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Day 19: JOMPBPC: Paperbacks
Four beautiful and blue paperbacks! š
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#paperbacks#blue books#the memory thieves#dhonielle clayton#the monster of her age#danielle binks#sheets#brenna thummler#the crane wife#patrick ness#beautiful books#amazing authors#lgbtqia+#squirtle#i love books
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The Best Books I Read in 2022
Itās been a weird, transitional year filled with an exciting variety of stresses and challengesā¦ but hot damn, did I have some excellent fiction to carry me through it. Below are my favourite books I read in 2022, from funky queer sci-fi to uplifting teen rom-coms.
As of next year, Iāll be moving across to Story Graph for all my book-cataloguing needs! Send me a friend request if youāre on there~
Keep reading...
#this is how you lose the time war#legends and lattes#i kissed shara wheeler#honey girl#lakelore#light from uncommon stars#monk and robot#the book of tea#she gets the girl#ophelia after all#the honeys#the monster of her age#where you left us#sugar#the heartbreak bakery#the girl who fell beneath the sea
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Round 2
Cemetery boys and she who became the sun will be having a rematch.
#red white and royal blue#boyfriend material#dark rise#hani and ishu's guide to fake dating#heartstopper#mxtx#house in the cerulean sea#what if its us#one last stop#the binding#she who became the sun#cemetery boys#aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe#this is how you lose the time war#carry on#nimona#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#loveless#henry hamlet's heart#the monster of her age#they both die at the end#the prince and the dressmaker#the colour purple#she drives me crazy#tim te maro#iron widow#the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue#cinderella is dead#the girls of paper and fire#the song of ahcilles
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š SEPTEMBER STACK š
S - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
E - Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
P - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
T - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
E - Emma by Jane Austen
M - The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks
B - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
E - Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
R - Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
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#books#bookedit#book stack#book photography#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#empire of the vampire#the priory of the orange tree#tress of the emerald sea#emma#the monster of her age#boyfriend material#elantris#radio silence#misc#mine*
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JOMP BPC - March 10th - Character Growth
I really loved watching Ellie grow and let go of her past in The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks š
#the monster of her age#danielle binks#loveozya#justonemorepage#jompbpc#booklr#bookblr#trcc original#portraits#lgbt books#wlw reads
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I could do with a little of that monster-courage, and the absence of fear would come in handy. But if watching a small selection of horror movies has taught me anything, it's that you don't get to fearlessness or be the Final Girl by waiting in the car. You get it by actually confronting the things that scare you and accepting the possibility that you could lose.
Ellie Marsden, The Monster of Her Age by Danielle Binks
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Iām sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing
Iām sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon
And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing
And Iām sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesnāt sound like anyone else we know
#dragon age#hi I donāt know if these are hot takes anymore or if Iām actually going insane#this could still work with the maker being mythal#(as in the thing that spoke to andraste. claims unverified)#thereās a theory of an 8th old god struck from record#so thereās still enough old gods to account for mythal being dumat#(the 8th old god is associated with sea monsters so that would be Ghilanānain if that were the case. which is probably one of the ones we#see escaping)#what doesnāt add up is only two escape but there would be three left if this were the case#unless corypheusā dragon WAS an arch demon and was razikale or Lusacan (which I believe are most likely dirthamen and elgarānan)#which seem to be the two candidates for the other escaped evanuris#so things could add up#in terms of mythal learning about the tainted fetus stuff she could have done that observing#but it would make sense for her to learn from practice#Iāve been feeling like thereās a huge piece missing in the deal with her and the evanuris because she talks about being denied justice#and like. solas locked up the evanuris for a good few thousand years. it might not be her idea of perfect justice but surely it would be an#attempt#but what if thatās not the betrayal sheās talking about#what if the betrayal is that solas accidentally locked her in there too#dragon age theory#tagging these so I can find them
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genuinely obsessed with what bioware has done with ghilan'nain because it really is about subverting expectations in the most extreme way possible. the lore makes you think that she was this sweet, delicate white-haired huntress who was bright and caring: an elf who was raised to godhood for her loyalty to andruil, now worshipped as the mother of the halla and her name invoked whenever the dalish seek to find their way home.
in reality? she's a monster. she created animals and beasts only to destroy them all (well, almost) upon being offered power and godhood. she made enchanted armour out of living creatures. she experimented with the blight and whatever the hell the horror of hormak grey goop was. her voice is cold and commanding and she says the most vile shit like "i'll feed your blood to what i craft from your corpses" and dude her hair isn't even fucking white. and she looks like thisā
and i absolutely love all of it
#pre-veilguard posts archive#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#ghilan'nain#beloved monster wife#actually so excited to see more of her in game#and so excited to see what horrors she and elgar'nan have planned
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Kinmother (2024)
#ghilanānain#complete w/ flora from ghilanānainās grove#tevinter nights#dragon age#the horror of hormak#da art#dai#dragon age veilguard#veilguard#dragon age inquisition#the evanuris#dragon age dreadwolf#dragon age the veilguard#mother of the halla#evanuris#da4#dav#datv#dragon age art#dragon age fanart#the veilguard#da fanart#dragon age trespasser#ghilannain#dragon age lore#mother of monsters#does she look saintly?#sheās supposed to I based her on like a dozen different paintings of saints#the weird ones obvi#bioware
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Try these out!
#my art#fan art#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#nandor the relentless#monster high#draculaura#mh g3#redrew an oldie#bc I didn't like it the first time and now I love it#she's older than him by like 900 years#but she's NICER and also not afraid to break societal norms that would prevent her from dating a certain group of ppl#and also they're friends#they probably wouldn't be friends#but i think they could talk about how lonely it can get. living for so long. until you meet the right group of people#i think they would tell anecdotes to each other. once Nandor got past the silly relentless warrior act. and she finally got to talk to-#someone closer to her age that didn't look down on her#idk man I just think about characters so much. I want them all to be buddies#AND ALSO THEYRE BOTH ASIAN YAY
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His Immortal
Permission to use art from the INCREDIBLY talented @vanerchest. Feeling very honoured! I think about this piece often whenever I write Alucard angst.
C/W: Alucard (Ultimate) x senior!Reader, angst, on death and dying, hospital setting, hurt/no comfort, shadow writing. Inspired by the legendary song "My Immortal" by Evanescence Words: 998
You supposed you were the one who was selfish for choosing this mortal fate and leaving your greatest love behind.
Did you regret this path? Sometimes you thought perhaps you did. There would have been tons to gain by becoming an ageless vampire at his side, and on occasion, you used to speculate 'what if?'
It didn't matter. It was far too late to backtrack anyways, and it would be an insult to do so, after living such a beautiful, full lifetime spent with Alucard, teeming with precious memories and magical experiences. He aged with you through the decades āat least he made it so his appearance did.
But as with all mortals who lived long enough, you too eventually grew very old, frail, and sick. Your body betrayed you and no longer belonged to you. It didn't obey when you wanted to walk, speak, eat, or even breathe.
So here you lay in a hospital bed, intubated and sedated, machines replacing the function of vital organs while multiple drugs dripped nonstop to hold you captive in this realm. What a sight you made, with tubes protruding from every corner on your skeletal form.
Your body may have failed, but fortunately you never developed dementia. Your mental faculties were as crisp as the night you met so long ago. A piece of you was still buried within, floating from above and somehow aware of the happenings around you in your comatose state.
The various alarms and buzzing were only background noises by now, and there was little commotion this time as well, but you felt a sense of relief. Sighing inwardly, you wished Alu would leave your side for a moment so you could just die already, though you knew that was an empty hope. The vampire had not parted from the bedside your entire stay.
Was he scaring the nurses by crying again? You hoped he'd remember to make them forget this time. And not to terrorize the staff and force them to do whatever it took anymore. You recalled the time you surfaced with another set of thick tubes in your neck and groin, and how painful they were. How frightening it was.
"You must live," he whispered to you at night at first. For his sake. So you did, trapped in the confines of your weathered shell, you continued to exist for him, slowly spiralling downhill until now.
With any other man, you'd be helpless to communicate in your vegetative state, but Alucard had never been as mediocre as 'normal.' So you begged him through telepathy. After all these years, reaching for his mind was as easy as sifting through your own thoughts, as natural as breathing (well, back when you were still able to do so independently). You implored him again to let you go. You were terminal and old, with no hope for recovery or any good prognosis. Being connected to every form of life support was not life, just a sad fate that prolonged your suffering and delayed your inevitable expiration.
Long ago, he promised not to let you suffer.
Alu, please don't make them bring me back again when my heart stops.
The weary, congested muscle thudded weakly towards failure. You were already dead in every way except you still possessed vital signs. The numbers were just evidence of the drugs, transfusions, and machines at work though.
The irony wasn't lost on you. At the end of the road, after declining his many offers to turn you when you were a maiden, you were finally just like Alucard, the living dead. You'd laugh if you could.
...More than anything, you didn't want him to see you like this, a husk of the vibrant woman you once were when you fell for each other. The unlikely circumstances of your meeting and scenes from your life flashed by in an instant. The vampire would tell you throughout the decades, when he'd get in one of his romantic moods, that you'd always be his sprightly young woman no matter your age. He actually only told you again yesterday. Or was it last week?Ā
How long have you been laying here?
The mind's eye saw his seated figure clearly and smiled. Actually, your tired mind pondered, you certainly did not regret a moment of your life with Alucard. He was the perfect partner and his unchecked devotion never gave you a reason to regret choosing him. Your lifespan was too short for that, he used to tell you.
But you regretted leaving him behind to be alone once more.
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Your heart stopped. And he loved you enough to let you go.
You were free.
Your spirit lifted from the prison of your flesh and you soared, wrapping around your love with your incorporeal form, sinking into him and caressing the unbeating heart that had ever belonged to you. This time, you wiped away the blood tears that fell.
You quivered.
Liberated from the pains and illnesses of advanced age, it was as if you'd become new and for the first time ever, like the fog lifted and you could finally see with clarity. Your non-existent chest tightened at the sight of your love crushed by your death, looking utterly devastated and lost. There was no sobbing or outward breakdown, but you knew his expressions well.
Nebulous fingers smoothed over inky black locks while you cradled his cheek. Glistening eyes the colour of polished rubies stared blankly at your lifeless corpse, your chest still rising and falling mechanically before the ventilator was turned off. He could not feel your soothing touch anymore and it broke you.
...
You will watch over your vampire from above and wait for him for the rest of your eternity, until he returned to dust and was no more. Then you'd meet him wherever he ended up. Just as he was, you were bound by the life you left behind.
And even if he was unaware, he still had all of you.
~End~
(For more angsty romance, check out my one-shot āWithout Youā on AO3. Warning: Smut abounds in that one. It is about the occasion when Reader chooses to remain human for her remaining days with Alucard. You will find similar themes to this short scene)
#alucard hellsing#alucard x reader#alucard x you#alucard fanfiction#vampire x human#angst#Actually I'd rather die of old age in my sleep#In bed with Alucard and not a living corpse in a hospital#But mentally I needed to write this piece for myself#Reader is more likely to be very puffy and edematous based on her medical status and elderly comorbidities#But I used āskeletalā instead for the effect#tw death#monster lover
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Day 7: JOMPBPC: Circle Of Books
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#justonemorepage#jompbpc#circle of books#tim te maro and the subterranean heartsick blues#iron widow#grown#not your villain#the monster of her age#we can't keep meeting like this#beautiful books#beautiful covers#amazing authors#lgbt+#octopus#ā¤ļøš§”šššš#i love books
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Tomie makes me so sad. She was just a high school girl who was pretty shitty and yeah needed to work on her personality but she got groomed by her teacher and was subsequently murdered by that fucker and dismembered by her entire class who made her out to be this horrible child of evil because they valued a pedophileās career over getting justice for the death of his victim. And now because of their actions sheās cursed to relive her death forever, whatās left of her humanity stretched thinner and thinner in every subsequent version of herself until she becomes the person she was seen as by everyone else ā a nefarious, selfish, arrogant girl who will doom the lives of every man she gets involved with until sheās finally burned like the witch she is.
#she will only ever be a girl for as long as she walks but ironically itās because of that that she can never be a mere girl again#her personality is never given the chance to grow beyond the the cruelty of a highschool mean girl because she never ages#at least the majority of her versions donāt#and instead her personality is pushed to the extremes. becoming more and more exaggeratedly vain and evil#diary.txt#re: previous#she is undeniably awful as a person but she wasnāt just born that way. she was turned into a monster and I donāt think enough ppl get that#she wasnāt killed by her class bc she was evil she was killed because she was inconvenient for them#tomie#junji ito#pedophillia mention#murder mention
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The tournament bracket!
#red white and royal blue#boyfriend material#dark rise#hani and ishu's guide to fake dating#heartstopper#mxtx#house in the cerulean sea#what if its us#one last stop#the binding#she who became the sun#cemetery boys#aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe#this is how you lose the time war#carry on#nimona#the seven husbands of evelyn hugo#loveless#henry hamlet's heart#the monster of her age#they both die at the end#the prince and the dressmaker#the colour purple#she drives me crazy#tim te maro#iron widow#the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue#cinderella is dead#the girls of paper and fire#the song of ahcilles
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What kind of Introvert is Kinich do you think?
The introvert that is shy of People or "eww people?" š¤
HMMM I don't believe he is shy, but it doesn't mean he dislikes people
It is kind of canon that he felt sometime alone, because he had no friends š i think it is more "huh. People can't deal with me. Welp... that's how it is" his straightforwardness, rational thought and impassive face clearly doesn't help him. He talks only when he thinks it is necessary ??
#reply#i enjoy analyze character's behaviour and I believe his lack of expressing emotion is due to trauma#also responsibilites at young age too#doesn't mean he is a monster. he actually does care abt people and have strong sense of justice and morals#everything comes with a prize is what makes him rational#and... rational and straightforward person tend to not have a lot of friends lol (alhaitham)#(but alhaitham actually is a āewww peopleā kind of introvert)#but because pf their authentic personnality- their friends are genuine friends#and... Kinich is truly reliable everyone know that#reliable and efficient#his love language is act of service but don't ask for paying#being Mualani's team leader instead of her when she asked ; purchasing Kachina's bully ; waking them up if they wake up late#making drink for traveler in teapot voiceline and explaining to them how he does his drink#or asking if traveler okay and if he wants help#love him š¤š¤š¤š¤
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hiii! congrats on 1k! may i pls have alma from gokurakugai w friends, amusement park n 22:22?
this was so cute i loved this prompt. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! hope u enjoy :*
my 1k event!
āĀ°+..ļ½”ļ¾ļ½”ļ¾+.*.ļ½”.ā
Alma's hand is warm, almost too warm against yours. His fingers are intertwined with yours, scratchy and calloused. The summer heat has gotten to the both of you, and you hope that the sweat collecting in your palm doesn't bother him as he drags you around the park.
It's late, and the sun went down a few hours ago, but the heat of it still lingers on your skin. Your feet are aching and you think if you walk around for any longer, your legs will crumple underneath you like paper. But Alma's soāwarm, and kind, and he looks back at you with this stupid beaming smile as he leads you around all the corny games and rides. Your stomach is still swirling from the last rollercoaster you went on, and your pockets are very light from the sheer volume of money youāve lost to ball-toss games.Ā
"There'sā oh! They're selling takoyaki over there," he points out, attention moving rapidly from you to the food stands to the crowds of people around you. "You know, we tried making takoyaki ourselves once, at the agency with everyone, and it was pretty good! I wish you were there for that."
Wish. He wishes you were there. There's a stirring in your chest at the thought of being wanted by a friend.
Unfortunately, the sight of the long, winding line in front of the takoyaki stand mixed with the darkening sky reminds you that you do have responsibilities. Like the math homework due tomorrow that you've neglected for the whole week, and the dreadful bus that you have to catch at seven tomorrow in order to even make it to school on time.
"Alma," you call for him, and he whips his head back to look at you. His smile falters. Your expression must give you away, thenāthe guilt, the frustration, the ache.
"I have school tomorrow," you explain with nothing short of dismay in your voice, "It'sā it's pretty late right now. I have to go. I'm so sorry, it was really fun, seriouslyā"
"Hey!" he cuts in, already grinning again and pulling you close to him with the hand still wrapped in yours. "Itās seriously fine! I did keep you out pretty late, huh. I didn't even notice."
And he looks aroundāat the people still walking and wandering and having fun, and your heart sinks. You're a buzzkill, and you know that, but you're already failing a class and you can't risk missing any more days of school. Almaāyou don't think he really gets it, and that makes it worse. In the grand scheme of things, you don't know too much about Almaāhow he worksābut you know that he doesn't go to school the way that you do. Every time you've hung out on a weekday, it's been cut short by a call from home or your own consciousness screaming at you to get back and do your work before you flunk out.
"I really am sorry," your hand squeezes around him, breath stuttering in anticipation as you mentally beg him to squeeze back, just to signal that he's not so upset about this. "I wouldā I would stay out for longer, butā¦ Alma, really. Iām sorry.ā
āYou apologize way too much,ā he says, earnest and honest and still smiling the way he always does at you, with something warm between his lips. āHey, um, can we go on one last ride? Iāll pay for your ticket. Theā the ferris wheel?āĀ
Heās so stupid, and itās corny and cheesy and ridiculous, but you see the heat of hope on the apples of his cheeks and his eyes dart around from yours to the flickering lights behind you. Your lungs squeeze, and so does your hand around his. Youāre a weak person, too weak against Alma and the fond feeling in your chest. You relent easily.Ā
āOkay,ā you agree, lips curling in giddiness and wonder. Alma laughs a little bit, breathy and relieved, and promises to take you home after this one last ride, and you canāt find it in yourself to feel guilty when you get home late, math homework untouched, responsibilities replaced by the fluttering in your stomach.
āĀ°+..ļ½”ļ¾ļ½”ļ¾+.*.ļ½”.ā
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#nora hits 1k#alma x reader#alma gokurakugai x reader#gokurakugai x reader#gokurakugai alma x reader#the gokuraku district's third avenue incident#gokurakugai#alma#alma gokurakugai#gokurakugai fic#this was very much supposed to be like bffs#the feeling of ur first close friend#i was heavily and deeply and painfully reminded of kanata while writing this#i miss her#also could u imagine being friends with someone ur age that does cool stuff like fighting monsters#and ur like āoh yeah i do math homework...sometimes...ā
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