#poetic narrator

[ashersbraincell]

So I just had a very poetic thought about slay the princess

So yk how the Narrator goes “everything goes dark, and you die”. Well it would seem that most of the time, darkness is represented by the Long Quiet so .

Wouldn’t, in a way, dying only be LQ retreating to their most primal, most core state? Embracing themselves in the fabric of their own centermost self?

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Gracekeepers

fantasy/fabulism set in a post-apocalyptic drowned world divided between those who live on land and sea

follows a girl who’s been exiled to a lonely island and oversees shoreside funerals

and a girl in a floating circus, who performs with a bear as they travel from island to island, and is trying to get out of an arranged marriage to the circus director’s son

when a sudden storm causes them to cross paths, and changes the direction of their lives

inspired by Scottish folktales, lightly sapphic

[lotus-pear]

i am literally so intrigued abt this thg x bsd fic WHAT ARE SKK LIKE. ARE THEY BESTIES?? WORSTIES?? DO THEY DIE💀💀

UHHHH idk how much to disclose but ultimately they still keep the two halves of the same soul like they are in canon bsd except i gave it a little twist. their dynamic is violent and sacrificial and ultimately ends in blood and betrayal due to the nature of the tragedy of the original story itself.

like soulmates that are so devilishly intertwined because they knit the threads of fate with their own hands ultimately bringing out each other's destructive tendencies. being on a level playing field where one is the sword and the other is the sheath but they both swap. do they bring out each other's humanity? yes. do they also bring about each other's downfall? yes.

[tomurakii]

Dude I know I'm deep into my Gale obsession when seeing people's dumbshit takes actually makes me angry. Someone on instagram called him easy and a gold digger??? How do you live with yourself.

[cosmokrill]

I enjoy spring once it's warmed up and my hands don't suffer from the fact I have genetically horrible circulation.

When you step outside in the morning and aren't greeted with your breath visible in the air, or the grass airbrushed by frost.

When you get up and take a walk in the afternoon and find yourself suddenly a little too warm, taking off your coat as you listen to the birds create a symphony from their trees, when other trees bloom in the prettiest of colors.

If I had to associate smells of spring, I would have to say freshly cut grass, the distinct smell of irrigation water, and dogwood blossoms.

Noah would probably enjoy it too, I think.

[spikyink]

Dam tgese mfs have attachment issues

[chirpsythismorning]

This scene at Rink O Mania makes a point to show Mike casually keeping to himself in the background while El goes off with Angela.

Instead of giving Mike’s reaction to what is unfolding, they focus only on Will’s reaction as he watches. What was Mike doing that whole time anyways...?

Oh.

Well now we know why he jumped up so fast...

[whatkindofnameisella]

"the child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe."

[gideonisms]

the gulf between me and people who care in what order things happen in books is nigh uncrossable. I can't figure out what they MEAN by good or bad pacing. To me a book either grabs my attention or doesn't but the speed at which events occur has nothing to do with it

[fortjester]

i like the idea of Alecto speaking Like That in the NtN epilogue bc that's. that's just how she speaks. I like the idea that whatever conversation they had going in the John chapters was filtered thru Harrow into a language we as modern readers could understand, and the way that Alecto and John actually spoke to each other was like. just feeling each other's feelings via soul sharing and parsing out meaning from that - apart from John like naming the schools he went to and contellations and all that. I like the idea of John teaching Alecto how to speak with her mouth and use human languages by reading Shakespeare plays n stuff to her, and that's why he knows so many quotes just off the top of his head. Alecto speaks like the Bard's Cleopatra and Beatrice and Lady Macbeth, Elizabethan English style iambic pentameter, the odd rhyming couplet, and so on. the idea of it. i dunno. just delights me, i guess.

[hummingbird-hooligan]

Candela Obscura crimson mirror, aka I am Still Embarrassingly Down Bad For Liam O'Brian...

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Hearts Still Beating

post-apocalyptic YA

a few years after a tick-borne zombie apocalypse destroyed most of the world, a treatment is developed that keeps the infected from going feral

an infected teen is in recovery and sent back in the world - to live with her former best friend’s family, since her sister hates her for killing their parents

the best friend now lives on an island community with her parents and adopted siblings, traumatised from what she’s had to do to survive

when the militant group that has control of the island becomes increasingly aggressive, they’re forced to reconnect and work together

f/f, bi MC

[springcatalyst]

i try to keep my narration within the realms of the narrator so like. my writing style changes slightly depending on who is narrating. i only give u information they have but i also only give u thoughts that they reasonably think like. however i am a liar because sometimes i break this rule to write neat prose

[theirloveisgross]

joaquin phoenix's oscar acceptance speech. february 9 2020.

[midnight-cowboy1969]

I love how divided the Fight Club fanbase is. Like either you think it is the greatest rom com of all time or Tyler Durden is your hero.

[themyscirah]

Not Tom King diagnosing the problem with his own run in issue #2