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slightlyrebelliouswriter23 · 8 months

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Regarding Fourth Wing, I had great fun reading it and I love love love the dragons and the disability rep. But I also agree that tiktok and booktok has hyped it up so so much, that I think it is a disservice to the book, as I feel like people expect a master piece that will rock their world, and what they get is a good book with hours of fun, that can make you laugh.

And I just want more hype in general that is like “this is a nice book, I had fun/I enjoyed it” instead of “THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ OH MY GOD MY LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME”. Like less can do it, and you don’t end up making massive expectations, that are likely to fail cause the bar is so so high.

I really Fourth Wing, and it reminded me of a book series I read for many years, that to this day is still one of my faves and holds so many memories.

you get me! 😤🤝 that's exactly my thoughts. fortunately for me, i don't have tiktok, so the "hype" i was experiencing was very much second-hand word-of-mouth. i did know it was a tiktok sensation somehow though, so i went into it very warily.

like. did i enjoy Fourth Wing? exceedingly so! will i purchase the next one? absolutely! do i think it's taking it too far for every Barnes & Noble in America to be sold out of physical copies? yes, yes i do.

at the end of the day, books are such a personal experience, regardless of content or quality. i wouldn't necessarily want people to lessen their excitement so much as i would caution everyone receiving book recommendations to take everything with a grain of salt.

the thing that i love about a book isn't necessarily going to be the thing you love about a book, and vice versa. when people say "OH MY GOD THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING" just imagine they tacked on an implicit "to me" at the end of that sentence and you should be good. 🖤🦇

#the worst is when you have to be like ''sorry i hated your fav'' to friends 😔#thereve been so many popular books that i just could NOT get through #and fortunately fourth wing was not one of them!#but that's for a different post 😌#asked and answered #nonnie #secret library

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lieutenant-sarcastic · 10 months

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#this will settle it! this will settle the private conversation between two people who barely cook !!!!#weve said stove so many times that it ceases to look and sound like a word #i grew up with electric stoves like #yeah they WORK differently but cooking on the stove is cooking on the stove #ur not special or better than me bc u have a gas stove 😌#i hope ur gas leaks and morgan freeman has to shooy u thru a pint of milk 😌 /jk #up to something #polls #edit: *Mickey mouse voice* ha ha! I’ve made a mistake!#This post was not supposed to escape !!!!!! Fuck !!#my brother: lol is this about the political shit that happened a few months ago? me: THE WHAT??????

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thatswhatsushesaid · 3 months

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psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌#editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously)#but he is just. /clenches my fists!!!#THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!!#who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war?#who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life?#who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession?#no one!!! that's who!!#ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

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airborneice · 6 months

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“What’s this one supposed to mean?”

“Hmm..beauty or strength, sometimes.”

“Perfect.”

@sketchbookweek Day 2 - Wilderness / Witchcraft

going back to my roots of drawing sketchbook being gay in a field

#update I’m doing the silly coloured speech bc I realised i didn’t make it super clear who’s saying what jjghgd #Hilda sketchbook #sketchbookweek #hilda the series #sketchbook ship #art tag #sooo this was the first drawing I did for skbk week and let me tell you guys #it fought me. every. step of the way #i spent like 3 evenings working on the sketch just to scrap it and redo it on the next one #I’m so rusty with art I haven’t been able to do anything remotely ambitious in so long sooo yeah :’)everyone lower your expectations please #however I do think this came out kinda nice #spiritually I guess it’s a redraw of that drawing from 2020 so seeing a bit of improvement is nice anyway #i love these prompts btw I wish I could’ve done both #the flower is a jasmine btw. every website on the internet had a different idea of its meaning so I picked the ones I liked 😌#is it worth mentioning that I had some doodles I wanted to post for day 1 but I literally could not get them done on time :’)#an attempt was made but ah well. onto the next

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kindahoping4forever · 10 months

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Calum @ The 5SOS Show Tour Santiago - 27 July 2023

📸: Nelson Galaz for Tu Medio and Agenda Musical

#will he now be introducing different colored star shoes to coordinate as well 😌😂#5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #calum #the 5sos show tour santiago #the 5sos show tour #kh4f post #also arm #looking hench my brother #baby but how much you benchin big boy

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idle-compy · 5 months

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kenji kon is so old justin bieber photoshoots

"this trend is months old"

my honest reaction to that information:

#he had all of these hanging on his wall unironically #jurassic world camp cretaceous #camp cretaceous #pretend theres music on the gif 😭#also the longer u look at it the worse the timing is dont fall into the trance #kenji kon #fanart #my ability to make kenji look different everytime i draw him is my special talent 😌#c posts #my art

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allpromarlo · 18 days

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i don’t think a character has ever polarized me as much as geto has. i will hate on that mfer without a lick of shame but let me see ONE fanart of him and

#he’s so UGHHHHH but i just Do Not like his character #at least post defection #bc oh you massacred an entire village started a cult and tried to manipulate a fragile 16 year old into a murder machine??? ok #pre defection that’s my baby my angel my sweet boy #but cult leader geto is just. No??#design wise yes but everything else boy GET the fuck outta here #that’s why i like kenjaku better bc he actually makes the look work #if you don’t believe me look at the difference between jjk0 geto and s2 kenjaku. goodnight #and also a bit irked by his fans constantly bringing him up in conversations about gojo……#like ok. we get it you think jjk is a BL drama. whatever can we move on now #like who called yall LMAOOOOO #n e ways geto my pookie bear my baby angel <3<3<3 i h8 his ass so much i was laughing when yuta black flashed him into next tuesday #and those lil girls he adopted?? BROOOO when sukuna killed them that was my reason for living #like YESSSS GET THEM AGAIN FOR ME KING!!!#they served no purpose and they were annoying goodbye #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #suguru geto #also stsg shippers dni #bc ew #no #makes sense. does not compel me at all #i Do Not want to see it 😌

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seraphicalsuccubus · 26 days

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ya girl bleached and dyed her hair and had new extensions installed today so she looks like a 12/10 bad bitch again for her birthday on Monday despite not doing anything for it and spending it entirely alone just rotting in her room like every other day lmao

but oh well I don’t care because I look good as FUCK now. like. I’ll literally just do my makeup and my hair and like maybe some self care shit and straight up sit here and admire myself all day for my birthday like the true Taurus sun (and Venus) that I am bro. like. I don’t give a fuck because DAMN SON I look so good and FEEL so good since I’ve changed something about my appearance up a bit again. like. life isn’t so bleak rn tbh but I know that’s only because I feel great and excited and just so much lighter and free than I did before with my hair and extensions done again lmao. just beyond thrilled to be rid of the pink, it overstayed it’s welcome this time around and I’m glad it’s GONE (for now, I’ll bring it back again eventually) lmao

but like. y’all can’t tell me NOTHIN rn man. I feel so ALIVE and THRIVING and HAPPY and I look like a fkn GODDESS omfg. like. I’m literally gonna go fight god just because I can simply due to the fact that I look fuckin amazing and he wouldn’t stand a chance against a bitch like this tbh LMAO

#if I were in a Greek tragedy the hubris in this post would be my demise btw lmao anyways !!!#did somethin a lil different w it this time 👀👀👀 but the green(s) are back baybee !!!!#I did my hair half head split down the middle both my favorite shades of green I’ve ever done doctored up a lil bit w some dye mixing #so I got another set of my own lil custom colors that I mixed for myself to spruce my old favorite greens up a bit 😌 lmao anyways #ringing in 27 the right way on Monday with some fresh green hair as the true earth goddess taurus babe I should tbh 🥰

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essektheylyss · 1 year

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We don't know what Essek uses the geometer on the top of his tower for, given that it's not necessarily something that automatically aligns with the rest of his academic interests. It could relate in some way, but we don't actually know one way or another.

In that vein, I've decided to believe that he in fact continuously monitors planar shifting so he will know immediately if anything particularly major is happening in Bazzoxan.

#me always: this is about essek actually caring deeply for his brother regardless of capacity to admit it. if you even care.#critical role #essek thelyss #am I making this post and promptly turning around and using the geometer for something entirely different? yes. 😌#headcanons and fic are different circles in the venn diagram. they can overlap but they do not necessarily.

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torgawl · 5 months

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i wonder what this means

we know judgeman's appearance is similar to lady justice, who has a blindfold over her eyes, to represent impartial or blind justice. it's interesting that during sukuna's trial, and subsequent death penalty veredict, the stitches break on one side and that eye opens. something that didn't happen during the first death penalty delivered to yuuji despite both eyes opening up. we know everything higuruma is aware about his own ct, and ce in general, he grasped through reverse engeneering. his surprise about judgeman confiscating sukuna's cursed tool and not the cursed technique highlights that higuruma is only aware of his own technique due to things he was able to experience and deduce from the short time that has passed since he became a sorcerer. it's safe to say he had never persecuted someone who used a cursed tool before and therefore was unaware of this aspect of his technique (similar situations have happened before to characters like geto and even the way mahoraga works). this makes me wonder if judgeman's abilities are something we and higuruma have limited information on and there's something else going on, hinting at a possible outcome for higuruma/higuruma's character.

judgeman's eye opening is especially interesting because that is exactly the stance higuruma decided to take once he lost faith in the justice system. jujutsu kaisen and the concept of cursed energy and cursed techniques are very based in buddhist philosophy, or rather the power system is, and more specifically the concept of suffering. buddha recognised there was suffering in life and started guiding people into following a practice to get rid of that suffering, through the four noble truths the noble eightfold path. which ultimately would result in liberation from the samsara, cycle of rebirth and suffering. a lot of that lifestyle is learning how to properly process suffering in a way that's beneficial to the individual with the goal of achieving enlightment. in jjk suffering directly creates cursed energy and when that suffering sort of accumulates it originates cursed spirits. jujutsu sorcerers are basically people able to process their own suffering and their own ce to fight and exorcise the suffering that's constantly emerging from humanity (tying deeply with the core theme of jjk and a big plot point - the merging). you could even draw parallels between ways individuals cope with their own pain and their cursed techniques, which is very obvious in characters like geto (ingesting curses through cursed spirit manipulation akin to bottling up his own feelings and letting that suffering eat him from the inside out), for example. where am i going with this? i'm not sure (sorry if you read all of this expecting a really cool theory) but what if this is sort of an awakening moment for higuruma? a moment where his technique will finally align with his beliefs? i just don't believe the differences in judgeman throughout the story are a coincidence. not when judgeman also has this form, with both its eyes completely shut.

#or maybe i'm coping trying to find a way for higuruma not to die 😂#but!!! i want to believe new age sorcerers are /different/ especially because they work together #i also have faith on ino's cursed technique? i mean we barely know anything about his auspicious beast summon - ryu #we also have yuuji there and his ability to swap souls the training he did with choso and kamo hinting at blood manipulation and we also #saw his arm in that one panel that we didn't get any information on yet and his punch against sukuna #that could or not be divergent fist able ti touch the soul?!#and yuuji IS sukuna's opponent so yuuji will cook eventually #i digress but i want to believe there's hope here so i will cope this way with the new chapter #watch higuruma slay like one or two chapters from now 💅😌#if he kicks the bucket pretend i never made this post please ahsjsh #or alternatively what if the stitches are like a haruta-esque situation with the markings?#food for thought #jjk leaks #higuruma hiromi #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 💭

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babacontainsmultitudes · 4 months

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80 or so years of life really ain't enough can I have an elf lifespan instead please? Or at least a dwarf's... I need at least a couple hundred years... Oh and a new spine every 5 or so years, if that's not too much to ask. 3. 3 years actually. Yeah, a new spine every 2 years, and a lifespan of 350-750 years, that's all I want really.

#SORRY this is such a random thing to be posting about and I guess it's a vent post haha #I suppose I've just been feeling a lot of... dread and fear lately... especially in the late hours...#''Lately'' as in on and off for most of my life but *a lot* as of the past few months #Like #Oh it's weirdly embarrassing to talk about this here it's a tad personal uh **tw (discussions of) death #But do you ever just feel paralyzed by the knowledge that one day you'll be 40? Or 60? Or 80? If you're lucky!#I worry a lot about wasting my life #I worry a lot about dying an unpleasant death #Or a painful one #I suppose I've always been gerascophobic...#But finishing school and turning 23 and not having a job and having just a hard time with my physical health lately...#I haven't been great I guess #I just feel like time has been moving so quickly lately!!!#And I've been going nowhere.#:0 not to be too much of a bummer y'all I'm not like feeling horrible rn or anything but I do need to vent I think #Cause if not it just stays coiled up inside of me.#*gah* I should channel all of this energy into Glenn in my pirate fic lol #😌 he's insecure (in part) cause he feels old #🥲 ough and I don't feel amazing about that most recent chapter but I guess that's a whole new vent #working on some different stuff for a bit.#ANYWAYS #I hope whoever happens to be reading this is having a good night ✨️#oh or day if it's day for you lol

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pien-art · 1 year

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thought id share today's progress on this traditional painting i am working on (oils on canvas) hehe

#traditional art #my art #im always hesitant to post my traditional art on here #bc it is so different from what i usually post #and ill probably delete later but its been a while since i had a painting this this good and productive and easy so i am posting it 😌#the entire painting is a meter by a meter #or like 3.3 by 3.3 ft #might post the whole thing when its finished #if i ever finish lmao #my one weakness

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soulmates-for-real · 2 months

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08x17 Goodbye Stranger

#08x17 Goodbye Stranger #dorky dean #long suffering sam #most episodes are memorable to me just because of SamDean moments 😌#or j2 moments #same difference #my post

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thatswhatsushesaid · 3 months

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the fool 🤝 jin guangyao being easily the most dynamic and compelling characters in their respective canons, likely for reasons that were substantially if not entirely unintentional on the part of their respective authors

#this thought brought to u by a conversation i had earlier today with confusion-and-more about all the different reasons jgy compels us #and remembering exactly how i felt when i first developed beloved brainrot back in the late 90s/early 00s #did robin hobb intend to write such an iconic queer deuteragonist when she first wrote assassin's apprentice?#just based on the panels i've attended while listening to her talk (and she is a very thoughtful and engaging speaker)#i truthfully don't think so since iirc she didn't intend for the fool to become as integral to the six duchies novels as he became #now try to imagine the six duchies books without him as the fulcrum that balances the weight of the whole narrative #now try to imagine mdzs without jin guangyao and his capacity for tremendous visionary change and also his darkness #also quick note don't read this post and think i'm trying to assert that they're similar characters because i am not #beyond the fact that i do not think that what makes them both so compelling to me #is what either author had in mind (at least consciously) while writing them #that said i'm so glad that they did. bless u robin bless u mxtx #thank you for the gift of the fool and jin guangyao #i don't think i'll ever get over the terminal case of brainrot i have about both of them and i'm fine with that #the fool #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌

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protoindoeuropean · 2 months

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So, he has a new series out so I was reminded of my obsession with Ding Yuxi again and in watching some YT video about the new series I was again struck by how fascinating it is to me how different his looks can be. For example, when I watched the first series with him in the main role (The Romance of Tiger and Rose; which yes, I'll readily admit, I agreed to watch in a large part because I saw him on the poster and was like, well, I wouldn't mind seeing more of this 😏), there were two ~versions of him – in the historical and the modern setting:

And like yeah they all wear those wigs in historical dramas so that's not particularly remarkable, right. Little did I know that this was just a tiny tip of the iceberg

Because then when I went to look him up afterwards on YT etc. and the first pictures I saw were these:

about which I was at first like, is that even him? Like the face is just ... not the same in these? But ok, what do I know, anyway ... And then I watched an interview where he has yet another different look, and that seemed kind of in between, so that "bridged the gap" in a way. And then! – in that same interview – they juxtaposed him with another of his earlier looks: