#chattering skull

[spiritboxies]

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!

i've decided to take a crack at making my very own mod!! it's still a long ways away from being finished, but i have put together a short trailer, just to illustrate ✨The Vibes✨

and you can watch it HERE!

[spiritboxies]

thanks for the tag! and i suppose my cat would agree with the result at least, seeing as she's curled up next to me rn <3

ngl im a bit shy to tag anyone bc im still fairly new to this fandom... so i guess anyone who sees this is free to consider themselves tagged if they want to take this!

stealing this fun personality test from @cloudofbutterflies92 ❤️

lol so fitting

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No pressure tagging: @esolean @localravenclaw @nadilu @chewbokachoi @johnlocsin-johnyakuza @bihanspookies @shanaraharlyah @l3vi4than @its-lolyolo @joliackermann @kyuoki and everyone who wants to do this (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

[zu-is-here]

skelegoosebumps ♫

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

*poke poke* sorry for spam asking but ermmmm

me likes your au

WEOAGHHH AN AU PLAYLIST BEFORE GTA 6??! THIS IS SO COOL, THANK YOU SO MUCH??!

[theghostintheskeletonkey]

Try not to have arguments in your head with people who aren't present, the words aren't real, the outcomes aren't real, but the emotions can be very real.

[npd-confessions]

I also think it's really funny that my literal wife has bpd. but okay, anon, i hate people with BPD and clearly i'm such a manipulative meanypants who has no solidarity and is mean to any other cluster b-er. Sure

[ravengales-glade]

>More Medieval stuff!!

>Look inside

>No Medieval stuff

[the-shy-artisan]

I finally found the perfect place to hang the Malzeno skull some friends bought me: above my dresser!

[carriagelamp]

On the plus side we're out of the February Doldrums that were sucking the life from me! There are actual signs of spring! Daylight! Flowers! Woohoo, I almost feel human again and my reading has become a lot more positive as well! On the down side there's... *gestures at all of it* so y'know. Thank god for stress reading. I actually quite enjoyed almost everything I read this month.

Ella Minnow Pea

Possibly my favourite book of the month, I got this one as a rec on tumblr and it completely charmed me. I listened to it as an audiobook, but honestly it really makes me want to find a print copy to see how the experience changes my enjoyment of the story and what I pick up from it.

Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel about the correspondence between various inhabitants of a small island nation Nollop. The island’s claim to fame is being home to Nevin Nollop, the creator of the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, and this has engendered a love for language and reading in its populace. However one day the unthinkable happens: a lett falls off the mural commemorating the great phase. The Nollopian government chooses to take this as a sign from Nollop himself and henceforth bans any use of that particular letter with severe consequences if not obeyed. Things only get worse as more and more letters begin to drop off.

The novel manages to be funny and charming, while also presenting a very interesting look at the rise of a totalitarian regime and how curbing a person’s ability to speak — and therefore dissent — impacts every part of a community. It felt very relevant in these current times, especially with the topic of book bans all the more common in the news.

Fantastic Mr Fox

I had some fun reading Dahl this month, including a reread of The Fantastic Mr Fox. It’s a short work, but always a fun one. Who doesn’t love a good comeuppance story with a healthy dose of a cunning character outwitting his adversary? And Dahl is always good for creating some properly loathsome villains.

For anyone who hasn’t read this one, The Fantastic Mr Fox is about a fox who frequently visits three different farms (owned by the horrible Borris, Bunce, and Bean) in order to steal food for his family. When the farmers finally decide they’ve had enough, they trap Mr Fox down his hole and plan to starve him out… but fortunately Mr Fox and his family won’t be outwitted that easily.

Fun Home

I’ve heard lots of talk about the musical… and I’ve heard lots of talk of Alison Bechdel… but at no point did I realise that Fun Home was originally a graphic novel written by her. I stumbled across it in the library and decided it was time to finally read it. And wow, it really was a wonderfully done memoir. There was a beauty to it and the details of the art, but also a crudeness and a vulgarity and a tragedy that made it feel very human. It made great reading, lots of fun to chew on. And it’s always interesting to see how someone can take real events of their life and turn it into a narrative, what’s kept, what’s discarded, what’s treated as fact and what’s contemplated… I dunno, it was an interesting read, would recommend.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation v2, 3

So back in December I started listening to the fan-audiobooks made by @redoftheturks for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation to deal with the stress. Because hey! No matter how bad it is for me, Wei Wuxian has it so much worse and I’ll take comfort in that!! Well folks, you’ll never believe it but things seem to have not only stayed stressful but have somehow gotten markedly worse. 🫠 Anyway. I have gone through both book 2 and 3 now. So thank you, redoftheturks, for the tenuous hold I still have on my sanity!

(And seriously, if you're interested in these audiobooks and haven't listened to them yet, I highly recommend them, they're a fantastic reading. This is just going to be my mental voice for Wei Wuxian from this point forward, it's what he sounds like when I read fanfiction now)

The Guncle

Picked up this one from my library on a second hand recommendation and… hm. I had a feeling this wouldn’t be for me and I was correct. I really am not big on contemporary fiction most of the time and this one stayed true to that rule. I could not stand the protagonist or the narrative voice at all, it was completely intolerable to me. YMMV, obviously, but… yeah, no. Not for me. I DNF this one pretty quickly.

A Magical Girl Retires

An interesting South Korean novella about a world where magical girls occasionally happen, and how society has shaped itself around the phenomenon. After all, if you can have magical girls… what about magical women? How are they paid? Do you need a second job? Insurance? A union?

This story follows the protagonist who has sunk deeper and deeper into a credit card debt she doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to repay and is now contemplating suicide. Before she can take that final step though a magical girl appears out of nowhere with the belief that she is about to become the greatest magical girl of all time, the one who might be able to save them all from disaster.

I’m honestly rather lukewarm on magical girl parodies (I like the whimsy and joy of it being played straight, just inject Cardcaptor Sakura straight into my veins tbh) but this one was quick, well-written, and had some interesting societal introspection; it made a very enjoyable read. Plus some pretty art!

My Dress-Up Darling v8, 9, 10

A manga series about a girl (Marin) who loves the idea of cosplay but doesn’t even know where to begin with it, and a boy (Wakana) who wants to carry on his family’s business of creating hina dolls. They end up becoming friends when he agrees to try adapting his skills into making cosplay costumes for her. It’s satisfying, by this point in the series, to see how both of their skills are improving, how their friendship circles are expanding, and how they are both slowly waking up to the fact that their feelings for each other go beyond friendship. Also I do enjoy the practical side of things that My Dress-Up Darling takes the time to showcase, even if it is sandwiched between a lot of fanservice.

The cultural festival arc in book 8 was probably my favourite arc in these three books, the group cosplay arc had some good character development but I had a hard time really caring as much about the side characters.

The Skull

I love Jon Klassen. I love his fucked up little stories and his fucked up little pictures. The Skull was recommended to me (ie: nearly forced into my hands) by a nine year old and honestly it was a great recommendation — I had no idea he’d written this. It’s a bizarre little chapter book that’s retell a folktale about a girl who enters an old castle and finds a talking skull that asks to be carried around and warns her against the headless skeleton that wanders around at night. Completely deranged, 10/10.

Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America

A very interesting nonfiction that looks at the creation / rise of children oriented edutainment TV. For obvious reasons Sesame Street holds a significant focus, but it also explores the shows that preceded it, and many of its contemporaries as well as shows that spawned afterwards. I didn’t realise that Sesame Street had a spin-off program to teach slightly older children to read called The Electric Company! I found this entire thing completely fascinating, and it makes me wonder what the current state of children’s educational programming is like…

The Twits

The second Dahl book I read this month, since it’s one I’ve never read before. Just a ridiculous little book about the two most miserable people you can imagine who are married to each other. There’s nothing redeemable about Mr or Mrs Twit, and they constantly try to do horrible, awful things to each other and the people around them. The joy is watching just how wretched they can be, and Dahl does this sort of thing so well.

You Are Asked To Witness: The Sto:lo in Canada’s Pacific Coast History

A nonfiction book (more textbook style than most of the books I read) that recounts the changing history of the Sto:lo indigenous people on Canada’s West Coast. It’s well-written and helps recontextualize a lot of history through an indigenous lens, clearing up a lot of misconceptions and lies that have been perpetuated over the years. This is something I’ve been reading in bits and pieces over the years and have finally finished — I feel accomplished! A worthwhile read if you’re interested in North American history and modern day societal commentary.

[nabsthevulture]

One way to carry 7 raccoon skulls

[spiritboxies]

i know why the main thing everyone's hyped abt w/ the website update is mods getting officially recognized (im vry happy for all the modmakers too!!), but can we talk abt this for a moment?

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FULL VERSION OF FLOW YAAAAYYYYAYAYAYYAY

FULL VERSION OF URFO YYAYYYYYAYAYYAYY

also with the full version of urfo, i can't help but wonder if there's going to b any more lore abt why the mech pilot is beefing with astra 👀

NAME DROP FOR THE 3RD BONUS

ITS GOING TO SOUND LIKE FUCKIG APHEX TWIN

wonder why the emoji guy is on the cover when the furbies were such a focal point in the trailer 🤔

[gooperts-gunk]

watching bagi's vod instead of live to keep up um. um. at 5:08:10 q!bbh says "i guess you should put i DID like beach vacations, and then there was that one time... i went to naples and that didn't end well..."

UM. UM. CASUAL GOOGLE SEARCH OF "disasters that started in naples italy" AND I FIND.

Q!BAD????? Q!BADBOYHALO?????? just a normal day in 1343 AD for him. nothing we didn't know he could do. just an instance we didn't know of. his disaster count only grows, im excited for his next one. sitting politely, twiddling my thumbs all shy

[lord-box-possum]

For the freaking skull

Thank you for your contributions to the domain of THE FUCKING SKULL

[cosmoport]

life is beautiful btw

[1cebittentwicehigh]

A little more painting, an addition it two and some moving stuff around for the best look. Thoughts?

[acaciapines]

rotating noelle around in my brain. i need the dess raises kris au to be real RIGHT NOW.

please talk to me about the dess raises kris au i think im gonna explode. also start writing it this summer maybe :3333