#my sister is awesome

[orangeoctopi7]

Hey, do you have kids? Maybe young cousins or niblings? Or maybe you just like cute comics for children?

Then have I got a book for you!

Daddy and the Beanstalk, written by Andrew Weiner and illustrated by Bethany Crandall.

My sister's first published comic is now available from Little Brown Ink!

It's a children's comic book, meant to be read to young children as a bedtime story.

Please buy copies for everyone you know! Ask your library to carry it! The more copies that are sold, the more likely they are to do a reprint, which will mean residuals!

Look how cute the art is! LOOK AT IT!!

Visit LBYR.com #DaddyandtheBeanstalk

[willstoneworks]

Look at my new pfp!

Made by Berry, gave me a lot of options and variations. This is the newest one.

Here are the other one's they've done for me.

This is what I'll be using.

[hiptoff]

My sis did this AWESOME handmade purse for my daughter and we are totally in love with it 💝

[nocteville]

Ok so not sure if anyone’s drawn/animated this, but my sister suggested a bg3 version of the “get down Zahra” meme but with Tara and she’s honestly a genius for it

[supermauswithagun]

My sister: From now on all your stories are going to take place in Prague, right?

Me: No, well, I like Prague, but not that much...

Me two weeks later: Okay. Guess what happened!

[aj-thehuman]

Me: *sadly says my sisters name*

My sister, with no other context for what I want: "yeah, okay"

*gets up to refill the cat's water fountain, because the sound of the water makes my brain scream*

She gets me.

[that-one-traveling-bard]

It has been an interesting week.

[aroaceleovaldez]

HoO really is just Nico having the worst time of his life for like a month straight and that's really funny to me

[delcat177]

3, 8, 14, 18, 20

NOTE: Some of these are movies that I want to watch or rewatch with you, but they do not have to be! Especially if "you" is a mutual I am talking to my SISTER thank you. But you can watch too!

3) A Foreign-Language Movie: Midori

Right, so, I'm not posting the link to the remaster/fancut because 1) I think anyone watching it should do their homework first, 2) due to the transgressive elements I don't want the upload brigaded, and 3) despite all pleading not to, I have no doubt kids read my blog. It's out there, you can find it. IT'S STRONG FUCKING STUFF. Recommended for the Dead Dove: Do Eat crowd (you have to eat it, it's a sideshow!).

8) Somewhere I've Always Wanted to Visit: Jacob's Ladder

"What, Vietnam?" "let's try that again"

8) Somewhere I've Always Wanted to Visit: Lo

I'm gonna be real, this was a 2009 movie I saw in Hawaii off of Netflix......*DVD Netflix*. This came in a little envelope. I watched it. I mailed it back. Good times. Old times. Old old times.

So, like, I remember really liking it, and I checked the wiki and I think the story remains interesting, and the presentation is Special. I suggested it to you in the day and bring it up every now and then. It's kinda pithy, but I respect its moxie and I think you'd enjoy hating it if nothing else.

14) A Fantasy Movie: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Crow: There was no reason for Puss In Boots 2 to go that fucking hard Me: There was EVERY reason for Puss in Boots 2 to go that fucking hard

(Specifically, Dreamworks has surpassed Disney at this point in animation and storytelling, and you can see them gearing up for the Shrek 5 war, but also. It deserves it, is why, goddamn.)

We have this free for the rest of the month (or however long I decide to keep Peacock, I'm binging House), you wanna maybe do this on a weekend? Cool if not! Could be a good birthday watch tbh, hmu, lmk, omgwtfbqqroflcopter. Has an orang kitty ALL THE TIME. Except when not.

18) An Animated Movie: My Neighbors the Yamadas

My Neighbors the Yamadas gets passed by constantly in the Studio Ghibli family. It's not hard to see why, it's completely off-model--the animation is no less beautiful, but it's simple and accessible, and instead of being a fantasy story, it's a series of vignettes around one family.

But it's an extraordinary family! Yamadas bursts with Ghibli charm, and it leaves you with that soul-cleansed feeling afterward, that you've been a part of something worth being part of.

Moum and I watched this together in the day (Netflix DVD era, summer, not college) and it was just...cozy. This is the Ghibli movie for cozy-gamers, and for families. Not "for family entertainment", very often a cold and lousy thing, but for, comma, families.

Also, there's cake!

20) A Musical: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang......?

This is all one movie, Mike. ...apparently.

So, like, I didn't have a lot for musicals. I feel like if anyone, including me, remembers this movie, it's by the Child Catcher, who literally lures children into a truck with candy. That having been said, there's a *lot* more weirdness to this thing I have apparently totally forgotten, plus Dick van Dyke Dick van Dyking it up, so, like, can't go wrong on those parameters.

Plus, Mom was always singing just the one bit of the one song:

Y'know what I mean, Vern?

[tieflingtiger]

I have not stopped staring at them since Cat sent it to me.

Commission for @tieflingtiger of her Tav and Astarion!

[shirecorn]

Let's hear it for Mr. and Mrs. Autism <3

Mudbriar is a horse after my own heart. I too am obsessed with sticks, to the point the logistics of having so many is a struggle

I like sticks

Please watch this timestamp

[teddybearty]

Finished Prison of Plastic for the second time recently sooooo here’s a BEAR TRAP!! 🐻 🐻 🐻

[orionsbelt2000]

My sister drew this based on the picture of the voice actors and I think that's adorable.

[delcat177]

This from "I want to own a funeral home with the slogan 'If you lived here, you'd be dead by now'"

Friend of mine who I genuinely don’t think was considering all the angles just got an “if you’re looking for a sign to stay alive, this is it” bumper sticker and I am stating this specifically bc she drives a fucking hearse

[todayisafridaynight]

[littledata]

what are these "best fics youve ever read that barely have any hits" you mentioned? can you give us a top 5 or sonething?

Oh God, you've really shamed me here because I read a LOT of random fics from fandoms I'm not even part of and the stories I was referring to largely come from there.

However, in the interest of practising what I preach, I sat down today and read a bunch of Warrior Nun fics I'd never read before so I could rec you some. To be totally clear, these aren't necessarily going to have "hardly any hits" but are fics that I think could use more love in general.

In no particular order:

I was seeing black and white (and now I'm living in color) by gayestcatra - 1281 words, a beautifully soft fic set in Switzerland with gorgeous description. By the same author I also enjoyed (your life was) my life's best part, an angsty Mary/Shannon exploring Mary's (heartbreaking) grief after Shannon's death.

Cat’s Cradle security checkpoint logs by @jtl07 - 518 words, have I raved enough on tumblr yet about how much I love their writing? No? Oh okay I'll do it again then. JT is one of my favourite writers in the fandom and I love this series of fics they did giving creative looks into the characters - this particular one is the contents of their bags but the whole series is worth checking out (and everything else they write too, obviously).

Lauds by @sisterdivinium - 3152 words, Mother Superion/Jillian Salvius. WE LOVE A RAREPAIR. Gorgeously written fic where you feel the weight of every single action. The author has a TON of fics if you liked this one too.

you're my best friend (in a world we must defend) by @daisychainsandbowties - 3980 words, avatrice and Pokemon. Beatrice's characterisation in this drives me insane. I MUST know more. If you know nothing about pokemon here's your primer: they're funny little guys you catch and make fight, exactly like the Catholic church did to Ava. There, now you've got no excuse not to read it.

Dead People Don't Shiver by waterintheshadows - 2068 words, avatrice soulmate AU set in a morgue FUCK YEAH. This is the kind of shit I live for. Great concept, great execution.

Where The River Bends by @itchyouchyz - 100,750 words, avatrice 1960s midwife AU. Full disclosure - it's 100k - I haven't finished it yet. But I LOVE what I've read so far, tender and lovely. Check the tags for trigger warnings on this one!

keep me in your mirror (but don't take your eyes off the road) by minutetuna - 26,343 words, avatrice season 2 road trip au. It made me feel this precise emotion: hnnnnnnghhhhh. There is a particular style of writing which is just bouncy and pacy and still draws you into every single emotion and this author has it in spades. LOVE.

This was so much fun! If anyone else wants to hit me up with some recs I'd love to hear them - even if (especially if) they're your fics. It's a long weekend, might as well spend it reading fanfiction.