#my love for this series is endless

[spiderwingz]

Do you think it’s possible for the enemy book series to ever be adapted in the future ?

i really want to say yes.

we have a really strong trend of adaptions going on. and especially after the success of the last of us, i think the interest is definitely there. plus, since there’s so many books and they’re so long, there’s plenty to go off of!

but that’s also part of the problem. adapting such a long series would be way better off in a tv format vs a movie format (think of manga to anime). if we’re going live action, then it becomes even harder bc actors age and the characters not so much.

though small, another problem is how the ages differ depending if you’re reading the american version or the british version. the british one (the original) has everyone over fourteen/fifteen contract the virus. but the american one has everyone over sixteen. it’s a minor detail but still might be important depending on who’s making it.

the biggest problem might just be the amount of violence. i mean, it’s a series where the only ones to survive are the kids and the adults literally become your worst enemies. of course there’s going to be violence. literally so much violence. i can think of so many death scenes that were so terrible and gorey that they still stick with me years later. not to mention trying to get sickos looking scary but not overly touched. and the twisted kids?? i’d love to see them. there’s a delicate balance in creating the sickos that the last of us did really well.

not to mention that most of the fear (and realism, i’d argue) comes from not knowing if certain characters will make it out of their situations alive or not. the lack of plot armor keeps things interesting and tense and it’s one of those things that makes the series so special. plus every book focuses on specific groups of kids and has a lot of pov switches in order to better tell the story, which isn’t bad, just a thing to point out. the lack of a sole character might turn away potential investors, either financial or attention wise, because it would be harder to promote. think of the hunger games with katniss.

the only thing i’m not sure about is how popular the series is, in both america and overseas. i discovered the series on accident when i picked up the sixth book off the recently released section in the library back in 2015, got halfway through before i realized it was part of a series, and then started the whole thing for real. most of the people i’ve talked to irl haven’t heard of it but that might just be because horror novels aren’t their thing. i was pleasantly surprised to see so many people online love it tho.

overall, i’d say the chances of the series getting adapted are about 50/50. i think the idea has to be pitched by someone with influence to really get the whole thing moving. there’s so much potential in it, tho, and i’d love to see it happen. i’d do it myself if i could!

[jkvjimin]

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[lotusxpop]

I have this sandman hc, like i love when people portray Dream as someone who doesn't get humans or understand slang and such but for me i always imagine him being like up to date with everything due to seeing the youth's dreams, like in my hc Dream just dropping gen z slang whenever he wants and people freaking out cuz they didn't think he could do that

Dream: desire thinks they have main character energy

Hob gadling spitting out his coffee: WHAT?

Dream: spill the tea sis because I have not had a slay moment in a while

Death, completely used to this: so this guy-

Matthew in the bg: what is going on?

[banancrumbs]

80s dream because hob was curious

[poomphuripan]

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[triglycercule]

sleep deprived dust can't recognize what's dream and what's real when he goes in and out of consciousness so i think dust is allowed to be incredibly reckless when he's awake but thinks he's in a dream. he will kill whoever passes by him (or attempt to. for him it's an instict to shoot bones anyways.) he will drink 4 bottles of alcohol just because he thinks its just a lucid dream. have incredibly loud conversations with phantom paps because he's asleep so nobody will hear him talk. or just have loud ass breakdowns because again he thinks he's asleep!!! nobody's gonna know what he gets up to in his dreams. and until someone (probably phantom paps) tells him that he's not asleep and this is reality he won't realize until he's done something really reckless

horror is seconds away from exploding dust's skull open with his magic while dust is trying to strangle him and FINALLY phantom paps tells him he's awake and dust snaps out of it. killer is walking around the house with bones sticking out of him like pins on a sewing pattern (casually too. another day in the life for him) and he just asks dust what that was about. dust just gets off of horror and shrugs his shoulders with an idk. and then walks away. this is the 6th time its happened this month

[jeongjinman]

Endless gifs of Jeong Jin Man [1/ ∞]

[ftdino]

DINO + I LOVE HIM.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

the thing is that i am not at all in principle opposed to things like: poetic language in prose, heavy use of simile/metaphor, going hard on description, ornate syntactical structures, writing that is capital-b Beautiful, etc. in fact some of my very favorite books in the world are my very favorite books precisely because they do this kind of thing. but what is unfortunate (mostly for me, a writer) is that i have not yet been able to discern any kind of specific concrete guidelines for why sometimes these things dazzle and delight me and why sometimes i'm like, ok we get it you can Write. i mean i can try to describe the difference here, in that i would say that what literary language needs in order to really function for me as intended is that it needs to feel like the expression of a holistic voice, as opposed to a series of parlor tricks. bu that's not an actionable guideline. sadly i'm not really sure there is an actionable guideline here because - as in the difference between the actor who becomes the character before eyes and the actor you can always se Acting, for example - i do think on some level the difference just comes down to whether a writer is really good or merely talented, smart, and skillful. stressful to contemplate!

[khaotunq]

idk i just think he's neat ⇢ Khaotung Thanawat as Ayan (The Eclipse, 2022)

[cordeliawhohung]

People are so fucking outrageous you take some time for yourself that you told us you were taking and now they're up in your asks demanding stuff tell them to pay you for it, sincerely someone who doesn't mind waiting for whatever you post

on god i literally spent the last few days driving hours on end and just got back yesterday, today is my first full day back home. and i've been traveling out of town for the outreach clinic i have to work at the next few weeks, and even then i've still been writing allskdjf

lmfao i don't want to shit on that anon too much, and i'm def not trying to be rude or anything, but i'm also going to hijack your ask real quick to address stuff since i do have quite a few new followers.

while some users might not mind questions regarding when someone is updating/if they have anything planned for an ongoing series, and things like that, i specifically have it in my rules to please not do that, which is why i got a little short with them even though they arguably weren't being rude or malicious (unlike a few anons in the past have when asking things like that). this one is especially annoying because it's been literally eight days since i last updated for that, and i have other series i've been working on! like even though i'm not posting for it, i've still written a couple thousand words for pet!au, and i just finished a chapter for in limbo i'll have up for early access here in a bit, and then on tumblr probably tomorrow or wednesday.

but mostly, the reason why i specifically request that people don't ask if i have plans/when i'm updating/if i'm updating something is because i literally have an irl life. i've been pretty open recently about how i've been traveling and the work i've been doing, it's not a secret or anything lmao. it just feels... tone deaf, you know? like you come into my inbox not talking about the work, or what you like about it, or otherwise engaging with it, but just to ask if i'm giving you more, like i didn't just do that a week ago. hell, even if it's been months or years that's still rude imo because if you like something enough, then you'd probably be doing more than just asking for more, ya know? at least that's how it comes across to me. and like i said before, some people really don't care, which is why i made sure to specify it in my rules, because i do care. it ruins my mood to write and create because then it feels like a chore and people are waiting on me just to consume it and then beg for more rather than tell me what they actually enjoyed about the work lmao.

anyway, no hard feelings against that anon at all, i'm sure they didn't mean anything by it, so please don't show them any hate or anything. but just use this as a reminder to read the rules of the blogs you interact with please. or at least don't be surprised when you do something that irks them and then they're annoyed at you because of it lmao.

sorry about the rant in the tags

[ryuvachirawich]

[chidoroki]

August 22nd - Happy Birthday Emma - ft: her tvtropes

[hopeidontgetaddictedtothis]

This part makes me laugh every time. The Corinthian was having such a great time (not so much for the poor Berliner), and he's so clueless and giddy that he hasn't noticed he’s being admonished by his disappointed lord.

[lunarblazes]

hermitcraft is a completely normal server

[poomphuripan]

endless poom phuripan gifs [28/?]

↳ Question: When Ming and Joe meet again in the elevator, Ming finds this stranger familliar. Why would Ming find him 'familiar'? in Let's Chat: EP 4