#introduction of a book

[medusaesque]

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski / Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre / Disco Elysium

[bookburners]

I don’t think the upperclassmen see Neil as sad and traumatized as much as they see him as a feral but deadly cat or chihuahua that they fed a couple times and is now theirs forever.

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[coquelicoq]

every scene in this episode shows natsume's growth. right at the beginning, he asks shigeru to teach him how to make a flowerbed - no longer is he going to the library for books because he can't let himself trust anyone enough to ask for help. he agrees to help the youkai but asserts his boundaries consistently. he doesn't hide what's happening from tanuma. he's making peace with his memories, building a bridge between his past and his future. he trusts now that he has a future. he smiles fakely exactly zero times the entire episode. i'm so impressed with midorikawa's mastery in portraying slow character growth over time. all of this feels earned and 1000% more emotionally resonant because it follows from and builds on everything that came before. it coheres.

[comicdez]

Alright thats it- *puts your Caine in Therapy*

[ellynneversweet]

Oh so I thought of this while plotting (loose term) a small and silly fic in which Sabriel, well into her second trimester with Ellimere but too busy and relatively symptomless to notice she’s actually, y’know, pregnant, is finally pushed gently but firmly into a chair by the house sendings and handed the book they left on her bedside table, the study desk, in her backpack, etc, with signs indicating that she has to read it. Right now.

Said book is an Abhorsen’s guide to pregnancy and child development in wee necromancers, written waaaaay back when by someone, probably Belatiel’s daughter or granddaughter and subsequently heavily revised and argued over, and it included a lot of helpful tips including how to ward the crib of a baby against a baby rolling over into Death by instinct (I maintain this is what Sabriel did as a newborn, which is why she came back normal, and also, that her many-times great grandmother would have sighed and gone ‘well yes, babies want to be with their mother’) and, as she’s reading, she goes…oh I remember these wards, kinda. Dad used to cast them when we were travelling. There’s a further spell to ward a body and tie a spirit to a body, in the event that you have to take a baby with a death sense somewhere not warded, and, particularly, if that somewhere is somewhere where it’s very easy to cross into Death, like, say, a place where many people have recently died or there are broken Charter Stones. This spell includes a variation or note that it can be cast if a spirit has already started to go into Death and needs to be stopped in order to retrieve it (in the same way one might corner a VERY FAST toddler by a closed door) which Sabriel sits and squints at for a long time, because that sounds like a plausible answer for why Touchstone was Like That when she found him.

At this point the librarian sending buries its hood in its spellflesh hands, comes over and turns the pages back to ‘a spell for diagnosing pregnancy’ and points at it.

(Addenda: the whole above ground section of the Abhorsen’s house is, by default, childproofed in this way and probably several other ways. Bel’s daughter or granddaughter and her very small children were living there for this very reason when Hillfair burned, so they all survived. She’s the Queen Victoria character of the Abhorsen line.)

[torrintaighofficial]

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I’m Torrin, a 31-year-old debut author living in the Midwest, and I’ve poured my heart into a romantic fantasy series called The Godhunter Saga. Book one, Dawnfire and Spellweave, is finished (87k words!), and I’m getting ready to query it for traditional publication. It’s the kind of story I always wanted to read but could never quite find. So, obviously, I wrote it myself.

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Thanks for reading. Love y’all.

[sassypantsjaxon]

So just to recap: Aizawa

1. Buys ugly clothes for his daughter

2. Is subsequently forbidden (presumably by his husband) from buying her anymore gifts

3. So his workaround for that is to send his son to get things for her instead

[afterthelambs]

Shuake Princess Bride AU where Sojiro is reading a bedtime story to a feverish Futaba. It's about the pissed-off Prince Akechi getting rescued by the country boy-turned-masked thief Joker. Because Westley has that cheeky confidence that suits Joker and Princess Buttercup has Goro's haughtiness and poise. I can imagine Joker pretending he's totally not Akira to get the tea on himself from Akechi right before Akechi loses it and pushes him down the hill.

Yusuke can be Inigo Montoya because they're both dramatic, Ryuji is Fezzik because they're supposedly dumb but have a good heart. Only difference is that when the storybook ends, instead of being disgusted by the kissing, Futaba is fujoing out. Sickness cured by fairytale yaoi

Oh also the author of the story is Maruki

[7975348473]

"its a metephor, see— you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the power to do its killing."

call me tushu :D

she/her. indian. hindu. straight. highschooler. bindi equipped 24/7. full-time singer. part-time dancer. part-time reader. part-time author. sunshine personality. an enthusiast. (not-so) slightly crazy. lover of classical music and mostly all things desi. roleplay jesper fahey and xander hawthorne. @musiwashere and @lunarlee101 r to blame for my craziness.

my traditionblr: changing themes acc to books, no follower events (for now)

my masterlist

(hanji mujhe hindi bhi aati hai)

the note board:-

(current hyper fixations)

the inheritance games. keeper of the lost cities. the grishaverse. the fault in our stars. heaven official's blessing. naruto. akatsuki no yona. haikyuu. spy x family. avatar the last airbender. avatar: the way of water. demon slayer. webtoon.

(current playlist)

riptide. sailor. labor. ghar more pardesiya. raghuvar tumko meri laaj. ye raatein ye mausam. troublemaker. i'm yours. cheap thrills. you don't know you're beautiful. monta re. sawar lu. moh moh ke dhage. dhadak. perfect. sare ke sare classical bandish (obvi). copacabana.

(current goals)

preserve hinduism. control your anger. be a good person. get better at hindi. make use of your potential (hard af). be a respectful daughter. study hard.

(nostalgic run-down)

gacha girl. miraculous lady bug freak. taarak mehta ka ulta chashma. paw patrol. bts army.

book review (the book my theme is based on)

[the fault in our stars, john green]:

★★★★★

"you don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. i like my choices. i hope she likes hers."

as a person who takes hating books with sad endings very seriously, i'll have you know, this book wasn't just sad— it was tragic.

...and i read it twice.

why tragic, exactly? because john green gives you hope. he takes your breath away and makes your heartache only to return it all back to normal once again, to make you believe all is well. and then in the blink of an eye— everything sours up once more and you're in tears.

and i want to hate the book so, so bad for it— but i can't. which is exactly what makes it such a timeless masterpiece.

if you're looking for a tragic, yet well-written, romance about a metaphor-loving boy and an adjectively-and-literally-unique girl, who also happen to be fighting cancer. This book is for you.

but if this doesn't sound appealing, read it anyway. for me. pls.

[vice-president-galade]

He opened his eyes. He was sitting in a comfortable chair. At a desk opposite him, sitting with his hands steepled reflectively in front of his pursed lips, was Lord Havelock Vetinari, under whose idiosyncratically despotic rule Ankh-Morpork had become the city where, for some reason, everyone wanted to live. An ancient animal sense also told Moist that other people were standing behind the comfortable chair, and that it could be extremely uncomfortable should he make any sudden movements. But they couldn’t be as terrible as the thin, black-robed man with the fussy little beard and the pianist’s hands, who was watching him. “Shall I tell you about angels, Mr. Lipwig?” said the Patrician pleasantly. “I know two interesting facts about them.”

Going Postal — Terry Pratchett

[spineless-lobster]

The first half of the aeneid being reminiscent of the odyssey abd the second half being reminiscent of the iliad is sending me into a frenzy, I knew this shit was good but I didn’t know it was THAT good

[quatregats]

This quote is so funny but also like that is literally the most efficient summary of the difference between these books sdhfjhds

[official--eve]

Introduction post!

My name is Eve. Yes, THE Eve, Garden of Eden and all that. I don't actually live in Eden anymore after... well you know the basics.

Anyway! A lot has happened with my family and I'm very excited to start this blog. Feel free to send asks. I'd love to talk with you. We are family after all!

(This is in no way meant to be offensive to any Christians out there, I've just seen so many gimmick blogs so I wanted to give that a try lol. I'm super interested in Eden but that doesn't mean I'm super educated on it so this is just for fun.)

My tags are evereblogs, evespeaks, familytalk, and evesocs

[queen-meleanor-draconia]

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[sovamurka]

J. C. Leyendecker's "Study for Butterfly Couple" (1923) // unused vinyl design for Arcane's "Pretend Like It's the First Time" episode title card // marble statue of Liang Shanbo & Zhu Yingtai, also known as "Butterfly Lovers" from the eponymous chinese legend