please talk about your fuckass book you just finished <3
ok yay :) i literally neeeeeed to talk about it in relation to other books i’ve read recently so that’s what i’m gonna do here i heart making every book a conversation with each other… so you’ll all have to forgive me for comparing call me by your name to the dream thieves of raven cycle fame but i need to. its a comparison that literally begs to be spoken about. to me. i also need to compare it to the secret history and the sun and the star and most importantly. well we all saw the timeless video. we need to get into that as well!!
obviously what sets it apart from all of my genre bullshit is that it is NOT genre bullshit, like it's just set in italy 1983 in the normal universe. which made it one of the most unique books i've read this year to be honest and real.... i have NOT been reading normal ass books... earlier i compared elio's narration to the great gatsby but i literally have just only read very few real world narrative novels i've got gatsby, richard, and this i guess. i'm working on it though!
anyway it was veryyy richard core in the sense that it's being narrated from some point in the future where elio is reflecting on that summer and oliver and what it meant to his life at large, where richard does the same thing with narrating his time at college with his greek class and bunny's murder. reflecting on two very different things unless you wanna look at it with the keen eye of a total nutcase and then i could say that they're both simply reflecting on what it was like to be seen and known by someone who turned out to not be what you hoped and you didn't end up with him despite it all. richard papen you would have loveddd call me by your name... wow. elio pearlman you would have loved the secret history...
it was ALSO very the dream thieves core in the sense that um. well me when i'm gay and having kind of a hard time working with that and there's a guy who's just like me in a bad way who wants to fuck me so bad we both look stupid as hell... but through it all there is the through line of intimacy that comes from being Recognized… rip joseph kavinsky you would have LOVED call me by your name!!!!!!!!!!! (would ronan lynch love cmbyn? well no!)
i ALSO only wanted to talk about it in relation to the sun and the star because they’re both like. ok Gay Representation is not a genre but they’re both books about gay people that i read recently so like. yeah. it’s crazy how glaring the difference between those two books is for things that both get tagged “lgbtq+” on storygraph or however many of those letters that website uses idk. like one of them is clearly written so some dude could pat himself on the back for giving the kiddos Representation in his stupid ass franchise and the other is just some fuckass book written by a totalllll freak that happens to be about gay people. in essence one made me so mad to read and the other was fine. i would never go so far as to describe a man’s work as great though. chappell roan voice i don’t think men make good art. !!! and i really believe that sorry. when a man impresses me i will let you all know but it is very rare…
which brings us to the timeless video. for everyone who somehow missed that that means (you’re fake btw 🙄) the timeless video is an amv i made last summer when i wanted to make an amv for my guys from my books but obviously they’re from books. so what i did instead was gather a bunch of characters from movies and shows that reminded me of MY guys and edit them to taylor swift’s timeless. because it’s like. other lives and i see them in everything. anyway so elio and oliver made it into the timeless video despite all the sort of mean stuff i’ve said about oliver lately (not even my fault he fuckin sucks btw) and the fact that their relationship is not like. Endgame. BECAUSE of my favorite scene. from the movie not the book. this scene was lame as hell in the book it’s the part that made me go wow i think perhaps the film is much better!! the “is it better to speak or to die” scene… i talked about it earlier but genuinely that happened to my buddy kit herondale…. and then he said something and it didn’t go very well!!!!
anyway. yay i <3 blogging on my break at work!
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Eta on the YouTube video? No rush, just exchange
im gonna be honest man please do not count on me here lmao. my follow through rate for these projects is like 5%. real ones remember gourdquest and other related failed projects i came close to the sun on. if i succeed it will be huge for me on a genuine personal level and it will be the first time i've finished a creative project at all in years but if i do not. neither you nor me should be surprised
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omg this blog just reached 1000 followers!!!! thank you all so much for being here and deeming this blog worthy enough to follow :,) your contribution to this space is so so so appreciated & has genuinely made my life so much brighter <33
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Start the morning reviewing kanji I often forget. Get frustrated because I just cannot remember 福(ふく=blessing, fortune, luck, health) and there's only one word on my N3 vocab list containing that kanji. "Why do I even have to learn this for N3 when there's only one word with it anyway?" I grumble. "I've never even seen the word 幸福 used in context!"
Watch Kiriko's Crime Diary and she sees a display of strawberry daifuku in the supermarket underneath the sign: いちご大福, which she reads aloud. Suddenly I have no trouble remembering the kanji or the meaning.
And this is why we do fun things that are meaningful to us personally when we learn a language and don't just look at word lists/flash cards!
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Ben: We’re best friends, of course you guys use me as a personal pillow.
Eddie: We’re best friends, I scold you becuase I care.
Beverly: We’re best friends, I will be forcing you to let me style you at least once.
Stan: We’re best friends, the only person allowed to be mean to any of you is me. I’ll actually kill someone who looks at you the wrong way though.
Mike: We’re best friends, I have a whole album in my phone of photos of you guys.
Richie: We’re best friends, I’m going to give you an annoying nickname.
Bill: Yeah! We’re best friends, of course I’ve a had a sex dreams about all of you.
The Losers: …
Bill: …Did I say something wrong?
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are there any boundaries when it comes to drawing Thierry? Asking for a friend :)
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ok i realize I should have specified this LONG ago but;
if you're drawing ship fanart involving thierry that is NOT goreguts, PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THIS RING!
it is his wedding ring & goreguts EXCLUSIVE!
you can replace this with a plain gold band, leave the finger bare, put a ring pop there, whatever you like! just be sure to check you're not adding the arrow ring in the image UNLESS it's a goreguts piece! thank you!
ok that was probably the most important note beyond standard boundaries;
THOSE BEING!
don't draw him promoting violent hatespeech ( or hatespeech that isn't ironic & silly period ), don't involve him in pr0shippy / ped0phillic / incestual - such & such content obviously, umm... try not to portray him TOO cruelly ( his morality is all over the place but i don't want to see him being a genuine vile pos you know what i mean? ) & YEAH!
here's another post that elaborates on a few more boundaries regarding thierry PERIOD, but i think you get the idea!
feel free to ask if you're not sure!
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