#Babble Business

[delinquentkru]

it’s so funny to me when people reduce mel & langdon to mentor-mentee when they just started hanging out like halfway through the day…..fully wasting time on cases that didn’t require two residents so they could stay in each other’s presence lol

[seyvia]

I didn't scam you...it was your decision to invest all your money in your psychic phone friend. ♡ 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕦𝕘𝕒 𝔽𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕤𝕚𝕞𝕤 𝟙. on my gallery.

[asexualbookbird]

Okay. So May. Happened. I had a lot of birthday fun and fun with friends. The month was a friend sandwich with The Horrors in the middle. At least I managed to read a lot, with thanks to audiobooks. I spent a lot of time sewing, which means I spent a lot of time listening to books. And a many good books this month at that! Step aside, Horrors, fantasy escapism is here!

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus ⭐️⭐️ - Hm. This book sure is from the 90s. This is why I never reread favorites from my childhood, they rarely hold up. It is refreshing to see the woman (lol she's seventeen) be the unhinged stalker for a change, but Vivian. Girl. What the absolute shit are you doing. I finally feel brave enough to say The Movie Is Better, but now I'm scared that's bad too. My original rating was five stars, and I kept that rating on goodreads for nostalgia's sake, so no real rating here except also it's a two star book.

After the Forest by Kell Woods ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Fine. That's all I really feel about this. I thought things Just Happen to Greta and was annoyed about it until she said "I'm tired of doing nothing, actually" and took action, but that was the last quarter of the book. I don't know, I mostly enjoyed reading it, might read it again, but it's really Just Fine.

The River Has Roots Amal by El-Mohtar ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - An absolutely delightful nugget of a book. Illustrations? Beautiful. Writing? Wonderful. Characters? Delightful. Loved every bit of this, would read again in an instant and I almost did.

The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Reread! Still love it. Is it heavy handed? Yes. Is it fun? ALSO YES. This is one of those books where I am ignoring all flaws because I love the characters and their dynamic so much. Still my favorite depiction of bone magic.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Overall fine and enjoyable, but nothing special. I think most people may have been blown away because they've never read a book about a queer woman before. I find it hard to believe that a bisexual woman from the 50s, who lived through the AIDS crisis, would've never uttered or heard the word queer before. I'm glad I read it, but I won't be repeating the experience.

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Fantastic. Delightful. Heartbreaking. This was technically a book club book, but for reasons I don't remember I missed that meeting and didn't read the book. Foolish of me, to be honest. I was missing out. It's interesting that I read this so close to After the Forest, because I think that tried to do similar things and failed. I enjoyed this so much more and how it focused more on Vasya's relationships to everyone and everything around her rather than a Love Interest. I love that despite it all, I do in fact feel bad for The Evil Step Mother. The writing was melodic and makes me excited to read The Warm Hands of Ghosts.

Inheritance by JC Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - My friend wrote a short story! He put his heart on a platter for the world to read, and I am honored to be one of the first.

Metal From Heaven by August Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ - waffling between three and four and even three and a half feels odd somehow. I loved the genders going on here, loved the anger and the grief. It did some meat things with POV, too. I think the comps do this a real disservice. I could come up with a half dozen things that are better fitting than Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth. Parable of the Sower, The Unspoken Name, Leech, to name some. It's not a bad book, and I read whole chapters multiple times. I even reread the first quarter of the book once I got a better feel for things. It feels disjointed somehow, and maybe that's intentional but it didn't quite hit right with me. I'll probably read it again regardless, I'm curious if my opinions change.

The Girl In the Tower by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Against my better judgement, I have been bamboozled by a charismatic man. You know I'm having a good time when I almost immediately go to the next book in a series. Some good gender presentations going on here and a wonderful example of social dysphoria (with a cis main character!) I'm in love with the horses, and especially Solovey. Finally, some good fucken fairytale retellings.

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Crying. Sobbing. Screaming. The cyclicalness of it all. You know it's good when I not only finish a series, but do so in a timely manner. And a fairytale retelling, of all things. I was crying at the beginging because they killed my fave. I was crying at the end because they brought him back. I want to reread this whole series immediately.

I'm also halfway through The Art of Destiny (a buddy read!) which is going slow, but well. I kind of like the slowness of it all, to be honest. So I look forward to finishing that in June. Book club is soon too, so I get to read Katherine Arden's other novel which I am now SO hyped for. I'm almost done with my sewing project, which means I will once again be able to do Fun Art. A couple friends say I should get into furry art, so I don't know, maybe I'll dabble in that. We'll see! This post is long enough so as always, Be Kind <3

[wandixx]

Spearmint may be straight passing, but neither of these dumbasses has straight cell in their body hah. I'm still not sure what flavor of not straight/not cis are they. Your thoughts guys?

Other than M'gann being trans, I may not be doing too good writing it, because it's not my story to tell, but it has special place in my heart

[sroloc--elbisivni]

came to Aberystwyth at the end of a month of traipsing around Europe. saw the castle, rode the funicular, hiked up the University hill to see the National Library, walked on the Promenade, tried a local cider, got soaked to the skin by rain twice, and had a seagull steal my breakfast bacon RIGHT off my plate. so I feel like I got the full Cymru experience, especially since it started off with a massive train fuckup.

[jewishvitya]

Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas.

It's cool when they land on the same day. I hope people who have interfaith events got to have fun with it this year.

[breezycheezyart]

It's spring break. I am free. Let's fucking go ✍🏽🔥

[angel-bunnie]

Feelin a little better today! My evening class got cancelled so m at my dorm room early! Spending a lot of time wif my stuffies cuz I missed them! 🧸🩷

[rememberthepetrichor]

Opening up a kissing booth for trans girls. One kiss for one kiss. I'm cornering the girlkissing market. Enterprising. You may not know it yet, but in the future this will pay out big time. Slow growth market. Non business owners wouldn't understand the dividends I'm going to be paid for this.

[delinquentkru]

WAIT WAIT WAIT — is that langdon whispering "stick with me" to mel i am ferallllllllllll

[seyvia]

I HAVEN'T THE TIME OF DAY TO EVEN ATTEMPT THIS! But an idea so splendid crept into my mind as I was watching my girlie 'Darling Desi's spring starter youtube video' today! She was at the part where she talks about the books she's been reading for the season, and my jaw dropped, looking at the cover of 'The Rose Bargain'.

And the gears in my head started turning as she explained the story...

Here's the idea that I can't keep to myself! (And probably can't do... but we can talk about it!)

A Bachelorette challenge were simmers (you) send Occult Princesses (fairys, mermaids, vampires, etc) to try and win the heart of FINE Prince charming of the fairy kingdom. But here's the catch, they must win challenges to actually get a date with him! By declaration of the Fairy Queen👑 ... Taking inspo from @jonquilyst total drama sims challenges and the Bachelorette challenge and making a whole big thing out of it with Ball Gowns and Battles!... it definitely needs more thought and probably a spreadsheet, lol!😅 But what a fun idea...

[asexualbookbird]

theyre doing a Nerd Makeover AT WORK?? dont yall have OBLIGATIONS????

[lew-dee-tee]

harper's checkups rlly are just them going "oohhh you want to fuck me you want to fuck me so baaaaddd" towards pc, huh?

[brieflykay]

Arthur is really surviving only because eldritch beasts can't help forming crushes on him

(This is about Scratch, i kind of adore Scratch. Arthur is their favorite little guy <3)

[naomiknight-17]

It's been a rough time lately, but I am trying to get back to doing my 100-150 min of cardio each week. Last week I only did like 30 something. I did a lot of activity (baking, cleaning, grocery shopping, cookie decorating, party attending) but not actual exercise

So! I just had a nice refreshing shower, I'm gonna put on my cute new bare shoulder top, and I am gonna power walk to Walmart

[beannary]

@the-lavender-clown MY KEYCHAIN ARRIVED!!! It looks so good and the April doodle is so cute!!!!