#nyomkitten

[bloodkeep-escape]

happy birthday :D hope u have a lovely day and lots of favourite food/beverage/both!!

i'll send more later if the braincell cooperates, but a favourite line is Efink Murderdeath's "shit indeed" (e1 i think). Efink Murderdeath's name is one of the best running gags in the history of comedy <3

also Lilith's dynamic with her children is the best. we stan villainous gentle parenting and coparenting in this evil fortress :')

thank you thank you!!

and YEAH. her first name is knife backwards. her last name is murderdeath. i've talked about trans efink before but that's truly the most trans shit i've heard in my life and i love that for her <3

and lilith!!! she's such a good mom!!! that bit at the end where she tries to send her kids away and jason and jessa insist on staying and helping her... ugh it kills me. they're family :'')

[lastweeksshirttonight]

hello! i'm not sure if you've seen this clip but

i am on a Disney semi-rabbit hole (which i don't approve of for myself, don't worry) and i just found the first 30 seconds of this interview hilarious.

it's like—he enjoyed the gig and did well at it (clips of him BTS are much more lively than these ones) but he just can't be arsed to be corporately passionate about it for promotional purposes.

My response to this is so fucking late, I'm so sorry my dear

Firstly, here's the video:

I also adore how much bullshit he's spewing out in these clips, and how he is actively to the camera's face saying that he's doing these as a promotional requirement. The bold faced lie of John watching The Lion King as a kid was also absolutely hilarious. (For background, The Lion King came out when I was a kid, and I'm fifteen years younger than John.)

I do like this quote from John, which is very much the ethos he pretends he has with comedy: "We tend to favor structure in lieu of having an emotional reaction to anything." Much like John claiming to be "allergic to sincerity", this isn't entirely an accurate view of himself.

Thank you for the ask <3

[metamatar]

On why exit polls were probably broken in Ayodhya

Nobody spoke because of the fear factor. They were worried if they complained over their shop being demolished the authorities will come and demolish their homes too for no reason.

Residents also feared that if they speak they will have to face court cases. Police ka bhaiya (fear of the police) ensured the people did not speak out so nobody reported too about such incidents.

cc @nyomkitten

[a-majus]

sundry sidney for @nyomkitten ^_^

[sivavakkiyar]

@nyomkitten

lololol my god you’re right, my eyes must be shot I actually didn’t notice

[gollancz]

#oh lor. oh bless. i am on tumblr instead of doing my (overdue) job (editing) and gollancz has to call me out like this#grammarposting

@nyomkitten

my red flag is that this is how close I am to finishing these proof checks, and to celebrate I've come on tumblr instead of just knuckling down to finish them

[eriong-inactive]

what's the last book you read/are reading? <3

'funeral nights' by kynpham sing nongkynrih.

i've barely gotten through it but i really like what i'm reading so far! incredibly rich descriptions and meandering narrations that are so delightful. i'm learning about practices and folk tales of the khasis beyond what my mother and grandma know, which is always nice.

[nohkalikai]

hello <3 for the concert asks:

4. which concert is coming up next for you?

9. have you ever been to a concert in the rain?

19. do you scream and lose your damn mind or do you quietly sing along to yourself?

HELLAUR!!

4. which concert is coming up next for you?

if i'm back in the UK by then,,,, i will be going to see Crosses!! literally so excited i fucking love their new album (but i'm lowkey terrified of their fans bcs they're all rabid deftones likers)

9. have you ever been to a concert in the rain?

i have not :o

19. do you scream and lose your damn mind or do you quietly sing along to yourself?

i like recording bits and pieces of concerts so i can relive them – that's when i just lipsync. otherwise u can bet that i will be losing my goddamn mind screeching out the lyrics or riffs absolutely besura.

concert asks

[lastweeksshirttonight]

The lovely @pollydrawingthings tagged me to answer these questions, and I adore tagging games so let's get to it!

Three ships:

Niles/Daphne from Frasier. I'm almost through Season Five and the tension these two have is so good. This is the first time I've really been invested in a will they-won't they in a sitcom.

Joker/Yusuke from Persona 5. It is a crime that I cannot shove these two into a relationship. Gonna go change some hearts at Atlas

Usagi/Mamoru from Sailor Moon. Does this need an explanation? The manga is so sweeping in its romanticism and damn it they're still my ideal pairing after all these years.

First ever ship: Me with James from Pokemon. This is not a joke, I was very much in love with him as a 9 year old. My friends even held a goddamn wedding ceremony for me on the playground, complete with (Claire's brand) ring and (tissue paper) veil. His stand in was his goddamn Topps trading card. I was, as I've said before, a deeply weird child.

Last song: fair warning, this shit will never leave your head. (Girl's Day - "Ring My Bell")

Currently reading: about to start Nine and a Half Weeks by Elizabeth McNeill

Currently watching: besides LWT Ep. 4 for my writeup and Frasier, O.J.: Made in America

Currently consuming: Starburst jellybeans

Currently craving: inexplicably, a Caesar salad

Gonna go ahead and tag @tellthemeerkatsitsfine, @lavendercoatedangels, @weirdlittleberry, @nyomkitten, @locustmotivus, and @johnoliverstshirtcannon, feel free to ignore if you don't wanna do this!

[lastweeksshirttonight]

TAG TEN PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER

tagged by @littlealexhorne! <3

Three ships: only slightly changed from a few weeks ago honestly.

Joker/Akechi (Persona 5). Akechi is the most confusing man on the planet but I deeply love the toxic, deeply and comedically homoerotic dynamic going on in the story at the point I'm at in the game. Aaaaand that's all I'll say bc spoilers.

Usagi/Mamoru (Sailor Moon), the forever GOAT romance ship. To the point that I want a vaguely Sailor Moon themed wedding. (I'm not even close to getting married this is not an announcement.)

Niles/Daphne (Frasier). My partner and I were watching the episode where Donny proposed to Daphne and I was very very NOT PLEASED, WHY MUST NILES SUFFER THIS WAY

1st ever ship: As I have mentioned before, James from Team Rocket/me as a nine year old

Last song: "Silent Running", Gorillaz feat. Adeleye Omotayo

Last movie: The Super Mario Brothers Movie, which was very fun if slight. I am very bad at going to the theatre these days and hadn't seen anything between this and Minions 2, I could use some movie recs.

Currently reading: The Gorillaz Almanac. I'm telling you I fell back hardcore into this shit.

Currently watching: Taskmaster S15, Frasier S7, random old episodes of The Daily Show, LWT S1 Ep 5

Currently consuming: it's honestly too early for me to eat, so nothing

Currently craving: a LaCroix

One media recommendation: I've mentioned it before but the podcast You Must Remember This' series Erotic 80s and Erotic 90s, both of which dive into erotic film from those decades and how they shaped US society... and how they were shaped by social factors, such as the Reagan administration, the MPAA's blatant hypocrisy, the AIDS crisis, and second- and third-wave feminism. Absolutely worth your time if you have any interest in modern film.

tagging @nyomkitten, @lavendercoatedangels, @tellthemeerkatsitsfine, @johnoliverstshirtcannon, @bimwi, @you-pricks-never-walk, @onett64, @archetypewriter, @rymurrsneckbeard, and @katsuobushii, feel free to ignore

[nohkalikai]

hi!!!!

ok first thing: i was mentally screaming SAME at everything in ur recent posts—need to overexplain!! feeling so uncertain about faith because of *gestures at evangelical fundamentalist world* yet so incapable of leaving it!!

and feeling so fED UP & WEIRD at being a national minority + (supposedly) part of a global cultural imperialist majority. it is FUCKED UP sir

also omg i did not know u were not out at church aaaa. all this time i thought u had found a cool affirming and reasonable church outside home and u were being cool there. somehow this helps with my near constant crises of identity + struggling with The Church. anyway ilu i hope better things for us

HELLO i hope you don't mind me posting this publicly.

but yes to everything. it's such a strange sort of cognitive dissonance at best and actively endangering at worst! to have to come to terms with white ppl not wanting you till you subscribe to the racist ways they do religion, hindus not wanting you either bcs you're better dead to them or completely secularized, and our own community at large, rife w islamophobia and all sorts of incredibly right wing beliefs.

i don't have a proper analysis to offer wrt how to make sense of minority in the sheets hegemony in the streets, i'm sure many people who have come before me have already done that LMAO.

i like (love) this personal essay by a friend of mine:

also yea lmao i stopped going to church. i was going mostly out of compulsion and to maintain a sense of familiarity in a completely new place. but something about going to centuries-old churches that claim to be inclusive and welcoming made me laugh. like, come ON. no matter how political the pastors are or how inclusive the community is, i can't shake away feelings of discomfort and anger. and i suppose that's been my brain's cue to remember all of paul's letters regarding the body being people instead of a building blah and blah. but i can't be fussed atm.

i guess that juggling all this cognitive dissonance is a lifetime thing, very much mediated by the outside world. i've long reconciled that my faith cannot be amorphous immaterial faith that i learnt of in bible studies; it HAS to be a material faith (thinking of Ambedkar and mass conversions).

and it's like yea, we grow up being critical of christianity in all its forms but it refuses to let u go. and that can be incredibly stifling sometimes or incredibly comforting.

[nohkalikai]

∞ :)

i love cix's music but these lyrics are like. alright. :P still i like BX's verse in the bridge more than the rest:

내게 다가 온 이 운명의 고리 다 정해져 버린 듯 해, 우리 길이 Lights, camera, action 짜여진 direction 이끌린 채 여기로 달려왔어, uh

끝이 없는 터널 속 내게 비친 한 줄기, 마치 맘이 술래가 된 듯해 나 상처 속을 걸어 매일

tr.

This circle of fate approached me It's like our path has already been determined Lights, camera, action A scripted direction Something led me here, I was drawn here, uh Inside an endless tunnel There was a reflection of light My heart feels like I've become a tagger Every day I walk through my wounds

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put a "∞" in my ask box and I'll shuffle my music player and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up.

[gollancz]

#did you do the book cover brief for it! @nyomkitten So! Sort of.

Marcus, our Publishing Director, is actually Chris' editor, and chatted with him about the sort of ~vibe we wanted to go for, and he put together the rough brief for me. But then I got to go ham on finding the stock images to illustrate for our design team:

Chris really prefers typographic covers, so we've done some gorgeous ones on his previous titles, and wanted to make sure AIRSIDE fit with that, as well as other titles in the market that we thought the story worked alongside:

Chris is a really interesting author in that every book is completely different. He has his 'dream archipelago' world within the books, but even then no two stories are the same. So the way we look at how to position him is to go to Amazon and Waterstones and see what is being recommended alongside him. That's how we design a cover that signposts to fans of his style of work that this is a book for them!

And then, the design got passed over to one of our in-house wizards, Tomás. I deeply believe that all of our art team are working with the Deep Magics to do some of the stuff they do, and I love working with them so much because they're phenomenal, whether you give them a detailed brief or show them a completely insane scribble you did at 2am.

You've seen some of Tomás' stuff before: he is Team Beagle, so he's the genius behind our gorgeous LAST UNICORN cover, and also worked on AGAINST ALL GODS and STORMING HEAVEN (plus book three of that series) by Miles Cameron, and the design for our GORGEOUS edition of DUNE.

And lo! He gave us this stunning cover:

Fun Fact: this is also an 'eco jacket'. Most covers have a bit of spot UV on to pick out details and the title (makes them shiny), or a bit of foiling for decoration (and sometimes a mix of the two). They're beautiful to look at, but not the most environmentally friendly. This was a trial to make a beautiful, stand-out cover that didn't use any extraneous finishes at all, and it worked! It looks boss as hell, and is as such easier to recycle, and greener to make.

Winning for everyone!

hi, Random Citizen ('s main blog) here :)

just wanted to say (again) that your posts and videos are genuinely a joy—not just because y'all books are awesome (i recently read Airside!) but also because it's lovely to see that people get to do this for a living and can have fun at their jobs and i hope someday that'll be true for me :')

thank you for having a presence on Tumblr. hope you get the work phone soon!

That's very kind, thank you! I am having a lot of fun here (Tumblr and Gollancz) and want to share that with everyone - whether they want me to or not.

Also thank you for providing further evidence to my boss that Tumblr has heard of Christopher Priest (and isn't the cover for Airside gorgeous????)

[nohkalikai]

hlu friend! song for u <3

omg this is a yummy song thank u

[nohkalikai]

hlu sir, solidarity from another indian christian from a marginalised background re. the randos in your ask 🤧

for what it's worth—i agree with what you said; christianity in South Asia is a COMPLETELY different power structure from US/western Europe vibes... so much so that while reading (rightful) anti-evangelical rants i have to keep reminding myself this isn't targeted at us, a literal minority in our country

and while there's a lot of crap that's filtered into indian christian networks from fundamentalists and bigots, there is so much power and solidarity in unlearning that crap and respecting & learning from other religious groups and i love doing that on tumblr!

anyway—blessed Easter ignore the internet warriors

idk what else to add bcs u said it all!! and a blessed good friday n easter week to you toooooo!