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everchased · 7 months

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half orc flirting next level

#me @ me: you do not have to fully color all your art. it takes you a million years to make more polished stuff #also me @ me: but free coloring book of my oc? 🥺#she counterspelled then ran up on me anyway and crit my ass twirls my hair uwu #z'rell you were a freak i knew for like 2 hours ily<3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 tav #oc: finch #my art

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wifegideonnav · 3 months

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all for the game is literally the funniest book series ever. 90% of the time the only thought in neil’s head is “oh my god. if my mafia boss father tracks me down and kills me i won’t be able to win The Big Game.”

#guys the audiobooks are free on Spotify premium #pspsps go read all for the game by nora sakavic #the first kindle book is free and the other 2 are 99 cents #pspsps #op #aftg

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good-advice-ganondorf · 2 years

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#okay so here's all the pros of getting a library card #it's free access to tons of information and not just books #free audiobooks since most libraries use libby or even have physical audiobooks #access to computers and printers and even sometimes 3d printers #some libraries have video games #free access to movies #one of my local libraries has cake tins in funny shapes #and even if you don't ever plan to use it. libraries will get more funding #cons of getting a library card #um. idk have to return or renew in 2 weeks #loz #tloz #ganondorf #the legend of zelda #good advice ganondorf #good advice

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emillungs · 6 months

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devotion

#my art #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time #siuanraine #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #maybe (most likely) its the shows impact on me but. its crazy how their first interaction on book 2 reads as subtextually gay #there is still Much to fix in this but wtv im setting it free before i go insane 🕊

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onlytruepain · 9 months

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So I just finished Prince's Gambit and I had to draw them before I continue to book 3...

#captive prince #laurent of vere #damianos of akielos #damen x laurent #doodle #they're living in my head rent free i had to draw them smh #im on book 2 and im suffering

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passionatememes · 1 year

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for the sake of the mitzvah of being whole

was inspired by a very cool project published by Svara--a book of rituals & blessings for trans lives! it's a very very cool project

series of 14 screenprints on two types of paper! details below

#my art #screenprint #jumblr #i'm not affiliated w the people who made the book of blessings btw i just think it's very cool and gave me lots 2 think about #love u trans people love u jews love u trans jews!!!!!!!!#if people want prints of this. let me know i'll send them for free u just pay the shipping #i might make another run if enough people want them

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hannahhook7744 · 5 months

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Known Descendants Stuff (Part 2);

Known Auradon Tv Show(s):

Toddlers Without Tiaras.

Auradon’s Classiest Home Videos.

Big Bling Theory.

Auradon’s Ninja Warriors.

Palaces and Coronations.

Trading Carpets.

Stranger thingamabobs.

My Fair Lady.

Chipped.

The Prince Is Right.

Aurora The Explorer.

The Young And The Crownless.

Little Dwarves, Big Giants.

The Great Auradon Bake Off.

Get Down With The Ballgown.

Real Princesses Of Charmingsville.

How I Met Your Fairy Godmother.

Known Auradon Tv Channel(s):

AAC.

ABS.

NAC.

WDA.

Good Deeds.

Fairy Planet.

Courtesy Central.

Kindness.

Bipidity.

Magic Network.

National Enchantment.

Princess Broadcasting.

Known Isle Tv Channel(s):

Evil Isle.

Known Isle Tv Show(s):

Judge Frollo.

Wharf Watch.

Cruella de Vil’s Coat Club.

Skin Deep With Mother Gothel.

Known Businesses:

Knuckle Punch.

The Market Place.

Pedro’s Meals For Eels.

Hook's Clock and Curiousity shop?

Known Punishment(s):

The Stocks.

Known Thing(s):

Human-Animal Translator Earpiece.

Stocks.

Centipedes in a bag.

Worms for sail.

Known Food(s):

Snake Eggs.

Seaweed Smoothie.

Stale Muffins.

Moldy Jelly Donuts.

Crepes.

Canned Cream Spinach.

Tongue Tinglers.

Banana Cream Pie.

Eel Tails.

Curdled Cream.

Rotten Apples.

Crab Apples.

Gruel.

Crusty oatmeal.

Known Class(es):

Accelerated Piracy.

Understanding Goblin Speech.

Chartering And Navigation.

Coin And Jewel Calculus.

Advanced Wickedness.

Under The Sea: Science Below The Surface.

History Of The Isle.

Known Social Media:

Auratube (YouTube).

Part 1.

#descendants #disney descendants #melissa de la cruz #disney #wicked world #descendants au #disney descendants au #book info #book stuff #word building #feel free to add #lists #list #part 2 #part of a series

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rhapsody-clown · 1 month

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Been seeing a few people post their Good Omens sims so I figured I'd show mine!

I kinda got carried away sooo bit of a long post under the cut

#the dog is rover the hellhound from the book #and muriel and eric have gone native #and i have too much free time #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #ineffable wives #crowley #aziraphale #muriel #good omens muriel #good omens eric #disposable demon #ineffable minions #muriel x eric #sims 4 #sims 4 screenshots #the sims

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laughingwith-bluelips · 9 months

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I finally got why I love so much the "dragons are gone" ending in the books while I hate it in the movies:

The books set the dragons free.

The movies simply sent them away.

That's basically the idea but I had a vision yesterday at 3am so I will be getting into detail below the cut.

The books have a very strong message about slavery. Some would say that it is a concept that is only important within the context of the last five or four books, but the ones that have been paying attention to the saga as a whole knows that there are things happening in the background. You know, stuff like

People eating dragons

People stealing dragons from their families so

The dragons can serve the vikings

And they're expected to obey because

People threaten to turn them into bags.

That's mostly the first book.

Dragons are constantly showed as unsatisfied with the status quo trough out the books, some more annoyed with the vikings than others. We have complete monologues from different dragons before the war is even a possibility. Sincerely, when it happens, it feels natural.

The idea of freeing the dragons is not one that comes up in the last book, not even close. The first time it is considered an option is in book 9 (I think), and, by the time being, we've already stablish lots of concepts as slavery within human beings, the dangers of a war, how this could lead to the end of all and freeing the dragons is the only option.

It is fatalist to say the least, but it's not going out of nowhere. There is a lot of worldbuilding (more on that later), but it is also the right thing to do. By the time Hiccup is presenting the option, Cowell has made us root for the dragons to be free and wild and do whatever they want, even if what they want is to hide under sea for thousands of years. Or if they don't want, or if the want to but just not in that moment, they can do it.

Oh, yes, because they leave GRADUALLY.

It is a sad ending, but still manages to get as satisfactory because, yet again, we know this happens and the books remind us this will happen eventually every time they can. “There were dragons when I was a boy” is literally the first phrase in the saga.

And then we got the movies.

The movies never followed the books. Like, not very much. The writers decided that they wanted to tell a story of a broken relationship between a father and a son while using dragons, the heroic and prophetic aspects of the books were getting on the way of that and they scrapped the idea. So, no, you can't tell me the movies actually follow the books.

However, if you're very technical, you know the Hiccup we see in the movies resembles Hiccup I, the one that stopped the war between vikings and dragons in the books, stablishing an equal relation between the two races. And this idea of the movies being a prequel can work for the second and specially the first movie, disregarding the fact that there are no prophetic or magical elements at all.

But THW exist and... Exist.

Suddenly the writers and producers decide that they want to follow the books and want to get rid of the dragons, something that is completely against the message of the other two movies.

(I am just talking about the movies, the shows-books relationship is very different and I will someday make a post ranting about it)

The movies do NOT talk about the dangers of dragons being with vikings or how the vikings mistreat the dragons or how bad is slavery or anything like that. The second movie does, yes, but the second movie also sends a message about how people benefit of being with dragons. They have their dragons and they're strong because of that friendship. Being at war with one another only brings loss and suffering for both bands while being together promises an actual future. A bright future that no one imagined before the first movie and that now they cling to.

Dragons and vikings are friends and together cand do basically anything.

That's a very strong message, you know?

And you know what? The third movie decided that such a strong and important message about friendship should leave the franchise completely.

“Free the dragons” it's a concept that doesn't fit with the movies. They're not slaved, they're not away from wildness and, most importantly, they CHOOSE to be with the vikings in the first place. They are already equals, they can do what they want and, you know, they are with the vikings because they want to.

But no, let's do a movie about letting friends go as if it could actually fit in the saga.

(I know it could actually fit but the execution was terrible).

As I said before, the movies resembles Hiccup I befriending dragons and we know how it ends. And someone who has never read the books will go and say "well, it was bound to end that way, why are you mad?” I tell you the difference right now: there's 1000 years of difference between the befriending and the parting in the book, 1000 years in wich we witness the deterioration of said friendship (from being friends and equals to being slaves). That's no what happens in the movies. The films give us 6 years and the only deterioration is within Toothless' character and how they made him a horny dog.

The dragons shouldn't have leave. This was a whim from the writers that thought that ending both stories the same way would be cool. It isn't. At all.

Long story short, it doesn't fit thematically. The movies and the books have different themes with different concepts and different characterizations of the dragons. While the books got story building and present the theme's since the beginning, the movies get it out of no where ignoring the themes in previous works.

Anyways, go read the books they're jewels and the ending isn't as shitty as thw make it look

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd 2 #httyd the hidden world #httyd book #httyd books #im angry about the ending #probably because I'm watching rtte and i llve the relationship wuth the dragons #and the characters themselves #freeing the dragons is an actual theme in rtte but not in the movies #that's sad #also i don't think the shows follow better the books but #they actually use themes from them #english is not my first language #sorry if i wrote anything wrong #i love the films #i know it sounds as if i hate them but i don't #they're basically my favourite movies of all time

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familyabolisher · 7 months

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September 2023 reading

Books:

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Dennis Cooper, The Sluts

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Volodya: Selected Works, ed. Rosy Carrick

Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture

Articles, papers, etc.:

S. Brook Corfman, Yentl and the Three-Quarter Profile

Catherine Damman and Saidiya Hartman, Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary

Jules Gill-Peterson, The Way We Weren't

killreplica, Heidegger's Broken Doll

Julian Lucas, How Samuel R. Delaney Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City

Max Pensky, Angel of Mystery: The tangled story behind a famous Klee painting

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Caste, Colonialism, and the Speech of the Colonized: Entextualization and Disciplinary Control in India

Achim Rohde, Gays, Crossdressers, and Emos: non-normative masculinities in militarized Iraq

Dylan Saba, Review: 'On Zionist Literature' by Ghassan Kanafani

Leo Zeilig, The Dar es Salaam Years

#reading #all the books are bolded bc it was a banger month for books hth #honest 2 god though i spend 90% of my free time on gay little visual novels atp

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markantonys · 7 months

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thoughts on the people of falme cheering over learning that the dragon has been reborn

1) their city was just getting blown up and now it's not. they're happy about this.

2) their city had been occupied by the seanchan for weeks (months?) and now it's not. they're happy about this.

3) the average layperson may not even recognize the dragon symbol; maybe they're just thinking someone's putting on a nice fireworks show to celebrate the attack being over.

4) but assuming they do recognize it, this is not unlike the immediate reaction to rand declaring himself in the stone in TDR. all the onlookers kneel before him and take up chanting "the dragon has been reborn!" it's not a celebratory moment, exactly, but it's far from a fearful one. it's only in the little coda afterwards that mat tells us the news is being met with both awe and fright as it's being spread; in the immediate moment, "awe" is definitely the main emotion.

5) there is book precedent for rand being welcomed into a city for whom he did a good deed, rather than being met with hatred or fear (illian). maybe the people of falme, in this immediate post-battle moment, care less about the vague future notion of the last battle and more about the fact that whoever's up on that tower did them a solid by helping get rid of the seanchan and the whitecloaks.

6) elayne noted that the people of falme act like they've been seanchan all their lives. perhaps their cheering for the dragon reborn who's just conquered their conquerors is meant to show a Series Theme about how the average layperson doesn't care about who's in charge or about what's going on in the world at large as long as their own individual life isn't affected too badly.

7) in the books, the idea that the general populace is afraid of rand/the dragon reborn really doesn't emerge strongly until TSR, after he's been publicly out as the dragon for more than 5 seconds. no reason to assume the show will never get to this idea just because it hasn't yet. this series has 1 million Themes and not all of them can fit in the first 2 seasons of the show. since everybody was going to be split up for most of this season, they chose "the vulnerability of isolation vs. the strength of togtherness" as the Focal Theme for the season and the big moment of togetherness in the final scene is the conclusion of this Theme. (and this was all necessitated in part by barney's departure; rafe said that the changes to mat's story are what made them decide to double down on the isolation theme for season 2.)

8) simple storytelling and Making Emotionally Satisfying Television reasons. season 2 was a very heavy season of isolation, despair, and loss (and i saw more than one mid-season critic review & show-only comment begging for some light because things had been so painful for so long). thus, they wanted to end the season on a note of unity, hope, and triumph, to give the audience some much-needed positive catharsis. the final scene being everybody screaming in horror and recoiling in terror from rand would've been, you know, kind of a downer.

9) even if the people are celebrating, rand himself is CLEARLY not happy. rest assured that the show is aware of the "it sucks to be the chosen one" Theme and is not going to make being the dragon reborn any less of a burden for rand than it is in the books (just in case the whole thing where he spent the entire season hating himself and having nightmares about killing everyone he loves didn't already give you that impression).

plus, just like in TGH&TDR, this season rand's inner struggle was only about being a male channeler because he had no idea his dragon reborn duties weren't over until the last few episodes. only now that he has officially taken up the mantle of the dragon reborn will it be time for us to see how much being the chosen one weighs on him. so, just the same timing as it was in the books. (and frankly, i think season 1's emphasis on rand having concrete plans for a future in emond's field which he now has to abandon already sold this idea more than the first 2 or 3 books alone did; as a show-only for s1 i was so upset about rand not getting to be a stay-at-home cottagecore dad, my show-only mom was so upset about it, and i've seen plenty of other show-onlys being upset about it too.)

#you can feel free to come back and say 'i told you so' if a few more seasons pass and the show still hasn't addressed these Themes #that have been called out as missing so far in the first 2 seasons #but for me personally i just think it's too early in the show's run to worry about them being missing just yet #there is still time for them to be given more attention (and i don't think they've been given NO attention so far anyway)#wot #wot show spoilers #wot book spoilers

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sarafangirlart · 2 months

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It’s ironic that Hephaestus has more written evidence of being a mama’s boy than Ares. Yet Ares is the one portrayed as a mama’s boy more often.