#song of blood & stone

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Slipping through my fingers, all the time

Do I really see what’s in her mind?

[i-hear-a-sound]

hand in unlovable hand

[cupids-beaux]

i miss u kian stone

[ofliterarynature]

physical tbr of doom • read May 2024

Derring-Do for Beginners by Victoria Goddard

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Song of Blood & Stone by L Penelope DNF

100 Cupboards by ND Wilson

Got a bit distracted this month and had to cram everything into a week and half, but I still hit my goal! So so happy to have finally read Derring-Do.

> vote in my tbr poll! <

[panic-flavored]

Idea: What if, along with the "siren song" merfolk use to put victims into a trance, they also have one other kind of call that they only use as an absolute last resort.

It's basically known by merfolk as the "Death call." It's a very specific frequency and volume of sound that, when used, can burst the eardrums and major arteries of anyone within the area. Even those farther away can experience temporary to permanent deafness, severe headaches, and nose bleeds.

The reason that merfolk try never to use this call, even in very deadly situations, is because the frequency and volume are so harsh that it causes harm to themselves. Those who do use it are lucky if they escape with minor effects, such as bleeding of the gills and eyes, temporary loss of proprioception, or permanently altered vocalization. But in extreme cases, the call can lead to collapsed lungs and internal bleeding, causing an agonizingly painful death to the merfolk making the call.

Most merfolk are fortunate enough to never be put in a situation where the death call is nessecary and can go their entire natural life without having to make it. But with modern humans becoming mcu more of a danger to them, that luck is quickly running out.

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the movie The Loved Ones. It depicts Lola and Brent in Lola's house on the night of their school dance, wearing what Lola picked out for them. Lola looms behind Brent who is sitting down. She puts a hand on his shoulder and wraps her other arm around him, holding a power drill that drips blood onto his trousers. Both of her hands are also bloodied. She rests her head against his hair - which crumples his crown - and smiles twistedly, staring directly at the viewer. One of her legs kicks up behind her. Meanwhile, Brent is also staring at the viewer, but his expression is full of restrained rage, his face downturned and his eyes glaring. Blood leaks out of a whole in his head. It also leaks out of his chest, where there's a heart and the letters "L" and "S" carved, and the holes left by knives speared into his feet to secure them to the floor. Glitter is mixed with the pool of blood at his feet. A few slivers drip from his clenched fist. A few balloons float around the room, and there's a discarded party horn on the floor. The background is Lola's house which looks normal, if not a tad bare. The cabinets curve around them. This piece is blue toned but more vibrant as it travels to the middle, glowing pinker.]

Inktober - Day 7 (Drip)

Film - The Loved Ones (Sean Byrne, 2009)

[grntaire]

if there’s one reason i know for sure that media literacy is dead it’s that there are people who slow dance and get engaged to this song.

[leng-m]

One of my new auto-buy authors this past few years is Makiia Lucier. Her pacific-islands-inspired YA Fantasies have a heartwarming focus on family and setting that many books in the genre don't normally highlight. Her stories have a cozy atmosphere despite the sometimes grim turns the plots take. I don't see many people talking about her books, so I figure I do a bit of the talking.

[dreaminginsteadofsleeping42]

@sophisticatedswifts's fears of cardigan not making it onto the setlist of future tours has inspired me: What songs from Taylor's first 11 albums do y'all think have guaranteed spots on any future tour setlist?

[hazy-moonchild]

MY GOD IS THE SUN

the character is from this picrew!

[neopuff]

brother blood & cyborg // hungry like the wolf

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

I'm a little late to this lol but here are a very musically challenged 19-year-old's favorite albums of 2023 (as of the beginning of 2024) 🥳

(also these are not really in order yet)

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek

This is Why by Paramore

Cuts and Bruises by Inhaler

Javelin by Sufjan Stevens

In Times New Roman... by Queens of the Stone Age

Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token

Cracker Island by Gorillaz

Hotel Bleu by Broadside

VOID ETERNAL by nothing,nowhere.

Exotico by Temples

RUCKUS! by Movements

No Joy by Spanish Love Songs

Unreal Unearth by Hozier

Memento Mori by Depeche Mode

Back to the Water Below by Royal Blood

Everything is Alive by slowdive

Holy Waters by Puma Blue

Losing What We Love by Knuckle Puck

Suicide and Sunshine by Trophy Eyes

Bad Dream Jaguar by Sun June

Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMafia and Danny Brown

The Last Remaining Light by Far Caspian

Asking for a Ride by White Reaper

Still Love by Teenage Wrist

The Maine by The Maine

[louisxleprince]

since sunfyre is *allegedly* ded in HoD and they love changing everything for no reason, do we think aegon’s gonna make alicent kill rhaenyra to give her something to do that season??

[loremaster]

evil evil playlist 10/10

heh heh heh.... join me... in hell.....

[magpigment]

my top three blood in the bayou songs on my playlist:

twin size mattress by the front bottoms (literallt THE timothy rand song. to me. oh yeah and also rolan and kian too. this songs got it all)

how i survived bobby mackeys personal hell by lincoln (mostly rand n rolan imo)

wichitalk by pigeon pit (rand and rachel, rand and rolan, rand n rolan n kian)

[wanderingbards]

Just Roll With It characters as songs from my Wrapped top 100.

These are based both on vibe and on content, but not necessarily both at the same time. Also, just main pcs, sorry npcs and guest pcs.

Gillion Tidestrider:

Surface Pressure (Encanto)

Brother (Madds Buckley)

Close Every Door (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Chip Bastardo JRWI:

Oh Yeah, You Gonna Cry? (Lovejoy)

Burning Pile (Mother Mother)

Bones in the Ocean (The Longest Johns)

Jay Ferin:

She Doesn't Sleep (Anthony Amorim)

Liar (The Arcadian Wild)

Ready Now (Dodie)

William Wisp:

Saint Bernard (Lincoln)

Oblivion (Halfy & Winks)

Tightrope (The Greatest Showman)

Vyncent Sol:

Thus Always To Tyrants (The Oh Hellos)

Since I Saw Vienna (Wilbur Soot)

Lost (fin)

Dakota Cole:

Unsaid Emily (Julie and the Phantoms)

Seventeen Going Under (Sam Fender)

Lemon Boy (Cavetown)

Peter Sqloint:

Waiting on a Miracle (Encanto)

Body Terror Song (AJJ)

Discord (The Living Tombstone)

Rumiracle/Elena:

Farewell Wanderlust (The Amazing Devil)

I Hear a Symphony (Cody Fry)

Body (Mother Mother)

Thanatos:

Rät (Penelope Scott)

Evermore (Beauty and the Beast)

Monster (Dodie)

Rolan Deep:

Will I Find My Home (Juniper Vale)

Dear Fellow Traveller (Sea Wolf)

Under My Skin (Jukebox the Ghost)

Timothy Rand:

Goodbye (Bo Burnham)

The Haunting (Set it Off)

No Children (The Mountain Goats)

Kian Stone:

Mawce (Everybody's Worried about Owen)

My Heart is Buried in Venice (Ricky Montgomery)

Average (Sushi Soucy)