#anyways i should read that book again

[queenlucythevaliant]

harder than you think

i. When the Narnians stole Edmund away from beneath the Witch's blade, they told him he was safe. This wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either.

ii. They brought him to the Stone Table. It was night. Edmund doubted very much that he would find safety there, for he still recoiled at the name of Aslan. He slept fitfully and woke the next morning before the sun was up.

iii. A sliver of gold just beyond the tent flap captured his attention, there in the dark. Unaccountably, Edmund felt the urge to rise and go towards it.

iv. And there was Aslan, who was supposed to be fearsome, supposed to be dangerous, supposed to be powerful, and he was he was he was. Dimly, Edmund felt himself hitting the ground.

v. But then Aslan said, “Come, Son of Adam. Let us walk a while, and reason together.”

vi. And as they walked together, in the cool dewy grass of early morning, the Lion told Edmund everything that he had ever done.

vii. They were standing in front of the Table when the conversation turned. Aslan spoke a riddle of a house blasted into rubble which he would piece back together overnight. He spoke of flesh being pierced, blood being shed, and of rejected stones being used for new foundations. He spoke about water welling up forever, washing you clean of everything you ever did wrong, all the blood that you ever thought of shedding, everything you ever tried to steal, and a river that carries you home when you can't walk anymore and spits you out brand new when it reaches the sea.

viii. Edmund's head swam. Silently, he yearned for the wisdom to understand what he was being told; or, failing that, at least to remember it for as long as it took him to puzzle it out.

ix. And then, the Witch. Then, the battle. The thrones. A year passed, and winter came. In its time, it melted back to glorious spring.

x. “Edmund,” said Lucy one day. “There's something we need to tell you.” She and Susan were cloaked in springtime gossamer, like fairy queens in poems he only half remembered. They sat on the window seat in his study, holding hands white-knuckled: his two beloved sisters.

xi. “It's about Aslan,” Susan said. “And the White Witch, and how he made her renounce her claim on your blood. The night before Beruna, he went back to the Stone Table.”

xii. “He let her kill him,” Lucy cut in. “Instead of you. And then, because he hadn't done anything wrong, the Emperor's Deeper Magic brought him back to life.”

xiii. “We've been arguing all year about how much to tell you,” said Susan wryly. Then, a little gentler, “We don't want to hurt you, but we feel you ought to be told what he did for you.”

xiv. And Edmund, who had never forgotten what Aslan told him on that cool, dewy morning before the sun came up, shut his eyes and whispered, “I know.”

xv. I know, he said. I know that he died. I know that he did it for me. I know he lived again because I saw him the next day, and the next, and the next. I think I know what it means - or at least, I know the shape of it.

xvi. “Oh,” said Lucy. “We should have realized that he would have told you himself.”

xvii. “Yes. But please, tell me the story all the same.”

#finally returning to this little character study series thing #I really like this one #bc Edmund pretty clearly knows about Aslan's sacrifice in later books but as of the end of lww the girls are still debating #what if anything he should be told #and like. imo that was what the early morning talk was #the gospel presented in that Jesus-y way where he's like 'this is all gonna make sense to you in a little bit once it gets fulfilled' #in addition to some of the more specific stuff about Edmund's specific sin probably #in my head the closest parallel for that conversation would end up being the magician's book with lucy #anyway #this whole series is being posted together on ao3 just so you know #narnia #the traitor who mended #reading fairy tales again #pontifications and creations #leah stories

[ash-and-starlight]

thank you @mafaldinablabla for the tag!! the game is to share 9 of my favourite books from the last 12 months, or 9 books on my tbr list for this year.

Here is what i’m looking forward to read this year! (my hunt for beautiful covers never ends. in this house books Shall be judged by their cover)

tagging uhh @erisenyo, @chitsangenthusiast, @ranilla-bean, @poikilotherm, @kyoshialone and whoever else wants to do it u.u

#also i really wanted to read the iliad but idk if there is a good prose translation/adaptation of it??? #if any of italian moots has come across one… #blease tell me... blease hmu #ive also been meaning to get more into uhh #social theory books? #if that’s the word? #but idk where to begin #esp bc i read on a short commute and i usually don’t have the brain space to engage with academy level texts #again if someone know a version of this for tired dummies lmk #ALSO cheating a bit bc i already started the seven moons of maali almeida and i’m loving it sooooo much #plus jorjus cover #so rlly the perfect book #realizing i should prolly start a book tag hmm #anyway #send post #oh I'm also looking forward to finish the murderbot diaries it's slow going but I'm halfway through and they're so good

[petricorah]

what if i got really into haikyuu again

#its back on netflix and ive been watching it #still as good as ever #i stopped watching it in high school when i stopped playing volleyball because it made me too sad but now im back... #back to my roots... #scared to draw oikawa again after so long #also cant focus on anything because of this fucking tinnitus that keeps getting worse wtf #anyway...oikawa drawing...hopefully...soon #notmyart #someone send me good oikawa screencaps to practice #god i should read the manga too... #also completely unrelated but i was thinking about learning a bit of japanese again but i think i gave away all my books...ugh #'again' i say like i didn't read a really good hq fanfic that changed the trajectory of my life

[punctuation-completionist]

Holy shit I thought I'd seen the worst and laziest gimmick blogs already. Congrats on setting the bar even lower.

@#$_&-+()/*"':;!?,.~`|•√π÷ק∆£¢€¥^°={}\%©®™✓[] get a fucking job

jokes on you asshole, i am in school most of the day and have multiple hours of homework every night. i just ride the bus for two hours to and from school and know how to use a queue

and you? do you understand how much work i put into this blog? how much i've learned about various punctuation so that i—with time i could easily use doing something else i might add—can tell people about things that i find interesting? i doubt it because you just have a hate filled heart from what i can see, picking on blogs that you find lazy because you can't even bother to dig.

i would have just left this in the inbox; but i really do feel like showing everyone what a fool you are. i mean, come back when you know all the brackets and dashes and have read at least one book about punctuation and then you can talk about who's the "laziest gimmick blog"

and no, i am not justifying that keyboard smash of an attempt to get more punctuation. if you want to talk about lazy bud? take a look inwards, perhaps.

#ask tag #not counting #sorry guys for posting this i am just kinda irked that someone could do the laziest thing for punctuation and then accuse me of laziness #also. get a job? really? i am a student and i am already busy enough as is dude. and the only time i get to work on this stuff is like #when i am having bad executive dysfunction or i am hyperfixating on punctuation again or when i am on the bus #feel free to make fun of this asshole in the tags. they fucking deserve it. #laziest gimmick blog... i mean. okay? like i am not particularly unique? why me and not like. ampersand counter or whoever #yet again #sorry for putting this on your dashes. i mean i won't queue it because i don't think it should take up a queue slot #i just really want to show everyone. what an idiot #legit if this was a low effort blog‚ why would i have read so many books and academic papers and blog posts from specialists? #anyways. get on with your days. maybe after laughing at this chump who doesn't understand like. basic decency

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE MESSAGE by K.A. Applegate, adapted by Chris Grine.

The original ANIMORPHS books were a hugely formative influence on....My Entire Life, Writerly and Otherwise, so I've been collecting the graphic novels as they come out, too!

#books #books of 2024 #animorphs #k.a. applegate #chris grine #the message #anyway i'm only actually reading book 4 for Books of 2024 lmao #but it seemed like a LOT of effort to take a picture of one (1) book #if i'll read said book in like half an hour lmao #so here they all are so far!! #they're very quick reads and i'm love illustrated body horror for children XD #i'm very overdue for my OG Series Reread #i used to do one every four years or so but stopped :( #i miss them i should try again #maybe when i unbury them from storage i'll put them at the top of the list #if i have a house someday.....

[cadaverousdecay]

i’m so overwhelmed by things that shouldn’t be overwhelming...

#among them‚ i’ve fallen behind on drscula dauly for the first time this year and it’s stressing me out cuz i really really wanted to keep up #this year that was the one goal i had for the year is keep up with it. last year i fell way behind when my brother died and it was so hard #catching up and the entry on the 30th was a little longer than they’ve been recently and i’ve been busy and also slipping back into depressi #on real bad and i’m just not in the mood for it and i feel like it’s just gonna snowball #and this is such a non issue. it’s a book. that i’ve read before. but still it’s just stressing me out. among other things #like library books that are overdue and i haven’t finished or journal entries i want to write or a letter i’ve been wanting so badly to writ #e and a short story idea that i wanted to write down but is escaping me and fucking. tumblr notifications #these are non issues!!! but it feels like there’s a timer for the world to end again all the same. #ugh #and i should be able to focus on one thing and get it done! these things shouldn’t be hard! they’re even meant to be enjoyable! but i can’t #get myself to do anything lately #and on top of all that i’m not able to fall asleep even with my sleep meds. #what even ever‚‚‚ #anyway sorry for the rant i’m basically fine

[why-the-heck-not]

29.06.23, thursday

I had a presentation today, and there's nothing (and I mean nothing) I hate more than those, so as a treat I made the rest of the day real cozy. Baked bread & listened to podcast while cleaning my apartment; good chill times

#also no it's not the absolute best bread; i used to be lots better at bread some years ago but i can't for the life of me remember what #modifications i made to that recipe (like it was basically just a rough guideline at the end) and i am a dumbass and never wrote any of it #down so i gotta now do some bread research and start again with tinkering everything #but the problem is that I live alone now and i can't bake like multiple big loafs a week bc it's just me eating #so it'll be lots slower this time #yea i should/could have also just been productive bc the thing i had that presentation on is still not like entirely done #but it's like almost there and I could afford a chill evening #presentations take lots of energy out of me anyways even if it's just a small quick one like today was like I am just done for the day afte #so nothing too great would've come out of it anyways #at least I now have a clean kitchen and no longer and actual mountain of clean unfolded laundry on my couch #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #dark academia #chaotic academia #june 2023 #2023

[lalaloobzy]

Do gay people even know about Birdy?

Once every couple months I remember these dudes and they take over my whole mind

I am BEGGING people to read or watch Birdy

I'm in love with queercoded old fiction. And these pictures don't even begin to show how queer it is. Not to mention it's one of the best portrayals of complex PTSD I've ever seen

There's a part where Birdy gets 2 birds specifically with the intention of having them mate and have babies and he names them Birdie and Alfonso after Al and himself. HELLO????

#anyway #al is a raging bisexual #and birdy (one of my top comfort characters of all time) is gay asexual and nonbinary!! #(headcanons only btw. its not canon but it SHOULD be) #be warned the story is somewhat disturbing. but its one of my favorites #first time i watched the movie i thought “i will never watch this again” #that was like 5 years ago and ive seen it 7 times now and read the book twice 😅 #its a lot. but i think more people should know about it #birdy #birdy 1984 #birdy william wharton #william wharton #nicolas cage #matthew modine #alan parker #80s #80s movies #queercoded lit #queercoded period piece #lgbtqia #birdy movie #birdy book #oh AND to make it even better the movie has a peter gabriel soundtrack!!! #thats how you know its a weird masterpiece #peter gabriel #movies stuff #birdy stuff

[vroomian]

Forever mad that the Anita Blake series wasn’t about the adventures of Edward and Anita, platonic life partners, killing things and being so weird about each other >:/

#like we got one book in obsidian butterfly but it’s not enough!!! #laurelll k Hamilton i will n e v e r forgive you for straight up ruining your series #i love Anita and edward!!! i think they should be bffs forever!!! #i stopped reading after the series turned into gotta catch ‘em all: Anita’s harem addition #so if they ever bone? do not tell me. i do not see it 😔 #he’s an amoral hit man and she is his only real friend in the world!! #she’s a good person with a moral compass and he’s got no conscience but she likes him anyway!!! #Alexa play we could’ve had it all by adell #vrrm vrrm #sorry for the rant I remembered the books exist and got mad all over again lol

[shima-draws]

I just finished Skypeia AGHHHFJHHHH it was so GOOD

#One Piece #My favorite arc BY FAR #It was really long! But it wasn’t Alabasta long!! #Also Noland’s backstory deadass made me tear up that shit was so sad #Idk this arc just really kept me hooked. Like there wasn’t really a point I got super bored #Even with all the fights going on #Also just realizing they mentioned Noland in OPLA too. Nami read Zoro the book while he was totally conked out #Anyway ANYWAY I really enjoyed it. Lots of fun character interactions #And Usopp actually getting to do stuff too?? MY MANS #Oh and Zoro’s look this arc. God he was STYLIN. I’m so weak for a man in goggles shut up. #Logically that should apply to Usopp too and you know what. Yeah. #G8 is next and I know it’s filler but I’ve heard nothing but praise for it #So I’ll probably watch it instead of skipping :’D #Shima speaks #Also I find it stupidly ridiculous and funny that YET AGAIN Oda said ‘Lol you thought x character was dead?? SIKE’ #Wiper got electrocuted and died like eight times but he’s fine actually. Also Sanji and Usopp got electrocuted too and were out #for like a full day. And then Enel zapped them AGAIN and Usopp was back on his feet like two minutes later. #Silly anime logic. It doesn’t make sense and I love it

[nomattertheoceans]

Y'all I'm not going to lie, all the gifsets kinda make me want to get into Percy Jackson??

#not me being a basic bitch kajdjfhkahdjs #LISTEN #i never read them cause idk the movie seemed boring when it came out #and i never looked at the series after that #like literally all i know is that percy jackson is... a demi god i think #maybe? #and also he falls in love with a girl named annabeth? #and i think maybe he has adhd? #like LITERALLY THAT'S ALL I KNOW #but idk the gifsets from the show look interesting ok SUE ME I'M BASIC #but now the question is. should i read the books? watch the show? #i mean it's a stupid question we all know i would never watch an adaptation without checking out the original material #Gina's voice: I'm not an animal #anyway idk #seems like a big commitment all of a sudden #but then again i have a 12 hour flight to get through next week so.... might be a good idea to start now #can you sense my indecision? 😂 #percy jackson

[leatherbookmark]

wailing, etc, because the pieces of information wgxn choose to withhold from lxc -- how jgy and his mother were treated in the brothel, that both the sex workers and the clients were amused by meng shi’s ambition at best and disgusted by her Gall at worst; that (as opposed to what the fandom likes to think) there was no big solidarity with other sex workers, they weren’t a family of girlies who supported each other but rather a workplace that didn’t care about your personhood; that sisi was the only person who was kind to meng shi and little meng yao, and this is why he chose to spare her, and she didn’t even know why; and many more, including all the moments that nmj has shown wwx in empathy that might be influenced by nmj’s hatred -- are things that lxc just... won’t have a chance of finding out, ever. because who’d tell him? sisi is a victim, she’s not going to comfort a friend of the man who imprisoned her for a decade with sad tales from his childhood. she probably noped the fuck out as soon as she could. he’ll just never know. because wwx was sooo tired of all this bullshit, you tell him, lz, i f he asks. have i mentioned how i think zewu-jun should start biting

#shrimp thoughts #if not for the fact that the xi/yao tag has been very disappointing in the last couple of months so at some point i just stopped visiting it #i'd say i should go look for a revival fic where lxc can ask questions again and jgy can answer them #but either way it would be a difficult task because the trend has always been weepy dishrag jgy believes he doesn't deserve lxc's affection #he's such a baaaad maaaan who's done such baaaad thiiiinggssssss next time he'll atone and just let people harm and kill him (｀-_ゝ-) #which like. have we read the same book #anyway. yea

[loving-jack-kelly]

also like. edmund as a character. his whole arc in tltwatw is about learning to think, to be thoughtful and kind and respectful when it's needed but not to let go of his independence. to follow orders when they're right instead of rebelling because he can, but to break those same orders when he knows it's time to choose to do what's right. and then in prince caspian, edmund is the big brother. peter is older, pete has more technical authority, but edmund is the one who really understands. edmund kills the witch. edmund believes lucy because he remembers how stupid it is to dismiss her just because he didn't see it too. edmund is king edmund the just because he understands the difference between pride and justice. peter is magnificent, he's strong and powerful and good at getting people to listen to him, but he's prideful and brave more than he is courageous and wise. edmund lost his pride when he betrayed his siblings and never wanted to pick it up again, because pride is what got him in his mess in the first place. and so edmund becomes the voice of reason. edmund stands in peter's shadow and doesn't complain because he knows this is how it's supposed to be. he doesn't need to lead, he just needs to guide.

also don't even get me started on how the only people who defeat the white witch are aslan and edmund. edmund breaks the wand while peter fights somebody else, aslan kills the witch. peter is tempted by the power and edmund shatters the illusion from behind as somebody who's already fallen for her tricks.

#and susan is to lucy what peter is to edmund #susan is the perfect queen graceful and beautiful and strong but not loud #she follows the rules and leads alongside peter with the kind of power that a queen should have #but lucy is the one who gets down and dirty lucy is the one who's on the battlefield with her dagger and cordial while susan stands back #with her bow and never yielding #but never in the face of the action either #anyway. i'm having such a good time rewatching the narnia movies maybe ill read the books again soon too lol #i Love narnia #edmund pevensie

[aroacehanzawa]

packing up my bindle and trudging back to the classic lit fandom 💔

#anyway i started reading dogra magra and it's. certainly something #also reading hermann hesse's the prodigy (beneath the wheel) #now THIS is dark academia. except the dark academia girlies would never accept it for how it criticises the education system. #and also because the dark academia girlies have completely warped the original concept of dark academia books </3 #i should also continue les mis. i'm such a fake fan i haven't even finished volume 1 #same with moby dick. i paused it about 1/3 of the way in. but luckily there's no plot so i can just pick it up again whenever #aough i just remembered i'm also partway through little women. and 1/3 of the way through my reread of frankenstein #i wouldn't have this problem if i didn't spend half of my time posting about bsd on tumblr </3 #NAUR THERE'S MORE. also 1/3 through vasily grossman's life and fate #and i haven't even finished my reread of crime and punishment #the state of things............ watch me forget even more books i'm so-called 'reading' #EDIT: THE SECOND HALF OF GONCHAROV'S ОБРЫВ THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED

[nthflower]

Coursers are enslaved lab-made human clones with mechanic parts and extremely dangerous and actually have personalities and sentience but people who make them says they don't and they are just tools and synths that have gone rouge seem as so dangerous even in fact they are not and this is just like SecUnits or comfortunits etc from murderbot.

Soooooooooo I am using my autistic power of crossovering and headcanoning now X6-88 actually have a pretty colorful inner monologue. And extremely rich personality. Because that bitch has a personality I can feel it.

#i met with him just newly #his character is scratching my brain i love angsty lab made people. #i am going to meow meow him now #this is again about fallout #x6-88 #last book i read was murderbot i should read again books #but anyways synths and constructs are similar i am very smart

[jacksintention]

Still unwell about Rilke and PH

I love the dark hours of my being.

My mind deepens into them.

There I can find, as in old letters,

the days of my life, already lived,

and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open

to another life that's wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree

rustling over a gravesite

and making real the dream

of the one its living roots

embrace:

a dream once lost

among sorrows and songs.

#There's in Rilke and especially in this particular book a lot about the world‚ created in the beholding and loving it‚ #and one existing to love the world. There's so much about the world being created by that loving and knowing the world of one individual #person that loves and knows it. A kind of feedback loop of existing and being by love and knowledge that is all a participation #on the act of creation. The person coming to exist to love and know the world‚ and creating the world by loving and beholding it #This is also present on Juan Ramón Jiménez‚ among others‚ but 5 yo me was obsessed with those poems. ANYWAY #This topic made me think of Lacie a lot but in this particular poem that topic + the 'I'm sorry' scene + the figure of Lacie beyond Lacie‚ #a Lacie that's legend and real‚ a Lacie always sitting under a tree‚ life ending and life expanding so to speak‚... #That kind of knowing it all in a glimpse that is knowing in an instant and eternal (which again reminds me of Kierkegaard‚ #fitting I'd say with Rilke). I'm explaining myself terribly but I don't want to talk too much haha But yeah it all seemed very fitting #There was another poem about spiralling so to speak around god that I also thought was very Lacie but very PH in general #('I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world. / I may not complete this last one / but I give myself to it / #I circle around God‚ around the primordial tower. / I've been circling for thousands of years / and I still don't know: am I a falcon‚ / #a storm or a great song?'). The spiralling around god in what is still some sort of emanence or reflection of it while being also #different iterations of the self which all reflect it also reminded me a lot of Cantor's transfinite numbers #Which again is quite fitting and coherent with the other authors and PH imo‚ but I may be biased. Anyway yes. This reminded me of Lacie #I didn't plan on drawing anything at first and now I have to flinch to read the poem #I hope I'll recognise enough of what I've written when I eventually come back to this #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #mine*