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the greatest iskierka art of all time

Iskierka! As that 'nicest angel you have' meme from Lilo and Stitch. For my sweetheart bingo card, prompt: angel.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Machineries of Empire Series - Yoon Ha Lee Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Shuos Jedao, Ajewen Cheris, Nirai Kujen Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, Dyscalculia, Suicidal Thoughts, Eventual Happy Ending Summary:

Sometimes Jedao learns from his anchors, instead of the other way around.

Bookmarker’s Notes:

 Stayed up til 4am for Yuletide reveals and it was the best decision. Look at this FANTASTIC PIECE OF WRITING!!!!!

This is tone-perfect to the book series from the themes to the math references, and exactly what I wanted, thank you thank you thank you thank you kind anon.

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tiny….Killua experiencing Gay Emotions pt 2: lineart. aaaaaaaaaa this is lots of fun but so difficult (he’s a usually a GIF but i wanna upload him to Insta too)

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a very good review for a very good book

Another @cocoa-bop​ recommendation, I ordered this from Moon Palace Books to support them after the first wave of Minneapolis protests and I guess they got slammed, because I only got this in the mail yesterday XD.

Now I’m kicking myself for not also ordering the next two books in the series because omg WHAT HAPPENS NEXT I MUST KNOW!!!!!

Ahem.  Anyway, this book is kind of a cross between Ursula LeGuin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - the social/political order is more or less stable, but it requires some people to be tortured to maintain it - and Legend of Galactic Heroes, about a genius space strategist who has never once lost a battle.

There’s also a bit of …. please don’t kill me, but that questionable part of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series where there was an entire planet of Chinese people who all had OCD… 

Because in the universe of the book, observing a ritualistic calendar and following “remembrances” (connected to torture) on various days actually creates a kind of physical force field that alters reality within its sphere of influence…

And it’s reality that is altered, not just people’s minds, because a weapon that can distinguish (supposedly) between which calendar you follow and only kill heretics who follow a different calendar, also kills all the animals in the area too… the ships actually travel through space using so called “exotic” effects… and so on… if it turns out that all of this was mental all along it’ll be a twist.

And then there’s also a focus on mathematics and number systems… so all the warfare is based on establishing your own calendar, and infantry memorizing different formations and being brainwashed (with something called “formation instinct”) into following the orders of generals who put them into different patterns on the battle field for the different magical effects this will give them…

Besides the link to mental illness, there’s an obvious link to religion too and especially mystic religions like the Kabbalah, Sufism, etc, where through remembrance, focus, meditation, ritual and abstract number theory you can change reality… though instead of using numbers to understand God, you create your own number system that creates its own physical laws.  And the degree to which a physical space conforms to one belief system or another can be measured and quantified, because this is science fiction LMAO and not fantasy. 

…Anyway this book is great - it creates an entire new world and vocabulary to describe that world that none of the characters can think their way out of, and the characters are super fun too… Without spoiling too much it’s basically about a military siege of a fortress with a twist at the end, so yeah if you like military sci fi and weird brain stuff you should read this.  @cocoa-bop​ never disappoints.

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ugh it’s SO COOL

Three Body Problem 

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I wrote this fic for me but y'all can read it if you want

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this is adorable, i love the lightsticks! tagging @mousieta​ @tiny-porpoise​ @diedinwarofhormones​

I absolutely love these picrew tags going around and i wanna start one too because this is too cute ;; 

So I’m tagging: @yeolville​, @heartcravings​, @starchild–27​, @neocitizennies​, @xiuhunsoo​ & @delhyun​ Here’s the link ♥ Can’t wait to see your versions!!

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have you ever loved a fic so much you hand-stitched it into a beautiful bound book? i’m not crying, you’re crying

(and i’m going to read this fic IMMEDIATELY)

(also the fics for me that might make this cut are Speak Not of the Blackbirds, Phoenix, and Castling)

After weeks of waiting, shipping woes (of the postal variety LOL), and screaming about this fic with my friends in their DMs in the wee hours of the morning, I’m so happy to have finished my first case-bound book!

Here is On Stranger Tides by @theroyalsavage​​, one of my all-time favorite HQ fics!! The writing is gorgeous, the characters are portrayed with so much love and care, and there are pirates!!! Boats!! Magic!! An ensemble cast!! Pining!! If you haven’t already, you can read it here. I cannot recommend it enough.

more under the cut about bookbinding, fic, and of course glamour shots :D

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Now that I think about it, it’s kind of weird that some people see “I like this character” and immediately translate that to “I condone everything this character has done and agree with their views”.

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I have the best moots

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so i made a watercolor ode to sehun’s lq selcas

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Dear gdragon/bigbang/et al.

Pull a Beyonce/Taylor Swift and drop an entire album with just a couple hours notice. I am too old and impatient to play the teaser game anymore.

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At the link you’ll find summaries of all works posted to tumblr and twitter for the @hxhbigbang2020 event, along with links to fic and art! 

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As of July 16th, 2020 we had a total of 30 fics and 52 artworks!  Big thanks to everyone who participated this year!   

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1 and 19! ♥️

1: Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Melancholy one-shot with some degree of world-building and an ambiguous ending :/ 

19: Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse?

Tbh, this BTS interview

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3, 4, 8

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

To be honest, I really can’t handle soulmate AUs or domestic fluff, because I am a terrible cranky person who hates happiness? Also mpreg, but because it’s domestic-adjacent. 

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them? 

I’m sort of monogamous when it comes to WIPs, but I can share one fic idea that I will make happen someday. It’s a historical AU set during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War era for NCT where YuWin fall in love over the radio despite being on opposite sides of the war. I’ve been reading about short-wave radio technology because I’m a NERD.

My response to #8 was posted earlier for Mousie!