#I FORGOT HIS FUCKING SCARE

[enden-k]

this entire bit does unspeakable things to me

also

other hand hiding because hes shaking (if u remember) 🥹🥹🥹

[sualne]

carnis au or also 'one meat', have some lore!

[s4ndg3m]

enphonso hello.... absolutely inspired by @/catc345 (PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT) i'm going to buy so many things from this guy

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

I know you dont care about pesterquest but i wanna know, did you think they wrote eridan well or bad?

bad

[spiderqueenpc]

I'M THE WRONG KIND OF SURVIVOR, I WANT THE KIND OF REVENGE YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO WANT.

[emmcfrxst]

had what was probably the most terrifying encounter i have ever had with a man at work today, so much that my coworker had to step in to tell the man to back the fuck off

[mejomonster]

Fei Du and Luo Wenzhou's relationship is so layered and complicated and lovely and just a fucking joy to see each layer of, to see shift. No wonder this book is my favorite.

[josephquinncurl]

Me: wow I can't believe Joseph Quinn won a fan voted award it's crazy

Also me: seeing that the Eddie Munson tag has 630k followers, Joseph Quinn tag with almost 300k followers, a big Twitter fanbase, Joseph having almost 7B views on TikTok and Eddie Munson having over 17B views having the most for any fictional character ever. Joseph being the most mentioned celeb on Tumblr of 2022 and Eddie the most popular character too. Him winning a GQ award and being on every best of 2022 lists. 🧎🏽‍♀️🧎🏽‍♀️

[gibberishquestion]

BYYYEEEE!!!

[the-magpie-archives]

Okay so this October just gone I went to a panel at comicon that Jonathan Sims was speaking at, and it was great! I'm obviously a fan of his work and some other great writers were on it too, so I really enjoyed it. During this panel, Jonathan said something along the lines of 'A really unnerving piece of cover art can go a long way to prime your audience'. So I thought "huh yeah that makes sense!" yknow, however the phrase goes, we all do judge a book by it's cover to some extent and it definitely helps to be in the right mood for what you're about to read. But I don't think I really fully understood until just now exactly how right he was.

I'm a uni student so obviously I'm pretty broke, but I'd been wanting to read Thirteen Storeys for ages, so you can imagine my excitement when I found a second hand copy for £1.50! It wasn't in the great condition, but it was good enough, and I'd take any hardcover for that price!

The arrival of the book happened to coincide with my sleep schedule being even more messed up than usual, but this was kinda welcome in context! I love horror, but I read a lot of it so I'm a little desensitised; this combined with doing ghost hunting for fun means that horror media is the best for me when I'm sleep deprived and on edge.

As expected from the first couple chapters the writing was excellent and the story delightfully engaging, but to my pleasant surprise it was really quite creepy! And made all the more enjoyable by how relatable it is. For some reason though, chapter three really got under my skin. Stuff with kids freaks me out in general, that creeping sense of dread as the story builds up to its climax, and an odd memory from (much hated) church as a child all built together to make it stick in my mind for the entire day, and following night.

I mostly read late at night so when I picked the book up again to carry on, I was still thinking about chapter three, still freaked out, and still sleep deprived as hell. I kept thinking about the woman I bought the book from, I'm not sure why. I guess I was thinking about kids and wondering if she had any that would've messed with the book to get it into that condition, but whatever. I kept reading, enjoying it just as much, if not more for the lingering taste of chapter three.

By the time I put the book down it was around 3am, and i was pleasantly spooked enough to go to sleep. I don't know why but I stopped for a moment to look at the cover, partially examining the marks and scratches, partially admiring the design.

That's when I saw 'PENNY' written messily on the back and when I tell you my heart DROPPED. I don't know what I thought! But my 3am mind was racing, scared as FUCK. Had this random woman's kid read the book? Had they just decided to scribble out the first name they read when they opened it? Why that one!?!? Why could it not be LITERALLY ANY OTHER NAME???

And that is when I realised that it is PART OF THE FUCKING COVER ART. Well played Sims, well fucking played. In one simple design detail I was forced through the entire emotional journey of the story again in SECONDS. I could've dropped dead. (though to be honest, someone found dead clutching a copy of the book would probably be good publicity considering).

So yeah, moral of the story? Good cover art can do ALL MANNERS OF THINGS to your audience. For my sake, use it wisely.

[noahtally-famous]

not me popping back on here with a post after months of semi-inactivity (uni is being a bitch) just to reiterate how much i love writing the pahkitew island cast.

aside from sammy and amy (obviously), literally everyone else can be shipped with one another and it'd make sense to some degree, like it takes skill to create a group of people so inherently shippable (platonically and/or romantically) and ofc the writers didn't know it they just shoved a bunch of random ppl together and dusted their hands off on it but fr tho 😭

(yeah im planning out my leonave 'stranger things inspired' au, and the gears are turning, and i forgot just how much i love writing for this dumbass group)

(i swear im working on the next chapter of a guide to surviving the apocalypse too)

[metaldevilll]

vivilly thoughts in my brained

[redbullgivesyouwingedkuriboh]

did a little DSoD rewatch and holy shit is kaiba relatable. I’m about to ramble so I’m putting a cut in.

first off, you KNOW this is a kaiba heavy movie because he’s literally the first character we see. where is he? fucking space, man. he’s got the millenium puzzle. you know shit’s about to go down. how did he get to space? fuck if we know at this point, but he beat elon musk there for sure.

then the next time we see him, he’s facing off in a duel against a perfect AI replica of his dead boyfriend. he wins, complements Atem’s hair, crushes a bottle, and then has the audacity to fire the person who designed it. the embodiment of dramatic billionaire. bezos could NEVER.

oh and then when he’s out in the pouring rain, his coat still does the Kaiba Coat Thing(tm). the amount of starch on that coat is probably enough to level a city of velvet. it doesn’t get dry cleaned, it gets soap blown in its general direction and then magically cleans itself. the coat is 90% of kaiba’s confidence (read: season one where he didn’t have the coat and straight up tried to off himself when he was gonna lose a duel). he stood in the middle of the street to dramatically monologue in Yugi’s general direction, and no one is bothered in the slightest. people only start honking after he leaves and it’s only yugi in the street. fucking icon.

me, watching the close-up of Kaiba in the space elevator: for the love of god someone get this man brown contacts

motherfucker jumps out of a moving jet plane, parks it remotely, and then summons a literal god with minimal effort. still has enough energy to run for his jet at a dead sprint. i’m sorry, charles xavier who?

he had to be traumatized, he would have killed god by this point had he not needed extensive therapy and several different antidepressants.

end of the movie, pulls a Back To The Fucking Future and has his space elevator go like 88 miles an hour so he can LITERALLY TRAVEL BACK IN TIME because Seto Motherfucking Kaiba is a goddamn scorpio and will hold a grudge for actual millenia.

sometimes I think about the fact that I jokingly say that Kaiba is compensating for something with the jet and the cards and the drama. then I remember he actually has things to compensate for that aren’t his penis that involve him not coming from money initially/being adopted/rough childhood in general.

[lilyharvord]

Evangeline watching Cal interact with Mare at any point during war storm: 

[marshburgers]

“i love you. fatally.”

[marsbotz]

also i need u guys to see this sorry.