#not tagging the novels fuck off

[katabay]

JACK THE GIANT KILLER

originally this was a kind of personal visual vibe test: I'm still turning some thoughts around about jack in my head (altho I have finished assembling the skeleton of a story and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when I start to press at it) but I really liked how it turned out so I'm posting it as it's own illustration :)

the first post about this idea is over here, but I've fine tuned it down a bit so that the story begins with jack finding the body of a giant while he's out in the woods one day, and the story spirals out of hand before he can stop it.

it's been interesting to read up on jack tales from a literary analysis point of view while I figure this story out!! and through the power of more coffee, I think. I'm close to pinning down an underlying theme I'd really like to bite into. I just need to condense it down to a couple of sentences instead of several paragraphs.

and to close this post out, here's another excerpt from the j.g. ballard's the drowned giant that haunts me!

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara ⭐ ko-fi

#i had a whole thing about why i dont link to my ko-fi on art posts but a friend said i should at least do it on original art #also cara seems to be promising as an art porfolio site? if you're looking to jump off of dA because it sucks ass. cara looks good so far! #OKAY moving on from that. in my head there is also a weird fucked up story about the drowned giant I would love #to turn into a short comic. maybe early next year? I think I need to go to a beach and do some studies because in my mind #it has a very specific visual and tone. hmmmmmm. #I had a very vivid dream abt it and I want to attempt to capture it down onto paper #and moving on from THAT. to the man himself. jack. ohhhhhh can you imagine if someone would’ve done a fucked up grim dark #Jack novel in 2013 or something. I would’ve eaten that like a cake. this isn’t an intentionally grim dark retelling although it is. grim. #original tag #generic medieval tag

[brother-emperors]

DECIMATION ROW

Decimation: Myth, Discipline, and Death in the Roman Republic, Michael J. Taylor / Spartacus: War of the Damned, Decimation

#anyway. so. tune in next month when i do a talk on why it's so easy to Other code crassus (queer coding or other wise) #(this is a joke im not going to do a talk. if i did i'd spend an hour getting into All Of That with kore and caesar in the starz show) #so. SO! wow. wuehghgh. heurhghh #been thinking on this one a lot. like. babygirl what is WRONG with you #narratively or otherwise #like i know what's wrong with you but my god #i was listening to 2pm's Cafe the whole time i was making this and the tone dissonance was very funny #related and unrelated: #i deleted a whole novel of tags talking about how fucking wild the kore-caesar-crassus stuff was #but if you leave starz off your lists of republicaniana media bc you think its cringe #you're a coward and i hate you specifically #comparatives tag #marcus licinius crassus #blood cw

[melanodis]

this first drawing I ever made of my william design in a discord whiteboard forever haunts my mind

#based off that one novel shitpost #william afton #fuck no im not putting this in main tag im blasting you with it personally #arc.txt #art.psd

[delkios]

Still can't get over the fact that after a year (two?) with the Empire, Scorch makes commander while Boss led one of the top commando squads for three years with the Republic and never got promoted passed sergeant.

#republic commando #honestly i've got an entire headcanon regarding commandos' lack of upward mobility in the ranks #originally they were organized to serve directly under the jedi and commanders would exist in a parallel hierarchy to infantry #which they still did mostly #but after losing half their number on geonosis and realizing the jedi didn't know what to do with them they had a massive restructuring #only a couple divisions- like kenobi's -got commando squads but to ensure they were deployed properly they needed their own officers #so clones like gregor were taken from the command track and crosstrained as commandos #i imagine first gen commandos have very mixed feelings about this because suddenly outsiders are in charge of them? #and scorch and fixer and sev resent it because on one hand boss was absolutely wasted as a sergeant #on the other hand they looked at a fucking alpha-arc-desk-jockey captain maze and knew boss would be even more wasted off the field #trying to imagine scorch's reaction to his meteoric rise in rank suddenly leading hundreds of commandos and TKs and no foreseeable fieldwor #'no! how could they do this to me the great and loveable scorch!' #sev would find it hilarious that they gave scorch that much responsibility but also #he went mia as a private and now the others are all officers what the fuck #probably would've been more hilarious if scorch hadn't already been on the verge of snapping from ptsd and having abandoned a brother #and knowing fixer and boss are held hostage to keep him in line just as he knows he's a hostage to keep them in line (headcanon) #these tags are now novels #i just have a lot of thoughts about commandos okay?

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

I forgot to promo this bur for any and all folks on tumblr who were watching my descent into madness regarding the published moby dick fanfiction "Ahab's Wife" by Sena J. Naslund, I have compiled a book report of every single bullet point that infuriated and baffled me

Highlights include:

Lactation?

Load Bearing Sooty Loins

Not the Essex, but the Sussex. Which is the Essex. But no it's not.

The worst interpretation of Ahab i have genuinely ever seen

More racism than a book published in 1851, yes it's that bad

Sometimes girls marry their fellow cannibalism survivors?🤔 to cope?🤔

The Dick Pocket.

And much more :)

definitely note the content warnings at the top of the document, but I hope my suffering through this novel continues to bring horrified amusement to any who witness it. godbless

#ahab's wife #ahabs wife #mossy speaks #moss watches #<- liveblog tag #moby dick #im so sorry for putting this in the MD tag #i don't think i will ever read another novel this off the chain batshit fucking insane in my life #it was a wild ride from page one (sex in the first paragraph) and boy howdy we never got off that ride #i had to read so much bad smut on a plane. god. #book report #:)

[hiemaldesirae]

i think he shouldve kept the yellow eyes

#han yoojin #yoojin #the s classes that i raised #tsctir #yoojin tsctir #actually so fucking in love with him tbh #i get it shj. i get it #AHHWHU HE SHOULDVE KEPT THE YELLOW EYES HE WAS SO FUCKING HOT AUGTWHHGD #also off topic but does anyone know where i can read more of the novel. boxnovel stops around like ch 202 or sumn so :cry: #um #do i have an art tag i dont rmb anymore #my art

[ssoupcup]

doing all 3 at once is a talent but she pulls it off well

#websmp #websoup #web smp #yes she's a woman. yes she's a mansplainer. she exists #also drawing this was such a funny experience bc obviously i needed a ref for the syringe so it was just #*visibly stressed* wow i love medical horror #no but medical horror and scientific fuck ups have no right being that fun and also. horrifying. who would have thought #its kinda funny looking at the things i am scared of though bc youd think i have some kind of trauma surrounding them but no im just. #like that apparently #also i just realised its past midnight and i have work tomorrow oops #ah well theres still time to continue novel writing in my tumblr tags #i do fr have an alt account to spam on but main acc tags just hit different #okay i just zoned out for 4 minutes thinking about teeth i might cut it off here

[suburbanbonfire]

lord and tumblr, grant me the strength to finish canner's face on this poster so i can wrap up for the night and go to bed

#i also have to unfuck mattys face #but since his face is not just a fucking blank canvas im ignoring that part for now #this poster is killing me remind me never to put 7 guys in one thing again #uuhguhguhguuhghgogghguhghgh #i want to move onto the oilers poster but the canucks game is coming up first #have i bit off more than i can chew with this series?? #yes #and i may still let that stop me but we'll see #anyways im writing a novel in the tag to continue putting off figuring out canner's face #once more unto the breach #rambles

[sarahsupastar]

*Gasp!* A romance novel acknowledged the existence of aro people!

In classic cliché fashion, the protagonist begins by saying he doesn't ever really get feelings for anybody - essentially describing an aro experience, though he's presumably allo. BUT! Instead of following the cliché by then having him meet "the right person" and finally fall in love, this author had someone immediately clock the aro vibes of that statement and directly ask the protagonist if he's aromantic! And then, instead of just perfunctorily checking the box for acknowledging aro people exist and having him say no and move on, the author has him explain that what he means by "I don't get feelings" is: "I had my heart broken and have since actively avoided developing romantic feelings at all costs" - Not: "I've never experienced romantic attraction before this one special person"

#finally some good fucking food #aromantic #romance novels #Sarah talks at the internet #i feel like I'm starving for scraps with the way this minimal acknowledgement seems so meaningful to me #this is helping to heal the wound in my soul from that one hallmark Christmas movie that put me off the entire genre #the benefits of consuming queer media #sometimes they actually acknowledge that people like me exist #like the one KJ Charles novella where instead of getting smutty like usual the protagonists both turn out to be ace 💜 #The book is #Hijinks With A Hellhound #Louisa Masters #if anyone's curious #though don't read it - or the rest of the series it's in - if all you're after is aro representation #this moment was delightful because it was unexpected #the books at large very much center on falling in love and fucking #tag rant

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Today’s line:

Am I going to put it under a cut for mild mouth whump because I am too tired to deal with tws? You bet.

“Fuck.” A gasp. “You.”

“Ah.” Clayton put the tip of a knife on Finnian’s lip, making him freeze. “Manners.”

He dragged the knife down, only nicking his upper lip, but splitting his lower lip in half. The taste of blood filled Finnian’s mouth, and he let his head hang low so he wouldn’t choke on it. He hoped his coughs would swallow his quiet sobs, wondering just how much pain this little blade could cause.

30 days 30 lines

#30 days 30 lines #23 #a lot of pain :) #Manners says the guy currently busy turning my sweet boy into minced meat #So the CampNano I am absolutely not doing is going not too badly #I took today off because it was hot as fuck and I didn't want to die on my way home #so I got a couple of words down #In total I broke 10k for this month and 60k for the novel #Cautiously on track with my outline and deadline #I also have a shitton of open tag games but all my energy goes into not dying from heat #and getting words down #so uh... yeah... eventually yknow

[khaotunq]

have fully failed at tumblr of late and this week looks no less hellish for my general existence but hello ebdy i love u all and hope things are swell ❤

#dani i will at some point queue just like all ur gifsets and become u for a few days asdfkjs thank u #shash podficced another one of my boston fics and i'm ;w; about it but they don't have a post to rb yet #i will make one when i'm not on mobile if they don't <3 #sarah's still posting the eclipse translation and it's delightful and everyone needs to go read it #i think i've been tagged in stuff but failed to keep up #thank u all for being nice about my gifsets i feel like a fraud because i've just been scheduling them from drafts #and haven't actually made anything new in weeeeeks #i have been writing but i'm basically trashing eerything so #i fucked my knee off a hold at climbing the other day and i've managed to slice open the back of my thigh on a chair #so everything's going spectacularly over here #anyway i bought two new japanese novels and they're calling me so i'm off to pretend i don't exist for a bit #i love everyone in this bar forever #so it is decreed

[twobigears]

waking up to Facebook drama over the agility judge who was attacked by a dog in the ring over the weekend, and just….fuckin yikes.

#simultaneously horrified and yet unsurprised #that something like this finally happened #what also fucking irritates me in the FB comments #is all the people wanting to blame a medical issue #or training methods #which while potentially POTENTIALLY PARTIALLY valid #is still digging their heads in the sand and ignoring the very uncomfortable truth #the agility community for years #nigh on decades #has accepted and catered to aggressive dogs competing #coddled dogs who will not reliably stay with their handler while off-leash IN AN OFF LEASH SPORT #and when you say anything against it #you’re shot down #and now here we are #that poor judge #also i do feel bad for that dog’s handler #because apparently she was a Novice A handler with her first agility dog #which is just another horrible indicator of our community failed her #to allow things to get to this point #/end tag novel #things that grind my gears

[princess-of-purple-prose]

i wanna get into ORV but i still don’t understand it 😭😭

CACKLES SO FUCKING LOUDLY (Caps: cackles so fucking loudly). Ahem. [cracks knuckles]

Okay so ORV (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) is a webnovel which is currently being adapted into a webtoon, and I really enjoy both!! But if I had to pick one, it's the webnovel no question <3 I talked about accessing both here!

I went into it completely and entirely blind except for the main character's name, which was probably the best thing I've done for myself all year, but my summary for you (which I had to stop myself halfway through and cut down for size THRICE):

ORV follows Kim Dokja, an isolated and lonely office worker whose contract is expiring and whose only (and I mean only) joy in life is a massively long, horrendously convoluted webnovel called "Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World". He is the only reader in the entire world of this novel, as everyone else had long since fallen off about ten chapters in due to the fact that it fucking sucks-- but that means that when his subway ride home is interrupted by the world ending in exactly the way it does in his favorite story, he's also the person with the best chance in all the world to see the apocalypse through to a happy ending.

The novel, as indicated by the title and premise, is SO meta, and never in a cheesy or grating way-- ORV chews you up and spits you out with how incisively, brilliantly, and beautifully it works its themes, and every single character and character dynamic will grip you by the motherfucking throat. It is the funniest thing I've ever read and I've almost cried about it in public multiple times and I keep zoning out and staring into the middle distance during dinner because I keep having new belated realizations about its ending. It may look long and intimidating, but it doesn't FEEL long because the pacing is incredible, and also it constantly lampshades itself by acknowledging that the in-universe apocalypse is incredibly stupid and by having multiple scenes where the characters lay out past plot points in great detail and then go "wow this sucks and is stupidly overcomplicated." ORV is complex and beyond intelligently written, but it never takes itself too seriously, and it's better for it <3

ORV is hard to explain because it is so much all the time. In the best possible way, half the time it sounds like a fanfic-y fever dream. Kim Dokja IS bisexual and he IS autistic and he IS INSANE. It is impossible to encapsulate because everything I could say about it would fall short of its actuality, and Tumblr functions on recommending things through hyperbole but ORV is literally just like that. ORV is about the power of fiction and it's about meeting your blorbo in the flesh and immediately annoying him so bad he tries to kill you and it's about staggering, world-defying love of every kind and it's about your friends kinkshaming you and it's about learning to live with the fact that you deserve to live. I will, very genuinely, never be the same after reading it. This is the worst rec post in the world and I sincerely apologize. Please read ORV

#I'M SORRY I WASN'T SURE WHAT TO ADDRESS FIRST SO I JUST VOMITED STUFF OUT #you don't understand i'm too volatile about this novel to be trusted to say literally anything coherent about it #but also orv completely fucking defies simple summaries or the mere concept of conciseness #so this took me. like. embarrassingly long to write. let's not talk about how long exactly #aw hey fuck this i had a TON of further tags written and then tumblr somehow nested a tag within another and had an UNHOLY meltdown on me #i am truly too tired to rewrite them all :( #so i'll leave off by saying: it's a truly gorgeous story #PLEASE give it a try-- and let me know if you do!!! #blaquesails #asks #kay talks #honestly i'm sorry again this is so so so long and you got the SHORT version of the summary 😭😭😭😭😭 #orv recs

[wutheringmights]

ahhh I have been wanting to reread one of my favorite fucked up comics and I decided to maybe start today only to find out that it finished back in June and now I'm scared to read it cause I don't want it to ever end ahaah

#like the story is soooo good that at this point i don't think its capable of having a bad ending #but what if it does have a bad ending???? #i went through the tag just now and it seems like the original novel had more stuff and it's just the comic that ended??? #but also they're now going to make an animation based off of it??? #i mean. i am ready but i am not ready to have the conversation with people where I have to defend why i like [redacted title] #going to have to look people in the eye and be like 'yeah it has X in it and it fucking slaps' #me rambling #i should do a post with a list of all my favorite web comics even if i don't mention this one #yknow because of the before mentioned fucked up content that I cannot be assed to defend

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

lmao sometimes you get through a book and the only reason it wasn't a COMPLETE waste of time is because it did something Supremely Neat(tm) with structuring, so at least your writer!Brain gets to chew on that for a while

#text #personal #books #writing #anyway im not tagging the title or author here because she is in face on tumblr and that's Mean #but like. yikes. #what a pointless angry hopeless gratuitously violent meaningless book lmao #ma'am get some therapy cuz that was a vent session that did not need to enter the world... #there were a couple scary bits toward the beginning but. honestly mostly i was Bored #i didnt care about either character #needed more haunted house #needed NOT to push fascism off onto a fucking building lolol #needed more than a hatefuck of reconciliation #anyway it was just. very stupid. and i am tired #it felt like the author working through her own trauma. which!! valid!! understandable!!! healthy!! #but like.not in a way that was enlightening for me to see. it felt like a soapbox rant and like self-loathing NOT like a novel i paid $ for #i wish i had kinder things to say but i should just sleep

[astranauticus]

idk what is it about that one throwaway line from han sooyoung about her writing 10 chapters in one day that finally broke me but oh my fuckin god i love her so much

#orv liveblog #asto speaks #orv spoilers #(for the tags ->) #i KNOW theres more to her character in the epilogues. let me get to it #but also. god i love her.... #insane edgelord tsundere writer <3 #like especially in the past year or so being someone who *creates* art besides just consuming it has become such a big part of just #like its just a part of me. if i stop creating i die #so like... hsy the writer.... predictive plagiarism.... kdj witnesses yjh experiences hsy imagines.... alksdfjhlahsdlkfhslkdjf #okay also cuz i dont read much tbh KJFDHKSJDFH im an artist and theatre kid at best #but also like. yknow. the tsundere edgelord refusal to express affection like a normal person but doing it through your art #both her casting kdj in the journey to the west remake scenario as 'guy who needs to chill the fuck out and get carried by his teammates' #and also her asking him to read her novels like i want to create stories you love and stories that make you happy.... #lmao lets see how well all of this ages when i hit the epilogues #i have a very very vague idea of whats gonna happen and im very. well not even scared tbh just confused KJSDHFKHSDKFJH #lol my webtoon only friend keeps getting confused at like. yoohankim in general cuz hsy hasnt rly had that big a role in the webtoon yet #she keeps going 'is this orv or link click' cuz like a lot of yoohankim art gives off lowkey lc trio energy if you dont look closely LMAO #me (newly minted yoohankim enjoyer): WELL-