4 and 5 for some reason and there's like 6 but I was really into it for a while. anyway it was one of those geronimo stilton books but the stupid rat was not in them idk why they had his name on the cover they were actually kind of gruesome from what i remember. ngl they went hard they had cool little sketches in them too and there was this blue dragon with half a tail i loved him sm i was so upset when i couldnt find fanart bc nobody knew this book u.u I'm like 99% sure it was never translated so its just an italian thing but. any of my fellow italian girlies remember this. was I the only one to ever read it

[unjest]

END OF AN ERA

Iron Gold (red rising book 4): gotta be honest here i barely even started this one. I was already a bit wary when i saw it switches perspectives throughout the book, because while thats normally perfectly fine part of why i LIKED red rising was because we only got Darrow's pov which was done extremely well. The very first chapter (or at least the start of the chapter) was third person pov and i just couldnt get over it

The Unwanteds: once again this was like. A book i happened to see while scrolling libby and vaguely remembered enjoying it when i was in like high school. Its fine. Narration was passable, story was a smidge dull but ok enough. Got thru like half of it maybe, stopped mostly because the books i actually wanted came off hold and also because. Man the main character is just kinda treated like shit garbage for a while and it was just sort of miserable to get thru. Funniest thing about this one is that it has a blurb saying something like 'its harry potter mixed with the hunger games!' when the only comparisons to either is that theres kids with magic and its a dystopian society. and its ESPECIALLY funny because it is EXTREMELY clearly meant to be an alternative take on The Giver. Like its not even subtle its just the giver with more magic

The Bright Sword: AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGH. FUCK. really fucking good. Narration is REALLY good, narrator pulls off the distinct voices and accents FANTASTICALLY. both plot and writing itself is AMAZING. also reignited my obsession with arthurian ledgend and finally helped me find a name i like 👍

Acceptance (southern reach book 3): banging my head on the table. Just. Man. MAN. Fucking stunning narration as always. The pov switches actually work REALLY well this time- while not EVERY character gets a unique narrator (ghost bird, control, and the lighthouse keeper share one because theyre all third person), each perspective change gets a new narrator (one for the director (second person, which. wow ok props for pulling off some really good second person narration) and one for the biologist (first person perspective)). All three narrators are REALLY fucking good and fit their parts EXTREMELY well. Read with a cadence that actually takes whats being read into context, which is a surprisingly rare thing in audiobooks! And of course the story itself is amazing. Just. Man. Highly highly HIGHLY recommend checking the southern reach books out if you havent before. Just. Wow.

my thoughts on the stuff ive listened to during work; note that im not basing my reviews on how good the actual book is, its based on how my personal experience was to listen to the audiobook while working in the lab

Animorphs books 1-3: i read this series as a kid but only once, so i was familiar with the story enough to not get distracted but i had forgotten enough of the details to be kept engaged. Voice acting was fine, tolerable to listen to, character voices distinct enough to differentiate without being annoying (albiet with at least one exception). Biggest issue is length- since my shifts are 8 hours, i got through the first 3 books in a single shift, and the specific version i was listening to was split up into a handful of short parts each book so i kept having to switch to the next video, which was way too much of a momentum-stopper (and work interruption) to stick with this series specifically.

The Witcher books 1+2: eh. was fine enough. once again this was something i was familiar enough with to follow without having to worry too much about missing details, while also being somewhat entertaining. i think i liked it a lot better to read than to listen to. voice acting was fine. biggest issue was that i had finally gotten used to the narrator pronouncing dandelion as dan-DIL-leon for the first book but in the second book he switched to pronouncing it as DAN-dee-lion and i had to stop partway through because of it

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: i remember enjoying reading it a lot more than listening. Ill be the first to admit that im kind of picky about audiobook narration and this one just didnt hit right, but was overall a good experience. Voice acting was fine, and the actual story was very entertaining as expected. Perfectly acceptable.

Discworld books 1-2: extremely good listens. Voice acting was great, character voices were fun and fit the characters really well, only skirted the line of being annoying. fantastic story, but not too complicated or unfamiliar, so i could still follow and be entertained while still focusing on work. Will probably continue the series at some point, but giving myself a buffer period before i start up again to avoid series burnout

Malevolent parts 41-44 (catching up with the podcast lol): man. theres just something about listening to a guy getting gutted and filled with maggots while working in the lab of a hospital. like broooo you are going to get sepsis!!! Very good listen, as expected, just kinda funny trying to keep a straight face while talking to coworkers and simultaneously listening to arthur's no good very bad day

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: probably the best one so far for what im using these for. The length meant i was able to spend like 4 whole shifts on the one audiobook. Footnotes were incorporated fantastically, narrator and voice acting was phenomenal, and its also pretty much my favorite book of all time. Ive read this SEVERAL times, but because of how fucking huge this thing is theres a lot of details i forgot about or misremembered. Only issue is that it was split up into several audio tracks, so i had to switch to the next one a few times per shift. They were each around 2 hours long however, so it wasnt too inconvenient. Also at one point i fucked up and accidentally skipped like 8 whole hours without realizing until after an hour in where they referenced an event i KNEW i hadnt gotten to yet lol

Catch-22: man they really went all fucking OUT on the voice acting here. All characters are EXTREMELY distinct, so im very easily able to tell who's talking even without speaking tags. One of my pet peeves in audiobooks is when the narrator whisper-yells when a character is meant to be screaming. That does not happen here. Narrator fucking COMMITS. Yelling, sobbing, laughing, all of it. Fucking fantastic. Phenomenal as an audiobook, i think i mightve even enjoyed it even better than actually reading it.

Slaughterhouse-five: man. this one is ALSO an audiobook that is fucking PHENOMENAL. biggest problem is that i got WAYYY too into it. I really needed to just sit down and soak it in, which was not very condusive to a workplace environment. I now have a self-imposed limit where im not going to be listening to any more vonnegut books from now on because i KNOW itll have a similar affect

His majesty's dragon: this one couldve been good, but the recording i found was not. The guy reading it did a big spiel at the beginning of each chapter and kept adding unneeded commentary like it was a middle school read along. Im going to be getting a library card today so i can use libby, so i might come back to this once i get access to an actual official audiobook lol

murder on the orient express: nope. barely lasted three minutes into this one

percy jackson and the lightning thief: see this is an example of something ive actually read too many times as a kid so i know the book too well for an audiobook to be entertaining. Dropped it after less than a chapter.

the kane chronicles: had potential, i remember liking the story a lot as a kid but i hadnt read it nearly as much as the pjo series, and i think it wouldve been at least vaguely entertaining. However, half the book has one of the narrator sdoing a really bad british accent for his sister's voicelines and i just couldnt do it. i didnt have the strength. Dropped after maybe 4 chapters.

Camp Damascus: the only audiobook of the lot that i actually bought, and the first one i got through that i hadnt read the physical book before. Interesting story, ok voice acting. Solid choice to listen to. Not quite what i was expecting, but pretty good story! Had some EXTREMELY gnarly descriptions of body horror thrown in at like. two points of the story maybe. Didnt really affect me personally but kinda threw me off in a 'this feels like a different story entirely' sort of way. Dont have much else to say here since these reviews are more talking about my experience with these as audiobooks specifically, and i havent read the book itself to be able to compare this one.

[adonis-ass]

Please explain the himeru k3 joke, i dont know a lot of things in dutch pop culture😭

Alright so basically k3 is a band made up of 3 people, their original goal was to make love songs aimed at adults but their music became an unexpected hit with kids and after like 2 songs they switched to children’s songs, one member left over this if I remember correctly and got replaced by someone else, as time went on the people in the band left leaving them to be replaced by others. I remember this very clearly because I was very salty about this. Anyways this happened like twice more and now it’s. More of a brand of always 1 ginger 1 black haired girl and one blonde, and now the argument can be made if its even the same band anymore because they basically got ship of theseus’d anyways yeha that was it :3

[forthesummer]

the most fulfilling activity i unexpectedly got into last year was reading! i didn’t mean to pick it up again, just felt like doing it so i read a book i bought a year before that and never read & it blossomed into reading almost daily. it’s such a nice pastime and it feels better than mindlessly scrolling thru my phone all day so i’m really happy. i wonder what unexpected hobbies i will pick up in 2023!

[dasha1l1]

some of the books from my childhood that I still remember very well

[clamorybus]

as a kid, i had an obsession with mummies & bog bodies