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Hey, so, have you read Feed and all the Newsflesh books by Mira Grant (aka @seananmcguire)? They're fantastic and I love them and I totally had my heart ripped out and cried several times so much fun! Highly recommended!

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Nothing like writing a cliffhanger and following it with an end note saying "Don't worry, this work isn't tagged with Main Character Death."

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cat that says "nyesss abhhhhorsennn"

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sometimes I look back on the Bartimaeus Sequence and marvel at how well developed the system of slavery was, to the point where, in order to uphold the system, the magicians had to base their whole society around dehumanizing themselves and policing each other.

Think about it. Nathaniel was bought as a toddler, and stripped of his name, his family, and every other piece of humanity he could’ve possibly possessed at six years old. He was then handed over to a magician who taught him to depend on slave labor as not only a source of power, but also an integral part of his identity. He was taught to be dependent on slave labor in every way, and yet constantly fear the beings that he enslaved.

He was taught value political power and safety above all else in order to assuage that constant fear, because the oppressor always fears the revenge of the oppressed.

He was taught to use the differences between humans and spirits to justify their enslavement, because there must be a reason they deserve it and you don’t.

He was taught to distrust kindness and altruism, because if a world exists where kindness and altruism have value, then there exists a world where slavery is wrong. Where all the abuse and pain that generations of magicians have put themselves through to uphold the system of slavery was for nothing.

And in this context the metaphor of the true name as a source of both extreme power and vulnerability for spirits and humans alike, to the point where magicians hide/destroy/forget their birth names and by extension their humanity in order to contain that weakness is just so achingly perfect and scrumptious and I just-

Idk. Sometimes I think about that.

Edit: I think I may have unknowingly plagiarized this from @agape-emo-eros so uhhh, just gonna tag them here. Idk it was in my mind palace or smth. Sorry dude.

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A selection of nostalgic books and book series from my youth, ranked by how many works they have on AO3

Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (554,168)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan (40,673)

Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer (13,370)

Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis (5516)

His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman (2567)

Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate (1881)

Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer (1213)

The Inheritance Cycle, by Christopher Paolini (1018)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (735)

Young Wizards, by Diane Duane (733)

Bartimaeus, by Jonathan Stroud (400)

The Old Kingdom Series, by Garth Nix (385)

Goosebumps, by R.L. Stine (250)

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (234)

The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (220)

Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander (151)

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (134)

Unwind, by Neal Shusterman (133)

Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine (29)

The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau (17)

My Teacher is an Alien, by Bruce Coville (11)

Bone, by Jeff Smith (10)

The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks (7)

Boy/Girl Battle Series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (7)

Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen (6)

Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (6)

The Lost Years of Merlin, by T.A. Barron (5)

Magic Shop Series, by Bruce Coville (3)

Faerie Wars, by Herbie Brennan (3)

Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde (2)

Molly Moon Series, by Georgia Byng (1)

The Seventh Tower, by Garth Nix (0)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary (0)

Scorpion Shards, by Neal Shusterman (0)

Help! I'm Trapped..., by Todd Strasser (0)

I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, by Bruce Coville (0)

Angela and Diabola, by Lynne Reid Banks (0)

The Eyes of Kid Midas, by Neal Shusterman (0)

Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (0)

The fact that there is nothing at all under The Seventh Tower feels like an attack on me personally.

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I'm starting a collection

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“Speak your insults again and I will kill you. But if I have not heard them, then it is as if they have never been.”

— Milla of the Far-Raiders from Garth Nix’ The Seventh Tower, Book 5: Into Battle

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Accidentally bought my cat cantrip instead of catnip and now she’s casting eldritch blast at me from the overlook of her cat tree while demanding wet food only

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Chapter 117 of The Wizard's Familiar has been posted. We're now up to 142,545 words.

This week's chapter is kind of a worldbuilding dump. Next week, I plan to place the characters in A Situation, so stay tuned!

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“don’t eat honey because it exploits the bees and they can’t consent!!!” bees are literally unionized and will walk out if they don’t like being in the beekeeper’s hives

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You will not guess where this is going

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Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

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"everybody hates me" factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn't hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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Made a new poster! :)

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Survival tip #154: The best way out is through the new standard set. Build a makeshift car and maybe they'll let you out to participate?