#kelly reads

[dearreader]

bro these girls are so fucked

[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

[lokielly]

“and while lenore dove will forever be my true love, louella is my one and only sweetheart.”

that line hits so hard when you realize how quickly he was calling katniss sweetheart. through katniss’ eyes, it seemed insincere at first, almost like haymitch was mocking her. but now we truly know haymitch wouldn’t just throw that around. he truly cared for her from the start.

[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 ❤️‍🩹

[huariqueje]

Poppy and the Moon - Nicole Kelly , 2022.

Australian , b. 1986 -

Oil on polyester , 117 x 107 cm.

[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

[we-are-inevitable]

it really breaks my heart imagining jack reading those little dime novels. he’s never been the best at reading- the letters get all jumbled and he has to sound the words out sometimes still, so getting new books is both a rare treat and something anxiety-inducing. but he has one, one with a bright cover and cracked spine and worn pages, that he’s nearly memorized. it’s easy to read that one. it’s an old comfort. it doesn’t make him feel like he’s not smart enough to get the words right. it doesn’t feel like he’s making things up when he skims the pages. it’s marked up and there are doodles on the pages and the cover is being held together by a dream. it’s his favorite.

[sloasis]

I think it is super interesting how Eddie and Ana go on a date and literally the NEXT episode , Buck starts dating again . And ( in the same episode , 4x8 btw ) then when Eddie and Ana are seemingly getting serious ( telling Chris he's dating ) , Buck meets up with Taylor again and then gets with her . They both get into these relationships that turn pretty serious in season 4 practically at the SAME time . This in my opinion is like the start of the Buddie slow burn to be honest , they always date at the same time and are single at the same time , why ? No clue but they are totally normal about each other so dating when the other starts to as well is fucking textbook for them , just two totally normal codependent platonic best friends :)

[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

[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

[lokielly]

“plutarch seems genuinely happy, saying he's going to be able to edit the clips together into some fine propos. he sighs when he mentions the tools that were abolished and incapacitated in the past, ones deemed fated to destroy humanity because of their ability to replicate any scenario using any person. ‘and in mere seconds!’ he snaps his fingers to emphasize their speed. ‘i guess it was the right thing to do, given our natures. we almost wiped ourselves out even without them, so you can imagine. but oh, the possibilities!’”

WACK GENERATIVE AI AGAIN FOR ME, SUZANNE!

[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)

[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.

[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