#book: the daydreams

[haveyoureadthispoll]

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good. Back in 2004, The Daydreams had it a cast of innocent-seeming teenagers acting and singing their hearts out, amazing ratings, and a will-they-or-won’t-they romance that steamed up fan fiction forums. Then, during the live season two finale, it all imploded, leaving everyone scrambling to understand why. Afterward, the four stars went down very different paths. Kat is now a lawyer in Washington, DC. Liana is the bored wife of a famous athlete. Noah, the show’s golden boy, emerged unscathed and is poised to become a household name. And Summer, the object of Noah’s fictional (and maybe real-life) affections, is the cautionary tale. But now the fans are demanding a reunion special. The stars all have private reasons to come forgiveness, revenge, a second chance with a first love. But as they tentatively rediscover the magic of the original show, old secrets threaten to resurface—including the real reason behind their downfall. Will this reunion be a chance to make things right? Or will it be the biggest mess the world has ever seen? No matter what, the ratings will be wild.

#book: the daydreams #author: laura hankin #con #roma

[xisadorapurlowx]

#it me #hmmm daydreaming go brrr #writing #fiction #creative writing #author #writerblr #writing community #my writing #writer #writers of tumblr #indie author #writing memes #novel writing #am writing #fantasy writing #book writing #fiction writing #story writing #writing blog #writing fiction #writing inspiration #writing meme

[ginasdiary]

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw

~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #girlblogging #moodboard #harry potter #classic academia #vanilla girl #books and libraries #old aesthetic #old library #classic literature #literature #sleepy hollow #berlin #street art #dark aesthetic #dark feminine aesthetic #obsessive daydreaming #coffee #heavenly delusion #gothic romanticism #dark romanticism #romantic academia #romanticism #ancient rome #coquette aesthetic #candles #fyp #poets on tumblr #studyblr

[yet-another-autism-blog]

It's actually really ableist that I have several expensive interests and no money. I should be given 5k a month just autism related spending money

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism #autistic #autism spectrum disorder #this is sarcasm #but also its true #special interest #i have several expensive special interests #they all tie into each other #glam rock music which leads into fashion/makeup #but also ties into music in general #anyway i went to the store to buy hair dye and black face glitter #because i need it for an outfit for an upcoming concert #they didnt have either one #but i stopped at the bookstore #and they had david bowies moonage daydream book #about ziggy stardust #and they had a beginners learn-to-play drums set #and i wanna learn to play drums #but i think i need to get better at guitar before i take on a whole new instrument #but i cant justify spending the money right now #especially with the upcoming concert #thats going to be expensive #i have to go out of state for it

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Humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, arts, daydreams.

Our souls really weren't made for this world.

#quotes #feelings #emotions #english literature #thoughtful #wise words #humans #books #art #daydreams #true story #words #escapism

[animehouse-moe]

Art from Ryoko Kui's Daydream Hour

So I just got finished drafting a (way too long) post about Ryoko Kui's Daydream Hour art book, and I didn't end up using all the images I'd gotten of the art book. So I figured I'd share them here! There's a lot of wonderful and fun art in here so it'd be a shame to not be able to share it.

#ryoko kui #daydream hour #delicious in dungeon marcille #delicious in dungeon #izutsumi #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi #marcille dungeon meshi #dunmesh #manga art book #manga art #anime and manga #manga

[hearts4annabeth]

percy jackson who always makes sure to put his shoes next to yours whenever you stay over. even after you walk into his and sally’s apartment, he carefully walks over to the doorway and moves your shoes next to his.

#requests for blurbs and headcanons r open!! #percy jackson #percy jackson headcanon #percy jackson x reader #percy jackson drabble #percy jackson blurb #percy jackson and the olympians #book percy jackson #percy jackson daydream

[the-ghost-of-mr-dolphin]

when i say “i can’t talk right now, i’m doing hot girl shit.” what i really mean is “i can’t talk right now, i’m doing my bio hw while listening to classical music and pretending i’m a female scientist in the 1700s learning in secret using books i stole from the academy when they refused to let me in, i’m hiding away in the attic of the opera house (where i work) while the orchestra rehearses beneath me. they’ll never accept me in the world of academia, but i know i’m destined for greatness.”

#study motivation #studyblr #college #acedemic #dark acedemia #light acedemia #history nerd #history #feminist #maladaptive daydreaming #romance books #bookworm #booklr #bio major #meme #adhd #adhd meme #lesbian #funny #love #mental health #positivity #cottagecore #autism #wlw

[dunmeshistash]

Hello! I vaguely remembered there was a page in Daydream Hour book of Laios' party sharing a sofa, Kabru's party also sitting on a different sofa together, while Mithrun is wrapped in a blanket and sleeping (?) alone on another sofa. Do you have the page of that? Because I tried looking on the tags of the party but I can't find this particular page. Thanks in advance!

I'm pretty bad at tagging the parties to be fair, you can find this one under modern clothing, I'll go back and add the party tags!

#Daydream hour #ask #books-are-my-life-stuff

[neondreams2145]

#cyberpunk #cyberpunk aesthetic #quoteoftheday #cybercore #internet culture #neon daydreams #book quotes #neuromancer #william gibson

[samipekoe]

thank you to the person who sent me the pics of demon king laios now I can realize my vision

#i kinda cooked tbh.....finally something i can post normally. when its done #my back hurts i have to get off my desk #also im a huge dumbass i forgot i own the daydream hour books. i could have looked at demon king laios there

[fairydrowning]

"I need days when I can be alone, to think, to daydream."

– Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

#to think to daydream #dark academism #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #books & libraries #dark acadamia aesthetic #words #classic literature #literature quotes #quotations #spilled love #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled words #dark academia literature #books and literature #lit

[shortnotsweet]

#rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #house of the dragon #rhaenyra x alicent #hotd #the reference photo for the first sketch is based on lamia and the knight #this is also like a hybrid v of the show and the book #it’s like. like partial longing partial hatred and power dynamic but it’s set into motion by the oppressive forces around both of them #but Rhaenyra gets to be a knight in some capacity or maybe it’s part of Alicent’s daydream #where she grants her stepdaughter the power to save them both and fly them far far away for the rest of their days #this is loosely connected to that other sketch I did of them #in every universe they’ve got smt going on like a little something for spice #my art

[disguisedfeelings]

I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

#books & libraries #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia quotes #dark academia #english literature #wordpress #booklovers #john green #vintage #introvert #quotes #writerscommunity #daydreaming #pretty words

[padfoot-lupin77]

To all the people that don’t read books/ obsess over shows and movies / make scenarios of fictional characters in their heads / have maladaptive daydreaming: what exactly goes through that head of yours? Is it, like, empty space? Is it quiet? Is there just more room for anxiety?

#genuinely don’t understand how they cope without fictional characters #I was telling my friends that I got into Taylor swift by assigning her songs to characters and imaging scenarios and #I realized how weird it sounded to them. like. this isn’t the standard. but. what is? #maladaptive daydreaming #fictional characters #characters #books #book tumblr #fandoms

[animehouse-moe]

Ryoko Kui's Daydream Hour

I am moving at a glacial pace with tidying up and editing the images of this art book, so I'm going to take a break and talk about Kui's incredible character design on Delicious In Dungeon, using elves here as an example

So, first of all, race-defining traits. With the elves, it's obviously ears as the first. But, Kui plays around with that far more and in an incredibly natural way. The size of their ears differs, the angle at which they protrude from the side of the head can be different, their rotation in terms of where the opening of the ear faces can change, and even the "pointyness" is unique to each elf.

It creates incredibly varied views and "styles" of elf within the world, and complements a lot more of the physical traits that reflect ethnicity in our world.

Take, for example, the hair of elves. In the vast majority of cases it remains blonde or silver/white, and is straight. As you can tell with some of the images, it's not always smooth or silky like some exhibit, but in the vast majority of cases, for elves that are pure elves, their hair is straight (potentially with some shape/volume as you can see with the gray-haired elf with green markings on their face).

Similarly, elves are shown to have characteristically blue or green eyes. Which begins to draw your attention towards an outlier.

This elf. The one with purple eyes. Immediately, you might think "oh, they must only be part elf", but Ryoko Kui was only laying a trap with that idea. This elf is certainly 100% elf, it's just that they exhibit traits that are heterogenous to how Kui's defined elves as a race.

The biggest outliers being the purple eyes, but then also the ears. Here's the thing though, there's not a race that strongly exhibits purple eyes throughout Ryoko Kui's work on Delicious In Dungeon. It's just that elves exhibit strong homogeneity in regards to eye color. A similar thing can arguably be said about the ears which may make viewers think something's up. They're certainly the smallest of the bunch, and the most rotated, but other elves also see aggressively rotated ears, just not to the degree that this one does.

If you want to talk about how the traits of elves mix with that of other races we actually have two examples. Marcille Donato, obviously, as a half elf and half tall-man, but also this other blonde woman with blue eyes.

We know of Marcille's heritage so let's focus on the woman on the right. The first thing that you notice as a heterogenous is her hair: it's wavy. It's a trait that's very much separate from Kui's depiction of elves. Similarly, the shape of the eyes betrays that much more narrow and sharp style.

Then there's also the ears, which are larger, noticeably shorter, more round, and most noteworthy are thicker.

With that last piece I'm sure many are thinking, "Oh, she has to be half Gnome!". Yes, the shape and size of the ears does very much fit Kui's style of Gnome (as does her height, I'll say more later), but let me show you a (bad and unedited) image of how Kui draws gnomes.

Their eyes are far more slanted and downturned. It's a very strong trait of the Gnomes, alongside their very prominent noses and hair that isn't noticeably curly or wavy.

So no, it's not Gnome, and I wouldn't say it's Dwarf either. My guess is that this woman is part half-foot. The smaller stature (yes, the headshot shows that she's shorter than the other elves), the curly hair, the shorter yet more prominent and thicker ears, the rounder eyes, it all speaks to similarities expressed by Half-Foot characters.

And I think that's really incredible. It's just a wonderful highlight of how thoughtful and creative Kui is with their character design, and how unique they're able to make a race.

At a glance, you can tell who's what, but they don't all look the same by any means.

That's something that's really driven home with Ryoko Kui's Daydream Hour, and something I really want to talk about more. Though, as you can tell, I've got a lot of work ahead of me to get images that are actually good and presentable, so we'll see when I'm able to squeeze out a proper post.

#ryoko kui #daydream hour #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #marcille dunmeshi #marcille dungeon meshi #marcille donato #delicious in dungeon marcille #anime art book #anime art #manga art book #manga art #anime and manga #anime #manga