#And finally finishing book 2

[ryuki-draws]

That's all that's left. Fifty-seven pages of research, two bottles of morphine and one ticket back to the Capital. The train departs at dusk.

An illustration for a Patho AU inspired by Bulgakov I'll probably never write properly but it's been worming in my brain for over two years now.

[sleepinglionhearts]

@vinosscum introduced me to the first Mistborn book,

[jejesart]

[part one] [part two] you to me, me to you

[valhallavalgrace]

How are you adjusting to the whole Norse mythology situation?

LEO: I’ve mostly been bugging some of the older einherjar, and Hunding, a little bit, to figure this place out. Do you know how cool it is that some people have been here since the industrial revolution?? There's no way that I'm the first of my dad's kids to make it here. I just don't know who to talk to about it.

((Leo's coping mechanism re: Norse mythology is just hating himself more bc of course he doesn't belong in his own afterlife. but he won't admit that to anyone bc he doesn't know who can be vulnerable with.))

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[ch1zzie]

Forgot to post this here butttt

Working on a welcome home animation and mighttttt take me a while

[somewhereincairparavel]

todays most memorable episode as a first time watcher, is probably "the tales of ba sing se" and "the guru".

I decided not to watch the season 2 finale today, I'm saving the best for tomorrow because a part of me feels like "the crossroads of destiny" is a very impactful episode.

Alright, I CRIED when iroh sang the vines song to Lu Ten's picture :( it was so sad. Zuko being such an awkward date with Jin was so cute?? Like he never used firebending as he came to ba sing se but then used it for the first time to make jin happy :(💖

Now, im actually impressed with the way the plot is progressing?? I really thought team avatar has had a head start because of the solar eclipse invasion but now Azula found out about it?? But tbh when the gaurds told the earth King that "three kyoshi warriors" had arrived at ba sing se, I kinda guessed it was them. But still a great continuation regardless. Also, not from this episode, but Jet's death was super shocking to me??? I wasn't expecting that to happen, it was so random, I didn't like him much but I did feel sad with how his life ended.

Can I just say that I'm super happy with how Zuko was content with his tea shop life with iroh?? He looked so happy and peaceful for the first time, and was super cheery :( but I do know it won't stay that way for long so that's sad.

[lesbianlotties]

i love making posts every time i want to complain about something but you know what. here's a positive post. i had a lovely day and i am having a good time. there. send post <33

[kithj]

going to attempt this next month....

current TBR:

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Blond

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where I End by Sophie White

Girlfriends by Emily Zhou

The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée

no guarantee i'll get to all of these because i am notoriously bad at following a TBR, but! here's hoping 🫡

[ronanlynchbf]

and then an overwhelming sense of dread apear.

[kazz-brekker]

in terms of “live-action versions of unhinged and murderous teenage boys from classic sff literature once played by sting in a previous adaptation from 1984 who look nothing like how they’re described in the book” steerpike as played by jonathan rhys meyers in the 2000 gormenghast miniseries is on one end of the spectrum and feyd-rautha harkonnen as played by austin butler in dune part 2 (2023) is on the very other end

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

me every time i learn about someone else being a cauldron cape !!!!!!

[kitsune-kaos]

Finally finished Attack on Titan. My God. Just. Wow.

[logarithmicpanda]

There's one thing I find so frustrating when I first get into a new, long established fandom, and that is that I can't really go into the tags until I've consumed all the canon content because I hate being spoiled

[starkravinghazelnoots]

missing flash thompson sm rn...

[justchronicallyillthings]

Just finished rereading The Host for like the 100th time in my life. And honestly it's a good book. The pacing is excellent in the sense that something or multiple somethings is always happening which means there are no parts where I'm hust skimmimg whole chapters trying to get to the good stuff. But there is still super cool world building and character development.

Not to say they're aren't problems with it but ngl it's definitely my guilty pleasure book. And I think Smeyers has a wonderful take on gender that is always shocking to read about knowing she's a Mormon.

Lastly, she did the whole, "Would you love me if I was a worm" thing before it was cool and made sure the guy was like not only would I love you if you were a worm I'd tell you that you were beautiful.

[gender-trash]

i think i made a post several months ago like "this is the year i finally finish reading the dark forest" --

right, backing up a bit. i bought the three-body problem (paperback) from the mit coop at the beginning of campus preview weekend 2016 and hauled it around campus everywhere in my silly little blue messenger bag i thought would Finally make me Look Cool[^1], but unfortunately it happened to rain a lot that weekend and my cheap shitty messenger bag was NOT waterproofed so not only did the book get wet and wrinkly and need to be squarshed flat again, the fore-edge is to this day stained with blue dye. but i read it and loved it and then bought the dark forest (paperback) at the coop as my Post-Finals Book Treatsie sometime in freshman year, and proceeded to NOT read it until i'd well and truly forgotten what happened in book 1. at which point i was like "hm i'd better reread three-body problem! guess i'll start that on the plane home"

longtime followers may remember the events of summer 2017, which i shan't recapitulate here; suffice it to say i didn't get a lot of reading done outside of the absolute baseline comfort rereading-every-diana-wynne-jones-book-for-the-twentieth-time, and shortly before my surgery this year i pulled three-body problem off my shelf and realized that 1) there was a bookmark 1/4 of the way through it 2) it was my fucking boarding pass from my may 2017 flight home, which really carbon-dates the last time i touched it. ANYWAY i finished it, went "cool! i will definitely read dark forest immediately!" and then......... read the first fiftyish pages and stopped, leaving it to languish on the pile AGAIN

BUT TODAY I FINISHED READING IT FOR REAL and now i have that good good scifi book hangover where i'm just kind of. staring at the wall thinking about it. might fuck around and blorbify luo ji and/or zhang beihai idk

[^1]: with time i've accepted that i'm never going to look cool, except maybe to a highly specific audience that can appreciate my rare vintage robotics startup t-shirts, and also that this particular bag was definitely not large enough for how bad i always overpack