#the bone key

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

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#fantasy #books #The Bone Key #Sarah Monette #Kyle Murchison Booth #poll #l: English #result: no

[setnet]

look at this other awesome fic I was gifted for yuletide

big hell yes two cakes moment when I checked my email again

#fic rec #the bone key #sarah monette

[will80sbyers]

Shelter on Amazon prime has well written characters and an interesting story. There's a black latino guy that is THE main character, a black girl as a protagonist, a lesbian girl as a protagonist, a lovely dorky but genius guy that you are going to love a lot... there are lots of wlws involved, there is a non binary black character that's important to the plot, A LOT of plot twists, it deals with really heavy topics like abuse on children but it's also funny at times so it's not all heavy and the kids are written like actual real people and not just gen Z caricatures... beautiful relationships between the characters, beautiful scenes of platonic friendship and mutual support, lots of action and drama but in a good way, there are queer relationships actually happening on screen that are the main focus!! It has literally everything you could ever want and it's actually pretty damn good!!! GO WATCH IT NOW PLEASE 🥺

#shelter amazon prime #harlan coben's shelter #hcshelter #stranger things #locke & key #byler #lesbian #bisexual #wlws #queer media #tv show recommendations #willow #heartstopper #shadow and bone #supernatural #tlou #teen wolf #if this show gets cancelled I will cry for centuries

[amethystsoda]

LOOK AT SERIZAWA GOOOOOO

#studio bones #genga #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 3 #serizawa katsuya #key art #animation tag

[saltpepperbeard]

david. *crawling through his window* david. the fact that ed and stede have both experienced harmful effects from monotony/having to live the same existence day after day after day is going to be a significant plot point/source of emotional conflict in the third season isn't it. david. that's why mary gave that whole speech to ed and stede isn't it. david. stede was so depressed having to go through the motions, and ed was so depressed having to do the same, so the idea of that happening to their relationship is probably going to be a terrifying concept for both of them. david. david can you hear me—

#OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD S2 Spoilers #OFMD Season 3 #((using that tag is WILD. but also...Manifesting)) #Gentlebeard #Blackbonnet #Edward Teach #Stede Bonnet #Revenge Rambles #I JUST #I've been thinking a ton about this because like #In this season David was very 'just loving each other isn't enough. you actually have to work for it. you actually have to show up' #Like intimacy wasn't enough to bandage the trauma type deal #SO I'M JUST FOAMING AT THE MOUTH THINKING ABOUT SEASON 3 BECAUSE LIKE #He's essentially stripped them down to bare bones #They don't have their crutches anymore #They don't have key pieces of their identities anymore #They just have each other and the whole world ahead of them #And are likely going to have to reckon with A LOT for that reason #And they BOTH have trauma from being STUCK #And while I don't think they're necessarily going to feel stuck with each other #I think they're going to feel AFRAID of that happening #((Which makes me wonder if the concept of marriage is going to scare Stede a bit also)) #There's just so much room for both emotional conflict AND the subsequent growth now #Like now that they're alone #They won't have any choice BUT to work at these things together

[turtleofdamascus]

I thought I'd never see

Inspired by the breathtaking fic save the undone years by Whitherward @whatanybodygets which is an AU about Kaz and Inej during WW1 where Kaz is a soldier and Inej is a nurse. This moment that stuck with me:

“All this waiting, and his brother appears at his bedside like a ghost in the night. [...] [Captain Reitveld] simply drops onto the edge of Kaz’s mattress and yanks him forward by the shoulders, wrapping him into a tight hug.

She sees Kaz go tense for a moment, and then relax, bury his face into his brother’s shoulder.

And then he begins to sob."

-

Been working on this for a month. I can't put into words how beautiful of a writer she is. I am always in awe and must drop everything for it.

Bonus: process

#kaz brekker #jordie reitveld #shadow and bone #six of crows #freddy carter #grishaverse #soc #fanart for fanfiction #whitherward #fic: save the undone years #my art #my fanart #i am unofficially whitherward's illustrator :) #love it so much #her writing always inspires me #i can't believe it's coming on... 3 years that I've been illustrating for her? #how the time has passed #i feel low key the development of my rendering skills can be attributed to drawing fanart for whitherward's fics ngl #couldn't decide if Kaz would be the type to hold back a cry #and like have pent up angry cry with his perpetual frown #or he would be so overwhelmed and just start sobbing #so i included both #I feel kaz is more of the hold back a cry and silent type of cry #random aside but freddy carter is in masters of the air and it gives me so much content/reference for him in uniform #total coincidence #except mota takes place ww1

[teamfreewill2pointo]

Losing it at this old man dragging Sam and Dean in one of the official novels.

#supernatural #spn #spnfamily #spn family #sam winchester #dean winchester #bone key #spn novels

[syn4k]

to be, or not to be (romanticization of the inevitable)

#ray's tag #keys' art #undescribed #skeletons #ok to reblog #the skeleton model that i traced for this was provided by the incredible kiku @kikunai whom you can find right here on tumblr! #so uh. This is a piece about chronic fatigue although the original idea i had for it drifted a bit as soon as I started coloring the linear #(i really enjoy shading and lighting things and got a bit carried away here but i stand by my choice because this is my favorite thing #that i've ever drawn) #anyways. i often feel especially lately with school being back in season that my bones are leaden with this sort of. weariness. theyre heav #it weighs on our mental health and energy a lot and although there's a couple of reasons we have been given for it #that doesn't remove the fact that this is still a thing that affects us in a very real way day to day although we are good at masking it. #often i come home to find that i do not have the physical mental or creative energy to work on things i really want to #especially project: nexus which i feel extra bad about even though i can't help it because i just started it so recently #it is a mild to moderate struggle to make it day to day and i just. wanted to represent this somehow #my original concept for this was a skeleton with some black goop gunk whatever leaking from its joints #but as i started adding the cracks and coloring them gold (a personal touch; kintsugi is a concept that is very dear to us) #i realized that the focus here was less on the condition itself and more on the body that it afflicts. #so i put it into a spotlight. #ironic i know since very little people acknowledge this irl or even know it exists at all but i added rim lighting. I added color gradients #I colored the lineart and made it all fancy and even added a flare for the head to get the point across that even at its core; disability i #a performance. this is not implying that disabilities are fake in fact this is the opposite of that. i wanted to show that with disabilitie #especially i think in my personal opinion the invisible ones #we are all masking at least a little bit during the vast majority of the day. humans are social creatures and it is only when we are alone #or with someone we deeply trust where we allow ourselves to be who we truly are without fear and even then that can be rare #so i wanted to show this bit of the soul in as broad a limelight as i could. idk this is a really abstract piece and i dont know if anyone #will even get it but it matters to me at least. and even though we've been largely bedridden for the past week i think that's okay #we will get it figured out. all of us. okay? okay. i love you. i fucking love you. we are going to fucking make it #(also the xes over the eyes are because i thought they looked cool they have no deeper meaning at least i think they dont #actually i think they do but i cant put it into words idk. Art is subjective assign your own meaning i'm gonna go get a shower)

[alaryheart]

Okay, I couldn’t resist turning my sketch into a Pool Scene moment (minus the icky sensory feeling of layers of wet robes)

#fanart #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark #their poses just meshed together so welllllll #maybe gids like ‘did I drop the key ring in der?? #just some salt encrusted bone nuns

[goatsandgangsters]

OBSESSED with the costuming choice of giving him the same color palette of teal over olive for both Sturmhond and Nikolai, but with very different style garments

(also love the choice of olive for the under layer, for that First Army symbolism. also very Ravkan Colors of him)

(also also Nikolai having the same color palette as Sturmhond but way more muted/less vibrant is So Much)

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #nikolai lantsov #wendy partridge #WENDY I AM KISSING YOU ON THE MOUTH #oh this is SO good. I'm losing my miiiiiind #they said SO MUCH about the character with these costume choices and they're SO good #I think in many ways Sturmhond is a truer version of Nikolai— #or at least. he's a true version of Nikolai cranked up to 11 and break off the knob #but I think what's key is that he HAS the freedom to BE those aspects of himself #whereas when he's Nikolai he's more constrained by all the expectations around him and all the OTHER roles he has to play #using the same color palette while achieving very different things for Sturmhond vs Nikolai is so goOOOOOOD

[moldspace]

Do you have any specific advice for insuring a sculpture, akin to the general size and shape of what you make, doesn’t explode in the kiln? Your art is honestly amazing and has inspired me to try and get back into 3D art (I suck at it). I’m very worried about a project exploding from trapped air. Thank you for your time.

i haven't really had problems with stuff exploding in the kiln myself (save some pit fires which are inherently hard to control haha) i just make sure my pieces are super dry before they go into the kiln. from what i understand, the trapped air causing explosions thing is a bit of a misunderstanding anyway - water in clay is what's really the problem. so giving closed forms holes for airflow and making sure no part of your piece is too thick to ensure it dries well is the goal! if your pieces are as dry as they can be before firing them, you should be good

#ask #also: bone dry clay is room temperature #while clay that's still wet will be colder to the touch due to evaporation! #and if you fire your own stuff you can always candle your kiln for a while before bisque firing #also climate plays a part... i live in a very arid area. if you live somewhere humid patience becomes key

[chamaelobivia]

#goth aesthetic #goth #gothgoth #gothic #goth fashion #aesthetic #darkwave #trad goth #outfit #dark fashion #alt ootd #goth ootd #ootdinspiration #ootd #dark mori kei #dark mori #dark aesthetic #gothic outfit #gothic fashion #bone collecting #bone jewelry #alternative #alternative goth #alt fashion #alt aesthetic

[gorgynei]

The Somnovem and Predathos Theory

Can we talk about Predathos and the Somnovem? I've been dying to talk about Predathos and the Somnovem. There's something here, I smell it.

Theory under the cut, its a doozy.

First of all, "Factorum Malleus" (translates to Creator Hammer) and "Malleus Keys" (translates to Hammer Keys). Aeor and Predathos have a concrete, canonical connection. Ludinus went deep into the Genesis Ward, found the Factorum Malleus project, and developed it further into the Keys to release Predathos. It's unclear whether Aeor also wanted to release Predathos, or if they were just trying to use part of its power to create god-killing weapons, but regardless, Aeor knew about Predathos. Thats a big deal and it explains why the entire pantheon held a ceasefire during the Calamity to completely wipe them out.

Knowing that Aeor has a connection to Predathos makes their fanatical Cognouza ward more suspicious. It's possible that the Somnovem were actually worshiping/serving Predathos but all record of it's existence was wiped with Aeor's falling, so we never knew.

When the Nein first learned about Cognouza, it was due to a psychic wave put out by Vokodo in his final moments, flashing them all into Vokodo's memories. This is similar to the flash that Imogen put out when she gave into Ruidus's power in e33-e34, even down to Bell's Hells being forced into their own memories. While not concrete, the shared usage of emotion-driven psychic waves and memories is notable.

The Somnovem believed in the power of the mortal mind and imagination. In other words, they believed that a brain could manifest psychic power, and they were right: Imogen Temult is living proof of that. They share in the ideas of the power of the mind, even down to the Somnovem communicating telepathically and in dreams.

The Somnovem, or at least members of it, also share many sentiments with the Ruby Vanguard. The Ruby Vanguard wants to release Predathos in order to destroy the pantheon, release mortals from fate, and embrace freedom in that. Ira, upon meeting the Nein, says "Creation is born from destruction, and if all that is worthy of us is destroyed, then so much more can be created or forgotten. All the Gods and the fates that threw us to torment and death, they all will pay" (c2e137) which mirrors that idea extremely closely. Timorei says "You know the terror of the end, mortal ones. The nothing, the acceptance of fate or even oblivion. We-- we cannot end. No, at all costs, oblivion must be destroyed" (c2e137), once again bringing up the idea of disrupting fate and the natural order of things. It's possible that what was originally interpreted as the Somnovem being split on whether to bring Cognouza into the world could have actually been a much larger debate on whether to bring Predathos into the world and destroy pantheon, at least in part.

When Cognouza was transported into the astral sea, it was harassed by a "terrible psychic storm" that drove them mad. Psychic storms haunt all of campaign 3. There's the red storms on the surface of Ruidus and Imogen's dreams, both intimately connected to Predathos and to the power of the mind. Cognouza could have targeted by a powerful psychic wave directly from Predathos, which would explain the strange mind-melded state they end up in and the madness that permeates the entire city and anyone who gets too close.

Additionally, Ruidus flared in 836 PD. Cognouza was also destroyed in 836 PD. It's impossible to know if these are completely connected or pure coincidence, but if Cognouza was a long-running Predathos plot, it's destruction would likely warrant an outburst from the moon.

While delving in Aeor, Lucien discovers a mural depicting "a ring of nine red ovals, with a dazzling starburst in the middle, and that decorated with a single open eye. Enlightenment" (from the Nine eyes of Lucien). Every other symbol of the Somnovem has been just nine red eyes. This "starburst" in the middle could be a subtle nod to Predathos, especially with the way it seems the nine ovals are inferior to this one, greater eye. Lucien seems to believe this represents enlightenment, and he's probably correct. The Aeorians are famously non-religious, so fanatical devotion to a god-killer and it's ideals may have still only looked like extreme belief in a particular school of thought, rather than worship to a particular entity.

There's the obvious too: the nine eyes being red. Red can mean a lot of things. There are plenty of red things in Critical Role that are totally unrelated to Predathos and Ruidus. But when red is the primary colour and representation of unchecked alien energy, and a strange fanatical city with possible connection to that energy is also red? It stops being so chance. Not a big thing on its own, but worth mentioning.

When Cognouza was destroyed, Kingsley felt the "strange black chains that invisibly wove through that city" break and heard an "angry, unknowable, primal, ancient cry". It's widely assumed that this is Tharizdun due to the chain-imagery and general madness that the city is connected to, and I do think that's likely, but if Tharizdun is actually somehow connected to Predathos (both of them are alien beings that got locked away, after all), it could be both of them.

*gestures wildly at all of this* do you see?? do you SEE???? There's something. There's something here.

#btw if you're curious about how i know that malleus keys translates to hammer keys: malleus is a small bone in your ear that's also #known as the hammer (bc its shaped like a hammer) and factotum is a word meaning ''someone who does everything'' so #factorum -> creator and malleus -> hammer #cr spoilers #critical role #cr speculation #cr theory #critical role theory #predathos #somnovem #cognouza #aeor #mighty nein #bells hells #bell's hells

[6th-for-truth]

Sorry not sorry that I need this quote on as many pieces of merch as possible.

Smaller font great for a subtle nod on a vehicle or a big bold one on a water bottle like this 😍

Available here on my Etsy!

#nona the ninth #ntn #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt #gideon the ninth #locked tomb merch #tlt art #locked tomb #cows watch sunsets #I swear I'm not a Jod fan #his quips are just so quotable #low key also showing off my new *aesthetic* desk #I may be a bone baby but I love pretty colors

[abrielarnold]

Haunted

(the last @thingsthatbleedfic chapter and its freaking gorgeous illustrations (@kkachis @artistfingers @dp-belongs-in-a-hoodie) made me feral, so in a desperate bid to know more and get some good context to draw The BoysTM, i read the alex rider books and watched the alex rider show, and then discarded most of that reference and just made alex the colour of the background, BUT, it was worth it because now the show lives in my head rent free, AND i have a treasure trove of fics to read while waiting for the next TTB chapter! woo!)

i felt that including fire was highly appropriate. if you know you know.

#danny phantom #alex rider #ficrecs #absart #no this is not a scene from the fic its fine the reveal will come eventually #spooky!danny #his FREAKING BONES #kkachis kei and fin you guys are a vision #they are creatures to me #fanart #i think about this fic every day #aaaaaaaaaaaa #scp foundation #things that bleed #ttb #abrielart

[sapphosclown]

miss mcgee makes me so sad this poor woman is fighting for her life every day and is probably so terribly underpaid and has to deal with bonehead principal miss mcgee ily you’re slaying

#i feel like she’s under appreciated here #also… she’s low key rooting for the pink ladies now i can feel it in my bones #grease rise of the pink ladies #rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #miss mcgee rotpl