#Bad Blood Reading Series

[all-too-unwell-13]

going to ALSO be starting my re-read of agggtm today bc why not

[anchoredgalaxy]

a court of silver flames gets the award for book where i've said "god i wish everyone in this book would die" the most

[mashmouths]

so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

[athina-blaine]

i love sincerely love working with dungeon meshi's magic system and the way mana sickness is depicted, like it has the breadth and scope for some truly powerful and wacky fun shit, but you can also easily bring down the hammer when you want to put the characters in difficult situations they can't get out of without a little creativity. i found when writing for baldur's gate 3 that, unless i was in a modified setting, i was hard-pressed thinking up fun ways for characters to solve their problems without just using magic, especially for the small things. i mean, what fun is throwing a character into a river and needing to warm them up when you can just cast prestidigitation?? it's one of the first things a novice can learn and also it's a cantrip, it literally costs nothing!

[sadiecoocoo]

I just realized that the first time I ever wrote gore was during a social studies project in 8th grade where we had to write a horror story about a historical figure in the subject we were learning about… I maybe made it so said historical figure was murdered by an lady with an axe :D

Like he was asking for paranormal shit not a literal murder case but y’know when you have an idea you gotta stick to that idea

(it was also a group project and I lowkey hated working on project either this group… even though they were my friends… they just didn’t too well with projects and me being a perfectionist when it comes to school work definitely didn’t help)

I had to voice the narration for it too, so my teacher heard me, the quiet kid that only ever read books or did her work in class, read about a guy getting brutally murdered by axe and all his bits being chopped up…

He was supposed to play the recordings in class but he avoided some for obvious reasons

[acourtofquestions]

Currently on Chapter 59 of Heir of Fire & I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been crying since Celaena fell asleep in Rowan’s arms up in that tree😂🤣🥹😭🖤 just tooooooo much to say — Abraxos flying with Manon — Dorian & Sorscha — the kitty-cat friend🤣 — all of Aelin facing the Valg — she has short red hair now (?) & like the least of changes as she said, but also POWER MOVE — & just UGHAJABSNWLWN *keyboard smash head desk* … 9 chapters left, then on to Queen of Shadows😬😆

[topsyturvy-turtely]

current state: drunk on a book

state tomorrow morning: book hangover

READ ALL THREE OF A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER BOOKS!!! NOW!

[fandomtrashhh]

Sam & Powers

I can never articulate how disappointing it was for Supernatural to focus so much of their time and effort on Sam’s powers and everything that comes with it in the first 2 seasons only to bring it back in season 4 and even season 5 even more in depth than before to then just drop it after that and only mention it once every 2 seasons. I feel like it was such a core theme in the beginning of the show that was used so well to tie up what they thought was going to be the season finale in season 5 that once they realized they were going to continue the show they decided it would become too boring or repetitive or something to use more when they were SO wrong. Sure if that’s ALL they focused on then that would make sense but what they did didn’t make any sense at all because how can you take something that was such a big part of one of the main characters and erase it all? One of the things that drew me to Sam’s character in the first place and that helped cement me as a Sam girl was the fascination with his powers that he was slowly coming to terms with. What made his powers different than a lot of other pieces of media that I’ve consumed is the concept that they were forced upon him by a DEMON through his BLOOD! How is that not compelling?? He literally states in the show that he has a sickness that is pumping through his veins that he can never get rid of so why shouldn’t he do good with them? Like !! There was so much potential here!! I’ve always felt when they said that Azazel’s death just...made Sam’s powers “go away” it was a flimsy excuse to get rid of them and only use that plot when they felt like it (i.e drinking demon blood) but if they never had Sam’s powers function like that they could have created a whole plot where Sam comes to terms with his powers and realizes they aren’t going away but they aren’t inherently bad, that he can choose what he wants to do with them, re cementing his autonomy that is so often lacking in the series!! He chooses to help people with these powers (without needing to drink demon blood) and explores them and accepts them!! The route that the show ended up taking never sat well with me because it felt like he just internalized his powers because of what other characters said about it and how people literally tried to kill him because of it and that just feels wrong. Like the show tried so hard to just magically turn him into this Normal Guy TM when Sam is Not Normal and that was the whole point!! He deserved to be as freaky and as comfortable with it as he wanted!! And then in season 15 I almost felt like they were going to do something freakish with his character again because of Rowena’s comment about him being the “closest to a witch” among the characters in the room and then she left her spells and potions and everything TO SAM and it would’ve been so cool to have him dabble in witchcraft and would make so much sense with his character yet he uses them once and then it’s never mentioned again. By the end of the show he’s living this normal life when after everything he went through and everything he discovered about himself throughout 15 YEARS, I don’t think that’s what he would’ve wanted anymore. Supernatural had so many brilliant ideas & concepts which is why I think I’ve continued to be so obsessed and intrigued by this goddamn show, but so so many shortcomings.  

[sunshineyuuji]

I am tempted to add Pip and Ravi to my list of characters I'll write for 'cause I seriously love them and I've seen NOTHING about them, but idk if people would like that... I need answers.

[shirecryptid]

THE MURDER KIDS  →  julie ,  derek  &  ascanio

from the kate daniels series by ilona andrews

[starryeyeddreamer21]

I just got pasta sauce on my book this is a tragedy

[moinsbienquekaworu]

The urge to learn how to draw injuries and blood and bruises

[snakesnifter]

ive been reading percy jackson lately and normally i really hate like "kids character insanely traumatized by kids character whimsical adventures" but holy shit if anyone deserves to have the most emo piss boy kids character trauma attitude it is percy jackson he lives such a shit life

[fatsmyname]

This is ask is to further solidify that you're hot (also, I could see you being into the book series, The Locked Tomb, there's excellent art in that tag)

THANK YOUUUU <33 I’ve been meaning to get into that book series cuz I love all the fanart people make of them… I have not a clue what it’s about but I know I would be obsessed if I read it

[leatherbookmark]

it has to be fucking said. if you have to plan a cover for a book that was japanese/chinese in origin, and you clearly see that the art has space for the title... but written in the chinese/japanese way, vertically... and you think “well, that’s not really a problem, we can write the title in english vertically too”

this is the devil talking. don’t do it.

[crucefix]

hotd ask: did you read the novels too?

noo sorry... i couldn't even finish asoiaf the relentless misogyny was too much for me lol.. that said i know most of the plot points bc i got really fixated on the worldbuilding a while back and devoured every wiki page and reddit thread i could find lmao