#summer reading for everyone

[jjspina]

Writing, Writing and Writing some More! WIP coming along!

Writing, Writing and Writing some More! WIP coming along!

I have been so busy lately with all my WIPs that I can’t think straight. Family gatherings and other stuff takes me away from it. But I soon go back again as soon as I can. I am addicted to writing! Sigh! I have so many books right now that I am running out of space to store them and feature the covers on my basement room wall. I will have to stop putting them up eventually. But I get a kick out…

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#Books for all ages #Jemsbooks for all ages #Reading is Good for your Health #summer reading for everyone #Writing

[artofalassa]

The Bike

Part five of Wolfwood Lives AU! Sorry it took me so long, but have a familiar face and lots of hugs as an apology!

Part ONE | Part TWO | Part THREE | Part FOUR | Part SIX

#vashwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #livio the double fang #trigun #trigun maximum #wolfwood lives au #i'm very dumb about details so Livio SHOULD have long hair #i spent half the summer fighting myself about it #then I decided I wanted the scruffy bear instead #look it's five years later #maybe he cut it again #las!art #thank you everyone who still read this thing #it's been a long break #lots of love

[inkskinned]

i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

#witches and wizards #kids need to be able to play games without knowing the extended universe #playing was easy #i knew i wasn't gonna be able to explain chronicles of christomancy #but we could pick up a stick and run around #nd say we were magic that would be enough backstory #and i think the last time i felt that sense of community #was the summer of pokemon go #it's about cross-generational connectivity bro #yes there are insular communtities but EVERYONE had fucking read harry potter #which is me saying - i think maybe people don't miss HER or the ACTUAL BOOK tbh #they miss... feeling connected #think about how so many people felt so weirdly ashamed and lost after Game of Thrones ended - #they did SUCH a bad job that the entire community just... vanished. #where beforehand people would have GoT weddings #we are just animals who love stories and love feeling like we speak the same language #btw i am not on twitter so i hadn't seen some of the shit she was doing #and then when i was 19 she published the ''american school'' hogwarts stuff #and was reading it casually bc again a huge nerd #and in it shes like ''the british taught the natives their more civilized magics'' #and that was like..................... oh okay. okay. so.....

[nart-is-a-monster]

ALRIGHT HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII >__</

ok so, this is a PART 1 ¡YES! HI BATZ IM GONNA KILL YOU FOR BEING SO GOOD AT WRITING

:3c

MY BRAIN IS JUST FULL OF THE SCENES OF THE FANFICS I READ

when I read, everything in my brain is just so visual for some reason and then my next move is to make a fucking comic or something, AND YES IM DOING MORE.

Also, yeah this is what I told you about doing something for chapter 5 last time, also remember that fic that was what if varian was the one on the amber instead of his father and then something something happens with the moonstone and then moon stone lives inside of varian?

well...

ehhehehehehehehhehehe

ALSO, OH SHIT!

THE NEXT PART IS GOING TO BE ONLY ON DISCORD OR MAYBE ILL MADE A NEW ACC BC THAT SHIT IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT SPICY AJHKGFAKJGHG

BTW GO AND GIVE SOME LOVE TO @aziraphalesbookkeeper

THIS IS THE LINK OF THE FIC WAAAAAAAAAAA

and I'm going to read the fic again so brb :b

#vat7k #alchemy boyfriends #hugo rottewange #hugo vat7k #varian #tts varian #tts #hugo the human #varian and the seven kingdoms #varigo #ao3 fanfic #ao3 fanart #fanfic #also batz im going to read all your fics for mha bc how dare you have bkdk fics??? IM GONNA EAT THEM ALL #vat7k hugo #vat7k varian #vat7k au #varian vat7k #varian and the 7 kingdoms #what summer meant to you fic #my art <3 #im killing everyone

[rise-to-it]

the post about how we can’t explain WHY Eugenides is the perfect unreliable narrator without spoiling the books did just remind me that I once convinced my friend to read the books and then she wanted multiple of them at once to read on a trip, so I created a carefully secured paper book cover to hide the title of the third book from her

#also the sheer number of people I have tried to pitch on these books. it is a hard one to pitch without spoiling lmao #like I simply can’t tell them anything about the second or third books which are my favorites without spoiling the first which is fantastic #I personally did not experience the plot twist in full bc I read them out of order bc I was 12 and got them in a random summer reading set #but I want everyone else to experience it !!!!!! it kicks ass !!!!!!!!!! #truly I need to put in writing somewhere that were I ever to get amnesia I want someone to give me these books one at a time #the queens thief #TQT #the queen's thief #the thief #eugenides #the king of Attolia

[edge-oftheworld]

'shallow hearts for shallow minds that ache to be alive' the chokehold you have on me

#literally keep finding new relevance for this one line #like. in my life. in christianity; surprisingly. in the way it kinda resolves the bridge of starting line on luke's part #we fall apart and redefine what keeps you up at night->also that #basically this is just an incredible bridge all around. a true pivotal point #like. just existing in a world of people who prefer to stay in a fraction of the depth you (read: I) naturally do and trying to be myself #all through that. not letting having to conform rob me of my own existence and experiences and the fact that not everyone sees everything #it doesn't make it any less real #why are we not talking about this song more in our predictions for lh2? #take my hand #5sos5 #luke hemmings #5sos #5 seconds of summer

[jojo-schmo]

So I have this playlist filled with fun dancing music that I like to listen to when working on stuff like the Roleswap comic. It’s a random mix of genres mostly consisting of 60s, 70s, 80s, and other toe tapping classics. Oh, and a lot of disco! Haha.

I thought it could use a good playlist photo of the Roleswap heroes inspired by other album covers of the time. I find myself drawn to vintage art styles so I just went and had fun with it! I figured the colorful and swirly album cover style would be a good place to start :)

#king dedede #meta knight #elfilis #forgotten land roleswap #art #kirby and the forgotten land #kirby #tw eyestrain #possibly! just wanna be safe about it #my dad shared his favorite music with me as a teenager and turned me into a disco lover HAHAHA #my favorites rn are Donna summer and Rick astley (UNIRONICALLY!!) #yes I said rick astley!! #The Whenever You Need Somebody album EATS #and I want everyone to listen to it beyond never gonna give you up #which is also a good song but his voice is like liquid velvet mmmm #together forever is A CUTE SONG #thank you for reading my presentation on why rick astley’s music ROCKS

[lunarharp]

figured i'd do this again..bit early i guess..

#to cheer me up.. i feel bad atm.. these things don't even make me feel very good tho bc i'm such a narrative/sketch-based artist.. #but Proper Beautiful Finished Pieces are what grab attention and look good at the end of the year all neatly lined up lol..... #so looking at a “yearly review” where i can only choose 'the best image of the month' (??) is like...What have i even been doing... #i did a month by month look back on twt for myself instead..but even that doesn't express the quantity of comic-based stuff.. #that i do put a lot of time/heart into..but alas i feel bad bringing even them back..RTing/reblogging my own art simply feels bad lol.. #AND WHY IS IT ALL B&W...trying to accept that i LIKE doing that and sketching and scribbling..not like i'm trying to like..Get Artist Job.. #this year was so profoundly lonely at times bc i spent all my time drawing instead of socialising and trying to find friends.... #please please please have achieved more of your dreams in the future so you can look back at 2023 and think.. #It was good that happened so that it got me further to the future. Or whatever i guess..................... #regardless i did have a great amount of fun drawing and improving this year and dwelling deeply & heavily on witch hat atelier. #art-wise and emotionally....march july & september were the best months i think..AUGUST WAS SO WEIRD SUMMER IS SO EVIL ALWAYS. #thank you very much if you are reading this for enjoying & leaving nice tags & such like <3 i've realised how fulfilling that is to receive #really keeps me posting stuff here instead of keeping it all to myself in my head #i wish everyone in this world could have a safe and happy end of year. i wish living in this world were easier

[nuppu-nuppu]

Ignore if you don’t want to read about me being stupid once again

#pls dont read if you cant handle venting and whining #once again i am here to say that i am the loneliest person alive and i feel like i can’t grasp the basic consept of friendship and do it lol #like idk how to be friends #i feel like i will forever be sad and lonely #and i know everyone will say you can talk to me and i know that but i’ve just been by myself for so long that i don’t remember how to have #actual conversations with people i feel like i am disconnected from reality #i feel like i am an extremely unlikeable person and that’s why i was all alone in highschool and idk i am oversharing on the internet again #because it’s the only place i kind of feel safe doing it #pls take care of yourselves first before comfoting me or anything im sorry i sound very pathetic #how do i start living again #how does one live anyway #im just in my head all the time #this was supposed to be hot girl summer but it’s once again summertime sadness #im so stupid!!! #im so anxious and depressed that i dont know what to do with myself #im so sorry for oversharing i have a therapist dont worry im kind of taking care of myself #but the eternal loneliness just wont let me go #idk how to be a person anymore #i’m just sad #thinking of going to a church and pretend to be a believer so i could have a community again lol

[jjspina]

My Posts Continue for 40 days now! It's a Record!!

My Posts Continue for 40 days now! It’s a Record!!

I loved creating posts and usually only post 2-3 times a week on average. But for some reason I have been going crazy with posts for 40 days or so now continuously! WordPress keeps congratulating me and encouraging me to continue on this crazy streak! Can I continue without going berserk? Stay tuned to see if I do it! Hoping to complete 50 consecutive posts. Please keep coming back to encourage…

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#award-winning author #Award-winning books #Books for all ages #fantasy series #Jemsbooks for all ages #summer reading for everyone #summer reading for YA

[officialjimmybuffett]

feel free to get elaborate in the tags

#trc #the raven cycle #it always fascinates me when i see someone post about how it’s fall and they have to reread trc to celebrate. like no girl!! #trc is for late spring w a dash of late summer!!!!! #biting cold mornings despite the new growth and flowers. humid hot afternoons. tons of rain. lots of purples and blues. the works #probably bc that’s the first time i read it & the setting of the first book. but i love seeing everyone’s associations w the series #tdt

[rayvven]

undead

#its his summer vacation monologue everyone read summer vacation #enstars #koga oogami #kaoru hakaze #sakuma rei #adonis otogari

[eclairfair98]

“Oh, but you see, Kazansky,” the boy looks down at him and smiles. Engulfed by the honey-gold haze of a sharp summer sun, the sweetest, most reckless thing he’s ever seen. “I am dangerous!”

And there’s something about that smile, guilelessly fluttering across his flushed face like a hummingbird taking flight, that digs into Tom’s chest like the gentlest of knives. Cleaves its way between his ribs.

Fills his heart with light.

It’s strange, how quickly it all happens. How startlingly unremarkable it really is. How Tom takes a deep breath, lets the faint wisps of warm vanilla sugar trickle down his too-dry throat, closes his eyes, and just knows: he might’ve entered this quaint house in the middle of nowhere with a firm plan in mind to destroy any chances his father had of securing a betrothal (even if that meant stooping low-enough to make a thirteen-year-old cry) but hurting Pete Mitchell in any shape or form, wouldn’t sit right with his conscience.

Knows that there’s no reason why Mrs Mitchell should be so intent on finding her son a match at such short notice, especially when he’s so young. (Especially when she doesn’t seem like one of those parents that unfortunately, aren’t all that uncommon in the Navy: who think their omega children have little value beyond the connections they can help forge via bonding and marriage.)

Recognizes dire straits when they’re staring him in the face: the thinly-veiled distress in Mrs Mitchell’s dull green eyes; the worn dress shirt that’s almost two sizes too big for Pete — that he was probably supposed to grow into several months ago, but never did; the stale scent of grief and pain that clings to even the most carefully-polished surface of their home.

Finds himself thinking that maybe, it isn’t all that strange. Maybe, he could spend the rest of his life with this boy. Finding out what makes him smile. What makes him laugh. What is his favorite dream to dream.

In the end, it all comes down to this: Sometimes, you meet a person and it feels like you’ve known them your entire life. A quiet sense of belonging settles in your bones, and you realize you’d do anything to keep them happy and secure.

#the unbearable lightness of being #icemav #topgun #omegaverse #as I promised myself (and others) #I will be making a final fully-edited version of this fic #and posting it on ao3 once I’m done #don’t know how long it’ll take me but I’m hoping to get it done by Spring/Summer of next year #this is the first fic I’ve ever written and the more I think about it the clearer it seems to me that it’s probably going to be my last #which is why I want to do my best to leave the best possible version of it on the internet for posterity #to everyone who’s left me asks and DMs and Ao3 comments in the past few months #please know that I’ve read every single kind word you’ve sent my way #and they all mean a lot to me #thank you ❤️ thank you ❤️ thank you #I’m going to try my best to get back to all of you as soon as I can 🤞🏼 #hope you’ve all been doing very well #and oh #Happy Holidays! 🌻

[artbyfuji]

"the leaves of the tree rustled, and on the wind the girl heard one more question..."

#rwby #rwby9 #summer rose #yang xiao long #ruby rose #i don't careeee if summer is not the narrator in the trailer i needed to get this out of my system #there is not enough art of summer and her BABIESSS #like i just know she built blanket forts and read stories to them and gave a different voice to every character #anyways everyone needs to draw something like this it is the law #i put too much effort into this but you know how it is with #yang & ruby and their silly little strq family #my art #collective

[wantbytaemin]

watching shinee performances and remembering how when i saw them live i started crying the first second they showed up and then literally was like NO. we can’t be doing that right now. and then separated body & soul and actually didn’t shed a single tear until after i got back to the hotel. and got these shots too somehow.

#THATS MY pics of my taemin 😭 ignore me rn i just had THE best summer of my life last summer and am reliving bits of it on this gorgeous #Saturday morning & i hope everyone else is having a good day!! im having a big breakfast and am abt to go on a long walk & read in the park #it’s sunny and beautiful out and im rewatching taem on lee mujin getting ready for my dayyyy 🥰

[sun-e-chips]

In your waterpark Au... Do Sun and Moon let high school students volunteer as lifeguards during the summer? I could see Sun and Moon proudly bragging about their students to random people at the park and said kids behind them trying to get them to stop or just plain groaning in embarrassment. Have a fantastic day! (or night?)

Without saying too much (I am currently writing the au shhhhh) I will tell you unfortunately for most the past and the current present there are no human staff and the waterpark is entirely run and maintained by animatronics.

Sun and Moon as well as all the Tiki bots were designed to also fill the role as the park’s lifeguards, many robot eyes are constantly surveying the premise’s. The tiki bots are able to pull people from the water but only sun and moon are designed to perform CPR (I talk a little more about this in a previous ask)

Butttttt If the boys did have human staff they would absolutely be bragging as well as messing with them. The teens would especially be embarrassed by the boys praises and smothering in front of all the parks guests while they’re still on shift. The boys have no shame in expressing their fondness for the staff. All employees would be family no matter how short their time there may have been, Sun and Moon will always remember. They never forget a face after all hehe.

#hello hiiiiii thank you for the ask!!!! #I know I have other asks and I’m answering out of order but I’m still saving them to answer later #it makes me so happy to read everyone’s questions and comments about the au! #but yes sorry no human staff #as of currently… #gosh can you just imagine though the inside jokes the boys would play with the lifeguards #the summer would be their favorite season because that’s when all their friends come back and they get to catch up and leave where they #left off #the boys are very good with that #the game will continue #dca au #waterpark au #WP au asks #waterspark #Waterspark au #Waterspark Bay