#cinched

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

2, 12, and 22 for the book asks!!

2 is answered here!

12. Any books that disappointed you?

I go into most books blind, especially if I see their names pop up often on tumblr, but man, I simply did not care At All about The Raven Cycle. (No shade to people who like it.) Like, I had books/series that I disliked more (including tumblr faves — the Simon Snow series was simply not good, sorry not sorry), but I had a vibe I was expecting that wasn't delivered.

I really did not enjoy Sandman. Read the first volume, figured I might just be missing something, then DNFd the second volume. I love V for Vendetta and Watchmen (I know Alan Moore didn't write Sandman, it's a genre sample) and between those and the tumblr/Netflix hype, I was just expecting ... more.

I technically finished it a week before 2024, but it was for January's book club, and I'm still so mad a year later that I am taking advantage of this soapbox: I hated Cinderella is Dead. As someone who ardently loves folk tales, adaptations, satires, and updates/remixes, it just felt obvious that the author hates this fairy tale and was trying to (as she saw it) update the values to reflect her outdated version of feminism. I came in with the highest of hopes and Hate, Loathe, and Despise this book for taking such a promising premise and doing it worse than anyone has ever done it before.

22. What’s the longest book you read?

TECHNICALLY the longest I finished this year was Les Mis (FMA is 1468 pages, not counting the foreword), but I started that in 2018, so it kinda feels like it doesn't count. I'm currently reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex which StoryGraph puts at 746 pages (the audiobook is 39 hours), and I think I'll finish it this year, but I haven't yet. I started and finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt this year, which is listed as 784 pages but was only 32 hours, So Like. Idk. Dealer's choice.

[vodkacheesefries]

You know your squats were hard when your ribs are sore later

[leynaeithnea]

Vocabulary Captive Prince taught me

#64

cinched

fixing something securely somewhere

p. 35

[dampfnudeldove]

the shape of this dude is incredible. He put on his trousers

[chknbzkt]

Today I bring you Clip Corset ensnaring Fool’s lovely waste, commed by a Discord friend! Tomorrow? Who knows…

Fool and Clip belong to @venomous-qwille in their story Ghost in the Machine, check it out, maybe there’s more gay if you look mmmm 👀

[carouselunique]

They had a bit of a chance encounter on a day where Blueblood was dealing with something that was very difficult and was so caught up in his emotions he didn’t even care that he was in the garden getting grass stans on his coat and Ditzy, with her natural impulse to cheer ponies up, didn’t even notice or care that she was flying into the palace gardens when she saw someone sat in the rain.

At first he was definitely going to call the castle guards to come apprehend this strange filly with the odd eyes who was intruding when this was the last moment he’d want to entertain any desperate debutantes, however she surprised him by not fawning or anything, not even caring about his status, just putting one of her fluffy wings up and asking if he needed somepony to lend an ear.

“Don’t let my eyes fool you, my ears work just fine!”

She was incredibly disarming and while he didn’t reveal everything about why he was upset, he found himself talking about his feelings to her. And she made such cheerful remarks, and was very comforting. In the end, he felt better and she came to check on him the next day, even sharing a blueberry muffin with him. He remarked that he’d never seen her around before, and that he wouldn’t mind terribly seeing her more often.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[palossssssand]

tritonoga doodle page ❤️

[fangsiege]

had to draw my new animal. cinch my thing cinch

[recent-rose]

hey i dont go here but jayce's speech about viktor in s2e9 isn't him saying 'u should never have tried to heal yourself, you were perfect the way u were x3' it was him saying that viktor's physical health never made him any less beautiful, never made him any less important, never made him any LESS, period. he wasn't saying viktor didn't need to pursue a cure for his ills like come on his motivation to invent hextech was to help people. to cure disease. viktor's first and foremost among them.

he said what he said because it was the thing viktor craved to hear most in his life, and that is why those were the words that punched through his defences even as the machine herald: jayce loved him wholly and unconditionally, healthy or ill, good or bad, human or inhuman. he would always be loved just the same.

[jupiterkatt]

Lonely prince of the dark…. And his spoils of war (jevilstail)

Drew this for how I imagined the jevilstail to actually work as an armor, it wraps around the waist sash style and provides the user with plenty of devilish magic >:o3 (or if you’re Ralsei. Normal magic)

[slingbats]

gonna need Oswald in Edward's lap please

i found a vintage photo of two men lighting their cigars and got carried away hope this is alright

[guardiansandgrundos]

very intelligent and powerful energy beings and yet

bad at lying

"of course we duped him! look at the size of his head!"

fucking WHAT

don't take it personally hal. they did it to save your life.

[amygdalae]

There’s something about you with men in aprons, isn’t there

Everyone looks good in aprons to be fair

[carouselunique]

"Oh, you foolish filly... Prince Blueblood is Royalty. You're just a commoner... that's something no desperate bid to trap him is going to change. I think you've overstayed your welcome. I won't let you ruin his life. Go home."

No, no he doesn't. Madame Cinch made sure of that. Made sure that Ditzy wouldn't want to tell him either, putting all those doubts in her head - Ditzy thinks that it might be best to let sleeping Diamond Dogs lie and just raise Dinky herself.

And if you can believe it Cinch genuinely thinks she did the right thing.

She's not losing another of her charges.

[v-poreons]

ERMM.... trollsona posting.... Firefly my absolute beloved. She is me fr. Cant believe I haven't shared her here yet

[the-merry-otter]

What does it say about me that I chose to buy the grey wool blanket with holes in it instead of the completely identical blanket WITHOUT holes, because I want to have a non-precious SCA blanket and like the aesthetic of patches. Plus it gives me an excuse to cut the modern blanket stitching off the ends so I can get a strip to use for patching, and then hand hem them back up.