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elodieunderglass · 6 months ago

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hi. what do you mean

#snufkin #I’m very sorry that your friend has decided you need pronouns.#you’re right. you don’t.#the library has OG Moomin comics for some reason they’re very tattered and deliciously smelly #and sometimes I look at them while the children are eating the other books.#you’re getting such an insight into my Saturdays we start with pickling onions at dawn and then we’re at the library seeing WHATS UP #I’m gonna pin this what a great conversation good job boys

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egophiliac · 3 months ago

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still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with nightmare before christmas #hajimari no halloween #calling dibs on skeleton kisses as the name of my band #man scully is just a delightful little weirdo and i'm enjoying him immensely #(i'm going with scully until we get something official just because it makes me think of x-files)#(スカリー is also how the agent's name is transliterated and i don't know if it was intentional but i love it as a bonus reference)#(i want to believe™)#gosh though #'no one at school likes me because i won't shut up about halloween and jack skellington' i'm feeling VERY attacked right now twst #look scully your people are out there #just get on the forums and -- oh wait you're probably from like the 1800s or something #(my theory is that he's from the past and there's just some Book Magic going on to bring us together)#(LOOK they made a point of saying that the book fair has been held annually for a super long time)#a hot topic goth born before hot topic was invented...so sad 😔#i dunno i could be wrong but that feels like a good working theory for now #if it wasn't for mal sensing twsty ~magic~ on him i would think he's like. a christmas elf who's going to kidnap jack in a reverse-nmbc #(not ruling that out though because it would be amazing)#god all the sprites in this event look AMAZING. loving the desaturated colors and the extra drawn-on lines 😍#i'm genuinely kinda sad that we aren't gonna get to see every character like this #who knows...maybe halloweentown will be imperiled again next year...#come back and destroy my keys again please #(that said i'm doing weirdly well so far?)#(i promised i'd save for sebek and just do cursory pulls to get the SRs and not hope for the SSRs)#(...but then leona jumpscared me four coffins in anyway. halloween magic is REAL)

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ouruncriticalmess · 1 year ago

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Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser | Fabrikbewohner. Protokoll einer Kommune und 23 Trips | 1970

Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser (born June 18, 1943) is a German writer and record producer. He is best known as the founder of the Ohr, Pilz, and Kosmische Kuriere record labels. These labels released many of the earliest Krautrock albums in the early 1970s, and Kaiser is often cited as a pivotal figure in the development of the genre. [wikipedia]

#1970 #seventies #Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser #very good looking books #commune #community #krautrock

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iliothermia · 20 days ago

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#illustration #trans man #oc #milomir #yuval #im finally writing down their story for my book..#Yuval is hard to be around. Often in a bad mood and makes reasons to not like everyone he meets. Excuses to not be close to people #A paranoid depressive lost in his head..But poetic and yearning when alone.#Milomir is also rough around the edges but very loyal to those he likes. Doesn't have good boundaries. He is obsessive and goes too far.#He's the fairy the other fairies are kinda like “Uh.. Dude.. Too much..” to #yuval thinks the sea is trying to kidnap him (and he's right)#milomir spent hundreds of hours crafting the wings he wears so he would look like a more acceptable fairy. He's actually a whirligig beetle #His hood covers his second set of eyes.#anyway I thought I would arrange their panels in a nice way..

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minalots · 2 years ago

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so about that book…

#trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood #trigun maximum #trimax #iykyk LMAOOOOOO #edit: i fuxked up the title of the book do not look at me rn im throwing myself out my window #other edit: yes ik the author retweeted this im in shock bro #tbh im just in shock how this is even doing numbers everywhere but thank you guys HAHAHAHAHAHA #other other edit: also i see someone asking if the book is good. i haven’t ordered mine yet cuz im saving to go to a con but everyone #around me has been saying its very good n you heard bdww so #da gallery

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crowleyholmes · 1 year ago

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"Safety"

I just think he deserves to sit in a window and look at his stars until he falls asleep...

#good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #mine #my art #aziraphale was in the middle of clearing that space for crowley because there's a specific star you can only really see from this window #he was going to make it really nice for him #pillows and a blanket and a bottle of châteauneuf-du-pape waiting for him #but then crowley came over one day sooner than aziraphale expected #and when aziraphale comes home to the bookshop that night #he finds his demon curled up on the windowsill #draped over a few books aziraphale hadn't had time to move yet #but looking comfortable enough #and very peacefully asleep #don't worry #aziraphale is about to bring him a blanket

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 months ago

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you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.

#ask #non-mdzs #I have a hunch you will not recall sending this to me but I wish to immortalize it.#The progression of me going 'aw' to 'barking with laughter' at the last bit of this message was a delight.#Oh man what to say about getting into MDZS...#I admit I'm probably low on the list of people who should be recommending it.#I enjoy it! But there are also a ton of different adaptations that each do a slightly different thing with the story and characters.#Personally I loved The Untamed (Netflix live action) for how campy the action was. It got emotional but really...It made me laugh.#And I love watching it with people because it also makes them laugh.#(The Untamed changes a lot of plot elements so it isn't looked upon very favourably by many fans. I love it as its own thing)#Don't get me wrong; it *is* a story with interesting things to say and I certainly have written tons of analysis on it.#But it's also a series I spent over a year making parody comics of. It comes from a place of love!#The audio drama is really good and I think it might be the best form of mdzs...however finding episodes is not easy.#The audio drama is also what I'm basing all these comics on!#There is a book (the primary source) An animated series and a comic to check out as well.#Someone probably has a better pitch and recommendation list than I do. I just make the funny comics.

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coquelicoq · 1 month ago

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[ID: Panels from chapter 101 of the Natsume's Book of Friends manga. Natsume thanks Natori and Matoba for coming to rescue him and Nyanko-sensei. Natori's serious but unsurprised expression remains unchanged over three panels. Matoba's lips are slightly parted, and in the second panel he says, "Huh…?" /end ID]

the contrast in reactions between natori and matoba...matoba and his little taken aback "what the hell am i supposed to do with this bid for human connection" face that i hold so dear. idk what's going on with natori exactly but my guess is he's just. really scared for natsume. he must have been, to have gone to get matoba. natsume doesn't get natori's affectionately indulgent look until after the danger has passed. natori's gotta get his game face on.

#matoba gets a couple of affectionately indulgent looks from natori though. at least two #once when natori is telling natsume that matoba always liked cats (he's talking to natsume but looking at matoba)#and once when natori shows up to save matoba's ass and says 'i was trying to help actually'#WE GET IT. YOU CARE HIM.#natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #matoba seiji #my posts #homura cats arc #f #but i don't think 'game face' is quite right either...natori's game face looks more determined. eyebrows drawn down #this is just such a stoic face. i can't really figure out what he's thinking here #i actually pulled out these panels to talk about matoba but i got distracted by natori. and others before me have already made #some very good posts collecting instances of matoba reacting this way. i just couldn't remember if these panels were included

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inkskinned · 2 years ago

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it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

#writeblr #warm up #i can't write rn but i have SO much words in here bc im reading the chorus of dragons books #(just started book 4)#and this woman's writing is just LIVING in my brain. let me out!!!#(i read roughly like 2-4 books a week usually bc i go on long walks with my dog but when a book is REALLY good like. it eats my life. )#anyway ...... so like here's a story that idk i've tried to explain to other people as being wild #but maybe im the only one who thinks it is wild???#so i play pokemon go (i just started in jan) bc i love pokemon and as i have mentioned i walk goblin for like an hour in the morning #and i don't like a lot of fitness trackers due to the fact it makes me .sad. but i also wanted the little digital rewards. enter pokemon go #anyway so they make you make friends to complete quests. so i used a reddit thread. i do not usually use reddit. i don't have an acct #i lurked. i just googled like ''pokemon go reddit '' and randomly added a bunch of numbers #i was on that page for all of 15 minutes. there are THOUSANDS of responses on that page.#here's what's wild: in that group of people. even though i am not on reddit and it was one random event once #it turns out one of those people lives in the town i live in. or at least very close. i only know this because #when we send each other gifts. it's from the same freaking area.#i can't ask them to meet up bc pokemon go doesn't have a messaging app lol but like . what are the fucking chances that #a random person posts in a random reddit thread and HAPPENS to get added by someone ELSE from their SAME TOWN #who by pure fucking CHANCE is ALSO playing pokemon go and looking for friends #i googled it there's only 42000 people in my broad region. the .......... smallness ! of the world!!!

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sojourner-between-worlds · 3 months ago

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If you need me I'll be chewing on the fact that, yes, the other eight uses are in Exodus and are about the Tabernacle tapestries and in the New Testament our bodies are called the temple of the Lord

#LOOK. this book is about miscarriage and its so very good and im crying a lot in a helpful way #but this still blew my mind in the middle of all the crying. clearly i need to do word studies more lol #christianity #miscarriage #death #infant death #and yes i did look into this and confirm it myself. 8 in exodus and one in psalm 139. there IS another derivative also used but #i couldnt figure out how to do a reverse search to find out what verses used that derivative #(because i was using a physical book concordance to start. had to move to digital to actually find the other verses though.#the other entry was two down in the dictionary part but theres no way to go the other way to find the verses that use it lol. anyway.)#BUT as it stands - word for exact word comparison - this holds true #i almost forgot to actually cite the book lol:#you are still a mother by jackie gibson

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salamispots · 6 months ago

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I want more horror like the thing where you're somewhere isolated like in the arctic or an oil rig or the deep mountains or a dead planet and you're studying sciencey things or doing something mundane and you come across Something™ and it's some nasty little creature/alien/??? and body horror and chaos ensues ouuuaarghgghghgh

#guess who's watching through a playthrough of still wakes the deep game #and it's reactivating my phase of trying to find all the movies like this hAHA #blood glacier and the thaw scratched that itch a bit #plus obviously alien franchise #and the first season of terror #honestly annihilation too kinda #life (2017) also is pretty fun #muffled laugh #rambles #-squints-#need to find me some books like this actually hm #edit: bless yall haha I wasn't looking for recs but thank you for them/I will check them out :0 #oH! isolation (2006) is also very good #not exactly remote but it does take place on a farm and you don't go anywhere else

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captaincrowe · 2 days ago

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Anyway, after watching the Wicked movie again, I think my ideal outcome of the love triangle in a canon divergence scenario is "Gelphie and their free-range boytoy Fiyero who comes and goes as he pleases."

#before anyone asks #yes i have seen the musical #i have also read the book #i just love the comedic potential of this concept #and it's kind of how they read to me in the movie anyway #gelphie #gliyeraba #they won't seem him for months at a time sometimes #then they just wake up in the morning to find he managed to worm his way between them in bed #idk if his relationship with both or either of them is romantic or queerplatonic in this scenario #doesn’t matter #he's there when he wants to be #and who knows what he’s doing the rest of the time #(slutting it up and going on adventures i hope)#(good for him)#...i actually have a lot of thoughts about what their dynamics would look like in a very specific time of canon divergence au #but we don't need to go into that #wicked 2024 #wicked

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egophiliac · 5 months ago

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crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #just because of the context and what i'm about to wildly go on about #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 9 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 9 spoilers #god i wish this turns out to be a spoiler #anyway #i think it's safe to assume at this point that the next story card will be one (or both??? 👀) of the twins #do i DARE hope #i mean chances are just as good it's gonna be jade wearing a big mushroom costume or something #but you know what i'll take that too #and as long as i'm sitting here at the corkboard for crack theories #i have noticed that vil and jamil's dreams both got their use out of their travel event backgrounds #like tapis rouge HAD to have been specifically timed to come out before vil's chapter so we would have some context for that #and look. we know who's coming up next.#so...is it possible that maybe...coral sea event is finally coming?!#are there fishboys on the horizon?!#i don't want to get my hopes up. but also i very much do #august schedule is gonna come out with two training camps and a master chef rerun and i'm gonna dissolve on the spot

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ouruncriticalmess · 1 year ago

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Christine Nöstlinger | Lollipop | 1977

Christine Nöstlinger (13 October 1936 – 28 June 2018) was an Austrian writer best known for children's books. She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003, the biggest prize in children's literature, for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense." She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for "lasting contribution to children's literature" in 1984 and was one of three people through 2012 to win both of these major international awards. [wikipedia]

Cover Artist: Angelika Kaufmann

Cover Design: Jan Buchholz & Reni Hinsch

#1977 #seventies #children literature #nöstlinger #very good looking books #jan buchholz #Reni Hinsch #Angelika Kaufmann #Christine Nöstlinger #Austria

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redbean-nom · 1 month ago

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