#keratonin

[chai-and-cherries]

OH Re your ask with keratonin:

I am SO TIRED of people promo'ing their books with just tropes? "Childhood friends! College roommates! Rivals to lovers! Etc!" THAT TELLS ME ONLY THE BARE MINIMUM I want to know the summary, I wanna know if the blurb is a few paragraphs or if it's a subtly veiled spoiler. I want a hook, not a catch-all phrase that hits people's likes or dislikes.

Also I want to point out that people are no longer enjoying "slow burn" / "slow build" romances in general- a good slow burn is when they don't even kiss till the end or even the second book - nowadays people want it by the 5th chapter or something. Like, please, give me the build up. Give me adventure and working for an ending.

OH MY GOD THIS TOO!!! you hit the nail on the head vivi bc lord the dismissal of actual summaries in favor of tropes and one liners that do nothing—as you said. so frustrating. idk how but somewhere along the way tropes have started to become the focal point of stories instead of just enhancements to the actual plot.

and huge agree on the slow burn part. preference is one thing but the way people are literally shitting on books and authors for writing slow burns when like that’s the point that’s what you signed up for!! unless it was falsely advertised which is a whole other discussion

[parseisflat]

tagged by @ohgodohfuckidontknow to do this picrew :)

tagging @keratonin @plangentia @baconpncakes and anyone else who wants to!!

[mainsdude]

Layers of fear junji ito

#Layers of fear junji ito skin#

#Layers of fear junji ito full#

From a young age, the mother had wanted to groom her into a TV star, but Reimi refused to out of shyness. One of the younger archaeologists notice that the hole they found had strange ridges, all in the shape of a human face from the side.Īs it starts to rain, the expedition team covers up the hole and we unceremoniously skip to the year 2017, where a mother and her two daughters are driving along the road.įrom their interactions, we gather that the mother has preference for the youngest, Reimi, because of her beauty. Our story begins in 1996, with an excavation site of a strange burial ground. Why am I talking about this? Well, obviously, that’s what Junji Ito’s prodding in our psyche again! Spoiler Town

#Layers of fear junji ito skin#

Both conditions in conjunction seemed to have caused poor Joseph to develop excessive growths on his skin and deformed his bones. Most scientists have agreed it’s likely a combination of several different medical conditions stunting and deforming this one poor man, namely Protean syndrome and neurofibromatosis. His disease is actually still not known for sure to this day. A less extreme but just as infamous growth-like disease is related to history’s most popular medical condition, the Elephant Man Joseph Merrick. Those with the condition undergo immense pain, and lose any use of their afflicted limbs. It can be as simple as being allergic to the most mundane of foods like shrimp or peanuts, or in worst cases, even start turning your body into a mass of bone and muscle.įor example, Tree Man Syndrome will cause turn their skin into a tree bark-like texture made of keratonin, the same stuff as dog’s claws, only tougher and stiffer. Humans have gotten lucky with mutations for the past thousand years or so, but every once in a while, a strange disease rears its ugly head and latches onto an unfortunate person.

#Layers of fear junji ito full#

I’m not gonna go into full spoiler town territory for now, though. It is legitimately one of Junji Ito’s most original concepts, and the body horror illustrations in this story are some his best. However, I feel like this story in particular is one that is best experienced without knowing anything about it. Now NORMALLY, I would talk about the story first then share my thoughts on it. Trigger warnings for some REAL bad body horror. In honestly my favorite story this month so far, let’s talk about Layers of Fear (no relation to the horror video game of the same name). Horror has a lot of layers, and nobody’s better at peeling those layers away than Junji Ito.

[dykeseinfeld]

u asked someone to remind you to post about your pjo dual protagonist thalia/bianca au and i am SO intrigued by this idea please say more

anon asked: hey queen hope your homework went good yesterday 🌸…now what were you saying about thalia and bianca 😳 ?

ok y’all i’m here...the moment almost none of y’all have been waiting for....bianca/thalia protagonists with alternating pov’s au

warning it’s kind of super long and may or may not read like a 2nd grader’s semi-coherent game of pretend so under the cut it goes!

so the main things you need to know about this au are 1. thalia survives and 2. annabeth’s + luke’s ages are a lil diff bc canon is my sandbox 3. i can’t decide if percy exists in this au or not (maybe y’all can help me decide?)

so the first book:

would start a few months after grover brought thalia (12), luke (13), and annabeth (10, not 7)  to camp half blood. they were chased by monsters sent by hades on the way, and thalia almost didn’t survive, but ultimately she got lucky and managed to send a bolt of lightning through her spear for the first time and they made it into camp

it’s been some time so annabeth is happy as a clam in the athena cabin doing her 10-year-old-with-severe-mommy-issues thing and luke is actually pretty popular with the hermes cabin bc he actually Met Their Dad Holy Shit and also he’s getting pretty good with a sword

at the same time, thalia is alone in the zeus cabin. everyone has been freaking out bc they all saw the huge bolt of lightning that incinerated a couple hellhounds as they made their grand entrance and What The Fuck Child Of The Big Three???

she’s also further isolated because chiron will take her for private training sessions sometimes, since she is clearly really powerful already and also Hades Himself was trying to kill her (chiron told her the reason was the big three’s pledge not to have kids, and maybe about the great prophecy? if he tells her that then she’s sworn to secrecy)

once grover leaves on another protector assignment, thalia mostly hangs out with luke, and annabeth. luke + annabeth both will try to eat meals with her at the zeus table but annabeth doesn’t want to get in trouble and luke is genuinely making friends in the hermes cabin so thalia will feel bad sometimes and send him back

kronos, seeing this bitter isolated child of the big three’s dreams: it’s free real estate

MEANWHILE

hades is Pissed that thalia survived and zeus got to break their oath And get the glory of a prophecy child

so he sends someone to take bianca (12) and nico (10) out of the lotus hotel and casino a little early.

grover is still their protector, but since the Stirring hasn’t begun in earnest yet and hades is lowkey determined to keep them safe, they make it back to camp half blood with no escort/incident

bianca + nico are put into the hermes cabin, and luke kinda takes them under his wing bc while he’s not bitter he still needs therapy bc this 14 year old has never met a pre-teen he couldn’t try to parent

luke introduces nico and annabeth since they’re the same age and they become really good friends!! she Loves mythomagic and he thinks her dagger is super cool and they’re both just really excited about camp <3

bianca is more reserved and resistant to the whole thing, and she wanders around alone exploring and runs into thalia in the zeus cabin

at this first meeting they get into a bit of a fight bc bianca is still in shock/denial about the gods being real, but thalia at this point has zero patience for this

anyway after that and maybe another scuffle during capture the flag or something they hit it off and become best friends in the way girls can, especially bonding over how they’ve both had to take on raising annabeth and nico basically on their own at the age of 12

~QUEST TIME~

thalia is given a quest for [unspecific reason] and chooses bianca and luke, they go off leaving annabeth and nico frustrated at home

quest hijinks etc, bianca is trying to figure out her parentage + her weird mysterious powers? and thalia is arguing with luke because he’s settling into camp/hero life really well actually but she’s getting progressively angrier with the gods for trying to kill her and also keeps getting dreams from kronos and doesn’t get why he doesn’t seem to remember all of the shit that the gods have put him through

bianca + thalia have las-vegas-style-heart-to-hearts where thalia shares her tragic backstory about her mother and her brother and how hades tried to kill her and even about the great prophecy and how she’s trying on this quest bc of that and her dad but at the same time these dreams are making her suspicious that he might’ve been responsible for her mom’s death.

bianca then shares her own stuff, about how terrified she was being on her own with nico having to protect him but also not remembering most of her childhood and not remembering her parents or how she ended up in the care of this lawyer and just the absolute mindfuckery that her memories/past are

luke is asleep in those scenes i guess lol 🧍‍♂️

anyway eventually they finish their quest in this massive climactic battle where bianca discovers her powers in a huge-showy-”i’m the ghost prince”-way and is formally claimed by hades which thalia sees as this Massive Betrayal obviously and bianca is horrified too because she knows what hades did to thalia but at the same time she’s just so happy to finally understand at least part of her past

thalia just reaches a breaking point though because everyone around her just doesn’t understand her anger and just when she thought she had found another sympathetic person who understood what she was going through she joins hades??? no. no fucking way. kronos reveals that he’s the one who has been sending her dreams, prob by sending some messenger who he possesses or smthing and when he offers thalia the chance to join him? she does (dun dun dun)

main beats of the rest of the series:

thalia and bianca on opposite sides of the war training to be the prophecy child, they come together a Lot and have like melodramatic fight scenes where they talk out their anger and try to get the other to join them bc they don’t want to kill each other

luke is extremely conflicted/betrayed and there’s a titan’s curse moment prob towards the end of the third book where they’re fighting and thalia is trying to get her to go with him but here he actually does go to join her (gasp!!) and is evil for at least one book but his heart’s not in it and he goes back to the good side eventually

by the point of luke’s betrayal, annabeth and nico are growing and developing and old enough to go on quests w bianca and by the last book they’re a main trio of sorts and their hypothetical character development is already making me emotional

there’s just a lot of general sexiness with foils and inner conflicts and bianca doesn’t even want to be the prophecy child but she needs to for the fate of the world and bianca is so angry at thalia bc thalia is a daughter of zeus and could control her powers and is perfect and just meant to be the prophecy kid, not some daughter of hades who they didn’t even have a cabin for before

hm maybe by either the last or second-to-last book thalia + bianca are close to reconciling or at least their interests are aligned for the moment and they read the text of the prophecy together and things go Wild bc they both think “single choice shall end his days” either is about luke or nico and it turns up the gas to their fighting both of them care about both of them and yeah

and then i can’t decide if there’s romantic arcs at all but if there were it would go like this:

just a dash of thaluke where at first it was luke having a one-sided crush but thalia misses him a Lot after she goes to kronos and wonders if it’s that she misses him or if it’s something More until to get him to defect there’s like a melodramatic moment in the fight where thalia kisses him and they go off to be Evil Together but it ends bc luke doesn’t believe in the cause and only joined her in hopes of getting thalia back to his side

once luke leaves/is kicked out thalia realizes that she didn’t love luke she just wanted a family and also in the second half of the series she realizes she’s a lesbian as a parallel to her redemption arc

bianca meanwhile is unconcerned w romance until she has her botl-hoe-moment where within one book she 1. runs into the hunters on a quest and has a thing with zoe nightshade who tries to get her to join plus tells her about that time she met thalia, 2. she goes to calypso’s island and falls in love w her in the moonlight or w/e and has her what-if moment, and 3. when they meet up that book thalia somehow knew abt zoe + calypso and seems almost angrier abt them  than the war?? weird bc bianca knows that thalia is Totally Straight right??

my main point is that bianca/thalia is our friends-to-enemies-to-lovers endgame thank you i will take my pulitzer now

[shitty-check-please-aus]

soulmate au where you and your soulmate always say 'bro' at the exact same time. doesn't matter what else is happening. if one of you says 'bro' the other says it too. it's fucked up a couple of class presentations for ransom and holster

love it

[kitkatartstuff-moved]

important question: do peppermint and spearmint taste different? also does it matter?

That is a very important question and I genuinely do not know. I haven’t had them in a hot sec but in my mind i feel like spearmint would be cooler ig if that makes sense and peppermint would be spicier. Which yeah idek probably not how it is since I haven’t had it in a bit but yeah. I don’t think it matters tbh but when I got mint icecream and opened it to find that it was pink boy was I surprised

[willowbird]

hi!! 👀

Hi!!!

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He waved his hand in dismissal. “I’m sure. Aaron, buy her a coffee or something as thanks. I will see you later.” If it got then both to go away he was fine playing a half-assed wingman.

Aaron grinned at him, then turned to Katelyn. They did an embarrassing exchange of smiles and blushes before heading down the hall with a final farewell. Andrew watched them go and debated on sitting Aaron down later to discuss the repercussions of teen pregnancy. Perhaps another time. For now, he was finally, <i>blissfully</i> alone.

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From a quasi-Ravens AU that takes place at a fine arts boarding school because I was like "let's make this tropetastic!"

[lovelyeskel]

OMG OKAY you mentioned witcher soc au, what are you doing for van eck/the ice court?? like what's your premise?? this is truly a god tier idea omg

i am SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!!! i have so many thoughts ... you can find my original post about this idea in the top posts on my blog, i think it’ll also show up quick under six of crows! for some reason adding links won’t work :(

BUT basically, my characters go like this: geralt as kaz, yennefer as inej, lambert as jesper, jaskier as wylan, letho as matthias, and eskel as nina. kerch/ketterdam will be novigrad (although i’m debating keeping the name ketterdam), fjerda will be nilfgaard, and ravka/shu han will be the northern kingdoms (yes, nikolai is involved, and he is played by the one and only aiden).

for van eck, a popular headcanon is that jaskier’s parents suck, which makes his dad fit perfectly into the role! his backstory with the boat and his father trying to kill him won’t be revealed till muchhhh later, so geralt is unaware of who he’s getting involved with. he just knows that mr. pankratz doesn’t seem like a good man

fjerda is nilfgaard, which makes the ice court the nilfgaardian palace. i’m unsure if emhyr will still remain as emperor, considering the ruler of fjerda is never really brought up- i may write emhyr as the drüskelle Commander instead, to tie him and letho together and make his character more prominent! i plan on having ciri be kuwei, a powerful mage being held captive by nilfgaard that mr. pankratz father wants.

most of this will follow the plot of the first book, but i don’t think i’ll get into the main issue in book two. instead, i plan on having them get back from nilfgaard with ciri, have a small conflict (nothing like the big auction and the queen lady’s plague stuff in crooked kingdom), and then an ending. i’m super excited to really get into this au!! combines two of my super big interests rn. feel free to send me more asks or dm me if you want to hear more 😌💖

[uncleshits]

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE!!!!!!

THANK YOU BIRL!!!!! Happy New Year!!!!

[pecanplease]

so how do YOU pronounce pecan? (ur url made me think of it) also, what's ur favorite thing to bake?? or like, top 3 if you can't decide

I am the wrong person to ask on the pecan debate. I’m pretty sure I pronounce it a different way every time. I don’t know if that’s a south-western thing or just a me thing but it’s true.

As for baking!!!

I love making pumpkin loaf, it’s great because it’s a dessert AND a breakfast. I always make it with my best friend and she’s a monster and just uses it as a vehicle for frosting.

And kind of basic but I also love making cookies. My family and I literally make hundreds of cookies every Christmas. We give them to friends and family and the UPS guy. We made bacon chocolate chip one year and it was actually pretty good.

[leloqier]

*insert infinity sign here*

💟💟💟 Thank you for the ask Birlie

Song I got: Runaway Train by Soul Asylum

Fav Lyrics:

Literally this whole song b u t

Runaway train never going back

Wrong way on a one-way track

Seems like I should be getting to somewhere

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

These lyrics really just captured a very specific feeling of mine and it blows me away everytime I hear it.

[enola-holmess]

What I wanted to do: write my wish list for christmas

What I ended up doing: working on a aftg au with @thisisapipedream and @keratonin

[shitty-check-please-aus]

shitty's full legal name is Shitty Checkpleaseaus

this is a very good au actually

[papayajuan2019]

every time i come on here ppl talk abt curing their depression with keratonin powder or whatever the fuck. snorting kratomine. macrodosing slonopin. chewing raw pizza topping

[baseballigator]

Rules: tag 9 people you want to know better

Tagged by @kohakuhoshi

Last Song: Lamp Lady by Sevdaliza

https://open.spotify.com/track/6AAAbAdmZYVCIGDk3gCqmK?si=LEcvDjBaST-tFmsp0s9cdA

Last Movie: Ummmmm I think it was Rebels of the Neon God (a Taiwanese film)

Currently watching: Youtube, as usual. Often it’s true crime vids that I put on in the background while drawing.

Currently reading: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Currently craving: sleep

Tagging: @chamomile-crow, @weenhand, @delusion-of-negation, @daydreaming-starlight, @genderpunks-r-us, @existential-sin, @keratonin, @dragon-says-goodnight, @gantaigarashi

do it if you want.

[deus-ex-knoxina]

Six Sentence Sunday

tagged on other blogs by @the-lincyclopedia and @thewritingninja, my current projects are almost entirely aftg (or not-post-able because they’re from rainfall) so i’m posting here! this is keratonin/birlcholtz by the way, thank you for the tag!

A door opens, and Erik appears in the same frame as Alice, forehead creased, typing something on his phone. He hits send, slides it into the pocket of his suit jacket, and drags the plush armchair from the corner of his room over to his desk. This is immediately followed by him dropping into the chair and saying, "The Hatfords will help to get Nicky, Andrew, and Aaron to safety."

"But not for free?" Mina says.

Erik sighs and shakes his head. "They want us to help them take out the Butcher of Baltimore."

this is from liar liar, and being tagged actually incentivized me to write a little bit tonight (when i should have been working on assignments for college but you know. whatever lmao)!

chapter 2: we finally hit the Plot