#basically good books imo

[iliyanaofcasimir]

hewwo besties The Ranger of Marzanna, The Queen of Izmoroz, and The Wizard of Eventide made up the very swag Goddess War trilogy which I am now recommending 👉👈

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Batman Annual #25

Before Talia took him in, before he was dunked in the pit to have his memories restored, even when operating purely on survival instinct, he always split a meal with the other homeless people. It may not have been essential to his survival, but caring about and helping other people when he couldn’t even help himself was just always such an intrinsic part of Jason’s core.

[winepresswrath]

I think I would need to reread the first book to really commit to this opinion but imo some of the horror of book!claudia is that she really is a terribly inhuman monster. she was a vampire child, so she never learned to be human. she was a vampire child so she'll never grow up and fulfill that potential. companionship is a necessity for her because she can't look after herself and that makes her bitter and disdainful of people who want love for its own sake, especially in the context of Louis and Lestat, who damned her to her current state to fulfill their own emotional needs. it's a stark contrast to show Claudia, who yes, is a vicious mass murdering vampire and has fun with it, but is otherwise a lonely woman who craves companionship and understanding because she's a person. Her beef with Louis is still about his failure to prioritize her and his assorted bad idea relationship choices but the undertones are so different and I really feel like the tragedy is that he didn't put her first and not that he could never have made her happy no matter what he chose.

[silvery-stars]

would it be sacrilege of me to say that i am kinda hashtag Underwhelmed by the percy jackson show

[lucy-ghoul]

wow, mockingjay was. much more violent and gory than i remembered

[luthwhore]

waiting for superman: lost to wrap so i can decide whether to add it to my lex reading recs list, considering it’s a standalone and out of continuity and i’ve had somewhat mixed feelings on it thus far.

ironically though aside from the one line that made me cringe, lex has been one of the parts i least take issue with. i am not sure i agree with the writer’s take on lois, and in general the way the women are written feels… slightly off? i especially hate the conversation between diana and lois bc it did not feel in character for either of them and i feel like it does a major disservice to diana’s character to use her as The Other Woman™️ in clois drama.

[vakta]

i read 80 pages today SLAYY

[cld-n]

I hope this is not weird question to ask but how were you able to take a step back from harry and not be as immersed in like in him or the fandom?

nah it's not weird but i don't know if you'll like the answer cos i just really like other artists and there are so much more cool things to be interested in that aren't tied to or revolve around harry.

i understand for a lot of people in the fandom, like with their love for music, harry + his music takes up a signifcant part of that world for them and that's cool, just his music + his artistry isn't like that for me like it's cos i love music that i like harry and not the other way around yk? (plus it got annoying to see content around him across all of my socials so i unfollowed him on ig and twt idk i have a thing against content homogeneity (?) and echo chambers)

also rhetorically, the fandom has this culty notion around how important it is as his fan to obsessively consume his content immediately and excessively and like, the dude has a million fans i don't think he'd be cut if i didn't feel as obligated to want to watch his videos, listen to his music, buy a ticket to his concert, etc.

[lipstickontheglass1985]

re prev post also rereading the hunger games made me truly wish it had gotten a tv show adaptation instead of the movie one..... i think there was a post on here that discussed how suzanne collins was involved in writing tv screenplays and she translated some of that tv storytelling into her books in terms of pacing and setting up tension as a way to also reflect the hunger games' reality tv format and i truly couldnt agree more. i do think that its not the kind of story that translates well to a big budget screen adaptation, regardless of if its for cinemas or for tv, but still a show could have done a significantly better justice to it i believe

[im-still-a-robot]

House of leaves really did alter my brain's code. I didn't really believe yall for a while.

[gideonisms]

the first book was such a well drawn portrayal of grief & the struggle to feel like a real person & the way empires consume cultures & it avoided consequentialism while still exploring the impact of a single action and it was SO gripping & interesting and then the second book was mostly. Problems Activists Have. And that was by far the best most well-observed bit of the book bc the character development was thin on the ground for all of the new characters it introduced and with a couple of exceptions the emotional moments were kind of clunky in a way they weren't in the first book. I was still invested the whole time though, and I'm hoping the next one manages to tie the politics and the arcs of the characters together in a more satisfying way

[urlocalqueer]

okay. finished good omens season two. the plot was all over the place in my opinion, however, i still had a good time watching it, the actors in this are incredible. season one is better in my opinion but season two has it's charm.

[gloriousmonsters]

sorrowland is kind of a funny book bc on one hand it’s very obviously a power fantasy about mutating into a cool monster and killing bad guys but the author is like. self aware about it just enough that we keep on hitting the pause button to be like ‘hey guys so... i know we just popped a woman’s head off like a cork and defended against a hail of bullets with cool bone wings so we can then absolutely slaughter some soldiers..... but Violence Is Bad. Addiction To Power Is Bad. I mean yes we’re still killing these people and not trying to like communicate with them at all but it’s ok we put a little sign up saying Don’t Do This Cool Thing, It’s Not That Fulfilling Actually, so it’s fine right? right. ok back to the protagonist murdering the shit out of people with magic fungi powers’

[libraryleopard]

Adult horror/science fiction/urban fantasy (?) novel about Dawit, a 500-year-old man from Ethiopia who was inducted into an all-male cult of immortality

When he marries and has a child with a human woman in 90s America, he contemplates breaking his brotherhood’s covenant of secrecy to tell his wife the truth about his unnaturally long life

Suspenseful modern-day storyline with flashbacks throughout Dawit’s life 

Nuanced characters and an interesting exploration of what it means to navigate immortality as a Black man

Ethiopian main character & African American main character

Spoiler below the cut

Didn’t love the novel’s treatment of it’s only gay character, though (he gets violently murdered early on)

[loveydive]

finished house of leaves. and girls, i wont lie. i did not understand that book at all.

[reanimatedgh0ul]

trying to nail down eli's character rn (aka my fanon version of danielle)

so here are some characters i can see her taking after