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veryintricaterituals · 9 months

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Okay, confession time... I've watched Red, White and Royal Blue three times already and I might have spent last Sunday frantically reading the book.

I'm so sorry to my mutuals for whatever is about to unfold...

#im so sorry #i watched because i saw a post in here saying it was available and i couldn't sleep on the 11th #and honestly i didn't like it that much cause im not like super into romcoms #buuuut i couldn't get it out of my brain #and then my friends came over on Saturday and i dont know why i proposed we watch it together #and it just hit so much harder watching it with other gay people #we were crying and screaming and laughing #it was an ✨ experience ✨ that showed me that it wasn't that i didn't like romcoms it was just that i couldn't relate but this was for me #for us #so we stayed up talking until like 3:30 am about like life and love and being queer #and as soon as i woke up on Sunday i downloaded the ebook and got my ass reading it like i was 13 again and hyperfocused on this shit #i finished it in less than 6 hours #and of course the book is so much better #but now with all my new canon knowledge i *had* to re watch the movie again #and im so sorry for the horrors this past week will bring to my mutuals dashes #rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue

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lovereadandwrite · 1 month

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how many eclipses do you think Fyodor has seen in his lifetime(s)?🌒💕🥰

#tbh Fyo’s immortal-ish eyes can PROB handle the power of the sun #but he just looks so cool in his eclipse solar glasses teeheee😎💕#and he of course made sure Nikolai’s eyes stayed safe !!!#two cards for the eyes🃏🃏 better than just one☀️#it’s the thought that counts #meant to post this yesterday but the eclipse festivities & excitement are still ongoing in my book🥰✨#LISTEn I have sooo much ch 114 art I’m behind on posting on here👹👹#but SOON🫰(had to get my eclipse boys in first😘🌝)#fyodor #fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor fanart #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #nikolai gogol #bsd nikolai #nikolai fanart #fyolai #fyolai fanart #fanart #bsd #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs fanart #bungo stray dogs #bungo stray dogs fanart #artists on tumblr #art #anime #eclipse #total eclipse #solar eclipse

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twinstxrs · 4 months

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there’s probably something deeply wrong with me because every time i see someone react to the pok gukgak interrogation scene it’s like “oh no oh my god is riz’s dad a bad guy?” when the first time i saw that scene my only thought was “oh my god is riz’s dad HOT??”

#i mean admittedly my instinct was that he was lying about what he was saying & he was a good guy (which i was right about) but #it truly was like pok: i don’t give a shit about my wife & kid i only care about this job / me: pok gukgak save me… save me pok gukgak #fantasy high #dimension 20 #pok gukgak #riz gukgak #in my defense i really love spies so watching someone convincingly act indifferent about the most important part of their life… CRAZYYY #but i still feel like i’m setting back feminism so many years but also. he got acid splashed on his face & didn’t even flinch… that’s hot #guy who would literally go through hell & back bc it’s for the greater good but would also if he had to do it for the people he loves #but like. the greater good always came before the people he loves. that was the job. he loved them so much but he also missed so much #how much WAS he willing to sacrifice for the sake of the job? work is a great form of love but it can’t be the only form #especially for a young kid. but yea idk i have complicated feelings #pok gukgak u r so fascinating to me #pok sklonda riz & work as a form of love or whatever #truly would not work as a campaign & would be better as a book but young pok young kalina young sklonda… i need to know EVERYTHINGGG #the shameful thirst post -> character rumination journey of these tags is truly Something but also par for the course w/ my brain

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rearranging-deck-chairs · 4 months

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the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too)#but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

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why-the-heck-not · 2 years

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08.11.22, tuesday

just some casual, chill, and not at all caffeinated panicky writing of things

#i've lost my ability of writing more than like one page bc there's not much essays or anything in my major #but this is a course for my minor (criminology) and it's humanities and very different from what i've used to in stem #and i don't remember how to write #which is also not great for the balchelor's thesis I'm gonna have to do someday #so better be like riding a bike #studyblr #study #studyspo #booklr #bookblr #books #book #reading #read #dark academia #chaotic academia #aesthethic #november 2022 #2022

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coquelicoq · 9 months

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last week marked a full year since i started a daily habit of reading french fiction to myself out loud, so i took a picture of the books i finished in the last twelve months to commemorate the occasion!

as you can see, there are nine books total but two of the books (count of monte-cristo and les mis) take up fully half the volume, which makes sense because the first six of the twelve months were devoted to just those two behemoths. full list:

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tomes I et II, Alexandre Dumas père

Les Misérables, Tomes I et II, Victor Hugo

La fin de Chéri, Colette

Le Tour du monde en 80 jours, Jules Verne

Exercices de style, Raymond Queneau (this one i read in both paperback and audiobook; the audiobook is stacked on top)

Changer l'eau des fleurs, Valérie Perrin

Claudine à l'école, Colette et Willy

Candide ou l'Optimisme, Voltaire

Le mur, Jean-Paul Sartre

la fin de chéri was both the shortest book and the hardest to read! there was a lot of vocab i wasn't familiar with, and the syntax was a real challenge. colette LOVES her a comma. like, she uses commas to do so many different things i can never really tell what any given comma is supposed to be doing. she might as well just not use punctuation at all. also, i only discovered this like five months after the fact, but it's apparently a sequel?? i was super confused by a bunch of stuff that seemed pretty unexplained and it turns out there was a reason for that lol (the reason being the explanations were in a totally different book). i also just, like, didn't really like the story 😩 rip me!

cmc and les mis were both books i had read previously in english but never in french. exercices du style and probably about half of le mur i had read for college french (if you look closely you can see the spines of those two are a more faded color because i've had them for 15 years lol). the rest were brand new to me. changer l'eau des fleurs was the only book published in the current century. so much great vocab in that one...i really gotta read more stuff from the last few years. also it made me cry big time.

i think i'm gonna keep up this daily habit, but i'd like to expand to poetry and possibly? even non-fiction?? at some point?? francophones feel free to rec me stuff! i'm trying to work my way through some of the really classic french canon, so next up i'm thinking maybe le fantôme de l'opéra, cyrano de bergerac, and at least the first volume of à la recherche du temps perdu? i also want to read more recent stuff, so i've been looking at winners of readers' choice prizes and whatnot, but suggestions from actual individuals would be grand. i think some scifi could be cool maybe, but i don't know anything about french-language scifi and have no idea where to start...

non-french francophone authors would also be really great if you have any suggestions!

#even though i didn't like la fin de chéri i decided to give claudine a chance because of that keira knightley movie 😂#and i liked it much better! i think i might read the sequel(s)?#i also already own gigi so i'll give that a shot #probably gonna read more valérie perrin too because changer l'eau des fleurs was just really good #i'm currently reading another jules verne and then i have a third one of his as well bc he's just so easy to read #and this 15th-century volume of poetry by villon i got at a thrift store several months ago and keep putting off because i'm intimidated #but that's it other than textbooks (and my beloved dictionaries of course) so i gotta start thinking about what to get next!#french #books #my posts #described in alt

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tippifunandprose · 2 years

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The way Dracula is such a huge part of our popular culture and yet so few people know the original story is so wild to me. Hollywood has truly failed us.

Like the whole wolf yeet is so iconic you'd think we'd all have been joking about it for a hundred years, but to Tumblr it's a brand new wacky plot twist.

#dracula daily #wolf yeet #I've noticed even among people who have read the book before #This format just adds so much more to it #It reminds me of the conversation around binge watching #You just can't process information in the same way when you consume content in bulk #and getting the story bit by bit over the course of weeks so we have time to let it sit #completely changes the reading experience for the better #dracula

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catkin-morgs-kookaburralover · 8 months

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friendly reminder that self harm is lying to you

#the worst is when it promises you'll feel better and then you simply. do not. you feel worse and then you want to harm again bc surely that #will make you feel better right? THAT WOULD BE A NO. IT DOES NOT.#anyway today i went to spotlight cause i was sad cause i got the result for my 35% assignment i really struggled with. 32.5%. failure.#and at spotlight i made the foolish error of buying without knowing price. but like who makes a book a normal softcover crochet pattern boo #$55?! anyway it's a lovely book and am excited to try a few of teh patterns but the guilt is eating me alive #and also im super stressed about the assignment i have to turn in on thursday and haven't started #anyway i was literally four and a half hours away from being seven days clean #and i am just so sad right now #and i reopened one of the scars on my wrist too while on shift this morning so that's fun #not badly but it's just gonna mean it scars even more isn't it because of course #i was feeling incredibly awful for some reason i can't even remember and i kinda clawed up my arms. and no i don't count that as #breaking my streak bc it didn't cause much damage #i just. placement is so wonderful but life is so so hard #i don't know i want a hug and the assignment done and everything bad unmade #and the scars i have to look at every day on placement gone.#i want to talk to s but i haven't responded to her last message and i don't know how to respond but i need to respond to that #:((#honestly actually i think i want to talk to aunty. friend's mum. in person. and get a hug. i want a hug.#im just. So Sad. and i want my brother and Ransom and this is not helpinga nd i don't know what would if anything

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essektheylyss · 2 months

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I JINXED MYSELF I opened a book I wanted to read and then my third course site got published and there's an optional book to read THERE AS WELL THAT SOUNDS SUPER INTERESTING THAT WOULD PROBABLY GO REALLY WELL IN TANDEM WITH MY CURRENT BOOK, FUCK

#WHY DO I HAVE A JOBBBBB MY JOB SHOULD BE TO READ FASCINATING BOOKS ABOUT ART CULTURE AND OWNERSHIP #FUCK #anyway I am gonna read it lmao #it's a book on the history of copyright :3 #my courses this quarter SLAP ngl #honestly I have a great time in school cuz I literally only take courses that sound fascinating but like.#also I do think most things sound fascinating so that is in my favor here #I do think my two courses that aren't programming are gonna go VERY well in tandem anyway so #I do not do all of the optional readings #but I always do the optional book reading cuz usually it's like 'here's a much larger subject overview' which I find very helpful #and if it's an open source book and I can just download it and hold onto it for later? even better #(this one is available on jstor. privilege and property ed. by deazley et al. like if you want it)

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lecliss · 5 months

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Sakura gets a second point for being the first to complete the tree climbing at being better at chakra control, but at the same time it just feels like she was made good at it so no extra training segment time would have to be put into her getting good at it and it can be all about Sauce and Nart. Idk that feels too pessimistic but also could totally be true.

#she takes on a very 'obsever' role. like kashi is the teacher watching over them. but sock is the watching and commenting from the same #perspective of nart and sauce and also the viewer unlike kashi. cuz he provides a lot of exposition and whatnot in his inner monolgues #and its like. of course the girl is just the observer who watches alongside us as the two main boys grow and develop #AND I DONT WANNA FUCKIN BE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THIS BUT GOD ITS IMPOSSIBLE!!!!#but her whole character so far is 'i hate the class clown. im book smart. i diet and im in love'#and the way i see it is. 12yo girl TRYING to fit into the femininity she sees in the world around her so she forces herself to be like this #but she has inner sock who speaks what she really feels showing that she puts on quite a front and isnt really much like that at all #and you expect her to grow into wanting her to truly define herself. and she does with getting stronger and training under tsunade and #learning medical ninjutsu so she really finds a spot for herself. she does!!! but then she KEEPS hanging onto the love nonsense #and admittedly there are moments that push a very obvious trope of thinking she likes sauce cuz hes cool but finding out that the real 'gem'#is nart so i definitely understand where n@rus@kus are coming from #but then she just STICKS with sauce until its the worst ship possible and its an utter mess of 'ill never give up on him'#EVEB DESPITE HIM TRYING TO KILL HER!!! THEN THAT FUCKING WORKS OUT!?!?!?#AND TOO THIS DAY SAUCE STILL NEVER COMES OFF LIKE HE ACTUALLY LOVES HER #IM SORRY BUT ITS TRUE. SARD WE ARE GETTING YOU BETTER PARENTS. ON GOD!!!!!#so she just hangs on to this one little thing that she SHOULD have gotten development for to move on from BUT IT NEVER FUCKING HAPPENS #so its like half her development never fucking happens and thats why it #s such a fuckinf mess!!!!!#i fucking hate this show. i need to go back to watching mike's dino game vod. what am i doing here?????#i did this to myself btw. i didnt need to start yelling about that but thats just how it is with nart #start thinking about something good and then it reminds you of something related thats bad and now its like. yeah this shit sucks #remember when kishi said he regretted not making hina the heroine???? we could have lived in a better timeline.#but if i say that i will get assassinated #anyway.#sock count #personal

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aroaessidhe · 3 months

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2024 reads / storygraph

The Liar’s Knot & Labyrinth’s Heart

books 2&3 in a fantasy trilogy set in a Venetian inspired city full of political intrigue

follows a young woman who conned her way into a noble family, a masked vigilante, and a crime boss, who eventually become allies while juggling multiple identities

and trying to save their people and city by joining a secret society to find origins of a corrupting curse, to eventually destroy the powerful magical objects at the heart of it

tarot magic & sigil/geometry magic, dreamworlds, sentient magical disguises

#the liar's knot #labyrinth's heart #rook and rose #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #the summaries at the start are helpful. bc I forgot what happened in book one lol #I enjoyed these better - I think listening to the audiobooks helped with that a lot. They’re quite long books!#the accents in the audiobooks also enhance it a lot #I def enjoyed the series overall & listening to a whole book in a day or 2 (rather than dragging out if i did text format) is better #the overall plot and magic stuff. im not gonna lie and say i understood it all LMAO but I thought it was pretty good & def some great char #don’t super care about romance. like I don’t dislike it - & much prefer the slow burn to instalove that's everywhere - but also eh whateve #also not to be like miraculous ladybug but high fantasy. but #yeah of course the aromantic crime boss w a telepathically linked spider hosting the ghost of a dead guy as his closest companion is my fav #yeah i cried. im tearing up thinking about it now. they’re so good #his little spider gloves for his spider feet?#there's a good amount of queer characters scattered around #(vargo's aromanticism is hinted a few times; and it's pretty clear imo if you're looking; but not explicit)#i see there’s tons of people shipping him/disappointed it wasn’t polyam...I wish it was clearer bc of that. but otherwise it was fine #like. solidly developed in depth character is just as/more important to me overall #but also why'd [redacted] have to leave....nooo :(#also spider on the cover!!! i only noticed that at the end of that book sjdghsf #queer books #aromantic books #bisexual books

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bsxcrxts · 6 months

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I was too young when the hunger games books came out because I know peeta would have done irreversible damage to my mental state and taste in men. In like the way my standards would have been even higher than they are now

#what was in 2008? 2009? yeah sorry I was too busy playing with toy horses and shit #and then I never saw the movies #but extrapolating from the data I have if I had read those books in like 2015-2017 I would have been in loveeee with him #but I think I read them when I was 11 or 12 and I was like ‘hold up. kids are dying and I’m supposed to read this and #and enjoy it?’ bc it had like a FANDOM and I didn’t *get* what was going on #at that age I was a fantasy girl I didn’t understand why anyone would willingly read about something so apocalyptic #I now understand that was because I was an escapist already trying to find a franchise that could handle my deep need to insert myself into #a happy story. or at least a story happier than my life #and thg had too many problems of course I didn’t want to be There either you know #anyways. peeta ‘boyfriend material’ mallark ftw #and for the record yes I do understand the themes of thg much better now lol

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orcelito · 9 months

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So I rearranged my bookshelf a bit for fitting trigun on my shelf...

Top shelf is still my persona shelf. It's way too established to change that. But I moved my assorted other fav manga volumes to the bottom shelf, leaving room for This...

It didn't Quite fit all the way, but it's close enough. This shelf is composed of my three top favorite mangas of all time, which are Also the only 3 series that I own in totality. Specifically bc theyre my favorites & I care enough about them to want to own them all lol

It's... really really nice to see them all in one place like this.

And of course. The trigun ❤️ completely worth the money I spent on them.

#speculation nation #this is nowhere Near the full number of manga and books i own btw #i have. boxes and boxes just sitting in the closet.#but this is my only functional bookshelf. im a little limited.#so i only have the Favs here. at least for manga.#sometime i should go thru all my manga. ive forgotten how much i actually own.#maybe someday i can get some more bookshelves... ive been thinking about it.#for now. this will do.#it makes me so ridiculously happy to see trigun on the shelf. even with it being a bootleg print.#it's honestly pretty great quality for a bootleg. only printing problems i saw were a few of the internal covers were a bit out of order #everything in the volumes themselves were printed Wonderfully #of course dark horse translation so not perfect quality there. but ngl it's almost nostalgic to read that version for me.#that was my first trimax experience. & as much as i value what overhaul has been doing for us #a part of me will always be fond of dark horse's translation too.#and thus why i keep hold of my 'he is reason enough for me to fight' header. i enjoy it Very much.#man. i cant believe i got home 8 hours ago. and ive spent this whole time fucking around with my new manga #but ykno what it's good that it's bringing me so much joy #for how much i spent on it i damn Well better get some enjoyment out of it lmaoooo #but ive read thru them and i will almost Definitely be flipping thru them again in time #i enjoy physically holding manga. it lets me peruse so much more easily than trying to scroll and click thru pages #worth Every Penny........

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cienie-isengardu · 10 months

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My RepCom Musing: if there were (clone) strills everything would be much better

For me, the biggest missed opportunity & disappointment of the Republic Commando story is that NO ONE APPARENTLY CAME UP WITH IDEA TO CLONE MIRD. And I swear, everyone would be better off with strill puppies (kittens?) around. Like seriously. Vau? Mird is what kept Vau alive and happy for decades and is literally what makes Vau soft and caring. Now multiply Mird and Vau won’t magically change from hardened veteran & harsh training sergeant into overprotective, overemotional dad, sure, but it would definitely make it easier for him to show his care and deeply hidden emotions once each squad of his batch gets a cute lil clone!Mird to take care of (and be taken care of in return). Can you imagine all the cadets’ excitement and wonder for their own strill, for the unconditional love and loyalty of an highly intelligent and smart animal and for the Vau’s trust given alongside it? All the things boy!Vau must feel at some point too, when he was stuck with an abusive family or shortly after leaving them and be on his own in an unknown, uncaring galaxy? Can you imagine him swarmed by the puppies and clones with a thousand and one question on how to deal with strill so he could unleash all his love for Mird on everyone around?

Or Atin, after losing his first batch mates? Or even after Geonosis? No point for violence when you can drop an emotional support animal on a hurt, depressed human being. Deltas too could benefit from lil Mird. What could be better than a strill for emotionally stunted people with even more an emotionally shut down trainer? Beside the whole long-term therapy, I mean.

Jango too should get a strill, the man is like one, walking trauma and Boba would be better to hang out with a loyal pet than Aurra Sing or other assholes.

Where is a cute lil clone!Mird for each squad of Vau’s batch, I demand to know?! A loyal strill to make everything better? WHY NONE OF YOU in-universe SMARTASS THOUGHT TO GIVE MIRD A BUNCH OF SMALL PUPPIES (KITTENS) TO MAKE KAMINO A BIT BETTER PLACE FOR THE STRILL, VAU AND CLONE CADETS? Everyone would be mentally healthier!

Well maybe beside Kal who could have a heart attack once Jaing brought the strill puppy or two or a whole pack and Skirata was forced to explain how that happened to overprotective Vau & Mird XDDD

UNLESS Vau wanted to do so but Kaminoans, remembering that this animal hunts them down out of boredom decided FUCK NO. Then I will accept the canon as it is, but only then…

(I do remember Vau sicing Mird on Ordo in book canon but I will admit I do not have a clue what was the point of this action besides making us, readers, to dislike Walon on the spot. I mean, killing people and physically trashing cadets? Sure, it makes sense within his characterization. But using Mird like that without any logical reason and just for fun? Nah, I will pass. Like Ordo lacked trauma and reasons to dislike strill and Vau when Kal had plenty of his own complaints about Walon to pass to his kids.)

#star wars #walon vau #mird #strills #clone troopers #republic commando book series #my repcom musing #everyone would be better if there was emotional support strill for the traumatized Atin & Deltas & Vau's other boys #though if vau came up with cloning mird he should charge the Republic extra cost for terapeutic presence of strills #i'm of course half joking with this idea but really more Mird (strills) would make everything much better #animals are awesome emotional support and repcom is full of traumatized people #but also the image of lil jaing keeping bringing strill after strill to kal's horror is so precious to me #of course in timeline when ordo has not be attacked by mird on vau's whim #also i would be less harsh about this scene with vau sicking mird on ordo IF he actually keep doing similar stuff in later books #i would hate it with passion but at least it would feel like his bad habit not a one time scene just to make readers hate Vau #on the spot and side with Kal as the “dad” only to ignore skirata's long list of flaws and fuck ups

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fungi-maestro · 11 months

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