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cellsshapedlikestars · 1 year ago

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I love all of your fics and like the general vibe of them. I can't really like articulate the vibe, but mainly I'm thinking of Mongrel Heart, Help Me Out of the Shape I'm In, The Night We Met, and Is There a Ghost. I love these so much. Weird question, but do you have any book recommendations that are like these fics? I don't know if you've read anything that sort of inspired how you write, but if so, I would love to know them!

I just had so much fun going downstairs and combing through my bookcases, thank you anon

I feel like I'm more inspired by music than I am books, and I'll be honest, as I get older, I read less and less (alas). But when I was younger, all I did was read. Nancy Drew & any fantasy book I could get my hands on as a kid. Then I went through my pretentious phase while working at Barnes & Noble, where I would pick out the most obscure looking fiction books while I scanned the section (this was also my nonfiction phase). Then I got really into mysteries. Now I barely have any attention span and mostly read romance, but otherwise I'm always on the lookout for semi-fantasy/fairytale/creepy vibes sort of things. (If anyone has recommendations for me, I'd gladly take them. Especially creepy novellas. Adore those, as you could probably tell from my list)

Under the cut for actual recs because as usual I cannot shut up:

1. This one is the most direct answer, the semi inspiration for Mongrel Heart - cop goes back to hometown, starts remembering Thing In the Woods.

I love Tana French in general. If I had to pick one author I feel like I took the most inspiration from, it would be her. This one I remember not loving the ending of, but clearly the vibes & general plot stuck with me. I'd actually recommend The Likeness (which I've also thought about jonsa-ing) and The Secret Place.

2. Do I normally vibe with Stephen King? Eh. I only tried to read one of his horror books once, The Shining, and I just could not get into it. But pulp Stephen King?? Yes please. I really dug this mystery, as well as The Colorado Kid a whole lot.

I have read a ton more mystery series, but these stuck with me the most. Shoutout to the foreign mysteries I read back when I liked to torture myself with really depressing things (sjowall & wahloo, indridason, mankell...)

3. If you're just looking for some creepy-vibes books:

(Of note, World More Full of Weeping & Light Boxes I read at least a decade ago in my B&N "buy any weird looking pretentious book" phase, but I remember really liking them, especially World More Full of Weeping. Carnality I read recently. I both hated it and couldn't stop thinking about it.)

4. Fairytail-esque but also with creepy vibes:

(I remember really liking Bear and the Nightingale, have thought of jonsa-ing it, but I'd need to reread it. RIP to my copy of Comfort Me with Apples, I think my friend borrowed it?)

5. Non-fiction that gave me those good good vibes

AND BECAUSE I CANT DO MORE THAN TEN IMAGES HERE ON TUMBLR DOT COM

Not pictured non-fiction:

The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

Just Kids - Patti Smith (although I did read this when I was deathly ill so that might account for the surreal vibes I got reading it?)

#cellsshapedlikeasks #books #there is a story #that i wanted to include here #but i read it a very long time ago #and only remember basics #and i don't even remember if it was a short story or a full novel #i tried skimming through a bunch of my short story collections #(forgot to mention my short story phase)#but i couldn't find it #which sucks because i feel like it fits the question #because i think about it a lot #like the tone of it #and how it made me feel #i really can never shut up can i

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briarrolfe · 2 months ago

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Sometimes I think about my old manager at work who, in order to prove that the organisation was safe for trans people, told me about a fellow trans employee—a woman who was passing! who wasn’t out to me or to anyone else!—and about how chill everyone in management had been about her needing to take time off TO GET VAGINOPLASTY. He was not her manager! He was not her friend! He did not work in HR! There was no way he could have come into this PRIVATE MEDICAL INFORMATION without being told by another manager who had gossiped. And even if there had been, why the fuck was it any of my business!

Likewise, a friend of mine was just told by a school principal about how a prospective school was safe for trans kids… because a trans girl whose parents don’t affirm her at home is able to be affirmed at school. This information about this child’s gender and home environment was relayed along with her FUCKING GRADE LEVEL. This incredibly vulnerable kid was wheeled out as a selling point by the school with way more than enough information to figure out who she was.

In order to make the argument that a place is safe for trans people, cis people are wayyyy too happy to give out private information about trans people. With allies like these, who needs enemies!!!

#trans politics #ally bullshit #I don’t know that this doesn’t go both ways… I suspect I have been used as an example myself! but I still feel it’s a #transmisogyny #moment. like. Outing a trans girl to indicate safety to a transmasc? that’s not without a Tone.

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melonsharks · 2 months ago

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pacifica, mabel + relativity falls with transfem dipper aka losing your sister and discovering you have one all in the same day

my og tweet abt this below

#gravity falls #mabel pines #pacifica northwest #dipper pines #transfem dipper #relativity falls #gabuart #coloring gets super messy at the end bc i drew it seperately #and got lazy #but it looks like a stylistic choice for the tone so lets just say that it is

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quixoticanarchy · 2 years ago

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I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid

#an autobiography #skravler #*editing tags to add: ftr i dont like the addition to this post and it was not meant to have the 'use your words like an Adult' tone #it's abt refusing to play out bad/bigoted/uncomfortable/pointless social scripts; not abt fighting passive aggression w more of it #and calling yourself a real adult for it

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months ago

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Hey now, Let her cook!

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #senshi #laios touden #marcille donato #izutsumi #oyasumi punpun #<- In case you are wondering what the source for the little bird guy is.#Yeah that's right. I'm back to my extremely obscure crossover BS.#Punpun is one of those series that falls under the category of 'Good! but I cannot responsibly recommend this to anyone."#If Dungeon Meshi is like a friend asking you to go on a quick errand and you accidently go on a life changing roadtrip -#Punpun is your friend asking to go on a quick errand and they pull up to the vet and tell you your dog is being put down.#Then they explode into sludge. Melting your car. You hitchhike back but the person who picked you up is an axe murderer.#I could not finish it. My friends who did say it was good. But agree it was for the best I did not finish it.#Hey speaking of tone twists...We are one episode away from one of my favourite chapters being animated!#WHO'S READY FOR THE SENSHI BACKSTORY! WHO IS READY TO CRY!#ME! I AM! I spooked my flatmate with how energetic I was this morning. I'm vibrating with energy I was not designed to contain.#I should talk about today's episode here: It was very good. I love how they animated the familiars.#And!!! Anime only people now are in the loop on the Chilchuck lore. Part 1 of many. He still contains multitudes.#They all do to be honest! If this episode told us anything it was that we still don't know these characters as well as we think!#See you guys next week. I'll be inconsolable.

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 10 months ago

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"ummm the global strike was called on such short notice we need more time to plan ahead this just isn't gonna work it feels like slacktivism :///" hmm lets try to figure out why a palestinian journalist in gaza who has been documenting her own genocide for the past hundred fucking days called for a global strike on short notice during a livestream while the hospital she was sheltering in was being attacked and she believed she was going to be killed that night. lets think about it. lets put our thinking caps on. lets sit down in our thinking chair and think think think

#i saw someone call it slacktivism and i genuinely wonder if they're allergic to critical thinking #like. do you hear how tone deaf you sound. i do not think you do #mine #free palestine #bisan owda #wizard bisan #free gaza #palestine #global strike

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hinamie · 2 months ago

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I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #megumi fushiguro #yuji itadori #itafushi #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #jjk leaks #jjk art #fushiguro tsumiki #took all afternoon but we wrangled the colours in2 submission #it was looking very green and kind of muddy #so i toned down the saturation in a bunch of places pulled in a lot more grey #kept a lot of the shadows Hard #i think it works #not sure it's the absolute best it cld be but i am Satisfied with it #overall i ws just kind of worried that it was looking rly similar to past pieces colour-wise #i think it kind of still Is but not as much as it would have been had i not made those edits #anyway. emo hours #ive been listening to jubyphonic's piano arr of shelter and thinking abt megumi #thinking abt him growing up n looking back on himself n seeing himself in tht lonely little boy #'it's a long way forward so trust in me' smth smth finding the strength to guide that kid forward even though both of u are scared #bc at the end of the day u Are still that kid #inner child stuff usually doesnt resonate much with me bc i don't like who i was/am/whatever this aint abt me #but in regards to megumi????? OW #in lighter news i remembered at the absolute last minute to lob off the top of yuuji's ear #bc that injury at least i think he keeps ghfssdfhfgsj

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autumn-may · 11 months ago

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Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

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havenshereagain · 2 months ago

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DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app