#using my side blog as a blog lol

[alterdaes]

"I'm gonna start doing my reading wrap-ups on the last day of the month!" I said on April 30th, and then proceeded to forget to do this last night 😂 Anyways, May was a pretty good reading month for me! I read five books, and DNF'd one. I participated in withcindy's 2024 Asian Readathon challenge over on Storygraph, and was able to cover all five of the prompts with the books I finished!

Anyways, thoughts below the cut

Iron Widow - 4/5. Originally I gave it a 3.75 but after sitting with it for a while I decided I'll probably re-read it at some point in the future, so it deserves at least a 4. Loved the MC Zetian, and really fascinated by the world Xiran is built there. That ending certainly left me wanting more. I did find the middle of the book to be a bit slow, and I'm not 100% sold on the M/M portion of the polycule yet. I'd like to be, but I'm not. Hoping the next book will give all three of them more moments together

Dungeon Meshi Volume 8 - 5/5. I'm very slowly picking my way through this. I'm not really in a rush since the anime's going to be wrapping up its first season soon and I'm keenly aware that the manga will be all I have for a while after that lol anyways, that said, I loved this volume. The Canaries are great, and the changeling mushroom plotline was probably one of my favorites so far.

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - 4.25/5. I've been wanting a lighthearted contemporary romance for a while, and this one hit just right! The characters were loveable, the plot was fast-paced but didn't sacrifice character development, time was spent to flesh out this world that was just slightly alternate of our own, and there was even a twist I didn't see coming. All in all, a very enjoyable read that I'd definitely pick up again.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - 5/5. All I can say is a recommend checking out this book. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian historian and covers this topic extremely thoroughly in this book, in a way that I found easy to digest. Considering my track record with paying attention to history textbooks, that's saying something. I definitely believe its important to understand the full historical context behind this conflict, including and especially the United States involvement in it, as it has put so much of the current administration's current actions into a horrifying perspective.

The Moon Represents My Heart - DNF'd. I have a confession - I like time-travel stories in theory, but I have yet to read a book that features it that I like. I'd also like to find a literary book I like, and a book about a time traveling family seemed like the perfect character-focused book. Sadly this fell short for me in that department as well. I just could not connect to any of the characters, and I found myself pulling up the table of contents often to see how much more I had to go. Finally at 33% of the way through I decided to stop torturing myself. Maybe one day I'll return to this but...not any time soon.

An Artificial Night - 5/5. well I finished my re-read of this like I'd hoped, but it took the entire damn month with every thing else I was reading! 😆 It remains one of my favorite Toby Daye books. The second half of the book, and the repercussions of Toby being successful in her mission, is what stood out to my most this time around. That could just be because I adore how Seanan tied in so many aspects of faerie lore into this; I think her take on the Ballad of Tam Lin was especially genius. Anyways, Toby is still my favorite failgirl, I still adore her and Tybalt together, Conner still bothers the hell out of me, and the Luidaeg remains my favorite side character in the series. Also, I wish we got to see more of Acacia in the series.

Right now I'm reading A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal because my hold came in at the library and I'd been really looking forward to this one. I've also said before on my main that I've got quite a few queer books lined up for this month, and I do hope to get through the next Toby book, Late Eclipses, this month as well.

[lnmei]

chrollo lucilfer

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

The fanon interpretation of Vox and Valentino's relationship really is just Satan and Saddam Hussein in South Park huh.

[tiredclemont]

Your top 3 submas headcanons? :3

Oh goodness, that's a great question 0_0 hmmm...

1. Angsty one, I like to think the twins' parents died when they were really young. "Take care of your younger brother" promise, all that jazz. I just kinda have it as a background protective brother headcanon for Ingo.

2. Ingo's kitty smile is a neurological trait where he can't fully smile, just the sides of his mouth go up but not the middle part. When his memory is wiped in Hisui though his mind gets a bit of a reset and he's able to smile at the player.

3. On the other side, Emmet smiles in inappropriate situations (i.e. funerals, serious conversations, etc). It's his default face much like Ingo's frown, but he can frown when he's distraught enough. And of course post Hisui it's a constant frown because angst is delightful.

Any manner of reunion scenario is the end result though, I'm not THAT evil. Angst with resolution is the best. I have other small headcannons but I guess those are the main three.

[softmeetscreatureplz]

MMMKAY FUCK IT BEING MORE OPEN ON THIS BLOG LETS FUCKING TRY THIS IG?!??

Anyways also fun thing I've been fucking wanting to tell ppl like. For awhileee is that one if the things I love abt kamojis is that there r several just stimming ones like this pic

Voila:

((o(^∇^)o))

(((o(*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)o)))

((o(￣ー￣)o))

Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

o(>∀<*)o

(There r more I can't remeber now but. Yeah.)

[starheirxero]

I'm ngl the show is feeling a leetol salty with the BM redemption truthers but what they haven't considered is the diehard Bloodmoon Crimes supporters.

Like oh okay, he's gunna get worse? He's gunna kill more people? He's gunna hurt more main characters? Do it. Do it to such a point it's nearly excessive I dare you. Lemme see that boy rip someone's batteries out with his teeth or some shit and I promise you--no matter how hard the show tries to spin it as "look he's evil so you should hate him!"--I will eat that shit up.

Can't make me hate a blorbo for being violent if the whole reason I liked them to begin with was because of the violence, boy!!!!!

[briebo-is-a-dragon]

gwuh. havent drawn in 3 months but i managed to doodle out something quick and sloppy in about an hour and twenty while waiting for chickpeas to cook on the stove (they burnt. it was fine. i made more this morning ffsdklghfgs)

belladonna is, as always, the one thing i find easiest to draw

slapping a mature label on this for the bare titty just so i dont get smacked but. yes, enjoy some transfem tiefling flirtatious stretching sketching as i try and warm up to drawing again <3

(extra art rambling in the tags)

[petrovna-zamo]

[sskk-manifesto]

MITCHELL AKUTAGAWA EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!

[roseofcards90]

No I cannot sleep I will trust myself to wake up at 4 am <3

[goldensunset]

favorite characters come and go but she is forever <3

[giantisms]

ahh speaking of sonas. sucks that this is my super secret g/t sideblog and can't go silly with my main sona like i'd do on main. oh well!

[woundjob]

what did i miss

[azuneekun]

ive been so caught up in drawing fanart i realize i kinda forget to make content for my farmers too 😅

[the-kipsabian]

[pekonya]

peko's other fragaria memories blog

most posts will still be on pekoriamemories . don't be surprised if i rt from one blog and like from this blog

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