#mud reads

[mudlark-s]

and on to book 3 for @batmanisagatewaydrug ‘s book bingo! this months sff book of the month at work is floating hotel by grace curtis and as she has a hardback out mid month too i thought i might as well crack on and read it. it was pretty good, very found family, very becky chambers. the story is set on a space luxury hotel, touring the galaxy within a dysfunctional oppressive empire. the staff are a hodgepodge of misfits and outcasts who come to the hotel over years. as various forces descend on the hotel for nefarious purposes you find out more of their backstory.

i think i enjoyed this more than becky chambers although it did that legend and lattes thing of everything actually not feeling very high stakes despite ostensibly being quite dramatic? idk! i will give frontier a go. very much on the cosy side of things. would recommend if you want some easy reading.

[notbecauseofvictories]

sometimes, you wake up and your first thought is "I cannot be a person today." often---most of the time---you have to then get out of bed and proceed with being a person, regardless of your feelings on the matter.

but sometimes, occasionally, once in a while....it's nice to email your boss, get back in bed, and go the fuck back to sleep.

[mud-muffin]

Starfire sketch 😼

[morganbritton132]

I hope when I write Hopper dealing with Steve or Eddie when they’re younger that the vibe they give off is:

Steve: *visible suspicious on why Hopper is bothering him, a self-sufficient seven year old trying to climb something he’s definitely going to fall off of*

Eddie: *caught red-handed vandalizing property and about to make it Hopper’s personal problem*

[1000dactyls]

httyd sketches I’ve compiled from the past couple of days v_v;;) I’ve been learning to draw the dragons and am studying a lot of nico marlet’s art for it…… barf& belch hold a special place in my heart so of course i also had to draw their silly humans. And their silly humans’ fave too. but no one told me the real struggle wld be drawing stoick the vast in all his glory. Omfg. His beard is awesome it’s shaped like a star.

and modern au………..!!!! have been debating this with a friend. toothless is a cat until he is a service dog. do you feel me? and hiccup wears his fishinf get up to his classes after getting up at 4am to help his dad draw in the fish that morning.snug little cozy coastal town that has more secrets than it should. Do you feel me?

[erinwantstowrite]

Hi! Purely out of curiosity because I am always interested in people’s thoughts on the subject, how do you feel about “batcest” in au’s where the children were never adopted/didn’t meet until adulthood/etc? Any pairing with Bruce makes me genuinely nauseous, but I feel like I’m more lenient with situational stuff with the kids since they’re closer in age/didn’t grow up together in my very loose understanding of canon/not actually related/etc. (ie: I think Steph and Cass are cute together even though they’re both “batfam” members, etc etc)

please feel free to ignore this if it makes you uncomfortable! I just really love your writing and this seems to be a subject you’re passionate about, so I just wanted to know more of your thoughts. Hope you’re having a wonderful day!

anon in the nicest way possible, it's disgusting even then.

because it doesn't matter if they didn't know each other as little little kids, they are family in every sense of the word. it would be the same as two characters who are siblings having being raised in two different households as children getting into a relationship even though they knew each other later. it spits in the face of adopted families by claiming that they aren't actually family, and the people who defend batcest are hurting people who are victims of the exact dynamic that they're shipping. it's gross, like genuinely vile. knowing their canon relationship and "changing" it to fit what they want is nasty because they *had* to change it. they know it's wrong if they had to "fix" it in order to ship it. it implies that this person thinks they should be in a romantic pairing in canon, too, but they're trying to justify it to themselves.

and with Steph and Cass, Steph is a friend of theirs. she dated Tim previously and they are not related. she didn't want Bruce to adopt her, she doesn't consider them siblings. yes there is a found family dynamic but it's not the same as the others, who are not only legally family in most cases, but have considered each other family for years and years and years. they call each other their siblings. yes, even jason and tim. tim and jason are only a couple years apart, but jason is still family even if he died? tim considered himself dick's brother and his relationship with bruce was rocky sometimes but he also considered bruce like a father figure, and later on he was adopted so that was always there. they are siblings.

and in some of their dynamics, it's pedophilic dick and damian, dick and tim, jason and damian, tim and damian, even dick and jason because dick was an adult when he met jason. automatically that puts you in a spot where you deserve the deepest pit of hell. truly. i'm not religious but i hope they get their karma. i don't care if it's fictional, this reflects who they are as people in the real world and that's why i know these people are gross monsters. not to mention these people don't understand boundaries (shocker) and have and probably will again, ask me to include a batcest ship in LoF or to draw batcest for them. they have asked for peter and damian. one person claimed that peter and jason would be "cute" because of peter thinks he's cool and has "an innocence" about jason's life and what he's done. another asked for peter and dick. the blood related father and son. so it truly doesn't matter to them, i can guarantee it to you. the way i look at it, no matter which way they are shipped, you are automatically associated with the rest of them. nothing justifies it and it's wrong

and because i know someone is going to try to start an argument with me: i can't stop them from writing it. i know that. and you can scream at me until you're blue about your opinion on the matter, but i do not care and you will be wasting your breath. i am not pro cecsorship because it is a slippery slope and people will dig their claws into that. however. i can let them know that they aren't welcome on my page, i can talk about my opinion on the matter, i have every right to block them and say whatever i want. if you don't like this post, i'm telling you to block me so i don't have to take the time to do it myself 🫶

[palmettoshenanigans]

"How can you stand to play beside someone as violent as Andrew Minyard when you have experienced such cruelty in your past?"

I don't think a SINGLE fanfic has ever floored me quite as much as the fanfic where this question was asked of Neil during PR. I had to look away from my phone. I just sat there in astonishment, silent.

what a question

[naggingatlas]

a fish in mud / a scarecrow full of blood

[jess-the-vampire]

Caleb "Have You Eaten?" Wittebane vs Philip "Coffee is a Food Group" Wittebane FIGHT!

the irony here is canonically i gave philip a garden in this au, so he grows a portion of his own food

but i still imagine his eating habits are less then ideal

[cherrywineisawaltz]

Wolverine writers, you are doing such a service but please, please, please please PLEAASSEEE stop making Logan say bub every other sentence and let us think about the CONTEXTTTT in which he uses bub in the movies, it is NOT a cutesy little nickname 😭😭

[mudlark-s]

back at it w book 4 for @batmanisagatewaydrug is book bingo! all the houses i’ve ever lived in by kieran yates: a memoir about the many houses the author has lived in over the course of her life, having moved around a lot of a child due to having a single mum and having a not-very-stable council house and then being subject to the whims of the private rental industry as an adult. was a well written look at the issues, although didn’t feel like there were many *solutions* proposed. the housing industry is truly broken,who knew! generally just felt a bit depressing ngl and whilst i found learning about how council housing works enlightening, it didn’t feel like there was more info than i had gleaned from various readings over the years.

i have the week off this week and am planning to read 4 books 💪 although 3 acquired since the start of the year so not eligible for the bingo. we’ll see how it goes!

[c-kiddo]

walk while at home on saturday 🪨

[stone-stars]

okay. c1e100. the boobs enter the hall of prayers, and see all of the prayers of the people of bahumia manifested. prayers to them, from the people leaving the future and the world in their hands. people praying for their protection, and for them to be protected.

c3e56. in aryox's chamber, surrounded by his predictions, callie learns that her mother was also a diviner. that her mother's choices were made to drive her to the path she's on right now. lumi saying "you got here, didn't you?", and the carving. proof of her mother's choice to leave the world in callie's hands. her belief that callie could secure a better future.

the writing on the wall is the song that plays in both of these moments.

[freddyloyd]

I get the feeling im supposed to take Batman insulting Guy as like 'sick own' because Guy is annoying, but Batman is also acting like a massive douchebag so its basically just two man babies throwing petty insults at each other, not funny very cringe.

(BTW this isn't a critique of Batman before anyone takes it like that, its a critique of the writing for Batman in this comic)

[orionpolanosnox]

Tfw a highly regarded jury member of your local equestrian sports recommended you a homeophathic "cure" for mud fever....

She is part of our stable community. Her gelding lived here long before I stared working at the stable. She is a good rider and mentor. I will ask/question her about it.

What does graphites really do? Graphite balm was recommended.

I never had a horse with mud fever before. My boss is demissing it. "She's different. That's normal" etc.

The mare, Zoe, is my boss' horse. She is a senior born 2003.

One of my colleagues used iodine soap (Jod Seife) and it worked apperantly and her gelding was rid of it within a week.

Our climate gets wetter and muggier thanks to climate change.

@horsesarecreatures maybe you and your folks can help? I'm looking for tried and tested methods.

Zoe isn't limping but her ankels are somewhat swollen. She is a heavy warmblood so it's difficult to notice in passing. She ist losing hair around her ankles.

I will read up on it naturally but I'd like some real life experience.

I wish you a great new year! May all of your wishes come true! ♥️

[cedar-scars]

I want to draw so many things but mostly a mutuals wof oc and a mud/night oc based off a very sweet plush I own vvvvvvv

not Snufkin though