#eliza victoria

[hungryslothwrites]

What emotion do you create from? by traumacure / Why is millenial humor so weird? by Elizabeth Bruenig / "Reunion" by Eliza Victoria from A Bottle of Storm Clouds / Memo to Human Resources by They Might Be Giants / "Path Between Houses" by Greg Rappleye / Sweet Hibiscus Tea by Penelope Scott / "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot

[ilaw-at-panitik]

Things that are beautiful have a way of hurting. I destroy it when I feel a hurt.

Loreto Paras Sulit, from "Harvest"

True beauty inspires awe and fear. It incapacitates. It knocks the air out of your lungs. And [she] is beautiful.

Eliza Victoria, from "Dwellers"

[bookloure]

It's a wrap! ✨

I've really become that person who reads more than 10 books monthly. Lol.

But I realized this is who I really am as a person. And I'm grateful for all my parasocial relationships that raised my reader self back from the dead.

Here's a wrap-up and stats of all the books I finished in April!

5⭐

📖 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

📖 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

📖 The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne

📖 The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six by AA Milne

4.5⭐

📖 The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

4.25⭐

📖 Shiver: Collected Stories by Junji Ito

4⭐

📖 Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

📖 Ways of Seeing by John Berger

📖 A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories by Eliza Victoria

📖 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

3.75⭐

📖 Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne

📖 Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

3.5⭐

The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris

3⭐

📖 Stuart Little by E.B. White

📖 Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

💭 Fave reads are Jane Eyre and Catcher in the Rye; my least fave is Bless the Daughter.

💭 Some of my favorite characters are Jane Eyre and Rochester; Holden and Phoebe Caulfield; Aunt Betsey; and Saloni.

💭 Definitely interested in reading future works of Parini Shroff! I enjoyed her debut novel so much. (:

[opheliascurse]

We are doomed because we are all connected. But alone, we won’t survive. So we are all doomed. Even if you follow all the rules, someone, somewhere, won’t, and it will be the end of you.

— Eliza Victoria, from “Dwellers”

[readingcottage]

Dwellers by Eliza Victoria

The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit. Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again. Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what happens when, in escaping your old life by stealing a new one, you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire? Cousins from a clan of "dwellers"--people who inhabit the bodies and lives of others--become brothers when they take over the bodies of Jonah and Louis. An injury forces them to remain in the brothers' house, where they discover that the basement holds a dead body! As old and new secrets come to light, it becomes clear that every action always has consequences.

3.94 / 5 Goodreads | 4.3 / 5 Amazon

BUY IT NOW

[reviewsthatburn]

DWELLERS is a twisting story, where two brothers fleeing something terrible end up in a situation with its own set of problems when they take over the bodies of two strangers. Tightly constructed, this winds through tense boredom and fear as Jonah and Louis try to figure out why the people they replaced have a dead body in the basement.

Full review at link.

[resurrectionsadamwarlock]

Friends of the Show- Bitches on Comics Episode 144: Undoubtedly a Filipino comic book featuring Eliza Victoria

We talk to the lovely Eliza Victoria about her graphic novel After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila, her novel Wounded Little Gods, and how these books came together. Eliza tells us about the process of scripting a comic, seeing her characters and world on the page, and working with artist Mervin Malonzo. We also get into her creative process, writing in English, and telling distinctly Filipino stories. Plus, thermostats! Backgrounds! Easter eggs! And more!

Learn more about After Lambana: Myth and Magic in Manila, Wounded Little Gods, and Eliza Victoria at: ElizaVictoria.com

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[authorunpublished]

Book Review: Wounded Little Gods

Book Review: Wounded Little Gods

Title: Wounded Little Gods Author: Eliza Victoria Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Folklore, Fantasy Rating: 3 Stars Description/Synopsis: Regina was born and raised in the small town of Heridos, where gods and spirits walked the earth. Until they didn’t. Ten years ago, the town’s harvest failed utterly, and the people—believing the gods had abandoned them–left their farms and moved on. Now, on a…

[nonbinarydollie]

🎉✨ happy new years everybody ✨🎉

here are some of my favorite pictures from this past year✨ i want to say thank you to all of my followers and supporters, i would not have had the confidence to continue this account without you 💖 in less than a year i have gained almost 200 followers! i never expected to get this much recognition. i'm excited to see myself grow as a photographer and doll stylist next year. here's to an amazing 2024! - thalia 🎀

[dailyskullgirls]

Skullgirls Postcard Sketches by Kinuko

[ilaw-at-panitik]

I have been exiled [...] not just from the soil where we came from, but from you.

Eliza Victoria, from "Reunion" in A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories (Flipside Publishing Services Inc., 2013)

[bookloure]

Eliza Victoria’s books are where Philippine folklore meets urban fantasy—but make it dark. Sometimes even depraved.

From aswangs, small town mermaids, the personification of the City, dead rising up and knocking on townspeople’s doors, Maria Makiling dabbling in business and politics, seeing a dead sister by breaching through a parallel world, cousins able to inhabit other’s bodies, to confessing queer love with the last digits of Pi, Victoria’s stories are weird and original.

Three works into her catalog, I’m finding that she’s a hit-and-miss author for me. However, what works across the board is the atmosphere in her books. In every story of hers that I read, there’s this claustrophobic feel. The places seem to be always dark and dank; her books are populated with lost and lonely people; and her works usually deal with the darker side of humanity. The characters are almost always trapped, with a vague understanding of their situation, and the reader is trapped with them.

Navigating her stories makes me feel like a horse on a blinker. Except I always have this feeling of dread that something bad is about to happen. Her books are chock full of people alienated from their own lives, not possessing any will to live; and the story themselves lean on the pessimistic side of things. I don’t recommend reading her books when you already feel alienated from life.

The chief villain of her novella titled “Dwellers” has this to say about life in a climactic moment of the book: We are doomed because we are all connected. But alone, we won’t survive. So we are all doomed. Even if you follow all the rules, someone, somewhere, won’t, and it will be the end of you. If a life is defined by how it ends, then no life has meaning, [...] because every life ends with nothing.” I remember this book negatively affected my mood in the weeks after I finished reading.

Personally, I love her short stories more. Her works' weird and speculative nature lends itself well to the short story form. The longer her stories get, the more I find lapses and half-baked ideas that make me dislike the story. Perhaps this is why my favorite work of hers is “Once in a small town.” It’s the shortest of her stories but has left me with the most impact.

Overall, while I find most of her stories lacking that *oomph* to blow me out of the water, I still find enough interesting elements to keep me reading. I look forward to reading more of her weird, original, and depraved stories.

[opheliascurse]

The sad thing about pain is that you can’t share it or pass it on, no matter how willing the next person is. No one can take agony away from you, no matter how many times the people you love tell you, I know exactly how you feel. You know they really don’t. You suffer alone, in the end.

— Eliza Victoria, from “Dwellers”

[sewinintherain]

Taking advantage of a sunny afternoon! Except for a few ANTS in the crew's hair, we had a great time. 🐜🐜

[birdy-the-artist]

An unfinished Clockwork Christmas doodle

[girl4music]

I’m not saying I ship Fuffy, nor even condone it because they’re more toxic than Bangel and Spuffy put together. But I am saying I understand the ship and I completely see the barely hidden gay subtext between them. I mean… who couldn’t? It’s blatant.

I could be wrong but I think a majority of the fandom only like Fuffy as a romantic/sexual pairing because they’re not a romantic/sexual pairing. They like the cat-and-mouse chase and theatrics of it all more than they do the actual relationship. That’s just not for me.

Personally, I see the enemies to lovers trope working better with Willow and Faith rather than Buffy and Faith. But only because Season 7 was ripe for it. And look… if Tarascilla (I’m still trying to wrap my head around that pairing) in the Buffyverse can be a canon thing, then Waith can definitely be a canon thing.