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Book Review #85 of 2023--
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison. Rating: 4.25 stars.
Read from July 1st to 2nd.
It looks like we have found our Christmas in July winner. At least so far. We’ll see if one of the final books on this TBR can beat it. I picked this up on recommendation from a couple of romance booktubers; the only one I really remember right now being PeaceLoveBooks. And they were so right. This is a best friends fake dating situation that just pulls at my angst riddled heart strings. We follow Stella as she attempts to make everything on her Christmas Tree Farm perfect for social media influencer Evelyn and the competition she’s running to help out small businesses. The only problem is she lied on her application saying that she runs the farm with her boyfriend. Who doesn’t exist. Enter best friend Luka who is willing to help out by pretending to be her boyfriend while Evelyn is in town. But can Stella make it through this week without giving away even more of her heart?
This was such a joy to read. I think I want to own a Christmas tree farm now? This is actually the second book I’ve read in this Christmas in July that takes places on a Christmas tree farm. There was so much coziness and Christmas fun here that it has made me even more excited for the holidays (so glad we’re only 5 months away now). And, let’s be real here, we all know that I love myself some fake dating romance. The potential for angst is just so HIGH. It makes my weird little heart happy. I loved the setting, loved the angst, and I really loved these characters. Not just Luka and Stella but all of the characters. From the overprotective Sheriff to the baker working at the farm, to the farm hand and the stray kittens he adopts. It was all so lovely and fun. I also enjoyed how much of the story focused on the time before Evelyn arrived for the contest versus during her stay. It made the story much more reliant on our characters versus being reliant on the plot to move things forward. Also, as an asexual person, of course, I am going to mention the sex scenes. I thought the scenes here were really well done. I didn’t have the ick factor that I can have with some author’s sex scenes. It was steamy without being over the top or too dirty for me. Maybe still not something read on the bus ride to work, but a good time nonetheless.
I felt like the major drama at the end of the novel was settled too quickly. I really don’t think I would get over all of that so fast. But I did enjoy that the third act breakup seemed so realistic. It’s something that was focused on the fear of a person versus something happening outside of themselves. I wish we had gotten a better picture of Stella and Luka’s relationship before all of the fake dating stuff happened but I always want more in novels so we’ll take that with a grain of salt.
Overall, I give the book a 4.25 star rating, the romance a 4.5 star rating, and the Christmassy-ness of the book 4 poinsettias.
#christmas in july#now that it's actually july#I cannot believe this is book 10 out of 12 on my Christmas in July TBR#I've read so much in the past two weeks#book review#book reviews#lovelight farms#b.k. borison#books read in 2023#2023 reading challenge#goodreads challenge#goodreads#booklr#bookblr#bookstagram#bookish
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was it casual when i sat in your lap in public? was it casual when i said "recently my heart is crying because you're leaving"? was it casual when we decided how your last name would fit with mine? ("yuki tsunoda-gasly" / "no tsunoda, only gasly" / "yuki gasly?") was it casual when we sang adele's "someone like you" together at your going away party? was it casual when i knew it was you just by touching your ass? was it casual when i knew it was you by smell alone? was it casual when "will you miss me?" / "for 2-3 minutes maybe" / "i'll take that. even if it's just 2-3 minutes, i'll take that"? was it casual when that bus was completely empty and we still sat right next to each other, all the way in the back? was it casual when i picked you up multiple times so you could dunk a basketball? was it casual when i begged to come over to your house multiple time and then you finally let me and we cooked fried rice together? was it casual when we played christmas twister together and i said "your big eggplant is touching my ass"? was it casual when we were pressed up against each other on a scooter going two miles per hour? was it casual when-
#edit: tinytauris fact checked my post and they sang 'hello' not someone like you & it was 'your big monster' not eggplant#everyday i think about the fact that yukierre should've been what lestappen is now#i should be able to go on the yukierre tag on ao3 and it should say 'showing 1-20 of 6745'#they were genuinely so fuckingg weird about each otherrrrrr#im being so serious when i say that if they ever came out as gay/bi/whatever i really wouldnt be surprised#literally just 'okay?? fork spotted in kitchen cmon now' moment#anyway i think about that moment on the bus soooo often#will you miss me? / maybe for 2-3 minutes / ill take that then. even if it's just for 2-3 minutes ill take that#hwat the FUCK#i was going 'gay gay homosexual' everytime i saw them together#yukierre#yuki tsunoda#pierre gasly#also im like 90% sure that everyting i worte down actually happened but if i wrote smth down that didnt happen#and my yukierre infested brain just conjured up please let me know#also ive had this is in my drafts foreverrrr (re: since july) so if this has already been done im so sorry#i always feel like such a loser making posts about driver relationships lol#like 'oh look at that weirdo that got too invested in people she doesn't even know'#whatever im getting to introspective now#1k
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Mad Dogz Video Call gone wrong
I could not for the life of me find the source of the audio, so here is the video that inspired this instead!
#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#save rise of the tmnt#rottmnt#rottmnt fanart#tmnt 2018#rottmnt raph#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt leo#soep art#rottmnt stuff#I actually started this in july and it was technically done around mid august#but there were a couple things I needed to fix that I put off until now lol#but alas! it is done#this has probably been done before but the idea was too fun not to do#also I haven’t made an animatic in AGES so it’s a little rough but it’s fine#ok bye
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(ID in alt) hi sorry for back to back marvel fanart I swear I still have dc stuff lmao. However I did recently read X-Men: first class and got a bit carried away doodling this after Lmao
#marvel comics#x men#scott summers#jean grey#hank mccoy#bobby drake#warren worthington iii#charles xavier#anyway#picked X-Men: First Class#out of sheer curiosity and desire to know more about the X-Men and I really enjoyed it!#Idk how in line with canon it but. Whatever tbh. Anyway that was the inspo behind this#just the og 5 fooling around and being silly teens#jean being the flirty one probably isn't very in character at this time period (jean doesnt really show any interest in scott in first clas#but it was too cute to pass up#also charles looks so much more pissed off than i intended 😭 there's this one issue of first class where he's just BERATING the xmen#just yelling at them psychically and eventually its revealed that it wasn't actually Charles but i didn't question it at first#which is kind of mean to charles. but idk i haven't gotten far with the x-men (im being very casual in my reading rn)#so maybe he deserves it#also i keep making bigger and bigger drawings bc i know that those print well#but i keeo forgetting that tumblr murders the quality of the image when you upload it. bwahhh#anyway i think i am finally going to knuckle down and open commission slots for part of july#idk how much a bad boy like this (lined coloured and shaded w/ multiple characters) would cost but we're gonna figure that out#honestly i might slightly under price them just to encourage ppl to spring for them#okay that's all for now I PROMISE I HAVE DC DRAWINGS TO SHARE i was just in a serious drawing funk and drawing some characters-#-that I'd never drawn before (like shulkie and now the xmen) helped break that funk!#mine
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Happy anniversary of the day the Powerpuff Girls broke everything
#idk why the fact that it's the day before the 4th of july is so funny to me#does this mean the subsequent events happened on actual independence day?#imagine over time after this has all settled and townsville and the girls have settled into their new routine of the normal show#blossom is now her patriotic ass self that she is in the show and she remembers the events of the movie and realizes it was on july 4th#and she cries#ppg#Powerpuff girls#the Powerpuff girls#not ml
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MERSKELES PART 3!
Definitely not mermay anymore but here's the last 3 sirens I wanted to do
and some explanation on why I choose what I did under the cut
(little warning for parasites on fresh's section)
So from left to right
Dream is a golden colored koi carp fish, I picked it because they are very pretty and they represent a lot of positive things like luck and fortune, some people even wish on them to make their dreams come true :> I also thought of the legend where a golden koi fish climbs a large waterfall to turn into a dragon, so they have some mythical legends as well. In terms of the actual fish, Koi are very sociable and sturdy, they also live for quite awhile.
Nightmare is a coelacanth, he should probably be an octopus considering he has tentacles, but I really wanted to make him a coelacanth because I think they are neat. Coelacanth's are very old with the latest fossils being over 400 million years old, they were thought to be extinct until one was found in 1938, grandpa nightmare. They are also nocturnal, sleeping in caves during the day, they live deep in the ocean as well.
Fresh is actually a two in one, he is a rainbow parrotfish with a tongue-eating louse in his mouth. Out of alI the bright fish I did a parrotfish because I really like their gradients, and I think the magenta fins fit his jacket. He's a parasite inside of a Sans body, so I picked a fish parasite to go along with the fish half of his body. I chose the tongue-eating louse, a type of parasite that replaces a fish's tongue. It first severs the blood vessels to the tongue and once it falls off takes its place. feeding on nutrients and acting as a new tongue for the rest of the fish's life, very cool and terrifying.
#parasite#No irl photos or anything but warning for describing how the parasite invades a fish#Tongue eating louse dont affect parrotfish Im pretty sure but Im ignoring that for fantasy#Fresh was also a combo between the Rainbow and bicolor parrot fish for the colors I put rainbow on the sheet because it sounds cooler#I love coelacanths sm they are like one of the neatest fish#I remember really liking relicanth as a pokemon and then realizing it was actually a real animal???? Phenomenal#Also someone requested dust If youre reading this I think he would be an eel of some sort#maybe a Gulper eel?#Angler fish would be cool too but only the females have the classic light lure on their heads#The dragon koi legend Im pretty sure is the inspiration for magicarp and its golden shiny#I would say im done with fish for now but im not I love fish Ill probably do something else aquatic related at some point lmao#Mermay#its july :''')#my art#my utmv art#utmv#fresh sans#nightmare sans#dream sans#dreamtale#utau#undertale au#sans au#siren#mermaid
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chat imma be honest that project diva PC release has had lasting consequences ,
#vocaloid#hatsune miku#art#doodles#dat me#comic#ms paint#life is paint#i should get in on that animation meme. for my obligatory july animation that i always get possessed to do.#i sourced these sonas from my actual old art on my deviantart and here on tumblr. weeps#this blog is too ooooooold#10 years old ..................#technically the ipod isn't dead but the battery is shot so it only holds charge for maybe a half hour if you use it#i still have it. it lives in my desk. i just charged it for the first time in 7 years a few months ago so i could rebuilt my#authentic middle school vocaloid playlist as a youtube playlist. AND add to it#268 songs and counting! there could be even more on here but i had to delete some in middle school cuz my ipod could only hold 8 gb#My ipod was literally filled to the brim with vocaloid. I had to delete some 50 songs over time so if i didn't i would be over 300 now#do you guys remember the chunky rubber wrist bands of the late 2000s and early 2010s. miss those
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Autistic Headcanons: Wambus Troubleham (Bugsnax, 2020)
“I must look mighty foolish stickin' to my guns like this. But you don't give up just ‘cause things get tough. If nobody else believes in me, I gotta believe in myself.”
#bugsnax#wambus troubleham#bugsnax wambus#autistic headcanon#autistic headcanons#actually autistic#actuallyautistic#gif set#gifset#gif#🛠️.gif#to be totally honest I’m not super happy with the formatting#but this is the least horrible it looked so what can you do?#why is he looking to the left in half of the gifs… wack#I hope you guys know I fought for my life looking for good playthroughs for the ‘meltdown’ gif#I had to hear ‘y’all want Triffany back so bad?! go find her yerself!’ so. many. times#every day is hell… woe is me#this beast has been in my drafts since July and I only finished it now. um. whoops?
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fantasy laughingstock mawwiage but make it potc3 Flavor-
#theyre supposed to be holding hands but i couldnt draw it for the life of me so#half assed it is!!!!#or.... no assed it is!!!#in my mind this is a job gone Phenomenally wrong. like horribly wrong#the group is outnumbered and cornered and-#its fine in the end tho#and howdy & barnaby are left standing there like 'so we didnt die. looks like we're husbands now! lets go find some neat rings'#in the meantime wally and julie braid them rings out of grass & flowers#actually wait omg#imagining there's a spell that can freeze the flower rings so that they wont break/decompose#all of barnaby's normal metal rings and then there's one made of plants... of Life... OUUUGHHHHHHHH#< thats the sound of me dying so dramatically. im talking nimona-as-ambrosius level of dramatic death#scribble salad#laughingstock#wh fantasy au#wait omggggg#im imagining once theyre all safe and it sinks in that the Are Indeed Safe#everyone is like 'omg!!! we made it!!! hugging each other! wait wheres barnaby and howdy - ohhhhh theyre making out off to the side cool'#theyre just. laying in the grass smoochin the hell outta each other#yeah theyre both bleeding and bruised but who isnt!#and then they stay right there and take a nap <3#and wake up w/ the rest of the neighborhood piled on/around them <3#GODDDDDDDD FUCK FUCK FUCK IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM IM SO NORMAL IM-#SO NOT NORMAL ABOUT THEM AGH RAGH ASDHASJFCBALFNLD#sorry sorry. the insanity is kicking in#alsoooooo imagining them having that epic potc3 mid-battle kiss after barbosa - sorry - Sally pronounces them married
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Lan Jue • A League of Nobleman 君子盟 (2023)
@asiandramanet july creator bingo — free choice
#a league of nobleman#cdramaedit#asiandramanet#usergif#cdramasource#cdrama#jing boran#dailyasiandramas#dramasource#chinesemedia#mer gifs#adn july bingo#adn bingos#🎨 sets#putting him into that rainbow color was so satifsfying#i actually only wanted to redo the other lan jue set i just published that i made back in april but i went off track again lmao#now i like this one more lol
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Sunnytrip Endless Summer never ends with Alkaloid in the second half of the July features!
frameless below the cut!
you get spade bubbles from blowing spade shaped breaths
#enstars#alkaloid#hiiro amagi#aira shiratori#mayoi ayase#tatsumi kazehaya#fun fact this was actually supposed to be part of a june double feature#but because i was traveling i moved it to july (plus july's a more pool-party summer vibe month anyways)#and then they rolled out sunnytrip.#happyele where's my royalty#/j but it's Wild#BASICALLY CAUGHT UP NOW WAHOO#we'll see about that august issue#powerhouse sana tho o7#i just checked the time on all the issues i posted this summer and i made 4 in the timespan of roughly a month jdfghkdljjv#give or take 'cause there's some bits and pieces i had ready beforehand#special shoutout neppy this one's for you o7
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JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) // JULIE E OS FANTASMAS (2011) 1.01 - Wake Up // 1.01 - Enfrentando Fantasmas -> Julie meets the Band.
#julie and the phantoms#julie e os fantasmas#jatp#mine#mine:gif#storytime: when i was in middle school i found myself to be obsessed with julie e os fantasmas (jeof)#and by watching it i have learned some words in portoguese which - later in my life - i have always wanted to learn better#besides that - in middle school i used to wear julie's iconic side ponytail !! i was THE biggest jeof fan like EVER#i used to watch it with my little sister and i would pretend i had some ghosts friends as well - popping out of my stereo (lol)#so... flash forward to 2020. i can't recall HOW i found out about jatp... it's just that i have heard of it and i was like hold on...#does this have to do anything with jeof? so i was super intrigued and watched the pilot and YES!! a brand new up-to-date remake#of my favorite tv show as a kid LIKE WOW. and idk i thought it was somehow underground as the og one ... saw NO ONE talking about it online#until up recently when i got back on tumblr (actually 2 years ago) and i saw there was this LIVELY community of people appreaciating this#show AS MUCH as i was appreciating the og as a youngster.#goes without saying that it was so surprising to me and it healed parts of me that i didn't think needed to be healed. wow. just wow.#i have never posted content for these two bad boys#mostly bcs i was salty that jatp was canceled (ugh) until now!! i hope you enjoyyyyy#ALSO i remember as a kid i was watching jeof on tv right? but i had missed some episodes so i remember LMAO going online and there was this#website (like a random person's own website) that was hosting all of the episodes. my very first experience with streaming series online
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#marvel#mcu#steve rogers#4th of july#it’s Steve’s birthday!!!#captain america#I miss him#nobody’s ever gonna know who’s idea it was to put all 106 candles on the cake#spoiler: it was Steve himself#she crazy#art#digital fanart#digital art#the decorations were a pain in the ass#probably#click for better quality#I haven’t actually checked#queueing (?) this#it’s mid June now#scheduling#not queueing#for the first time i actually did a fanart before the day its inspired by
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rewatching jatp is realising that Julie and Luke are one of the best ships ever four years later and their onstage chemistry is STILL unmatched
“and you’re a part of me” you will always be famous (to me anyways)
The whole band dynamic is this show was so good as well - the acting doesn’t feel forced or unfunny like some of Netflix’s more recent “teen” shows. Because the whole concept of a ghost band is obviously unrealistic in the first place, they embrace it and actually have fun with it instead of trying to pretend the most insane scenarios, overdone love triangles and exaggerated tropes are normal high school stuff. Yes, it’s cringy, but it still ended up a far better show anyways!
11 year old me really knew what’s up
#finally free??#THE GUITAR SOLO IN EDGE OF GREAT#this show deserved a season 2 so badly#also everyone is so cute#Reggie is too real now that I think abt it#jatp netflix#jatp#julie and the phantoms#xo kitty could NEVERRRR#Alex and Reggie’s dynamic is actually so funny whenever they have a scene together it’s comedy gold
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think of all the damage i could do - xana
phil in a crop top everybody cheered <3
#don't worry about the song name sjdfs#had no choice but to continue my unofficial yearly tradition of drawing crop top phil every july since. 2020#and now 4 years and 5 drawings later crop top phil is actually real absolutely love to see it <33#and the way i was like 98% done w this drawing when that fashion vid dropped#only for phil in that video to do like the Exact pose i was trying (and failing) to find an art ref for sdjfs#amazingphil#phil lester#dan and phil#dpgdaily#dnp art#my art#phan
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Social media au:
Eddie runs a satirical Instagram account called hawkins--official where he posts memes and fake headlines and stuff shitting on the town because he hates it here and it's fun. Tons of people follow it and they all know it's run by a Hawkins High student they just don't know who.
Anyways, he posts shit on his story all the time when he's at different places (like a picture of steve's pool and "who else at the Harrington House?"). People often respond to it (and get ghosted) or they just show up trying to figure out who it is behind the account but he's already long gone.
Until one day he posts a picture of the ferris wheel and says "yo who else at the fucking fun fair". Not even five minutes later his phone pings because someone has responded to his story. He's about to ignore it, but then he sees who it's from.
Chrissy🌼 replied to your story
I am lol!
He blinks down at his phone and decides, y'know... what the hell. He's bored and the day that he doesn't lunge at the opportunity to be within ten feet of Chrissy like a dog for scraps is the day he drops dead.
You
Well howdy, Cunningham
(Yeah, because that's cool.)
Chrissy🌼
If you're still near the ferris wheel come over to the popcorn stand
I um
I got stood up so I have an extra
Oh and don't worry I'll keep your identity a secret 🤫
Eddie's never looked up so fast in his life. As soon as he finds the popcorn stand he makes a beeline for it, keeping an eye out for Chrissy.
He's thinking of something suave to say when he finds her, but she beats him to it. As soon as she sees him she waves and holds out a little paper bag of popcorn. "Hello, Mr. Hawkins Official."
Eddie takes the popcorn and looks away grinning. "I don't know what you're talking about."
Chrissy hums like okay, sure and smiles into her drink.
He was gonna play coy but she's just so cute that he can't help it. "How'd you know?"
Chrissy does this like. Full body wiggle that just screams see, I was right! "You posted a picture at Benny's a few weeks ago and I could see your reflection in the window," she whispers conspiratorially.
Eddie clicks his tongue. "Damn. I thought I was being pretty covert."
She shrugs. "I don't think anyone else has caught on yet. They don't wanna believe it's you."
"True," he laughs. "So...you got stood up, huh?"
Chrissy nods. "Big surprise, right?"
Eddie snorts. "Well, then. As the official representative of the town of Hawkins, Indiana, would you grant me the opportunity to show you around one of our finest attractions?" He sweeps an arm out dramatically at the fair before offering her his hand.
For a second he thinks she's going to turn him down, but right before he can drop his hand she takes it, grins, and says "Only if you promise to take my picture at the top of the ferris wheel."
"Deal."
(He does, but that picture doesn't go on hawkins--official. It goes on his personal story, along with a matching post of him on Chrissy's.)
#rose actually finish your fics instead of rambling about shit on tumblr challenge (<- im failing miserably)#now that i look at this its very similar to the 4th of july one i didnt finish#anyways this is based on the satire page here in [redacted] it always makes me laugh#hellcheer#hellcheer au#hellcheer headcanon#hellcheer headcanons#eddissy#eddissy headcanon#eddissy headcanons#eddie munson#eddie munson headcanon#eddie munson headcanons#chrissy cunningham#chrissy cunningham headcanon#chrissy cunningham headcanons#stranger things#stranger things headcanon#stranger things headcanons#just r's thoughts
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