#this was SO difficult I'm ngl

[essektheylyss]

Ten Books to Know Me

@aboxthecolourofheartache reblogged her version of this from ages ago but she'd tagged whoever saw it and it sounds very fun and difficult so let's do it!

Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce - I had a habit as a kid of always picking up the second book in a series, so this was the first of Tamora Pierce's books I read. Emelan had an effect on me on a microcosmic level, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, the protag of a whole world of mine is named Tris now, in homage to Trisana Chandler, so. the particulate is still kicking around in my brain.

Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud - Another childhood FAVE. This series as a whole started fucking with what I understood a book to be. Also the ending of it has a vice grip on me to this day, and it is probably why so much of my writing is very vibey and favors ambiguous endings.

Cyrano de Bergerac - This was the first assigned reading I had in high school that I utterly LOVED. I love this play so much, I love the tragedy, I love the quiet sorrow. This was also the first proper tragedy that I remember really loving.

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan - This is a book of poetry and short stories by a Yale creative writing student who was killed in a car crash very soon after graduating, compiled by her professor after her death. I read it repeatedly in college; it is really quite lovely.

Underland by Robert Macfarlane - Apologies to Box who wanted reading recommendations, but she is who introduced me to this book if I remember correctly, and I have spent the two years since I read it habitually picking up Macfarlane's writing without even realizing it. Absolutely phenomenal writing.

Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway - @ professor Haraway I know you are a semi-retired scholar and also in the most expensive college town on earth but are you looking for research assistants cuz uh

The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing - I actually read both Staying with the Trouble and this book on the same weekend in the start of 2021. I compromised on not including Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, which I felt was very cliche of me, by including this book, which had as much of an effect. Read those three and Pantheologies by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and you will have some semblance of an idea of what the spiritual portion of my brain looks like. In the interest of not writing the same blurb four times I left the latter two off but know they make up a little microcosm of 'you could make a religion out of this' for me.

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natskukawa - A Japanese novel about a cat who appears to a teenager after the death of his grandfather, a bookseller. I read it when I was very frustrated with trying to read contemporary fiction and it was a bright spot among that. (I am still very frustrated with the state of contemporary fiction and this book remains a light.)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Okay I read this one most recently out of this list (over the summer) but it had been on my list for a long time and it really does live up to the hype because it is just so luminous in every sense.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer - I had to put this one last simply because HOLY HELL. Rewired my brain. This is the goal I aspire to, this is the dream I dream, this is the highest peak among the mountain range of writing aspirations that I climb. If I can one day write anything even akin to the Southern Reach trilogy I will be ready to die, but that is an utterly unachievable goal so God's just gonna have to let me live forever, I guess.

[coyoteclan]

Big TW for pet loss

Hey, clangen tumblr and those who just enjoy the silly cats on this blog. I know it's been a little bit of time since my last update, but unfortunately during the past few months, I have been caring for my closest friend, Comet.

She's been my best friend for 15 whole years, and on February 9th of 2024, I'm sad to say that she has passed. I won't lie when I say that this is one of the hardest posts I've ever made, but I want to continue this blog in her honor. Normally, I have a terrible habit of just letting projects like this slip by me and gather dust; however Comet was meant to play an integral part within the blog to immortalize her, and I refuse to let something meant just for her to go to waste.

I want to thank you all first of all for being such an amazing community. I've genuinely had so much joy come of this blog, and it pains me that I let it go stagnant for as long as I have. There are 568 of you now, which is so extremely wild to me; but I hope that from now on, you can all love Comet as much as I did, even if as a memory.

I hope to return to posting content both here and on my main, @mxssacre , but for now I still need time to grieve and come to terms with the loss of someone that was so incredibly intertwined with everything I've done since I was 9 years old.

Thank you for everything Comet, my heart, my soul, my love.

More of my favorite photos of her beneath the cut.

It's hard to choose favorites out of the thousands of photos I've taken of her over the years, but I hope these do her justice to show what an amazing being she was. I hope you're hunting your toy mice in the stars, Comet.

[ismyteadoneyet]

" 'You are angry, my Scion. In pain.' 'Yes' 'Good. Then I will show you why dragons never die.' " - 'ʙʟᴏᴏᴅᴍᴀʀᴋᴇᴅ' ʙʏ ᴛʀᴀᴄʏ ᴅᴇᴏɴɴ, ᴘᴀɢᴇ 372

drawn as per request by our lovely Legendborn anon <3 there are no demons in this one but I'll make sure to include them next time lol

[failed-inspection]

A while back I made this diagram about my thoughts on how an iterator puppet could hypothetically go off the string, while also trying to keep the idea that the superstructure is their body in mind, since I often feel that is very overlooked

TLDR I'd imagine since going off the string would require them to also get rid of like... 99% of their body they'd have to have something that could act as an anologue to all the parts they lost, but on a smaller and portable scale, most likely in the form of attaching the puppet to a creature via parabiosis, basically, hopefully that makes sense

Keep in mind this is all just opinion and theorizing!

[cryiling]

bad batch request!! maybe tech and echo vibing or working on something together? i am also being extremely normal about the s3 tralier

my fave tech bros ‼️🫶 so glad i'm not the only one being Normal abt the s3 trailer. if we don't get more tech and echo interactions in the new season i will be banging on corbett's door TRUST

btw my bad batch drawing requests are still open! :> feel free to send me prompts, altho no promises that i'll get to them all or that i'll draw them in order 🫡

[hirazuki]

Me, episode 1: Oh, a relatable protag! And a relatable female protag, at that. Sweet! That never happens.

Me, a few episodes in: Wait, the protag really is going to be my character? The one I identify with the most? Seriously? It's not going to be a strange, at least somewhat sinister, seemingly hostile male side character? It's gonna be a female character and the protagonist? That's insane, that literally never happens... what's the catch??

Me, more than halfway through the season: ... huh, I guess Maomao really is it. Okay, then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Me to myself, after episodes 22/23:

[theghostofashton]

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[found--family]

am i the only one who sensed some jilted lover vibes from jensen? 

[pomidaea]

absolutely LOVE the way you draw the ghouls 😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹 THEIR BUG MASKS!!!!!!!! so sweet

Awww thank youu

[thorns-in-daisy-fields]

"A person in two months can show you

what a person in five years couldn't..."

I always loved that quote.

I didn't realize until recently 

that I hadn't fully grasped it

before.

A person in five years

took all my time,

attention,

and energy,

hoarding it all up 

with a dragon like

greed. 

He drained me;

slowly dimmed me of my light. 

First, I stopped drawing,

then, I fell out of love with writing.

Before I knew it,

my self expression was dead

and I felt

lost. 

I knew something was wrong,

I just didn't realize

that something 

was him. 

In two months

someone new filled me

back up. 

They walked into my life,

and jumped in to help me

undo the damage

he'd done. 

I've started drawing again,

and I hope

I'll fall in love with writing again,

too.

-"Time doesn't mean anything. Character does."

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Inui looks so unamused that it's making me feel judged through the phone

Tokyo revengers x animate gratte

[raiiny-bay]

made 2 of cricket's group members so far - 3 more to go

[quiet-admirer]

It feels like a joke from the universe that one of my biggest insecurities is other people seeing me change, physically or otherwise, because it's vulnerable to move toward expressing yourself more fully, but also because I hate the idea of people thinking I was unhappy with myself before or unhappy with myself now or just otherwise speculating about the reason for the change. And yet I have this deep-seated fetish for change that my brain is increasingly longing to apply to myself 🙃

[paradife-loft]

all these years, and it just clicked that at least half of my difficulty with the sanctuary guardian fight is the constant goddamn splashing sound effects

I put my quiet shoes on, negating all the extra noise in a boss fight that forces you to be constantly moving & rolling through water, and then immediately beat it on the next attempt. istfg.

[gingersnaptaff]

*waves* bringing you all Dylan Eil Ton and Gwyn getting their kisses in! Dylan truly is Pookie, ngl. And Arthur's just chillin'. Let him chill, lads. It's his wedding, and his wife's kissing another man, but Let Him Chill.

(Also, Gwyn kissing Dylan in front of her aunt is fine. Nothing bad will happen. 👀👀👀👀)

[only-lonely-stars]

writing is hard y'all