#valery k

[vanillaflowerstuff]

woe valerykov be upon ye

i love Book

[drinkingteainthedark]

Valery meeting Shenkov and immediately being like 'he's so beautiful' I know what you are

[girlboy-frankensteins-monster]

books i read this february:

'the half life of valery k' by natasha pulley

5/5 stars — really enjoyed the plot, romance and characters. also i think it appealed to me because i'm interested in radiation and biochemistry and also history. definitely recommend it

2. 'harrow the ninth' by tamsyn muir

5/5 stars — this book is really difficult to read but it gets way easier in the last quarter of the book so if you're struggling definitely don't give up. i love what it does with the narrator and just generally how confusing it is honestly (it's somehow confusing in a good way). the characters are amazing i love them all so much

3. 'ways of seeing' by john berger

4/5 stars — i really enjoyed this and i felt like it made me consider a lot of things i'd never really thought about in much depth before. i'd be really interested to see a more modern take on advertising like the essay in the book because i feel like advertising's changed a lot since the book was published just in terms of how widespread it is

4. 'the starless sea' by erin morgenstern

5/5 stars — loved the plot, characters and setting so much. i think i preferred it to the night circus just because i didn't particularly enjoy the romance or the ending in the night circus

5. 'the westing game' by ellen raskin

3/5 stars — i read this when i was younger and i think i enjoyed it more then. the plotline's very interesting and i like it but I didn't enjoy the writing style and the portrayal of some of the characters. also angela's character development was kind of undermined at the end in my opinion

[incorrect-pulleyverse]

Svetlana: Every girl is PERFECT and beautiful in their own way and anyone who disagrees can fight me.

Shenkov: I’m not disagreeing but I do kinda wanna fight if you’re down.

Svetlana: A fight for the sake of fighting is the purest form of fight lets go.

Anna: Join in if you’re girl positive but also ready to throw down.

[wwillywonka]

SPOCK: REGRET

[theygotlost]

nonthreatening male feminist

[circuitbirb]

he has two research doctorates in radiation-focused fields. he's gay. he's touch-starved. he's a redhead. he talks to himself. he's probably not cis but he doesn't have time to think about that right now. he's a funny harmless little science elf. he used to play ice hockey. he hates it when there's an inefficient equation. he's killed fifty-three men. he loves figure skating. he's terrible at keeping in touch with friends. he probably could have gone into international espionage instead of chemistry. I didn't say a name, but he popped into your head, didn't he?

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

please send this to your non-pulleyverse oomfs i made this for fun lmao

MC = main character

LI = love interest

[spittinwatches]

hello chat. i am back with another banger.

mlp art collab with @vanillaflowerstuff

[virgin-vixen-valerie]

I really want to play into my cnc kink right now, god

Thinking about a man cornering me in the ally and pulling up my skirt, calling me a fucking slut when he realizes that I don't have any panties on. He harshly gropes my boobs before forcing his cock in my fertile cunt

Or getting drugged in a bar, not realizing that my drinks been tampered with when the room starts to spin. I feel strong hands carey me away. Im helpless as I feel a man, maybe more then one, slowly peel off my clothes and defile me

They make me suck them, jerk them off. My head is light as I feel one start to force a finger in my hole, which one? Doesn't matter, they are all going to get wrecked and filled with cream despite my protesting and struggles

[vanillaflowerstuff]

pulley characters as the animals i think they would be

[flowercrowngods]

is there anything as joyous as finishing a book and finding there’s 24 works on ao3 providing missing scenes, character studies and a pov switched rewrite?

[archmotif]

nonfiction nuclear history recs for fans of the half life of valery k

hi there! as someone who reads a lot about nuclear history, I wanted to give some recommendations for people who read valery k and though "damn that's crazy, I want to learn more!"

Books about the Kyshtym Disaster (Historical Basis for Valery K): - Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy - This is my favorite book about nuclear disasters! It's a wonderful introduction to the subject, and has a whole chapter on Kyshtym. - Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank - This book is mostly about Hanford (the "equivalent" of Mayak in the US) and it's not my favorite, but it does have a good chapter on Kyshtym that I really enjoyed reading post-valery k - Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown - A book that compares compares Chelyabinsk and Richland (town associated with Hanford) as residential areas. Disclaimer that I have not yet read this book, but it was recommended to me by a trusted source.

Books about Chernobyl: - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - THE definitive nuclear history book imho. It's beautiful, it's empathetic, and a lot of it served as the basis for HBO's Chernobyl. Plus, imo a lot of the oral histories about rural life in the exclusion zone match up w/ valery k's village plotline. Svetlana Alexievich the nobel prize winner that you are... - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham - This is a really popular Chernobyl book, though I never finished reading it and prefer Alexievich and Plokhy's work. It has some great maps though. Seriously, I adore the maps. They're amazing.

[lennyjamin]

i'm a big fan of scifi/fantasy romance novels and it's really tickling me how many of the ones i've read over the past year have involved Confessing To The Murder(s) as a major relationship development milestone

[wwillywonka]

i always thought the forced mind meld scene in undiscovered country was out of place and, more importantly, wildly out of character for spock. i think that's the general consensus from the fandom as well, but i also feel like not a lot of people have actually seen this movie or thought deeply about it considering the lack of analysis i've been able to find on it. but the more i think about it, the more it makes so much sense that spock would do something that extreme all in the name of protecting not only jim and the enterprise crew but starfleet as well. jim even says it to him later in the film, "we're both extremists," and spock wonders if they're so used to falling into roles and routines around each other that they've lost the ability to combat something completely different and unique that might come along to challenge them. it is this predictably that valeris was able to use to manipulate him, to get him to trust her, to get him to help her rise in rank in starfleet. because he saw her as everything he could never be: a full vulcan, completely and totally logical and dedicated to her work, without emotional attachment. of course he doesn't regret his friendships with the enterprise crew but still, there is a small part of him that will forever want to be more vulcan. we know that from unification. how long did spock know valeris? all the way back to her first academy days? how long was she his student, his favorite student? how much time and effort did he put into helping her, all the while blind to her ulterior motives? how the hell is he supposed to trust his own judgement now?

she's destroyed the sanctity of starfleet, the place spock escaped to as a teenager to find inner peace and purpose, the place that has given him a home and friends and people who trust him, who would follow him into anything if he asked.

and now he's become a danger to the enterprise crew. he's become a danger to jim and leonard.

and so, the forced mind meld scene comes not from anger towards valeris alone but a deep anger towards himself. and in his anger and his shame at being angry in the first place and his shame for feeling that shame, of course he would do anything to protect his friends, even if it means violating and sullying the most important ritual in vulcan culture.

it's still horrible, he still shouldn't have done it. but it makes so much sense in the wider context of his character and thus makes for a strong and effective plot choice.

[birdadjacent]

If I had a nickel for every time I got deeply invested in the relationship between a small, sharp-edged Russian scientist who constantly challenges authority and a scary large man with a reputation for brutality who cares SO much and has a soft spot for kids.... two nickels etc.