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strange-daughter · 2 years

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Review: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo

Finished this book a few days ago and wanted to share my thoughts.

Spoiler Warning! Review under the cut.

My initial impression whilst reading: This book is interesting, but very long winded - I could do with less minutiae of each and every setting Lily finds herself in. The time jumps are confusing -even with the timelines provided for context- this doesn’t feel like a book that necessitates non-linear storytelling. The plot moves forward at a glacial pace.

^obvious simplifications

My impressions now: I take back everything I thought!!!

Writing: It’s often said that there a purpose to everything in a literary work, and that definitely applies to this book. All my complaints? Throw them out the window. That slow progression, the time skips/flashbacks, the slow pace of the book all have their purpose.

Turns out that I’m just an impatient little bitch who is used to liking books based on pure first-readthrough impressions. I like prose that grips me and sweeps me away, I like being immersed and caught up in all the thrills and romance of a plot or setting. There’s no surprise that “Last Night” gave me some trouble while reading. Malinda Lo indulges in the details, she describes settings, characters, and actions thoroughly and she does so with care for an audience that probably isn’t as familiar with Chinese culture as I am. So yes, scene descriptions take some time to get through and you’ll have to weather some outfit descriptions but they all come together to tell a story. Lo paints a rich environment that is as much part of the story (forms as much of the story) as the characters are.

Characters: Let me tell you that I’ve never felt closer to a character than Lily. I’m not Asian American, I didn’t grow up in the US; nevertheless, Lily and Shirley’s feelings about living and growing up in combined but separate cultures still hit close to home.

I related to Lily’s discomfort with certain aspects of liberal Western culture, Shirley’s desire to fit in with American society (the scene at the ice rink? impeccable), I felt the dread and indignation of being othered when characters asked if Lily spoke English. I have felt the simple joy of sharing familiar foods with a friend, like Lily sharing ginger ice cream with Kath or snacks with her brothers, I cried when Judy gave Lily warm buns at the end of the story (aside here: the subtle celebration of our food culture and its importance to us!). I recognized the constant negotiation that takes place when one is born into two cultures, the push and pull of East and West, the pressures and pitfalls of being a ‘model minority’.

(Another small aside: I loved loved loved the use of actual Chinese characters in the text and the use of Chinglish in dialogue! I don’t even speak Canto as Lily and Shirley do in the story but even seeing Chinese characters in a text made me feel so proud. They felt like a declaration: we don’t have to be softened into Pinyin, look at us and become familiar with us, there is nothing foreign or fearful about us.)

Queerness: The story “Last Night” tells is twofold. One is about the Chinese American experience in the 40s and 50s, made most evident through the flashbacks and political tensions running in the background of the story’s present. Our second story is about Lily and Kath and the Telegraph Club.

Dare I repeat myself when I say I’ve never felt closer to a character? Despite the fact that I was born in the early 2000s, Lily’s path to adulthood and discovery of her queerness, her feelings and anxieties closely mirrored my own and, I imagine, many others’.

Growing up Chinese, especially as a woman/daughter, the familial and societal expectations of being a ‘good daughter’ are immense -even breaking the smallest rule can feel like a greater betrayal than it is. Both Lily and Shirley struggle with this idea, though, to Lily, Shirley seems to be much more comfortable straddling this ambiguous line (perks of being the extrovert friend, I guess). Lily has an added burden: the anxiety accompanying self-discovery that seems stupid and unnecessary but reads true to any queer person. The dichotomy of being a ‘good Chinese daughter’ and queer? Just quadruple the panic.

Pride: The subtle thread throughout this novel, which becomes most evident towards the climax of the story, is the feeling of pride and resistance. It is partially engendered through the setting of the Telegraph Club, where queer women felt safe enough to flaunt and express their sexualities and genders. Tommy, Lana, more characters I can’t name but am so grateful for. Lily and Kath’s budding relationship that grows even with the distance between them. All of these women, though unable to show their full selves to society, so fully embraced their truth. I was astounded when Lily stuck to her convictions when she came out to her mother. Lily, who I’d related to for her timidness and insecurity and frustration, who I’d almost fully expected to cave to her mother’s pressure. It was an exhilarating reading moment for me, even when the consequences of Lily’s coming out unfolded, I felt so happy knowing that Lily was brave enough to refuse to lie about herself. In that moment, Lily became a character that I admired, I don’t know if I would have had the courage had I been in the same circumstances.

Malinda Lo writes in her afterword that she wrote this book to bring about more visibility and recognition to Lesbian and Asian American history. It is researched with care and feels like an affirmation to queer women today: here is a piece of your history. So maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised that I, as a biracial person who’s grown up queer and between cultures in the 21st century, have never felt as wholly seen and understood as whilst reading this book.

(final aside: I’m sure there are more themes and motifs I could talk about but I’ve run out of steam here, TL;DR this is a very good book with important themes)

I’m gonna be honest here, I was pretty apprehensive about picking up this book - as one tends to be when books get pushed on you through ‘booktok’. I wondered if this was just another book whose significance was being overemphasized simply because of its queerness and diversity - the kind of book that is lauded for a laundry list of ‘representative’ traits but ends up missing all the good story beats and feeling entirely hollow. I’m very glad it isn’t. “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” was the very opposite of my expectations: vibrant, emotional, lush, familiar, a book I didn’t know I’d needed.

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egophiliac · 2 months

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don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 #twisted wonderland book 7 part 7 spoilers #and so ends the saga #(this time for real i promise)#malleus post-episode 7: shroud...i should have heeded your warnings...now tell me more about how i may hunt this elusive 'snipe'#alas poor puppies :( i'm glad they had a little aside about how they can fix them after this whole mess #let ortho have his dogs!#man i love that this has come down to malleus vs technology though #MY FAVORITE #ortho: you can destroy the shell that links me to this mortal world...but can you select the CORRECT DOWNLOAD LINK???#malleus: (downloads a billion viruses and dies instantly)#also i'm probably the only one who thinks idia complaining about his own mental tartarus prison is funny #but there we go #idia has two modes and two modes only #he's either in the middle of a metaphor where he finally forgives himself for his brother's death and takes charge of his own destiny #or he's like 'fuck yeah i'm about to get isekai'd into the internet! (immediately falls over making dying whale sounds)'#wait no he has a third mode: actively suffocating because silver and sebek won't stop squishing him #look he's just delightful no matter what's going on okay

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cuties-in-codices · 4 months

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more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r

#since y'all liked them so much last time :)#here i love how you can tell the mending was done BEFORE the script was added #13th century #medieval manuscript repairs #book history #visible mending #parchment #medieval art #thomas de chabham #summa poenitentialis

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somnimagus · 5 months

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My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble:#i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually?#fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!!#especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

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ttpdjo · 1 month

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♡ my DREAMBOY ♡

#can you tell im obsessed?#this interview made me love him even more like if thats even possible #dreamboy was so out of it and i FEEL the same 🤣#anyways i love him #he should read me a book #if i say it enough it will happen maybe #joe keery #steve harrington #djo #gator tillman #lockscreens #?#sean lockwood #baron lamram #walter mckey #joekeeryedit #steveharringtonedit

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lemonzestedtea · 5 months

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the significance of the number, 3 in tgcf gets me every time.

xie lian's third ascension is when everything changes (for the better)

hua cheng introduces himself as "san lang" when he meets xie lian after his third ascension. "san lang" means "third son." it's the third time, or the third form (his third life, if you will) that hua cheng has met xie lian in.

there are three calamities (if you ignore bai wuxian, and if you still count qi rong as a calamity)

there are multiple trios — xie lian, mu qing, feng xin; shi wudu, he xuan, shi qingxuan; shi wudu, pei ming, ling wen; and so on.

there were thirty three officials who disgraced xie lian; and were consequently destroyed by hua cheng.

hua cheng released three thousand lanterns for xie lian.

he also died three times for xie lian; first as hong hong'er, second as wu ming, and third as the supreme ghost king.

all this information, coupled with the fact that three is considered a lucky number in chinese culture just makes me feel so many emotions

#these are just things i noticed #i feel like that one meme “i have connected the dots”#feel free to add more!! i think i would probably find more if i went through the books #these are all just from my memory and i read the books last year ok #i just love them so much can you tell #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #hua cheng #heaven official's blessing #feng xin #mu qing #shi qingxuan #he xuan #beefleaf #hualian #xianle trio #xianle quartet

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aroaceleovaldez · 6 months

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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

#pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?''#and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus #but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3''#and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to''#only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it #and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book #Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out''#Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.''#''this has been so bad for my health''#Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested.#Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him''#Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him.#and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE #though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it.#he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure''#nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards.#which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for

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laurents-secret-diary · 4 months

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oh damen we're really in it now.mp4

#captive prince #damen #damianos of akielos #damen of akielos #kings rising #prince's gambit #ITS HIM ITS MY GUY #also can i just say #i know i made him blush in the rip pitcher sketch because thats the correct interpretation of that scene. cuz he saw his thighs #but can we all agree that those must be the palest pastiest legs a man has ever put in direct sunlight #diogenes said to plato “this is a man” about that peeled chicken because he mistook it for Laurent in a chiton #i bet he burns like a lobster #you leave him in direct sunlight for too long and he starts heaving like an office laptop from 2016 booting up Baldurs Gate 3 #i am still in the middle of book 3 and when i tell you i am in DIRE NEED OF SOME LAURENT POV DECRIPTIONS OF DAMEN #TELL ME HOW LOVELY HE IS I NEED YOUR PASTY ASS TO SAY IT #I want to hear those rapid fire thoughts because you just know he is extinguishing them like summertime mosquitos #if the govart dies chapter is anything to go by #damen oh damen you really thought ancel was gonna shove that stick up his ass during that one performance. i love you.#you are THE funniest motherfucker in that book and your obsession with that blue eyed featherless biped only adds to it #who drops a pitcher when they see a white boy approach #god out of fear maybe #i would never live it down straight up never #that memory instantly became damen's dark horse in the championships for the most embarrassing shit that he will think about in bed at nigh #caprisun

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yrsonpurpose · 3 months

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and Alex is. well, Alex is so in love he could die.

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ruthlesslistener · 1 year

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God I'm rereading the Lord of the Rings series, and I forgot how fucking funny Aragorn and Eowyn is. Contemporary writng makes you groan and go 'ah here it is lads here's the unnecessary crush' whereas everytime they look at each other its more like this:

Aragorn: what a sad young woman. I hope that she finds peace with herself, rather than waste her life recklessly in despair

Eowyn, through gritted teeth: i just want to fight like you do so fuckin bad

#lotr #lord of the rings #love in tolkien's books is so much better than the crap in most others #so you can tell it wouldn't be romance when reading it #but it sure as fuck comes off like it to people with shipping goggles on #(her and faramir are super cute i have no contest against them)

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rayroseu · 2 months

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I think I realized why I like Silver despite his character trope being what I hate lol No, its not about him being too boring, its about his character centering around "repaying your family"

In Filipino teleseryes iirc, there's always a character trope for the good kid where their entire motives centers around doing work for their family for their entire life, and the story makes that personality "righteous" "admiring" and should be "what all children should do"

I suppose I hated it as a kid because its trying to enforce a standard🤣 like its trying to influence its viewers that this is how you should treat your parents, even if its good behaviour that this character trope is trying to portray,,, they were annoying because it always portrays that "their effort for their parents was perfect"

But Silver's story isn't like that. I can say that the story reinforces that ""his ideal way"" of repaying Lilia often fails because of circumstances he cannot control. His efforts to repay his parent, often fails, and I think that's what makes Silver really relatable.

I think Silver is convinced as well that what will make Lilia proud and would be him performing splendidly as knight and student(?), thats why he always works hard and he gets saddened when his sleeping condition ruins that hard work (Silver Lab Vignette)

But "being perfect", or even a repayment for raising him up, isn't what Lilia wishes for Silver... What would truly make Lilia proud, would be "just Silver living."

Its like Lilia didn't expect anything from Silver,,, in a "just be yourself" way.... I think during Book 7, this is what conflicted Silver the most (other than the whole Knight of Dawn relateion), that his Father would truly love him no matter who he is or what he becomes.

I also love the fact that TWST added the tragedy of aging in Silver's motive of repaying his parent... Because that truly is a harsh reality 😭 if you want to repay your parents, there's always this looming worry that your parent might not make it in time for them to see you succeed and be proud of you because they'll pass away from age...

I think the way their story reminds that "your time together with your family is ephemeral" inspired me more to actually value my time together with people important to me ykk

So Silver's motivation to repay his parent often ""fails""" because what Lilia wants from him is to just live and be yourself, and that's what the story enforces Silver to do as well. 🥹

I haven't read many stories that dwells this topic as emotional as Silver and Lilia's story... 🥲 Usually the parents in teleseryes will expect something like "at least complete your studies so we can be proud of you 🥺" while that is a good expectation,, it kinda gives off the vibes that the parental love was conditional all along XD. Its never as unconditional as Lilia's imo... 🥹🥹🥹💖💖

Its also seen with what skills Lilia teaches Silver revolving around survival, because he wants him to truly live with your own morals ("own two legs" if you will).

Side note: if there was an option for Silver to be raised by Knight of Dawn, I'd still would choose Lilia to raise him because Lilia can teach Silver what Knight of Dawn never did— speaking up for his own morals— even if the king and the nation displeases it— even if he was "alone" about his correct opinion. That belief that Lilia instilled upon him truly will make Silver live honestly to himself yk...🥹🥹🥹💖💖

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#Now that I think about it... Lilia wishes a lot for people to live... doesnt he....#🥲🥲💖💖#twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twistedwonderland #lian notes #disney twst #lilia vanrouge #twst silver #twst silver vanrouge #sebek zigvolt #silver twst #diasomnia #twst lilia #can you guys tell how much i love “the lilia speaking his love for silver when his son was trapped in the darkness” scene #LIKE legit takes hands to my head and sobs about it all 😭😭😭😭#GRGRGR THEMM I WANT THEM TOGETHER FOREVER 😭😭😭✨✨💖💖#twst book 7 #twst diasomnia #twst analysis #malleus is so relatable rn i feel like I'M HIM and theyre my gao gao dragon kun rn #my gao gao dragon are these two lilia and silver...🤣#“theyre fictional characters... why cant the story make them live forever??? wouldn't it be happy that way???”🤣🤣#silver is stronger than me... i would not be able to oppose malleus i relate to his ideals way too much HAHSHAHS

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b4kuch1n · 8 months

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siren

#bakuspecial #cw: nudity #cw: body horror #monster #siren! I think. they're bird to me #I think this has been brewing since that stream mim did of drawing dnd monsters only from official text description #and when the official art for the sirens were shown I was like. oh thats just a woman with wings #lmao like. granted. its an official dnd book available for all audience. you cant make it too Bad To Look At #(I do not agree with this but it wasnt about me. if its about me its gonna be about very few people lmao)#but yeah. after that I got slightly too into the idea of putting more bird into birdwoman #but I also do genuinely love monsters that are Rearranged Human Parts so. I couldnt commit too much to the bird scales Im so sorry #I wanted the fleshiness. the feel. textural experience of holding her hands and being like oh that's a human #even when ur eyes tell u otherwise. mmm #...I looked to my right as I was typing these tags and saw. the fucked up pikmin I tried to sculpt the other day along with the pin #and got startled #its so. its so fucked up. gods. dusty white naked grainy parsnip #I used to have that one doll I butchered wanting to customize in a box next to me and thats way less upsetting than this. man #its perfect actually I will never throw this thing away. anyways #now. now I go to bed. its sleep time for the baku #have a good night lads! you CAN have it both way easily you just need a big bat

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crybaby-bkg · 8 months

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cw: you two have a son together, mention of being married, old man Bakugou

older retired pro hero Bakugou, who you find hunched over his desk one night. it’s late and the day was long and your son was whinier than he usually is. you’d think the old man would be in bed right now, but alas—he’s not beside you.

instead, as you round the corner to get a full look at him, he’s wearing his reading glasses, adorning an old ratty tank, his arms still big but softer than the years from before. he has a book open in front of him, desk scattered with pictures you can’t see from your angle, scissors, stickers, glue sticks.

“What are you getting up to at this hour, old man?” You ask softly, smiling when Bakugou doesn’t even look up from what he’s doing. his tongue is sticking out in the corner as he cuts a squiggly line on a picture, posing it beside another on a blank piece of paper.

“Therapist said I should get into crafting,” he grunts, finally looking over at you from over his glasses. “Do things with my hands, feel busy, get my mind off’a shit.”

you pad over to where he sits, the overhead lamp on his desk focused on the big baby blue book with white pages. peeking over his shoulder, you rest your head on top of his, chin nestled in the still unruly blond and silver locks, overseeing his work.

and honestly? it almost makes you wanna cry. it’s a scrapbook, the page open to pictures of your wedding day, how pretty you looked, how big he smiled at you. you can see other scattered pictures on his desk—when you got a promotion at work, when he was number one for seven months in a row, a positive pregnancy test, the cutest baby you’ve ever seen, two little teeth coming in, baby being held in dads big ole arms that will always protect him.

“After this page, I gotta do the honeymoon.” Bakugou speaks gruffly, setting down a picture to wipe a hand down his face. “And then life accomplishment shit, the baby, his first steps.” He sounds so tired, and you can’t help but wrap your arms around his shoulders, sliding down to smush your face against his own.

“You always have tomorrow. Come to bed.” You say against his cheek, squeezing him when you feel the rejection start up in his belly. But he deflates, pulling his glasses off, reaching around to pull you in his lap. He looks so grumpy, with his frown lines and crows feet, and yet so handsome with his small smile and soft eyes.

“I’ll print more pictures tomorrow. And maybe go by the store to get some more stickers, too.” He tells you in between kisses, his words soft, his hands rough through your pajamas. You hum against his mouth, holding his nape, afraid to ever let him go.

“You do that. Now let’s go to bed.” You whisper, standing up and pulling him with you. He closes the scrapbook for now, and you glimpse at the cover, heart melting at the picture of you two holding up your son, both kissing his cheeks. The picture is captioned with “Our Life” and you don’t think you’ve ever been more grateful to have met him.

#I feel like you can always tell what I’m doing bc I end up writing about bkg doing it ajsjdkd #I AM SCRAPBOOKING!!!! and it’s more stressful for me than it should be 😔#it’s fun tho!!! and nice to see it come together!!!!#but I think he’d hate it and be all grumbly about it #until it starts coming together and he’s like ‘🙂 I made this and it’s fuckin awesome’#loves putting in every single memory and every single picture of you #bc he can’t decide which one looks better bc they all look good to him wksjdk #ends up having to get more pages or a whole other book entirely bc he runs out of pages #all dedicated to you and baby #why am I crying #okay bye I sleeby #also should I write tomorrow or do my makeup 🤔🤔🤔 cause I won’t be able to do either until Monday 🤔🤔#bakugou treats! 🍬#—new treat in the streets! 🍫#dad bkg

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batcavescolony · 3 months

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Shut up she's doing her best and sometimes your best hurts.

#she was NINETEEN when she had Percy. she did it on her own! her parents are dead. and she has ro prepare percy for a world she cant tell him #about. cus the second he know ittle get worse. `shes horrible in the show. shes not kind' bffr why? BECAUSE THE BOOKS ARE FROM PERCY POV #she perfect cus thats how percy sees her. but now the show isnt from percy pov and we see sally as she is. a stresses out SINGLE mother of #neurodivergent demigod who has no support system. shes human! she's gonna make mistakes. shes gonna be stressed. but she loves her son so #much and percy loves her. its adding layers to her character. shes never been weak shes never been meak shes never been a push over #but i swear that what some of you want! she can be motherly and stubborn WHERE DO YOU THINK PERCY GOT IT FROM!! she can be kind and need to #teach hard lessons. she can be more then one thing.#sally jackson #percy jackson #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches #pjo #pjo tv series #pjo series #pjo show #pjo tv #pho tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson tv series

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gingersnapsstars · 4 months

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people who complain about slight differences in the percy jackson show literally just do not get it. it's the spirit of the books. that's what the movies were missing. the spirit of the books was gone back then, but this time, slight inaccuracies or not, it's there, in full force. we really are so back

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #like you can just tell that the original creator/people who really love the original work are involved!!#their conversation with medusa hinting at the whole fucking point of the book series (the gods suck)... i gasped #it's just so good. and haters gonna hate and all but they could also just shut the fuck up

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sanguinaryrot · 1 month

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every time someone realizes they’re trans, an angel gets its wings

#trans stuff #someone came to me today to tell me their nephew came out to him #and asked me some questions on how to be a good ally #this has happened a couple times to me #and I love it. i love that I can help cis people make sure their trans family and friends have an easier time of coming out #come to me I have resources. I have books. I have stories. I will tell you all about it #gah!!! trans people of the world I love you. even if we’ve never met

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