#the terrible two books

[the-terrible-theys]

mlm ships: i’m a boy,, but i’m in love with another boy >///<

wlw ships: i’m a girl,, but i’m in love with another girl >///<

nblnb ships: It's like we're going over a waterfall. In a barrel. But at least we're going over the waterfall together. There's nobody I'd rather be in a barrel with than you. Although I guess we're all going over the waterfall, everybody in our class. In different barrels, probably. You couldn't fit us all in one barrel. But we would fit in one barrel, you and me, even if it's a tight squeeze.

#the terrible two #the terrible two books #milnil #you can pry nb4nb milnil from my cold dead hands #nilmil #??? i can never remember the order augh

[goddamnshinyrock]

...to be fair I do this while it's in sitting mode, too. Can't escape The Elbow Lean, RIP to my back.

ETA: before anyone says it, my vision is perfect, it's been checked, I'm just incapable of posture

#my art #tfw you stand up to avoid terrible posture in a terrible chair and then notice your posture followed you there #that 'monitor riser' is actually three of my thickest books lol #while my laptop is on the divine comedy and the chicago manual of style #my monitor lives on Mariposa Road the collected Jeeves stories and American Warblers #Two of the latter I haven't actually read yet because they've just become my monitor stand #I should. swap those out so I can read them sometime lol

[nicoathogwarts]

some nico headcanons I have

Nico’s fighting style is mostly greek, but while on the run in the maze Nico learned to fight by raising the dead and having them teach him. Because of that it’s not uncommon for him to do something that surprises and terrifies everyone

ever since the Jar Incident Nico’s become a lot closer with the Ares kids

just like the Athena kids have arachnophobia all Ares kids have some degree of claustrophobia which can either kina suck or “the bunk beds are going to kill me if I have to sleep on them”

Nico grew out of the Ghost King nickname and he thinks it’s cringe but it’s been so long that everyone calls him it. It makes him think of Minos and the worst time in his life when he was living on the streets and so so angry and full of grief and hate.

He thanks the gods every day that Minos found him instead of Luke during that time because he knows, he knows that if Luke had offered him revenge against Percy back then he’d have taken it in a heartbeat. He’d have taken it because the gods needed to pay for letting his sister die.

Along those lines, Nico likes McDonalds because he had to like it. An ten/eleven year old can’t get much money his only options for food was finding change to get a happy meal or asking adults for money for food and praying they’d take pity on him

Nico collects sisters like mythomagic cards. Fuck with him and he’s the least of your worried when you have Annabeth, Piper, Hazel, Rayna, Clarisse and just about every girl in Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter standing behind him ready to fuck up your entire life.

Nico can always see Thanatos, sometimes he stares at nothing but he’s having a staring contest with Thanatos. He does this a lot when Will’s trying to save a camper’s life. It works far too well. No one really minds, if anything it’s funny because Thanatos loses nearly every time, even when he doesn’t it’s usually enough of a distraction that Will’s stabilized the camper and Thanatos isn’t needed

#I had other ones but I forgot them so oops #but yeah there's a few headcannons I have #can you tell I've not read the books in like 4 years #because I haven't #in like 2029 my brain decided actually books are terrible and I can't read them #Like I read an 800 book in a day or two #now I've been trying to read I'm Gald My Mom Died and it's taking me months to get like halway through #Nico di Angelo #Percy Jackon and the Olympians #Heroes of Olympus #The Apollo Trials #pjo #hoo #the sun and the star #tsats #percy jackson #annabeth chase #clarisse la rue

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is celebrating, uplifting the voices of, and practicing advocacy with the disabled people in our lives this disability pride month.

#aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #disability pride month #also a book recommendation for y'all: Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage #it's somewhat USAmerican and Euro-centric due to... y'know... the general structure of Higher Education worldwide #but it's got a very informative and frank discussion right off the bat about eugenics and the very recent history of incredibly terrible #ableism in the last century that was only rejected in word and sorta in spirit when eugenics became a core ideological facet of nazis #highly recommend that if you live in an area where you have access to a library / library system #that you check if they have access to it - and if they don't: request it! - and read even the first two chapters

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

#anti got #anti d&d #anti show sansa #anti sansa stans #like literally one of the worst written characters on that show because they tried so hard to make her the most important #while being entirely incompetent and their only method of doing so was to steal from other characters which ruined the plot #the only arguable achievement was defeating LF but even then it's written in the script that she had to go to Bran to explain things #/she rallied the Vale army!/ no she didn't 😭 she wrote a letter to LF and he did everything. instead of showing her arc in the Vale and #her learning about politics to rally them herself they took the quickest route to give her a /badass/ savior scene #which only ended up making her look selfish + power-hungry for putting her brothers' lives at risk for not telling anybody about said lette #and idiotic in the aftermath after relying once again on LF even though he was very obviously manipulating her #/pawn to player/ sounds catchy on paper but without seeing that growth/development it doesn't work #Arya was terribly written but at least we /saw/ her training in a way we never did with Sansa #and people try to apply this same logic to the books and think she's gonna suddenly spring forth as a political mastermind #when that's not how George writes...we see characters develop and make mistakes on page and get actual earned growth #feminism isn't defending the writing of two men who gave her a rape plot not in the books because they thought it was /interesting/ #when the only aspect of that plot they adapted was a woman suffering abuse :/ #and as per usual with stansas their only /evidence/ of her being well-written is accusing you of being misogynistic if you don't like her

[aroaceleovaldez]

every once in awhile i remember that Percy Jackson et les Secrets de l'Olympe: Apollon et Artémis, Les Jumeaux Terribles exists. like yeah there's just a random French-only ghostwritten companion book. huh.

#pjo #riordanverse #with great art too! but i have no clue why it's french-only #like. im not aware of any other language-specific companion books??????? this one literally just goes over Artemis and Apollo myths afaik?? #like. youre just not gonna translate that one specifically at all? #and its so random cause like. all the other ghostwritten books are in english and then translated #so like. where did the french one come from. are there more? #why do we have a singular french ghostwritten book #and like. we have Percy's guide to greek gods/heroes #and then les jumaeux terribles is supposed to be like toa-specific sorta kinda #but as far as im aware the former two aren't ghostwritten and were also in english first #so. where did this book come from. why is it alone. why is it like completely ignored. ç'est qu ce. je ne comprend pas. #riordanverse ghostwriters #Percy Jackson et les Secrets de L'Olympe

[eekonis]

wip! trying kind of a new approach for this one :)

#my art #sorry boys #sorry boys fanart #wilbur soot fanart #wilbur soot #ranboo fanart #ranboo #tommyinnit fanart #tommyinnit #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle fanart #the sorry boys #there are only two things in the book club #books #and those powerful enough to read them #just more chosen ones #like.. four?? #boatnar #it was a good thing (it wasn‘t a good thing. it was a terrible thing) #my name is wil but in the book club i am *dark wolf*

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

#horror #horror novel #i need a reading tag #horror books #mister magic #dark harvest #the cabin at the end of the world #camp damascus #i think Brother was the most surprising for me in how much i loved its awful nastiness and gut punch ending #but props to Rachel Harrison for making a story about how your mother loves you enough to make you hate her #and never be nostalgic for a home that will gleefully kill you #two out of the three books here have terrible film adaptations #bones and all innocent #especially since Luca Guadagnino worked overtime to make the movie about queer life on the margins #john waters and i agree: timothee was doing his best impersonation of a butch lesbian #also loved that Mister Magic was basically IT fanfiction on a campaign against Mormonism

[vulpinesaint]

listen i am geralt of rivia hater number one but one thing i actually CANNOT stand is when the fandom mischaracterizes him. took one look at this man who speaks very straight-forwardly and matter-of-fact and is a little recalcitrant with his words sometimes and went "haha he communicates in grunts! man who only says 'hm'!" and then won't even write him to speak in full fucking sentences. hello???? hello???????? yes the netflix show was a bad influence on everybody because they were trying too hard to depict geralt as a stoic manly badass but we CANNOT let that distract us from the REAL thing to make fun of geralt for. which are his Constant Unprovoked Monologues

#also the fact that he fakes his dumb stupid little rivian accent because the man was NOT raised in rivia. but i digress #'haha he only says hm!' where were you for every episode when he launched into a speech about the lesser evil. that's like. the whole thing #geralt of rivia will do nothing But talk once you let him. don't give that bitch a chance! he'll start up about honor again!!! #convinced that most of this is because netflix show insisted on showing us him around jaskier so much #and jaskier does not shut up. love him to death. but geralt genuinely does not have time to get a word in edgewise #i will admit that this is something that i had to learn by reading the books and paying more attention to it #but it's not like he DOESN'T do it in the show. if you ever sit with a witcher episode transcript for whatever reason #and really take a look at geralt's lines. man he talks a whole fucking lot. #again cannot emphasize enough that he Monologues. HE TALKS HIS WAY OUT OF SO MANY SITUATIONS. #me when i look filavandrel of the elves in the eyes and 'hm' at him and he lets me go. no bitch he monologued!!!! #terrible. terrible. let this man speak. if i see you fanfic bitches continue making him talk in sentence fragments again i'm gonna kill #as for my own fanfic. i will always prefer a geralt who talks too much to be believable over a geralt who barely speaks at all. #both because i believe in letting him speak his mind which he OBVIOUSLY likes to do. sideeyes him. #and because it's just fucking boring and a little annoying to read speech patterns that don't sound like how people talk. #cough cough lan wanji the untamed. man i'm not sitting here and reading this motherfucker's two word sentences #let him speak!!!!!! #anyway. #geralt of rivia #the witcher #fanfic

[a-menaceinpink]

read the green bone saga this week and i’m just saying. if you want an in-depth political fantasy mafia thriller (yes all of those words apply) set in a post colonial nation that is navigating an unsure global political position and the potential exploitation of its culturally significant resource that simultaneously explores the bonds between family and how they can take different shapes in the wake of loss and love and life, with brilliantly developed, fleshed out characters and realistic pacing (both in world and in the actual delivery of the story). i HIGHLY recommend.

#truly even the characters who do some hateable things are difficult to hate #everyone makes horrible terrible choices but they are all so sympathetic and understandable #i was STRESSED reading these books i tell you #my only comment is i would’ve actually liked to see the last book spread into two books just bc so much happens and i think some of the #characters could’ve used the additional time to be developed and for us to get to know them a little better but ult i have no real complaint #also i wish it was gayer but that’s that #i was really wowed by these books and i read a LOT of fantasy and i don’t like a lot of it so. trust this is a weighty recommendation #fonda lee the woman that you are <3 #the green bone saga #jade city #jade war #jade legacy

[tigerbears]

Ending to Dune Part 2 be like...

"Let's go on a holy war! I'm sure nothing bad will come from this. All those cryptic visions where billions of people die? Forgeddaboudit that's probably nothing. This Paul Atreides guy totally knows what he's doing. I sure nothing terrible will happen now that he has an army of rabidly zealous followers who worship him as the Lisan al-Gaib."

Sometimes foreshadowing is relatively obvious.

#dune #dune 2 #dune 2024 #dune spoilers #dune part 2 spoilers #dune part two spoilers #spoilers #dune part 2 #dune part two #dune messiah #(I have not read the books btw #but to my knowledge all those cryptic visions of the future where terrible things happen is forshadowing for that.) #dune memes #dune part 2 memes #dune part two memes #posts from tigerbear's tumblr

[the-terrible-theys]

hmmmm thinking abt. miles and niles each buying a pair of shoes in the same style but different colors. then swapping a shoe each so they can be matchingly mismatched.

#there are two endings to this scenario that i cannot decide between: #funny ending is that they have different shoe sizes but didn’t consider that until it was too late #other ending is them having the same shoe size and therefore entirely succeeding at being the gayest duo around #the image of a little moment of realization followed by “miles……. we effed this one up” is so funny #but also i need them to have matching mismatch shoes so badly please. and the trading part is a necessity #i imagined red and blue at first but actually the color combos are limitless #purple and yellow! purple and blue! pink and blue! pink and green! etc etc #i love this concept and i just think they’d love it even more #i love these stupid little gay nerds and their stupid little two-member pranking society so much #the terrible two #ttt #the terrible two books #niles sparks #miles murphy #nilmil #adding this to the list of things i would like to draw but inevitably never will 😔

[drarrily-we-row-along]

Valentine's Card

"Honestly," Draco huffed as he set what had to be the 45th card he'd picked up back on the shelf. "This is ridiculous," he grumbled as he reached for the next.

"Can I help you with anything, sir?" a boy who couldn't be more than 17 asked him.

He looked him up and down before gesturing to the selection of Valentine's Day cards, "these are appalling."

"Not a fan of Valentine's Day?" he asked, voice annoyingly sympathetic as if a child could understand the pressure of choosing a Valentine's card for your childhood nemesis, turned work-rival, turned acquaintance, turned best friend, turned (recently) lover.

Although, as it happened, he wasn't particularly fond of Valentine's Day. "Not especially," he conceded. "But these are all so-" he broke off, searching for the right word, "trite. Cute. They make everything seem like relationships are just rainbows and butterflies, and they aren't."

"Err," the teen said, scratching his neck. "Well, I think lots of folks just want to pretend for a day that things aren't awful."

"My relationship isn't awful!" he protested, because he certainly didn't want the teen to go away thinking that. "My relationship is wonderful. He's stubborn, and pig-headed, and too noble for his own good. He drives me mental some days with his inability to think about his own needs. But he's the bloody love of my life and I wouldn't want him any other way."

"Right," the teen replied uncertainly, glancing around for someone to help him. "I don't think I'm supposed to say this, seeing as selling cards is what we do," he said, "but I don't think you're going to find anything like that here."

And Draco couldn't help it, the frustration of trying to find the perfect card melted away and he set down the card in his hand. "You're right," he replied. "Time to try my hand at making something again."

When he got home, he sat down at his writing desk and started to work; he didn't have much time before Harry turned up for their dinner date.

He was putting the finishing touches on the card when he heard Harry tumble out of the floo. Draco blew off the last bit of glitter as Harry came in, bouquet of roses in his hands. "For you," he said, holding them out and leaning in for a kiss.

"For you," Draco replied, offering him the card. "The boy at the shop told me that they didn't have anything that would say what I was trying to say, so I made it myself."

"Babe," he said, grinning at him with the soppiest expression before opening it and reading it aloud,

"Dear Harry, your stubbornness is bested by only your love, your strength by only your kindness. You make me feel like a mess, still I must confess, I'm rather obsessed, with the man who so loves my weakness."

Draco felt himself flushing bright red, uncertain of how the other man would respond. Really, if he'd had more time to think about it, Draco was sure that he wouldn't have even given it to him. "This was stupid-" he started.

Even as Harry looked up at him, eyes shining, "You wrote this for me?" he asked, clutching it to his chest and covering himself in glitter.

"Yes?"

"I love it," he breathed, leaning in to kiss Draco, "This is the sweetest-" he cut himself off to kiss him again. "I love you," he said against his mouth. "All of you," he added, looking pointedly at the last line of the card.

Draco laughed, "I know. But it means the most to me that you love me when I feel like I can't be enough."

Harry kissed him again, and then again, "You're always enough."

"Dinner?" he asked, feeling overly pleased with himself.

Harry shook his head and backed him toward the bedroom, "Dinner can wait."

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Written for the @hdcandyheartsfest prompt 'Valentine's Card'

Read more of my 2023 hdcandyhearts ficlets here.

#Fluff #soft #established relationships #am i using this fic as an opportunity to agree that draco wrote harry that terrible valentine's poem in book two? quite possibly #love #drarry #fluff #hdcandyheartsfest #the author knows nothing about writing poetry. please forgive any horrible errors i've made

[isolatedphenomenon]

There may still be multi-fan-read audiobooks for the Leagues and Legends trilogy by @ink-splotch in the works(?), and there are some chapters read by the author on Patreon, and hopefully there will exist many different glorious and powerful versions...

BUT because most of my many rereads of this series have been me reading aloud to people I love and because I would have made this for those people to have forever anyway, I figured I'd share it with the community at large:

(a very unofficial) beanstalk audiobook!

If you know of a good place to put this to be more accessible, let me know - hopefully it'll give people a way into (or a way back to) a world that so many of us adore <3

#now you All get to be the people I sit with late at night and love so much I Have to share this piece of my heart with them #(the terrible foghorn accent for thorne and only thorne is an inside joke and a gift to you all) #(and i have plans to do the other two books at some point) #leagues and legends #beanstalk #ink-splotch #also if anyone knows if the multi fan read project ever got off the ground please send me info! i want to listen!!! #1

[roadkilledthegirl]

ok. I’m going to say it.

I love ALL eras of boreo/decklikovsky EQUALLY, and I will FIGHT for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

Las Vegas era? Brilliant - the inexplicable teenage love and lust for each other (terrifying and amazing) - caring for someone because they’re the only person in the universe who cares for you, getting drunk and high and altogether plastered together because you’re so traumatized and lonely that you don’t know how to bond with people in any different way and hey, you both like it (a little too much in fact) so why not?? It’s DELICIOUS. this part of the book was just written too well to be put down as “unfortunate” or “less than”. It’s so so so sad and raw and angry and vulgar and and and

And you couldn’t even have post-Vegas New York, Antwerp & Amsterdam without it!! Where would the tension, the longing, the shock of seeing your - best friend? ex best friend? The guy you hate so much because you love him even more ??? Where would all of that come from without such a complex, tangled backstory???? There’s no one without the other!!!!!!

#screaming into an actual void here guys I’m sorry 😭😭 #but I’ve seen so many ‘I hate LV era’ and I think we need to remember just how important that part of the book was #it just speaks to me as an angry sad gay teenager #it’s so so important and I’ll never shut up about it #I LOVE post Amsterdam and I mostly read fics of them from that era cos it’s where the healing happens (god knows they need to heal lol) #but they need to heal from how kind and how terrible they were to each other those two years #um. anyway #enjoy this I guess #the goldfinch #boris pavlikovsky #theo decker #theodore decker #boreo #decklikovsky #tgf #donna tartt #boris and theo #theo x boris #tgf boris #las vegas era #amsterdam era

[robertsbarbie]

the more i read of this book the more is cements in my mind that this was never meant to be a snow apologist book people just don’t have any reading comprehension anymore

#like i’ve read apologist prequels and stories before this is NOT one of them #which is also kinda fascinating #idk protagonist does not mean likeable or the hero and i think by suzanne collins making snow the protagonist in this people are conflating #the two like nope he’s still a terrible person who’s framed to have nuance in the hunger games books #but really lacks depth on all levels and is further exposed in this (like lacks depth as a person not a character) #and like i remember when this book came out and people were so mad that it was an apologist narrative but it’s really not #and while i haven’t watched the movie so much of his terrible ness is internal monologue so that translation to screen can get lost especia #if it’s a hot actor but like it’s literally a story on why he’s like that tm and why the games are like that tm #it’s explanational not justificational and it’s so easy to see 😭😭 #eris: text #anyway #eris: reading