#letters to the farm

[cloverfarm]

hi j, my cutie pie sweetie muffin lil guy, i saw you're doing cute mood boards and I was wondering if you'd maybe want to do one for noraxmrqi 🥺🩷 I love your mood boards so much, it would be so lovely to have one if you aren't too too busy! 🩷 ily!!

hi hi kat ily and I would be so honored to do a moodboard for nora x mr qi!! they are so lovely, i was excited to work on this 🩵 and you are sweet - i am so happy you like them (and super crossing my fingers that you’ll like this one I made for you!)

nora x mr qi

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[a-door-to-somewhere]

Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it

[redlettermediathings]

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Scorpion surprise (found in the shower). Cochise County, Arizona, May 2024.

[shyhandart]

Hey there! Do you perhaps have more Tempest and AJ stuff? Maybe some headcannons? You've planted worms into my brain

But wait, theres more!!

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[lexa-griffins]

How happy was Madi when she found out her wish came true?

Madi is beyond herself with joy!! She's been asking! She goes to day care for a few hours on certain days and she has a couple of friends who talk about their siblings and she wants one sooooo badly.

She is so tired of playing alone.

They wait until they are out of their first trimester to tell Madi. Even if Clarke is bouncing off the walld with excitment and just wants to touch Lexa's barely there bump. They are doing their bedtime routine with Madi when Clarke walks in with her hands behind her back, exclaiming she has a surprise for Madi, Lexa sitting by Madi's toddler bed. It's a sweet bunny plushie, a blush pink one. Madi is so excited to have a new friend!

"You have to learn to take care of this tiny one very well okay ducky?"

"I will mama!!" She promises, holding it against her chest.

"It'll be your practice baby." Clarke continues softly, exchanging a look with Lexa.

Madi turns her head slightly, frowning in confusion.

"For when the baby inside mommy's tummy comes out."

She's four. It takes her a second. But once she understands it her big blue eyes fill up with tears, "A baby?"

"Your little sister is growing in my tummy right now baby, and in 6 months she'll be here." Lexa half whispers as she wipes a tear running down Madi's cheek.

They expected screaming from their wild nearly 4 year old, jumping on the bed maybe. Nothing could really prepare them for the way Madi looks up at Lexa with her mouth opened as if to fully process the shock before she very gently gets herself closer to Lexa's bump and kisses it with the cutest toddler grin, "Hiii baby sistah, im your big sistah! And we're gonna be friends forevah and evah!"

[ofliterarynature]

NOVEMBER 2024 WRAP UP

[ loved liked okay nope dnf (reread) ]

Kicking Ice • (The Bride of the Blue Wind) • Animal Farm • The Lost Manuscript • Heart's Blood • Hotel • The Liar's Knot • The Education of Pip • The Glassblower • Terec and the Wall • (The Hands of the Emperor) • The Village Library Demon Hunting Society • One Good Turn • The Silence of Bones • (The Raven Tower) • The Art Thief • Safer Places • Letters to Half-Moon Street

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Letters to Half-Moon Street - an absolutely charming epistolary regency romance told mostly through letters between the main character, his siblings, and his love interest. The mc is gay and demi-sexual (and a younger son) in a queer-norm England where gender norms have been replaced by rules about birth order, and there's magic - it's very Sorcery & Cecelia meets KJ Charles (if not quite as good). As I said, very charming, but when I read the two shorter follow ups, One Good Turn and The Education of Pip, it was pretty clear that the epistolary format (and romance) helped cover a lot of hurts. I applaud the author for including an aromantic character and trying to write stories about finding your place and self-recovery without romance, but in her attempt to create comfort she sacrificed any real development to the characters or the plot. (also, while the rich upper class characters are exceedingly nice to the lower-class characters, we still almost never see any of their servants. hmm.) There's a few more books in the series that are romances (and at least one looks like it might be epistolary), so we'll have to see if she improves. Fantastic covers though!

Safer Places - a comic collection that was supposed to be for my book club but didn't quite work out unfortunately! These comics were very strange and dreamlike, making me not quite sure what happened but very much wanting to think about it. The artist also returned to a story idea several times, sometimes taking on an entirely new shape, and it really lent a sense of connection to the book as a whole. Would recommend!

The Art Thief - I'm not really one for more narrative-type nonfiction or for true crime, but non-violent crime involving fine art? I don't know why I find the fine-art world (and crime) so fascinating, but I do, and I enjoyed this! It was actually a fairly nice, chill read to distract myself with in the middle of the election.

The Raven Tower - revisiting my first Ann Leckie 5 years later - this was incredible! Slow yes, but watching the story build itself out of all the pieces was absolutely fascinating. 100% satisfied with the ending, but it was also a bit of a cliff-hanger? I'll be absolutely fascinated to see what kind of stories Leckie felt compelled to write that take up half of the Lake of Souls collection.

The Silence of Bones - DNF @ 11%. I was very interested in this as a historical mystery with a female protagonist set in Korea, but leery of it being YA. I admit I wasn't a big fan of the audiobook narrator, but an hour and a half into the audiobook I still hadn't hadn't settled into the story, so decided to drop it.

The Village Library Demon Hunting Society - This was very high on my watch-list for 2024 due to my love for CM Waggoner's first book Unnatural Magic, but was somewhat leery of the cozy-fantasy vibes it was giving. My first shock came when it turned out to have a fairly modern and contemporary setting and was not in a fantasy other-world, though as expected it was definitely going for the cozy-fantasy and elderly-person-solves-murder vibes that are popular right now, and with which I've personally had mixed results. Overall though, it was aiming to be a sort of meta-commentary on cozy mystery tropes, which I think it was successful at! I think it definitely did better than its sci-fi cousin, the Midsolar Murders series by Mur Lafferty. I just wish it had a better title, this one is a bit of a mouthful and only semi-relevant.

The Hands of the Emperor - started slowly rereading this a few months ago with the intention of getting around to my first reread of the sequel. Honestly, the perfect book to be reading during an absolutely horrible election, I imagine I'll be burying my head in the Nine Worlds a lot in the upcoming years.

I wasn't quite ready to head directly into AtFotS after finishing Hands, so jumped around to some of Victoria's short stories I hadn't read yet. Terec and the Wall is the second Terec story - I admit I really don't have much interest in this sub-series? This one in particular was at least interesting in the second half because of its crossover with the Greenwing & Dart series, so I recommend you don't read this until you've read that. The Glassblower was...fine. It showed promise, but it was so short! I hope the second part fleshes out more, but idk. It's also related to the Ysthar collection of books, which is the only part of the Nine Worlds that I haven't bothered to revisit yet. To skip ahead a bit, the third of the Sisters Avramapul novellas is finally out! It's been a while so I decided to reread the first two books, starting with The Bride of the Blue Wind. It's a Bluebeard retelling and deals with pregnancy/body horror and is not for the faint-hearted! Sardeet was SO YOUNG in this, I don't think I quite realized before. Good but not my favorite of the series.

The Liar's Knot - loved loved loved. These books are so good even if (or because?) all of the plot twists are somewhat soap-operatic. I think this is my favorite in the series because the characters are a bit more settled but also having to learn to trust each other. And all of the secret identity reveals!!! I had a wonderful time.

Hotel -DNF @ 8%. picked this up at a recent library sale because a mystery at a hotel sounds cool! Then I started it on audiobook and realized it was a thriller (not my thing) written by a guy in the 60's (ditto). What I read was certainly passable and maybe I could have gotten through it, but I lost interest.

Heart's Blood - I've seen Marillier's work around somewhere, and picked this one up at a library book sale at some point. I got so close to DNF'ing this early on and almost wish I had. It wasn't bad I think, it has some beauty-and-the-beast vibes, but it felt excruciatingly slow, and something that I couldn't quite put my finger on was annoying the heck out of me. It made me wish more times than I should admit that I was reading Chalice by Robin McKinley instead. I'm not entirely scared off of trying Marillier's other work, but I'd proceed with extreme caution.

The Lost Manuscript - DNF @ 19%. A surprisingly lighthearted novel told in letters about a woman who finds a manuscript in a hotel bedside table and proceeds to track down the original author, only to discover someone else had added to the manuscript at some point after he lost it. She and her contacts try and trace its history back to find the mystery author. Seemed very nice, if you're looking for something calm and lighthearted? Just not what I was looking for at the time.

Animal Farm - somehow managed to escape reading this for school, and a podcast I listen to loves recommending this, so I picked up a copy at the same sale as Heart's Blood. I feel like I spent most of the book sagely nodding my head, like yup, that's how it can be! Very smart book, not a favorite but I'm glad I read it.

Kicking Ice - backed this on Kickstarter ages ago when I was still deep in my Check, Please! fervor. Finally picked it up because it was short and I needed to finish another book for my owned-tbr challenge. It was ok. Maybe a better choice if you're a young girl interested in hockey or sports in general? I also didn't like the art style used for most of the book, so a pass from me. I'm sure a lot of the info about the NWHL is also outdated by this point.

[sapphicdib]

5 of ur favorite games + fav character(s) from those games!!

1. Rain World (duh) - and oh wow who would have guessed my favs are Moon, Sig, and Hunter LMFAO

2. Cult of the Lamb - Heket

3. Hollow Knight - Hornet (i’m gay)

4. Portal - Glados (IM GAY)

5. Stardew Valley - Haley (IM GAY)

[cloverfarm]

Hi I see you've been doing mood boards and I love them!! Saw them reblogged by my moots. If that's okay could you make farmer Beau's mood board? 🥹 (no pressure)

hi! thank you so much! And thanks for sending this, I’d love to make one for beau! I loved reading about him (and elliott, and their family! 🥺💖 you have so many awesome posts about them) - I added a couple ellibeau hints on this moodboard with the love letter & hands. I hope you like this! 💕

farmer beau

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[fullscoreshenanigans]

While some kids must have the same mum, which is normal; because if we take only Grace Field, there are not so THAT much sisters who will complete their training in the HQ compared to all the kids in all the orphanages of GF (considering how hard is the traning, when we sees Krone's extra). Considering Isabella's words, Emma is the first she planned to propose for years. Maybe the FIRST she planned to propose. So it must not happen THAT often.

I mean in Isabella's orphanage they were 33 i think? and if there are 5 orphanages, we have 165 children for all Grace Field, with 6 new every year for every place so 30 by year. So every year 30 babies must be born.

So it's logical that some have the same mother. And i fell bad for the sisters who have to do that few times. It must be a torture.

But i wonder....the fathers must be sperm donators who doesn't know anything about the system. But I wonder how much kids have the same 'father'.

From your ask from a few months ago, we confirmed Grace Field is made up of five plants, and Ray confirms in chapter 4/episode 2 that there are 37 kids after Conny's shipment and prior to Carol's arrival.

(S1 Episode 1; Isabella also apparently reminds of their numbers every day at meal time)

(Minerva Confidential Report released with the S1 Blu-ray; 38 children accounted for on October 12, 2045)

The last chapter of the first light novel takes place around Norman's birthday in March 2045 and is also titled "The Gift from the 39th Girl" (available as a sound drama here) which further supports they keep at the very least plant no.3 supplied with 38 kids the majority of the time between shipments.

Assuming that number is applied to the other four plants, there's roughly 190 kids in the orphanages at any given time in Grace Field's current incarnation.

if we take only Grace Field, there are not so THAT much sisters who will complete their training in the HQ compared to all the kids in all the orphanages of GF (considering how hard is the training, when we sees Krone's extra). Considering Isabella's words, Emma is the first she planned to propose for years. Maybe the FIRST she planned to propose. So it must not happen THAT often.

And like I said in that earlier ask and this one, I still don't understand how the math works out for this given how brutal and unforgiving headquarters is, but we go along on Shirai's ride and chalk it up to dystopian horror magicks to explain how they kept this up for centuries.

I could believe Emma is the first sister candidate Isabella offered a recommendation for the mom position in years given the significance of them being narrative foils and Emma potentially being among the first children Isabella raised entirely by herself at plant no.3 for added poignancy, though with how she was also the only mom who had the older girls exclusively assisting her in the care of the youngest babies

(Chapter 7 | Chapter 12)

I think you could just as easily argue she recommended multiple girls before Emma with how she maximized their time for pursuits that would better equip them to become sisters/moms. (Why "waste" it on boys when their only future was to be food? Further entrenchment in rigid, traditional gender roles).

So it's logical that some have the same mother. And i fell bad for the sisters who have to do that few times. It must be a torture. But i wonder....the fathers must be sperm donators who doesn't know anything about the system. But I wonder how much kids have the same 'father'.

Shirai never ever touching this with a 20-foot pole with how icky the dehumanization of the farm system feels already in the present:

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 Q&A)

Without even getting into how they handled things prior to artificial insemination. (Though I do personally favor a member of the Ratri clan's branch family being a male relative of Norman's two to four generations back).

But yeah, the people themselves probably just think they're donating to a regular licensed sperm bank that guarantees anonymity between all parties involved, so they wouldn't know if their genetic material was being used even under regular circumstances, and with the Ratri clan's power even into the present day after WWIII when countries and borders have been abolished, they still had enough influence where they could arrange deals with these banks to provide enough genetic material to keep all the farms going without anyone really questioning it.

I like the Emma & Carol, Norman & Rossi, and Norman & Sherry are (half-biological) siblings through their moms theories, but maybe in the human world they do genetic testing and find out who they're related to among the cattle children and among people in the human world through their sperm donors.

[sorrellegiance]

dropped my sandwich box today and only had 3/4s of a sandwich for sandwxchange with my friend 😭😭 got into the number one grad program for my thing 😭😭 and also told my mom that if i'm staying in the bay i'm changing my damn name and she took it really well what a DAY

[lettersfromavalon]

Again, mod creators so bloody talented. Look at these obelisks? I’m so amazed by the talent on nexus. I endorse everyone of these and I’ve more I still need to endorse. Yes I am working on a list!

[lexa-griffins]

Lexa: What's mommy's name?

Madi: Mommy

Lexa: What's Mama's name?

Madi: Claaaaaaaarke!!!!

Clarke, rushing in like the dutiful wife she is: you called?

In Lexa's defense..... the farm is still bigger than most houses and sometimes she's gotta get Clarke's attention via yelling 🤣

Madi now likes to yell "maaaaamaaaaaaaa" to get Clarke's attention. Although Clarke keeps telling her she is right there, in front of her, the yelling is really not necessary.

When Clarke becomes older, her hearing goes first. It goes full circle to a 50 year old Madi yelling MAMA and Lexa yelling CLARKE to get her attention 😅

[finnisnotdrowning]

throwback to the time a literal week ago i got extra english help because i kept accidentally spelling things with ph when they were meant to be f...

[therentyoupay]

will i???? be able to open??? the google doc?????? i think???? i THINK I SHALL????