#I need to keep reading my book!

[spw-art]

Imagine being Jorge. Dear lord. Scary.

[benevolenterrancy]

I'm on chpt20 and I want to study SQQ like a bug. My man is flushed, hair down, robes literally falling off his shoulders, LBH on his lap playing with his hair and kissing him... and he finally cottons on to the fact that maybe this isn't how you have a platonic and important discussion. Enforces it for all of five seconds at which point LBH starts massaging his waist and SQQ is back to being like "yeah this is fine and normal". Amazing. Can't believe he insults the IQ of SQH's characters.

[gaytobymeres]

My essentials for a solo day out

[idontmindifuforgetme]

i think i really need to learn how to cold quit things... one habit i have that really bothers me is checking my phone first thing in the morning bc it's "just for 5 minutes" "just to see if anyone sent me anything important" no bitch literally nothing on your phone requires you to check your phone first thing when you open your eyes!!! stop it

[xxplastic-cubexx]

charles saying a total of Four Words and storm immediately assuming he's gonna read travis' mind has me in stitches im ngl

[Storm (2023) #2: "Punked"]

[gremlinshipper]

Just read a truly adorable book (Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy) and loved how it ended but knew the sequel would be good esp with the world building and the main pair only halfway on their enemies to ???? journey - only to discover that the book came out THIS MONTH and there's not even a hint of when the sequel will come out.

[odo-apologist]

Finally finished up the last bit of Better than Life and I'm doing great

[myokk]

Some sketches of Eloise…not sure if I uploaded all of these💓💓💓

1 & 6: Eloise with her hair down🥹 she barely ever wears it down bc she HATES her unruly hair but…I personally LOVE drawing it. (It’s also extremely scandalous in Victorian times to have your hair down…I imagine wizarding society is more accepting but Eloise spent 5 years living as a proper muggle lady and could NEVER😳

The rest of the drawings are just random sketches that were for asks or don’t deserve their own post bahahahahahahahah💓💓💓 the penultimate was one of my first drawings of her though…I want to redo it!!

[the---hermit]

27|01|2025

I worked in the morining, but despite feeling very sleepy I did a lot of reading in the afternoon. I finished Powers Of Darkness, the lost Icelandic translation of Dracula, which was very very cool. It was super interesting to read this unexpected version of one of my favourite classics. I also continued working my way through a nonfic book I have been reading on and off for the past couple of weeks. At the moment I am craving fiction books, but basically everything on my physical tbr is either a classic or non fiction, and I am not sure I have the baincells to focus on a big classic at the moment. But I also have in my plans to visit one of my favourite bookshops on the weekend since it recently got a new bigger location, so I need to find a satifying fiction book to fill my need for fiction during the week. I might borrow something from my parent's bookshelves.

[thursdaymoonrise11]

Modern AU: Hogwarts Legacy

Two seconds earlier...

A chance meeting in a bookshop📖✨

I really just wanted to draw Sebastian and Phoebe as if they were both living in North East London and are the most INSUFFERABLE, sustainable, soft boy/girl versions of themselves lol (and that isn't complete without the secret history, sally rooney and THOSE tote bags)

I had to really fight giving Seb a moustache

(and because everyone and their uncle is reading intermezzo atm)

[benevolenterrancy]

Finally got Fish Book 3 out from the library (and 4 on its way!), at last I will be experiencing Real Pregnant Li Yu for myself! After being there for your experience of it finally it's my turn xD You said a bit back you like getting drawing prompts, could I suggest flustered just-realized-his-fish-is-a-cute-boy Prince Jing? He gained confidence quickly but that period where he was embarrassed about things like petting his fish because if his fish is a person petting his tail is like touching his butt was very funny and very cute 💖 He's such a dork <3

hey, prince jing, what exactly are you touching there? 🤨

[pergaminaa]

Manon saw herself in some of the other characters and I believe this is why she was instantly on their side. Because out of everyone, she saw the real ones trapped inside.

Elide: in Morath, she was no more than a crippled maid, literally chained up and bound in servitude. Manon was the only one who saw her for who she is: first as an asset, then later on as a friend/kin.

Dorian: like Elide, he was bound by a collar and possessed by valg. Again, Manon was the only one who ‘saw’ and connected with the real Dorian (hence her message to Aelin). Again, not even his friends saw that he could be saved, but Manon did. She knew he was still inside, still fighting and it’s why she aided in bringing him back from the valg’s control.

Abraxos: The small chained and beaten wyvern. The bait that was merely there for show. Manon was the only witch who even considered him as a potential companion because everyone was going for the biggest and strongest beast. But not her. She saw a fierce fighter in Abraxos, one she knew was there and she put her trust in.

All these three were equally abused and bound, for the whole world to see. She is just the same however her abuse and ‘chains’ are invisible and no one could see them. It is the reason why she instantly knew what was up with all three. They were a reflection of herself. While she knew no one would rescue her, she rescued all three because she knows what it’s like. She knows what it feels like.

What her grandmother does to her is always done in private, so no one really knows the extent of that abuse. Besides, the matron would not hesitate to kill anyone who tries anything so that’s that. Manon knows that there is no saving her. Which is why, it’s best to try and do as her grandmother wants even if she personally doesn’t agree with it. In Queen of Shadows, Manon spent the whole time trying not to agree to that madness but she couldn’t do much because she kept thinking of her grandmother’s reaction if she knew that she’s defying orders. She literally told Sorrel that she can only ‘tug on the leash’ like— she literally felt that she was in chains having no other option but to obey her grandmother’s absurd orders. She knows what the price would be, the lives of her coven is at stake and she will do whatever she can to ensure they are safe from her grandmother.

Which brings me to Kingdom of Ash because it was Asterin who saw Manon’s invisible chains all along. Her decision was to free Manon, to allow her to finally live free and without fear. Her line ‘live, Manon,’ was not only literal but figurative as well. She knows that her cousin is drowning, she never did anything for herself; having lived her life trying to appease her grandmother while keeping her coven safe. She never expressed her own opinions or needs and Asterin decided that it will all end now. Aelin promised them a better world, she she will start by ensuing that Manon can live for herself without fear or looming abuse. Asterin was going to break the ‘chains’ shackled around Manon and giving her the same freedom she gave to Elide, Dorian and Abraxos.

And it is why she has formed deep connections with those three despite meeting them later on in her life. It’s some kind of a soul/spiritual bond that only they can feel because they have all experienced the same thing.

[ardently-verdandi]

i love reading fan fiction

[jkags-doodles]

The fact that Meghan proclaimed Robbie Goodfell her best and only friend gives me the HC that Puck was, by extension, super close with the Chase family. They slept on their couch, gardened with Melissa, babysat Ethan (and taught him every swear in English and French by age 3), and probably cut a deal with Floppy to make sure Ethan had someone looking out for him, since he didn't have the protection of "the summer king will fuck you up" that Meghan and Melissa did. Melissa loves them. Luke habitually forgets they exist and is jumpscared by this random person in his house at 4:00 in the morning making breakfast.

Melissa also has beef with Robbie's parents. Robbie does not have parents because Robbie is a fake person, but this will not stop Melissa from hearing 12-year-old Robbie say their parents are out of town AGAIN and thinking "I need to shoot their folks with a gun".

[zorosdimples]

i think many writers (myself included) get stuck in the “free time must be writing time otherwise it’s wasted” mindset. but how often do you sit down to write, stare at the screen, and call it a day? or claim you’re writing while you’re actually just screwing around doing other things? we forget that a fundamental element of writing is simply reading. you can’t improve your craft if you refuse—willingly or not—to witness what others are doing. instead of bashing ourselves for not being productive or inspired, we should be enjoying great novels, poetry, essay collections, memoirs, and the like. a “good” writer doesn’t have to be writing all the time or even most of the time; a “good” writer should recognize the limits to their creativity and find joy in that which inspired them to write in the first place: reading.

[crazyfortheclassics]

I think its really funny that Rizal made accidental yaoi because its through that Im assuming most of us gained a new found appreciation in Rizal, the Philippines, the Filipino language or other stuff relating to our culture