#the mark of a great book

[t00thpasteface]

it looks as though you're letting go

and if it's real, i don't want to know

[holycartoonwarrior]

Gonna read martyr as soon as my summer break starts. If it makes me suicidal I will let y’all know.

[cryptvokeeper]

my take on the suffering Game graphic novel is that they did the Suffering Game dirty but they did that Lunar Interlude REAL good

[spotfurfan]

confession time: i am actually ok that frostpaw didnt become leader SORRRYYY. like it would have been cool and i dont like the idea of icestar but considering her entire arc is about expectations and pressure being put on her from such a young age and how much it distresses her, for her to IMMEDIATELY become leader at like 20 years old would leave a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. idk

[complexraspberry]

Concept doodles for Roku Week 2024

[id: a collection of three traditional pen doodles. The top left shows both young and old Roku lying on the ground with their respective Fang on top of him. Young Fang is resting on Roku's stomach like a puppy. Old Fang lays his whole head over Roku's torso. The top right has a much looser sketch showing a young adult Roku gently moving Fang's head away from him as he reads. Fang has large watery eyes with the text 'You punch Fang?!' below. Next is a similar scene with teen Roku gently pushing baby Fang away from his feet with his foot. Fang looks up with watery eyes and the text 'You kick Fang?!' above him. Last are two versions of Roku and Gyatso looking surprised with a hint of dread. One is as adults, leading out from behind a pillar. Gyatso is hiding behind Roku. The other is as teens lying flat on the ground looking up. /end id]

[id: two sketches, one digital, the other traditional. The digital sketch is a group hug with Roku in the center, looking down at Ta Min, hugging his waist from the front. Gyatso is hugging Roku on the right, eyes closed with a wide smile. Sud is on his left, resting his head on Roku's shoulder. They are circled by the text "HUG YOUR LOCAL FIREBENDER." Sozin is in the back, frowning with the text 'hater" above him. The traditional sketch is of an elderly Ta Min smiling sweetly as Roku kisses the top of her head as he hands her a drink. Hearts are doodled around them. /end id]

[id: two digital sketches. The left has teenage Roku mid-motion as he turns. His expression is a mix of angry and sad. His hair is in his typical top knot style on top but morphs into Kyoshi's low ponytail at the bottom. The same goes for his clothes. Those towards the viewer are his fire nation getup, but as it recedes, it resembles Kyoshi's armour. The text "I CAN'T BE HER" is around him. To the right is Kyoshi standing back onto the viewer, towering over the much smaller figure of teenage Roku. He stands straight forward looking nervous. /end id]

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: June Wrap-Up.

Okay, y'all have Convinced Me--I'm going to start doing little wrap up posts! Behold: a shelf of what I read in June (not pictured: the bookmark at page 466 of ORDINARY MONSTERS, because despite having read two (2) books worth of book so far, I'm still not quite done with that one).

June was kind of a slow reading month for me (I did a LOT of writing, looking back--nice). I wanted to take OTHER TERRORS and THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE a bite at a time so the horrors and figures of rhetoric (respectively) didn't all run together. Both of those, much like A SHINING, turned out to be pleasantly leisurely wanders, whereas MONSTERS is kind of a plod.

I already did bigger write-ups for TERRORS and SHINING, linked in the bullets below.

OTHER TERRORS - ★★★★ Great bite-sized horror anthology with a really inclusive mix, as promised! I enjoyed most of these (always nice in an anthology!)

A SHINING - ★★★★ Weird fucked up heavy little book in translation, lit-fic flavored, but very approachable, I thought. Tiny enough to swallow in a sitting, but also kind of exhausting to do it that way? I'll definitely reread this one in the future.

THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE - ★★★ Fun romp through rhetoric! The examples were fun, and I appreciated the humor, but I also find myself still uncertain what a bunch of the figures actually ARE, definitions-wise, despite having read a book full of so many of them (I did just buy his recommended A HANDLIST OF RHETORICAL TERMS to help with that, at least, which is. almost entirely. definitions by volume). Neat thing to have on my references shelf, but it wasn't as excellent as I was hoping it'd be.

ORDINARY MONSTERS - 466/658 pages read; will report back later (but it's not looking good, folks).

[onlyrainbowshipstbh]

Force, Book, Mark, Junior, Inn, Great, and Perth at GMMTV Outing 2024!

[xofeno]

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE based on the novel by Anthony Doerr November 2, 2023 | Netflix

[huiyi07]

Did anyone else like solangelo more when it was just Rick writing them or

[vertigoartgore]

2002's Killraven Vol.2 #3 cover by Alan Davis & Mark Farmer. Source

[sandfordsmostwanted]

David Mitchell accurately describing my plans for the weekend

[sawthefaeriequeen]

The knowledge that he couldn't possibly read all the books on offer put a peculiar pleasure on choosing his next read. There must be diamonds out there, the best book in a million, and surely he didn't want to waste his time reading one that was merely adequate when he could be reading one of those diamonds? So instead, he often wasted his time hunting for a read instead of reading.

The Book that Wouldn't Burn, Mark Lawrence

[jeffoff]

[20240527] cr: titlekrt

[20240527] cr: fforce_

[seagull-scribbles]

From Chapter One of On Mistakes and Birthdaycake by @bemmiecake on AO3

I started reading this fic when it first came out and it’s had such a huge impact on how I think of knuckles and you have definitely seen it’s influence in my art this past year! So it only seemed fair to try do something for the fic itself x

[animangalover-writes]

Maybe I just don't visit the saw fandom enough anymore but I feel like I don't see a lot of really fucked up dark fiction in the tags anymore,it's mostly just talking about everyone's favorite characters now(which I love too, don't get me wrong). I miss it :(

("It" being the shared sadistic glee we all would get when someone would post something REALLY fucked up happening to a character)

If anyone has any dark saw blog recs, lmk!

[fluffyyymocha]

tysm for the tag @wiltedrosier !! these are so much funn, i love getting tagged in games sm.

hardcover or paperback? bookstore or library? bookmark or receipt? stand alone or series? nonfiction or fiction? thriller or fantasy? under 300 pages or over 300 pages? children’s or ya? friends to lovers or enemies to lovers? read in bed or read on the couch? read at night or read in the morning? keep pristine or markup? cracked spine or dog ear?

tags under the cut (it's a lot)

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