#its for the best

[everyteamsterisasaint]

[hipsternumbertwo]

We're never gonna give the kids the keys to our office ever again

[ithinkhesgaybutwesavedmufasa]

Captain 👏 Olivia 👏 Margaret 👏 Benson 👏 belongs 👏 with 👏 A 👏 D 👏 A 👏 Rafael 👏 Diaz 👏 Barba.👏

Full stop.

[thedreadfulwolf]

Elethea Cousland: I married the love of my life and became queen of ferelden.

Mharaven Lavellan: mine turned out to be an ancient god who took my arm and is now doing to destroy the world. I still love him and have to hope i can convince him otherwise.

Cassius Hawke: I killed the love of my life in hopes that Meredith would spare the circle and therefore my sister but she called for an annulment anyway, rendering the sacrifice moot and now I have to live with the guilt and the what ifs.

[gayspacedrawings]

Just another Tuesday morning

more annoying/bratty prince Tony

[if-mirrormine]

referring to grayson as a man always makes me laugh. like no, thats a baby girl. 😩😩

[zilodak]

I love reworking old sketches sometimes, I remember the old version's face bothering me so much

[itsjustpoopeh]

hey @unfuckablebogtroll do you ever realize that if bi buck and bravi happened in season 4 it would have been Buck's Fluffy Pandemic Hair Era and have to lie down about it?

because I do

[patroclusandachillesmyass]

If you have yourself a man who wakes up in cold sweats, hallucinates stags and runs away to europe with his cannibalistic husband, thats not your man,

thats Will Graham

Please return him to where you found him

[c-cw-f-saeko]

[sirstraws]

so.. the other day my mom asked me what my phone case was and i wasnt about to tell her what it was REALLY from and so

"its from a video game"

"oh! what game?"

"its like.... a dating simulator where when you get the most love points with a character, you unlock a special heart... the one character is a gardener so his is this one.... yeah."

"oh cool!"

i mean.... i wasnt lying? i just left out some details like the fact the game is horrorporn and the gardener character kills you a lot and is also a necrophile.... yknow, minor details

[petalletsims]

got a 69GB folder down to 17GB mods folder, its not vanilla lite as much as i want but its enough

[woomycritiques543]

My parental guardian is going to put a blocker on my devices.

I guess this is goodbye...

[stickinthemud55]

Esmae sketch. I don't know if this will end up finished or not

[tbookblurbs]

The Atlas Complex - Olive Blake (The Atlas #3)

1.5/5 - disappointing conclusion to the trilogy; no real satisfying character arcs or conclusions to those arcs; truly baffling character decisions

SPOILERS BELOW

To be completely honest, I read this book more out of a desire to see how, exactly, Blake planned to wrap up the character arcs than any real desire to engage with it because I also found the second book to be disappointing.

Basically, none of the characters are truly served in this book. The one with the best outcome is Callum and he ends up dead anyway. Every single character spends this whole book whining and complaining about their lack of purpose. Over 200 pages of the book go by before anything of note happens. Truly, I think Blake needed an editor and/or someone to tell her the harsh truth - that everything in this nearly 500-page novel could have been said in 200.

I just found myself extremely dissatisfied with the arcs. Reina gets no screentime and undergoes no real change. Nico/Gideon are stagnant. Parisa doesn't do anything interesting until page 350/474. Tristan whines, literally, the whole time about how he doesn't know what his purpose in life is. Libby undergoes a "corruption" arc and still manages to hem and haw and bite her nails the entire time, even though she's supposed to have grown a spine by now. By the end of the book all I wanted was for someone to just do something instead of overthinking their place in the world.

This book also continuously asks questions that I find to be overwritten and that Blake attempts to answer in text. The meaning of life and why humanity is the way it is does not need to be answered in your trilogy about six people without an ounce of backbone or direction between them. Even more so, the answers that Blake provides are not answers I find terribly interesting or useful. I am no longer interested in debating if humanity is fundamentally awful or if people with talent are always directionless and easily swayed to power schemes or if somebody can be both a good and bad person at the same time. These have all been done and, frankly, been done better elsewhere. To have multiple of your characters claim that ethics isn't really "their thing", that their experiments are just that and have no consequences is ... not a good look, particularly after the summer of Oppenheimer and the moral imperative of scientists everywhere. Like, yes, your experiments do have a greater ethical cost. That's common sense, actually.

The worldbuilding remains frightfully vague. The prose used is purposefully convoluted, which meant I had to read probably a third of this book at least twice to actually understand it. And I don't mean that in the there-are-complicated-metaphors-here sense. I mean it in the this-sentence-structure-and-word-choice-are-so-odd-and-complex-as-to-be-useless-to-the-reader sense.

By the time something interesting came up, I was so done with slogging through the rest of the book that it felt like a relief that might come in death. I just wanted it to be over.

Chief among these sins is that Blake also introduced new characters in this (already overstuffed) book that were substantially more interesting than our POV/main characters. Why tease me with concepts that are actually interesting before throwing me back into the weeds? It's cruel.

[datshitrandom]

klaine queue is ready for tomorrow, yay!

apologies for the spam 😅