#orange babblings

[orangecookiewhagt]

touch tone telephone by lemon demon is so Griffin Lovell I am insane about tjis I wrote explanations for some of the lyrics

beware spoilers and Long

I think it's time for you to know the awful truth/Mm, the truth about me, and the truth about you

Griffin telling Robin the truth about Babel 

How no one actually wants to create a better future for them and that they are tools that the empire uses to leech off of other countries 

I try to call you every day /I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out (of my very own mouth)

Wants to tell the world about the truth of how terrible Babel 

Wants everyone to listen and understand him when he talks about destroying the empire 

And how the empire has no regards for peoples lives in other countries

I've been working on a unified theory/If I make it through tonight, everybody's gonna hear me out

About Hermes society’s plan to stop the opium war 

'Cause I'm the right one

Griffin’s right about the necessity of violence

On my touch-tone, touch-tone telephone/I'm the only one/On your AM, AM radio

Hermes society are the only ones willing to risk their lives to spread the truth about colonialism 

'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand/'Cause you're the only person in the world who'd understand the meaning of this

How Robin is the only other person whose mother tongue is Chinese 

Oh my god/I try, and I try, and I try to make you listen to me

Griffin trying to convince Robin that Hermes will be his only option in the end

I'm an expert just like you/And like you, I'm a genius before my time/Disbelieving, that's the real crime

It’s unfair for people to go on with their lives using the resources of other countries without acknowledging where they’re from or the hard work that went into them

[iamthebonecarver]

The priory of the orange tree should really be referred to as “Arteloth Beck’s great journey into the unknown of atheism.”

[asexualbookbird]

I had a busy (and fun!) day yesterday so now I get to sit quietly and recover today with The Best Cat In The World and this brick of a book

[bonefall]

Favorite BB design detail: the way that eye colors are used for things like scars, noses, and inner bits (ears and tongue). No idea if this is a Basic Ass drawing trick I've simply never encountered, but much every time I see it I pog. It just looks so, so good.

It's an intentional style choice because I'm from the 2000s and I still have not mentally recovered from that one funny forum avatar of a cat with matching neon eyes and tongue licking a screen. Irreparable damage to my psyche. At heart I will always just be a sparkledog.

The tip to making them pop even more is to pick a secondary color that's more saturated, maybe even move around on the color wheel a little bit. Especially when you're coloring yellow eyes-- if you add a second color that's a bit more orange, it makes the color read as golden.

[n0picturespls]

Yall I'm literally living through bitb rn

[queerpyracy]

this author has implanted so many north american exclusive species onto her fictional remote swedish island that i'm 60 pages from the end of the book being like well there's not like a Zero percent chance that there's a last minute reveal that this island is actually off the coast of canada and this is some kind of the village situation

[dodiaska]

photo of jimmy solidarity and a guy, that looks weirdly similar to the presumed dead tango tek, sitting on a lil balcony and enjoying mandarynki on The New Ranch

i got real inspired by all the prl-ish photos i found on pinterest

@kiszoneszczury once again, fanarcik post infection rancherow enjoying tea and mandarynki

[doodle17]

nah baby Raz looks like he got them JAUNDICE

Do you not know how yellow he is CANONICALLY

Fun fact: the yellow/orange I use for his skin in my drawings are LITERALLY COLOR PICKED FROM ACTUAL PICTURES OF HIM IN GAME

[o0fyuu0o]

ChaCha was very determined to make sure they could both fit on my lap 😭

[phoenixyfriend]

Me, having made myself laugh for hours with a very stupid idea: Hey friend can I show you a thing I find silly

Friends: Sure

Me: [shows off a snippet of SW fic]

Every friend without fail:

[vvindication]

KITSURAGI JACKET WEARING YOUTUBER JUMPSCARE ?!

[orangecookiewhagt]

I love it when griffin has long hair it just makes so much sense like This guy does not have the time to cut his hair he’s too busy taking down colonizers and exploding things

[iamthebonecarver]

Ok so I’m probably too late to this party but I just have to know if anyone else found Niclays perspective really heartwarming in the oddest way because you see Eadaz and Sabran this whole book and you watch them love regardless just like Clay and Jan 40 years prior and it’s just like oh… the world isn’t so different and neither are these people

[asexualbookbird]

Have You Read My TBR? Round Eleven!

I don't expect a lot of people to have read this, HOWEVER it was one of the first books @bigcats-birds-and-books recommened to me YEARS AGO and I've only just now been able to source it. I will be reading this regardless of tumblr's opinon, thank you. You still have to vote because pressing buttons is fun :3

[bonefall]

I've asked you about the blurb, but how do you feel about the cover of Star. I'm not a fan of the 'stars' in Mistystar and Reedwhisker's fur myself, with it looking closer to vitiligo, and I've seen the sentiment echoed elsewhere.

I showed it to my lover, who does not know anything about WC besides what I tell them, and the first thing out of their mouth was, "That one looks like it's licking the paint off itself" and uhhh that's the nicest thing I can say about it

[ivystardust]

listening to Hozier while reading the priory of the orange tree is my type of fun on the weekend<3