#and like three lines in the first books

[octoir]

tomarry hot take: I actually don’t think Harry would even come close to defeating Tom in a duel

I think he COULD come close, with extreme levels of training and practice, but that classic “step into DADA and whoop Tom’s ass” scene? guys…I have something to confess.

Tom’s a fucking nerd.

he’s studied and practiced dark magic for years. he’s canonically regarded by DUMBLEDORE as the most brilliant student to ever walk through Hogwarts. Tom would DESTROY him.

imho the real fun of tomarry comes from the subsequent arc of Harry training to defeat him, and then actually coming close, and THEN Tom starts to become intrigued bc who the fuck is this semi-competent little shit?? and why is he now thinking about him all the time??

#tom marvolo riddle #tom riddle #harry potter #tomarry #ao3 #cinus isn’t talking about tompercy? ​blasphemy! #we’re all entitled to do what we want though #ashamed to admit that I still eat that duel scene up every time #but yknow #let’s be fr #harry is surprisingly competent when he’s interested in the subject #desperately cites the Patronus charm #and like three lines in the first books

[cerealmonster15]

funny tiny guys doing funny tiny guy things

#twisted wonderland #riddle rosehearts #jamil viper #azul ashengrotto #twst #ya whatever throw them 2 the tags #behold my tinied guys #anyway. vague very loose ref to book 6 with riddle and azul but not really a spoiler either lol #very excited to play it when it comes to engtwst next month AAAA anyway. #having a lot of fun with guest room #my first fight was also jamiazu and it was so funny #JAMIL WOULD NOT STOP SAYING THE BUGS LINE #especially like. almost every time azul sat down #jamil IMMEDIATLEY was like NO BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like ok man chill #cereal tries to draw #anyway cant wait til i unlock third slot i so badly want all three of them to han gout

[visenyaism]

I mean I’m salty that they cast the Velaryons as black people and proceeded to reduce Laena’s role even more than what it was in F&B and gave her entire relationship with Rhaenyra to Alicent so-

Like you’re not wrong but there’s valid reasons to call HOTD bad too.

yeah how they treated the velaryons even worse than the books after casting them as Black was easily the show’s weakest point it WAS bad i won’t argue with that. I more so mean when people call the entirety of the show like writing cinematography acting objectively wholly terrible now when everyone was cheering for it last year is weird to me

#I feel like how they treated Laena is definitely in line with their terrible treatment of women of color as a whole. #but also her relationship with rhaenyra is three sentences long in the book. there should’ve been more there in the first place.

[murkshade]

my special little guys. my favorites since the beginning (yes, all of them are trans sorry i dont make the rules)

#reedwhisker #littlecloud #kestrelflight #little me grabbed the background characters and said is anyone else gonna project? and then ran w them #reedwhisker has had like 3 lines in the books ive read but god did i love him so much and i still do #to all the reedwhisker artists. you love me. thank u #blackstar was there for a second and so was stonefur (ironic) but they didnt stay with me as much as these three #literally my first online name was a shorthand of littlecloud

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES AND OTHER STORIES, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (feat. first daffodils!!)

I've been pining after this one since the hardback released, but I'm more of a paperback person so I Waited, and in my Waiting I missed the seasonal alignment to start reading it (come on: I can't be expected to read a collection with this title any time except at the very beginning of spring, right??). But! Guess what!! Spring is once again Arriving, and things are starting to bud and bloom, and I love that!

#books #books of 2024 #the way spring arrives #the way spring arrives and other stories #yu chen #regina kanyu wang #cries i'm sorry dear authors i'm not tagging all of you you are Simply Too Numerous #i do love anthologies though #especially themed and spec #like sometimes i want to Try Someone's Writing without having to commit to an entire book right??? #i don't usually love one person's short story collections because it doesn't have the same variety #but multi author collections are perfect for me!! #i've read the first three stories so far and i'm enjoying them! #this is a chunkier book than i remembered but it reads pretty quick #love microdosing on finish lines also (and i like when you can see the story divides on the edges of the pages) #(everybody gets a black-rimmed title page so you can see how long things are/n't) #(oh full disclosure though it looks like only 2 contributors are nonbinary from my perusing lmao) #(i expected More with a subtitle like that but alas. i only saw two she/theys) #still having a good time so far!!

[ronanlynchbf]

#OKAY I GET IT RONAN #there were some things in greywaren that slayed actually no matter how much i dunk on the book i will admit it was kinda crazy reading it #the first & second time and it had its moments. declan shootout and ronanessy and numquam solus and fuck you this is so good and this one #obvi which r like. three lines away from each other and also fuck you this is so good IS ronanessy n e wayssssss #ADAM. MY ADAM. ADAM! 😓 *dies & revives & dies again for all eternity* #dreamer trilogy #pynch

[kithj]

not pictured: breathless by kitty tsui, s/he by minnie bruce pratt, stone butch blues by leslie feinberg, miss major speaks, the persistent desire. most of these i've picked up on and off since june, since most of them are anthologies & i was rereading SBB.

stand out books for me this year were fluids, to be devoured, and minor detail.

fluids & to be devoured hugely inspired me, they kicked off me getting back into reading in general and inspired a lot of my personal writing this year.

otherwise im kinda disappointed in most of the books here... this was my first year really reading this much in a long, long time, and most of what i read were novellas. and i stepped into a new genre, so i was really feeling things out and trying to find my niche. i'm hoping i'll be able to branch out some more with all of the new authors i've been eyeing and i'll find something that will really stick with me.

#honestly most of these books were just like.. Okay #besides the three i mentioned #except for 'it's me charlie' that was dogshit im still mad i wasted 99cents on that. every extreme horror book reviewer owes me a dollar #anyways. i have a ridiculous backlog i need to work through #i have a lot of physical books i really need to pick up #i just tend to mostly read at work on my phone so hard copies get neglected... #i'll probably finish the first 2 books im reading before the end of the year cus i read them at work #well the second one is an audiobook that i listen to while im packing orders #one day i'll finish pageboy. lmfao... #i have a hard copy which is why ive been reading it forever i just keep reading the ebooks instead #next books in line are: rifqa; the devil thinks im pretty; what we tell the manticore #my reviews

[ackaff]

Hey its okay, The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness, okay?

#gotta be one of my favorite opening lines to a book #like COME ON #reread our wives under the sea a while back #the first time i read it it took me forever bc i was going through a ROUGH time #this time i finished it in like three days #our wives under the sea

[sunset-peril]

Here we go! A 20K word story for your weekend enjoyment. I tried to remove all the typos from the original publication, and I changed a few things around. Let me know if typos/inconsistencies exist.

Technically a sequel to Trial of the Zora Armor, but I think it can be (at least mostly) read without reading Armor first.

#i read it three times through to proof-read but that honestly means nothing #fanfiction #booksivewritten #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #hyrule's final stand #zelink #my stuff #the legend of zelda #oc x canon #canon x oc #revali x oc #botw interim #between calamity and botw #worldbuilding #successors #successors hfs #wolfbred line #lots of ocs #i hope you like ocs #revali's wife is probably one of my favorite characters #this is one book that I would absolutely love to adapt into a graphic novel #mainly because it was an idea for a graphic novel in the first place

[aldieb]

ok foreigner is over for me on book 11. bren cameron you will always be famous but i opened deceiver and was immediately thrust into a detailed objectively written recap of the intricate politics underlying the last book. the jacket copy doesn’t even catch up with what’s happening in this book until you turn to the right flap. bro who is reading this not for the alien anthropology and family drama

#foreigner blogging #this is a crazy divorce. i even have a tag for the series. look <- #i guarantee you no one was line editing these any more as of the 4th trilogy #first three trilogies incredible work tho. i still have to write my weird little essay about how the structure across books mirrors the arc #of the first book. also maybe i’m just tired bc i have waded through much worse art for the sake of a character i like #so maybe i will return to see if bren ever attempts to get treatment for his ibs

[cdaae]

Case in point about quality/people eating it up, the aforementioned author posted two snippets of her book where the story hasn’t even started yet but there’s a missing word and a typo because she seems to think she’s beyond needing an editor. Mistakes happen but come on. In the first sentence of your dedication? Maybe other people don’t mind but it’s not a selling point for a book to me and believe me, the rest of the book is like that too. Every bit of it I’ve ever seen has had an issue, from typos, to missing words, to character name continuity.

#sometimes her captions on another platform have been straight up incoherent #I don’t think she reads over things before she posts or publishes #her literal LinkedIn bio has three very obvious mistakes in #just not selling the skilled writer thing to me #I’m just venting #but there’s a line in her book describing Erik where she says his hands were the wrong #and wrong is italicized #but the sentence ends there #I would never be able to make it through a book like this #I’m sorry #I just can’t #and then she made a story about how she wanted to correct someone’s grammar #girl worry about your own book first

[desperatecheesecubes]

There’s nothing that shoots me out of a story more than someone getting a piece of historical trivia I know wrong.

#mine #no knocks against the authors obviously #but the first edition of pride and prejudice was actually three seperate books…. like…. the three books in P&P? yeah they were published as #seperate physical things #it’s literally the first thing you see when you google it 😭 #it’s completely irrelevant really but I see a line like that and it’s like bees have over taken my mind #historical fashion also sets me off #putting corsets in eras that didn’t have them #putting petticoats in eras that didn’t have them #not knowing what a historical dress actually looked like #all sorts of things

[perenlop]

warriors take just from osmosis of the new books but i feel like instead of squirrelflight and sparkpelt pressuring nightheart to be like firestar, they should have had bramblestar do that because then it comes full circle from when firestar was insisting that bramblepaw would be just like his father

#its like a cycle and shit. yknow #''oh but this would contradict their character development from tpb'' everything abt tnp bramble contradicts tpb bramble #this is ignoring that this is a really weird time to have done this tho like. first of all it should be sparkpelt #bc then its his direct kid that hes already gonna feel weird abt bc of the three situation #also this is just me but i really feel like they heard the criticisms against how bramblestar was handled in past books #and are doubling down and trying to make squirrelflight the bad one? lines like ''oh she would HIT HIM'' #and ''oh my god we would be FUCKED if she became leader oh my god she would be so MEAN to the main character'' #just come across as that to me #and hey its not the first time theyve heard criticism and doubled down on it in the books and on their website #and bramblestar being a bad dad isnt really related to that but idk. i feel like he wouldnt be a good parent #considering how weird he was abt berrykit in tnp and really just his behavior in tnp in general #like. idk i think itd make more sense if he was the weird one instead of squirrelflight where po3 i think kinda invalidates her behavior #in this new series #echoed voice

[devilishdelights]

some mammon stuffs from awhile ago. I did this for every character (pain.) to figure out how I want em to look like + use as refs.

#every time I draw him it feels as if I can’t get him right. like these are the peak mammon drawings I have that 100% show how I envision him #maybe I just need 2 do a big study. hehe #or maybe I need to draw someone else for fucking once god damn #he has such a tiny nose in the first one LOL ❤️ #n his hair I kinda like. I’m trying to draw it more accurately now though but idk I think it works for me in my style. but in other drawings #it just looks off. drawing bangs r harder than it looks #bc u wanna get them even n pleasing 2 the eye. so when u flip the canvas it’s chill #do not flip these I have not seen the flipped LMFAO I don’t wannsee it #he also has this angular eyeshape I do that just makes it feel like mammon to me. #angular as in there’s like three lines. if that makes sense #I think u can see it in my other drawings #like the eyes here are round. but it’s still like. drawn in three parts instead of one continuous line. #I feel hunched over like a scientist explaining his greatest creation to those who accidentally stumble across him #my other faves r beel’s + solomon’s icons. they’re just so fucking nice!!! not to toot my own fucking horn but I’m tooting it toot toot #enywey. back 2 the guy here. I also think he has a crooked smile or just one side that lifts higher than the other. yk that boyish charm bs #u read in YA books. yeah. and he’s got dimples on his cheeks. and lower back !!!! #both noses r different n the left is one where I was still figuring it out. the right is how I envision it more/all my other posts w him #he’s got a soft round shaped nose. very squishable too #ALSO GOLDEN FANGS YEAH but I’ve had a hard time drawing them without it looking weird with all the other teeth #n his eyebrows have that little spike at the curve that I rlly like but it’s always covered by his fuckinf hair so most of the time u can’t #even see it. anyway I’m done rambling I’m just bored as fuck. cheers #also sorry for changing my icon all the time. it cannot be helped

[cushfuddled]

Hahaaaaaaaa I think I’ve been in survival mode for so long that my brain doesn’t know how to function outside of it anymore ??????

#day two of not having to worry about the book for the first time in like three years #glad I’ve got a therapy appointment lined up for next week #the good thing is I was able to anticipate this reaction because at least it’s a pattern for me #where every time I finish a big project my brain sees the suddenly Available time and goes #‘ah! time to finally have that breakdown we’ve been putting off for later’ #gonna just…try to be gentle with myself as my brain flings itself against the walls of my skull in confusion and inexplicable angst #vent #Rab rambles

[milo-is-rambling]

Someone tell me how to make me not hate myself and make my family not think I’m a bitch and make me want to see my family or drive back down the coast or stay in strange places or do anything other than kill myself I mean whaaatttt haha what a weird thing to say *stares directly into the camera knowingly*

#and don’t say take your medication #fuck. my moms sitting here like I was under the impression you had this all figured out and I’m like well I was under the impression you #we’re going to fucking sit down with me and help me book a room for the last night of driving bc I can’t book and I have to find somewhere #between like three states that will let me check into a hotel room bc if I get somewhere and they don’t let me stay I’m fucked and have no #where to go or sleep bc I can’t sleep in the car on the way back bc my car is packed to the FUCKING top with my brothers shit fuck fuck fuck #fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck #it’s just like being a kid I can hear my family making fun of me for my emotions in the next room over FUCK I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE T #THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS #I think I’m having caffeine nic and med withdrawals at the same time while pmsing #AND WHILE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A PLAN FOR DRIVING BACK DOWN #I think I’m the biggest bitch on the planet rn #i was listening to father by tfb in the car and there’s a line about something about falling asleep while you drive and I apparently sang iy #with a lot of passion bc my brother said ‘please don’t’ and that was literally the first time anyone has called me on my recent musicchoices #but it really has all been like I need to go anywhere but where I am right now and I need to die far away and that’s it #no more starting over no more self hatred no more family shit I just need to stop #I want to hire someone to drive my brothers shit down to Florida and then I want to kill myself in New England #Anyways. I’m gonna go try to eat something and take my meds and then move stuff around in the car and also try to get a room somewhere by #the end of my trip and I don’t have much time at all and I need to kill everyone and then myself now now now now now now now now now now now #every time I move my body the entire world spins and idk if it’s anxiety or med withdrawals or being tired or what but I am losing it and I #feel like I don’t have it in me to drive any fucking more this trip and the way back is only just beginning #and in less than hour were supposed to check out of this hotel and go to my aunts for a big family celebration of my brothers graduation and #Mother’s Day and I’m going to see all my family who still has a fucking father and I want to be fucking dead I hate all of this I hate it #I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it