#multiple books even

[isa-ah]

the way this fic builds the tension so gradually that you genuinely DONT EXPECT IT when it SNAPS on you oh my god. oh my god. "that careful character of terus was not returning." followed by "yesterday was thursday, isari." guess ill just. guess ill just jump off the fucking roof. guess ill jsut rip my shirt open and yell

#i wish i could explaint o my husband why this is making me like sick. physically ill #AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #sorry i wouldnt normally even talk about reading a fic on here but its. very very long. im on i think chapter 32 of 47? #and theyre long chapters. im reading basically a wholeass book right now #multiple books even #and ive never read a fic structured like this in my life #normally if theyre going to make a character insufferable they have to work on rectifying it within a chapter or two #like an apology to the reader #no im 32 in and ritsu is the worst. the worst. hes literally becoming a bona fide villain. its insane #ive never read a fic like this before. jesus christ dude #im still reeling from. from the fact that they were both at the mall and that was hours of reading ago

[tending-the-hearth]

watched "the lightning thief" movie for the first time in forever tonight and i think i've finally figured out the main reason the movie rubs me the wrong way.

percabeth.

they completely misunderstood percy and annabeth's relationship.

the movie shows them as an enemies to lovers, with a romantic tension and shoving them towards a romantic plot within literally five seconds of them meeting.

part of it's probably because they picked older actors, but it's just completely wrong.

the wonderful thing about percy and annabeth is their friendship. the friendship that's built from the very start of their meeting, where they dislike each other for all of three seconds before becoming best friends.

a friendship that we don't see any real romance blossoming from until percy's thoughts about annabeth in "sea of monsters" at cc's island, and a friendship we really don't see any real progress in until their kiss in "battle of the labyrinth" at the volcano. (you could definitely argue everything about percy's thoughts in "titan's curse", which is what i view as percy's real turning point towards seeing annabeth in a romantic light)

percabeth doesn't work if they're just automatically pushed into a romantic plot together. it's their friendship that makes us root for them, the way that we know how much they care about each other, but also know that they wouldn't feel so strongly about each other if they didn't start off as such strong friends

anyone who paints percabeth as enemies to lovers and not childhood best friends to lovers i'm sorry but it's just not them

#salty about the movie tonight #and ofc that's not touching on the MULTIPLE mythological innacuracies #like not even book inaccuracies bc that's just everything #but the inaccuracies with the referenced myths themselves #like these people really did zero research #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #the lightning thief

[ohmycuckoo]

My TSC bingo card includes lots of angst, emo Jean, PTSD, "I have no idea who I am", Jean crying on the beach at night and me crying and losing my shit while I read everything.

#I guess I'll be drawing my angsty boy multiple times until TSC comes out #happy? tsc week #jean moreau #tsc #Jean Moreau you’re such and emo kid #I don't expect even a second of happiness for him in the first book #jean moreau fanart #the sunshine court #aftg #aftg fandom #aftg fanart #aftg art #jerejean #jerejean fanart

[eskildit]

i think a lot about hot sauce and jeannemary. two young girls so ready to kill and to die. a comparison made all the worse when you recall that hot sauce lost all her family to the cohort, that she can specifically recall fourth style necromancy (using corpses as bombs). a fourteen and thirteen year old that could easily have been on opposite sides of the same front line. 

#the locked tomb #the loss of childhood! senseless violence! #opposite ends of the propaganda machine #eskildit posts tlt #all of nona the ninth #how am i supposed to tag hot sauce #jeannemary chatur #ok to rb #edit: okay im actually gonna use these tags to ramble a lil #in many ways i feel alecto the ninth is gonna be the hardest book to actually pull off #first for the obvious reason that its an ending and endings are always hard #but second because nona the ninth was by far the most political book of the series #books 1 and 2 following harrow and gideon mean we're following characters on the outskirts of the empire #gideon is individually oppressed by the ninth and even harrow is considered a black sheep outsider of the nine houses #but they are still WITHIN the houses gideon has dreams of the cohort harrow has dreams of of revitalizing her house #nona was our actual introduction to the real consequences of the empire that characters like judith like jeannemary like corona herself #have their livelihoods and status entirely built on the imperial violence we see first hand on new rho #anyway i say all of this to say it means coming back to these characters might be kinda tricky! #the cost of the empire is no longer abstract its extremely palpable! #how does one return to our core cast we've know for multiple books now that we understand that #idk. interested to see where we go!

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Another thing that makes kaladin so painfully relatable is how much his mental illness hides his personality, because between depressive episodes and trauma he's this sarcastic little shit that smiles a lot at his friends and then the depression gets to him and all that disappears

#I'm dreading book 4 so much #my depression got worse while reading it the first time 😭 #also I don't remember exactly what but multiple times he says stuff that i think too often and having a fictional character say that l #ridiculous stuff caused by mental illness made me feel even worse #it helped! because it hit me how stupid it is and that i should avoid that type of thinking at all costs! but didn't i feel like shit for a #while #now i almost finished book 1 and book 2 has Shallan's past 😬😬😬😬😬 #can't wait to read again about her horrible childhood locked home with a violent father that take out his rage at her on others #that won't make me feel horrible at all! #it's not like i wasn't almost crying just at her getting an anxiety attack at the beginning #....these books feels awfully aimed at me fjskdks #the stormlight archive #cosmere

[arthurtaylorlester]

so like do you ever think about john doe

#sorry guys hes taking over ny brain again #his situation is so fucked up what the hell 😭😭 #like yeah ok objectively arthur kinda has it worse #but imagine #you get torn from your former self and trapped in a book #then after killing multiple people you finally find a suitable host #but then you get attached and now youre no longer your former self #then your new human friend (who is quite literally all you have (and want)) kills himself to save you #even after you betrayed him and lied to him. multiple times #and you get separated and when you come back hes angry at you for having changed #but you had to make a deal with the literal devil to keep him alive and be together again #you work through it but then you have fulfil you end of the deal which indirectly causes him to meet this fucking priest #who is MONOPOLISING on your person’s attention #and since you seem to be suffering some form amnesia you desperately cling to normalcy – to when it was just the two of you #(but you know deep down you’re never going to be enough for him because he deserves more than a fractured monster imitating humanity) #(because he deserves the /world/ and if you could you would give it to him) #so you try to chop that priests arm off (he asked to be fair) #wouldnt that be fucked up #malevolent #unhinged aromantics #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #john malevolent #arthur malevolent #malevolent john #malevolent arthur

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

#The Spider And Her Demons #Sydney Khoo #loveozya #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #you give me a teenage girl with giant hair spider legs who scuttles across her bedroom wall on page 3 #and then eats a man and i am already sold. #also aus books are always so familiar compared to US books :) #and yes sexuality stuff is ambiguous but basically: a bunch of discussion on relationship hierachies (ie friendship equally/more important) #themes of feeling unlovable bc you're different and different forms of love #multiple times the MC says she has no interest in dating or relationships and also is touch (and maybe sex) repulsed #- but of course that Also has to do with the whole Being A Monster thing #and it definitely shows some kind of attraction to dior - ie looking at her lips/bare skin; blushing; etc #and ends on sort of hand kiss / 'is this something??' vibes #I asked the author and they said they see them as QPR / platonic soulmates but are not at the point where they would know what to call it #which makes total sense to me! #the part of me who wants more obvious aroace YA wishes it was a little more specific #but also I DO love ambiguity and I think it wouldn't be true to the characters #who are clearly not even ready to start figuring that stuff out. #and also. aroacespec sapphics is like. also something i want #also like. I think it's reductive to assume just because 'looks at lips' is a common allo attraction trope....doesn't necessarily mean #it has to be that. yknow. #anyway. i loved it a lot. #gross spidergirl (affectionate)...... #also dior is such an interesting and complex character. like another book could have made her nicer or less fucked up

[mightymizora]

You know what, I am fully just gonna call bullshit that the steel watch technology including the tadpoles in the brains could have been researched, tested, refined and implemented in the public in a matter of weeks. I just don’t buy it, Larian.

And I don’t believe that the brain respects Durge if it submitted but Durge was also taken out by Orin during placing the crown on it.

It all just needs a bit of space to breathe.

#like even if it took the chosen a year to implement it that’s still a really tight timeline? #bg3 #I’m just saying it took almost a year fuck it #he had to read detailed books on multiple technologies #enslave a workforce #refine the Gnomish prototypes #learn brain surgery #learn how to tadpole brains #and test those prototypes #AND get the public on side

[archiveofrasa]

that one line about ramy's bangla being rudimentary made me absolutely sob (i'm bengali) and i wanna talk about why

there's so much to it both contextually with ramy's character as well as historically. contextually because ramy is fluent in 6 languages, an insane number of languages for one person but none of which are his mother tongue. he's described as a performer, one who knows he can't blend in so instead he stands out as a means to escape as much of the racism as he can. he gets lost in it that he almost forgets who he is; this is reflected in his language ability too – he gets so lost in his linguistic academics he just barely remembers the native language of his home place that he adores.

and honestly, you can't even really blame ramy for it at all when it was induced. it's the british who saw urdu, arabic and persian as more valuable than bangla, it's the british that make ramy put on this act so he can literally stay alive. and when you know the historical relevancies between urdu and bangla, it hurts so much that ramy was forced to forget bangla

very brief history context: after the partition, where british india was split into india, pakistan and east pakistan (now bangladesh) bangla was seen as inferior to urdu due to its hindu connections. bengalis experienced so much shit because of this (and bengali muslims are still dealing with the internalised cultural racism today honestly). pakistanis tried to make the official language urdu, even though literally everyone in east pakistan were bengali and spoke bangla, so bengalis fought back against it. we still celebrate that day today (feb 21)

so to have ramy be in this position in the 1830s where urdu was seen as superior to bangla, especially when ramy is a bengali muslim, is just extremely accurate?? and maybe it's bc we don't have much western literature where we talk about this but it's just so nice to have it acknowledged

the bangla language movement didn't happen until around the 1950s, over a century after babel's timeline, but the seeds are always there. while i do think it comes with both this islamic superiority tendency a lot of asians have (arabs i'm looking at you) and britian's imperialistic racism, i just love how it all makes sense

#babel rf kuang #ramiz rafi mirza #i'm still learning a lot abt my own culture so don't ask me for a lot of information about this lol #yk when i found out ramy was bengali it set my world off its course and i knew i had to read this book even if no bangla was discussed #i knew i was gonna get attached to him and I DID! #he just means so much to me and while he made me sob multiple times i love what kuang did with his character #also if youre pakistani lol don't try to defend yourself #you don't get to after pakistanis massacred so many bengalis during the bangladesh liberation war #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #also i love seeing south asian characters become fandom favourites i know most babel lovers love ramy IKTRRR

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

my #1 biggest problem with the Monster High fandom is that nobody understands what "canon" means lmfao. the creators saying something doesn't make it "canon". it doesn't mean you can't embrace what they think! but wow. you guys are so desperately focused on needing things to be "canon", so that you can justify liking them, when you could just enjoy those things anyways! not everything needs to be "canon", it's okay, you can like those things despite it (or in spite of it)

#monster high #don't even get me started on the way G1 MH had multiple separate canons in the first place #nobody ever wants to address THAT #anyways the details of the movies & webisodes & comics & books & og books & journals were always different from each other #because different people were writing all those things and sometimes the details got muddled or were intentionally changed #it's okay it's literally fine #the world won't end just because your personal interpretation isn't canon

[dimsilver]

yes the Christian homeschool community produces some arrogant debater types but it also produces men who read and love Anne of Green Gables so

#I have had multiple conversations about the books (strengths and yes flaws) with different guys recently #one was even making a painting inspired by it??

[shredsandpatches]

tfw you're really down with a post until it starts insisting that both a) job-related malaise and frustration and b) scribal labor in monastic contexts are and were specific to young adults and not just a general condition of a) having a job, even one you mostly like and b) being a medieval monk, not a profession that had a corporate ladder

#like i know this is the logan's run website but still #why would you assume medieval scribes were all or primarily young people? #i guess once you turn 30 you lose your humanity and become a corporate drone or sth #anyway it seems like in most monastic communities everyone had multiple jobs #and few if any monks would ONLY do scribal work #although probably you would do more if you were good at it #ALSO funny marginalia like all illustration in medieval books were carefully planned #there are things in manuscript books that can be read as scribal expressions of frustration #but illustrations are always deliberate even if they're subversive

[dr3amofagame]

im ngl while it is true that the "c!dream is obsessed with c!tommy and always has been and all of his actions are singularly motivated by said obsession" take is obviously untrue and exile was meant to service some greater ends in c!dream's plans, i think that the fact that c!dream does disproportionately blame c!tommy for shit going wrong in his life and that exile was carried out with more than just a little amount of vindictive pleasure in controlling c!tommy and abusing him is like, going a bit too overlooked lately, lmao

#out of c!dream's actions in the time period from nov 16th to staged finale exile is STANDOUT in its excessive cruelty #even for c!dream at that time !!! #even the stuff with vikk and lazar is more clearly pragmatic in nature #the unfortunate reality of testing a revive book on someone with multiple lives is that youre gonna have to kill them a few times first #but exile specifically had a lot of COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY cruelty towards c!tommy for reasons that just weren't purely rational

[fromtheseventhhell]

Catelyn saying that Sansa is pretty: Absolutely infallible, a declaration from god himself, it absolutely has to be the truth, there can be no room for argument, etc.

Ned saying that Arya is pretty: He was just doing it to make her feel better, he was just being nostalgic about Lyanna, he can't be trusted, he's biased because he's her father, etc.

#arya stark #ned stark #asoiaf #funny how Catelyn remarking on the girl's looks is taken as an objective fact but Ned is just a fool who doesn't know anything #but then Arya just HAS to be ugly so obviously Ned can't have been correct when he says she looks like Lyanna and that she's pretty #even though we've gotten multiple references on them looking similar throughout the books and no contradictions to it... #George lying to us for years in the books makes so much more sense than Arya being pretty though 🤪 #and of course fandom knows more about the story then the actual writer that makes perfect sense! #again outside of her being bullied there's no mention of her being ugly so it checks out that certain fans want it to be the truth

[xejune]

little request for @bookcalanthedaily of her calanthe & ciri (+ an additional tiny comic), thank you for your patience! ✨

sketches + process shot underneath the cut!

#the flowercrown is supposed to be made out of feainnewedd flowers but i took a lot of artistic liberties with the colours dshfjh #although they seem to potentially be based off of African Violets; which do come in pink! #the witcher #the witcher books #(kind of?) #the witcher 3 #ciri #cirilla fiona elen riannon #calanthe #queen calanthe #my art #i redrew this piece (& parts of it) so many times djkfsf also thank you to my bf for his patience with me while i was working on this LMAO #me: ah yes. a quick little sketch request; my brain: okay now what if we colour it through a method you're not used to #and also activate perfectionistic tendencies you weren't even aware of #me: sure! i don't see how this could go wrong :) #[cue a montage of multiple weeks passing by] #i had fun with it though! #will tumblr let this post appear in the tags? who knows! we'll see!

[why-the-heck-not]

29.06.23, thursday

I had a presentation today, and there's nothing (and I mean nothing) I hate more than those, so as a treat I made the rest of the day real cozy. Baked bread & listened to podcast while cleaning my apartment; good chill times

#also no it's not the absolute best bread; i used to be lots better at bread some years ago but i can't for the life of me remember what #modifications i made to that recipe (like it was basically just a rough guideline at the end) and i am a dumbass and never wrote any of it #down so i gotta now do some bread research and start again with tinkering everything #but the problem is that I live alone now and i can't bake like multiple big loafs a week bc it's just me eating #so it'll be lots slower this time #yea i should/could have also just been productive bc the thing i had that presentation on is still not like entirely done #but it's like almost there and I could afford a chill evening #presentations take lots of energy out of me anyways even if it's just a small quick one like today was like I am just done for the day afte #so nothing too great would've come out of it anyways #at least I now have a clean kitchen and no longer and actual mountain of clean unfolded laundry on my couch #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #dark academia #chaotic academia #june 2023 #2023