#tales of the pack

[subbyfoxelf]

[book review] lunatic fringe by allison moon (2011)

ever since i found out the author of girl sex 101 (whose writing style i absolutely adore) also wrote fiction about lesbian werewolves, i kind of knew i was going to love this. i mean, come on. how could i not? and then i finally got around to reading it and, whoa hey check it out i totally loved it!

the characters in this feel so real, and the worldbuilding is patient and very driven by the characters & relationships. i won’t pretend i wasn’t pretty bummed out by the ending, but honestly i think probably not running away with your much more experienced immortal werewolf girlfriend when you’re a freshman in college is actually the right choice for the vast majority of people. but, y’know, i’m dumb & gay and want everyone to get to be dumb & gay & happy.

nor is this the only way the book recognizes that the simple answer is often not the right one. there are a lot of complex & multifaceted conflicts in this novel that might look a lot simpler at first blush. when lexie expresses discomfort to archer about the pack’s methods & values, archer agrees that their approach is often troubling but also actually defends them and considers things from their perspective. all of this despite the fact that she’s actually very much in a fight with them. her perspective on things is very grounded and, frankly, very wolf-like. it reminds me of what i love so much about like tamora pierce’s animalistic perspectives because the animals are just like “ugh humans are dumb & bad” but in a way that’s not hateful so much as dismissive, like they just genuinely do not grasp why humans do things the way they do.

idk i could probably babble about this some more but the thing that drew me in was basically just “lesbian werewolves by an author i already knew was great,” and the reason i enjoyed it was “lesbian werewolves by an author i already knew was great.” like there’s lots of other great stuff about it on top of that, but the most important aspects of the experience were just sort of exactly what i expected and wanted them to be.

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[pfpanimes]

⌕ junji ito art - moodboard.

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[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Sam Neill

[mrmidknight829]

Been too inactive on Tumblr lately. Need to post again. While big bad wolves, or wolf villains and antagonists can be cool, we could always use more good wolves, wolf heroes and wolf protagonists.

The wolf characters in the picture, from top to bottom:

•Legoshi (Beastars)

•Mutt (Lobodestroyo)

•Shirou Ogami (BNA/Brand New Animal)

•Mr. Wolf (The Bad Guys)

•Grey (Sheep and Wolves)

•Humphrey & Kate (Alpha & Omega)

•Kiba (Wolf's Rain)

•Trickshot (Trick Moon)

•Wiley Wolf (The Great Wolf Pack)

•Amaterasu (Ōkami)

•Robyn & Mebh (Wolfwalkers)

•Lazor Wulf

•Luka (Kingdom Force)

•Big Brain Wolf

•Gabu (One Stormy Night/Arashi no Yoru ni)

•Wanji and Wicasa (Tales of Tatonka)

•Lupin (Lupin's Tales)

•Hope (Seed of Life)

(Hope's bird companion Letty is also barely seen in the photo like she's peeking)

[packedtotheaussies]

William Thatcher, Roland, Wat, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate, & Sir Thomas Colville (Edward the Black Prince of Wales) || A Knight's Tale 2001

[deathxxfandom]

[7wuliy]

[gifsbymel]

⸻ #779 GIFS, Jo Bo Ah [1991] in Tale of the Nine Tailed, episode 1. & 12-13.

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[twinsunstars]

the two winners of my Tales of the Jedi poll are Cal Kestis and Plo Koon! these would be good stories to show, especially Cal's backstory because we can see more padawan!Cal or some stories of his time on Bracca, and Plo's backstory or stories of him as a Jedi, and maybe wolfpack crumbs

[mrsthunderkin]

This started as a study to get better with the hounds. Then Sam showed up for scale.

He named all of his hounds after a charcuterie spread.

[clark-hailey77]

Sarah Michelle Gellar - The Hollywood Reporter [January 2023] Photography by Jonny Marlow

[subbyfoxelf]

[book review] hungry ghost by allison moon (2013)

i didn’t like this quite as much as lunatic fringe, probably mostly because of the lack of archer. but that’s just me being a whiney bitch, this is actually quite good. the pack is subjected to new, bigger outside pressures which causes cracks to form and also does a lot to reveal the underlying character of everyone in the group. their strengths and their weaknesses.

i think what i really like about this is that absolutely no one comes out looking perfect, but they aren’t written off entirely for this. much like sage explains about how lycanthropy works, it’s the interaction, the space between that creates strength & meaning. it’s hella dialectical, and i’m here for it.

one of the cracks that does form in the group relates to mitch’s place as a trans man, and although the book is clearly pretty solidly on his side, i do wish there had been a little bit more of a reckoning for some of the characters who are transphobic towards him? i think it’s perfectly fine to show characters who are trying their best being transphobic and then getting over it, it just never really felt like they definitively got over it? and i know that’s pretty true to life, but i really feel like these girls have it in them to overcome their prejudices here, and it would’ve been nice to see that eventually happen.

i really, really hope she’s planning on doing a third book at some point? but given how long it’s been, that’s probably too much to hope for? but yeah, i just really love lexie & her werewolf polycule/comrades, and i really want everything to work out for them.

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[taski-guru]

Blotchy the snail © Nak

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[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Shelley Duvall

[padmes]

gif pack — #470 gifs of kim yongji in “tale of the nine taled 1938” made from scratch by me. ethnicity: south korean, born: 1991, so cast her properly. do not claim them as your own.

tw: violence, guns, assault.

[mokeonn]

I think that the 2010's media landscape of Buzzfeed articles about plotholes in disney movies, Cinemasins critiques, and Watchmojo Top Ten scenes in movies that make no sense has truely ruined a lot of media. People are afraid that their work will be torn down if they dare leave a single thing up in the air, if they dare ask their audience to suspend their disbelief.

All too often nowadays I see stories (especially fantasy), take the time to explain how every small aspect of the world works and how it all logically makes sense. The constant time stopped to explain why an event happened, how this object works, or why this is important to the characters. It's just really not needed and it honestly makes a lot of stories worse.

I am of the opinion that the best stories truly just drop you into their world and explain nothing. They just take you through the story of this world and you just have to accept it and continue on. "When he became king, the land became barren." I don't want the story to stop and explain why this is, or how it happened, I want us to move on so we can just assume that the king has such rancid vibes that everything died.