#light novel

[polymorphin]

an indulgent bkdk from the light novel ☃️

[the-lost-profile]

I love this art by Touco Shino (The Apothecary Diaries LN artist) with Maomao playing Go.

It reminds me of THEM

I'm too weak for this whole plot.

[strawbellyx3]

The Apothecary Diaries Light Novel 13 SPOILER

I love how in the night visit chapter, when Jinshi rejects sleeping with Maomao because he worried she could become pregnant even with contraceptives, she leaves mumbling "even though I know other things to do besides the actual thing" and he doesn't hear because he's so lost in his own thoughts😂 it's so on brand for them and reminds me of this bonus comic

my favorite overthinking boyfailure fumbling the bag all the time is one of my favorite things

[atholia]

"Lan Zhan, look at me, look at me now!"

Just like before, Wei Wuxian called his name with a grin, and he looked over as well.

From then on, he could never move his eyes away again.

// art by 백업용 on Twitter in 2020

[azjames34-blog]

Extra Soratori fluff (Otherside Picnic)

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

meanwhile jinshi:

[theauthorunicorn]

bonus ✨

I love them 💕 Jinshi so cuteee

[blavatskye]

oh, so this is the terrifying Yiling Patriarch? The Grandmaster of demonic cultivation? And the Infamous Ghost General? I see....

They're more like Yiling Sweetheart and Cutie Pie General.

[professionalfangirllife]

When you learn that Jinshi and Maomao only have an one year age difference

[wavy-arms]

Help, please, I'm dying! 🤣 In one of the Demon Slayer light novel "Kimetsu Academy" chapters, it's mentioned that they once did a school-wide survey to find out who everyone's favorite teachers were. Rengoku Kyōjurō was voted the most popular teacher in the school (because of course), but just look at what some of the survey participants said (direct quotes):

"I hope he's always so young, hot, and strong."

"Those muscular arms bursting from the rolled-up sleeves of his button-up shirt slay me."

"I want to be the pin on his necktie."

These kids need to calm down! 🤣 Out here in broad daylight, for everyone to see, in a 9 AM history class... 😭

[charlies-a-thief]

I'm actually obsessed with him, I've been drawing him so much in my sketchbook as of late

He's my pretty princess fr🤭

[demifiendrsa]

Jump j Books 30th anniversary shikishi

Riku Sanjo and Koji Inada (Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai)

Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)

Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)

Tite Kubo (Bleach)

Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama)

Haruichi Furudate (Haikyu!!)

Yūki Tabata (Black Clover)

Koyoharu Gotouge (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)

Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland)

Taishi Tsutsui (We Never Learn)

Yoshifumi Tozuka (Undead Unluck)

Sana Kirioka (Taisho Otome Fairy Tale)

Yasuki Tanaka (Summer Time Rendering)

Yuji Kaku (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku)

[pumpkin-angle]

If you like, mystery, vampires, supernatural thrillers light novels. Then I am happy to tell you that Shadows Sing Vol.2 is now available for pre-order. Follow Roxanne Van Kurt as she tries to find the truth of how her mother died and navigate in the world of the night where her father lives.

Just a quick note that there will be strong language, adult themes, discussion of violences, and further books will have fights.

Hope that all you gems enjoy.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1143974436?ean=9798218248567

[strawbellyx3]

Some thoughts on JinMao in The Apothecary Diaries LN (spoilers)

I love how Maomao's love for Jinshi is written in the Light Novel. She's an unreliable narrator and can't put a name on what she feels for a long time and heck, for the most time she doesn't even want to. The beginning of volume 6 showing this perfectly when she didn't want to leave Jinshi's hair stick behind, carried it with her and when she slept, she kept it near her chest because she didn't want to have it anywhere where she could see it. The symbolism *chef kiss* (she doesn't want to face her feelings but also still carries them close to her chest)

She purposely chooses to avoid thinking about any potential feelings for Jinshi and at the end of the same volume it's also stated that she does have some kind of affection for him that she can't yet put into words.

For readers, it's easy to view Maomao's avoidant attitude as disinterest. Even more so paired with how she doesn't seem to ever be nervous around Jinshi. But really, we don't need blushy nervous Maomao to understand what she's feeling. Her feelings come to show everytime she worries about Jinshi's well being and goes out of her way to get him to eat and rest, takes time of her own day to make sure that he's well.

When at the beginning, she always considered him bringing all these tasks to her as bothersome. Maomao just wanted to experiment with poison and make medicine, she didn't want to spend time on anything else, really.

Then, in volume 9 she's even willing to give up her agency if it meant helping ease his burdens.

Maomao, miss "I don't want to have anything to do with this, this is bothersome" tells him to use all of her. Use her until she falls apart. (while kabedoning him, love Maomao being an absolute girlboss even when she tells him to use her)

She's worried by his selflessness. How he's unable to use other people to reach his goals and shoulders everything on his own, wanting to save everyone. Maomao gets upset by it and worries he'd never get anything in return and become as luckless in life as her adoptive father. Who carries the same selflessness and kindness.

I don't think we talk enough about how much it means for Maomao to get to a point where she would rather get used by Jinshi than to see him exhaust himself.

This whole scene afterwards is just..generally really heartwarming honestly.

(Volume 9 Chapter 20)

Her hands went to Jinshi’s cheek. “You’re only human, Master Jinshi. You’re not some mythical immortal who can save everyone.” She held his face in her hands, the fingers of her left hand brushing his scar. “You can be wounded, scarred, brought low. Only human.”

Who was she talking to? She knew Jinshi was standing in front of her, but for some reason she kept seeing Luomen’s face.

No wonder I’m so upset. The principle that drove Jinshi’s behavior seemed very similar to Luomen’s. She was afraid that if he went on like this, he would end up just as luckless in life as her old man. Just like Pops... He’d spent himself trying to rescue everyone and everything. Like a fool. He should have wanted more, been greedier, but instead he’d suffered his fate patiently. Suffered and suffered, and for what? To become an old man resigned to his empty hands. This was, it was fair to say, Maomao’s one criticism of her father. She’d felt it keenly in the affair with the Shaonese shrine maiden. She respected Luomen immensely. A man who never lost his kindness no matter what unhappiness he encountered was like a miracle. The price, though, was that his body and his heart were both battered. In time he became so that everything he did, he did in the expectation of defeat. Would Jinshi end up like him one day? Or— “Please, please don’t go doing anything else like burning a brand into your skin,” Maomao said. “I heard you...the first several times,” Jinshi replied. “Are you sure?” A smile flitted across Maomao’s face, and she slowly pulled her hands away.

[ilovelumity3000]

It is genuinely amazing to see an openly sapphic couple in fiction like Rae and Claire.

They have normal paying jobs, they have kids who they have to prepare for school every morning. They have sex on regular basis, but theyre also worried about apearing as "too obsessed with sex", as a by-product of living in a homophobic society.

Theyre often not sure how to handle their children, and they still have to learn from both each other, and other adults, on how to be good parents.

One of their children is especially gifted, while the other one is essentially disabled, while also having enormous talents in areas other then her sister.

Aside from going down as important historical figures, and all having anime powers, theyre just a normal family, that feels like it could actually exist in the real world

Anyway, im very happy that more people are going to experience this amazing story soon

[jimmybaeshair]

im 100% sure someone has said this b4 but

these three

are these three

and these three