#the-lady-reads-what

[the-lady-writes-what]

The-Lady-Reads-What

I'm a very slow reader, so I started reading this massive book back in May and just finished it today. This not on account of it being boring, far from it, it's just that I'm a very slow reader, I'm easily distracted, and I'm not really in the habit any more to read a lot of fiction novels for recreation as much as I used to.

Tasha Suri's "The Jasmine Throne" takes place in a fantasy world heavily inspired by South Asia. Priya, the main character, is a servant in the regent's mahal (palace). Her past is a mystery. She encounters Malini, a princess held prisoner in the temple by Malini's despotic brother, Emperor Chandra. Both young women learn to take power back for themselves in the turbulent world on the brink of rebellion and uprisings.

If you won't read "The Jasmine Throne" for it's diversity, then read it because it's good. The characters are highly complex, and some not afraid to do even monstrous things for the greater good. It's filled with family and cultural tensions, uprisings, fighting for power, and a dash of enemies-to-lovers romance. The world is beautiful, fantastical, and even just a little bit scary (as in you will be in awe of its strength). Suri is not afraid to the ugly side of politics, war, and personal decisions. I highly recommend this book.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars

"The Jasmine Throne" sequel, "The Oleander Sword," has been out since August 16th and the finale to this series has not been released yet as far as I'm aware.

#the-lady-reads-what #new segment #The Jasmine Throne #tasha suri #book review #lgbtq+ #sapphic fiction #POC authors #South Asian authors #Indian authors #South Asian Women authors #Desi authors

[bigfatbreak]

Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if Feralnette ended up in the Scarlet Lady timeline?

big fan.

#replies #this was my warmup lmao #what would feralnette do other than uproarous applause??? #marinette has this handled she doesnt need a beefcake on the scene #but you should go read scarlet lady lmao

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question

#she sounded so remorseful & i just stood staring like an anthropologist watching their phd thesis spontaneously manifest before their eyes #apparently she would watch the pilot episode to get a feel for the characters #and then just read a bunch of recaps & episode reviews instead of watching future episodes. what fresh steaming hell #this conversation took place like a year and a half after we were roommates btw. i had seen her maybe twice in that time period #i thought she was a standard frat girl but then 18 months later she appears in the wild grass to reveal unhinged character background to me #and i'm just standing there nodding feeling like i missed a weird opportunity i did not want or ask for #honestly thought i was the weirdest person in that apartment situation but now i'm wondering what our other 2 roommates were hiding #not my strangest college experience at ALL but like. definitely top 20 #this wasn't the same person as Aquarium Girl btw but oddly enough they were roommates actually #(not at the same time that Recaps Lady and i were roommates but at different intervals idk) #anyway i probably should have interviewed at more than one apartment before taking over a sublease but summer sess is a weird time u know #oh and this happened in Hong Kong btw

[flockoff]

In a another world, Peak of Combat has a plot that involves Time Travel Shenanigans which puts V in one of the Funniest Situations.

#My Art #DMC V #dmc poc #Devil May Cry peak of Combat #I mean kind of? Kind of #Local man has to deal with teenage versions of all the people he knows including himself #Familiars having a great time watching V now have to babysit everyone for once #V's Personal Pear Wiggler #Also RIP to the shadow leash backpack and the Nightmare leash backpack for Dante and Vergil #They got to small in the pic #DMC Griffon #Dmc Shadow #Dmc Vergil #Dmc Dante #Dmc Lady #Dmc Nero #Nero and Lady do not need leashes because they also would like to figure out what the hell is going on #Vergil and Dante need leashes because as soon as they are in vicinity they just start fighting #anyway I am going to post peak of combat opinions at some point. #BUT PRIMARILY—I want to read a time travel fic #devil may cry art

[jeeaark]

Shirtless Disaster Pt2.

looklooklook Maybe every other Tav's Emperor was 100% prepared for that interaction, very knew-what-they-were-doing, very committed, SO VERY BOLD OF THEM

But Greygold's Emperor.....was not!

After witnessing with my own eyes that is shirtless squid buddy, I realized something. Squid buddy is a godsdamned silly goose trying to be too cool for school.

I just....I would reaaallly like to know the emperor's thought process for how they concluded that sitting next to your sleeping crush shirtless is a viable strategy for starting a conversation

NO REALLY- WHY IS THERE NO 'WHY ARE YOU SHIRTLESS' DIALOGUE CHOICE. WHY??????? The entire time the Emperor, with their squid tiddies out on full display, was casually talking, that question was the only thought running through my head. GIVE ME THE DIALOGUE OPTION, GAME, GIVE ME.

Such a silly moment. In conclusion. I had to make it more silly.

OKAY BUT ALSO, BEFORE ANYONE TAKES HUNGRY SQUID TOO SERIOUSLY. There's a book in the game. talks about tadpoles smelling like garlic after eating brains. and. Emps. smelled like garlic. so. and if you knock out the guards instead of kill, they disappear, SO. And Orpheus' brain is edible in here SO. so. why not a lil. why not a lil snackaroos. It was a funny thought to implement.

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the emperor bg3 #bg3 emperor #greygold #bg3 fanart #bg3 comic #Also windmill illithid was Greygold's awakening #There was not ONE SINGLE thought that ever considered a mindflayer to be POSSIBLY attractively fit UNTIL MFING windmill squid #///This game KNEW what it was doing//// #not a few hours later #dryad lady trying to call out Greygold's spiraling reassessment on squid beauty like- #“YEAH SURE I GUESS I DO THINK THEY'RE PRETTY FRICKIN PRETTY -NOW-” lakfjdaksdjadf #Next thing they know Greygold is reading up on illithid anatomy like a cat's curiosity sharpening their knife #tw:blood #tw:gore

[kittykatninja321]

One thing that is not nearly discussed enough is the way that 16 year old catatonic Jason imprinted on Talia like a baby duck. Like can you imagine the image of Talia walking around the league base being followed by a mute dazed looking teenager and nobody’s allowed to say shit about it?

#League assassin 1: who the hell is that? League assassin 2: oh that’s just Lady Talia’s pet zombie boy don’t worry about it #Jason Todd #dc #See what annoys me the most about the ‘Talia is a cold hearted manipulator who is just using Jason’ trope in fic is that #even the least charitable reading of Jason and Talia’s lost days dynamic cannot change the fact that he was her poor little meow meow #and that there is genuine fondness there. From BOTH of them

[rustyorangee]

i love this guy...

#I've not read any of the books #all of the knowledge i have of it is from world famous artist brbarou #art #artists on tumblr #fanart #rote #realm of the elderlings #the fool #lady amber #lord golden #why is he like that look at him #what the hell #the most beautiful lady ive ever seen

[akajustmerry]

The episode’s title, “Egyptian Cigarettes,” refers to how the pictures of diseased lungs that many countries — but not Israel or the United States — depict on cigarette packaging display the consequences of potentially destructive choices. “To have a picture of those organs — these effects are really real,” Youssef explains. “When are we going to look at that photo? I view the Ramy character as a symbol of how complicit we are in the large scale of the world, even as we’re navigating our own small piece of it.”

And practically, “Egyptian Cigarettes” depicts the day-to-day obstacles — interrogations, detainments, checkpoints, the separation wall, a constant military presence — that the citizens of the Palestinian territories face every day, a stark reminder of the normalized harm of nation-states.

“You don’t have to really say anything else,” Jacir adds. “In terms of the shooting, the wall, the checkpoints; the fact that in reality, those boys are not allowed to get out of Jenin; everything about our reality. We didn’t have to say to anybody, ‘What is a military occupation? What is life like here?’ It just is.” - How 'Ramy' Centered Life in the Palestinian Territories

Ramy, S03E02: 'Egyptian Cigarettes' (2022). Dir. veteran Palestinian director, Annemarie Jacir. Written by Maytha Alhassen and Ramy Youssef.

#ramyedit #shesnake #ramy #tvedit #free palestine #palestine #annemarie jacir #tv #/ #i've been meaning to make a set of this ep in the style of deah's we are lady parts ep sets for ages so here it is <3 #highly recommend reading the full vulture piece about what it took to make this episode! #anyway free palestine!

[crybaby-bkg]

cw: mentions of being on birth control, mention of maybe getting pregnant, scent kink

have you guys ever heard of like…..being attracted to someone’s smell which means you’ll pair together really well??? and there have been cases where people get off birth control and it intensifies the smell and either makes it completely unbearable or even fucking better for the person??? okay THAT but with Bakugou…….,,,

you’re on birth control for whatever reason, and you’ve always pretty much liked his smell. it’s always been distant scents of caramel, a little sharp twang of spice whenever he comes home sweaty. and usually, you’ll let him chase you around the house while you laugh about him needing a shower because he stinks—but it’s all in jest.

and maybe, after a couple years of being with him, you get off of it for whatever reason—you wanna get pregnant, or it’s not serving you anymore, or you just don’t wanna be on it for any longer. and there’s—there’s a certain shift in the air whenever you’re around him.

you feel like a fuckin cat in heat when you stand near him, always pressing your face against the slickest parts of his skin. your nose buried in his palms, pressing sweet and gentle kisses to the hardened skin.

and Bakugou doesn’t understand what the fuck is going on with you, or why you always want to lay in his armpit, but he doesn’t complain much. even when he catches you huffing his dirty workout tanks and wearing his already worn boxers around the house.

but you can’t help it!! you just wanna bathe in his scent—now slick and honeyed and cinnamon—until you pass out from forgetting to exhale. and you’re such a perv about it that he can’t help but tease you—for licking the sweat from his collarbones whenever he’s on top of you. for inhaling where his scent lays stronger on the skin beneath his balls. for burying your nose in his pits whenever he stretches in the morning.

calls you his sick little pervert, getting off to his sweat, tells you how nasty you are for liking something so depraved. but your shame has abandoned you—all you care about and crave is his scent covering you in every way, shape, and form.

#why did I just ***** at the thought of wearing his dirty boxers around the house :(( #and him doing a double take so confused but also a little turned on :(( #THIS IS SO GWOSS WHY DO I LPBE IT SO MUCJ #most depraved thing ever. WHY THOUGH???? #I usually feel zero shame whenever I write but this is making me SHY #anyway I have some dialogue I saved but idk who to pair it with or what situation to write it for lol #also wanna incorporate writing about biting someone when u get overwhelmed #bc I read that in lady k n the sick man and I haven’t been Right in the Head since I fear #anyway anyway. I wanna try trad goth makeup but it’s SO intimidating #but I wanna do it for a cosplay and I think I can pull it off #but I’m also vury scurry #wish me luck 👁️ #bakugou treats! 🍬 #—new treat in the streets! 🍫

[saturnpanther]

I think everyone is doing Austria a disservice when they write him as a prudish blushing flower, and not as a manipulative bitch who has mastered weaponized sexuality. YES he's an uptight snob, but when you look at the history of Austria's military alliances there is a lot of calculated moves based around arranged unions instead of (or to subdue) all out wars. It's much more fun imo to see Roderich as someone who can seduce you into a strategic marriage for the sake of saving his own ass.

#Not a military historian just an art historian #so I am by no means an authority #just an annoying lady w gay sex on da brain #hetalia #aph austria #hws austria #roderich edelstein #okay coming back to say #this is what made me stop reading a very well known and liked pruaus fic 2 chapters before the ending #the rest of the fic was amazing! #but let roddy FUCK

[the-lady-writes-what]

For research purposes, I'm reading Fifty Shades of Gray ironically. No, I'm not really enjoying it. For the first chapter I've already written down 5 pages worth of critique notes. Highlights from these notes include but not limited to:

Jesus, Ana get a headband (Ana tucks her hair behind her ear no less than 4 times in the first chapter)

Double crap? What are you twelve? Just say fuck. I'll even accept shit (Ana swears like a little kid too afraid to say the actual swear words. It's embarrassing)

"...and she's my dearest, dearest friend." This feels like sarcasm

#the-lady-reads-what #terrible books #fifty shades of gray #Holy Shit Ana just say fuck!

[thelaurenshippen]

ah yes, the sweet sting of rejection from a billion dollar corporation who believes that "action stories don't appeal to romance audiences", welcome back my old familiar friend

#personal #lauren writes things #this was the EXACT problem I ran into with my gay outlaw story #and why I was just like FINE IT WON'T BE SCRIPTED IT'LL BE A BOOK #(and I mean who knows if it'll sell as a book) #(but it was NOT selling as a podcast) #how do I tell these companies that there's a whole website of people who love both action and romance #how do I explain that these people pull ships from the barest two second looks in action movies “aimed at men” #it's the conflation of romance = ladies and action = men for me #that's what really makes me roll my eyes #companies being like 'sorry lauren we just don't think people really into romance are into action' #HI I'M SITTING RIGHT HERE YOU'RE TALKING TO ME #my favorite movie is mad max and most of what I read is romance #I play violent action video games and I have a pathological need to ship #we exist #and we are legion #ANYWAY #might delete later #lauren says things

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte glynn #ttte millie #ttte stephen #casa tidmouth #senjart #MORE OF LADY'S EXPERIMENTS GONE WRONG #WHO UP ULFSTEADING THEIR CASTLE #stuff for the kotr arc of casa tidmouth. now this is where gold dust has historical significance #going crazy right now. my friends are influencing me #I had 12 tabs opened just to draw young glynn's armor. they dont have plated armory in the 10th century!!!! only mails!!!!!! #(looking at you KOTR intro) #I remember reading some inputs on my 1k milestone poll and saw someone put ''the misery of growing old'' and honestly. Checks out #glynn's eyes are goldish brown because well. that's the perks of being the first bearer of the gold dust horrors #lady during 989 AD do not know anything about human thoughts and ethics and emotions. she was literally freestyling that!!!!! #Oh a wounded soldier on the verge of death. what if I *dumps 200 kg of gold dust on him* yeah that'll do the trick. #then she saw how glynn aged so so slowly and went Oh well I messed up. Good thing there are lots of other sudrians here #funny coincidence that young cstm glynn's helmet resembles canon glynn's funnel #I wanted to make millie's design resemble a tour guide more with her scarf and more stylish than usual tie #shes so pretty. I'm so proud of her design #(AND I REALIZED TOO LATE THAT HER TIE HAS THE COLORS OF THE FRENCH FLAG) #<--- said the guy who has beef with the french #stephen's crown is translated to a hat decor! was about to draw a top hat but whatever just imagine he has a collection of various hats #that he can put his crown on #also I want to give him that cool hip-with-the-kids I-am-still-young-at-heart energy #sir robert norramby is balling in the background. #hope you enjoy..... won't be able to draw as much from now on but I'm excited #also whos ready for old man yaoi........... 2!!!!!!

[aestetet]

quick arwen :>

#back from the dead #yes i drew this while on a meeting and what about it #reading lotr after rewatching the trilogy for the 238948th time #arwen #arwen fanart #lady arwen #arwen undomiel #arwen evenstar #lotr fanart #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #tolkien #tolkien fanart #aragorn #fellowship of the ring #my art #arwenedit

[spriteofmushrooms]

The interesting thing about Jiang Cheng is that he refuses to be his mother's golden child to Wei Wuxian's scapegoat; he actively chooses Wei Wuxian again and again. He defends Wei Wuxian from her until she dies. It's unusual.

This doesn't mean that Wei Wuxian's experience was any less fraught--being hated by a caretaker is awful even if everyone else loves you. But it was an interesting choice by MXTX.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #this is perhaps because i spent a lot of time on various subreddits #but either golden children don't protect their siblings or the golden children who protect their siblings don't end up posting on reddit #because i've never encountered a clear golden child and scapegoat dynamic like jc & wwx's in real life or in fiction #i suppose that's wuthering heights again--cathy defends heathcliff (until she learns how to be a proper lady) #but i don't know. it's interesting to see jc step in for wwx directly in the novel and then contrast that to wwx comforting jc after jfm #doesn't praise jc for helping to save wwx #i often wonder if wwx was as resentful in the moment or if--like all memories--wwx reframed that interaction after the golden core transfer #the way he talks about jc like he's sooo delicate and breakable that obviously wwx has to comfort him is v. reminiscent of how he acts like #jc almost directly forced wwx to do this mad impossible thing because jc was sad and breaking #if jc read mdzs he'd probably curl up in a miserable little ball #but yeah like... memories are shaped so much by what we think and feel now #all memory is imagination... and wwx was a tormented ghost for 13 years because no one offered him anything #so what would that do to you? #i'm off topic

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]

saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #GONNA START FORMATTING MY COMICS BETTER. W THE PROPER 'PREV' 'NEXT' LINKS #REALLY DIDNT EXPECT TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES BUT AAAUUUHH MY BRRAAAIN MY BRAIN IS SO IDEASSS. I HAVE 3 OTHER PAGES SKETCHED OUT #NO PROMISES ILL FINISH EM ANY TIME SOON OR EVER. MY WHIMS ARE THEIR OWN BEAST AND I ONLY DRAW ON MY WHIMS #THAT BEING SAID IF U COMMISSIONED ME ILL GEEETT TO YOUUU IM SORRYYYY. ART IS AN EMOTIONAL RELEASE FOR ME N BABY I HAVE EMOTIONS. #ESPECIALLY ABOUT GILLION TIDESTRIDER CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA HERO OF THE DEEP.for the desc here i put smth that i typed up in the tags of #another thing i made. i gotta make a proper Baby Gillion tag or smth. eventually.. eventually...I LOVE DRAWIN THIS LIL BABY GUY.. #i also LOVE depicting the teachers as just being so fuckin mean. ofc theres variation in that. just like in all things.like the teacher her #idk if itll be mentioned but the octo lady is named Ms Octburn.an octopus pun based off the name of an actual councilor i had #when i was in elementary school i got bullied alot but teachers never did anything. i hated adults and didnt trust them. #but this councilor o mine was so genuinely sweet. i remember spending alot of time w her. she doesnt work there anymore. #but that one school adult that actually earns ur trust and is there for you when they can be.its SO important for a child i think #i hope she knows how much she helped me.youll see in the next page that ms octburn isnt perfect either.but she tries. they all try.somehow. #ALL these comics are gonna be inspired by somesorta experience o mine in the school system. school is so fucked up u ever thing abt that #AND GILLIOOOOONNN IN THE MOST FUCKED UP LITTLE SCHOOL OF ALL. MAINTAINED BY A CULT. CENTERED AROUND HIM. OUR CHOSEN ONE #I IMAGINE ALOT BANKS ON HIS SUCCESS. THIS IS THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD. THE PROPHECY IS GOING TO COME TRUE N UR TELLIN ME #THAT ITS THIS LITTLE IDIOT THATS GONNA BE SAVING US? WHAT IF HE FAILS. IF HE CANT GET THIS RIGHT THEN HE WILL FAIL AND WE WILL DIE #WE NEED TO TRAIN HIM. WE NEED HIM TO LEARN. AND TO SUCCEED. OR ELSE WE'RE DEAD. WE'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD. I IMAGINE THAT MUST BE STRESSFUL #in other news i hope ppl actually giggle when they read these. they ARE intended to be comical. dark humor or whatever. like its also sad #this is intended to be a sad comic series. but a funny one too. does that make sense? god i hope so.saw some1 say they had flashbacks- #-reading this. like YES!! THE INTENDED EFFECT!! YOU GET ME!! i love seeing ppl get upset on this lil baby boys behalf. i LOVE seeing ppl- #-wail n weep n cry in the comments. i LOOOVE seeing ppl RELATE to baby gillion. and i love letting u all know that this wont be a happycomi #gillion gets his happiness arc in the actual show. this series is one of unfortunate events. teehehehe. do u guys remember that show #i keep listening to the lil songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events for inspiration. GOOD STUFF!! #anyway uuhh uhh thats all i got in my brain. for now. feed me ur comments give me ur input i NNEEEEEDD THHEEEMMMM