#Massive library

[ithinkilostitalr]

Library Heaven

[makingqueerhistory]

I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco     

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright    

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley   

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico        

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages             

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom          

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow              

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower            

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam   

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon 

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume      

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman 

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun     

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt    

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman    

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist           

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi             

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed      

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

[enter-the-phantom]

RIP Z-Library

[agender-witchery]

Canto IV was really good

Project Moon does a cool thing that I really like with their stories, which in theory isn't really anything special, but I see so few stories do this that it really does single Project Moon out in my mind.

Each Project Moon game is in a dialogue with itself, having a discussion about politics and philosophy and society in general. They universally present the status quo as Not Great which is... evident for anyone living in the real world, but importantly to me, they do not present any proper answers to this.

This isn't to say that Project Moon stories are fence sitting nonsense that call for the importance of meeting in the middle, that's your own decision on whether you think that's worthwhile. And Project Moon DOES express opinions in the world they have created, so they're not cowards in that sense either. It's pretty clear, at least to me, that they believe things in our world do have to change, that the vision of capitalism that exists in the City is horrendous, and that we in the real world are on a clear trajectory toward the world of the City if action is not taken.

However, the way they frame the two opposing sides of each argument they present is important. And key to that framing is that in every game you play antisocial, morally dubious murderers. This is a constant. The people you're fighting aren't the good guys, but hey, neither are you.

In Ruina, when it comes down to the final confrontation with the Reverberation Ensemble, you are presented with two opposing ideals. Carmen and the Ensemble would love nothing more than to see the world torn down in its entirety, built back up in their own imagining of an ideal society. The Librarians, on the other hand, are there to fight against that notion, that the world they have as it is can be changed.

And while I definitely fall on the side of "maybe there's hope to be had in this dying, hellish apocalypse" I do GET where the Ensemble is coming from. I GET what Carmen's trying to do. It's a naive and childish attempt at creating a better world from the ashes of the old, an idea whose inevitable result is tyranny, but to someone who's already experiencing tyranny, tyranny but this time you're on top seems appealing. And I also understand that, for the Librarians, even if the ultimate goal here is to create a better society without that sort of tyranny, well you're kind of murdering people to achieve that.

And I think all this plays into why I enjoyed Canto IV so much. First off, the main conflict in Canto IV isn't between Limbus Company and another group, it's the conflict between K Corp and the Technology Liberation Alliance, which can be further distilled down to the conflict between Dongrang and Dongbaek.

In the case of K Corp, they're a bunch of utilitarians, people who say that even torture is acceptable if it leads to lives saved. And they quite literally do this, torturing the Tearful Thing in literally every possible way, just to produce the tears needed for regeneration ampules, forcing it to cry for the sake of others. Dongbaek doesn't even fully refute that this might be useful, but she does assert that if you're going to go to these lengths, there better be a foreseeable end to it, you better be curing EVERYONE.

And then we have the TLA, a bunch of anprims who aren't exactly wrong in the assertion that the way technology is used within the City causes immeasurable harm, but do come to the wrong conclusion that ALL tech needs to be incinerated. And, for them to come against K Corp specifically is significant, because sure, K Corp literally tortures people to produce their ampules, but the results are tangible. Lives are, in fact, saved, even if we discount the K Corp Security that will cut their own limbs off just to get healed.

And where Canto IV manages to stop saying "both sides bad" is in bringing Limbus Company back into the equation. A third party, who doesn't adhere to the ideals of either side.

Does Limbus Company have perfect answers to resolve this conflict? No, you're still a bunch of murderers. But they do present a third perspective, that instead of looking only at total harm done and coming to the conclusion that torture is acceptable, and instead of looking at all the injustices caused and coming to the conclusion that the entire world needs to be reset, through exploring the fathoms of Yi Sang's EGO, we can come to consider the possibility of caring for the individual. That yes, this world is fucked up and living in it can itself be considered a crime against humanity, but that doesn't mean you can't help someone in a way that doesn't hurt someone else. Yi Sang went from being horribly depressed with nothing in this world, someone who desperately wanted to die and couldn't even be afforded that mercy, to someone who finally smiled. The world is still fucked up, and we don't really have a solution to that, but we at least made it a little bit brighter for one person, and in the future, we can keep doing that.

And also? Canto IV introduced Alfonso so really it's just the best chapter.

[caninemotiff]

CANINEMOTIFF: A WRITEBLR INTRODUCTION

All wander toward death eventually, but only fools and wayfinders run toward it. (Nine Hells Wip)

This will be a place for me to post snippets and edits about my wips and characters, maybe even links to chapters if I'm feeling bold. I'm a serial procrastinator and daydreamer, so I'm hoping this writeblr will hold me accountable for the wips I've discussed here rather than chasing the rabbit down new wip ideas and abandoning my old ones. My wips are all reworkings of wips I've previously introduced for that reason, as I'm determined to finish something this year.

Anyway I'm glad to be back and I'm excited to see what everyone else has on the table as well!

ABOUT ME

You can call my H.P. King, I'm 24, middle child and I grew up in the mountains but now I live by the sea. I have a preoccupation with dog poetry and art.

ABOUT MY WIPS

intros coming soon!

NINE HELLS WIP

NA Portal Fantasy / Queer / Dark Academia

Taglist: @stormharbors / @ladywithalamp / @wildswrites / @darkgazer / @muddshadow / @ghostschemes / @lockejhaven / @moariin / @myriadwriter

ONE FOR SORROW WIP

YA Modern(ish) Fantasy / Queer / Small Town Gothic

Taglist: @cozyprompts / @writeouswriter / @stuffaboutwriting / @cream-and-tea / @moariin / @myriadwriter / @stormharbors / @ladywithalamp / @philocalizt / @wildswrites / @darkgazer / @muddshadow / @ghostschemes / @lockejhaven / @froggywriter / @nightjarz / @funerals-weddings-and-balls / @5targrrl / @reneesbooks / @serenanymph

SOLDIER, POET, KING WIP

NA Fantasy / Queer / Fairytale Vibes

Taglist: @moariin / @myriadwriter / @borisyvain

BLOOM WIP

NA Dystopian Fantasy / Queer / Hopeful Apocalypse

Taglist: @cream-and-tea / @treesandwords / @cozyprompts / @uppoffringar / @the-orangeauthor / @achilleid / @corpsepng / @moariin / @myriadwriter

THE WANDERING LIBRARY WIP

YA Low Fantasy / Queer / Ghibli Inspired

Taglist: @moariin / @myriadwriter

[ishcliff]

i always love talking about roland and ayin as parallels to each other, especially in the ways they're different. some of these ways are, imo, Extremely Fucking Funny.

the thing with ayin is that at the very least, he was doing what carmen asked him to do. granted, his cruelty with angela wasn't necessarily something carmen foresaw. and on top of that, ayin's insistence that he be the one to help the sephirot through the trauma he caused them (despite angela's attempts being completely successful to the point of prompting a restart) added an almost unnecessary amount of time to the entire process. but at his core, he did these things because she asked him to in the event either something happened to her or if she otherwise started backing out. it can be argued that this is a layer of conflict for him, especially when the sephirot had a similar devotion for her.

roland, however, doesn't have even that going for him. in fact, his wife quite literally saw roland's reaction to her hypothetical death coming and even had a conversation before she died. like... "hey, so if anything happens to me, please don't go insane and start a killing rampage to destroy innocent people. please just try to move on and live your life." and like... roland remembers this conversation. he just kind of completely disregards her wishes and does the exact thing she knew he was at risk of doing. he's just like "mmm, nah, and also i'm gonna do all of this specifically in/with your name."

like. if you're out here doing something worse than how ayin of all people did it, i'm sorry but that's objectively just hilarious. roland is one of the most unfortunately comedic characters for me. there's just no redeeming his actions whatsoever and he's out here judging hokma because he thinks hokma's nuanced take on ayin is unacceptable. like... even argalia is fighting for something with a tangible goal in mind. i love this absolute mess of a failure.

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 08 - Fav. (Side) Job

When she's not running around as Ninja or Summoner , Arsay's next choice is the lance. Being bestowed a source of draconic power by Midgardsormr moments before his slumber, and knowing how to channel the powers of Bahamut with dreadwyrm trance, Arsay's power as a Dragoon rivals that of even the former Azure Dragoon. With that said, she'd much rather use her polearm to hunt monsters.

[kasinonightlife]

Eddie: Ok, so, nickname for Nancy, what are we thinking? Personally, I'm leaning towards "Ripley". Badass, fierce, and a good soul. Yeah?

Steve: Come on man, it's gotta be "Hotshot".

Nancy: Really? The best you could come up with is "Hotshot"?

Steve: It's accurate! You're an attractive woman and your aim with a gun is amazing!

Robin: I'd call her "Mommy".

Eddie, Steve, and Nancy: *All slowly turn towards Robin*

Robin: *Hit with realisation* Oh... I said that out loud... Didn't I?

Nancy: *With THOSE dom eyes* Oh yeah you did.

[r0b0t1me]

rough concept art for the hidden city post invasion.. a barren wasteland picked clean..

[violent138]

I haven't seen it anywhere, but I really want to see a fic where the Batkids/batfam pull an all-nighter together planning something? As you can tell, this is heavily vibes over the plot, I'm more interested in them keeping each other awake, dressed half in gear, half in comfy clothes, snapping a little, brainstorming and working together to try to break in somewhere/figure something out/fight some shared enemy.

One of them needs to be injured enough to get to boss the others around/kind of beg for snacks and sustenance, balancing a battered laptop on a leg cast, while the others can be in a various state of disarray, having freshly lost/been bested by their enemy.

[rohirric-hunter]

I miss Overdrive sooooo much. It was so great to have a library app that didn't crash randomly, was easy to navigate, allowed you to customize the UI, remembered where you were in your book, had decent sound quality for audiobooks, had notifications that worked, and so many other things that they just didn't bother to build into the replacement app.

[yumaisbored]

so if i joined the Magnus Institute i could get paid to do nothing but read all day because i’m eldrich-horror-bound not to quit or get fired? idk that sounds easily worth the lack of safety and i’m already paranoid—sign me up tf

[oofuri2003]

[bonefall]

you don't have to answer this ask, cause it isn't really an ask i just have to say right now as i find out with the better bones au is i am so freaking excited, like i havent even started reading stuff yet and this is just so cool, its like the jittery cant stop smiling excitement. yeah thats it, this is really cool

I need to make it all more accessible for newcomers AUGH!!

For now I hope the history lesson and all the links in it can provide a good time! But LORD I really need to get the fragment bin done for everyone

[soranker]

What’s the biggest emotional gut punch you’ve ever gotten from a show?

AHH i wish i had a good answer for this but i havent watched a lot of shows lately and im wracking my brain to remember if i had a strong reaction like that to anything i've watched in the past... ive def watched sad stuff that hit me in the heart but not enough to feel like a gut punch......

BAHA ok this gonna sound predictable but fr when i got to the end of volume 10 of trigun maximum i stopped reading for a couple of days LMFAOO T_T maybe even a week. i just reread that same chapter over and over again for a while lol

[legolasghosty]

🐑 Alternate Universe- Magic, Mutual Pining, Demonic possession, Furbies

Oh dear...

Alex is attending one of the most prestigious magic academies in the country, on the orders of his parents of course. Even though Laiz Fier Academy reviles even the name of the only type of magic he's ever been good at. His parents swore he'd find another specialty here, and he'd let himself believe them, like the idiot he is. He's scraping by in classes. Barely. At least he's managed to make a couple of friends and figure out how to sneak into the library stacks to find books that will actually help him hone his skills.

However, Alex realizes now there's a reason why it's not recommended to do your first summoning alone. Because, while he does manage to summon a demon, it doesn't exactly end up in the silvery urn he'd laid in the center of the pentagram.

So now he has a talking, demonic Furby to hide. One that, despite its too-wide eyes and disconcertingly smooth voice, Alex thinks he might be developing feelings for.

(Fake fic ask game!)