#it just gives me this cozy feeling

[cosmos-daughter]

Outside of Heisenberg's Factory

[canisalbus]

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[madrabit]

Hi, hello, do you have a moment to talk about BoNace? 👉👈

Hi, hello, yessss, I do have time to talk about BoNace!! 🩷

God, I can't with these two... Nace's hand on Bojan? The way they both look at each other?? Why do you look like a couple if you're not, that's unfair, guys sjsjjddkdkf 😭😭😭

And the way Bojan is half off his chair, why not sit in his lap completely, huh? 😭 good god, I need to go back to writing my wip, don't I?

[lazorbeanz]

I love chao races sonamy your honor

[mhin-t]

update on the mhin and kuras comfort fanart :3

[katkalis-the-horror-fanartist]

If my at-home Halloween fit isnt the cutest thing, idk what is 👏

Cozy af when I wear this!!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Teller of Small Fortunes

lighthearted fantasy adventure

follows an immigrant fortune teller who travels between villages telling small fortunes for people

when she runs into a (mostly reformed) thief and an an ex-mercenary searching for his lost daughter, she ends up traveling with them in the hopes she can help, along with a baker they meet along the way,

they encounter various magical creatures and adventurous situations, and eventually she has to face her past

no romance

[nudibutch]

i was finally able to have the house to myself for a bit today... brought all my dirty dishes out of my room and was able to tidy up a little bit without feeling weird

[nosferatufaggot]

A warm round of applause for blankies!!!!!!!

[magpiemirroring]

So there have been some pretty silly thinkpieces about "cozy horror" and a lot of backlash against the very idea and I've been giving it some thought.

First of all, there has been, for a long time, a subgenre of murder mysteries called "cozies" which often feature small towns and amateur detectives and nice hobbies and probably a cat. The murders are generally not described in any great detail and it's more about the puzzle of solving them.

But people still die. Sometimes you even get a whole slew of weird themed killings in a single book if the writer feels like being picturesque about it. In the average Cozy Mystery universe, a terrifying number of people die in a single small town over the course of a series of books or the episodes of a show, lmao. And I think most people reading cozies are quite aware that someone has to die for the plot to happen and someone has to have committed the crime and those aren't really Nice or Cozy things but actually pretty horrifying and devastating things to happen in a small community!

I think the platonic ideal of "cozy horror" is probably akin to this. Horrible things are happening, but not in gruesome details. There's some tension and shock, but grounded in something that has chill, even desirable vibes that we associate with coziness.

Cozy details do not detract from horror's ability to unsettle just as moments of comedy or hope in horror, when done well, don't take away from the horror. Stories often operate on patterns of tension and release. Cozy moments and elements in a story can be the release point in a story. Horror does not actually need to be a grim and unrelenting slog through one horrible moment after another with no break. (It can be. That is a choice that works for some horror stories. But it doesn't need to be for a story to qualify as horror.)

What is horrifying and shocking and unsettling is also HIGHLY subjective, as is coziness. A lot of times when I see people defending cozy horror or naming their favorite cozy horror stories, it's clearly a very subjective definition. (Naturally.) Often, "cozy horror" as described by the general public is a book with horror genre elements that is, for whatever reason, something of a "comfort read" for someone, regardless of the content of the book.

That makes a lot of sense as to why people might define a horror story as "cozy." So I wondered if there are any horror stories that I like to return to from time to time, that I might consider a cozy horror story. And I found a whole video game series that fits the bill! I like to fall asleep to videos and often will put on a longplay of video games, with the light and sound turned down to comfortable level. But when I'm having an especially bad time falling asleep or dealing with anxiety, I will make myself a cup of tea and surround myself with plushies and snuggle into my covers and turn to my favorite cozy horror series set in a small town to lull me gently to sleep.

Silent Hill.

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Applying to an apartment with little income and terrible credit score, in hopes that they'll be desperate enough to take me

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

the thing that's making me insane is the fact that buck sleeping on the couch was the most explicitly romantic thing the show has done, including the will scene.

every single Moment we've gotten between those two had an element of plausible deniability. yes, it's all very romantic coded, but if someone interpreted it platonically, they would be right too. even the will reveal (which was done in Such a romantic movie cliche manner) could be interpreted platonically, because making your best friend your child's godparent isn't such a far fetched idea, right?

but the couch. the show explicitly had buck connect the couch to having girlfriends, it made a point to show us that scene in 6x01 where him putting the single seater in the middle of the living room was meant to represent that he's ready to find himself outside of romantic relationships, it showed us buck squirming uncomfortably on the couch margaret bought for him. and then he shows up at eddie's, because that's his safe space, and he passes out on the couch in three seconds flat, and later he himself is surprised at how quickly he fell asleep there. because eddie's couch (the thing that represents romance) is the place where he finds comfort and warmth after everything.

there's not very much plausible deniability in this one. there's no getting past the fact that he quite obviously had a more relaxing sleep on that couch than he had in his loft all week. there's just the fact of him waking up and for once not going through his checklist, him having an honest and heartfelt conversation with his best friend, him feeling safe, understood, and loved.

[sybbi]

"If enough of us vote third party for president, we could actually GET somewhere with our policy goals!"

Baby girl you can't even get a majority of third party/independents in a single state legislature. In the past 30 years there have been seven independent/third party state governors, and of those, only three were genuinely independent. The rest either got elected as a R/D and switched mid-term when they alienated themselves from their state party, got elected as I and then switched to R/D during their terms (with some of them having served the R/D parties before), or served as proxy candidates with heavy backing and support from one of the major two parties. Even VERMONT, a relative stronghold for independent/third party candidates -- the place that brought you Bernie Sanders -- doesn't have a majority of third party candidates. And when I call them a stronghold, I mean they are the only state (I know of) that consistently elects (less than a handful of) Independent candidates to the state legislature; the place is still dominated by Ds and Rs.

"The highest power in the land can't actually be voted on so there's no reason to vote for the democrats"

Hey princess here are some high school civics question for you: How are Supreme Court judges nominated? :) By what process are they appointed? Who starts that process? :) Why is the Supreme Court considered reflective of who has won the presidency? :)

[shaniacsboogara]

So while I fully want (and need) brennan on puppet history, if I had to choose one d20 person to be on ph it'd be lou every time. He would be fucking incredible with the Professor please see my vision

YOU'RE SO RIGHT.

Honest confession: when you first sent this ask I hadn't watched any D20 aside from a few short clips, so I went to do some research by watching Neverafter...

Lou being on puppet history is not a "cool hypothetical scenario" IT IS A NEED. I SEE YOUR VISION AND WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO MAKE IT A REALITY.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Where The River Meets The Soul

cosy-ish fantasy, romance

follows a herbalist who decides to find a magical bloom with healing properties which has become rare in recent years, after her sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness

she travels to the city, and along with a friend and an heiress, discovers that reuniting two reincarnated ancient soulmates will restore the bloom

but when she encounters corruption and betrayal, and finds herself getting feelings for one of the soulmates, things get more complicated

ace MC, genderfluid LI

[a-lonely-dunedain]

lowkey it kinda bothers me a little bit that we've literally never seen the inside of a Dunlanding house. The only interiors we got in Dunland were craft areas and meeting-halls, never seen inside of one home. I mean presumably it looks similar to the interiors we've already seen (round, built a little ways into the ground, probably has a firepit in the center, furnished with a lot of fur rugs, most likely a bit smaller), but like, what do their beds look like? do they have bedframes or are they just on the ground? what does the rest of their furniture look like? are there windows or all they all as dark as the other buildings we've seen in Dunland? is it sectioned off into rooms or is it one large circular chamber? what different kinds of decorations would be in there??? I need to know these things!