#now in paperback

[blondie-drawings]

working on some silly tlt memes for my friend's bday and I liked how this one came out 🥲

[flowerytale]

Florence and the Machine, from “Mother”

[thestalwartheart]

Okay you've all witnessed my descent into madness over Slow Horses, but seriously, I cannot recommend it enough. A spy thriller with a main character so anti-James Bond that he gets stuck in revolving doors! An unapologetic look at the complete lack of ethics in the security services! A found family story made up of MI5's greatest fuck-ups! Gary Oldman playing the world's most repulsive character! Strong, well-developed, complex female characters! Two calculating, criminal women who have definitely fucked and now despise each other leading MI5!

Go watch it. Seriously, it's so good. It's funny, thrilling and completely fucked up.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GREAT CITIES DUOLOGY by N. K. Jemisin.

[chiropteracupola]

FINALLY! AT LAST! GRANDDAD’S HORNBLOWER BOOK COLLECTION!!

[ianthelordof]

I bought this copy of Stardust at a Half Price Books a couple months ago. Love the story! Hate movie covers. It feels like Robert De Niro is staring into my soul…

I was reading it about a week ago when I realized that I have some bookbinding skills and I don’t have to live like this anymore! Ripped the cover off before I even fully thought it through. (Sorry Mr. Gaiman the author bio was a casualty 😔)

Also ripped out the movie scene insert and the movie theater coupon that expired in ‘07

Added some end pages, stitched some headbands and cased it in!

Might tackle my movie edition LotR box set next 👀

[harrietvane]

Well this is embarrassing. For everyone.

[rosepompadour]

Here was all the gaiety and glory and sparkle I knew was going to be life if I could just grasp it. For some people history is a graveyard. For me it was an enormous Christmas present wrapped in tissue paper and tied with satin ribbons, and inside would be something to adorn, to amuse, and to dazzle me forever. It was my present for being alive.

Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado (1958)

[etirabys]

IT'S STEPHEN KING SHAMING HOUR

[wundrousarts]

For any Nevermoor fans that've ever been interested in getting their hands on the UK hardcover editions of the series, with the wonderful cover designs..... I think they might be out of print (which. makes sense with the gold foil) so. goodluck and godspeed for finding them secondhand, because it was surprisingly hard to do online.

[fanghuas]

yeah so I'm going insane about this post no biggie

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Being a Wally West fan, it never matters to me when New Teen Titans fan bring up how awful he is in that comics. Since I am very much aware of it first off, but also to me whose read virtually all of his comics just shows how much he grew up. Wally had a ton of the toxic behavior a lot of male characters unfortunately get written with (ESPECIALLY IN THE BARON FLASH RUN), but he had a Messner-Loebs to fix him and let him grow up. Which unfortunately you can't say about quite a few other male characters.

[silawastaken]

Idea credit/for @frostedfrog

Warrior cats bsd au!!!

The elders of the 'clans' were nonexistent.

At least, that was the case for the ada clan.

Instead, the stories were told by the warriors, the youngest members of the clan eagerly listening, tail kicking up dust with every excited flick.

"Long ago, back before the city had fallen into disrepair the way it had, there had been groups of cats, much like them, who lived in clans.

The names of the clans are up for debate, muddled through years of oral storytelling and translations, but the premise still stands.

There was the thunder clan, the river clan, the wind clan, and the shadow clan.

After years of war, they had learned to live in harmony, until they were driven from the forest they lived in.

Now, years later, that cats of the city were disorganised, different groups arranging in different ways.

Until Natume came along, educating two young kits that he found on the clans and their mythology, of the great leaders and warriors and the balance that should be upheld.

Both of the kits got involved in the dark space of the streets, back alleys and abandoned buildings, very few places left for stray cats such as them to harbour safely.

While one of the kits grew up and clawed his way out of the darkness, the other resigned himself to the shadow, involving himself in the dirty underworld of the city, doing whatever he deemed necessary to gain the power he wished for.

When the one who returned the light, or more accurately, the grey, he met a young kit, who had amazing talents that made him remember Natsume's teachings, and he built his own clan, an agency, designed to help keep harmony across the city, and keep the balance the way the great clans did in the old days.

The one who went to the dark rose in the underworld quickly, with the same knowledge as the one in the light, and he usurped the position of the boss of the cat mafia, leading with the same principle. Keep the balance. By whatever means necessary.

When the, now fully grown, cats fell out over the mistreatment of a kit under the dark one's care, they both retreated, and the two clans have been at odds ever since."

The tail flicking in the dirt was practically vibrating now, as the young orange cat seemed extremely enthusiastic to hear the story, despite the amount of times it had been told before.

"Wow Dazai! You're a great storyteller!" Kenji said happily.

The white cat with a single black ear next to Kenji seemed dubious.

"Was that really true?" He asked, tilting his head.

Dazai nodded.

"Yes, Atsushi. It truly is. I cannot attest as to the validity of the mythology, whether the clans were real, or whether what they believed and followed was right, but that story I told you was real. And you'll learn that very quickly here."

[jargonautical]

For those of you who like to have a book to hold in your hands ...

Thrilled to announce that Somewhere To Be is now available as a paperback edition on Amazon. Order now to get yours in time for Christmas!

[iscariotapologist]

sorry to the woman in the bookstore who asked what i was reading and caused me to stare like a deer in the headlights and instantly forget everything i knew about hildegard von bingen and her book in my hands in my defense i haven't talked to a person in a week

[lila-rae]

Are we sure it’s always been Coriolanus? It wasn’t Cornelius? Because I swear it was Cornelius. Is this a Mandela Effect?