#the boy on the bridge

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

The Alienist 1.1 (2018) Daniel Brühl as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

[uluthrek]

“SQUEEE my crush john sealy is so CUTE and i HATE that mean popular carlisle!”

“okay melanie now hit the second tower.”

[chainsawcorazon]

the beauty in the mr carey’s zombie series is that it focuses specifically on the children, the ones who grow up during wartime, and the ones BORN during wartime, and the allegory of the zombie plague works in this case bc the stories are a social commentary on the ways humanity has failed the youngest and yet-to-exist generations, and a warning that if environmental degradation isn’t stopped and socioeconomic conditions haven’t improved enough for the children to inherit the earth, don’t be surprised if they’re the only survivors of the zombie plague with the plague now a symbiont instead of a parasite.

[cerseisvintagered]

Has anyone except me and Roanoke Gaming actually read these books? Idk man, but here’s Kat Foss, professional asshole and hopefully the first person to baptize a child with bourbon. I don’t know anything about human anatomy or sniper rifles but let’s be honest, neither do you.

[libraryofbaxobab]

July 19, 2024:

Technically this is a prequel to The Girl With All The Gifts, but it is also a sequel and also contemporary with its events. Unfortunately, I think it undermines what the first one was saying just by having the perspective shift to a full human character. Like I thought the whole point of the first one is that the hybrid children are the future and that fearing them is standing in the way of humanity's survival. Things can't go back to the way they were and so we must be fundamentally changed.

I mean in a vacuum it was an okay book, I rather liked the perspective character and it would have been a fine zombie apocalypse, but as a follow-up nah. There's no surprises because what they're trying to figure out we already understand from the first one, and it doesn't add anything but risks taking away from its own message.

5/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Boy on the Bridge | Author: M.R. Carey | Publisher: ‎ Orbit (2017)

[starangela]

[booklovingturtle]

(in reference to the Ned speculation)

[steddie-island]

Y’all know I’m always on my FOB shit but there’s a TikTok account (NotWildlin) who has put me back on it even harder this week.

He’s talking about the bridge in Chicago is so two years ago.

You want apologies Girl you might hold your breath until your breathing stops forever (forever) The only thing you’ll get is this curse on your lips i hope they taste of me forever (forever) And there's a light on in Chicago (every pane of glass) And I know I should be home (every pane of) And all the colors of the street signs (every pane of glass) They remind me of the pick-up truck Out in front of your neighbor's

This bridge fucks so hard and I feel like it’s one of their songs that doesn’t get talked about enough. It does not get the respect that it deserves.

He also has this tiktok talking about Pete Wentz and how fucking good his lyrics are. “Pete Wentz is your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.” Idk man I just love it here. And I love this dude. Go watch him. 😌

[xkallii]

THE BAD BOIZ!!!!

I saw @lavabug 's bad boys cosplay and I just had to draw it

Go check them out their cosplays are AMAZING!!

[muffinlance]

Kidnapped Zuko? Rescued by Gaang who dont know who he is and he has to hide his identity.

Okay, so. There’s already a teenager down in Commander Muttonchop’s brig. This fact is so far past concerning it’s wrapped around to let’s-not-think-too-hard-about-this hilarity, and Sokka finds himself grinning, and offering the guy a good ol’ fashioned Water Tribe wrist shake through the bars. They’re neighbors, after all.

“Hello, Fellow Prisoner. What are you in for?”

“I, uh,” says Fellow Prisoner, who is clearly undersocialized from his time in here. He’s looking a little grimy around the edges of his all-black outfit, and the bruises on him have had time to get newer, fresher bruises on top, which is just. That is all kinds of reassuring. Oh, and the giant fiery facial scar. Also reassuring. Though at least that one’s a few years old. So… inflicted when he was, what, Aang’s age?

So reassured, is feeling Sokka, for the Fire Nation’s upcoming hospitality.  

“Uh,” repeats Fellow Prisoner, who is uncoiling a little in the direction of Sokka’s offered hand. As if Sokka was trying to coax him out, and hadn’t just sort of forgotten he was holding it there while his thoughts were doing their downward spiral. But hey, one man’s desperate attempts to keep his cool were another man’s offer of friendship. Fellow Prisoner grasped his wrist and shook it, in both the most technically correct and least experienced Water Tribe wrist clasp Sokka has ever experienced. 

“Zhao thinks I was stealing military correspondence,” the guy says.

“Were you stealing military correspondence?” asks Sokka.

“Only his,” scowls Fellow Prisoner, to whom Sokka takes an immediate liking. “...What did you do? To get arrested. But not killed. He doesn’t usually…”

So, so reassured.

“Oh, you know,” Sokka says, continuing to shake wrists, because it is becoming clear that Fellow Prisoner has no idea how long this is supposed to last and Sokka isn't going to be the one to stop him. “The usual. Found the Avatar. Became traveling companions. Got captured doing something definitely heroic that did not in anyway involve excessive screaming of an unmanly pitch.”

“...The Avatar?” says Fellow Prisoner, who clearly knows how to focus on the important points.

“I’m bait,” says Sokka.

“For the Avatar.”

To be fair, Sokka is still a little stuck on that point, too. It’s been a few weeks, but he still wakes up too-hot in the night and wondering why the stars above him aren’t quite right.

“Yep,” he confirms.

Fellow Prisoner’s face does a thing. A sort of processing, processing, processing thing that involves progressively more scowling. “The Avatar left you? I knew the old man must be a coward.”

“So,” Sokka says, “about that.”

Fellow Prisoner drinks up Sokka’s story like a man who’s spent three years in a desert searching for water. 

- - -

(It’s been two and half years.)

- - - 

Their escape involves a significantly higher swords-to-escapees ratio than Sokka had anticipated, which is distractingly epic. 

Also, the last-minute bison save is both the stupidest thing his little sister could have possibly done and very welcome, which means that Sokka is going to catch his breath and let some of his adrenaline fade before channeling his inner Gran-Gran for a lecture. 

Fellow Prisoner sheaths both his swords. And kind of stares, rather than sitting down, so Sokka pulls him over before the bison turbulence (read: catapult dodging) can do the job. This does nothing to interrupt the staring. 

“Hi,” says Aang, looking back from Appa’s head. “I’m Aang! What’s your name?”

“...Li?”

Under the sunlight, Fellow Prisoner’s eyes glint gold. He is… very Fire Nation-y looking, now that there is enough light to see him. And he is warmer against Sokka’s side than anyone not feverish should be, even in the ridiculous heat these northerners call ‘winter’.

“Are you a firebender?” asks Aang, like that question hasn’t spent decades earning its status as an insult.

“Uh,” says Li.

“Great!” says Aang, who has already figured out Li-speak. “I need a teacher!”

On the deck below them, Zhao has gone from shouting to laughing. 

Sokka continues to be reassured.

[inklore]

LIKE HE'S SO FUCKING PATHETIC

[mumblesplash]

who is this “grian” character everyone’s always talking about anyway?

[chainsawcorazon]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

[willouwood]

Joel chose to room with two birds and he is facing the consequences

He doesn’t really mind them though-

[devouredflesh]

this has. Been said. so many times that im not sure if it. MATTERS!