#mentum

[klfg]

No pinky promises here

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[elsantodelrock]

Mentum y Zombic: No Goodbye

Mentum es el dueto de origen noruego, integrado por Tim and Finn, quienes dedicados a la onda Pop y Dance de perfil alternativo vienen trabajando juntos desde 2014, llegando a nuestra audiencia para presentar su colaboración con el productor alemán, Zombic. No Goodbye es la catarsis para la situación en la cual tienes que abandonar la misión en beneficio mutuo, para evitar el conflicto que, si…

[lanihaluki]

day 1 of james riley appreciation week | prom🕺🪩

me when I’m like 3 months late to posting this😔 gonna do a few more prompts that I’ll post soon!!

[rosa-lilisrandomness]

Happy (Late) Story Thieves 10th Anniversary!!

I drew this fanart of the 7 story thieves to celebrate! This series is incredible, the plot is the perfect mix of intriguing, heartwarming, captivating, and humorous, so if you've never read the series, I'd definitely recommend it! It was a really fun experience for me to read the series since it helped me during the pandemic and it still has a great impact on me now.

[minticai]

Charm and Owen were my true first otp and I still love them ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

[sobeksewerrat]

Are there any Story Thieves fans here on tumblr? Please? I have many words bottled up since I first read Book 1

I need to talk about Owen and his development. I need to talk about EarthGirl and Bethany. I need to talk about Charm. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT KIEL AND KARA DOX AND WHY THEY SHOULDVE GOTTEN MORE TIME TO SHINE (ESPECIALLY KIEL) AND I WANNA TALK ABOUY HOW COOL BOOK 4 WAS AND-

[justarandomidiot1]

Story Thieves: Worlds Apart by James Riley

[librarydragon9]

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually a cinnamon roll: Owen

Looks like a cinnamon roll, can actually kill you: Bethany

Looks like they can kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll: Kiel

Looks like they can kill you, will actually kill you: Charm

[cylidae]

It's been eight years and these two still have my heart. I still remember being a preteen and squealing at the epilogue of the first book. I remember sobbing at the fakeout Charm death. It's so incredible to me that a book meant for elementary school kids could have such a profound impact on me, but I still adore these characters to the moon and back.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

"You would have spent the whole period of your manhood in brothels, and cookshops, and in gambling and drinking, as you used to do when you were always burying your brains and your beard in the laps of actresses." - Cic. Phil. 13.24 trans. Younge

[ut faciebas, cum in gremiis mimarum mentum mentemque deponeres]

Antony giving head moment?

[rosa-lilisrandomness]

James Riley Appreciation Week 2024

Day 2: I chose theater! I drew Owen, Charm, Kiel, and Bethany watching the Kiel Gnomenfoot movie! 🤣

[nenoname]

it's a bit of a shame that people didnt really talk about all the tests that ford did which probably included project mentum and flatout going into stan's mindscape again, and how that was probably doomed from the start cos stan is great at repressing shit, especially if the only thing ford comments on is stan's jokes and not... literally everything??

[f-imaginings]

Do you think its possible for Bill to even ‘love’ Stanford? Its a loaded question I know but I'm of the belief that he does love him in his version of what he believes love to be.

🤔 hmmmm I can only speak to his characterisation in kmky. Book of bill is a different story.

I think love can be an excellent redeeming force, and to truly be redeemed by love you have to be open to receiving it (self hatred can make that difficult, but to borrow a truism from Fruits Basket, the concept of "no one will love you until you love yourself" is flawed, sometimes we need the push and support of someone loving us for it to be easier to accept we are worthy of love). The key to making love "work" as a redeeming force is you've got to strive to be worthy of it. Love is constant innovation, "he loved her to the point of invention" is also a very true thing here.

I think if Bill were able to follow through on the progress he was making before chapter 34 he could have got there. He might have strived for a solution that would work for the both of them, invented a way he could have his cake and eat it too, and if Stanford didn't have his own abandonment issues and trust issues they could have kept blossoming.

Post portal Bill leans into the "if you love someone let them go" play, giving Stanford a looser leash than he could have with his multiversal travels. He kind of has to given project mentums coding. Even so there were a billion different ways he could have captured Ford sooner. He even tries again at fixing things with the date at the bibliosphere.

Bill has a habit of burning his bridges in response to setbacks though. It's a destructive "I'll hurt you before you hurt me" and a fall back into the coping strategy of "it hurts too much to care so I just won't care". Much of his life is also transactional so accepting something unconditionally without a catch wouldn't sit right with him. Love is also trusting someone with your most vulnerable parts, and years of having to project strength as a being of pure energy with no weaknesses would be hard to shake to properly bare those vulnerabilities.

Some of his deals are very telling though. The until the end of time deal is one of them.

I don't think I can say more without spoiling my plans for the ending of the fic but I am hoping to explore some of these themes in the spin off too. The rest I'll leave up to your interpretation 🤷

[strid3rofthen0rth]

Some of you may be privy to, and fluent in, the intricacies of the deeply guarded secret code of Dude Nods, Chin Signals, and Head Tilts. A language passed down from man to man, virtually unchanged, since time immemorial.

Some of you may not be familiar. Fear not. Herein, I will share with you an example of the Lingua Mentum in action.

This particular interaction happens almost exclusively in the wilds of the Big Box Store. One with a lumber and building supplies yard attached. It happens fleetingly and not terribly often, but often enough to be statistically significant. For a person who visits the lumber yard once a week, such as this author, this interaction may ensue quarterly.

You're pushing one of those lumber yard carts made for holding big, long boards and sheet goods. Approaching the registers slowly and carefully, so as to not deck a small child or casually unobservant member of the public. It's a big load of boards. Go slow, so you don't fuck anybody up.

At which point, Carol, searching for the shortest line, completely oblivious to you intentionally being cautious so as to not puncture her spleen with a 200 pound stack of oak, will dart in front of you, into the shortest checkout lane.

Perfectly normal to seek out the fastest line, and no big deal. She has two outdoor chair cushions and a candle. Whatever. It'll be an extra two minutes to check-out. Fine.

Except, here comes her husband, Big Jer, in tow. It says it on the patch above the pocket of his work shirt. He's also pushing a yard cart packed with half a dozen full sheets of drywall and a huge roll of garden edging. A 12 minute checkout, at least. He's going slowly and carefully, as well, so he won't hurt anyone, because he's Big Jer, noted good guy. Ask anyone.

But he and I already watched Carol obliviously cut me off, immediately start chatting with the cashier lady like they went to high school together, and thus, he has to do it, too. He has to follow suit. They're together.

There's only one course of action remaining.

He gives me the universal Dude Code signal. Eye contact, lips pursed into an embarrassed thin line, downturned at the corners. A single, subtle downward nod.

Sorry, my guy.

By universal mandate, I can only reply with the classic, quick upward chin jut.

Nothing we can do here, man.

This is how conflict at the hardware store is settled roughly a thousand times per day across the country, everyday, according to a study I just made up. The language of the ages, since the beginning.

[cylidae]

There's something important that you have to know about me. If there's a fandom out there that I'm into, I have forcefully entered Charm into it. Does it matter if it's an ancient society? A magic place? No. My half robot lass goes in there no matter what. You don't understand the depths of love I have for this character. My very first fictional crush, my bisexual awakening. Feel free to comment with random fandoms and I'll write a stupid interaction with Charm and one of the characters. You don't have to know who she is. Honestly, it makes it funnier if you have no clue who I'm talking about.