#at least my library book is good

[non-un-topo]

God if I had the energy and brainpower I’d be drawing Quynh + Nicky being chaotic and dumb together

#i see those reblogs in my notes lol. i miss them too #long story short: family emergency happened yesterday and i'm waiting to hear from my parents + sister #who have been driving for 8 hours now. which is not making me freak out less #and the very air around me just sort of.... changes from bursts of energy to dull hopeless nothingness #using all my spare energy to get my assignments done. frankly I'M mad at myself for doing it. i can't let myself rest or feel anything #kind of feel like the universe has just been giving me blow after blow. didn't get the job/award. didn't get a scholarship. pain has gotten #-- to the worst it's ever been. pile-up of assignments i can't even begin... and now this. #at least my library book is good #anyway yeah i'm fucking peachy. much love #maybe i should work on some of my stupid fanfiction. put this feeling somewhere

[pcktknife]

there are so many obscure early 2000s-2010 kids graphic novels that we don't know about guys

#im down a rabbithole looking for a book i read as a kid again #this one i have little to no info on unfortunately it was a group of kids that endedup in some alternate (fantasy?) universe and thats the #plot of so so many books old and new theres no way im finding it #i wanna go back to the library i used to get all these good ass books from and see if they still have em but its been at least a decade so #its unlikely. still curious about what the library looks like now..it was one of my favorites #kae.txt

[honkshoo-zzz]

i didn’t wanna draw more saxwell,,,.,, but the parasites wanted to draw more saxwell.,…,…….

anyways go read my saxwell fic Don’t Go on AO3 :)

#trying to get better with anatomy #but it’s hard to teach myself #i got books from the library but my brain nono work good #but i’ve at least started using references again so that’s good #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #saxwell #saxton hale #tf2 bidwell #team fortress 2 fanart #team fortress 2 fanfiction #tf2 fanfiction #tf2 fanfic #saxwell fanfic #read my writing n tell me if u like it please #i need the validation #or i’ll explode #thank you love you bYE

[bonemeadows]

some of the books i read in 2022

#this was a really good book year #i read 76 books #went to 13 bookstores with stefan #bought 45 books at the big summer library booksale #bought probably uhmmm er like at least two hundred other books #USED books #listen #it’s not a problem until i’m dead and still have a to-read stack four times my height

[the-busy-ghost]

Has Tom Travers discovered the internet 👀

#P.G. Wodehouse #Jeeves and Wooster #Probably modern Dutch anyway #Sorry the description says it was made in Germany around 1880 and is still in good condition and 'ready for use' #I am not going to drop £600 on a cow creamer no matter how funny it would be #I for one am not particularly worried about getting one over my old rival Sir Watkyn Basset.... #I mean I was specifically browsing for stuff for the study/library/tiny room thing but that's still too much to pay for an obscure tribute #To Wodehouse even if his books are probably going to fill at least two shelves of their own #There's a cost of living crisis on #Some people don't have heating #Still it gave me a little smile this evening

[b4kuch1n]

hey. just woke up and drank a giant cup of milk&coffee.

#my train of thought was [...] I like lineart. some people dont. #what if we mash that together #bakuspeech #I also asked this on my twitter btw #to port over the tweet verbatim #yes I meant that in the post like a kind of coloring book btw. but digital #I do just have the stuff lyin around at least from like. june last year? #since I got this laptop #no I dont delete anything I've done ever. I am Like That yes #if we're doing this obvious limits of ''do not sell my lineart that you colored'' and #''do not claim I made or asked you to make your version'' apply #I'm not gonna sell the files either they're just gonna be in a big zip to grab on like. itch or something #non-commercial going both way here #but yeah. if theres a good amount of demand I'll put the zip together #and thats it! for today's morning program #I'm goin out for library card and sticker delivery today. mayhaps even picture frames #hope ur doing well. hope the daylight lightens ur steps #have fun & enjoy chronology!

[terpia]

I am reading the Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrannte (I finished My Brilliant Friend on Friday and I'm almost 200 pages into the second book now) and I have so many thoughts about complicated female friendships, loving 'ugly' places, women's fiction, etc. But my main thought is just how nice it is to pick up a book that you would have never picked yourself based on a friend's recommendation and find out that you actually really like it.

#the double pleasure of reading a good book while thinking of the friend who recommended it to you #personal #i may end up posting some of the aforementioned thoughts about the book here #it's just the more i try to plan things the less they seem to happen and i wanted to make at least one post about these books bc #i can't the remember the last time i was so sucked in by a book series #it's almost nostalgic - initially i only borrowed the first book so once i was done with it i went to the library straight after work #that same day to get the second one #it made me think of going to my local library each friday after school when i was a kid #and just feeling that same sense of excitement about bringing a new book home with me #also. the vibe of this series is completely different but the relationship between elena/lila reminds me so much of needy and jennifer #from jennifer's body

[nellectronic]

add “friday night parties” to the list of things I am NOT gonna miss about living in a dorm… I mean noisy neighbors were already on there but this specifically bothers me on so many levels

#see normally I’d just put on my noise cancelling headphones and it’d be whatever but #I am so determined not to fuck up my piercing #and I really don’t wanna tell them to shut up bc it sounds like they’re having fun and I’m in an especially too nice for my own good mood #and! I do genuinely earnestly want them to have fun. I am NOT a hater!! just bc I never got to do any sort of partying and never really #wanted to anyway doesn’t mean I’m gonna project that onto anyone else #but on the other hand friday nights specifically are sacred to me #as the first night of the weekend where I get to sleep in and the first night I don’t have to worry about assignments due the next morning #and also as a kind of religious thing #I don’t really observe shabbat anymore but I never was able to get used to the friday night = party time association #and I don’t particularly want to!! friday nights are for chillin and I like it that way. #anyway all this to say I am trying to enjoy my chill evening and there is NOISE and I’m not gonna do anything about it (at least #until Official Quiet Hours start) but I absolutely will complain #I convinced my mom to get a library card and give me the number so I can read books on libby #(would have gotten one myself but idk if I qualify for one at the library near my school and I’ll be gone in a few months anyway) #and now I am TRYING to read lockwood & co book 1 #(yes it is technically a middle grade series. yes I am twenty two years old. if the show is anything to go by it’s a more accurate #portrayal of teenagers than any media I consumed as an actual teen. let me live) #but alas. The Noise #and yeah I know noisy neighbors are not exclusively a dorm thing but I can’t imagine a normal apartment will be nearly this bad #also to be clear this is not a weekly occurrence #I don’t actually think these particular neighbors have given me any issues before #which is part of why I’m feeling so patient with them… probably too patient tbh #I should probably delete this later #probably shouldn’t post it at all but oh well. what’s the point of life if you can’t share every minor annoyance with #a bunch of strangers on the internet? #screams into the void

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

so I just finished The Empty Grave and

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(overwhelmingly positive, I have so many thoughts, I may have to learn how to draw clothing just for this series, I am going to own it one day)

anyway what should I read next?

no rhyme or reason I don't need something similar if nobody says anything I might start on Dune for the heck of it

#I"ve been reading SO MUCH recently #it's delightful #I'd fallen away from it for awhile #I've read about threee of the murderbot diaries rose daughter percy jackson the little white horse lockwood and co ella enchanted cinder #re-reading the new thrawn trilogy and how to steal a dragon's sword #howl's moving castle castle in the sky the hunger games books the first three books of the queen's thief series the goblin emperor #the hero and the crown the out of time series persuasion #this stretches 'recently' into a decent number of months but still that's more in less than a year than the past two or three years combine #ah it's good to be back #I'm trying a lot of audiobooks too this time around #mostly out of necessity at least at first (it was all the libraries had of some of the books I wanted) #but it has distinct advantages #I can do art at the same time #or minecraft #and the voice acting is often really good #helps add a dimension to the characters that I couldn't have come up with just out of my own head #delightful

[oh2e]

The way we see flashbacks of what Button House was through the years reminds me of the Drumshee books. I’m not sure how popular they were outside Ireland but the general idea was a series of unconnected stories all about the same plot of land. The first one was called Nuala and Her Secret Wolf set in the Iron Age and the last one is called millennium@drumshee and is set in 2000. I know I’ve seen the Titanic one all over the place but the others not so much. It’s just such an interesting concept because while the characters are sometimes related distantly the important thing is their connection no matter how brief, to the land that is Drumshee or Button House.

#I think those are the first and last ones anyway. or at least they were the oldest and most recent of the ones I read #but it has been many years and I borrowed them all from the library so it mainly depended on what ones they had at the time #I’d say they were all published in the mid to late nineties? they’re definitely not new #Cora Harrison the author has done some other really good books since #there was two book series about Drumshee but the other one focused on the same characters at one specific time in drumshee’s history and I #didn’t like those ones though annoying they’re the ones I own #bbc ghosts #anywya just thinking about the flashbacks of button house/higham house/bone manor #and how so much changed but yet it ties them all together #my own post

[instantarmageddon]

It's hard thinking about books I enjoyed as a kid because there's always the lingering question of "was this book actually good, or was it just kind of gay?"

#i read so many shit tier ya books just bc one of the authors was gay and all of his books had at least one gay background character #and in 2011 that was as good as it got baybee 🤷 #just spent like 20 minutes tracking down the name of Define 'normal' (bad title) #a book i picked up at the library STRICTLY bc the cover had two girls on it one of whom had ~purple hair~ #and the plot summary made it sound like they would maybe kiss (they dont) #i stg im gonna start writing the moody lesbian vampire stories of my childhood dreams bc god knows no one else is >:(

[frostywisp]

im slowly amassing an ever-rising pile of backlog of fiction and other media to go thru and idk what to do with it

my gmail inbox hasnt hit zero in months, my google crhome tab count has been above 20 consistently, even after i bookmarked and cleared the black hole of song lyric tabs

it is a great problem to have, an unsuspecting problem to have, an "out of my depth" vibe problem to have

哎，天啊，我该怎么做？

#daily frost noises #frost eloquence #also pile onto the fact that i rly shd b studying #but im playing genshin star rail n marvel snap instead #at least my watch later hasnt gone above 20 in the past weeks #when will kazuha banner arrivveeeee i love u genshin but i wanna put it away for a while agn #fomo frm f2p n resin capped be like #at least i got the card back for marvel snap so aft this season is over im gnna stay away for a bit #drown in hsr #alsoalso ive been spending my time reading dresden files instead #so ig thts why thr's a backlog #i hate having backlogs #backlogs #dresden files is rly fucking good tho #and its real books! #im gng out the house to visit libraries!! #aint that great

[unproduciblesmackdown]

though i eventually got to read some, in earlier years goosebumps books would be the kind of series where i'd just ponder the cover art, and i always liked the drama of the monster blood illustration (the lighting/colors....sure nothing's happening in it but i felt it evoked the drama of "what if you're downstairs and something's upstairs" much like "what if you're upstairs and something's downstairs") like well too bad i guess i never got around to reading i at the time. but as of a recap yesterday i'm surprised to now be at least 90% sure i read part if not all of it, and thinking i hadn't may be due to how kind of nothing happens in it

#absolutely nothing familiar until ''there's a dog named trigger & the kid at one point has to rescue trigger from choking'' like Aha #for sure still remember various Events & Details from gb books i Know i've read.... #welcome to dead house; the ghost next door maybe my most well absorbed ones lol. lot going on in those definitely #let's get invisible. some choose your own adventure varieties. calling all creeps. oh the haunted mask ofc; all time classic.... #definitely hadn't read the phantom of the auditorium; reading it as an adult was a delight #things on the other side or the middle of the stairs it's just like skinamarink heck for real #itself like well that's absolutely the horror of being kids if not ''kids' horror'' lol #but that aspect is always inherently present in kids' horror...always surrounded by mysteries & lack of power/autonomy & fairly isolated... #anyways had a parent whose Disapproval Mode could be set off by various media available to kids my age so that was a minefield #(same parent thought it was inappropriate for some tv 14 rated programs to be available in a house solely ft. adults so there you are) #at least at first was of the ''horror for children?? inappropriate'' approach about it. i didn't check the books out of libraries ever #but eventually must've calmed down abt that b/c we Did own some & that's how i read most of ones i did #too late i was always a kid intrigued by / seeking out horror materials....john bellairs books which got pretty wild.... #much less so as an adult b/c horror gets worse (& not in any good way) aimed for teens / adults like lord. You Do Not Get It #anyways turns out monster blood is probably riffing off the blob mostly but it's like not thee blob until way later #so most of the book wouldn't really be that memorable if it's 80% ''and then here was another weird thing abt the gunk'' #but i would remember like oh no the dog is in mortal peril :( nooo trigger (trigger was fine) #sure didn't misremember that in welcome to dead house the dog went missing & was implicitly killed over Sensing The Deadness #appreciated that element in phantom of the auditorium where they're hanging out at zeke's & he has a dog #& secret but really just chilling painting sets & very corporeal ghost brian is like ''aw cmon...'' at that dog Not Liking Him #which is some barking & not being enthused abt brian's efforts to play fetch w/a ball lmao #but only to a mild degree like yeah he's not doing anything. brooke & zeke witnessing this simply like lol lmao #that trio is sooo funny. ghost just hanging out; So nervous; ending up dragged into the friend duo absolute menaces hellions lmao.... #the paint on his shirt bit. just the way the whole back & forth of 4 ppl goes; it kills Me....

[monster-noises]

Me: I understand if i want to make more connections and find more cool things to be a part of i have to get out there and Do things and got to Events; so I am going to try and go to some local art events!

My job: i thinK the fuck NOT!!!!!

#monster noises #everything cool that I want to go to happens when i'm working and it sucks and i'm mad about it #art centre life drawing classes are Always during work hours #i'm always closing on the days of a comics jam #cool zine event happens on a weekend that i'm Off but i worked 4 days straight and am too tired and worn out to go try and socialize #library hosting a book fair but it's on my weekend On #free comic book days happens on a worl day #i'd love to Participate in Events #but they always happen when i'm woRKING #it sucks!!! it sucks and it sucks and it sucks!!!!!! #even if i went to one of these things and made like 0 new connections but got some rad books or saw/made some art i'd be Happy! #but every fucKING time #it happens Right inside the window of when i'm sechduled any given day #i keep good tabs on the stuff happening in my city #with the intention to attend at least Some of it #but it never works #it never works.. #40 hours a week is too many hours a week #it's all the hours in which things can happen

[ayyponine]

free MoMu entry was great actually thanks

#mine #they are SO funny though the lil gift shop. giving you the option to buy simone rocha jewelry or some walter van beirendonck hello? #stepping outside and str8 into the dries van noten storefront. bestie! i would LOVE to but simply do not have the funds #local woman gets cheap transport and into museum fr free. proceeds to spend 30 euros on glittery full length skirt at ''thrift'' store #and another 20 on moonstone ring at gandalf. stops herself frm bying full akotee store at least #momu archive pieces were also insane btw. seeing a >100 yr old piece like ''this dress is a sleeping beauty: it must lie flat. #The sleeves are torn in several places and are so delicate that the garment is almost too fragile to move''. like ohh everythings transient #insane to see a party costume with armpit sweat stains still chronicling the night out of someone long gone. this too will perish some day #anyway tram ride and dinner at my dads was also good but obv i dont take doxxable pictures of that stuff yanno #i never made it to the flea market or library which also apparently had some typa montly book sale going on at its square. but ah well <3

[bsaka7]

i need to stop getting halfway through books and then deciding i kind of hate them but continuing to read them anyway (jk I almost never abandon a book) I've read a few absolutely stunning books this year, but I feel like, especially recently, so much of my reading has felt like a slog and I don't know if it's because because my external life is thin at the moment, I'm asking more from the books I'm reading, or if I'm just in a rut of picking up stuff I'm not really enjoying...

#The recent exception is contact Carl Sagan which is my fav book I've read this year thank u rhu #I'm reading Susan Sontag I etc right now it's. Meh. I just got it cuz it was 1.50 #Idk... Looking at my stats on how I rate books... my average overall this year is a 6.2/10 as opposed to a 6.8/10 last year????? #Idk #I need to go to the library this weekend #Cuz the only book to read I have out rn is the stand by stephan King that my coworker told me to read #And I really don't think i can do it. I read like the first 20 pgs and idk if I can do 1100 pages of that I'm sorry.... #Idk. Need to read something I'm excited about.... #Or at least will think about in a brain itch way... #House of leaves was good I guess but I didn't love it #Tbh sort of having the same problem with writing rn #I'm not genuinely excited about any of it but I want to do it nonetheless #And those are like. My only hobbies other than running #Which is like. Horrid cuz it's on the treadmill... Cuz it's like - 8 outside #So if u have any recs as always ill take em.