#novel moments

[notarewberry]

part 1, part 2 (here)

[ilovedthestars]

there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

[lichqueenlibrarian]

That it’s clearly habit for them to divide up whatever food they’re given according to who can eat what is such a great little moment.

[froopa-coopa]

love a canon (?) coffee shop AU

[lazylittledragon]

cringe culture needs to die because when i was 17 i printed out the entire player's handbook and monster manual with my unlimited school printing credit and also wore a black velvet cape the first time i ever DMed and somehow still thought i was too cool for dnd novels. who tf did i think i was fooling

[divorcedwife]

scandalous

[aeon-uriel]

not pictured here: everyone else having a collective mental breakdown

[jellymish-art]

Come hither, friend, have some Vime.

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

[squash1]

article title clickbait for the gangsey —

blue:

gansey:

henry:

adam:

ronan:

noah:

bonus, gray man:

[guzhufuren]

gay poor little meow meow confirmed (pt. 2/?)

Uncensored wuxia BL Meet You At The Blossom (2024)

[notarewberry]

[*ORV Spoilers for later part of demon world arc ahead*]

part 1 (here), part 2

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

"What do you mean their name isn't Beef?"

(for @moondal514)

[ceru-draws]

[wangxian] Thirty-Three for One

[anghraine]

I finally read a good article about Austen and eighteenth-century socioeconomics that gives rough approximations of eighteenth-century prices/incomes in modern (I think c. 2014) currency, but is appropriately emphatic about just how rough those approximations must always be given drastic differences in the economic worlds we live in. It's actually much more about the economics than Austen, and particularly about how much descriptions of "middling" incomes and what was affordable to people who had those incomes is still a conversation about a tiny, tiny elite in terms of the overall population at the time.

Austen-wise, though, the author also found room for a tangent in which he goes off on a scathing condemnation of Mr Bennet in socioeconomic terms, which I do love to see. Most baronets generally had land and incomes far closer to Mr Bennet's than Darcy's and yet Mr Bennet can't be bothered to even slightly provide for his children's futures beyond what was legally required by his marriage settlement (even the girls' meagre inheritances mostly come from Mrs Bennet's money rather than his). The author acknowledges the passage about Mr Bennet saving to counteract Mrs Bennet's extravagance and also how this is an indictment of Mr Bennet as well as Mrs Bennet, something that criticisms of him often skate past, and even points out how enthusiastic Mr Bennet is about the convenience of Darcy paying for it all in a way that can be read as funny and endearing, but also as distastefully shameless.

Anyway, it was nice to enjoy an academic text again, lol.

[makzee-51percent]

I think, somewhere deep in my soul, I need a reaction fic that isn’t Cales coolest moments or his most traumatic backstory but just where his family sees him. They just see what he used to do in his daily life.

I need them to see how he was casually treated, how he treated the people around him. Who he was close to. Who he wasn’t.

Or I need his family to see his mistakes, big and small, and how he overcame them so they can know how he comes to the conclusions he does.

I want his family to see the life he lived before they met him so that Cale can really be SEEN.

Because we know from the POV’s we’ve gotten from other characters that Cale is seen as this incredible person, this pillar of unwavering support, but I need them to see Cale when he wasn’t.

When he needed that pillar of support that he became for his family.

(Ao3 authors lock in)