#unique books.

[blog-i-carry-your-heart-with-me]

Review : Strange Pictures by Uketsu

Strange Pictures was... well... strange. A who-and-why-dunnit unlike anything else I have ever read, I was expecting a truly unsettling mystery, shot through with intrigue, racing inexorably toward a thrilling climax. Instead...

★★★ Strange Pictures was… well… strange. A who-and-why-dunnit unlike anything else I have ever read, I was expecting a truly unsettling mystery, shot through with intrigue, racing inexorably toward a thrilling climax. Instead, I found an occasionally creepy mystery novel, which named its own frustrations, and shifted between narrators with a sometimes confusing rapidity. Whilst I suspect this…

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[feelingthedisaster]

aftg is probably the only fandom in which the fans do not recommend the books to others

[wasyago]

jay and chip as tritons hehe

(i know that every other person drew them as tritons already, but like, cmon its so fun)

[likeappletrees]

obsessed with the dracula daily community on this website. not only is everyone reading the emails again and listening to the podcast, but now our good friend jonathan harker is stuck in a time loop. i love it here

[yukipri]

Spar, Alpha-Ø2, Mand’alor the Resurrector.

My take on this super fascinating if somewhat obscure character from Legends! A clone with Jango Fett’s memories, who escaped Kamino to become leader of a faction of Mandalorians.

I’ve been exploring him a lot in my fic, the Prime Override, and I wanted to give him a shot visually. His appearance here is specific to my fic, where his story diverges considerably from Legends, so there are a couple of details that don’t match that of any of the three official illustrations that exist of him. But the changes are intentional! I still hope he’s recognizable 😅

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❀ You can see the rest of my art through the Masterpost pinned to the top of my blog!

[linda-from-the-bird-site]

Drum roll please… we have a winner for the super unique copy of @neil-gaiman 🌟STARDUST🌟

[black-is-beautiful18]

ITS HERE!

OATHBOUND MARCH 4TH 2025!

Bree’s magic is no longer blue or red so this makes me think, especially with the summary, that Bree is gonna be forced to really embrace who she is on both sides of her family and evolve even more. Baby girl is gonna be evolving and growing in power up till that final battle and I cannot wait!😫❤️💙💜

[oobbbear]

May I offer you a donut and slender man’s gay cousin

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

P. and S. Phillips - Is Death The End - Corgi - 1975

[egophiliac]

I've had a beast of a cold for the last few days, but I wanted to get this out before the new year! while I've sort of made my peace with my first take on Lilia's UM poster, I really wanted to do a version with the new context that chapter 6 gave us. because. c'mon.

(don't worry, Lilia can carry ALL HIS KIDS AT ONCE)

[hay-bails]

i know i’m a true kaladin sicko because on my first read of radiance, i was worried he WOULDN’T ask for a boon

[littlecrow4]

Tfw you want to come up with your own unique Gravity Falls au but your not creative enough

Or you don’t wanna accidentally copy an existing au

[hyrude]

i think it's pretty unfair to compare "gifted kid burnout" to "former student athlete who thinks they could've gone pro." maybe it's just bc i can't even fathom the level of discipline it requires to do a sport competitively but i have way more sympathy for them. the window of time to be a successful athlete is so so small and the littlest uncontrollable setbacks like a tweaked muscle or being born a year too early to compete in x event while you're at your prime can make it so you never get any recognition for your years and years of training........ like, i feel heartbroken for all the people who missed their chance bc of all the contest cancellations in 2020. you're considered a senior competitor if you're like over 25! that genuinely does suck.

"former gifted" adults with creative pursuits lamenting that they never pulled it off because xyz are so fucking embarrassing by comparison. you literally can still accomplish whatever thing you want to accomplish. you probably have decades ahead of you and if you're like me you have hours of time in your week that you could use to do it if you actually tried. you're just addicted to phone and you have no willpower when you're not being forced to pay attention for 7 hours a day.

[linda-from-the-bird-site]

Could you guys all to this for me please I’m looking for the winner of the @neil-gaiman 🌟STARDUST🌟 book. The winner would have received an email from Raffall telling them they’d won and a further email from myself when I was notified of who the winner was.

The winner may just be on holiday and have no WiFi or any number of other reasons but if you know them give them a nudge for me please!

Already posted on X/Twitter, Facebook and Bluesky

[fictionadventurer]

The discussions of Elizabeth Gaskell always seem to focus on who she's not. She's not Dickens, she's not Austen, she's not Elliot, and she's definitely not one of the Brontes. At best, they'll say she has Dickens' social justice concerns and Austen's country houses, but who is she? What makes her perspective unique?

As I consider this, I keep coming back to, "She's kind."

She is so kind.

There is a compassion in her writing unlike anything I've seen from other authors. She wants to see people. Know them. Understand them. And when she does, she loves them, faults and all.

When she laughs at people, it's not the satire of Austen or the caricature of Dickens--it's a fond, loving laugh that likes these people in all their ridiculousness.

Even when she's pushing a very clear message about how people should or shouldn't act, you never get the sense that she's judging people who fail to live up to that standard--she's just trying to understand how they got to the place where they made the wrong decision.

In her world, people are kind and deserve to be treated kindly. But that doesn't mean that she ignores the darkness in life. She sees the darkness and sin and squalor and says that's why we need to be kinder to each other. Her kindness comes not from ignoring reality but by paying so much attention to reality that she comes to care deeply for everyone. And I just go crazy over it.