#slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

[imnotverybright]

thinking of her (taylor hebert bug jacket i want to embroider)....

[pomp-quio]

tagged by @cattus-catos 💛 who has excellent opinions and always accurate takes (especially about Crassus) -

last book i read: Dragonfly by Frederic S Durbin. I try to intersperse my mostly classics and french revolution reading with my second great love, fantasy books. Dragonfly is a cute little creepy standalone novel that I read when I was a teenager and ended up reading again recently.

book i recommend: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. I have no explanation exactly for why but this is hands-down my favourite book. So it goes.

book i couldn't put down: Babel by R F Kuang. I was a bit concerned because I generally don't enjoy the plots of BookTok books, BUT the subtitle (The Necessity of Violence) intrigued me. And let me tell you I was blown away by this book. It was a bit clunky at times but I loved every second and coming from a country that is still recovering from its colonial past, with our own national language that is considered uneducated, crass, and rough, it just hit very hard.

book i've read twice: I'm a chronic book repeater because my brain is swiss cheese, but the one book I regularly re-read for fun (and sadness) is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It's such a good book, actually I'm probably due for a re-read again! Also Watership Down by Richard Adams, I love that book so much ✨prince with a thousand enemies✨. And of course I have read the Odyssey several times!

a book on my tbr: my current TBR list stands at over 300 books (my Goodreads is Pompey Watching if you're interested). I think the next book I pick up will be The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk.

a book i've put down: Decolonising the Maltese Mind by Charles Xuereb. Not because it's bad but because I get so pissed off at the British every few paragraphs that I genuinely just need to take a mental break.

a book on my wishlist: oh dear there are so many. I desperately want the clothbound versions of the Odyssey, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Paradise Lost, and Inferno. I also REALLY want a physical copy of Sextus Pompeius by Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch, but its so expensive.

a favourite book from childhood: The Edge Chronicles The Edge Chronicles The Edge Chronicles I will never be okay about them, the plot, the arcs, the art, the characters!!!

a book you would give to a friend: Feral by George Monbiot. I am first and foremost an environmental/animal girlie and while I have some criticisms about this book, it genuinely argues for a lot of what I believe in when speaking about wildlife rehabilitation.

a book of poetry/lyrics you own: I sadly own very few poetry books! I do have a copy of Wilfred Owen's war poetry which makes me far too emotional for my own good.

a non-fiction book you own: so many! I have a lot of animal behaviour books, wild fauna books, french revolution books, and ancient Rome books. I guess one of my favourites would be Choosing Terror by Marisa Linton.

currently reading: House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewaki, Lucan's Pharsalia (Susan Braund trans), yay Pharsaliabookclub, and Xuan s posts made me start the Epic of Gilgamesh but I'm only at the introduction so far!

planning on reading next: I never quite know what I'm going to read next but it will probably The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk. I also want to get started on the Thebaid, but I fear reading it at the same time as Pharsalia will do some irreparable damage to my brain!

I'm tagging @kushielsmercy (Shiel this is my Rome sideblog hello and welcome sorry you had to find out like this) and @burritofriedrich ❤️❤️❤️

[candiedspit]

I Trip The Nighttime Fantastic

The morning after a show is always a frightful one. I smoke in bed as the sun ambushes the windows with her bright fist. Then, slink downstairs where Mariam awaits with her list of complaints, her pot of lukewarm coffee. A newscast on the television. I lay on the sofa as she badgers me, aims her gun and shoots. 

Why did I awake to find glitter in the bed? A smattering of glitter and the stink of cheap, godless perfume. And whose lipstick was on your cheek? It was the color of a bruise. And I only wear tulips, wines. And you know this. So there isn’t anywhere to turn, Roger–nowhere at all. 

And she will continue until either she realizes I have not heard–or rather, ingested–a word she has said, and sigh into her own oblivion, making a fuss about leaving the room, or until I shoot off my own gun and we go back and forth like tennis players. 

I love you, I’ll state and state until she throws a plate and then I’ll have to dodge the plate. And we’ll have sex until the evening. Hot, upset, confused sex. When we’re finished, the temperature of the house has risen several degrees and there is a scent which lingers, the scent of flesh. 

I don’t feel I know you, Mariam said once. Not the way I might know someone else. Some nights, there is a stranger here with me. 

Sometimes, I’m right as lemonade. I laugh like a schoolgirl, stuff boxes with flower heads, chop up the lettuce and prepare a large spread. I am fascinated, then. Nothing can hold my attention for very long but everything appears to have saturated overnight, steeped in a fantastic tea which accentuates the colors and the weight and the God. Mariam likes me when I’m like this. At least, for a moment. Then I start reciting rhymes for the ghosts in our yard and the neighbors sneer and I can’t stop electrocuting myself. Once, Mariam found me across the road confused on whether or not to cross. I would have stood there for the rest of my life had she not tugged on my shirt and brought me inside. 

Other times, I’m a dragonfly caught in the rain. I would not crawl out of bed if there was a parade outside. I am crippled by the slug of daytime. I want nothing. When people call, I tell them I’ve left. Mariam hates this, too. She hides even the trick gun. 

I’m a magician, you see. 

I draw the rabbit from the hat, slice the woman in half. I make girls levitate. I play tricks on the crowd; the quarter from behind your ear and the water from the ceiling. 

A few weeks ago, I felt the orchestra playing from behind my eyes. I could feel the green angels spinning around in my glass, and came home with a bouquet of flowers for Mariam from our neighbor’s garden. I did not sleep. I practiced my introduction again and again as the television mumbled to himself. I was certain I was going mad again. That night, the show was quite fantastic. The audience shuddered like livestock being driven to the slaughterhouse. And the applause came in waves. Mariam told me I was her lightning bolt, her one true silo.��

But the days wove into days and I grew increasingly frenetic. I could not be bothered to clean after myself so the house grew into a labyrinth of clutters. Forks where the soap ought to be. A shaving razor in the fridge. I shaved my head which Mariam shrieked about. But she couldn’t understand. Ideas crashed through my head like pianos from great heights. I slept with all of the girls at the club; I stayed awake for nine days straight, moving through the world as a saw moves through a massive tree. 

Let’s go to the sea, Mariam said on the tenth morning as I painted the kitchen a baritone orange. I had the idea after watching a cartoon the night before. 

What sea? I asked. There are no seas around here. 

It was true. I hadn’t seen the ocean since I was five years old. 

We could go to Ruislip, she said. And spend a long weekend there by the ocean. I think it might help. 

I had a second feeling, a sort of inkling. But I appreciated her effort at being spontaneous–more like a liquid and less like a solid–and packed bags with shorts and hats and books I’d been meaning to get through. And while we drove, I smoked and raved about the vermin in the grass, how the miniature always feeds into the massive. I realized we weren’t headed to Ruislip when the asylum pulled into view. 

Mariam had me committed for twenty one days. During that time, I barked at the staff and refused everything. I was given periodic sedation interludes. I slept for two days straight. And when I awoke, I realized I wasn’t sharing the room with a shadow but a seventy five year old lawmaker. I told the doctor nothing was wrong exactly fourteen times. And when I was finished, he told me I wouldn’t be there if that was the case. I beat the lawmaker at cards. 

I was meant to go back home–that is, Mariam was meant to come pick me up–in two days when I came upon my decision. I was never truly going to be able to leave, I realized. I was caught in an infinite cycle. I would go home and muck things up and end up back in the same position. I would end up delighted again. My train of thought would derail. I had already spent a lifetime moving from season to season. 

Anyway–I had a cure. 

Mariam picked me up and the house was cleaned, pristine. The kitchen painted a mint green again. We sat outside in the yard and smoked and shared a piece of fish. And when Mariam went to work the following morning, I left her a note on the fridge. 

Mariam, it read. 

I believe you’ll read this–or perhaps you’ll realize before you read this, some kind of psychic pang, a twitch in your hand–and while the rain might start, there will be a sense of relief. And that is why this had to happen. I’m tired of this mud, princess. I love you too much. Do you understand? 

I changed into my favorite suit and packed the gun in my belt. When I got to Heaven, everyone wanted to hear my stories.

[arrasadordes]

Continued from [ x ] @slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly​

A frown etches itself across the Seeker’s lip plates. Holy Trine? Was this mech serious? Thundercracker can’t help but to scoff, “Really now. I’m just a Seeker just like the rest. No need for formalities and the such. Thundercracker is fine as I stated. I do not mind being addressed as such. You do not need to treat me as if I’m royalty because I am not.”

Thundercracker idly places his servos on his hips, “It’s.. nice to meet you Dragonfly. I’m guessing from the way you’re behaving you thought highly of Starscream?”

[davidmann95]

Any stand-out titles of the year for one to pick up?

Time for another round of favorite comics of the year, categorized as I did last year:

Notably stands out from the pack

Batman: The Adventures Continue, Bendis’s Super-books, Billionaire Island, Dark Nights: Death Metal: The Last Stories of the DC Universe, Dark Nights: Death Metal: Speed Metal, Dragonfly & Dragonflyman, Empyre, The Green Lantern Season Two, Iron Man, Justice League #51-52, Justice League Dark,  Legion of Superheroes, Once & Future, Penultiman, Power Pack, Punisher: Soviet, RWBY, Solid Blood #17, Stillwater, Suicide Squad, Valkyrie: Jane Foster, Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar, We Live

Exceptional

Adventureman, Bang!, Batman, Catwoman by V/Blanco, Commanders in Crisis, Dark Nights: Death Metal: Multiverse’s End, Detective Comics #1027, Dial H for Hero, Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #7, Ice Cream Man, King In Black: Iron Man/Doctor Doom, The Ludocrats, Marvels Snapshots: Fantastic Four, Marvels Snapshots: Sub-Mariner, Marvels Snapshots: X-Men, The Pull, Rorschach, Strange Adventures, S.W.O.R.D. #1, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, Wonder Twins, X-Men

Stunning

Daredevil, The Department of Truth, Far Sector, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Immortal Hulk, Kill A Man, Venom: The End

Should be remembered as benchmarks of the era

Blue In Green, Decorum (maybe the prettiest comic ever published?), DIE, Hedra, The Other History of the DC Universe #1, Slaughterhouse-Five, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (not as much for me as for others but the craft is undeniable), Superman Smashes The Klan #3

[nightstar-in-the-sky]

😴 (@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly)

Nightstar has been curled up on the berth she had in the cockpit, in case something happened, so she could quickly get up and preform and evasive maneuvers, fast asleep, her wings twitching every few seconds, a sort of Seeker version of a snore. @slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

[dem0nsiget]

Hey Guys

Just an update on my RP blogs.

I will most likely be taking a bit of a long break from them, sort of a hiatus but not at the same time.

I just haven’t really been feeling Transformers since I started watching Supernatural, and while I will always be in the TF fandom, I’ve pretty much been at 100% with it for 4-5 years, and I just kinda need a bit of a break.

I’ll be back, they’re not being deleted, but I won’t be as active on them.

I do ask that any threads you may have with my characters freezes, as to not continue on without mine and become too far advanced for me to join back in, which hopefully won’t be a problem since I already haven’t been on in a long time.

I hope this doesn’t mean I won’t have any more RP partners when I get back, but I’m just not feeling my TF muses.

I will still be active on this, my main blog, @transformers-mtmte-fangirl

Thanks for understanding you guys!

@defiant-delphi @dragonfly-the-twink @x-de-con-struct-ed-x @ablindfollowing @whatabeautifulwaytodie @betterdoctorthanyou @electange @electricwhiplash @whirlybird-the-hellochopter @slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly @clutch-of-iacon @medic-and-assistant @antiautobot-decepticon @sunshinedbells @karmeladrake

And @ anyone else that I can’t think of right now

[flaming-glass-star-blog]

"Hey, I've changed my mind. You can have the money. I don't care anymore. I had to think on it for a while." (@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly)

Skyburner once again walked over to him, “Oh? And you’re not changing your mind because you’re up to something? And don’t worry, staying with me isn’t a nightmare, especially compared to the many people you’ll be sold off to.”

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

[xiel-posts-blog]

Hey y’all

You should check out my friendos’ rp blogs

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly @zealous-jealous-lover @defiant-delphi

@overcast-outlier @triggerhappy-topkick @fractals-and-fragments @under-the-sun-moon-and-stars

@exiled-con @antiautobot-decepticon @hitechs-hightech

they probably have more, but I can’t remember all of them.

[wallpapernifty]

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[davidmann95]

Will you be picking up Kirkman and Samnee’s Fire Power? If not, is there another book that’s got your attention, maybe one that you haven’t talked much about? Either recently released or upcoming?

Nah, I tried the FCBD first issue and while Samnee’s as...fire as ever, and I often like Kirkman well enough, it didn’t grab me. Some other books though that seem to have sailed under the radar worth some attention:

Wonder Twins: Mark Russell’s recently-concluded best work, and he did it with Stephen Byrne who’s also fantastic.

Guardians of the Galaxy: It’s Al Ewing’s non-Hulk ongoing and therefore not attracting the same kind of attention, but it absolutely slaps and Juann Cabal is putting on a clinic here.

Decorum: Hickman’s current non-X-Men work about the intricacies and social mores of space-assassination, this is truly notable for Mike Huddleston’s absolutely unbelievable art.

The Wrong Earth: A pair of Batman riffs - one in the Miller mold, one Adam West - unwillingly switch places and try to make the best of their circumstances. The original volume by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle follows the pair’s initial mishaps, the recent prequel Dragonfly & Dragonflyman with Peter Krause on art covers the vastly different way the pair handled equivalent cases in the past, and the upcoming The Wrong Earth: Night & Day with a returning Igle will have them at last coming face-to-face. Peyer also has a Superman riff coming up with Alan Robinson titled Penultiman, about Earth’s greatest and most beloved hero privately struggling with all-consuming self-esteem issues due to the tragic secret of his origin.

Adventureman: A modern Doc Savage riff by Fraction and the Dodsons, this just started and it’s solid fun; I’ve heard Bang! by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres does similar things to even greater success, but I haven’t been able to track that one down so I’m trade-waiting there.

DIE: Once & Future with Dan Mora seems to be the current Gillen joint attracting most attention, but his ‘goth D&D Jumanji’ with Stephanie Hans is for my money the far more interesting and engrossing work.

Hedra: An oversized, incredibly dense, artistically ambitious one-off space adventure out of Image recently, absolutely worth grabbing if you see it at your local store.

We Only Find Them When They’re Dead: Al Ewing’s upcoming creator-owned with Simone Di Mio about the captain of a spaceship harvesting resources from dead space-gods, and his potentially mad quest to find the first live one. You should buy this.

Slaughterhouse-Five: I wouldn’t instinctively think that this adaptation would be either achievable or desirable, but I’m certainly fascinated to see what Ryan North does with it alongside Albert Monteys.

Commanders in Crisis: Steve Orlando and Davide Tinto’s big creator-owned superhero team book, five survivors of dead universes banded together to protect their new home against unimaginable threats. Basically it’s Orlando doing the Justice Incarnate ongoing DC wouldn’t let him, and I couldn’t be more excited for it.

[nightstar-in-the-sky]

If.... if you don't mind, could you answer 18? (@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly)

Oh ho. That answer will literally always be the same, not cause I’m still pining after him, but Tarn. I fucking blacked out one time, and y’all, you don’t fucking forget that. I mean, what he does as a job is fucked up, but holy shit.

[nightstar-in-the-sky]

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

My muse has just died in your muse’s arms. Send in your muse’s reaction.

[bots-a-musing-blog]

“So small problem... I haven’t seen Spark for six? days. I’m kinda worried about him too. I’ve been reading some of his notes and I’m starting to worry about him.” Kizzy’s door-wings shifted downwards and slowly, they began twitching.

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

[flaming-glass-star-blog]

"Hello? Is anyone in here?" Oh god, it is hot.... (@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly)

Skyburner turns around to see who’s there: “Depends, who’s asking?”

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

[bots-a-musing-blog]

@slaughterhouse-of-dragonfly

i got better sleep resting my head on your shoulder, despite being cramed together at awkward angles, on the bus ride home than i ever have in my own bed.