#nichepost

[chibigaia-art]

smile!

[hoofpeet]

The Michigan thing ✋✋✋✋✋

[finnlongman]

Sometimes I try to explain what I do on this blog to my agent and whether this counts as actually promoting my books and I'm like, look, on the plus side, when my adult books come out I'll know I've got a ready audience of people who want Weird Medieval Stuff, because all I ever do is throw Weird Medieval Stuff into the void and see what happens next. But currently, no, I would not say I am doing a great job of Being An Author In Public, because I do probably spend more time talking about obscure novels from 1894 and their possible 17th-18th century inspirations than, you know, my own books. People seem to like it this way and I am just giving them what they want. Also, I need SOMEWHERE I can be deeply odd about in-progress research and the Bluesky character limit really cramps my style.

[karuma-meii]

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[empyreanaffliction]

been sitting on this banger for a while

[popsicle-stick]

wearing a t shirt that says 'A FOLK TRADITION CARRIED BY A SELECT FEW IS NO LONGER A FOLK TRADITION' and the back says 'TRADITION WITHOUT CHANGE IS SIMPLY REENACTMENT' and little shorts that say 'ABANDON YE SHAME HERE'

[mahgck]

iliad alnst au with patrochilles mizisua and odydio lukahyuna (<- person who would pay to watch achilles beat odysseus into the ground)

[nicolos]

trust 1.10 / note-book of anton chekhov / black sails viii / the cormorant, rosanna warren / a woman speaks, audre lorde

[prissybabyhamlet]

also i know that i haven’t sportsposted like this since the hamlet winter olympics moment. it will continue.

in saying that. battery hamlet au. veteran catcher horatio and young ace pitcher hamlet. do u get what im saying here.

[wvnaros]

independence for violence (yakuza 3) + death by glamour (undertale)

[buck1eys]

steve's parents kick him out for missing his college application and refusing to do a day of hard work (i.e. struggling after being tortured and watching billy get his chest ripped out) and robin takes him in and this is a WONDER to steve... robin's family eat together EVERY NIGHT, weird things steve has never tried like tofu and dahl and chilli with no meat in it and talk about their days - after a week with the buckleys steve knows all about mrs buckley's energy healing and how mr buckley hates his job but loves his coworker who was there the concert dylan went electric, once steve has figured out dylan is bob dylan and bob dylan is sacred to the three of them, even if mrs buckley prefers joan baez as a singer, but even when they argue he can see how much they all genuinely LIKE each other. sure, he puts his foot in it a couple of times, complaining about the cold or finishing the milk without thinking, but they are endlessly patient with him and, and this is the bit steve can't get his head around, endlessly curious about him - who he listens to, how he met robin, what he thinks of ronald reagan and where would he live if he could live anywhere on earth, things steve had never bothered to ask himself, and so at first he's tongue tied, offering to do the dishes and hang the laundry just so he feels he has something to offer because he can hardly keep up with them, three robins with thoughts spiralling off in all directions, and they do seem to appreciate it, because though steve would never ever say it and hates himself for even thinking it, their house is the messiest house he's ever been in. they go along like this quite happily, steve gets a job and starts paying rent and driving mrs buckley to dollar tree and driving robin round the bend as his sense of humour comes back to him, until one day steve decides he's gonna do something nice, partly out of gratitude and partly because it's his day off and if he doesn't do something, anything, to stop the thoughts of last summer and the look on his mother's face as his dad threw his duffel bag out the door after him he thinks he might fall apart, so he sets about deep cleaning the kitchen. he gets into it, bleaching the skirting boards and organising the spice rack (they have a SPICE RACK) and he even puts a record on for company - the beach boys - and it's all going so well until he starts on the fridge, until the sudden noise of the key in the lock makes him jump in sudden panic and drop the glass pane he's cleaning, which shatters on the floor. and steve's stood among all this broken glass he knows the buckleys can't afford to replace as robin and her mom burst into the kitchen, and oh god, his chest is tightening and his eyes are burning and he tries to speak to say sorry, i'm sorry but all that comes out is a gasp and he's on the floor among the glass having a panic attack, pathetic, pathetic, but then there's a hand on his shoulder and a laugh as robin says "you've got that one right Harrington, that fridge was pretty pathetic". Steve looks up at her, so grateful to have a friend like robin, but nothing prepares him for robin's mom, who crouches down in front of him and rests her hands on both his kneecaps and tells him to breathe, breathe Steve, we can fix the fridge, it's you that's irreplaceable.

[marlasbreastlump]

It's really a good thing that the narrator's job only needed him to travel domestically. if he stepped one foot in South Korea I think tyler would have instantly manifested and exploded on the spot. the convenience stores alone would have driven him to madness. on the other hand Fight Club/project mayhem itself would have a large pool of frustrated (and slightly misogynistic) young men to compel into committing domestic terrorism. until it started actually destroying property project mayhem would probably be seen as just another ol' cult (surprisingly common in korea).

korean fight club very interesting concept.... lots of highly educated young people without enough jobs to support them... lots of angry young men (korean fight club would be a LOT more misogynistic than regular fight club).... the Work Culture.... the Social Stigmas... the low birth rate... the Consumerism.... very very interesting... its like a lot of what Tyler was preaching against x10. obviously there are specific cultural contexts in the US that makes fight club work so well but korean fight club has potential methinks

[peptodismaltruck]

through the atomic way fare

“Speak up.” Mace says, but Capa doesn't know him. Silence. “God,” He turns to leave. Capa watches him with blue eyes, remembers the sickening crack of his leg, the way he fell back through the water the first time around. He wants to save him more than he needs to love him.

“Something in the space-time.” Capa says, “It brought me back alive.”

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Or, Robert Capa - again and again and again.

[melonkittii]

locking these two in a room together just to see what happens

[empyreanaffliction]

rip pelle ‘dead’ ohlin you would’ve absolutely despised the cat mascot named pelle at the gröna lund amusement park in stockholm

[atmospheral]

livestock guardian dog roronoa zoro