#the book's called

[memento-mariii]

Is it possible to get brain damage (affectionate) (positive) from a book you haven't even read yet?! Read a tumblr post about the book on my dash, did some digging around on it, it seemed right up my alley, and now it's been eating my brain for the last 4 days. Ough.

#I ordered the book but it's like. 12 days shipping so I didn't get to read it yet #I'm trying not to get too overhyped about this bc. the more hyped you are the likelier it becomes for you to get disappointed #but idk the wikipedia synopsis sounds promising so #brain go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #I haven't felt this way about a new piece of media for..... idk ten years now? #it really is amazing what random things your brain latches onto #mmari rambles #anyway here's to hoping that the book does justice to the scenarios I'm hallucinating in my head #based on the scant summary and the tumblr analysis post I read #cheers #the book's called #mexican gothic #by #silvia moreno-garcia

[vforvalensa]

90s indie ttrpgs whip ass

#this is from a book called Superbabes: The Femforce Role Playing Game #ttrpgs #ttrpg

[sapphia]

congrats on hbomberguy for getting the internet's highest queer honour

#its because opposite forces must be diametrically opposed and the internet's highest dishonour is to be called out in a chuck tingle book #an hbomb video essay is only second. but one day they will join forces and the work they produce will kill jkr and we will finally be free #hbomberguy #chuck tingle #james somerton

[holdoncallfailed]

SPILLED.

#barbie #they got you good miss greta #ive been thinking about the point in the 2nd paragraph about the semiotic value of products vs. the act of buying them #particularly in regards to booktok/the increasing number of people who call themselves book collectors but not readers cos they don't even #intend to read the books they compulsively buy and post about

[amnestyliketaz]

in honor of the nimona movie (it’s so good i’m gonna scream and cry for the next million years) i must share my favorite nimona art ever

drawn by ND stevenson ofc and posted on twitter a few years ago i believe

do i even have to SAY anything? the shark, it’s not rocket surgery, baby nimona, the DOMESTICITY of it all im gonna explode

UPDATE!!!! GAY DADS AU THREAD https://twitter.com/gingerhazing/status/1676058949504892928?s=46

#anyways stream nimona #and buy the book #and read it #god. #i’ve been here for a year and a half welcome everyone #so glad i’m finally getting some nimona CONTENT #nimona #nimona movie #nd stevenson #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #my only question is why did they change his last name #i mean i get it #but still #ambrosius goldenloin #just found out this is called the gay dads au by nd #what if i scream and cry #amnesty original #gay dads au

[podcastwizard]

modern day moby dick but my white whale is a middle grade fantasy novel i read when i was like eleven and haven't been able to find again

#i have been searching for YEARS #i've put out the call on tumblr and goodreads and various forums #people have helped me find other books but this one eludes me #all the sites are like maybe it's time to give up #NO #IT'S OUT THERE AND I DIDN'T IMAGINE IT #THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[bibliosims]

titania | an upper body tattoo. ⊹₊ ⋆

download | sfs (free, no ads)

TOU: do not reupload and never put this behind a paywall !

previews and more under the cut !

meet titania, my first tattoo (and ts4 cc) ever ! i’ve so enjoyed working on this little project and am already planning out the next one ! enjoy :)

psa the back tattoo warps kind of weirdly on certain masc frames, sorry ! also, there are 10 individual swatches per 3 opacity options, so technically it's 30 swatches overall

also feel free to tag me if u use these ! it’d be cool to see these in the wild 🫶🏻

thumbnail previews:

unedited previews:

•☽────✧˖°˖ art by william heath robinson for shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream ˖°˖✧────☾•

#thank god i can actually call myself bibliosims yes this technically is from a book yes i’m counting it #ok very much obsessed with william heath robinson i wanna make tattoos with all of his illustrations #mine #my cc #my tattoos #ts4 #sims 4 #sims 4 cc #sims 4 tattoo #sims 4 tattoos #ts4 tattoo #ts4cc #s4cc #ts4 cc download #sim 4 download #stealing these tags from other creators idk what to put 😵‍💫💀

[iknowitwontwork]

#i'm bored #anyway i started mine at this site called harrypotterfanfic.net smth smth #i discovered it while i was reading the 5th book i believe #and i searched james and lily potter smth smth and i stumbled upon a fanfic #and i was like 'holy shit this is so omg—' #truly the best thing to happen to me frfr #polls

[parlapina]

"How would you describe most of your favorite shows/books?"

Like this:

#that fits for sooo many shows and books lmao #good omens #ineffable husbands #loki series #lokius #killing eve #villanelle x eve #it stephen king #reddie #richie x eddie #carmilla #if we were villains #the song of achilles #call me by your name #the haunting of hill house #queer #fandom ramblings #★parlapina's ramblings★

[feluka]

If you're asking "why are western christians not condemning the bombing of palestinian churches?!" I would highly recommend researching and reading up on the term "Biblical Orientalism"; it's the same reason European and American missionaries have attempted to "convert" the already Christian Arab population.

If you've already figured out that the answer is racism, you'd be right, but I would still recommend reading about biblical orientalism if only to fully understand this specific flavor of racism, how it affects Christian Palestinians, and how it is weaponized in the context of Zionism.

#there's a book by david grafton that covers it but i don't know where to direct you to to get it atm. i'll get back to you! #there's a free paper by lorenzo kamel called 'the impact of biblical orientalism' on academia.edu #if academia.edu is being a pain in the ass to you as it often does dm me and i'll send you a pdf! #in short - no. christian zionists aren't 'hypocrites'. this is perfectly in line with their values. unfortunately. #palestine

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[luminarai]

The first and only time Lestat ever tells someone not to scream because of him (probably right after clawing his outraged way out of the abandoned hot topic that I can only assume was built over his snoozing spot)

Kudos to @stlelios and @pimini whose posts appeared on my for you page and launched these images directly into my mind’s eye

#my art #iwtv #iwtv fanart #iwtv spoilers #ish #lestat de lioncourt #daniel molloy #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire amc #comic #iirc lestat calls armand a sad little icon painter or smth in the books which is just incredible #this took forever bc my pen kept dying but at least it’s finished before ep 3 is out 🥲 #q

[moonsun2010]

16 May - The weird sisters are here!

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #the weird sisters #draculas brides #my art #theyre never actually called that in the book but well. pop culture #still obsessed with this scene.... draculas lil monologue? iconic. you could analyse the diff types of love so well with this #note to self: dd2024

[jq37]

Knowing your chaotic dumbass friends so well that you feel confident in ordering a special vulture dimension set and custom graphic for an episode that has exactly zero to do with vultures is a love language unto itself.

#listen I have been here since the beginning #there have been a lot of d20 ep endings that have thrown me for a loop #but none moreso than the VULTURE DIMENSION #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #the man called his shot #remember in FY when he hinged the entire campaign on Siobhan stealing a book? #this is the ally version of that lmao

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

#naddpod #not another dnd podcast #brian murphy #emily axford #jake hurwitz #caldwell tanner #8 bit book club #bahumia #trinyvale #eldermourne #ba2mia #and yes i know theyre not technically a throuple its just murph and emily that are a couple but if the intro to your podcast is 'my life #slash comedy partner my wife and my other life slash comedy partner caldwell' im calling you a throuple

[laney-rockin]

It's canon that Spock likes to fuck with people and pretend he doesn't know human sayings just so he can make people explain it to him.

And then Kirk just knows when Spock is serious or is just being difficult and obtuse on purpose. They're married your honour.

#star trek #jim kirk #spock #star trek tos #tos star trek #tos spirk #star trek novels #double double #tos kirk #tos spock #this book is so fun so far #the plot is interesting #and the spirk is also kinda spirking #which it always should be #kirk calling spock 'difficult' is so funny #cause it's like calling the kettle black