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do I even have goodreads or storygraph links for this book yet. no! am I sharing a video I made about the ghostly antagonist last night rather than either (a) writing or (b) going to bed on time anyway? yes!

anyway this is idk video book trailer whatever about the antagonist from The Keeper of Lonely Spirits and I think it's pretty good for someone whose only video-editing to date has been trimming their weekly pole videos and setting them to single, continuous musical tracks

thanks to Tom Hardy for his fantastic scream in the 2009 BBC miniseries adaptation of Wuthering Heights. we started with that and went from there

(if you haven't seen that version, it's a fantastic adaptation bc you want to slap every single character except Nellie, which is also how the book is)

video ID below the break (because it's long)

[video ID: starts with slow shots of a forest, sheep, an old brick building, a cross on a tower, and a smiling little girl running through a golden field.

as the first verse starts, a blurred woman in a 19th century dress walks out of a room. cut to a bride and groom's hands are linked at a wedding. the camera pans through a 19th century general store, then cuts to a little girl holding an adult's hand as they walk through a field together, and then to a family of three laughing together in the sunset.

as the music becomes more intense, there is a shot of a wooden sign with the notice "general store closed due to illness." the camera cuts to a tearful, dark-haired man holding a pale, sick woman in his arms, then to a little girl lying sick in bed, before cutting to a cemetery, where it pans down two headstones.

the same dark-haired man leans against an exterior stone wall, screaming painfully at his losses. the camera cuts to another wooden sign, this one reading "notice of foreclosure." the camera cuts to the same man standing in the dark, gazing blankly ahead as the camera zooms slowly in on him.

images flash across the screen: sheep, dirt falling from a gardener's hand, women laughing together, a woman in a white dress, a blurred hand writing a letter, railroad tracks, an old letter, a woman in a wedding dress walking through a field with a bouquet, a small town from above, a general store's counter, sunflowers, someone knitting, a baby smiling on a blanket, a family in the sunset, a child and adult holding hands, trees, a man kissing a woman's neck, a woman gazing in the mirror, white flowers, a sleeping little girl, a man dancing around with a child on his shoulders, a tabby cat in the grass, a columned building, an antique family portrait, and a little girl running through a golden field

as the final chords strike, a single image of a gravestone with flowers sits on camera for a moment before fading to black. as the music falls silent, a man trudges away down a road. white text above and below the image reads "The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, E.M. Anderson, Mira Books 2025. music is Peter Bradley Adams's Darkening Sky. ID ends.]

[elizmanderson]

Hey, amidst the chaos of... everything on the internet, pay attention to Hawaii/Hawai'i!

There have been plans from a non Hawaiian organisation to build a 5 acre parking lot, 13 lot subdivision and a comfort station for tourists on the ridge of the sacred Pololū Valley!

This project doesn't acknowledge Pololū Valley as a wahi pāna (a celebrated and storied place in the cultural traditions of Hawaii/Hawai'i) and instead treats it as just plain land that can be sold to a highest bidder.

Pololū Valley is anything but that.

So please sign the petition to stop this project! As of writing this, 883,470 people have, but we need more!

Petition to protect Pololū Valley

Reblog to reach more people, please! Don't just like and move on, sign the petition and make sure more people see this!

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Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

[elizmanderson]

I always see the dog choking info on here, so here’s what to do if a kitty is choking

Save your kitties, we all know they eat everything anyway. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Choking-Cat

http://www.wikihow.com/Perform-CPR-on-a-Cat

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I wanted to get into embroidery last year and of course the first project that popped into my head was a massive one. So here's the masterpost for the Discworld jacket I'm currently working on. The plan is to have at least one motif for every book and cover the whole thing. Wish me luck.

This is a work in progress, so I'll update this post when I finish new stuff.

Feel free to suggest things that should be on there. I've still got a list I'm working through, but any ideas are appreciated. 😊❤

[elizmanderson]

this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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my one skill is expertly manipulating the shape of the eggs I’m cooking so that they fit perfectly onto my toast every time

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I never really understood mean girls’ “too gay to function” until I was too gay to function

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KRISTEN STEWART on people getting trigged by her Rolling Stone Cover — The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (March 11, 2024)

[elizmanderson]

they post updates on their instagram and there is one from two days ago calling for action! click here to follow Protect Pololū on instagram: link to their page

quoted from their call to action from two days ago:

Kohala Surety submitted an application to the Planning Department to subdivide land atop Pololū (across from the mule station) into 5 lots. Per the Planning Department posting signage serves as public notice. Please email planning@hawaiicounty.gov ASAP with your comments. Protect Pololū hui is submitting a letter against this subdivision. Reference the following information in the subject line of your emails: Subdivision Application near Pololu, PL-SUB-2023-000207

Hey, amidst the chaos of... everything on the internet, pay attention to Hawaii/Hawai'i!

There have been plans from a non Hawaiian organisation to build a 5 acre parking lot, 13 lot subdivision and a comfort station for tourists on the ridge of the sacred Pololū Valley!

This project doesn't acknowledge Pololū Valley as a wahi pāna (a celebrated and storied place in the cultural traditions of Hawaii/Hawai'i) and instead treats it as just plain land that can be sold to a highest bidder.

Pololū Valley is anything but that.

So please sign the petition to stop this project! As of writing this, 883,470 people have, but we need more!

Petition to protect Pololū Valley

Reblog to reach more people, please! Don't just like and move on, sign the petition and make sure more people see this!

[elizmanderson]

To The Person Who Walked Past The Window - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[elizmanderson]

hi was bored and figuring out smth to draw and saw ur art so i drew ur guy david :)

oh 🥹 him 🥹

David Schwertner, he of many waistcoats, aka the character whose label all through my original notes for this book is "semi love interest" and then I actually wrote the book and he crashed through the wall like the Kool-Aid man like OKAY I'M READY TO BE IN LOVE

thank you he is gorgeous!!

[elizmanderson]

Henry O. Tanner The Banjo Lesson. 1893. Oil on canvas: 121 × 88 cm (48 × 35 in).

[elizmanderson]

we will ignore my obvious struggle with shading when the light is coming from NOT the side that's turned away in a three-quarter-view portrait, but anyway. them!! THEM!!

[elizmanderson]

I am also wont to use it, so I will also sign this petition

love when i get flagged for spelling a word technically correct but still wrong. "the archaic spelling of this word" sorry i'm writing like i'm from the 19th century

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Currently obsessed with this gay pigeon couple up for adoption and I think tumblr will be obsessed with them too.