#I NEED A BOOK STAT

[bunnybirds]

A colored pencil commission for the wonderful Moonybadger, featuring her characters Donovan (left) Will (center) and Nova (right). Check out Moony's Nova & Will animatic!

[oorangesoda]

A soft Penny WIP 🥰💚

[leulahart]

School days in District 12

Personally I love pre-canon Everlark because on one hand you have Peeta who has been crushing for 11 years straight, and on the other hand Katniss pretends she doesn't notice him but really she does. I was inspired by this Katniss design for her outfit!

[bottombaron]

identified books on nandermo's au bookshelf (so far):

"Guillermo's side"

(from left to right)

-an unidentified New Yorker book

-The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann

the second salacious novel by the writter of Valley of the Dolls. about a handsome and promiscuous tv network insider named Robert Stone who lives in sin, has numerous female admires who love him no matter how he treats them, and is nicknamed The Love Machine.

-an unidentified book titled The Protectors

-New Moon Rising by Eugenia Price

the second novel in a trilogy called the St. Simons trilogy. a historical romance epic in the vein of Gone With the Wind with added faith-based messaging and same antebellum american civil war uncomfortableness.

"Nandor's Side"

-The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

(also titled Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle) a historical 'true-crime' account and investigation into the 1934 fire onboard the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle which 134 people died in what seemingly was an accident. (Morro Castle was the second ship to be named such after the first was retired in the early 1900s)

-Bad Debts by Geoffrey Wolff

the first book in a series of autobiographical/semiautobiographical writings in which the author (Geoffrey Wolff) attempts to deconstruct the relationship he has with his con-man of a father.

-Lilo's Diary by Richard M. Elman

the second book in a trilogy about a Hungarian family at the end of WWII. each novel in the trilogy tells the same story from a different point of view. Lilo's Diary, coming after The 28th Day of Elul and before The Reckoning, tells the story of Lilo, a complex girl undergoing the changes of puberty and coming adulthood in the midst of doom and eventual betrayal.

[caspinsoands0]

Bro this new website is a goldmine, I found like 30 passcodes on my own in like an hour with my friend! I love how Alex Hirsch just brings up flannels. As a fan since 2018 I’m so happy to see it back and running again!!! Hope none of the bipper/stancest/pinecest/billford freaks ruin it. (Billford isn’t illegal but it is vary obviously an abusive relationship built on bill cipher’s manipulation and taking advantage of Ford, obviously not a good ship. One sided for sure.)

Also weird Al’s there apparently.. wonder how that email went..

(Anyone got any clue what ⬆️ that means? My friend and I got stumped because the decoders from both books are diff. Much help appreciated)

[thefandomexpert]

was talking w a pal about how warhammer and peripheral/fan material are set up in such a way that there’s a lot of like minor plot points that are nevertheless very important if you’re trying to understand a whole character and what they’ve experienced over the course of the plot that are just. glossed over or absent Entirely from secondary sources. nobody is talking about them. specifically we were talking about the horus clone(s) which are in lexicanum but rarely referenced in fan material (most people only discuss clonegrim, and he’s a very recent development comparatively)

this is why i feel compelled to read so much before i write anything bc im constantly finding shit like??? and nobody else is SAYING this????! so i can’t trust anything to have all the compelling bits CORRECTLY except literally. the entire massive primary source.

and now i am a proponent of ‘u should be required to engage with the primary source material before you’re allowed to Have Opinions in fandom’ and i stand by that 100%, but this means i have no idea even Where in the primary source the shit i need to form opinions would even be.

[wonder-and-wildflowers]

Physical media is so dear to me

but not always in the cute

"Look at my collection!! Look at how well organized it is!! Look at all I've got and am getting"

kinda way

But sometimes in a very feral, stars-in-eyes, foam-at-mouth

"Look at my collection!! Look at how well organized it is!! Look at all I've got and am getting"

kinda way

[infriga]

Bro the bathroom scene with Yoojin and Taewon

[saphira-approves]

Okay no I’m not done talking about swords, and their names, because sword names are IMPORTANT okay and they MEAN THINGS—

I rambled in the tags of this post about Eragon and Murtagh naming/renaming their swords to be positive, compared to their fathers’ respective negative sword names, but I want to go further into it.

First is the obvious one, Morzan’s Zar’roc, Misery, and Murtagh’s Ithring, Freedom. I’m almost certain Morzan names his sword as an offensive measure—and I don’t mean offensive as in insulting, I mean it in the combat sense. It’s a curse, almost, upon his enemies: any opponent he faces with this blade will be struck by misery, literally. But one thing we know about Morzan: he’s not particularly wise, and even his best works backfire on him. We see it with Selena, and his confidence that she loves him too much to betray him, so he never warded against her. He named his sword Misery, and Misery is all it brought him: he joined Galbatorix, brought the downfall of the Order, and lost his dragon to nameless madness; he killed Brom’s dragon, making an enemy of the man who once had idolized him and sealing his own demise by Brom’s hand; he threw Misery at his own child and pushed his wife to betray him, which ultimately led to the downfall of everything he had ever worked for. Talk about a curse. He upheld Misery, and Misery came right back to bite him in the ass.

And then Brom took Misery from him, and sequestered it away, and eventually gave it to Eragon without telling him its meaning; and Eragon wielded it without knowing its meaning or history, trying his best to do good with it, and even when he did learn its history and its name he resolved to work to give it a better legacy. After all, a good sword is a good sword. But Murtagh, Morzan’s son and heir, was not done with Misery, bore too painful a scar from Misery to let it go—he took Misery from Eragon and claimed it as his own, claiming his birthright, yes… but taking Misery away from Eragon, in the very same moment that he also protected Eragon from capture and forced servitude, the fate that had befallen Murtagh himself. Complicated as feelings all around may have been, intentional as the act itself may or may not have been, Murtagh here is very much intentionally shouldering that burden. He fully believed that Eragon was another son of Morzan, he could have easily justified rejecting that part of his history and his father’s legacy and offloading it on his younger brother, and yet he didn’t. He took it for himself and declared it his own.

And then he called it Freedom.

After enduring torture and enslavement and a hundred other humiliations, he took Misery in hand and said, no. I do not uphold you. I do not fight for you. I fight for Freedom, for my own and my loved ones’, and for the Freedom of all. He looked at the horror of his past and refused to let it define him. He looked at his father’s mistakes and refused to be bound to them. He took a name of offense, of attack and hostility, and changed it to a name of preservation, of defense, of peace.

And then there’s Eragon, with Brisingr, Fire, and Brom’s mysterious Undbitr, Void-biter. At first glance it may seem that they have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but I would not be here if I wasn’t going to loudly and fervently declare otherwise.

My guess for Brom’s reasoning of naming his sword Undbitr would be somewhere between edgelord teenager antics (look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn’t have wanted a sword name Void Biter at twelve years old) and his admiration for Morzan, who named his sword the simple yet devastatingly clever Misery. Void-biter, bite of death, the bite that would send his opponents to the void. To darkness, to nothingness, to anti-life and anti-hope. A sword lost after his dragon’s death, never seen again, and yet Brom himself succumbs to the bite of his own personal void: he dedicates himself to vengeance, throws everything he has of himself into orchestrating Morzan’s downfall, and the downfall of Galbatorix and the rest of the Forsworn for good measure. It’s implied, from Brom’s own admission of fearing his son would hate him and Oromis’s discussion of his near-suicidal madness after Saphira’s death, that revenge is all Brom lived for until he met Selena—and even after he met her and fell in love with her, I suspect his need for vengeance is what ultimately decided the events leading both to Morzan’s death and Selena’s doomed reunion with Murtagh. Brom may have lost Void-biter, but the void consumed him anyway.

And then there’s Eragon. Yes I’ve said that already but if anything can sum up these books, it’s And then there’s Eragon. The first spell he learns is fire. A dangerous force, certainly, one that can easily break control and wreak untold havoc and destruction, but what force of nature doesn’t fall into that category? He could easily have learned, and thus be represented by, wind or ice or lightning, or even just pain or break. But he didn’t, and he’s not. He wields fire. A force of nature, a destructive weapon… but also the foundation of a home, fire in the hearth; the fuel of invention, to shape metal and glass; and most importantly, a light in the dark, the hope of dawn in the long cold night. Eragon names his sword Brisingr, and it’s not merely a weapon: it is a beacon. His father was consumed by darkness, but Eragon is the one who guided him back to the light, who gave him something to live for after he had defeated his enemy and lost his love; Eragon was the figurehead of the rebellion, the spark that drove a passive resistance into the blaze of true revolution; and now Eragon builds the new hearth of the Dragon Riders, to tend and defend it for future generations.

What a change from misery and the void.

Fire, and freedom. Hope, and peace. Family, and love.

I think Selena would be very proud of her sons.

[sieglinde-freud]

god i fucking love fire emblem fates

[theofficialpeanutgallery]

My dad's been reading a book about pseudo-science that kinda goes into the sociology and history behind it, but today he informed me that Rome used prophetic chickens to make decisions on when to make attacks. Basically, if the chickens rushed out of their coop to gobble down their feed, it was an auspicious omen from the gods, indicating their favor for the planned decision.

Naturally, I had to find more sources- not because I thought he or the author of the book were lying, but because it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard and I need to know more.

I was not let down. Generals and Senators consulted their chicken priests, and often a priest would be brought along with his flock on campaigns, according to Livy.

I am 100% going to be searching for academic articles about this subject later

[loumandforyou]

Girl if Louis had to sit through the same opera ran by vampires like Santiago, dozens of times, he'd bring a book, too. Also, Claudia was in the play. Was Louis ONLY interested in what Lestat likes and not Armand OR Claudia or his own interests?

also didn't louis judge lestat heavily for pretending to read books to pass as cultured? didnt he ignore him at HOME as he read his books?

[scionshtola]

i don’t think i have the correct thing wrong with me in order to be more than a casual crafter

[website-com]

did a final exam today, (was open for 12 hours so u could do it whenever) was supposed to be 2 hours of work, hey for sure took me 7-8. for suresies

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

the temptation to start tdr all over again for yasmin

[heartbreakincident]

Sidestep Profile: EDEN (out of date)

Name: Eden Basri (nonbinary, he/they) Pseudonym: Sidestep CRUX Puppet: Elisha

(click below the readmore for stats)

Stats at end of B2: (only regene reveal)

Telepathy:

Force 68 & Subterfuge 74

Psychological profile:

Infamy 27 / Obscurity 73 Arrogance 17 / Anonymity 83 Ruthlessness 53 / Empathy 47 Daring 32 / Caution 68

Relationships:

Eden: Ortega: lovers, 96% Argent: respectful, 70% Steel: ally, 71% Herald: he seems nice, 69%

Elisha: Ortega: workout friend, 41% Mortum: business associate, 60% Mia: nice stranger, 46%