#Those books are AMAZING

[yuri-is-online]

Been brainrotting lately and now I present to you what I think is an underused story beat for Yuu. What if “Yuu” isn’t even the prefect’s real name?

Considering that Yuu’s first experience in Twisted Wonderland is waking up in a coffin, wandering around an obviously foreign place, and being questioned by a suspicious man in a crow mask surrounded by people in black hooded robes… I just think most people would not give their real name in such a sketchy situation.

Fast forward to when Yuu is more comfortable with the cast and there is both comedy and angst potential here. On one hand, the reactions to the deception could be pretty funny. (Cue a “woe is me” from Crowley. Of course he can’t find a way home for you when he doesn’t have your real name!) On the other, this could be a great way of exploring the prefect having a crisis. Yuu already lost so much in being taken to Twisted Wonderland, and now in a way even the prefect’s name has been taken.

What do you think?

waking up in a coffin, wandering around an obviously foreign place, and being questioned by a suspicious man in a crow mask surrounded by people in black hooded robes…

Annon, annon, annon, when you put it like that it sounds like Yuu woke up in the middle of a cult ritual of some sort. Which I suppose if you were an edgy Night Raven student idia you might argue that the enrollment ceremony totally is as an excuse not to go

But to be more serious, I have seen a few memes about this concept and I like it a lot σ(￣、￣=) It's a fun character concept, it's not everyday you get a chance to re-invent yourself completely.

That being said, just based off of the few dialogue options Yuu has at the start, I think Yuu is implied to believe that they are dreaming:

Which honestly doesn't make this idea any less valid. If you're dreaming about waking up in the middle of some weird necromancer's rite, why not give him a fake name? It's not meant to be serious anyway. Just go with the flow and hope things don't get too weird (and get offended when your dream doesn't give you magic powers) until it's too late and you realize everyone thinks your name really is that bad joke you made.

If you want to get darker, maybe Yuu really did think they died. A black carriage pulling a coffin really only goes to a funeral, and death has been depicted as an unmanned coach with black horses. Maybe Yuu is only just coming to grips with the fact that they really are alive when they see Riddle overblot and he hurts them. Maybe they now are sitting next to two people who have started to think about them as a friend, a really close one. Maybe they think Yuu is really brave because they charged headlong into danger without a second thought, and won, twice now. Maybe Yuu cries themselves to sleep that night because in a way... you died so yuu could live.

As for reactions, Crowley and the other staff members I think would be the most dramatic, followed by Adeuce and Grim. Jack I can see accepting your reasons and not thinking too hard about it, maybe even respecting your survival instincts, while Epel... well he says he's mad but mostly he's just concerned. He knows what it feels like to have two dueling parts of yourself and trying to find the middle ground. Ortho would be excited, you have a secret identity just like a magical girl/super sentai/anime idol/superhero take your pick really. He certainly doesn't mind getting to know you all over again.

Sebek screams at you for being a threat to Wakasama but it's clear to everyone who actually knows him that he's really just worried about the amount of stress you put on yourself. He would hate for you to have the same issues with self loathing he does. And Malleus? Well he lied to you about who he was because he was worried you would be afraid, even though you didn't know he existed. It would be very petty for him to hold a grudge against you for doing the same.

In general I think this would be something the others would have an easier time understanding as opposed to Yuu's sense of alienation or loneliness at not having magic. Identity issues are common themes in fiction, so I could see them actually seeing it as a problem as opposed to an abstract problem like no government papers (since these kids with one obvious exception don't do taxes.) But it would make for a great way to explore the prefect having a crisis just as you say, in a way it's the perfect example for every problem they might have with being in Twisted Wonderland.

#<3 asks #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #twst yuu #i think azul jamil and ruggie? would probably be the most accepting of yuu in this situation #jamil understands wanting to start a new life but wanting it done on his terms #ruggie understands poverty and not trusting the government #and azul #well he does try to collect secrets on people #it's how he tries to make friends #but he's also clearly “sympathetic” to those he perceives to be living lies #in a way it could be a mirror to how yuu sees him at the end of book 3 #“hard work is harder to master than magic seriously your amazing you don't need to steal from people” #vs #“i too value hard work and incremental progress” #“you don't need to lie about who you are to be worthy of respect and admiration” #and let's not talk about cay cay #because i sort of might have spoiled his 800 followers entry if i squint at something i wrote up there

[lotuslate]

“However, the colder his eyes were, the brighter the raging fire within his heart burned.”

#mdzs #mdzs fanart #yiling laozu #tw/ gore #tw/ blood #wei wuxian #wei ying #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jessbye #egg #back again w book excerpt wy up against white bg #v v favourite part in the book that happens inbetween him visitting jyl and before going to nightless city #him overhearing those cultivators shit talking wn right after him and wq went and gave themselves up… ooh its siering #wwx’s grief and rage in that moment is insane and so palpable #what an amazing part i rly wish more people talked abt it #i love wwx in his most vulnerable and flighty

[books-books-smolderinglooks]

More of Simon's beautiful brown eyes.. ❤️❤️ pt. 1 💜

#young royals #simon eriksson #wilmon #simon young royals #i always include first party looking at hair - valentine party - book scene because those are best perfect amazing!! #they're so expressive!! #sweet gorgeous soul! 💜 #Omar really said I'm not done and made us love Simon even more!! que talento #my gifs yr

[spearxwind]

SEVEN AND A HALF HOUR LIGHTLARK VIDEO????

#god... im obsessed with lightlark i wanna watch this so bad. #SEVEN HOURS!!!!!!!!! thats almost as much as pyros utopia breakdown video #which i also watched and its AMAZING. but this is just for ONE BOOK?? #LOOK AT ALL THOSE STICKY NOTES. GOOD LORD......... #lightlark #thunderclap

[thaliasthunder]

big fan of nico having black eyes. not "hazel eyes", not "dark brown" neither other color but entirely, profusely, deep black. absolutely love the idea of nico, powerful son of the lord of the death, holding the endless cosmic darkness in his eyes

#someone in the books described nico's eyes as inky ir something #and i LOVED IT #u know those pics of the space #that kind of pics of the space that make u feel so small #that make u feel scared for the power it holds yet amazed by its celestial beauty? yeah thats what i imagine for nico's eyes #GIVE IT TO ME #i think there was a passage in toa where apollo describes nico's eyes as inky? #well I LOVED IT #nico di angelo #will solace #the sun and the star #solangelo #toa #pjo #hoo #percy jackson #hades #rick riordan #mark oshiro #riordanverse #riordanverse headcanons

[moonssalad]

From

"I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise."

To

"Everyone hates you."

Is so dissapointing. I was waiting for ACOWAR Cassian the whole time I was reading ACOSF and never saw him 😔.

This is why I read rewrites of ACOSF. Its kind of funny how people who dont write for a living write better than SJM.

#those who write fanfiction for this series and fix the issues that are in the books thank you #you guys are amazing #anti acosf #anti acotar #anti cassian #anti nessian #anti sjm #anti sarah j maas

[aleksanderscult]

New editions for the Grisha trilogy. I admit that they are beautiful :

Oh God yes! Probably the only good thing about these books. The Darkling and the art.

#those marketing teams know what they're doing huh? #baiting readers to buy these books again by making the covers gorgeous and appealing #but these are amazing nonetheless 💛 #grishaverse #shadow and bone #grishaverse trilogy #the darkling #aleksander morozova

[sleepless-crows]

that theory about kanej doing something we'll never get to see them do being a sort of dream sequence feels right. in the books, we get to read kaz's daydreams and his thoughts that never actually come into fruition. like the you, inej. you scene. what if to show kaz's thoughts, we get his daydreams on screen. and obviously there are more intense ones than that you inej you scene so

#grishaverse #six of crows #soc #shadow and bone #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #like i actually want that. that would be amazing. so book accurate. and just so perfect please. as long as it doesnt amount to kissing #because as an audience its still important that we dont see that but all those thoughts kaz has omg please

[elenaferrante]

This is so niche but… if anyone read Elena Ferrante / the Neapolitan novels… matty is Taylor’s Nino Sarratore (derogatory)

#American friends #you can watch the tv show on hbo btw #if you’re interested! #I recommend it #hehe #(also the books are amazing so recommend those even more) #j says

[warthoong]

this user watched "The Master and Margarita" (2024) and she hopes that whenever this movie gets a digital release, it also gets english subtitles, because honestly, this was the best movie I've watched in the past few years

#the master and margarita #there's a thing I have to admit: I love british/hollywood adaptations of russian literature #because in russia those books are treated like sacred texts #which turns every adaptation into a blind word-to-word depiction of a novel #and the soul or the main idea quite often gets lost or covered in all of it #side note: I absolutely loved that in credits they wrote august diehl's name in the latin alphabet #like that's actually an amazing idea to use the native language of an actor to mention them. cheffs kiss #(I'm sure someone have done this before that's just the first time I saw it. so) #personall stuff

[quillaffinity]

“wash me [and i shall cleanse thee with mine tears]” - AkiAngel Web Weave (CSM Spoilers)

---

used to bleed more than weep

now? now all i love is damp with tears - your skin, lover, is soaked

---

(be not afraid)

Chainsaw Man is written and drawn by Fujimoto Tatsuki  

csm / ??? / csm / vladimir nabokov / csm / richard siken / csm / richard siken  / mitski, “first love / late spring”  / dalton day, “exit, pursued”  / csm / csm / andrea gibson, “the madness vase; two birds” / csm /  richard siken / csm /  caitlyn siehl, “achilles to patroclus” / csm / csm / muna, “navy blue” / csm / csm / richard siken / csm

#akiangel #aki angel #comparatives #web weaving #aki hayawaka #angel devil #chainsaw man #csm #csm comparative #csm web weave #vladimir nabokov #richard siken #mitski #dalton day #andrea gibson #caitlyn siehl #muna #damn yall should just pick up one of siken's books at this point #get those akiangel feels straight from the source lol #fr tho crush is an amazing collection of work <3

[eerna]

EVERYBODY wants to be suzanne collins...

I wish they wanted to be her in a more "let's write a YA series that can be both appealing to kids AND thoughtful" way

#eernask #eernanon #those books are such a nice gateway into ''hey what if justice and revolution aren't so simple'' for kids!! amazing!!! #like i love reading abt great revolutionaries and uprisings that is something i enjoy sm but. also. kids need more realistic stories too

[its-your-mind]

What a beautiful gift it is to go from the monotone audiobook narrations of Heroes of Olympus to the dulcet tones, dramatic sighs, and voice acting prowess of Robbie Daymond as Lester “oh woe is me how could I, the most beautiful and awesome of gods, Apollo, be reduced to this horrible disgrace (being a regular dude (with acne))” Papadopolous

#heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #hoo #toa #apollo #lester papadopoulos #robbie daymond #like listen #jesse burnstein as percy jackson? stellar. #kevin r free and katherine kellgren as carter and sadie? excellent. #robbie daymond as apollo? say less. #whatever the fuck is going on in hoo? #who made this decision. #so many amazing lines in those books fell FLAT because of the narration #I have strong feelings about this #anyway

[tyrantwombat]

No, but seriously, can you imagine how utterly surreal it is to be Song Taewon and have two of the most unhinged people on the planet both decide to become intensely invested in your life and health after knowing you for like five seconds? One of them uses aggressive mob tactics to try and get you to let them chauffeur you around, the other is a little guy you could crush with your pinky on accident who hunts you down in the middle of a pit of monsters with a packed lunch convinced you will starve if he doesn’t personally feed you. You have to play an intense game of de-escalation at literally all times to keep this same random guy from calling and yelling at your boss about your sleep schedule, and this is still an improvement on that time you barely convinced him it wasn’t necessary to utterly annihilate your place of work to get you more vacation time. The other one has probably historically attempted to set your closet and/or you yourself on fire so he can buy you clothes.

You just want to live your corporate slave life and resist the dark yearnings of your soul in PEACE but instead you’re having to dodge two very powerful men who both desperately want to take care of you.

#song taewon #reading sctir #obviously this is only like microscoping in on one thin layer of their relationship but it's a really funny one #let's also talk about how this would be hilarious if stw really WERE the Just Some Guy he desperately wants to be #but he's turning up at yoojin's home with bloody sleeves and yoojin's housekey he violently extracted from a potential home invader who is #also his coworker #like he's just returning tupperware but also as a subtle threat to express his mild annoyance #infamously choking him out a little at their very first meeting out of concern #shj wants to give stw nice things and also pry his ribs open with his bare hands and stw is like #'ew' #but only about one of those things #hint: it's NOT the violent intense and personal death option #like it would be funny enough if stw really were just some guy yes but instead he's like THIS and that makes it even better #and all three of them would have a lovely time on the lake learning to fish under shj's watch #and aLL OF THOSE THINGS EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY #or at least that's the impression I get I'm only like a quarter through the novel so far #it's great though I love it #like look I've mentioned before how book!yoojin is totally obsessed with taking care of song taewon but I canNOT overstate enough how #OBSESSED he is with taking care of song taewon #it weirds stw out a little bit and it's amazing #he gets pretty intense about it at one point and I love that whole scene but I. I shouldn't continue. I won't stop. #and shj flat out admits at one point that he made a similar offer to stw that he makes to yoojin - the whole credit card deal thing #and when stw turned him down shj responded by going 'oh so I need to try harder?' #song taewon existing and having morals has the same effect on hyj and shj as birds at a bird feeder on the other side of the window from #a couple cats #enrichment in the enclosure or something lol #okay I'm accepting I will never actually stop rambling about this you don't even KNOW how many tags I deleted here #okay I'm done #not really

[marzipanandminutiae]

you know, everyone talks about “being a teen in the 2000s!” in terms of being either the Wannabe Buffy Extra period (teen c. 2000-2005) or the most mainstream, popular styles of the broader 2000-2010 span

but personally I would like to raise a glass to the YA Literature Golden Agers. my fellow 2006-2011 teenagers who made “dramatic nerd” our entire personalities and were...actually weirdly catered to by adults about that? at least, adults who wanted our money and/or were just happy that The Youths Were Finally Reading

teens reading this, if your local library has a YA section, thank us. (especially if there’s also manga. adults weren’t entirely sure what manga was at the time, but they knew it was Hot With The Youths, so they were determined to get onboard. anything to ride the wave of kids suddenly wanting to spend time in libraries again)

if you ever followed an author’s LiveJournal, you know what I’m talking about. if you ever took style cues from a book with any sort of Dark Angsty Faeries In A City theme. if you had any sort of DFTBA or Pizza John merch in your high school or college days. if you ever had to spend a whole evening explaining your Halloween costume, starting with “so there’s this book about [angels/demons/werewolves/vampires/faeries]...” if you ever read a classic novel just because your favorite Deep, Emotional Teen Protagonist quoted it that one time.

it’s all well and good to be nostalgic for Hollister cologne and Fergie, but spare a thought for those of us with cheap Ren Faire patchouli oil and the three Within Temptation songs we heard in every fanvid ever

#millennial #YA #00s kid #pretty sure it was Angels and Overcome and Swan Song #at least in my experience #also so much Nickelback #nostalgia #Modern Tales of Faerie was amazing and you cannot convince me otherwise #ditto Faerie Court #the Ren Faire bodices I wore to the mall because of those books...and I stand by it honestly

[etirabys]

there's a little demon in my brain that, every 200th or so time I think about having kids, says, "give them the diana wynne jones childhood. it sounds low effort for you, and she turned out so well"

#rambl #dwj #(diana wynne jones is an amazing writer whose parents neglected her‚ and were eccentrics who had a lot of Weird Old Books in the house) #(she grew up reading those Weird Old Books and you can tell that from her writing)