#Cheshire library

[bookrabbit]

5 Star Children's book series--share the Magic.

[haileyyscomet]

how I view you based on your favourite Disney princess ‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍

alice - tea parties, dainty cutlery, checkered floorboards, lacy skirts

(I know she's not actually a princess but I had to include her)

[bayonetta-origins]

BLARGHHGFFFF (sound of cheshire spewing water from his mouth)

[runningwithwolvesss]

[tiliqi]

Who is your oldest (like longest had) OC? When did you come up with them, or tell us what the inspiration was!

my oldest oldest OC is Diana, she's a sailor moon self-insert who's the princess of the entire galaxy (as opposed to usagi's pathetic reign over juuust the solar system lmao) and she was sailor star. To be fair thgouh, I did make her before i saw season 5 and that season ruined my entire lore and I kind of dropped sailor moon for a while after that akjfhkajsf but when i was 9 or 10 i started making this sailor moon season 6 comic where my oc was the main character obviously but i was also obsessed w like 5 other certoons and anime so it just all meshed together. also all the other characters wouldnt stop commenting on my character being sooo tomboyish and how she was seen as one of the boys and one conflict was her not wanting to be girly when she transforms... I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANT FOR ME.........🏳️‍⚧️

my oldest OC that i actually have like. well recorded inspo and history of (drew him lots, still use him sometimes) is saph.

he was my sonic self insert at first. in the very beginning he was sonic's long lost sister ♥ back then he used to work for eggman. also i only knew about sonic from sonic x and only the first 2 seasons existed in germany at the time i watched it, so i thought 1) shadow is one of eggmans minions 2) shadow is an ugly jerk and i hated him lol.

(the rest is under cut bc this came out suuuper long)

same story as last oc. at first trying hard to be girly, (also holy shit i found the poerfect img for this)

but that's uncomfortable so i'm making the oc edgy. (notice the "MALE NOSE!!!!") at this point the backstory was that he's a "clone" of sonic shadow and silver.

no wait even better. run around naked like the boy characters.

everyone always confusing the giiirl for a boooy and i genuinely got some hate for my character design bc i shipped him w shadow and wow u cant have a homo OCxCanon ship ewww lmao but oh well.

someone once dared me to do a genderbend and then i just changed the color from white to black and they were angry i didnt do a proper genderbend. while the anti version of the character was a proper girly girl with pink and sparkles and smiles and rainbows and skirts and frilly tops and stupid hairstyle. and ppl complained the anti looked more like a genderbend. (below is the "anti". i can't find the genderbend anymore)

for me it just was my first crack in the egg bc hey. i don't want to be preppy, i want to be emo. but im not allowed bc girls are not meant to be edgy. and im notally not projecting on the boy version of this character more than the girl one. nope.

with every year i reduced the hair pieces at the front lmao but ya after my egg cracked i focused more on making him cool andkeeping him gender neutral. Then i used him to prcess a lot of my ongoing hardships in life. the redesign also being bc of a big shift (well. yeah me transitioning socially lmao)

he's unfortunately associated a lot w that painful time so i don't use him a lot anymore

he came a long way though im proud of him. here's one of the most recent drawings together with his brother (also has lots of lore on how he happened but im not feeling like it rn to go on that tangent)

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

I did finally watch it and Holy shit?? But also, did you see Ballister's eyes at the end when the pink light showed up and agshskd 😭😭😭 anyway thanks for making me want to watch this, it was such a unique movie!!

It should be illegal to animate a man this beautiful

I am so glad to know that you had an enjoyable experience <3

[concorp]

been really enjoying your squidcraft live blog, i have no idea what smp it is but honestly its been great having you popping up on my dash like patches of wildflowers just having a ball, its been so good /genuine /positive -nagi

welp, it’s over now that pierre is out haha. i don’t intend to watch someone else this was very fun but soooooo stressful 😅

squidcraft is a massive competition with 200 streamers, based on squid game! this is actually squidcraft 3, the third time they’ve run it, but the first time ive watched.

i missed liveblogging pierre’s qsmp streams so this was very fun. i do watch his other stuff but nothing really noteworthy enough to talk about tends to happen in them tbh, lots of technical gameplay and multiplayer stuff is a lot rarer nowadays. it was wonderful to see so many of the qsmp cast back together again.

[cheshire-castle-library]

[sapphic-bats]

Thank you for this post, my teacher’s letting us do this now.

[nevinslibrary]

Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

This was a really cool book. It takes stuff like, undersea cables, airplane turbulence, or happiness levels and brings them to life both with words and graphics. I mean, who doesn’t love a good infographic (Really though, this is a library blog on Tumblr, we all already knew that we’re all nerds!)

You may like this book If you Liked: Adrift by Scott Galloway, Ways of Being by James Bridle, or How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World by James Cheshire

[runningwithwolvesss]

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense”

- Alice in Wonderland

[tiliqi]

Who are the oc's giving you the most brainworms right now? Like top 3?

I've been thinking about heavy force non-stop lately ughghhhug

Arch, Jupiter and Jessee are rotating in my brain so much if I only have to give 3. But Dominik, Luzifer, Zenox, Sera, Angel.... (Even some characters I've yet to name bc I'm always so indecisive when it comes to them... Names are important they need to have at least 5 hidden meanings.) Everyone is somehow connected, there's a common thread going through all of these people's hearts that they yet do not know or understand. Some of these characters have and will never meet and yet.............

do you understand my insanity? Making up circumstances for these fictional people where everything one single person does affects everyone else? Even if they are far away and never meet. Even if there's 6 centuries between them.

BTW regarding ur tags. oughgdgj ive been on tumblr since 2012. things used to be real good but at some point some ppl decided to bully me to a point i got scared of talking abt my thoughts on my own creative stuff bc i didn't want a bunch of hate asks or reblogs making fun of me that i cant delete or control. i know the reblog control exists now but i keep forgetting honestly.

idk im just very proud of what i do and it makes it all the more devastating when ppl make fun of me or even worse.. dont care. I know all the stuff u said i just have an easier time speaking when im invited to do it first. im the social interaction vampire. let me in.

[cheshire-castle-library]

November 28, 2023 | A Darker Shade of Magic - 001

I decided to do this anyway, and maybe its cringe or annoying, but I'm still excited about this book even a few exhausting Uni days later. I'm also hoping to like.... prevent myself from falling off of reading by giving myself some interaction to do with it?? This is very much going to be a Spoiler-filled series of posts (assuming I keep up with this), so please be warned. I'm probably going to use Keep Reading cuts and tags so I'm not super annoying with this.

I made it through the first true chapter, and I'm honestly really excited I picked up this book. I recognized the author's name from Bookblr posts about Viscious, but I have that in audiobook form and I already knew I was going to be spending too much at the Barns and Noble that night, so I didn't pick it up. Instead I was really drawn in by the blurb on A Darker Shade of Magic, so I took the chance on it and it proceeded to sit, egging me on, in the corner of my consciousness for the next few days. I'd even started reading something else I bought that day! But something about the vaguely Vash the Stampede figure on the front (and His association with the last book I got brainworms reading) and the idea of a setting of not only one period London, but many, and I could no longer hold myself back. Its Finals, what's better than starting a new obsession? ...

Something odd that I didn't really notice until I got to the page with the big roman numeral 2 on it is that the chapters are broken into sub-chapters like some light novels I've read; I've never seen that in a western novel before, but I also maybe don't read a lot of non-textbooks these days so who knows if that's more common than I imagine. But structurally, it makes the transitions of scenes nice and clean, so its maybe something I'd like to play with in my own writing. I've been really enjoying how Schwab doesn't explain every little detail, but still gives us enough of whats important. The way Kell uses his magic, the way Kell takes care of his appearance, the colour and act of drawing blood - but not so much the transitionary actions when they aren't characterizing or important. When he was leaving the bridge, in 1-3 for instance, we got Kell's little flex of wrist to still the stream and make it reflective, and Schwab spent the time to explain relaxing the wrist when voices carried from other parts of the park; but we didn't get a, "and Kell stood, before walking off the bridge". Instead it was just a "Kell continued on his way". It honestly answers some questions I've had with my own writing, that I've been brunting up against with my NaNo novel this month. How much do I need to explain for the audience to see the motions? I think my difficulty with imagined pictures makes me assume you need a lot more detail to conjure up a scene than is really necessary. I'm also thoroughly enjoying Kell's character. There's a certain stylishness that's innate with the coat of many coats, that honestly resonates with me via my favorite tabletop OC I play. Also a kind of snarky, cocky, stylish, magic-user; I'd like to imagine what chaos Ashton and Kell might get up to if left in a room together. Though the discussions of the rules of Magic would be very interesting, because the Blood of Heroes Sorcery power is much more the Halloween Town "Want something and then let yourself have it", while the magic system of the Many London's seems more structured so far. Though there's this hint in Kell's relationship to magic, that it might not be so different. Something that's interesting to me about it is that the "elemental magics" are less will and word and more just the will part; but the magic described as "true magic" has a language associated. Something feels logically backwards to me about that - implying that the "elements" (which includes Bones) are less natural than the true magic. But then again, the True Magic is life itself, so maybe it makes sense that life is the underlying true magic. But why is the true magic tied to something of human construction - language - while the others are controlled in a more intuitive way?

I'm really excited to learn more!

[ephemeriee]

i got my north west riding pevsner for £15 and that was purely for personal use, the south west riding seems to be going for over £40 second hand

[prettylittlelyres]

Hey your url is both beautiful and brilliant and i though you should know

Anyway have a great day and congrats in your draft prog!! You're doing smashing!

Nagi

Aw, thank you so much! I love the chaos of the PLL original books and show, and the pun is there because of Sappho's lyre <3 You have a lovely day, too.

[glass-sky-inn]

Moving into Watermelon Street...

Somewhere, down the street a ways, in a section perhaps you've never been to - perhaps you haven't been to in a long time - stands a stately white house.  Old by make, well-traveled by the mix of flowers and ornaments and general busyness in the front.  And among them stands a sign, modest in comparison - two timber legs, a board with a curve at the top, simply painted - that reads "Welcome to the Glass Sky Inn" with the words "Long Stays Welcome" written underneath, and added to the bottom - a little hanging sign of its own - says "Restaurant".

How long has an Inn resided here?  Or was it even here yesterday?  It must have been, a plantation house doesn't build itself in a day.  Right?  

Well, whatever the mystery of this place may be, you might as well come in.  The smell of home-cooked food is escaping out the cracked front windows.  Corn bread and warm meats, spiced vegetables, and -oh  the smell of Pies.

A young person with sky-blue hair waves at you on the street, standing on the porch as they water the various flowering bushes.  A tall blonde man steps out from the door and catches their attention, and they smile together, and share a laugh, and retreat inside to whatever wonderful mayhem may come to be; though not before the blue-haired one casts one last, warm, smile to you.

Glass Sky Inn

Is a large plantation mansion that's been converted into a bed and breakfast sort of deal. The ballroom is a dining room for the home-style restaurant that's open to the public, serving whatever you might ask for - to the best of their abilities. There are 7 rooms for rent, not including the master bedroom on the top floor, at the top of the stairs, where the proprietors live. A husband and partner who are equal parts mysterious as they are madly and sweetly in love with each other. This is something of a retirement for them. You don't ask how they can be retired when neither looks past their 20's.

Aivis

They/Them | 20's by appearance | Queer The main proprietor of the Glass Sky Inn. It was their idea to make the inn, and they seem to love it quite a bit. "A little piece of solace" they say. Aivis has light blue hair, which shows no signs of dye work, gold-rimmed glasses that take up most of their pale face, and generally wears nothing but overlarge soft sweaters and jeans. They have the air of a graduate student, and can often be found reading when not doing the Inn's book work or helping with the housekeeping. Aivis has a laid-back way, and finds happiness in a lot of simple things. They can be a nurturing person at times, but generally will stand back and let things play out - unless so egregious a situation occurs that they actually grow frustrated and take action. In general, however, they are live-and-let-live.

Adrian

He/Him | 20's by appearance | Queer by association The co-owner and husband (you presume) of the main proprietor of the Glass Sky Inn. He enabled his beloved's wish to have an Inn and see many people resting and having a good time. "It was your wish, my Starlight," he replies. Adrian is tall and handsome, with dusty blonde hair that falls to an past his shoulders. He's generally comfortably dressed - though you're not certain for what era. Peasant shirts and slacks, he might be a RenFaire actor, you could guess? He is more easy to annoy than Aivis, and has a touch of a sarcastic and teasing streak. He likes to try to get a rise out of his beloved, and sometimes pushes them too far. He is generally well natured, however, and genial enough to the guests. If anything, "aloof" is a descriptor you might hear in the town. But he is ever the puppy for his dear Aivis, and you might at times find them curled up in one of the overlarge antique armchairs - Aivis asleep against his broad chest - as he reads, his partner's glasses rescued from their slumber.