#bc i got an arc from a friend

[marsdetective]

9, 14, 20 📖

Thank you for the ask!

9. Did you get into any new genres?

I didn't read anything too far outside my usual, but reading Nicole Chung's All You Could Ever Know and Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died and Janet Mock's Redefining Realness has made me want to read more memoirs. I've read a few here and there throughout the years but a lot more are catching my eye at work so I think I'll try to read a few of those next year!

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Ahhh what a question for someone who has 15 library books checked out rn 😭 I'm reading Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore at the moment so I definitely would like to finish that.

I also have two books left on my self-made challenge and I'm not confident I'll finish both of them but I'd like to at least start. They're Oedipus Rex by Sophocles for my challenge of reading two books about Greek mythology and Surviving Genocide by Jeffrey Ostler for my challenge of reading two books about Native American history in KS. (The latter isn't specifically about the KS area but so many of the books I could find that fit this challenge where 15 years old or more and I wanted something published more recently.)

And I also have Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn and Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir available to pick up at the library and I'm sooo excited to read them but who knows if I'll be able to get to all of those before the new year!

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Hard to pin down just one anticipated release but what I was most excited for was Babel by RF Kuang, I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, and Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers. And they were all SO good. Definitely met my expectations!!

thank you so much for the questions!

[keirientez]

Pokemon trainer AU, Reborn is the champion meanwhile Tsuna is his apprentice. Tsuna’s design belongs to my friend @Cloud_Knee (Twt or X)

[samarecharm]

Ryuji is so anxious in the beginning of the game :( hes so caught up in his head during the kamoshida arc; makes me think hes been like that for awhile, at least until u get a bit further in the game. The rumors, the self loathing, the whole stint w kamoshida; hes got too much on his brain and its kinda nice (and a little sad) that he starts sharing those anxieties and doubts the second hes in a safe space to do so.

[charlieconwayy]

fryleela meme ♥ [2/8 episodes] → season three, episode two "parasites lost"

[texeoghea]

i found my sketchbook guys. returning to my roots

[marc--chilton]

just thinking about how much the episode about the pregnant photographer would fuck house up in omegaverse... i imagine he would still take the same position, the life of the mother is more important than the baby, but i think he would feel just that much more upset, and maybe even a little conflicted on it. in my headcanon he would be pretty far along in the pregnancy when he lost it, and would relate so much to her and refuse to admit it.

like partially he needs to stand firmly on her losing the baby to save her life to cope with the feelings he has around his own miscarriage, ans justify him surviving while his baby didnt in his own mind. but also at the same time, he remembers what its like to lose a baby and be left alone, and that part of him desperately wants to see her suceed, but he tries to drown it out with the logical part of his mind.

but ohhh the part where the baby grabs his finger mid surgery? GOD that would fuck him up. I cant even imagine how much that would take him back to his miscarriage and humanize his lost baby. I feel like that would really be a turning point for him in his choice to try have another pup

HE WOULD he wouldn't compromise his medical opinion in mgv OF COURSE but. but he'd have some personal feelings. that case definitely does the worst thing to him: it brings out the omega in him. to the point it's whispering at him nonstop in the back of his mind. he does his best to ignore the feelings and memories

...... but then the surgery. fuck. it shuts everything else in his head up. his eyes get misty. suddenly realizes the pup he lost, that he tries not to think about and still hasn't processed the loss of after all this time, would be in elementary school. he's on the verge of whining when he catches himself. were scent blockers not mandatory PPE his scent would be tinged with notes of something warm, something sad.

for the first time in a long time, his logical brain and hindbrain are in agreement. she's getting a second chance. i can give myself one too.

[wolvertooth]

ok so im reading wolverine volume 2 to try to get some context for whatever the fucks going on in uncanny. at somepoint, sabretooth starts hunting wolverine more frequently, saying hes his father(which turns out not to be true, dont worry lol). hes been given this belief and nobody can figure out why.

after being given hallucinogenic poison, sabretooth starts to break free from the need to kill and logan starts to remember something…

at first i thought he was trying to say ‘papa’ or something, but then its revealed he was trying to say ‘partner’(uglyyyyyy panel omg)

im not sure if logan remembers them being partners at this point, but he definitely does later. but the thorazine? not ever brought up again(as far as i saw, maybe it is. its hard to find what comics come next in canon since its not contained in a single series, theyre all over the place).

anyway, he then gets xavier and jean to look into his brain, and he finds some memories that dont make sense. (shout out to this bit where creed straight up wants to take him out for a bday date)

(also shout out to whoever put this speech bubble below them LMAO)

logan then goes to the facility in weapon x where the memories were fabricated. in the animated series sabretooth goes too, but i guess he wouldnt need to in the comics since its implied he already has. i think sabretooth found out about it somehow, got captured, and given the new memory of being logans father. this makes sense since after the hallucination thing sobering him up, he drops that belief.

my theory though is that sabretooth got a lot more fucked up by weapon x than logan. i mean, im pretty sure the false memories were all given after they worked together, and they dont seem to have any other reason(outside of using trauma to activate their need to kill) than to make them all want to suddenly turn against eachother. and i think sabretooth specifically was a failsave for if logan ever escaped, to go seek out and kill him.

both big memories(the one with them being partners in suits and the one where silverfox was killed) were based around logans birthday. so thats probably the reason behind sabretooth seeking him out on his birthday every year, being mixed with the ingrained need to kill him, just based on the little amounts of context he has. BUT the reason for him angering logan? for bringing out the animal? for constantly bringing up silverfox? hes trying to get logan to remember. hes trying to help break him from the memory blocks.

and hes trying to break free from his own programming. and its clear that at somepoint, he did. and he just wants logan to be free from it too.

the memory blocks are tied to logans animal side, but even later on when his animal side is finally released by sabretooth, it didnt really do anything for his memory. because at that point logan already remembers, while sabretooth is still under control of it. though, it is mentioned that something in sabretooths brain is unlocked from wolverine stabbing a claw through it? like he became more in control. that his need to kill is now his own choice. so maybe at that point he was just trying to get him to do that(also it kinda sucks that the canon gets passed around to different authors who will just ignore or get rid of established lore, so none of it really sticks for very long and the characters motives keep changing).

its weird though how logan remembers, yet still keeps trying to fight him. he knows its all fake, but still keeps the same opinion….basically sabretooths stuck with a partner whos forced by the narrative to never like him no matter what he does, while being equally doomed by the narrative to never be able to change. no matter how many times they break the spell, as long as the plot keeps going, theyll always be reset to their basic character traits. #peak romantic tragedy.

[no1ryomafan]

I have said this before but me being self proclaimed number 1 Ryoma fan and that being possibly literal-bc even if this bro had fans before me I might’ve simply done the most for him by talking about him so much + being the first to write fics that are in depth studies on his trauma across canons-I gotta say if there’s one other character I rotate a lot that isn’t him it’s probably Kei. (Shocking it’s not Hayato even if I do think about him too- but it’s usually associated with Ryoma bc gays 🗿)

I’m not even exaggerating when I say Kei would be my favorite and only isn’t because she doesn’t exist in many other canons yet my brain rotates the endless possibilities of how to incorporate her. I’ve already written a fic where she’s in shin vs neo verse which worked surprisingly well but I’ve been thinking how universally she could appear in other things. (Whether it be fitting her into a idea of a possible Go team in New or just a new canon completely) I think what I’ve narrow it down to is that she could be like- in Michirus role? Like she’s the supporting female who isn’t a pilot but helps out the real occasionally which I think would align very well especially with the original manga role she has of being Hayato’s assistant. And even if Hayato isn’t grandpa mode yet he still very much is in Saotomes position at that point. Not sure if she’d Hayato’s biological kid to further parallel Saotome and Michiru given well Hayato already adopts the Go team and his wife is irrelevant LOL.

I have no idea if I’ll ever write this specific idea but I’m still- rotating it cause this is such a easy way to get around “picking between Sho or Kei as the 2nd pilot” since both of them can still exist even if one doesn’t get to pilot, idm my supporting females. (Granted there could always be like- plot line where Sho gets hurt so Kei is temporary pilot but I can’t remember if Getter ever really did this since “once your hurt your ass is basically replaced” lol)

[cleromancy]

dick stans who feel threatened by like. literally any other dc character than bruce are so goofy like... you dont need to. i promise you dont need to. youre biting your nails anxious defensive staring at the 2nd-3rd horses lagging halfway down the track in a race your guy's *already won*. like please be serious

[wander-wren]

i havent actually looked at any s3 shadow and bone bits that have been dropped purely because, despite the fandom at large hurting my relationship with the show, i still have Too Much feelings about it

you know, where you like something So Much that you physically can’t look at it? it’s like the same but opposite of being too scared to peek at…i don’t know, a spider or whatever you’re afraid of. i really Want to see the s3 stuff bc ahhhhhh the reactions i have seen floating by seem really promising, but…it is Too Much

[milfygerard]

was gonna make some vague post like "coming back to tumblr and remembering immediately why i took a break" but that makes it sound like im encountering drama when the case is just that this website is. so overwhelming

[britneyshakespeare]

i have to be honest. when ppl bring up how old jason earles was when he played jackson in hannah montana. i do agree it's a little weird but it's strange when ppl adopt the language of it being, like, somehow creepy. he played a high schooler in his late 20s-early 30s. it's not like ppl don't do that on the cw.

[rosenbergamot]

has anyone done a life series timeloop au. just any of the life series. im cooking up a secret life one but i also want to read some….. is there anybody out there cooking as well….. im shaking the bars of my enclosure!!!

[vaugarde]

ngl i actually quite like the black rose arc

[magentagalaxies]

the number of times i have cried over an old man in the past twenty four hours is not FAIR (/lighthearted but also this is definitely because i'm so stressed)

[deus-and-the-machina]

xenoblade 1 is interesting because when I first played it I had really mixed feelings. mostly I think because it had been slightly overhyped for me. there were so many videos with masterpiece in the description and people saying it was their favorite.

there was a lot that first turned me off during the story (namely the way it handled its female characters made me frustrated at multiple points) and also how they handled the revenge arc because I have very very specific taste in revenge arcs and I just dont think it landed for me. 

I think I appreciate it a lot more now that im fully deep into the series. I do like a lot about it, from its gameplay to its environment to a lot of the little cast interactions, to just shulk existing. yeah. yeah its alright