#it's excellent :)))

[respectthepetty]

In June of 2022, I was going through all of the emotions watching Love Mechanics, KinnPorsche, To My Star 2, and Old Fashion Cupcake and here I am in October of 2024 feeling all the emotions from another YinWar series (Jack & Joker), another Thai series that has me screaming every episode (Peaceful Property), and another Korean piece directed by Hwang Da-Seul (Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo) with some GLs sprinkled on top (Reverse 4 U and The Loyal Pin).

This month will now be considered Cry-tober because every day I'm crying in the club.

I'm crying in the parking lot.

I'm crying in my office.

I'm crying drinking tea.

I'm crying eating breakfast.

I'M CRYING OVER ICE CREAM!

I'm in my feels.

And it hurts!

Don't look at me!

[theseulgis]

Red Velvet 레드벨벳 'Chill Kill' MV

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Started reading temeraire at work and,,,,, oh I am HOOKED I love this ridiculous bisexual and his huge cat dragon

[binah-beloved]

slow blink at Binah from across the room. it's a silent way to say that you love her, and that you hope her day is going well. none of your coworkers notice. they're too busy with the hustle and bustle of work- and you are, too. yet you still make time, time to subtly reassure her that you're still here, she's still here, and that all is relatively well. Binah watches your motion, the eyes she finds akin to the most brilliant stars closing for a moment before opening again, and something warm melts in her chest.

after a minute more of staring, Binah slow blinks back at you.

[i-am-the-oyster]

John talking about Julian in 1975

So I call him and say, “Have you seen Sparks? Hitler on the piano?” and he says, “No. They are alright. But have you seen Queen?” and I say “What’s Queen?” and then he tells me. His age group is hipper to music … at 11 I was aware of music, but not too much.

Ron Mael (hitler on the piano) and Paul dressed as Ron Mael for the Coming Up video

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

Absolutely hate when I catch up on a manga I've been reading back issues of

[blueisasome]

I don't know if I'll ever be over the revelation about The Stepmother's deal in Neverafter. Her revelation that she only exists to make Cinderella sympathetic. Her entire purpose is to be cruel to the hero and nothing she cares about matters at all. Her own name is existentially unimportant. The entire world she lives in is designed around a person she hates.

Like yeah that is terrifying!! I would be angry too! And ultimately aren't her goals similar to the main characters in a way? She wants agency, she wants to be able to make choices, she wants power over her life.

She starts eating everything because what does anyone's suffering matter if they're not real. The existential dread of it all is incredible.

[cooper--jones]

ok but it's the way the fall of the house of usher is a MASTERCLASS in dramatic irony for me

[child-of-hurin]

my love @kareenvorbarra tagged me to share 5 books read since September that I have loved.

Clarimonde (La Morte Amoureuse), Téophile Gautier -- I don't have a single criticism to make about this book :) A wonderful read, I especially loved the execution of the part where the protagonist doesn't know which life is real and which is a dream. I listened to the old Brazilian Portuguese translation available on the Conto um Conto podcast feed and thought it was excellent, e uma amiga leu a belíssima edição da editora Wish e também elogiou bastante -- fica a dica pros lusófonos daqui :)

Le Cycle de la Belle Dame sans Mercy, David Hult & Joan McRae -- It's an anthology of poems and/or contemporary literary endeavors related to La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Alain Chartier), and it's very interesting, and a lot of fun to read, even if sometimes one can't help the exasperation at how much our titular character has to go through for the crime of... being the object of an extremely insistent suitor's obsession :P It's really interesting to see the ways in which many different readers reacted to it though, and a nice contrast to the Roman de la rose that I had just finished. And the poetry itself is lovely -- I wish there was audio or video available of someone reading it out loud, but if there is, I can't seem to find it :'(

Antes do Baile Verde, Lygia Fagundes Telles -- A collection of short stories, I think most of them are available individually in English but the collection itself doesn't seem to have ever been translated into this language. I recently got obsessed with The Hunt (one of the stories), and after listening to every single recording of it I could find, I decided to read it for myself, and ended up reading the whole book, and it's really excellent, I love the way she builds and holds (and almost never resolves) the tension... One of my favorite short story writers ^^

Vita Nostra, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko -- I LOOOOOVED this book, so much that I do not know how to talk about it. I loved it and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished reading it. I am on the verge of rereading it though I know I should wait longer... Anyway if anyone has read insightful conversation/reviews of this book that go beyond praising it, please let me know, I'm very interested!

The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin -- It's such a wonderful experience to read an author who has both a vision and the technical skill to pull it off! My favorite thing about this specific volume were the visuals, I really think they were incredible. I have already forgotten parts of the plot, but I think I remember vividly every single scene with a stone-eater. I'm also sooo pleased by the way she looks at greater social power structures! Been A WHILE since I read original setting fantasy with an actual spine. TBH I was 100% burned out on that specific genre for a while and The Fifth Season is what brought me back. On the side of things I didn't like, there are a couple (that "magic" vocabulary scene was genuinely cringe imo...), but mostly I wish there was more commonplace tenderness, both in-narrative and on a meta level. If it wasn't for Hoa as a narrative element, this book would be unreadable (to me ofc).

Tag uuuh @ourlightsinvain @imindhowwelayinjune @thelioninmybed @bamboocounting @vardasvapors @anghraine @yavieriel @medievalcat @seagodofmagic @hadrianspaywall @nelyafinwe (are you in the room with us giulia...) @hoeratius & anyone else who feels like doing it :)

[parrishsrubberplant]

@allthefoolmine got a book about owls for Christmas and is now infodumping owl facts to our mother.

[scorndotexe]

i've been streaming re4 to my friend who's really into the games and there's been this running joke about luis being my (leon's) husband who keeps abandoning us and ashley being my (leon's) near useless daughter and this running joke has now devolved into full on roleplay. i will stop playing so i can act out a deeply stupid conversation between leon and ashley about something like leon's illegal wall climbing place (because the regular ones don't let him jump down) and my friend will just be losing it in the call. this is potentially more fun than the actual game

[aimportantdragoncollector]

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Sensei | All For, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Class 1-A Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Sensei | All For One, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Eri (My Hero Academia) Additional Tags: Past Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Shirakumo Oboro/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Dead Shirakumo Oboro, All For One is Shouta Aizawa's Father, Parental Sensei | All For One, Abusive Parents, It’s AFO so that tag goes without saying, Sensei | All For One's Bad Parenting, Creepy Sensei | All For One, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Invasion of Privacy, Blackmail, Threats of violence against animals, Angst with a Happy Ending, dysfunctional, Dysfunctional Family, Childhood Memories, Happy Birthday Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Depressed Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Vault Time, Feral Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Hurt Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Suicidal Thoughts, Podfic, Podfic & Podficced Works, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, chapters anyway, the whole thing is, Podfic Length: 1-1.5 Hours Summary:

Shouta Aizawa doesn’t do personal attachments.

His father, All for One, is too good at exploiting them.

[dandelion-jester]

May I suggest... listening to the mechanisms... their songs are about space pirates and death

"why is EVERY song about love" I'm begging you to dig just a tiny bit deeper, there's literally thousands of songs that aren't love songs. You don't even have to look for the most obscure underground artists ever, the fucking Beatles of all people have a song about a guy who kills people with a hammer

[gorjee-art]

a raven father (i call him "pants") I've been feeding sometimes likes to sit outside my window and either wait for more food or just listen to the stuff I'm watching while I draw. Today's a colder day so he likes to fluff up a bit, and I kid you not :

this is an accurate representation of my view