#kelly reads

[snorlaxlovesme]

How to Describe House of Leaves, an attempt by Me

it seems to make the most sense to treat it like an onion, and describe it from the innermost layer and branch outwards

it's about Will Navidson's film The Navidson Record. The Navidson Record is a kind of found footage autobiographical narrative about a filmmaker named Navidson and his family moving into a house that is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, a haunting physical impossibility

but it's not about that, it's about Zampano, the man who wrote this dissertation on The Navidson Record. Zampano is a blind, old man who died in his apartment in an unremarkable way but leaves behind an eerie legacy, a collection of papers inside an old chest that looks like an APA-style dissertation on a horror film/documentary. this dissertation is filled with hundreds of quotes and citations from different sources, all included in great detail in the footnotes

oh, and it's all made up. the film. the citations. Will Navidson. it's all fake.

but it's not about that, it's about Johnny Truant, the man who found the chest full of papers in the old man's apartment, read them, and now is going insane because of it. or maybe not? Johnny feels like he's being stalked by some unknown horrific entity and is powerless to defend himself from it. he's got a fucked up past from two dead parents and a hell of a lot of stories that may or may not be true, and now he's got Zampano's work driving him to nightmares, and the nightmares following him throughout the day. he says as much in long, rambling footnotes of his own that exist beside Zampano's citations

but it's not even about that, it's about the fact that this is the fourth printed edition of this story, complete with colored text, 3 different appendixes, an index, and addition footnotes made by other Editors. this implies that either 1. previous editions existed that didn't have bonus content like that or 2. the author of this book, Mark Z. Danielewski wants you to think other versions of this book exist when they really don't

it's fiction that's like 10 levels deep and i got a headache just typing up that description. just wait til you see letter i just spent 45 minutes decoding

[dearreader]

bro these girls are so fucked

[charmac]

This is genuinely so endearing like they really sat him down in a kindergarten class and taught him to read...and picked out the book based on his special interest ... <3

[kryptonbabe]

This first issue had many high points, but baby Diana bonding with demons in hell... I was not ready for Absolute Cuteness

From Absolute Wonder Woman #1 (2024) by Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman

[meidui]

“There was no end to it, that mutual wanting between them—forever unresolved—that had grown so terribly soft and unbearably romantic with age…”

for @fohatic from the thorn in his side ❤️‍🩹

[sarcastic-clapping]

i haven’t stopped thinking about the implications of daniel saying armand’s martinis were better than Real Rashid’s or the fact that he mentioned how good the martini was in season 1. why would a 500 year old vampire be so good at making a martini exactly how this old man likes???? i’m going insane

[leashybebes]

🍎🍎🍎🍎

For some reason, I love the whole "what is he up to now" of Taylor running into Buck with Tommy.

Signed,

Your Tommy Hates Flying Commercial Friend.

hiiiiiii, thank you! quite a chunk because @waywaychuck and @spxcekya also went for this one.

"Taylor, this is my boyfriend Tommy Kinard. Tommy, this is Taylor Kelly."

"Who needs no further introduction, apparently," Taylor mutters, but she gives Tommy a disconcertingly sweet smile as she shakes his hand.

"Hi, it's great to meet you," Tommy says. They've had the broad strokes of the exes conversation already, so Tommy knows who she is. But Buck's realizing as a blush tries to creep up his face that Tommy probably knows more about Taylor's bedroom preferences than he does about how complicated Buck still feels about a lot of their relationship. Tommy doesn't know that they weren't right for each other, but that they could have been really good friends. He doesn't know how long it took Buck not to stop wanting to message her after they finally called it a day, not in a hey u up way, but in an omg you won't believe what happened way. He doesn't know about the little curl of shame that Buck still gets if he thinks about her saying you made sure of that.

He's spiraling, and Taylor's asking him a question, and Buck has no idea what it is, but Tommy's stepping in, cool and calm as he says, "Oh, no, Evan's definitely the cook."

He sees Taylor register the name, and god, he'd forgotten how much he liked how sharp she can be.

"Oh, for sure. This guy would live on chicken, rice and broccoli if I let him," Buck says.

Taylor wrinkles her nose, and Tommy spreads his arms in apparent defeat. "What can I say, I'm a simple guy."

"And at least Buck looks good in an apron, huh?" Taylor teases, and that blush Buck's been fighting suddenly and completely wins the battle because. Well. That's probably not something he needs to be thinking about right now. 

It's a little disconcerting to see Taylor and Tommy's matching smirks and to realize in real-time that wow, I definitely have a type and it might be snarkily competent. Tommy takes a breath to say something and Buck braces himself for Tommy's particular brand of deadpan teasing to meet Taylor's and wow, he's seeing all kinds of patterns today, apparently.

[kemsyne]

Wayfarer Prompt - Rock Bottom.

And then they went to Rona.

Wayfarer IF and the king of jokes Aeran Kellis are created by the one and only @idrellegames

[mariaashby64]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

ACE KELLY, ACE KELLY, ACE KELLY.

This genuinely made me so happy. I had hopes when I read the first book but I've been burned by the "late bloomer/haven't found the right person" trope before, so I didn't want to get them too high up.

He's one of my fave characters too, and he's written so well here. Genuine joy. What a gift for pride month.

[snorlaxlovesme]

started reading House of Leaves this week so if anyone's looking for me I'm probably ramming my head through a wall adding new spatial dimensions to my house

[dearreader]

book peeta walked into the hunger games thinking he was going to die but if he died he’d atleast died flirting and teasing his childhood crush

[soracities]

Once I loved a man who was a lot like the desert, and before that I loved the desert. It wasn’t particular things but the space between them, that abundance of absence, that is the desert’s invitation. There the geology that underlies lusher landscapes is exposed to the eye, and this gives it a skeletal elegance, just as its harsh conditions—the vast distances between water, the many dangers, the extremes of heat and cold—keep you in mind of your mortality. But the desert is made first and foremost out of light, at least to the eye and the heart, and you quickly learn that the mountain range twenty miles away is pink at dawn, a scrubby green at midday, blue in the evening and under clouds. The light belies the bony solidity of the land, playing over it like emotion on a face, and in this the desert is intensely alive, as the apparent mood of mountains changes hourly, as places that are flat and stark at noon fill with shadows and mystery in the evening, as darkness becomes a reservoir from which the eyes drink, as clouds promise rain that comes like a passion and leaves like redemption, rain that delivers itself with thunder, with lightning, with a rise of scents in this place so pure that moisture, dust, and the various bushes all have their own smell in the sudden humidity.

Rebecca Solnit, from "Two Arrowheads", A Field Guide to 'Getting Lost

[kryptonbabe]

His name is Pegasus, he's not only a Pegasus, he is THE mythological winged horse Pegasus

"Can I pet him?"

From Absolute Wonder Woman #2 (2024)

[jack-kellys]

there is actually such a sadness in katherine asking jack if he wants to go to art school and specifically he says “that ain’t what i want” bc art is this thing he is cursed with being good at the expense of himself being seen. and then when she asks what he wants he says “can’t you see it in my eyes?” guys he just wants to been seen for his actual self and looked at :/ cause if she’s looking at his eyes she’s looking at him :///

[preppyandpreppy]

[charmac]

thoughts on charlie learning how to read?

As to the effect, I think we’ll have to wait to see what really comes of it, considering the very final joke of the episode is he thinks “guest” on the scoreboard says “ghost,” they definitely made a point to make it clear he’s not necessarily literate by any means beyond “enough to graduate kindergarten”

I do like what Justin and Patrick, the EPs for Abbott said about the longevity of that establishment:

In the end, it’s definitely what Sunny and Charlie Day decide to do with this canon. We know the Abbott ep was filmed before any of the episodes for Season 17 of Sunny, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that they do stick with the idea that Charlie doesn’t struggle as much with reading and writing and maybe has a little kick in him to keep practicing.

Personally on the existence of the storyline now incorporated into Sunny canon, I think they did it in such a fantastic way it’s hard for me to argue anything against or say anything negative. I loved watching it. The thing I love about Abbott is the heart they have in the stories and how real a lot of what they address and tackle in childhood-into-adult development is, and you feel that here, for sure. And we’re watching Abbott, not Sunny, so it’s something removed from the purgatory of the bar.

For those of us that know and love Charlie, I think it’s hard to not feel soft toward this idea that (even if it doesn’t stick or it’s so so basic) there really truly are ways for the Gang to develop and improve on their faults/stubbornness to change, provided it’s treated the right way. And that can only be done (and maybe only continue) in a completely different environment, like Abbott.

The tragedy of Sunny and the Gang is that they’ll never treat each other in that way and therefore can rarely develop. It’s not that they don’t necessarily care, but that their communication methods are so crude and fulled by (often trauma-born) selfishness, they can never give each other the support needed to help improve each other. They make each other miserable in most cases, but they’re also content with that because they almost equally inflict what they take on....

Though Sunny isn't all complete misery, as we all know. They do love each other in fucked up ways and (maybe) almost wish they could help each other in certain respects. Mac's support and encouragement of Charlie being able to read is evident in many Sunny episodes, so it really warmed my heart that Charlie was so eager to show Mac how he had learned and could do a more difficult part of the book for him :) In my opinion, they kept it well aligned with Sunny canon. The Gang don't have the tools to teach Charlie to read, but they do all support and even partly enjoy him learning if they don't have to do it themselves.

I think what we see of Charlie in the Sunny episode will be interesting. Since he's the A plot in Abbott, I have to imagine he has a minor role in Sunny, but will certainly be present. If the idea here is that everyone other than Dennis is serving to distract the teachers, and Charlie only learned to read for the week and goes back to his baseline state of illiteracy, I think I would accept that too.

The lasting effect of the plot doesn't matter too much to me. I think instead the idea that, in the right environment, Charlie can learn to read (and even gets some sense of pride and excitement out of being able to read) but Paddy's and the Gang are really what hinder him from being able to do so (despite the Gang not necessarily against the idea, and considering the fact that Charlie contributes to and prefers the environment they've created) reinforces the Sunny that we hold dear.