#didn't finish the book yet

[owlinatree]

[hedgehog-moss]

My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hanguang-jun...

lan wangji in ace attorney!! turn on sound 🔊 / traced over edgeworth's sprites :) more info below the cut ↓

also including a bonus Happy Wangji that i couldn't fit into the video!

his share code is YCNKBA! the music used is Recollection -- Light and Shadow of the Film Studio. I thought it had a nice, contemplative feel, between Suspense, which was too intense for the scene, and Heartbroken Maya, which was too sad. the wwx/jc/lwj reunion scene is truly sososo interesting in every adaptation.

→ masterpost here! ←

[fictionadventurer]

Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book

[agentscamander-romanoff]

Almost all of Star Wars protagonist didn't have normal childhood and grew up earlier than they should have.

Anakin was a slave and later was brought up to the Jedi Order. He left his mother,even though he would prefer not to.

Ahsoka was fighting the whole WAR,when she was 14.

Ezra's parents were taken away from him and he had to live on the streets.

Din's parents were killed by droids'army.

Grogu had to witness Order 66.

Boba's father was killed in front of him and he started to work ,so that he would survive.

Rey was left on the desert planet,hoping that her parents would come back,working all day,so she wouldn't die from hunger.

Jyn witnessed her mother's death and then became a child soldier.

The only protagonist,who had quiet "normal' childhood were Kazuda,Luke and Leia,but Leia and Kaz were kids of senators and I think had a lot of pressure,because of it(Also Leia was kidnapped),so Luke was almost only one who had normal childhood(except Reeva incident)

All this protagonist were just kids with stolen childhood.

[sharpstake]

this WILL be the read I finally finish the bloodbound series but man. fascinated by the ways in which kamilah and adrien offload a fair chunk of responsibility for the people they were and the suffering they enacted as primarily the influence of gaius. "he was so charismatic I submitted myself to his will and harried his enemies" okay. or did the roles Gaius neatly slot you into allow you to grasp at a sense of control and power you felt slipping away in your life in the moment he found you (and in some cases, fascilitated). what wider circumstances made slipping into these roles of conditional power that much easier, beyond the fear he commanded and the power he wielded.

[snek-panini]

Today is a day for books. Or one book, anyway. This is Close to Home, So Far Away, a Good Omens fic by Mercury Starlight. It's a memory loss/alteration fic with a lot of angst (for real, mind the tags if you decide to give this one a try) but oh my gosh, it's wonderful. Tasty tasty angst. It is unfinished but don't let that deter you, the biggest angstiest plotline is resolved enough to be satisfying. The last update was in 2021, so it's a pre-season 2 kind of angst instead of the new canon flavor.

I love the way the cover came out on this one. It's gold HTV on dark green book cloth and I'm in love with the simplicity. It reminds me of the very pretty books I find in used book stores sometimes, that have enchanting covers but are often either impenetrable to read, very fragile, or out of my budget. But this one is none of those things, it's exactly as compelling as its cover makes it seem. There were originally supposed to be more gold swirly bits in the corners but I made the lines too thin and my cricut ate them. I thought about re-cutting them but I liked the way it looked without them so much I just left them off.

More pics under the cut!

This is a coptic binding, which is my preferred style for unfinished fics. The spine has no covering and no glue, so technically if the author decides to update it again I can cut the stitching, add more pages, and re-stitch for an updated book without having to make an entirely new one. The downside is that glue can help mitigate swell at the spine, and without it I had issues. I squished this thing for days, it got very flat, and it fluffed right back up again after stitching. The book is about 250 pages and I think that's the upper limit using the methods and materials I have. I want to try it again with short grain paper and see if that helps.

Downside to coptic binds: you can see right through them in between signatures, and when you're used to other types of books it sends a panicked "my book is broken!" signal to the brain.

Upside to coptic binds: pretty colorful stitches down the center of each signature. I love how the bronze looks with the green cover and the shiny cover lining. Because there's no glue in the text block you can't do regular endpapers here. I think this is called a doublure.

Title page, first chapter, and a new thing I tried. All the art assets came from rawpixel. The thing on the first chapter page is the extra swirly bit that was supposed to go on the cover. I think I made it too big here? I'm not sure. Graphic design is not my passion and I am learning it only reluctantly XD The last image is unique to this fic. There's a reference to a specific form in the story, which the author created and linked as a PDF, and I really wanted to include it, so I put it in an appendix at the end. I really like having it there and plan to incorporate more stuff like it in future binds, if I can.

I think that's it for this bind! I hope you like it, @yeswevegotavideo!

[mediumsizedpidegon]

thinking about Shang Qinghua as a calamity again...

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

k babes reblog and tell me about the books on your nightstand (or wherever you stack books by your bed if you don't have a nightstand) what are they why are they there etc

[sleepinginmygrave]

the burning maze (toa) spoilers!!

finally reading trials of apollo the burning maze. jason just died. what the fucking fuck

i'm gonna kms

[originalcontent]

Finally getting around to reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and I have to say I don't think anything could have prepared me for the tonal whiplash in finishing the first book and then reading the first page of the second. Long meandering musings on the depressingly nihilistic and entropic nature of life, death, and the universe as perceived by someone who believes their very existence is an unforgivable sin, smash cutting to a fucking My Immortal description.

[fromtheseventhhell]

If George never created Victarion, he would've been done with TWOW by now 😔

[itstimeforstarwars]

I have not managed to get into any of these highly recommended Discworld books yet but every once in a while I pick a new one to abandon 30% of the way in just in the hopes that this will be the one that clicks with me.

[taka-chan]

GUESS WHAT.

feral boys stray boys came home!!

also this book is sooo nice and pleasant. So pretty

[kittlyns]

I had yet another long, strenuous day yesterday and didn't finish work until super late and then I couldn't fall asleep until well past 2am cuz I was in so much pain from standing literally all day

[margokesses]

Everytime I see people post videos explaing why they should play xyz character in a tv show or movie I start laughing a little.

It's not bc they're bad at acting it's just that they don't realize that acting is a job?? Like you don't post a video online hoping to get discovered.

You gotta like actually go out there and send in audition tapes and resumes and whatever else the casting people need. Like they are not going to pick you bc they made one tik tok. Also I don't think the people you tag are actually gonna look at it :/