#meh books

[blebbblez]

“Is that what I am? The Hyde to your Jekyll? This is just some kind of bedtime story and I’m the bad guy?! I’m the bad guy for killing the people you sent to shoot me and my sister in the back?!” Nyx tugged angrily at the collar latched around her neck, tears pooling in her eyes. “Heaven forbid I be exactly what you made me to be! Heaven forbid I use the claws you gave me!”

Caren arched an eyebrow and knelt down to Nyx. She gently cupped Nyx’s chin on her palm and wiped the tears off of her pale cheeks. “You’re no Hyde and I’m no Jekyll. I’m Frankenstein and you’re my monster. I never blamed you for being what you are. I only wished you’d let me guide you better into becoming the perfect weapon.”

“I’m not a weapon… I’m just a person!” Nyx’s black claws dug out from under her fingernails and she sunk them into Caren’s arm. “Bleed just like you made me do for years. You’re the monster.” Nyx opened her mouth barring her fangs.

Before Nyx got a chance to finish her attack, Caren simply grabbed a handful of Nyx’s hair and tugged her head back. “Don’t play games with me, angel. You won’t win.” Caren pried Nyx’s claws out of her skin and eyed the blood trickling down her forearm. “So ungrateful… I made you one of the most powerful beings alive and you lash out at me. Me, of all people, the only one who’s given a crap about you- despite how many you’ve killed.”

“The only person who’s ever given a crap about me is my sister- and you cursed her just like you did me!” Nyx slowly pried Caren’s hand free from her own white hair. “I hope you choke on all the blood you shed to make us.”

© 2024 OtterRMS aka blebbblez

[xieliancore]

ghost king!

[twinkrespecter]

finally beating the illiteracy allegations

[theorahsart]

Hello, apparently it's Banned Books Week and I wanted to say something about it.

It's makes me sad that my book has become one of MANY to be banned in libraries. It doesn't affect me much personally or financially, but its scary/worrying because Ive been watching this ripple effect over the last few years, it's a reflection of increasingly visibly hateful attitudes in recent years, and we're starting to see similar protests against books and libraries here in the UK, along with the transphobic and queerphobic violence against those trying to stop these bans.

Pls help to stem misinformation. Pls go to protests. And support authors of banned books/share their books with teens and kids who might no longer have access to them!

[nelistry]

honestly the fact that nico di angelo ended up happy and with a hot bf with a chest tattoo and weird demon kids is literally the best possible ending he deserves it all

[youandthemountains]

you wouldn't know it based on this conversation but the landing party consists of ten security officers and some other ensigns who silently have to watch this nonsense

backseat doctoring/backseat driving:

pov you've been imprisoned by a sentient planet's immune system and one of your party has already been gruesomely impaled but you can't be scared when you're peeved:

Is it still considered pigtail pulling when you already bicker like an old married couple:

spock physically compelled to fire shots out of nowhere in a tense life or death situation bc his bones blinders went on again

again, literally a life or death minute by minute situation. poor Jim.

[somewhereincairparavel]

My hottest take in the pjo fandom: The lost hero >>> The blood of Olympus

The lost hero was a great book and Jason's pov in that particular book was more interesting than his povs in the other hoo books.

[tonhalszendvics]

As I was looking for a copy for myself in English, I came across this one. This is from Slovakia.

I wasn't able to find Brisingr, but here's the other three:

[cheerclaw]

warrior cats fans don't read other books hows star a good book

[nenehyuuchiha]

Tim Drake is DC Taylor Swift

[foldingfittedsheets]

At the local bookstore there’s a system where employees can write a snippet about their favorite stories and they go on the shelf under the book as a little endorsement. On the last visit I very quickly noticed that every book I’d loved in the past year was marked and I instantly trusted the employees.

Then I started bouncing along the shelves to see which books were marked that I hadn’t read yet and instantly put holds on all the ones I was unfamiliar with. I didn’t even read the synopsis. One upshot of this was discovering T. Kingfisher.

Nettle and Bone had a little employee card so I popped a hold on it. It came in a few weeks later and I adored it. The storytelling was beautifully done and I thought, okay, what else you got.

So I got my hands on A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking. I think I’d seen it floating around and written it off cause of the silly cover. Fucking phenomenal, great storytelling, tight pacing, just overall wonderful. Read Thornhedge. Loved it.

So I just moved T. Kingfisher to my “Always Read” list. She has not failed to delight with any of her stories and I’m now pretty confident that regardless of content I’m gonna have a great time.

[arfisrar]

Dramione Month Day 18: Pride and Prejudice

"--you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love--I love--I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

"--your hands are cold."

My favourite scene from the movie 💕

[karleksmumskladdkaka]

RukiYui (+Mukami fam) scans from the Vandead Carnival Official Fanbook (*´ω｀)♡

Spoilers for Ruki's route below!

[hotwaterandmilk]

I'm seeing "Wedding Peach was unsuccessful" trotted out on Twitter again and it's honestly kind of funny to me. You can dislike the series, but you're rewriting history if you suggest it was a massive commercial flop/astronomical failure — it simply wasn't.

The Wedding Peach TV series maintained viewership throughout its run which is why it aired an entire year's worth of episodes (the full length it was intended to run) and didn't get cancelled like Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, for example.

I'm not going to pretend it did Sailor Moon numbers, dear god, it absolutely didn't get close hence why it wrapped as it did. I would suggest looking back now, that it was the definition of a mid-performing title for the time period. It sold toys decently but not outrageously, it got viewers but not an outstanding number, and it garnered a small but dedicated fanbase of male otaku. All of which is par for the course when it comes to a mid title in 1995.

Wedding Peach DX was produced because the TV series LD sales were decent enough to warrant it. Children were not buying LD box sets at this time, adult fans were and it was this interest that justified the creation of the four DX episodes as direct-to-video releases. If a series doesn't sell well they don't make more episodes, let alone higher quality deluxe episodes specifically for the home video market (and thus for older audiences with spending power).

It is very important to point out that Wedding Peach DX had NO INVOLVEMENT from the original creative team. Tomita Sukehiro and Yazawa Nao did not contribute to its creation, Tadano Kazuko didn't provide designs. Yuyama Kunihiko was the driving force behind the production of the DX episodes and he served as both director and writer for all four episodes (bringing on Wedding Peach animator and soon-to-be frequent Pokémon collaborator, Ichiishi Sayuri to serve as character designer).

What inspired these to be fanservice dreck to the level they ended up being is honestly beyond me. I mean the otaku market definitely wanted more episodes featuring the characters (and more songs featuring the seiyuu, if you want to see how keen otaku were for FURIL please see this post) but part of what they liked about the characters at the time was their (barfbarfbarf) perceived purity and innocence. The DX including panty shots and swimsuits kind of threw them for a loop. Even now, if you look at discussions about the DX among otaku there's a bit of a divide in opinion.

The DX episode sales were (as far as I can tell based on magazines from the time) also mid, but enough to cover four episodes. Three and four don't seem to have sold as well as one and two, but again the stats from the time aren't comprehensive. I think the fact that there weren't any after episode four says it all, honestly. OVA episodes are expensive to produce and it was extremely common for them to stop immediately if the sales weren't there. DX didn't justify its existence beyond those four episodes and Yuyama moved onto a far more successful project in Pokémon.

On that topic, I think it's important to note that Wedding Peach was OLM's first television series (albeit a coproduction with KSS). If it and the studio's adaptation of Mojacko hadn't made some level of profit it would have been quite difficult for them to adapt Pokémon. Neither Mojacko nor Wedding Peach set records with their viewership or sales numbers, but they both did "OK". It was in Pokémon however, that that OLM truly found a successful property with the series still running today. Sometimes you've got to have a few runs at producing things before you find success. Wedding Peach was one of these early runs, a project where a lot of people cut their teeth but one that didn't justify its own continuation beyond a certain point. Just a very standard media mix from the mid-90s, in other words.

Wedding Peach is a problematic title with indifference through to outright objection to representing love outside of heterosexual romance. Looking back now it feels like an absolute dinosaur on so many levels. Between the anime's fatphobic episode and Momoko dropping some gender essentialism, I'm not surprised people want to relegate it to the dustbin of history.

However, I think it is very telling that Tomita Sukehiro, when presented with the opportunity to tell a similar story in the modern day, chose to represent not just queer love, but platonic and familial love in Wedding Apple. While he can't undo the regressive and cringy elements of the original series, as a creator he has progressed and I'd like to think we can all continue to improve our outlooks and output as we grow.

Disliking Wedding Peach in the modern day is completely understandable. I'm not going to pretend anyone should watch it in 2024 without knowing that it is a camp, cheaply made relic of a time when heterosexuality was considered magic. However, just because it pandered to all the worst things trending at the time doesn't mean it didn't sell enough products or hold enough viewers to justify its production. It did, it just wasn't a strong enough property to go beyond that and that's representative of mediocrity rather than mind blowing commercial failure imho.

[littlecrow4]

Sometimes when I’m drawing and something doesn’t look right I just sit there for a sec and think “I forgot how to draw basic human anatomy” so then I retry for a million hours until it looks decent enough to me lmao

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I also still don’t know how to to do clothing folds so I just kinda draw lines where I think they fit

[murasaki-cha]

To all of you who say Nico and Will are too cringe I would like to pinpoint these two things:

THEY ARE 15!?!? Who wasn't absolute cringe when they were 15? And on their first relationship no less!

This is literally a book for middle schoolers

And people are too used to the fanon characterization of them