#this should go in the book blog but

[gxldencity]

I can't believe that tamsyn muir tricked a lot of you into reading homestuck (in book form)

#elaine talks #guess who finished what #pausing a bit with lighter novels before i tackle the teixcalaan series #this should go in the book blog but

[beluosus]

Before class the other day : studies near Russell square and bizarre clouds over London.

#no amount of filters will make that classroom look aesthetic #I should really bring Caplice with me if I'm going to take pictures #the blue cover looks so much better in photos #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #grey academia #books #book photography #studyblr #study blog #akkadian #cuneiform #london #bloomsbury #russell square #coffee #coffee shop #ἐποίησα

[giftedpoison]

Just heard the paperback for TSC came out (it is purchased and should arrive on Saturday for me)

I'm tempted to live blog my reactions to things like I did for when I read AFTG and just tag it for spoilers. Idk tho.

#aftg #all for the game #aftg series #TSC #the sunshine court #the foxhole court #idk someone tell me if i should live blog my reactions again #cause i had fun doing it last time but last time the books were 10 years old so 🤷🏻‍♀️ #ive also been avoiding spoilers this entire time so im going in mostly blind

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #matt smith #caitlin blackwood #the doctor: i will avoid this child's question by spitting up all the food #whenever i gif this episode i'm always like 'i think i should watch this episode now' #also i'm reading a dw book right now #with the fourth doctor and sarah jane and harry #and they go to sherwood forest!!! after twelve and clara's episode!!!! i love it #oh also am i supposed to be leaving transparent pixels in my gifs now??? #is that how i make sure my gifs don't look like garbage on the dashboard??!? #idk what's going on anymore #still looks ok on my blog though??? #oh well

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Due to flare ups, I’ve been thinking more about my relationship with my disabilities and my relationship with God — any good resources/book you can recommend?

Hey there, sending love and solidarity as you go through flare ups and as you explore all this <3

You came to the right place — disability theology is one of my great passions! Here are my recs for you. If anyone has more resources to add on or insights for anon, please share!

For starters...

First, you might enjoy wandering through my #disability theology tag over on my other blog, which includes excerpts from various disability theologians.

Or reading through / praying with the disability text prayers I shared here last July for Disability Pride Month, which were written by a variety of disabled folks.

Since it's Lent, Unbound's Disabling Lent: An Anti-Ableist Lenten Devotional is timely!

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Memoirs Exploring Christian Faith & Chronic Pain / Illness

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires, Lyndsey Medford (2023)

This memoir connects faith, chronic illness (especially autoimmune disorders), and the sickness at the heart of Western Empire / the Protestant work ethic.

How can we learn to work with instead of against our bodies? How can we rebuild our world to treat all bodies with the love and gentleness they deserve? .

This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley (2022)

An incredibly beautiful book, poetic and searing...explores the goodness of embodied life and intersections between disability (particularly chronic illness), Blackness, queerness, womanhood, and more.

Each chapter focuses on a different emotion (anger, joy, lament, love...) to teach us how to honor and listen to what we feel in our bodies.

CW for accounts of sexual assault and other forms of and abuse and trauma, as well as accounts of antiblack racism. .

Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved, Kate Bowler (2018)

If you've been steeped in any kind of prosperity gospel, "if you pray hard enough you'll be healed" type Christianity, I highly recommend this book.

Bowler writes with gentle honesty about how her chronic pain and then cancer compelled her to move away from that kind of harmful Christianity into a faith with room for doubt, grief, and a God that holds her in her suffering.

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Disability Theology — Books, Podcasts, Videos

Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource edited by Bob Callighan (2014)

If you're interested in the perspectives of various disabled Christians, I love the range of voices they brought into this text! A great intro to how theology and church life impact disabled persons and how our churches must re-form themselves with disabled persons at the center. .

My Disabled AND Blessed YouTube series

I've got multiple YouTube videos that draw from various disability theologians!

I especially recommend my introduction to reading the Bible with a disability lens — stressing how different biblical authors hold different views around disability; so what's God's overall message? — and my video on Luke 14's parable of the banquet!

If you have questions about or struggle with the Gospels' healing narratives, I also recommend my livestream on that topic. .

My friend Laura's Autistic Liberation Theology Podcast (you can listen wherever you get podcasts)

Laura explores scripture through the lens of an autistic trans person who uses a wheelchair and has multiple chronic & mental illnesses.

I especially recommend their episode on "the Gethsemane of things," which takes an honest look at pain and where God is in our suffering. (Most of Laura's eps don't have transcripts, but I shared an abridged version of this ep on my podcast and it has a transcript)

"I am not your ornamental prophet" is also a great episode for thinking about what pressures are put on disabled persons and how to construct boundaries for yourself .

The Mad and Crip Theology Podcast

This podcast interviews the authors who are published in the Mad and Crip Theology journal, which is really cool! You can watch episodes with captions on YouTube, or listen wherever you get podcasts.

A good starter episode: this one "on Queer and Crip Sexuality and the Disabled Christ" .

Some eps of Blessed Are the Binary Breakers

While my own podcast largely centers trans perspectives, disability comes up frequently as well! Each ep has a transcript. These are the disability-focused ones:

"No End to Transphobia without Uprooting Ableism — exploring embedded forms of oppression"

"Our Pride Is Not a Sin — a Queer and Disabled Christian Lens"

"Goodness Embodied — an intersex, nonbinary first human and a disabled risen Christ"

"Marginalized Bodies as Spectacle and the good news in Jesus's disabling wounds"

"Eli and the prophet Elijah"

“Secular” books that helped shape my own theology

What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, Sara Hendren (2020)

Fantastic book digging into recent disability history, present, and future with focus on the “misfit” theory of disability where body and world interact with each other disharmoniously, and the creativity disabled people employ to make them more harmonious  .

Exile and Pride, Eli Clare (1999)

One of my favorite books of all time. Connects disability, queerness, rural life, trauma, and more. Clare is one of the originators of the concept of the “bodymind” (though he talks about that more in one of his later books)

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Wanting even more resources? Here's my google doc with aaaaall the disability theology stuff — plus some helpful disability 101 stuff to share with loved ones!

Praying for comfort, wisdom, and community support for you as you journey! Please feel free to drop by again with any questions that come up or to share any insights you've gained any time <3

#disability theology #disabled AND blessed #disabled christians #faithfullydisabled #resources #recs #books #this reminds me i've been meaning to share more excerpts i've gathered from disability theology books... #anyone interested in that should go follow my other blog a-queer-seminarian and i'll start posting some in the coming days...

[mermaidsirennikita]

Romance IS precisely the genre where readers go to be catered to their very specific desires. And to find 100% comfort, however the reader wants it. There's no other genre where you find your books with such specificity: I want a one bed, second chance, age gap, small town read, with extra fries on the side. It's not strange that people want to weigh in the names of their characters too. I get it may be bother you, but I see it as perfectly on brand for the genre. Also ppl love their spicy reads but for many it's weird when the character is named like your son. For a "learn to read outside your comfort zone" is literally the rest of the bookstore.

First off:

Romance is a commercial genre, and it absolutely is not alone in the ways in which it caters to readers lmao. Mystery/thrillers are probably the books I’d compare to romance most easily. Want something lowkey? Cozy mystery. Want something about the everyday devastation of suburban life and its perils? Domestic thrillers. Want something sexy? Erotic thrillers.

And yes, that genre has tropes too. And yes, I can get pretty damn specific with it lmao. Maybe not as much as romance! But I tend to chafe at people summing the genre up as a trope factory. Because it’s not.

Believe it or not, although romance is written to be sold (as most books are) romance novelists, or at least the good ones, also write stories that they’re invested in. It’s not just about pleasing you—it’s about writing something you want to write and believe in and want to see on the page. The book you think is missing from your shelf. And I, personally, feel that you can tell the difference between a writer writing purely for the audience (and the money) and a writer writing something they want to see.

THAT is what makes the genre good. Not pick and choose tropes. Good fucking books written by people passionate about the genre. It’s not meant to be puzzle pieces that y’all can just pick and choose.

If that is truly how you see it… then yeah man, I guess the AI romance novels are the future.

As for “that is literally the rest of the bookstore” lmao dude that is literally the rest of the GENRE. Romance is more than tropes. There are books within the genre that push the envelope and make you feel things you perhaps didn’t expect. Romance is actually incredibly diverse and bold… if, again, you’re willing to explore outside your comfort zone.

If you aren’t; that’s fine. You do you. There’s no right way to read the genre. But I’m gonna draw the line, personally, at tolerating people being unable to withstand a fucking name they don’t like. Truly, seek out y/n fanfic if that’s a dealbreaker.

#romance novel blogging #not going to discuss it any further because i truly don’t want to get any more inflammatory #just …. y’all need to accept limits to the degree to which human beings can and should cater to you #like truly i see the audience for AI books in these takes and it’s disheartening

[autism-alley]

if any of y’all know of a pjo/pjo show crit friendly discord server hit me up or so help me i might make one myself

#maybe. i’m not sure i’m in the place to run one but it would be rly fun and if i had mods i think i would be ok #rly been enjoying growing my collection of mutuals and i wanna be able to talk to y’all more freely y’know? #community is my favorite part of this fandom truly #and it wouldn’t be pure criticism either like. #a section for show crit obviously #and book crit. the books r not perfect even if i love em #but also things we like #and general book and character analysis #mayhaps cosplay and crafts bc i go to cons as annabeth every year and pjo crafts are nostalgic #pjo music choices. at least one mutual has already listened 2 my analysis of 50+ songs on my pjo playlist bb i know u see this ur a saint #idkkk the more i think abt it the more i am very tempted!!! #like its work but god it would be so fun. i miss being a mod sometimes maybe i should graduate 2 running my own server #that one time one was made for me against my will doesnt count. #ok. bed. but lemme know y’all’s thoughts if you know a server or if you would be down to join mine if i made one #i am very very tempted. like not a huge server but y’know. community<3 #also it would be 18+ ik this is a series for kids but i am not gonna be liable lmao my blog is 18+ my server would be 18+ #ris raves #pjo show crit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show

[these-conquered-woodlands]

order of the phoenix members & co as incorrect quotes

dumbledore: I’m telling you, my organization's members are all very intelligent and skilled. tonks, rushing in: dumbledore! remus and sirius tried to make pasta in the coffee pot and now it's broken!

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sirius: Ask me anything. Go ahead, I'll give you a straight answer. tonks: Why are we so fucking awesome? sirius: That's the best goddamn question anybody's ever asked.

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molly: I am going to need you to swear- sirius: Fuck. molly: molly: ...swear as in promise.

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molly : Are you drinking enough water? severus: Sometimes my tears get in my mouth.

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tonks: So... what would you do if you were in bed with me? remus: Depends. Is your bed comfortable? tonks: Yes. remus: I'd sleep. I wanna sleep.

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dumbledore: I'm going to ask you to be respectful to each other. severus and sirius at the same time: I will respectfully decline.

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tonks: What happened?! sirius: Do you want the long version or the short version? tonks: Short?? sirius: Shit's fucked. tonks: ...Okay, long. sirius: Shit's very fucked.

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mad eye: So I have made the decision to trust you. tonks: A horrible decision, really.

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harry: We have a problem. severus, probably: No, you have a problem. We have an idiot who keeps making them.

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sirius: Hey I just got a pet snake. What should I name him? remus: A pet WHAT?! tonks: William Snakespeare.

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dumbledore: severus is forbidden from monologuing. at meetings, at least.

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sirius: Remus, old friend, would you take a killing curse for me? remus: ...yes? *snape angrily bursts into the room* sirius: *running away* Great, thanks!

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dumbledore: If you get in trouble, I'm gonna be like... a lawyer to you. Ok? harry: Okay. *later* ministry bro: Potter! Sit down on the chair, you're in trouble. dumbledore, whispering: Deny everything. harry, loudly: That isn't a chair.

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mundungus: stop forgiving my crimes, i worked so hard on those.

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mad-eye: We've got to find a way to cut down our expenses. What can we live without? kingsley: dumbledore, probably. he bought six new purple robes just this week with the budget we were going to use to bribe mundungus. dumbledore: hey! i'm the only one paying for our expenses!

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severus: Why aren’t you sleeping? sirius: I’m too busy plotting your murder to sleep, severus. severus: sirius: …The nightmares. severus: severus: Don't look at me like that, I'm not giving you a hug.

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molly: my future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized. arthur: *steps on a rubber duck and proceeds to drop to his knees and sob while apologizing profusely.* molly: that one. i want that one.

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arthur: Define “dream” for kids. severus: Dream - the first thing people abandon when they learn how the world works. molly : That’s too dark!

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dumbledore: I can explain. some obscure person like emmeline vance, maybe: Can you? dumbledore: If you give me thirty seconds to think of a lie.

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dumbledore: You know you've made it when you see your picture everywhere you go. mad-eye: Those are wanted posters!

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remus: I’m sad. tonks: Don’t be sad, because sad backwards is das. tonks: And das not good.

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fleur: Since we're in a relationship now, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is our shirt. bill: Fine, but when I come strutting in with your fuzzy socks I don't want to hear shit.

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severus: Everything will be ok. You can not stop it. mad-eye: Everything will be fine. You have no choice. mundungus: What kind of pep talk is that? severus: Ominous positivity.

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mad-eye: Someone will die. tonks, sarcastically: Oh, fun!

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Harry, Ron and Hermione: *Kick the door down looking panicked.* kingsley: What did you do? harry: Nobody died. ron: *nods* molly: WHAT KIND OF AN ANSWER IS THAT?!

#sources: incorrect quote generator and nuwanda moony's blog #ootp is my favorite book #and i feel like the concept of the order of the phoenix was grossly underutilized #like you're telling me there's this group of (pretty odd) people who want to take down a terrorising group with spies and maps and crooks- #and they barely do much? they don't even get a more active role in helping the protagonist #'s cause? c'mon. #btw yall should go read/listen to the rise of the phoenix screenplay that shit is so good #cursed child got nothing on that #hp incorrect quotes #ron weasley #hermione granger #kingsley shacklebolt #mad eye moody #order of the phoenix #alastor moody #hp fandom #nymphadora tonks #albus dumbledore #harry james potter #severus snape #harry potter #molly weasley #arthur weasley #sirius black #remus lupin #fleur delacour #bill weasley

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

so a non-welcome home related ask and i'm sorry if you already answered this before, but what got you into dragons? i'm slowly stalking through your tumblr and i can't help but admire how beautifully and effortlessly you draw the scaley fuckers (/pos) ✨

i've actually never gotten this question, so this is a delight! allow me to Overshare about this

i became interested in dragons at an early age - like, kindergarten / 1st grade age. i don't remember exactly how it started, but i think it was my fascination with dinosaurs, oddly enough? i've loved those guys since some of my earliest memories. it wasn't a big leap from "giant 'lizards' from our past" to 'even bigger mythological 'lizards' from always". the Hobbit and the first Temeraire (im trying to get my hands on the full series now actually) were read to me at this young age too, and the only parts i remember are the big dragon scenes lmao

i do know the ball Really got rolling with the first How To Train Your Dragon movie, which i saw in theaters in 2nd grade. INSTANT obsession with dragons. i'll never forget how it felt to see Toothless for the first time. but in general, i couldn't get enough of em. i made my own dragon manual, i got the Dragonology books, it was the whole enchilada!

then in 5th grade, i stumbled upon the newly released Wings Of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy book! immediately fell in love with it. and its what pushed me to start actively pursuing art! and also what pushed me into my first online space: ~Deviantart~. i saw all of the amazing art of my favorite dragons and wanted in on it. i can actually pinpoint the main person who's art i loved and found inspiration in: someone named Liighty! i don't remember their user, it's probably changed in the many years since. i loved their stuff and wanted nothing more than to be able to draw like them

long story short, i've been in love with dragons for the majority of my life. HTTYD and WOF have been my biggest inspirations and fuel to the fire, and my first delve into the internet pushed me to start drawing dragons (specifically wof) like my life depended on it. i haven't looked back since!

#and thank you <3 scribbling them does not feel effortless in the least <3 they fight me at every turn <3 #and it has taken me so so long to get where i am in terms of skill. i still have a long ways to go but my fucking god #also i do not Ever mind non-welcome home asks ahaha #this blog isnt technically a WH blog! thats just my main fixation at present #eventually ill chill the fuck out and go back to primarily posting dragons / original creations #eventually.... #not anytime soon given that The Update is soon and that'll just rev me the fuck up but yk yk #rambles from the bog #i should dig through all of my old sketchbooks for a trip down memory lane... #i still have my very first one. ive havent thrown a single one away #in fact i should have some of my first wof drawings somewhere round here.... #i like archiving my artistic journey #but yeah! httyd dragonology and wof! my historic big three! #i actually own every single one of the wof books (except for the latest) and they have their own shelf #my original copy of the first book is still there. in a plastic bag. bc its been loved to hell and back & half of it is falling off #and its not just books lmao i have so much dragon Stuff #trinkets and plushes and pictures (oh my!) #my room is Decked Out in em #theyre just so neat... #started from the bottom and now im here (so many worldbuilding documents and endless sketch pages. and brainrot)

[queenofmalkier]

I love watching Daniel Greene's bookshelf roasts and thought, why not submit? And then I thought: why not share them here!

I quickly realized I've got bookshelf ADHD.

Seafoam Shelf: a mix of my books and my partner's books. The cat is Richard, who is an asshole.

V Shelf: primarily series and my favorites like WOT, mistborn, the magicians, etc. Also my twitch background! Also Judy-dog.

Red Shelves: history-based books, Stephen King, variety.

Side Board Featuring Cat: newest addition because I needed more shelf space, featuring my big boy Sid.

Craft Room Shelf: entirely romance novels. I've collected the ones with over the top covers for years. Unfortunately it is in my craft room and my craft room is Problematic In General. Featuring my vintage Breyer horses that survived my childhood!

White Cube: graphic novels, comics, some DVDs and D&D minis, more series/authors I love.

Rainbow Shelf: I experimented sorting by color and I'm really happy with it. The ONLY shelf downstairs, surprisingly. It is killing plants though, alas.

Desk Shelf: my current TBR pile. And snacks!

???: I bought books on my birthday and haven't put them away. I kind of forgot they were there.

Office Wall Shelf: my partner's books, lots of sci-fi and nonfiction.

(Maybe a little wot, if you look really, really closely you can barely see some framed pien art on that white cube shelf.)

#non wot #should this go on my book blog? #I mean probably #but it can go on BOTH

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

Readers, I am on the verge of giving up on the romance genre. I need people to recommend books that I won't hate.

Please, I'm dying. I just wanna read cute stories about love without a bunch of regressive gender stereotypes or just straight-up abuse. Is that really so much to ask??? Anyway I'm gonna list things I love and hate about the genre and perhaps some of you kind people could make some suggestions based on that?

Romances I've liked: Emily Henry's Happy Place (I actually cried at this one!); Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown; Evie Dunmore's A League of Extraordinary Women series; Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material; Casey MacQuiston's Red White and Royal Blue (although the politics in this one really turned me off the first time I read it); Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries series (a classic); Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (I love a romance that has a lovable cast of supporting characters and some other elements going on beyond the love story!); Jen Wang's The Prince & the Dressmaker

Stuff I hate in romance: Most enemies to lovers (cause the most recent wave of this trope is primarily men abusing women in some way, but if you've got a suggestion that isn't that, please tell me), when Being Tall is treated as a entire personality for men, generally men being So Large and women being So Smol cause it almost always leans into weird gender shit that makes me uncomfortable, super innocent virginal girls who are almost childlike being "corrupted" by mean fuckboys, the entire dark romance genre (are you seeing the trend about things I hate... lol), Instalove (Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana was SO guilty of this)

Romances I disliked/DNF'd: Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World (the female lead was insufferable!); Jasmine Guillory's The Wedding Date (some of the character work was interesting but I just got bored with the story tbh); Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan's The Royal We (just SO boring but that's what I get for reading Will & Kate fanfiction); anything that started as R*ylo fic cause they, and Twilight before them, are basically the blueprint for what I find fundamentally un-romantic about a lot of romance (I might be willing to give something by Ali H*zlewood a try, as a few Booktubers I trust have said her writing has gotten better with each new book she's published BUT the word steminist is the most cringe thing I've ever heard so maybe not)

Romances that sound interesting but I've been burned so much I just don't know: Helen Hoang's the Kiss Quotient; Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare; Lyssa Kay Adams' The Bromance Book Club; Olivia Waite's The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, India Holton's Dangerous Damsels series, Nisha Sharma's Dating Dr. Dil

Heeeelp.

#booklr #romance #romance books #romance recs #book recs #this should go without saying considering what i wrote above but my blog is a coho-free zone

[equalseleventhirds]

the more gomens2 i consume the stronger the urge grows to go 'if x event had happened in the bookverse it would've been y instead'

but that would be fun only for me and like, five select mutuals, and would simply torment everyone else and probably draw the ire of some fans. so i won't.

#honestly i just got out of a recording session which i jumped into shortly after home from work #so tbh i SHOULD go the fuck to sleep #might hang out n reblog some stuff. unrelated stuff. should defs stop watching gomens for tonight. #.....................book!aziraphale in 2023 would not only know what twitter is and how it works but would also have a deep disdain for it #with an additional shudder of horror once the rebranding happened #he also knows what grindr is but has never had occasion to use it. he's got other ways to get dates (telling crowley it's date night). #okAY I'M DONE #good omens blogging #gomens spoilers

[southeast-northwest]

giggling and kicking my feet reading this book??like hi? hello?? dude linguistics has always scratched my brain in such a!!! perfect way!! and ive found the time to read and got my hands on some second hand books and I've been getting through them like fuckkkk,,,,

i wish. i wish. id gotten the opportunity to study linguistics at a uni level. that'd be the dream..

in another life im an academic linguist. unfortunately in this life i like being able to afford food.

ANYWAY huge hype about Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. as soon as I finish reading this book I wanna check out her podcast @lingthusiasm

also!!! send me reccs of linguistics books (that are less than a few decades old if possible). as interesting as Pinker's thoughts are, it's kinda funny reading this guy say, in full confidence, that language is so complicated that computers will never be able to believably write anything resembling natural human communication. lol

#im so normal about this #linguistics #fuck it this can go on my yearning blog im yearning for a life where i can study linguistics frfr #love #yearning #lingthusiasm #because internet #gretchen mcculloch #special interest #idk broskis i think i should be paid a million dollars a day for just reading books that facinate me

[shivunin]

h, m, u from the writer asks! :)

Thanks for asking! c:

(Fic Writer Asks)

H: How would you describe your writing style?

Hmm...if I had to name parts of it, I'd say: close third person perspective, a focus on emotion/character work/character voice, and a certain flow or rhythm? The last bit feels ambiguous, but I can't find a better name for it.

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story?

Probably my mer!Cullen AU. I constructed a whole world where the Dalish are largely seafaring and Templars are these nightmarish mermaids (I started this shortly after reading Into the Drowning Deep, which is fantastic if anyone is into horror books about killer mermaids forced to the surface by environmental pressures/global warming) with Circle Towers under the sea.

The fic itself is about Cullen deciding to leave the Templars and washing ashore where Emmaera is conducting a study of some Elvhen ruins there. I've written part of it! Unfortunately, like most of my fics that require a lot of worldbuilding, I stopped having fun and haven't picked it up for a while.

U: Is there a pairing you would like to write, but haven’t tried yet?

Lots of platonic relationships! I have lots of little bits and pieces of fic about Bethany and Maria, Wen and Morrigan, Wen and Sera, and so on.

Romantically, I have been meaning to write out some of my Merrill/Isabela feelings. Also I have been thinking about Andraste and Shartan a lot, not necessarily in a romantic way. I just think they're Neat. But writing them coherently would require a level of lorediving that I'm not prepared for at the moment haha

#the writing style thing is so hard to answer haha. but there you go #thank you so much for asking laya!! c: #long post #ask game response #ask response #i will finish the mermaid au someday. someday #this is an into the drowning deep promo blog now. if you like scifi horror and also shockingly well-explained mermaids #you should read that book. also ace/bi mc #though that is of course entirely tertiary to actual killer mermaids

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...

#(Basically rant on my last two posts) #I know I've said it before and sorry for coming off as annoying– #but I really wish we still had a central bsd blog on Tumblr like fy-bungoustraydogs or bsd-central or things of the kind. #I think now everyone rushes to post news first. And although there's merit to it in knowing news as soon as they happen‚ #in the long run the death of this kind of central official content ***fan*** blogs is such a huge loss of fandom spaces‚ #especially for the archiving purposes they solved. Especially today that T/witter and G/oogle have basically become unusable. #Literally. Literally. I've been doing official content archiving since I was 11 #(because that's the very specific kind of mental illness I have) #and let me tell you that the quality of web search and especially reverse image search only got worse– #in a way that is very evident and noticeable. Which is crazy tbh and not how things should work. #If anyone would like to start a bsd-central kind of blog I'll be the first one to follow. #Actually if anyone actually wants to establish it feel free to contact me and I'll be more than happy to share the resources I have!!!! #It just needs to be something multi-modded for a series of reasons I won't get into right now #I just can't personally do it (not as main admin at least) because that would be modding my FIFTH active bsd blog– #and that's a little too much even for me. #On top of some ethical concerns I have regarding whether it'd be fair for me to mod a fandom central bsd blog– #when I feel like I can't genuinely share the same amount of love for the franchise other fans share #On top of. You know. Getting a degree eventually hopefully. #Then years after the blog has been solidly enstablished and aquired enough credibility it could even open a free donations found to invest– #in buying and scanning and releasing bsd content that hasn't been shared yet like the guidebooks or illustration books or everything else– #for everyone to see... #The dream. (Is realistically never going to happen) (Won't stop me from daydreaming about it every day) #((Still salty I couldn't afford the guidebooks only due to the shipment prices. I *would* have scanned and uploaded them.)) #That was a long and idealistic rant. Kyotag out #Edit: *Modding my SIXTH bsd blog #Apparently I mod so many blogs I lost count of them

[thesagekissoftime]

I want your quiet, your screaming and thrashing

The salt on your lips and the hands that God gave you

And I want your violence, your silent sedation

Your hands on my insides, fingertips crawling

The scrapes on your knees and the blood that spills over

- Spiracle by Flower Face

#dark academia #classic academia #dark academic aesthetic #romantic academia #book blog #dakota warren #fawn novelle #art #poetry #spilled ink #bookblr #lyrics #lyrical #song #one of my favourite songs right now #everyone should go listen to it #if you don't like the music style that's ok #just read the lyrics like a poem #it's so beautiful #i want to write it up and put it on my wall