#book cult club

[starlightphil]

*insert drumroll here* …The DNP Book Cult Discord server is now live! Here's the link!

"What the fuck is the dnp book cult?" I hear you ask. Simple: the dnp book cult is a Discord server dedicated to both Dan Howell & Phil Lester and books. We’ll discuss our favorite books, authors we love - literally anything bookish - and Dip and Pip at the same time.

A huge shout out to my friend moons for testing everything and helping me fix my mistakes! Please tell me if you have suggestions, questions, or notice any issues in the server. I might be a millennial/gen z cusp but I'm a bit of a boomer when it comes to Discord lmao. I have ideas for more channels, roles, etc so stay tuned!

#dan and phil #dan howell #phil lester #amazingphil #dan and phil games #phandom #dnpgames #dapgames #daniel howell #dnp book cult #meg speaks #i called it a cult instead of a club because we're insane (affectionate) and it amuses me #right now the main item on my to do list is setting up color roles #shout out to my brother for teaching me stuff haha

[spurgie-cousin]

I deleted my long rambly text post, here's the video I made saying all the same shit lol

I'm so sorry for: 1. no captions, tiktok will not let me use the caption function without completely ruining the sound on my video 😭 2. how fast I'm talking, the video is sped up bc people on tiktok have no attention span 3. the birds doing mating calls in the background apparently

#sarah joy #fundie tiktok #Amish #Mennonite #anabaptist #cult book club #that plain girl #thatplaingirl

[powerbottomblake]

love how the men in yellowjackets (mainly jeff and walter) are just. extremely cool with their girlfailures having committed murder they're just THAT down bad. jeff is like oh cannibalism? ritualistic murder? idc babe whatever you need I love you so much while walter is like *desperate for mistussy voice* it's fine it's FINE that you're a serial killer my grandma was a killer too see we can even bond over it here take all my compensation money can I hit now can I hit. pretty please 🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏

#yellowjackets #they're INSANE #walter follows her into a cult knowing she's killed someone #jeff is like i can accept you having vored our ex girlfriend but i draw the line at no book club

[funnuraba]

Anyone who tries to tell you that fandom used to be chill before Kids These Days came along is lying to you, because I've been in the trenches going through old zines from the very beginning of organized science fiction fandom in the 1930s, and let me tell you, it was the autism Thunderdome. They were calling each other Hitler, getting into physical fights, writing into letter columns suggesting that other fans kill themselves.

To give the briefest of summaries: the first convention happened in 1936 with about 9 guys, and within three years they and all of sci-fi fandom had split in two over who got to plan the cons and who was a card-carrying Communist. By 1943 they'd had the first attempted fandom cult and the first faked suicide. Two different sex offenders were exposed, one the attempted cult leader and one a major player in the Communism feud. Another sex offender was only exposed in the 21st century after his death; in the 1940s he publicly proposed to a lesbian Satanist in the pages of A FANZINE and she had to politely suggest that this was best discussed in private. Everyone kept making fun of a teenage Ray Bradbury for being a terrible writer. They would tear their own friends' work to absolute shreds in public if they didn't like it!

Two young men got to the Chicago Worldcon by stowing away on boxcars and riding in the freezing cold for 30 hours (they got an award and cash prize for doing this). All this is taking place at a time where there were maybe 50 genuinely active fans, and they all knew each other and had to pay money to mail their fights to each other. It was wild out there, my friends.

#don wollheim: well HITLER... #robert lowndes: yes HITLER-- #wollheim: have you tried KILLING YOURSELF? #(every member of the futurians sends five different letters calling you a fascist) #oh and then partway through this they all start getting drafted into wwii #oh AND soon after this one really nasty guy wrote a tell-all book outing someone by name and complaining about all the gay sex #-that was happening in one of the biggest fan clubs #everybody thought the young dumb fans were ruining fandom and pro sci-fi within about 5 years of fandom's existence #It Has Always Been Thus #by first cult I mean Claude Degler but let's be honest the Futurians were a semi-cult situation in their own right

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Spin the bottle - Seventh Virtue

The fun part about early Seventh Virtue was writing Lonan & Harrison meeting each other for the first time all over again. Here’s an early section where they prove they cannot have a single normal conversation!!!

Their meet-cute is when Harrison gets caught thieving (by Lonan) and they almost kill each other. ❤️ Soooo on brand.

Seventh Virtue, circa 2021.

Text transcript under the cut!

“So you cut me, arrest me, throw me down here, and now you want to dine with me?”

“Yes,” Lonan said. He ripped open his cutlery packet, slipped out the black fork. As he unloaded bouts of fried rice, mounds of glossed orange chicken, and a generous helping of black pepper beef, he added, “And I didn’t cut you. You did that yourself.”

Harrison snorted. Oh god, he was starving. He wasn’t sure how long he could keep up the façade before he started drooling.

“That’s because you were going to stab me in the gut,” he said.

“I wasn’t going to stab you.”

“So what were you going to do with the knife? Use it to play spin the bottle with me?”

Lonan arched a brow. “Would you like to play spin the bottle with me?”

“If you’re the one I’d kiss, then sure.”

#the amount of money I’d pay to actually see them play spin the bottle #every time harrison asks Lonan a loaded question Lonan is always like YES lmao #should I share the end of this where the objective of spin the bottle…. IS MET??? #I love this moment sm #these were the early days of SV and every moment was magic #in other news I joined a novelists club at my uni today and talked all about this book! #am I converting near strangers to the lonanasona cult MAYBE #fancy excerpts #lonanasona

[vamprlestat]

i played a concerning amount of cult of the lamb today

#so cute of me when i thought this morning #‘ohh i’ll get started on the two towers chapters i need to read for the next book club meeting’ #so cute #m speaks #cult of the lamb

[box-tunnel-pod]

The first rule of book club is we talk about the books..

Book Club with Simon Guerrier will be released on 29th June!

#being human #being human uk #book club #novel #novels #based on the tv series #simon Guerrier #aidan turner #john mitchell #annie sawyer #cult tv #george sands #lenora crichlow #russell tovey #sinead keenan #bristol #Toby Whithouse #bbc three #bbc drama #supernatural #sci fi #science fiction #vampire #vampires #werewolves #werewolf #ghosts #ghost

[sandwichhour]

What’s in the pouch?

#jekyll and hyde #dr jekyll #ms hyde #ladies book club #I was meant to do work on lotd today but I bought cult of the lamb.... its so fun kdfjbg #Its fine I can work on it another day #its fine jfdg

[starlightphil]

Long shot but would anyone with experience with Discord who is interested in the dnp & books server I’m working on like to volunteer to be a “beta tester” for it? Basically I just need a few people who can give me feedback and maybe help with small technical issues lol. My lovely friend Moons has been helping but I don’t want to put it all on her and I think the more help the better! Thank you so much! 🫶🏻

#you will be paid with my undying gratitude #dnp book cult #also yes it is supposed to be cult not club lmao #I made up the name on the spot and I thought it was funny idk #right now I am trying to figure out how to make certain channels exclusive for certain roles #I might be a millennial gen z cusp but I feel like a boomer right now lmao

[spurgie-cousin]

ok the Duggar weddings are proving to be a serious pain in the ass bc they're not easy to get in a way that's good for streaming. so while I figure that out I think let's do a Rodrigues wedding:

#Jill's is arguably the wildest but I'll watch any of them lol #cult book club

[fungi-maestro]

Vic Sage getting scared on hallucinogens any% speedrun

#seal.txt #book club #vic sage #he's so like me for real... #imagining modern day vic. 60+ and everything. on tiktok talking about acid horror stories and doing dance trends. #he can barely use the camera but he has a great time anyway #but he's one of those old people you see on there that get a cult following because they seem generally interesting and avoid drama #hes one of thsoe guys you see pop up and he's just telling a story about a scary but kind of fun story that happened to him in the 90s #and all the comments are like 'isnt rhis that guy that disappeared for several years and was always personally attacking people ok tv' #he replies to these with a 👍 #rip vic sage you would have loved hyperpop

[camcorderrevival]

Desperately trying to explain to my very uninterested friends that Fight Club is best summed up by the lines “Someday, you will die, and until you know that, you are useless to me” and “This isn’t really death, we’ll be legend, we’ll never grow old.”

#IT'S ALL IN THE CONTRADICTIONS BABY!!!!!!!!!! #because Tyler is not some beacon of liberating ideology #though the members of FC and PM view him as such #It's about the way people (middle class white men - specifically) are indoctrinated #into ideologies that appear to serve and liberate them #but they do not #because Tyler's still at the top - he gets free food and transport #everyone calls him sir and he gives them homework assignments #he sells them the idea of freedom and then places himself #at the top of the cult he's created #overall - the shift from Fight Club to Project Mayhem #is the most important bit of the book #in terms of analysing belief and ideology #Fight Club

[lepakonpaska]

[happy rambling in the tags because i love my job so much ✨️🌻]

#im feeling happier than i have in years!! #i love tattoo culture a lot and this specific studio is PERFECT for me #there's three other people working there which is honestly a perfect amount. i don't get overwhelmed but i can still be social #and like. one of them is a cool as shit woman who also hosts queer kink events and is as neck deep in fandom culture as i am #one is a guy running on three redbulls/hour and has a need to draw dicks EVERYWHERE. he also has a rainbow skull called princess skulldaddy #and my mentor is the kindest person ever even tho she pretends to be a grouchy old woman #she is already super protective over me and when i was complaining that i can't glare at people effectively enough she was like #'awww but it's good that you're so sweet! never let people take that quality from you' and i was like cool thanks im gonna cry #also I've annoyed her into listening to my favorite bands! yesterday st aurora started playing in the studio so i naturally went '👀!!!' #and she was like 'that's right you fucking bastard you've convinced me to join your cult' 😌 #also the clients are really cool too!! #also also the studio is a sponsor for helsinki pride and we're gonna have a queer book club and wine & create evening etc and AHHHHHH #and it's right by the sea at the PRETTIEST place with a lot of trees and boats and swans and god i got so lucky like? am i dreaming?? #i get to make art be gay as hell learn tattooing and chat with really cool and nice people all day genuinely what could be better #personal

[golden-doves]

Okay, so no art here but fuck it, The Rose has me at gun point to share this so oh well.

Azami, as discussed before, is like Shamura in the wisdom aspect, and she often reads with him.

ANYWAYS, she also writes short stories. And now I am going to share one once a day to fill up some space when working on the story.

<3 Day one:

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Meaningless words pierce my ears and I'm left useless on the floor. A shaken mess of nerves, the voices around me are spinning angrily as I attempt to calm myself, yet I'm still left shaking.

Maybe I deserve this fear, after all I merely sat there lazily watching as the walls collapsed around me.

My minds a mess. And I have no support for it, maybe I should give up. Maybe I should let them win.

Yet I have to keep going, for if I submit to the chains holding me down it will be evident that I am the one who has shackled myself to this misery.

I can feel the broken wings of others who have suffered the same fate I would have been left it as I fly away.

Yet the chains around me pull taught, and I struggle against them, angry tears fill my eyes as I attempt to escape, and I fall to the floor once again, broken.

Misery is my only company in these times of sadness, yet I look up to see a light shining before me, beckoning me to break free of these chains.

I can hear them clink behind me as I stand once again, taking a step forth and running to the light, words of encouragement from my friends wrapping around me like a shield against the words of all who try to harm me.

My weight is thrown forth as I stumble, the chain lay broken behind me. I am pulled into the warmth of those I love as I finally find myself free.

The lights come on around me and I find myself laying down, my lover beside me as the babble of children playing down the halls fill my ears. And I'm left reminded to keep going. For her. **For Them**

I find myself free as I lay beside her, watching the peaceful breaths she takes as she sleeps, and finally, at last. *I'm Free*

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Shamura cried when reading this the first time because he was so proud of her for writing it <3

Garden, Signing off

#They have a book club #Azami Writes #Shamura says Hi guys #the fucking Rose told me to #cult of the lamb garden au #garden au #shamura #cotl #cult of the lamb #cult of the lamb fan characters #cotl shamura #Azami

[libraryleopard]

Young adult paranormal graphic novel

Two estranged childhood friends–a witch and a werewolf–reunite to investigate ominous demonic happenings in their small New England town

Cute & witchy

Queer, Deaf, Jewish, and Chinese American protagonist; nonbinary, Chinese American protagonist, F/NB romance

#this is cute but i do think the plot of a bit weak #horse demon…cults? #reread this for a class/book club #2023 reads #lulu speaks #lulu reads #books #lulu reads mooncakes #mooncakes #okay that's my yearly reads up through march #gosh i really fell behind on keeping track of them here

[aliens-took-my-iwa-chan]

[TGS COMIC SPOILERS BTW]

only saw the newest chapter like two seconds ago BUT-

sobbing-

HDJCJSJDJ REAL-

its so good… its SO good……

#also omg Im spreading the tgs pandemic to literally everyone around me bestie #I just got another one of my friends to read it #another one added to the cult- I mean book club >:)