#WHAT ARE YOU ODING TO ME

[simcardiac-arrested]

compensation :-]

CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME

#YELLING AND SCREAMING AND COUGHING AND SHITTING MYSELF OVE RTHIS #OH MY GODDD #HEEELEP HELP MEEEEE #FUCKING HEEEEEEELPPPP HHHHEEELPP #RAT. RAT. YOU’D BE A RAT. RAT. I THINK YOU’D BE A RAT. I THINK I’D BE A WOLF. #KING OF THE JUNJLE- THE JUNJLE #AUEHGGHHHHH #RIPPING MY HAIR OUT #WHAT ARE YOU ODING TO ME #LORD PLEASE IM ONLY 9 I WAS JUST BORN I WAS JUST PUT ON THIS EARTH IM SERIOUS #AAAAOEUGGHHHH #OF COURSE IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT I AM HOPELESSLY DEPENDENT ON THE INGOT . #pleaas. what. wgat. what di you mean compensation i have a Bomb strapped to my back #Like i’m actually so sick of you #writing tags isnt enough i need to liquify this drawing and inject it into my veins #I LOVE IT SO BAD SERIOUS ART FROM ONE OF MY FAV ARTISTS LIKE DAMNNN OK I GUESS IMMA JUST NEVER BE NORMAL AGAIN #A WAYBACK AND A SLINKY ARE AN ANIMAL THAT ARE SO CUTES #FUCK ME THEY ARE BOTH SO FRIENDSHAPED I CANT TAKE ITTTTT AND YOU DREW HIS HALO AHHH #HEEELP HELPP MEEEE SOMEBODYYY ANYBODYYYYYYYY ANYBODY HEEEEELP #cramswering #is for me tag #oc: no way back #oc: slinky #ultimate fav #NEEDED TO ADD ALL THE TAGS BEFORE I RAN OUT LIKE A MADMAN. AUEHGGHHHH MY GOD YKU DREW THEM BOTH SO WELL IM RIPPING MYSELF APART #LIKE THIS IS NOT OK. NOT OK. DO U HEAR ME ? U CANT DO THIS TO ME. IM JUST A LITTLE GUY SERIOUS #SERIOUSSS GET OUT OF MY HEAD #AHHHH EVEYRTIMR I CLOSE THE TAGS TO GO LOOK AT IT AGAIN IT’S LIKE I GET BRAINBLASTED WITH AUTISM #IM NEVER GOING ON TUMBLR AGAIN SIMCARDIAC-ARRESTED WAS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT THANKS EVERYONE #falls to the ground. starts digging the soil with my hands and then goes and lies there

[ode2rin]

“it is because of your negligence that we're stuck here with each other,” you spat at him, the words laced with a bitter edge, and rin couldn't ignore the way you emphasized each word as if it were a weapon.

and from the way his chest was contracting against his ribcage, maybe they were indeed sharp knives out to get him. 

rin felt the weight of your accusation pressed against his chest, a stark contrast to the sweet nothings the two of you once exchanged beneath the sheets of love, where “i love you's” had been met with smiles, and the world had seemed so full of promise.

but now, things had taken a dark turn, and neither of you could pinpoint when or how it had all gone wrong. you wouldn't tell him– wouldn't let him turn things around.

rin's anger flared, his words escaping through clenched teeth. "my negligence? you're really pinning this on me, again?"

your eyes locked onto his, a warning in their depths. "don't go there."

he pushed on, relentless, “go where? you know i'm right. you always pin things against me.”

you didn’t respond , but you looked at rin in a way that made him want to fall on his knees and beg you — beg you to just tell him what more he can do for you to stop looking at him like this.

only if it was that easy, no — because it was a look of indifference, a look in your eyes that’s telling him none of his words were right anymore, and everything he says had not been good enough to attempt to fix things.

“let's just tell them we're done and leave this shitty reunion,” rin suggested with a note of finality.

“i should have known you'd suggest something as selfish as you,” you countered, shaking your head in disbelief. “this isn't about us. so don't you dare ruin this too, itoshi rin.”

the word ‘too’ hung in the air, a relentless echo that reverberated through the room, each syllable like a blade, cutting into rin's heart. it felt like a never-ending loop, a supercut of all he had lost and ruined - nights filled with piercing arguments, when your voices were raised until your throats ached, and the bed you had once shared had become a cold, lonely expanse. just how much of you had he shattered beyond the point of no return?

the ensuing silence was thick and suffocating, it enveloped the room, creating an atmosphere so tense you could almost hear the creaking of the floorboards under its weight. 

two old friends, once lovers, now trapped in a forced reunion getaway, compelled to act like a couple when their love had long since turned to ashes.

perhaps it was pride that you couldn’t admit it was partly your fault too. you should’ve told your friends about it the moment he took his things out of your shared apartment. there had been numerous chances, yet you clung to false hope, bargaining for a lost cause, and desperately wishing for a change that was never meant to be.

foolish. that's what it felt like - a foolish hope. you knew it was over the moment he couldn't bring himself to respond to your declaration that you were done.

“uhm, guys?”

as if on cue, isagi's head appeared at the slightly ajar door of your designated room,

“is everything fine? the tour guide is already downstairs, so…” he trailed off, his gaze shifting between you and rin, sensing the tension.

“we're—” rin began to say, but you immediately cut him off.

“everything's fine! just one of rin's moods,” you chimed in, forcing a smile as you turned towards isagi. “right, baby?” you said, addressing rin with a strained cheerfulness.

isagi chuckled, seemingly oblivious to the emotional maelstrom in the room. “must be it, then. i don't know how you dealt with that for five years, y/n.”

and there, amidst the oblivious laughter, it struck you. 

five years.

“yeah,” you admitted with a tinge of sadness, “five years of loving him would make you immune to it,” you thought, the words choking in your throat.

isagi, still in the dark, laughed lightly. “i guess so. we'll wait for you downstairs.” and with that, he left you alone with the relentless weight of your unresolved feelings.

for a moment, you and rin remained silent, but when you met his gaze, it was as though he wanted to ask a hundred different questions to comprehend what you meant about being immune to it.

but you beat him to the punch. “we'll tell them on our last day, and then pray to god that we never have to talk to each other again.” with that, you left rin to grapple with his thoughts, leaving the room heavy with the unspoken truth.

and right then and there, it struck him that the answer to when and how things had unraveled for both of you had been staring rin in the face all along. it was just that he wasn't ready to see it.

note. and i offer you: an excerpt from an idea i scraped :D

#☁️ my ode to you #itoshi rin x reader #itoshi rin #itoshi rin angst #itoshi rin x y/n #blue lock x reader #blue lock imagines #blue lock angst #bllk x reader #bllk imagines #rin itoshi x reader #rin itoshi #what happy place got me writing

[kryptid-kat]

We should normalize being the average artist who never really goes viral and is happy in their lane creating for their own sake (be it commissions, or art for themselves).

The clout chaser mentality of all social media sites rotted our brain where we can't find value in our work unless it has a big number besides it.

Create for yourself, not to please some elusive algorithm that changes on a whim and pushes you back to square one.

#art #artist #artists on tumblr #kat talk #also I don't mean that you shouldn't grow your social media because i know it's crucial to stay afloat as an artist #but please;please don't give silly numbers so much attention #I'm never gonna stop osting about my ocs and idc if the engagement on those posts are shit. they are my pride and joy #because I created art od my blorbos and that's what matters to me #or that I made a client happy with the art I created for them! #you should enjoy the process and not the numbers

[goodsniff]

To address the big grey, candy corned horned elephant in the room. Yes I am a homosuck fan. I'm still mildly amused that people are so shocked that the nerds making animated shows, are into animated nerd shit? I've already been asked a few times so I've written out below what I think the Heeler's classpects would be.

HOWEVER unfortunately for all of you I am not only into Homestuck but am also a huge textual analysis nut for it. So before you can have dessert I'm going to use this as an excuse to lay out some of my fav pieces of writing regarding it. They sum up why I still have an immense reverence for this stupid piece of shit better than I could ever explain.

@hampermarketplace Why I can’t understand Homestuck

@some-triangles I’m trying to figure out why I like Davepetasprite so much.

@optimisticduelist2 & his wonderful YT channel

@mmmmalo is a never ending stream of interesting and intricate theories and I like to pretend I'm erudite enough to understand even half of them

There's too many artists still out there posting up and drawing extremely hard HS pics that I love to list out, but fruitegg has got to get a mention. Everything I attempt to do in my art when it comes to capturing the energy and attitude of living Aus she does far smarter and far funnier. It rules I have somehow fooled her into being my friend.

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Alright done, here's what you wanted

Bandit: Bard of Hope Chilli: Mage of Hope Bluey: Knight of Void Bingo: Page of Light

Bandit & Chilli are straight forward enough. The thinking behind Bluey & Bingo is as follows. Doing a close reading of them as kids you could easily argue they're Breath/Hope players BUT. There used to be a few working theories around Hiveswap characters mistakenly imitating the wrong classpects. And though I don't think the girls are doing that, it feels to me like their youth is masquerading what their classpects would actually be.

As they're very clearly delineated active (Bluey) passive (Bingo) and so close as sisters, I reckon they'd be a full classpect pair. As much as I think Bluey would really suit Knight of Blood, there's ways Knight of Void would act as a perfect compliment to Bingo's Page of Light. A helpful, positive Knight of Void who protects her friends from despair, and is socially intelligent enough to weaponise people's unawareness/ignorance to her and her friends own advantage seems like a really exciting angle to analyse her through.

Finally, the only classpect I would bet my life on is Muffin being a Mage of Rage. 🤡

#homestuck #bluey #shamelessly ripping OD's Hiveswap theories fr fr #all of this is stupid I am stupid you are stupid we are all stupid #What still gets me I didn't really touch upon is how Hussie single handedly created a new system to analyse and class archetypes #I know it's obvs based on other shit but I find his far easier to use than anything else I've encountered

[daddy-long-legssss]

The Story Behind The Song: Arctic Monkeys’ early ambitions on ‘A Certain Romance’

Lucy Harbron – Far Out Magazine | January 17, 2024

It was 2006. Mortgages were crashing, and businesses were going bust. Tony Blair was on his last legs in office as the longest-serving prime minister since Margaret Thatcher, and the hangover of ‘Cool Brittania’ was beginning to set in with an unexpected ferocity. Things were bleak when a young Alex Turner sang, “There ain’t no romance around there” through the public’s speakers. Arctic Monkeys were about to write themselves into musical history as the voice of a new generation.

The final song on their debut album, there has always been something special about ‘A Certain Romance’. In 2022, after the release of their seventh album, The Car, Turner seemed to find himself reflecting back on that 2006 track. To the musician, that early cut holds a clue to everything that was to come as he said the piece “showed that we did actually have these ambitions beyond what we once thought we were capable of”.

Coming in at over the five-minute mark, ‘A Certain Romance’ almost feels like the Arctic Monkeys’ version of a rock opera, summarising all the themes, feelings and energy that came before it on their seminal album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It has the cheekiness of ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the catchy instrumentals of hits like ‘Dancing Shoes’ or ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. Utilising the northern charm of ‘Mardy Bum’, it stands as a final, neatly summarising point on the social commentary found in their early tracks like ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ or ‘Riot Van’. Really, it could be argued that ‘A Certain Romance’ is the ultimate example of Arctic Monkeys’ original sound, perfectly encapsulating all the things that made the world listen up and pay attention.

It’s like they seemed to know that, too, always allowing the song a special place. In fact, it was really the band’s opening remark. Years before the offer of a debut album came around, the group were a well-oiled machine with their own local hits. They had the northern live music scene in their hands as their homemade demo CD was passed around like everyone’s worst-kept secret. Beneath the Boardwalk features eight out of the 13 songs that would be on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, albeit in a slightly different, lower-quality version. But the opening number, ‘A Certain Romance’, sounds just the same.

It’s all there, from the rolling opening drums to that final guitar solo. Recorded and produced in a rented studio at only age 17, the existence of ‘A Certain Romance’, one of the band’s most explorative and energetic numbers, in this form this early in their career feels like a diamond sitting in a mine. It proves that they were always onto something special.

They never needed any help. In fact, their producer, Jim Abbiss, noted that they even seemed nervous about the help. “I think they were probably a bit weary, like ‘who’s this guy? And is he gonna make our sound this or that.’”

They didn’t want anything to change too much, as the group already had the songs figured out. Turner certainly did, as the track’s meandering narrative about hometown lads, fights, and local boredom is already there. Talking on a podcast, original member Andy Nicholson revealed the story behind the song. “We had a practice room with a pool table in, and we had a party in there, and we invited another band who were friends of ours, and we all had some drinks,” he said. “Then something happened, someone throws a pool cue, someone throws a pool ball, and everyone ends up fighting,” he added, explaining the lyrics, “there’s boys in bands / And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands.”

But the magic of Arctic Monkeys lies in their nuance. What begins as a snooty analysis of his local landscape is a genuinely affectionate take. “Well, over there, there’s friends of mine / What can I say? I’ve known ’em for a long long time / And, yeah, they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way,” Turner sings, looking around at his bandmates and lifelong friends. ‘A Certain Romance’ is not only a time capsule for the group’s beginnings but is an ode to all the people who were there with them. It’s an ode to the hometown that made them and all its various characters.

But as the last guitar solo roars to life, there is an unspoken statement that they’re going to be bigger than what they came from. “I remember when we were recording ‘A Certain Romance’ and having a conversation with the producer about the final guitar solo,” Turner told NME, recalling the moment these songs were reworked for their debut. But they wouldn’t let anyone mess with ‘A Certain Romance’, knowing exactly what they were doing and trying to say with that one. In the 2003 demo version, all the feeling is already there, and Turner wouldn’t risk it.

“There’s something that happens at the end of that track where we break some rules in a single moment,” he continued. What happens at the end of the piece feels even more special, considering how the album was recorded. “These are the songs we wanna do, and I think this is the order we wanna do them in,” Alex Turner told their producer, recounting the conversation in 2007 to RadioX, “And he goes, ‘alright, we’ll try to record them in that order as well.’” As the final song, that last guitar solo is the last thing recorded for the album, standing as a cathartic outlet and a chance for the band to prove themselves.

“We focused on the [emotional] effect of the instrumentals over the words,” Turner reflected on the track, concluding, “and I feel like we’ve been trying to do that again and again since then.”

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#I could talk about 'A Certain Romance' until I'm blue in the face or a sobbing mess #lucy did a good job on this one #she perfectly encapsulated how this song makes me feel #the moment I heard it I knew that this band was something incredibly special #it is so near and dear to my heart I will never stop singing it's praise #the fact they made this song that is so compelling and takes you an emotional journey from the beginning to end over 20 years ago???? #and how protective they were of it when making the first album cause they knew it was something special #and Alex drawing similarities between 'ACR' and 'The Car' & letting the instrumental moments of the song convey more emotion than the lyri #like he always said they continue to follow the same instincts from the very beginning nearly 20 years later #i just want to write an ode to ACR so i can ramble on about it #but im gonna shut up for now #anyways please enjoy this article LOL #arctic monkeys #wpsiatwin #whatever people say i am that's what im not #a certain romance #alex turner #jamie cook #matt helders #nick o'malley #andy nicholson #far out magazine

[schnaf]

Parallel Contents | 🕵️‍♂️The Accomplice

#xdinary heroes #gaon #kwak jiseok #aaaah i liked these vids!! #the criminal dude was so fun and i felt like they all really liked him #also i just looked up something and i'm really glad that phrases like making eyes at someone and giving someone the eye exist in english to #because.... gaon might not have been as flirty as gunil but the eye thing is what he did here #'🥺don't you want to tell these beautiful eyes the truth?' #also kwakoh's confidence.... jungsu being like 'beautiful hands? can't be me' and these two dudes were like 'hm yeah sounds like me' #(especially ode is right when it comes to his beautiful hands ugh. but the way he was like 'beautiful eyes? yeah why not'.... BOI)

[crabs-brencil]

yk i probably should have gotten my stomach pumped a few(?) hours ago but i passed out instead and now im making myself chicken nuggets and if that's not a sign that god is playing me like a kazoo then idk what is

#ugh im like #most of the way through ...processing?? the contents of my od and so it def wouldn't do shit to either admit myself or try to diy it right? #idk #anyways the point is that im still nauseous but im also really hungry so that's also making me nauseous? idk this sucks #wow what a revelation overdosing sucks?? who would've guessed #god i feel like a fucking idiot lmao #idk i just need to bitch to ppl that don't know me irk #*irl #anyways my nuggets are done sooo #delete later #it wasn't even that bad of an overdose (fucking obv lmao since im writing this) #crazy that you can just. wake up from one tho that's actually insane #did not fucking expect that #ew

[dreammeiser]

Hello!!! I wanted to ask if there are any characters that still need to be voiced? I’d love to audition 🙇‍♀️

That's really sweet of you to offer! I want to be transparent though, everyone on the team has been doing volunteer work for the time being because we all believe in the project-- I do want to get a Kickstarter going when it is ready for one so everyone can be paid for their work, however. So if that's not a deterrent, I may eventually hold auditions, though I will ask that Voice Actors be 18 or older. I think we still need voices for Mae, Lunette, Oddrey, Fiona, and some others that have not yet been revealed. Thank you for expressing interest!

#I've been getting a lot of emails and asks from Voice Actors so I wanted to address it with this! #Thank you for your interest! :oD #The Voice Actors currently on the project have either previous experience or had someone to vouch for them and had what I was looking for! #just for transparency sake! #dream along with me #dawm asks

[princessofshazabah]

i literally don't understand people that get pissed off abt romantic madwheeler. who gives a fuck lol jesus christ

#first off weve got bigger fish to fry. the top ships on st ao3 are steddie harringrove and byler. this is a plauge #second off its not a hqrmful ship. like irs legit just some guy and some girl. WHO CARES!!!! #also no offense but i just dont trust some of yalls opinions about them as seperate entities so why wojld i losten to y about their pairing #and also some od u lowkey need to hear this but theyre not sibling esque. not even sibling goals. #you see i used to believe that but then i grew a fuckimg brain #like. in canon. they...arenot sibling vibes. sorry to dissapoint #also theyre cute!!! damn!!! #madwheeler #stranger things #sorry guys for anger posting on main #love you all #:3 #ans this is not me haying on platonic madwheeler i lobe that too esp canon wise #but like...damn...can a girl not have fanon fun. what happened to fanon fun

[byronicbrit]

be strong everyone, keep living your best you

(combination with recent national events and a coworker calling T “steroids” just makes me nervous and scared for everyone’s safety and well being)

#trans day of visibility #sona #beeble #okay but fr tho i had to explain to this man that T doesnt cause fucking roid rage #like bro? #you can't OD on T because it TURNS INTO ESTROGEN #i had to tell him my medical doctor and not my therapist told me that before he believed me #the lack of understanding and misconceptions is what scares me the most with people #im just furious #trying to tie it to gun laws and the recent tragedy in tennesee #trans people shouldn't own guns until they're stable bro that's horrible wtf #anyways 2 years on t and my gender is great #ill stop rambling now #done diddly doodle #lmao i cant spell anyways

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

can i get part of your dandelion ode as a tattoo???

Yes, of course! This. This absolutely made my entire day-

#excuse me as i go experience unfathomable joy #would it be too much to ask which part of the ode exactly- #just. occasionally you have a poem gathering dust in your drafts and then you post it and suddenly it has a life of its own #if that's not magic i really don't know what is #I'm so glad it's bringing you joy i hope you have the most wonderful time forever

[takiki16]

A Fine Chain

UPDATE: Chapter 13/?

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Beta: @gallifreyburning

Relationships: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Light Dom/sub, Power Imbalance, Royalty, Slavery, Collars, Leashes, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Don’t copy to another site, Dark

Summary: Caine Wise, disgraced ex-Skyjacker and convicted criminal, is suddenly inducted into the service of the enigmatic Queen Nea-Seraphi, mysterious new Recurrence and puzzle to the Entitled social circle. While figuring out the boundaries of his new station, worrying about his old commander, and nursing old wounds from his court martial, Caine finds himself slowly being drawn into the confidence of his royal employer. What could Her Majesty possibly want with a defective splice?

For this chapter I highly recommend a soundtrack!

And also, perhaps, a visual aid 😈😈😈

#jupiter ascending #a fine chain #jupiter jones #caine wise #jupiter ascending fanfic #ja fanfic #michael giacchino #i am SO FORKING PROUD of this chapter you guys #the first draft came out in an absolute fever dream. i pounded that puppy out at 2am and sent it straight to gallifrey #not realizing that PERHAPS. JUST MAYBE. not all of my Beloved Readers will have obsessively rewatched this film as recently/frequently as I #the end result was a LOT clearer and better visualized but HOOOO BOY that sure was a fugue #i have never written that fast in such quantities in my life. i have no idea what hit me #but BEHOLD. MY ODE TO THE CHICAGO CHASE SCENE!!!1 #also for a random bit of trivia the 'code in' scene was lifted straight out of a random memory of the bourne supremacy #Youtube

[erytherion]

Oldest Dream: arguably could be considered the “end all be all” of TWSA world lines

Han Sooyoung: also arguably the “end all be all” of TWSA world lines

Yoo Joonghyuk: not the “be all” of any of it, he’s just him every time, but without him the other two wouldn’t have been able to be the “be all” that they are, since he is technically the “end all” that came before they could become the “be all”, technically making him the “end all first one”. Do you get me?

#orv #orv thoughts #HSY wouldn’t have known shit what to write if she hadn’t lived 1863 and been tragic besties with YJH first #KDJ also couldn’t have known shit what to dream about if he hadn’t been drawn to 0th YJH’s world line first by his existence there #(as either OD or as new!OD #depending on which loop theory you agree came first) #so even though he isn’t technically ever ‘all’ like the other two #the ‘all’ parts of them who dreamt and wrote up everything everywhere in those world lines couldn’t have spawned without him first existing #although that’s kind of what the entire ‘whodunnit’ square circle thing is about but like #to me YJH never had the ‘being everyone’ feeling that the other two might have had to deal with upon discovery of their time loop roles #because while they are all the ones who could theoretically be blamed for ‘setting the wheel in motion’ #it is only YJH who remained only himself without feeling responsible for potentially ‘creating’ everyone else through their own imagination #or like #this is yet another interpretation and I may be square circling wrong again #I’m sure it will happen again in a new way! #orv spoilers

[tillman]

Oh update.

Happy white woman wednesday we now physically have every guilty gear manga.

#txt #gasped. my dad is painting and was like. what is this from JAPAN. like its a book. you know me. its a book. #the only things ive bought for the past 5 years od my life. its a book.

[kveom]

i was tagged by @sevencoloredstar, @squishy-woozi and @wonufied to do this tag game! this was so fun thank you hehe also interesting to see everyone else's choices

i'm not sure who's done this already but tagging: @kimsmingyu @bandzboy @s-lay-ing, @zyx, @ppanghanni and @irlvernon

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#( a lot of thoughts in the tags ) #i never know what era to put in 'era you started stanning in' #bc it was in the middle of dwc and clap era but i guess you're still in the earlier era until the new one starts right #so yeah dwc #that photo of seok is from their weekly idol ep and that's the first time i remember seeing him and being like #*eyes emoji* okay who's this #ofc kidult best song song of the century #to you would be there too but kidult wins out on how much the lyrics mean to me #fave album is probably between going seventeen (og best album) an ode attacca and face the sun #but face the sun won bc shadow?? domino?? DON QUIXOTE????? 'BOUT YOU?????? IF YOU LEAVE ME???!?!?!?!? #i hate hot tho so <3 #darling makes it better #yes dino my beloved #jeonghan would be there but i think he's more of 'the member i would actually like to be friends with' #i just respect him and his personality a whole lot lol #seokhan my most precious <3 i will never forget the seokhan 2017 or was it 2018 content we got #decalmomie still not dethroned since 2016 or whenever #everyone listen to it if you haven't #fave gose ep you really can't go past gose 2020 #like that was crazzzzzzy #95% of those ep are legendary you can't make me choose #if i had to tho i'd probably choose the bungee jump #bc it's funny as heck and shows how seventeen knows the little quirks and whatever of each member #but also ofc the wholesome ending showcasing their bond and how supportive they are #also means lots to me as a proud dk stan <3 #so yeah this was heaps fun!!

[stevethehairington]

book 5 of the year done!!!! im literally one book away from halfway to my goal and the first month of the year isn't even over yet fjsksk i am DEFINITELY going to hit it this year!

#SUUUUPER bummed to say tho that ive made it to the first book of the year i havent enjoyed :/ #the worst part is — its the first in a series apparently and like. i WANT to know what happens next #but also i dont CARE enough to want to keep reading the rest of the series yknow? #like. this first book was just SOOOO disjointed #it was ALL exposition #it spent 500 pages giving individual backstories for each of the characters. as in each character l i t e r a l l y told their story #which first of all absolutely BORING way to get to know your characters and second of all NONE od these characters were even likeable!!! #and the worldbuilding was just. weird. it kind of didnt make sense and felt all over the place #and FULLY felt like he was just throwing random sci-fi-y words around to make it sound cooler but like. it wasnt. #and like all these characters are together on this pilgrimage right #but it is NEVER really revealed why/what they plan to do when they get to their end destination/anything like that #and im between each of these character backstories it feels like the same stuff one person is like oh wow what a story lets get some sleep #and then they do and they wake up and they do the tiniest bit of traveling #(which is like. described in the most lackluster barebones way) and then they eat and share another story and rinse and repeat #it was SO boring #it honestly reminded me of the movie the eternals LMAO #all these characters and you get to know a little about them but not enoguh to become invested and none of them are all that interesting #and the purpose of their journey/the purpose of THEM is completely unknown is completely devoid #like it felt like there was no plot #it was. ough not good. #so yeah would NOT recommend hyperion by dan simmons :/ #mack reads