#this about heather specifically

[total-drama-fugitives]

a total drama character without a shitty home life is like a tree without wood

[literarycinematics]

"i'm so normal about this piece of media" i say, fresh from consuming it for the 5th time this month

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Fiction Works with Footnotes

Round 1

The Emily Wilde series starts with Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily, a Cambridge professor of dryadology, travels to Hrafnsvik, Norway to study a previously unstudied type of faerie, in order to complete the Encycopaedia she is working on. This book is incredibly cozy, with every chapter being an entry from Emily's journal, complete with foot notes at the bottom of the page to explain the study of dryadology, which was an absolute joy to learn of.

Edwardian lady academic studies fairies in a remote Scandinavian town. She's an excellent academic but has zero social skills and doesn't understand how to navigate conversation. The book is told as her diary, and the footnotes are mostly in-universe citations of other works on faeries. Oh, and her academic rival also shows up in the same remote Scandinavian town and it turns out that she hates him but he thinks they're best friends.

How to Train Your Dragon :

We all know the httyd movies. the books are VERY different, but equally as good. the story slowly transitions from episodic adventure type to a full blown war between 3 different factions and is told from the perspective of Hiccup as an adult . They have heavy themes of cycles and the past coming back to haunt you. and of course little footnotes of either when something happened in a past book, or side notes joking about bits of the text.

[charrfie]

i watched your dtl PMV recently and its SO GOOD?!!!??? its making me run around my room crazy style thank you for making it!!!

I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT!!!! Ironically I was just talking about it again last night so I'm very pleased folks are still resonating with it; I doubt drawn to life will ever lose it's importance to me, and it makes me smile knowing other people feel similarly :^) I really hope to make more works focusing on dtl in the future considering a lot of my thoughts and analyses of it differ from typical fanon interpretation.... as well as a few aus I've made that I haven't shared much about!!

[is-mise-setanta]

Say what you will about being chronically online, nothing will beat watching the joy and excitement from younger people as I correctly guess their costume of the niche internet character they love so much

[fraudulent-cheese]

Me when girls stand next to eachother!!!!

og + transparent version under the cut!

[moonchild-in-blue]

ART MUSEUM DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE

my favorite pieces are the Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts painted by Diego Rivera and Flowers in a Rococo Vase by Paul Cézanne, which I saw at the National Museum of Art back in 2015!!!!!!! tell me yours if you want

AAAAAAAAAA PLS YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I ADORE THIS!!!

I LOVE hearing about people's favourite pieces like. This is fr my love language 🥹 it's amazing to look at something you would maybe not give much importance through someone else's eyes 💙

AND YOU GOT TO SEE THEM??? WOW that's so incredible!!! Those murals are gorgeous - I can only imagine how surreal it must've been to stand there like 🥹✨

Okay so, in order, mine are Monet's garden paintings - I don't think I have one specific favourite, but the water lilies and bridge paintings are so special to me! Love love love Monet (did see some of his work at the London MoMA!!! So special!!!).

Then we have Psyche Revived By Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova, which I have been very annoying about in here before lmao. It's on the Louvre and I really want to visit it 🥺 I know for a fact that I'll weep seeing it in person 🥺 (it's also my favourite myth btw 💘)

Then my most favourite is probably Portrait Of A Lady by Gustav Klimt. I've been in love with it for a million years now 💙 HERE:

Everyone talks about The Kiss or Adele or any other with his famous patterns like Death and Life and The Virgins, etc etc. But for some reason Portrait Of A Lady makes me go all fuzzy and warm and teary-eyed. I can't explain why. Would also love to see it in person one day - it's in an Italian museum (forgor the name).

[jinxed-sinner]

Y'know, it just occurred to me that the fact that most asexual characters in media completely abstain from relationships could very well be contributing to this really dumb "asexuals don't do relationships" mentality.

It actually kinda makes me hope Alastor ends up in a relationship. Way too many people act like it'd take away his asexuality but like. Asexual people start relationships with people all the time. Even if it's not Radioapple (which honestly seems the most likely if Viv decides to put him in a relationship; I think it could do a lot for both Lucifer and Alastor's character development personally), I wouldn't be opposed to Alastor canonically being in a relationship.

It feels like too many pieces of media have played into the "asexuals don't do relationships" stereotype and it's absolutely contributing to the "is it okay to ship Alastor" discourse. If you're asexual and sex-repulsed, your opinion is not the end all be all of asexual representation. If you're allosexual and weirdly defensive of Alastor's asexuality, for fuck's sake listen to MULTIPLE opinions from asexual people before posting about how uncomfortable Alastor ships make you oh my god

[thefightinfoggy]

From Daredevil (1964) #149. Pencils by Carmine Infantino, Inks/Colors by Klaus Janson.

(edit: now has alt id)

[prosebushpatch]

Have you ever gotten a book the day it was released and read it all that same day? And then you had to immediately talk about it? Well guess what happened to me! This is half a book review and three quarters gushing over Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett. Please enjoy!

[80s-prometheus]

decided to throw my hat in the ring and try making a playlist

it's mostly made up of songs i think lisa and creature would like, songs that I think would fit them, and songs I think fit the vibe of the film

[theragamuffininitiative]

Ah, for the people who have blocked me bc I am simply (and reasonably) asking for proof of the validity of wildly circulated misinformation based on nothing but hearsay that is actively damaging hurricane relief efforts, and stirring even greater division among our fellow citizens:

I sincerely hope you have done so for reasons of not discoursing on the internet with a stranger in a way that for you is detrimental to your mental health, and not bc you refuse to acknowledge and discuss the possibility that you might be wrong.

One thing is very healthy, the other is very dangerous and sad.

[softichill]

In my mind Total Drama Island is the only season of the show and every season after that is in a separate pocket dimension where everyone is slightly worse

[neonpaperlanterns]

Dead and Buried

When it was late at night and Kaidou  had drunk himself into oblivion he remembered her. Memories bathed in the dewy feeling of mist and the heavy scent of wildflowers swirl around in his disoriented mind. He thinks of soft lips pressed against his. Of gentle fingers running through his hair. 

He remembers sweet words dripping with the folly of youth. 

A warm heavy feeling settles over his chest as he sinks further into the past. Hazy recollections swirled behind his closed lids. Of white hair dancing in the breeze, a delicate hand extended, beckoning as violet eyes shined expectantly.  

He remembers a laugh that sounded like falling leaves and kisses that tasted of honey and warm bread. Of long nights spent intertwined as lips whispered promises into damp skin. Of mornings spent reaffirming those promises, carving them into the flesh with lips, teeth, and tongue. 

He remembers leaving with the reassurance he would return. The kiss she sent him off with that tasted of salt and home. Of the declaration that she would be waiting, ever patient to see him again.

He remembers coming back.

He remembers the thick scent of smoke, of blood and sweat. Of walking, no running into the blazing inferno. Uncaring of desperate cries and trampled bodies. He remembers the feeling of dread that gradually morphed into rage.

He remembers her broken body lying there. Of vacant eyes and ashen skin. Of white stained red. Of holding her, limp and lifeless and coming to the understanding that he had failed. 

He remembers an unmarked grave in that field of mist and wildflowers. Of a spreading numbness as he sat there staring at the upturned soil. Of sitting there, never moving as the sun set and rose over and over again.

He remembers blaming himself. 

He remembers blaming the world.

He remembers blaming her.

He remembers moving, of leaving. Of how it was her fault. He shouldn’t have needed to be there, to protect her, to keep her safe. She should have been strong enough to do it herself. 

He remembers telling himself that those who survive will, she simply wasn’t one of them. He remembers telling himself that it was better this way. That her soft lips and sweet words were nothing but a passing mistake. It was nothing more than a dream that he needed to wake up from. 

He remembers telling himself that he would not think of her or the sound of falling leaves and the taste of honey again. That he would not remember late nights and bared souls.

And when Kaidou would wake in the morning, hungover and reaching for another bottle of sake he wouldn’t.

[that-jack-kline-bestie]

if I were to play a character in Heathers, I would play JD (and id be fucking awesome at it)

however if I were to cosplay a character from heathers, it would be Veronica. I’d get a wig and everything

[mars-ipan]

talking to my mom is such a blast. meeting of the minds