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blacknarcissus · 4 months

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I love them so much ❄️💗

Robin Wright and André the Giant in The Princess Bride (1987)

#the princess bride #andre the giant #robin wright #princess buttercup #fezzik #book adaptation #fantasy films #rob reiner #friendship #adventure #comedy #romance #christmas #screencaps #1980s #1980s films

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taryo88 · 6 days

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This is my key takeaway from the sneak peek of the first chapter of Alexandra Rowland’s upcoming queer pirate book Running Close to the Wind 😂 Cannot WAIT to read the rest of it!!

#ofmd fans might want in on this #come get your queer pirate comedy 🗣️🗣️🗣️#Barnes and noble is even having. preorder sale right now 👀#you know 👀👀 in case anyone else wants to join me in preordering 👀👀👀#ofmd #ofmd meme #chantiverse #running close to the wind #rcw #alexandra rowland #queer fantasy #queer books #pirates #pirate books #our flag means death meme #book recs #my art

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starful02 · 2 months

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You know how they say not to judge a book by its cover? Well, this book is as pretty on the inside as it is on the outside! I absolutely adore it to pieces! It has taken its rightful place on my bookshelf alongside my first copy and other related books! And for fellow crow brained individuals who love pretty shiny things like myself, you should definitely keep an eye on June for the upcoming hilarious pirate novel "Running Close to the Wind" by the same fabulous author Alexandra Rowland! As they say, pirates always have a few pretty shiny things. 😉 Read an excerpt of it below!

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ohmysatan42 · 4 months

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Raising Steam time. Feels bittersweet because it's the second to last discworld I'll read. Let's hope it's a good one.

#Gnu terry pratchett #Terry pratchett #Discworld #Raising Steam #Whyyyyuyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy #Books #Fantasy books #Comedy books

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desdasiwrites · 2 years

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– Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#book quote of the day #terry pratchett #jingo #sam vimes #comic fantasy #fantasy #comedy #discworld #book recommendations #book quotes #ankh morpork

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clemsfilmdiary · 2 years

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The Phantom Tollbooth (1970, Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan)

8/9/22

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celepom · 3 months

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FAVOURITE GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2023

The Infinity Particle - By Wendy Xu

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inventor falls for a lifelike AI and confronts questions of freedom and autonomy. Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin’s assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots—she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there’s something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry sets off sparks. The only downside? Dr. Lin is enraged by Kye’s growing independence and won’t allow him more freedom. Plus, their relationship throws into question everything Clem thought she knew about AI. After all, if Kye is sentient enough to have feelings, shouldn’t he be able to control his own actions? Where is the line between AI and human? As her past and Kye’s future weigh down on her, Clem becomes determined to help him break free—even if it means risking everything she came to Mars for.

Not Sew-Wicked Stepmom - By i r u, Yir, Mo9Rang

Once upon a time, there was a lovely young princess who suffered under her cruel stepmother…that is, until a children’s clothing designer is reborn as the evil stepmother! All the new Queen Abigail Friedkin wants to do is dote on the adorable Princess Blanche and give her the happy childhood she deserves. The problem is, the previous Abigail has garnered a reputation for being extremely jealous and materialistic—and to top it off, her smile is the stuff of children’s nightmares! Will Abigail be able to convince her stepdaughter that she might not be so wicked after all?

(TW, childhood SA of the main male lead)

Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist

A bravely blunt autobiography about confronting the tangled traumas of gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment. Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose “neither” for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends. Born into a body they hate and still reeling from the abuse they faced seven years ago, Pesuyama begins to rail at their past, their friends, and even their mother as they try to come to terms with who they are and what happened to them.

Belle of the Ball - By Mari Costa

High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the courage to remove her mascot mask and ask out her longtime crush: Regina Moreno, head cheerleader, academic overachiever, and all-around popular girl. There’s only one teensy little problem: Regina is already dating Chloe Kitagawa, athletic all-star…and middling English student. Regina sees a perfectly self-serving opportunity here, and asks the smitten Hawkins to tutor Chloe free of charge, knowing Hawkins will do anything to get closer to her. And while Regina’s plan works at first, she doesn’t realize that Hawkins and Chloe knew each other as kids, when Hawkins went by Belle and wore princess dresses to school every single day. Before long, romance does start to blossom…but not between who you might expect. With Belle of the Ball, cartoonist Mariana Costa has reinvigorated satisfying, reliable tropes into your new favorite teen romantic comedy.

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich - By Deya Muniz

Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land is that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she does the only thing she can: She disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the Kingdom of Fromage to start over as Count Camembert. But it’s hard to keep a low profile when the beautiful Princess Brie, with her fierce activism and great sense of fashion, catches her attention. Camembert can’t resist getting to know the princess, but as the two grow closer, will she able to keep her secret? A romantic comedy about mistaken identity, true love, and lots of grilled cheese.

#book rec #book recs #graphic novel #manga #comic #romance #scifi #romantic comedy #autobio #slice of life #fantasy #isekai

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daisyachain · 5 months

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There are works which are not [genre] but works made that have read a lot of [genre]. YJ is not an anime but it is a cartoon that has watched a lot of anime. MTMTE is not a comedy but it is a space opera that has watched a lot of sitcoms. I’d like to learn the term for a work that is deep in conversation with a genre without belonging to that genre even as a hybrid. Specifically works that address, lampshade, satirize, employ genre signposts without obeying genre conventions.

#or another example. oofuri is a sports manga and it is also a bl and that’s perfectly fine #ao no flag is a romance and is not a bl despite hitting a lot of the bl tropes. it is a manga that expects you to know what a bl looks like #and it consciously evades that classification. the resolutions it chooses and the framing it uses aren’t right. aren’t the same #MTMTE is comic (hah) but unlike a true comedy the resolution never comes from irony or fun or a twist #discworld is a deadly serious fantasy AND a pure comedy because every book’s resolution is a trick of irony and deception.#each book is a 400 page joke that ends with a hell of a punchline.#MTMTE on the other hand resolves its arcs in a very straightforward way #there’s not necessarily a gotcha or a ‘you thought!’ even the plot twists are an act of drama rather than cleverness #so while MTMTE has a sense of humour it’s just a story with jokes rather than a comedy #I know I know Greek comedy blah blah in this post I’m using the modern sense of the term #kelsey rambles #or Star Wars—it’s a space western action series that has watched a lot of samurai movies (OT) and some wuxia (PT/EU)

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inks-books · 4 months

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Coming in February!!!

When Princess Allonwë finds a bracelet in a secret chamber that isn't supposed to exist, she thinks nothing of it until a haunted suit of armor comes to life and tries to kill her. Narrowly escaping, she loses the bracelet in a bet before finding out it was a weapon of mass destruction. Deciding to go on an adventure to get it back, Allonwë must hurry and retrieve it before her parents find out it was her that lost it in the first place and ground her for a millennia.

Join the princess and her bodyguard, Natanael, on their adventure as they battle talking dragons, confront a conspiracy theorist elf that might not be as crazy as he sounds, and deal with a persistent chicken that will just not leave them the cluck alone. Together, they face the archmage and necromancer who has a plan for the bracelet once he gets his hands on it. But can Allonwë and Natanael survive these encounters or are they in far over their heads?

#cover reveal #Fantasy #Fantasy Books #Adventure #Romance #Romance Books #Comedy #romcom books #inks rambles #inks writes #original writing #original stories #original books #writing #writeblr

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gennsoup · 4 months

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"Oftentimes someone will say something to me, and later I will think up the perfect riposte--so perfect the hearer could not help but wilt, and be ashamed that they had set themselves up to receive it--but by that point it is often hours after the fact and I am lying in my bed. And in any case, I hate conflict, all kinds."

Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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moviesiveseenandwanttoremember · 5 months

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Richard Quine’s “Bell, Book and Candle” November 11, 1958.

#Richard Quine #Bell Book and Candle #1958 #Fifties #Supernatural #Fantasy #Romantic Comedy #Christmas #Kim Novak #Jimmy Stewart #Jack Lemmon #2/5

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blacknarcissus · 4 months

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The Princess Bride (1987)

#the princess bride #cary elwes #robin wright #mandy patinkin #andre the giant #rob reiner #westley and buttercup #inigo montoya #fantasy #fantasy films #romance #comedy #book adaptation #adventure #1980s #1980s films

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heckyeahponyscans · 7 months

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So my favorite podcast is 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, a comedic book club which features two of the Rifftrax guys reading "books we don't expect to like". There's a lot of interactivity, with listeners sending in "Dumb Sentence of the Week", reader-written fanfiction to try to fool them in the "Real or Fanfic" segment, and it's just a really good time.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, now is the perfect time to start listening because they just unveiled the newest book and it is SIDESPLITTING.

It's called "The Adventures of the Teen Archaeologists"; the physical copy is hard to find but you can find it online. You know the scene in The Room with "you're my favorite customer / hi doggy"? It's like if there was a whole book like that. Except with more repetition.

Babatunde said, “This is Samirah our daughter and Jabril. Jabril is my wife Oluremi’s father.” Jabril said, “Hello. I am Oluremi’s father. Babatunde is my son-in-law. Welcome to our home. This is my granddaughter Samirah. She is seventeen years old.”

EXTREMELY NATURAL DIALOGUE.

The first chapter is already wild, as they start by introducing the teen characters and then abruptly cut to their parents with "Anthony was thankful that his wife wasn’t hurt badly. He realized just how close he came to losing her."

And they NEVER EXPLAIN THAT, the book is like "Then they went home to their teenage children" and it's never brought up again.

#372 Pages #372 Pages We'll Never Get Back #podcasts #comedy #they previously did another book by the same authors #called The Land of Antigua: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes #and it's amazing too #it's not about the real life island of Antigua btw #the authors apparently didn't realize it was a real place #and just named their fantasy land that

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starful02 · 1 month

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Along with some art (which will be appearing soon!), now that I have a break, this is what's up on my roster for this week! So excited to finally have a chance to sit down and read Tadek & The Princess (the sequel to A Taste of Gold and Iron). I'm also thrilled to be introduced to some new blorbos in the other two novellas!

Speaking of blorbos, not only should you check out these books, but also keep an eye out for the upcoming book by the same author Running Close to the Wind! It has pirates and shenanigans! Some of the best things! You can read a excerpt of it in the link below!

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alexyquest · 1 year

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okay i did that YA book trend. how’d I do?

buy it here!

#bookblr #book recs #short stories #indie author #indie publishing #strong branch press #queer horror #Sci fi #sci fi comedy #fantasy #queer Sci fi #non-binary author #writer #writerblr #YA book trend

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the-missann · 1 month

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I don't think I've shared this with anyone besides a friend I don't really talk to anymore; and while I feel extremely nervous sharing them, I'll think I'll ease that by expressing the fact that I'm not an artist. I have been self teaching myself how to draw for years, so if this looks kind of bad, that's why.

Anyways, I obviously like it enough to share, so I am very proud of my work regardless.

That aside, I wanted to detail this story before sharing everything I did for it (I guess this'll be a short series about everything I drew for it).

A Fourth Dimension Reality is a series of books I'm writing about two inter-dimensional kids trying to find out what dimension they're actually apart of. Along the way, they meet other people who are integral to their goal. Each of these characters will be introduced as I go along.

Now, as for the real world logic, I wrote this story after me and that friend were talking about how some shows that are suppose to be comedy/satire lost that along the way.

So, I was determined to make a story where that stays intact even in the finale. Essentially, this is a long shit post that needs to be stopped, but it's still going well into five books with a unfinished total of 100k and seven books officially planned.

Each book ranges from 23k-30k and no book is any longer... yet

So, anyways, here's the actual cover of the first book (I have two more made).

Later on though I ended up drawing something goofy where all the characters find a dimension that does space tours. That was my excuse as to why they don't have shoes (because you don't want to get the dimension dirty do you?)

But this is everyone and presents their personalities pretty well. I'll showcase them separately over the next few days.

For now, this is perfect showcase of this story:

“So this means no one can hear me scream!” Cassie used all of her breath in that howl. Larson groaned and went to hit her, but she moved out of the way and spun slowly in the air. “I can dodge you better out here.” She mocked.

With a growl, Larson said, “this isn’t some kind of joke. We need to do what Jax said.”

“Yeah, yeah whatever.” She dismissed his comment. “We’ll get there eventually, let’s just have a little fun!”

Larson just stared at Cassie as she continued to spin around happily.

He was brought back to reality when he felt his phone vibrate. “Oh, I forgot,” he answered it swiftly, “you can hear me right?”

Back on Earth, Jax could clearly hear them through the phone. “I’m surprised that it even works! I really didn't think it would.” He said with amazement present in his voice.

“Yeah, doubt me, why don’t you.” Jax laughed at Larson’s remark. “But I’ll try a video call now.”

“Alright.”

Larson was about to press the button when he saw Cassie still spinning around in front of him; he sighed and turned on the video call. Once it came up, he saw a smile grow to Jax’s face.

“So it does work, great.” Jax paused. “Cassie!” He called out.

“Yeah?” She said while turning to look in their direction.

“The video call works.” Jax announced.

“Okay!” She began to slow her spinning down.

Cassie took out her own phone and called Jax once more. She put it on the video call and stuffed the phone inside of her bag. She zipped it closed and turned to Larson.

“Okay, I can see him, so that means we’re good! I’m screen recording so you guys can do whatever you have to.”

“You don’t have to tell me that,” Larson said.

Cassie huffed. “Stop being so mean. Anyways, we will Jax!” Cassie confirmed.

“Good luck you two!”

With their method of documentation set, they started putting their plan into action. Larson slowly moved over to Cassie.

“Stop acting like a kid and let’s get to work.” He snapped at her.

“You’re so boring. We’re in space dude! We can breathe without astronaut helmets, why not live a little, Lars?”

“Maybe on our next trip.” Larson went ahead and turned back once he was a small distance away from her.

From his jacket pocket, he pulled out the rope he brought. Needing to be as air resistant as possible, he couldn’t carry a bag with him, instead he just already tied the rope around himself and stuffed the other end into his jacket pocket. He pulled out the other end and threw it to Cassie for her to grab. Cassie caught it and was now being pulled by Larson.

Once she was in front of him, Cassie pulled him. Their motions created a way for them to move about in space with the most amount of ease. After a few minutes of their maneuvering, Cassie let out a sigh.

“See, this is all business,” Cassie said with a pout.

“Yeah, yeah. Looking like a bitch doesn’t help you.”

“At least you used the right word, but I wasn’t trying to give you puppy dog eyes.”

They remained pulling each other in a still silence. This was maintained until they could finally see Pluto. Cassie giggled as she stared at it.

“Oh it’s so cute!” She paused. “Do you really think anyone will be there?”

“I don’t know, but if we do find someone it would be better to stick together.”

“I wonder if it’s like a superman thing.” Cassie started to talk about something else. “Like we’re stronger because we were on Earth for so long.”

Larson scoffed. “If anything, being on earth made us weaker.”

“See, I don’t think like that,” Cassie began, “I really feel like we’re stronger because we’ve been exposed to different mindsets and then we’re going to learn this one. So by default, we’ll be smarter!”

“Always on the bright side huh?”

Cassie giggled.

Also, fun fact: I'm so bad at spelling I kept writing Dimension as Dimention and I still don't really know if I'm spelling it right😃

They kept pulling each other until they were caught into the gravitational pull of Pluto and were able to land...