#I'm almost done with this fucking book

[misa-chan88]

#I'm almost done with this fucking book #wuthering heights #wuthering heights 2009 #so far i like the miniseries better #i know stone me #but linton is annoying #baby cathy is a brat although also neglected and definitely isolated like i get it but WHY PUT UP WITH LINTONS BITCH ASS LET ALONE MARRYHIM #also like did emily like her cousin or something #cause this is a lot of cousin lovin for my taste #like someone get that girl to a ball! #dance #outing on the town #EDGAR BOARDING SCHOOL SOMETHING!! #like if i found out my wifes ex lover/my archenemy waltzed into town and basically put hindley outta his misery #i woulda shipped her off to boarding school immediately #like nope no chance go be a lesbian there's nothing here for you #also i will say it again #EVERY PROBLEM IN THIS BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED BY EVERYONE REMARRYING #like edgar go get another wife that isn't already in love with someone #and get you a son! #NOW

[eggy-the-boy]

*poking my blorbos with a stick* 

#I was gonna write something after the poking my blorbos with a stick thing but my mind blanked and honestly I'll just leave it #it's still very accurate #I love them so much please stop almost getting yourself killed for each other holy shit #if they don't kiss next season I'm sending a formal complaint to Mr. Netflix himself #anyway I'm still clearly very deep into this fandom #also!!!!! I'm over half way into the 3rd book and FUCK it is so good!!!! ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #I'm loving it!!!!!!! If I didn't have a full time job I would have finished it in one day I bet you #anyway #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #lockwood and co netflix #netflix #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #as usual I hope no one has done this one already

[raiiny-bay]

making something (maybe)

#(hopefully) #hi. i accidentally disappeared for a bit. #the burnout got to me ngl #haven't done a single creative thing all week #i did make it to the library though #my book for feb was i'm glad my mom died #i don't usually read nonfic but. i enjoyed it. i mean #as much as you can enjoy a book with that kind of subject matter #i read it in about a day. mostly in one sitting #i've gotten a head start on my march book & i'm genuinely almost regretting my pick #like. it's a compelling read & it's written in such a way that i want to know what happens but #it's fucking horrific. rarely do i need to put a book down & have a break but. i have done so several times w this book #i'm determined to finish it though. i need to know if there's like. a point to the horrors i'm experiencing or not #uhh i did also go dvd hunting #i found season 1 & season 2 of ATLA which were cool finds #i did find them at two different thrift stores which i thought was kinda funny #i'm probably gonna watch the new live action later but idk #n e way #rainyrambles

[feral-and-or-horny]

I've been re reading The Locked Tomb and I promise I'm being so normal about it

#im not #im really not #i am going completely insane #i am fucking feral over these books #im almost done with Nona and Im honestly going to go restart Gideon as soon as I finish it #ive been listening to the audiobooks because it's easier to make time but that also means I'm getting through them faster #which is great #it makes it easier to actually remember things #but it also means im getting through them a lot faster #very fun but not exactly great for keeping me sane and normal about these damn characters #im gonna go back and actually read them so I can annotate at some point #but that'll be when i go back home and can actually grab my copies #for now I will listen and go completely insane #my post

[delucadarling]

Barbie's end of Book 2 stats. Someone help this girl.

#I'm almost done playing through Nate's route with her #technically I already did book3 with them #but I hadn't done it as a full book 1 - 3 run #I just made a quick and dirty Barbie at the beginning of book 3 #but I'm almost done with this one #then Felix is next #and THEN Ava #tbh I've struggled with putting Barbie with F in the past because I play her as 30+ #but F having a hot serious older gf IS kind of hilarious to me so fuck it we ball #me rule #darling speaks #twc

[icannotgetoverbirds]

blease read this quote from this book about a pair of lesbian cockatoos

under a cut because it's kinda long

Some birds bond only with other birds, some only with humans, and some with both. Sammy had shown interest in other birds at Earth Angel, and had even spent time in her enclosure with a few favorites, but she hadn't found a mate. I was beginning to think she would never bond with anyone but me. It made me sad.

I think finally being in a fulfilling marriage myself made me realize how much Sammy was missing. There are plenty of unhappy marriages in the world - as a psychologist I see more than most people do - and a bad marriage can tear two people down. A good marriage is different. It can make us stronger; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Still, humans can survive happily with no permanent partner. It's in a parrot's nature to want a mate.

Then Sammy met Little Girl and everything changed.

Little Girl was a Moluccan cockatoo, and with her pink-tinged feathers and bright crest, she looked a lot like Sammy. Unlike Sammy, she still had most of her feathers. She had spent years in a garage, usually with the door down. In that unventilated space, most of Little Girl's days were dark and stifling. She didn't have people or birds to interact with.

Her owner came out to the garage occasionally to give Little Girl food or clean her cage, but most of the time she sat alone. She didn't even have a window to watch the outside world. She was truly in solitary confinement.

The neighbors heard Little Girl's cries, and they called the police. The police visited, but there was little they could do. There aren't laws protecting lonely parrots. The most they could do was cite the owner for the noise, and they didn't even do that.

The neighbors kept complaining, though, trying to get something done for the bird. Eventually, the owner called us. She was tired of dealing with the neighbors.

When we came to pick up Little Girl, the owner wasn't there to say goodbye. She said she was busy and left her son to open the garage for us. She'd said on the phone before we arranged the pickup: "If she wasn't so noisy I wouldn't have put her in there."

We took Little Girl out of the garage and drove her to our veterinarian. Once he cleared her for Serenity Park, it was time to find her a perch.

We decided to place Little Girl with Sammy. Sammy was never aggressive with Mango; she just wasn't crazy about him. Maybe a different bird would work. Sammy hadn't been interested in any males, so maybe it was time to test her with a female. I've observed several parrots through the years who, like some humans, prefer their own gender. Somehow, Matt and I both felt it was a good match.

We introduced the two birds slowly. First, we let them see each other for a while. Then, when they seemed comfortable, we put them on opposite ends of the enclosure. We let the birds take their time approaching one another. For Sammy and Little Girl, comfort seemed to come right away. Once we introduced them, they didn't have time for any of the other birds. The two groomed each other. They shared a perch. They seemed to talk together in a language that was their own. They were physically affectionate. Little Girl had suffered for a long time, but she was no longer alone.

Sammy was enthralled by Little Girl. She still got excited when I came to visit, and she still let me cuddle her, but she'd soon move back to Little Girl's side. Sammy had been the first bird I'd been close to and I missed our special interactions, but I was thrilled for both of them.

We had both found our mates. Everything was as it should be.

-- Lorin Lindner, Birds of a Feather, pages 204-206

@fishandchips321 us

anyways brb i gotta go cry about these lesbian birds

#byrd chirps #byrd's birds #I WOULD HIGHLY FUCKING RECOMMEND THIS BOOK #IT MENTIONS THE AUTHOR OF THE PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL #WHICH IS ALSO A BOOK I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND #AND THERE'S A TRANS WOMAN IN IT TOO AND SHE'S TALKED ABOUT SO RESPECTFULLY #it's about a veteran's recovery program that incorporates parrots into their therapy #IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD I'M ALREADY ALMOST DONE WITH IT AND I JUST STARTED READING IT LIKE AN HOUR OR SO AGO

[kazz-brekker]

reading the kingdoms and i see that missouri kite went to the james flint school of “redheaded gay sea captain willing to move heaven and earth to accomplish his goals, has committed a few atrocities, is incredibly violent but cares a lot, motivated by gay love and also rage, and once threw someone overboard for threatening to spill his secrets”

#pie says stuff #the kingdoms #black sails #james flint #natasha pulley #missouri kite #he is not technically a pirate but he did lead a mutiny once and also has a wanted poster so there's that #i. love him so much. i'm not even done with this book yet and i feel insane over him and joe #natasha pulley don't you DARE give this an unhappy ending i will not survive it #missouri has done so many bad things but i also love him #when he threw [redacted] overboard for almost telling [redacted] the truth i was like YOU DID NOT FUCKING JUST DO THAT #and yet. i still care about him. miracle of writing

[barkingangelbaby]

when the comedy special isn't that interesting... heartbreaking....

#i watched baby reindeer the last two days and needed something silly after but was only disappointed 😔 #at least there's always derry girls #but I'm almost done with that too #my comfort shows.. my dear comfort shows... cursed to finish my rewatches at the same time #maybe I'll rewatch some drag race next week #thinking about finally watching lotr when im resting next week ?? perhaps #i need to go to sleep but im so fucking anxious dude #ok rambling over but pls suggest tv shows or movies or books for me to read when im recovering pls #if u read my tags im giving u a kiss #rAMbles

[umbracirrus]

Look at these idiots. They're holding hands. I just didn't wanna draw said hands.

As with previous OC sketches, details about them are under the read more. There's a lot of overlap because, obviously, Edwyn and Ingja are a couple.

Edwyn Verne

Edwyn never felt the strongest of ties to his homeland of High Rock. He had no family so to speak of, and never really had the confidence to settle down anywhere for long. It was just him, his handful of books, and his conjurations for company and had been that way since he was a young teen... but even then, he had difficulty controlling the conjurations.

Once the Great War was over, just as he reached adulthood, he decided to try and hone his magic, and ventured over the border into Skyrim, to join the College of Winterhold. His studies were going incredibly well after just a few months there, and he had made extensive progress in taming his wolf familiar, Spectre. But one day, a little rabbit interrupted them, sending Spectre crazy as he began to chase the creature - unfortunately injuring Ingja, who had been out hunting in the frozen lands around Winterhold, in the process.

After helping to return the injured Ingja to Winterhold, she begrudgingly offers to thank him with a drink at the inn. One drink turned to two, and a night out in thanks turns to numerous nights out, and even a few days, as a curiosity in magic had been ignited in her and he had offered to teach her.

He falls for her hard over those few month - just as she did for him. Unfortunately, their first kiss gets disturbed by her brother, and Edwyn ends up with a bounty on his head for 'clearly controlling Ingja with his foul magic', when he didn't know an ounce of illusion magic - not that her family knew or cared for the differences between the schools of magic, it was all the same for them.

But that doesn't deter them from seeing each other. Or running away from Winterhold together, for that matter. Or getting married and even having a child, their beloved daugher Elyse.

They find themselves in High Rock once more, and he takes on various teaching positions to try and earn money whilst Ingja takes on more dangerous tasks as a hunter and mercenary for hire. He would constantly fret about her any time that she was gone for more than a day, though always hid his worry from the ever-curious Elyse, and would relish in the relief whenever she would return home.

As soon as they had enough money to do so, the family moved to somewhere more stable - Chorrol. Life almost seemed perfect... until the love of his life began to fade away before his eyes.

Ingja Frosthand

Ingja had always been taught never to interact with and never trust the mages in the College, and she had no reason not to believe that. Unless it came from her mother, who always seemed to have a bone to pick with her and only seemed to care about her younger brother. She only really cared about what her father thought on matters though, and that was what he believed.

One of her favourite pasttimes had always been hunting from as soon as she was taught to wield a bow, which even in spite of the lands around Winterhold being sparce, she could easily spend days upon days exploring the environment and making sure that her family could eat well for a time. On one of her hunting trips, following an argument with her mother, she ends up getting injured as a result of Edwyn's experiments with his conjurations. He helped her return to Winterhold, and though it went against every instinct in her body, because he was a mage, she offered to buy him a drink in thanks.

Much to her surprise... she realises that Edwyn, and in turn the mages in the College, were just as much people as she and the other residents of Winterhold were. And she found his clumsiness and enthusiasm to be endearing... and she fell in love with him after asking him to teach her how to use magic herself. On the day that she finally created a flame with his tutelage, she couldn't help but pull him in for a kiss... just for her brother to witness it, freak out, and run to tell her parents.

Enraged that her father had the gall to get a bounty placed on Edwyn's head, and to ground her in spite of her being an adult in her own right whilst also planning to have her sent away from Winterhold to distance her from Edwyn, she manages to earn her way into the College before planning to run away with Edwyn so that they could be together.

Putting Winterhold behind her for Edwyn was one of the few reckless decisions she knew that she would never regret, especially from the moment she held their daughter in her arms for the first time. She only returned to Winterhold after thirteen years, Elyse in tow, on the day of her father's funeral. Edwyn kept himself hidden away in Windhelm on that day on her request, knowing full well that the bounty had never been removed from his head.

Though life was incredibly unstable whilst Elyse was young, her jobs putting her into increasingly dangerous situations, the day that she and Edwyn paid for a house of their own in Chorrol was enough to make her cry because she no longer needed to put herself in danger. She actually picked up some hobbies, like alchemy and baking, but never put down her bow... at least until her bones grew weary and weak, before she fell into death's grasp.

To say that she was horrified when her daughter appeared in Sovngarde saying that she was Dragonborn, and there to defeat Alduin, was an understatement.

#meg has done some drawing #skyrim oc edwyn #skyrim oc ingja #unhappy with edwyn's hair but I'm hoping adding colour will help with that..... #i've drawn them at a point in their lives where they've just about started settling down in chorrol? so they're like. early thirties? #about the time where elyse was just about a teenager or thereabouts. #elyse has the same facial features as ingja whereas almost everything else comes from edwyn because fuck the lore #if i had to pick on the spot a part of tes lore that I would get rid of it would be that 'notes on racial phylogeny' book #anyway! these two fuckers!!! they're very in love!!! they make their daughter cringe with how sappy they get with each other #edwyn is freezing cold. he is wearing a shirt which covers his neck and at least two sets of robes. #whereas ingja is just like 'let me just roll up my sleeves to cool down'. #they have vastly different temperature tolerances but he loves his ice cube of a wife and she loves her boiling hot husband #was going to draw the whiterun guard squad but not arsed at this point of the day now!!!! might even leave them be for a time..... #whoops forgot ingja's info added that in now....

[coquelicoq]

natsume book of friends season 4 opening sequence has got me incredibly fucked up. the lyrics. kid natsume's tiny little legs and teenage natsume watching him run. the lyrics. nyanko-sensei burrowing into his arms. did i mention the lyrics? ending frame on the fujiwara family. including natsume. because he's part of their family. as the lyrics ask him to "please [not] keep suffering alone"? somebody fucking hold me.

#i'm actually almost done with season 4 because i have no self-control. and every time i watch the opening i'm like #no this has only gotten more potent since the last time i watched it. we are reaching danger levels #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #my posts #season 4 is the season of tanuma just completely destroying me on every level. why is every single character like this?? #every time he learns something about natsume he's like oh so this is what it's like for natsume? #and then it happens again and he's like wait natsume ALSO has THIS OTHER THING to contend with?? #and again: AND A THIRD THING?? WHY MUST THE WORLD'S BEST BOY NATSUME TAKASHI SUFFER??? #he just wants to help natsume deal with stuff and i am on the fucking floor #his thought process is just #this is hard for natsume. i wish i could help him. maybe here's a way i could help him? he doesn't want me to though because it would #put me in danger. but i don't want him to be in danger either. and i'm telling him that to his face. i don't think it's really #gotten through to him but that's okay i will just keep telling him. now i'm realizing that the thing i did to help him maybe just made #things harder for him. this is hard for natsume. i wish i could help him. maybe sometimes the best way to help him is to just #respect his wishes and yet remind him that he can lean on people and that people love him as much as he loves them #the part where tanuma realized why natsume doesn't tell the fujiwaras about youkai gutted me #this kid is so emotionally astute and such a sweetheart #i just watched the episode where natsume loses his picture of his parents and his old house is getting sold and i cried. SO many tears. #tanuma putting his foot down for once like no actually you need to admit that something is bothering you this time #we can find this picture. ask us to help you do this thing that we can actually do for you. you don't need to be sad for no reason #mmm can't be coherent about it just rest assured it was extremely harmful to me and also exactly what i needed #anyway the season 4 opening song as the thing you say to your younger self who lives inside your current self because #you can't actually go back in time and be the person your younger self needed to have in their life. so all you can do is love that child #in absentia but so so so fiercely and with your whole entire heart #all you can do is give your current self all the love you have for the child you were #jesus CHRIST

[cass1x1]

i need to find someone i can talk about octavia butler with

#real talk #idk fam #i'm almost done with the earthseed books #and i read lilith's brood a couple years ago #and mrs. butler has me FUCKED UP

[sureuncertainty]

hopefully it's just tonight but i haven't written at all in the last couple of days and i tried again tonight and it didn't work AGAIN i just can't get myself to write idk sometimes i really feel like the sequel to silence agenda is literally never ever going to actually get written and there's no point in even trying

#like i go thru phases where i'm all excited about it and they never last and i NEVER fucking finish anything with it #like literally ever #i have started to write this novel literally like 4 or 5 times now at this point? #and i can't get it done ever #since 2020 i've been working on it for almost three years #i've been making steady progress on tmtou i literally rewrite silence agenda like every fucking year #and yet i fucking can't get this story written #and idk how much of the problem is me how much of the problem is US and how much of the problem is my motivation levels and stuff #idk idk i think i'm just In It tonight and i'll probably feel differently later #it goes in these cycles #but idk man for awhile i was REALLY CONVINCED that this was gonna be the Time that i actually got this book written #i have the story! i have it! i just need to make it! and idk how!!! #i try and then a week later i can't #and my brain is hyperfixating on other things (idk why i decided to reread aftg) so i just Can't #and i do wanna get silence agenda published soon so i wanna focus on that #but i feel like i can't deliver on this sequel i feel like i can't even write it #idk i've never spent THIS LONG and gotten THIS MANY DRAFTS out of a book without being even like. close to the halfway point #i should finish it! i want to! i want to want to! but i fucking CAN'T #part of it is me part of it is the fact that it's hard to write when kat's not around and she hasn't been lately #idk i really thought i was gonna be able to do it this time. but apparently not #idk when i'll learn #that i can't write this fucking book #win rambles

[raiiny-bay]

i stayed up late reading again & i am experiencing the consequences

#my brain is mushy #i started rereading the dove in the belly #i already read it earlier this year but it's so good i had to read it again idk #i think it's gonna be my favorite book of the year tbh #i still need to finish fight club #i'm almost done with it & once i finish it i'm gonna watch the movie #to compare yk. i read somewhere that the author actually liked the movie so #that's promising #i'm not usually a fan of movies based on books bc they always fuck it up #n e way #rainyrambles

[sharkneto]

1, 6 and 16?

.1. fave book? MEAN why did you ask me that when it was one of the options, hard question. My default answer is Aron Ralston's autobiography, Between a Rock and a Hard Place (what the movie 127 Hours is based on). I've read it quite a few times and Twin gave me a signed copy for Christmas one year. Idk, reading about a man's mental and physical survival journey to cutting off his own arm (and all his adventures before this moment) hits me in the right spot. Books I've read recently, as I'm getting back into the whole reading thing, I supremely enjoyed Six of Crows and The Goblin Emperor.

6. fave trope? Another hard one. For this I'll say... main character denying that they're Special as they figure out they're Special. I'm listening to The Way of Kings at work and the few chapters it took for Kal to realize something was up, making excuses for why x or y happened, was delightful.

16. fave day? Fan of Thursdays. Something about it being over the hump of the week, get to look forward to the fact that tomorrow is Friday and then the weekend. It's nice.

faves ask game

#i appreciated the goblin emperor for how straight forward it was #loved the main character and you were absolutely rewarded as a reader for paying attention and predicting things #and then obviously six of crows - kaz is a blorbo and that heist is french chef's kiss #this is now just books i enjoyed and gideon and harrow the ninths both get mentions here #gideon was just a great ride and then harrow had the *best* twist. the pov reveal i had to pause and walk around for a minute #it was So Good #and i've been enjoying Way of Kings! #my friend sent me the audio book because she and another friend are obsessed with it #so i report to them as i get to different parts and have thoughts about what's happening #fun for everyone #kaladin has the worst fucking time guy can't catch a fucking break #i have a whole prediction for where he ends up but i dont know the pacing of this series for what happens when in what book #or even what the necessary overarching plot is of the entire series #the war obviously and uniting the kingdom i suppose - and the return of the knights radiant and the implications of that #but again idk the pacing of it - i'm almost done with book 1 and Kal is still having a terrible time with bridge four #and my prediction is that he's obvi gotta get out of there and end up in a place of prominence in the army #probably with dalinar because he's not a sack of dicks - and get a shard blade #(even though he doesn't want one I know - so it has More Implications when he does accept one) #my pet theory is he gets Dal's #but - again - first he has to get out of being a bridgeman #which assume will be a terrible time for him yet again and all his fellow bridgemen will die on their escape attempt #ah fuck and then however Shallan fits the fuck into all of this what is she even doing #any way if anyone else has read way of kings/stormlight archives enjoy my probably very wrong predictions #please do not spoil it for me i'm having a great time listening and guessing #ANYWAY thank you for the ask lizzie lol #ask game response #ask response

[arcmonkeys]

OH IT'S SO OVER FOR ME .... got a bird book with recorded bird calls ... i'm not passing this semester

#it's over ... i will not get any studying done until i've memorised those 200+ bird calls #last time i got this fixated by something i almost missed the deadline for my Very Important corporate law essay #and that time the subject was (checks smudged writing on my hand) the united states' geography .... #yeah. yeah. no fucking comment (i had a playlist dedicated to my geography sessions consisting of two songs #take me home country road and streets of philadelphia. and i'd spend hours learning the states and national parks and rivers and stuff) #i don't know why i'm like this but i DO KNOW that i'll be studying that book as if it's the bar exam and you will not hear from me until #i can distinguish between a house sparrow and a tree sparrow. good evening #kajs.txt

[graglesnov]

Harrow The Ninth

Insanity, amnesia, soup, a threesome with god, NONE PIZZA LEFT BEEF.

#almost done with the book #what even #i'm still not over FUCKING NONE HOUSES LEFT GRIEF #tlt #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth