#with my favourites in bold

[liefst]

books i read in 2023

Sayaka Murata, Convenience store woman

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five

Maryam Hassouni, Wat de fak

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

Margaret Atwood, The year of the flood

Isabel Allende, The house of the spirits

María Gainza, Optic nerve

Piet Paaltjens, Snikken en grimlachjes

Arthur Miller, Death of a salesman

Anja Meulenbelt, Feminisme: terug van nooit weggeweest

Feminism: en antologi

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why women want

Jean Rhys, Voyage in the dark

Euripides, Electra

Euripides, The Phoenician women

Euripides, The Bacchae

Jean Rhys, La grosse Fifi

Odysseas Elytis, The axion esti

Hilda Newman & Tim Tate, Diamonds at dinner

Julie Orringer, How to breathe underwater

Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the lawn

Jane Campion, The piano (screenplay)

Jean Rhys, Quartet

Emma Cline, The girls

Arnon Grunberg, Tirza

Karen Blixen, Ehrengard

Alain de Botton, Religion for atheists

Arthur Japin, De overgave

[navyinks]

I sketched some Greek gods for a postcards project earlier this month ^-^ These are Dionysus, Ares, and Artemis

[freckleslikestars]

Vala being Vala in Stargate SG-1 9.01 Avalon pt. 1

[glorfindel-of-imladris]

"Why are you always bringing Glorfindel and Erestor together, it makes no sense" yeah, well, the gamers are doing it, too 💁🏻‍♀️

[alackofghosts]

kindred spirits

[a-sketchy]

gotta say, the colour coding of the p4 cast is unmatched

[wavetapper]

did you [perfectly normal if a little morbid-sounding thing] as a kid or are you normal

[plan-3-tmars]

was relistening to 'in case I make it' because 2 year anniversary today yaaay!!! and oh my god I forgot how well becoming the lastnames fits kazui. ESPECIALLY this bit

"But what do I know about forever, when so far I've been so fleeting?

Babe, my frontal lobe's done growing this might just be how I'm wired.

But now we're kissing before brushing, smile with our whole faces. If you want a hyphen last name I guess, I don't mind the cadence

I've seen home videos, I was there back in the '80s and if I'm just them, and they back then could do it, why cant I?

Just like my parents in due time. Imagine me, just like my parents? Yeah right!

Cause I've made more mistakes than simple empty moments. Each one is out of character, as you know I tend to be.

[croziers-compass]

favorite small woodland mammal GO

My Favourite Woodland Mammal is you!

[sunnyscript]

[ID: three images of a lineless Alastor fanart and sscreensho redraw of his movie director costume from episode 1. His skin is gray and there is a lavender-ish light casting a glow on his right side. He is standing smiling, his right hand is holding his radio-can behind his back while his left is snapping its fingers. The palette of colors used floats on his upper right. The upper left has a transparent background a deep purple shadow, the upper left has a lagoon green background and a greyish blue shadow and the last one has a deep but bright pink background and a pale and greyish green shadow]

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[oxygenbefore1775]

mae u know why I’m here. give me The Big Rei Guy and the colour yellow!!!

eeee mar (although coming two months too late) i am ready to deliver

Reiner Braun

Funny you should ask because yellow is one of Reiner's "official" colors (the runner-up being orange) and I also tend to color code Reiner with yellow so let's work from from that.

Just like I've mention while discussing Zeke, yellow can be charged with both positive and negatives connotations which represent Reiner's development as a character. The virtues being the positivity, amusement and humor it represents - much like Reiner's outer facade when he was a Cadet, always cheering his comrades up and taking on a role of an older brother for everyone (not to mention the jokes he was making about asses and stuff). Meanwhile, the negative aspects of the color being deception and falsehood - again, resonating strongly with Reiner's experience of hiding his real identity and lying to his comrades about him being the Armoured Titan. This whole duplicity of color yellow perfectly describes Reiner's whole identity, the paragon of a perfect soldier he was trying to portray to the other and how it turned out to be a lie after all.

Another interesting duplicity that the color yellow includes is the fear/bravery dichotomy. The fear being the more popular interpretation of the either (hence the adjective "yellow-bellied"), it plays into Reiner's initial terror-inducing experience on the Island of discovering the unsettling truth about his unjustified instalment as a warrior followed by witnessing Marcel's death and then running away in fear without attempting to help. And yet - yellow was thought to be a color of courage in the Empire of Japan. It is the color of warriors, the very person Reiner has strived to be his whole life and eventually become by the end of the story as he helps in stopping the Rumbling.

One of the main ways that this color can influence people is its ability to cheer, instill optimistic thoughts. And even though it's not really representative in Reiner's personality but it is evident in the way he influences the people around him - first, it was Scouts, then the kids of the Warrior Unit.

All in all, yellow is a very fitting color for Reiner. Not only does it encompass his positive traits, but simultaneously cover the negative aspects of his personality as well, creating the ambigious portrayal that Reiner is known for, tragic yet also poetic in a sense

[sysig]

Little guys (Patreon)

[neptunesenceladus]

just got jump scared by a fucking book and don’t think i will sleep well at all

[martyrbat]

is he... yknow.....

[zosonils]

historians will say they were esteemed colleagues