#for my personal records

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[wildbasil]

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

[chelseacattos]

Books I've read in the past month:

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike. I really liked this one! More magic realism than fantasy and based on actual historical accounts that influenced Arthurian legend. Essentially it's about Merlin's sister and her life. Some romance but mostly court politics.

The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher. Also enjoyed this one! Modern magic realism with really fun characters! There's a heavy emphasis on family in this one (which I adore) but there's also a little romance. Loved the worldbuilding and lore!

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. I didn't realize this was the first of a series lol. Honestly I found it very predictable and a little too violent for my tastes. Set in Future England, where clarvoyants are hunted and killed for being "Unnatural." I liked the socio-political themes and the worldbuilding is really cool, but I predicted the entire series after one book so I'm not gonna read the rest. Definitely sci-fi, idk why it was in the fantasy section at the library.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. I didn't finish this one :/ ... I did NOT like the main character but I wanted to push thru because the second book is about the character I DID like, but I couldn't do it. Sci-fi esque buy with fantasy elements (like necromancers). The main character is such an Edgelord I just couldn't get into it. Writing is good and the world seems really cool, also they're LESBIANS, Harold!!!

Currently Reading When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill and I am OBSESSED omg. Housewives in the 50s suddenly turned into dragons and ate their shitty husbands and flew away to be free but nobody is allowed to mention it.

[sulli-villain]

why is this the funniest thing ever

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[mobius-m-mobius]

it's a fair question 🙃 Lokius Incorrect Quotes [12/∞]

[jayrockin]

Inane worldbuilding minutia of the day: there is a viral dance craze in Runaway to the Stars "modern day" (approx. 2325), because what is society without a viral dance craze. It began on Martian social media and then spread to the rest of the human internet via the extranet social platform Megaforum.

It is called "The Whop."

It takes some skill to to whop quickly without losing your balance, and videos of skilled whoppers dancing in increasingly ridiculous and inconvenient locations have plagued the human internet for years now. It has a resurgence every time a new bubble of human space discovers and spreads it.

There is also a two-person version of The Whop:

Two-person whopping is extremely popular among children, much to the dismay of their elders. If you don't pay attention and keep time with the other party, it's extremely easy to slap them square in the face. Video compilations of people getting injured while whopping abound. School nurses have seen many victims of the viral dance, sent in with bruises and bloodied noses after whopping too hard.

[ceilidhtransing]

If you hear Republicans speak to other Republicans, you'll hear a lot of them say that they really don't like Trump for whatever reason (many of them aren't fans of the felony convictions, his personal manner, his business dealings, his family life, or whatever else) but that they'll still be voting for him because he'll get them closer to what they ultimately want. They're pragmatic; they don't demand purity in their candidate. They recognise him as their strategic choice so they'll set aside the issues they have with him and vote as a bloc. That's what makes them effective at getting their way. That's how they win elections.

And boy I wish we had more of that attitude on the left. Imagine what we could get done.

[electricpurrs]

you should draw them making out sloppy style

sure. whatever. merry robot yuri wednesday or something

[minthara]

Minthara at the circus pt. 1

[sunshine-zenith]

Maybe it’s because I just spent the last four days watching my sister’s toddlers while mildly sleep deprived, but I gotta say Peri has PEAK “childfree young adult who was the youngest person in their family naively volunteers to watch recalcitrant child assuming they’d automatically be The Cool Adult Relative only to realize they have no idea how to balance being indulgent with being responsible and gets overwhelmed within five minutes” energy

10/10 I have never felt so seen by a cartoon before

[sleepanonymous]

Legend has it if you listen to this soundcheck on repeat it will clear your skin, water your crops, and cure your depression. I hope this heals all of you like it has healed me.

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[kingofattolia]

Honestly I cannot overstate how much seeing Hayden as TCW Anakin changed EVERYTHING. Matt Lanter's Anakin is a frat dude. He wears a backwards baseball hat and says vaguely offensive things without realizing, while being a fundamentally chill and outgoing guy at heart. Hayden's Anakin is... not that. His voice. His expressions. His physical presence. It's off somehow. It's just left of normal. It's completely unremarkable and yet deeply uncanny for reasons you can't quite describe. TCW Anakin was always a flatter, blander portrayal, but I don't think I realized until now what exactly was missing: the serial killer energy. The inarticulable conviction that SOMETHING unhinged is going on behind those eyes.