#sorry that was. ages ago.

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FITCHERS BIRD THAT WAS THE ONE I WAS THINKING OF

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[requests are closed] Anon i'm sorry this is so late I finished these months ago. I meant to draw more but never got around to it UUUH. SORRY SLDKJSLDGKJSD I love them so much. I need to draw them more. ;;v;;

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[demaparbat-hp]

Almost

[hedgehog-moss]

"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?

This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...

May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep

Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)

Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book

Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West

Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book

The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield

Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)

The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails

Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills

The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare

The Letters of Rachel Henning

The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play

The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"

The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.

Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")

Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.

Wait I found it:

R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett

Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane

The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:

ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa

半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba

Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)

Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!

Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)

oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"

I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)

[ba1laur]

big sister

[gravedigg]

The Magician - Dorian Pavus

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: Phil, I'll give you the pass to say the F-sIur.

Phil: PFTT—??? [Cracks up]

SunMin: THAT'S A TRAP! That's a trap! That's a trap!

Tubbo: No no no no no— Just say- just say like, "fat" and I'll finish it.

Phil: Oh my god, no! [Laughs]

Tubbo: Would you say the F-sIur to save my life? Imagine real-life Cucurucho has me dangling over a pit of snakes and is like "Philza Minecrafṭ, you must go live and say the F-sIur, or Toby dies! 😈"

Phil: [Laughs] It's fine, I'll just go live on Kick, they love that over there.

Tubbo: Yeah, go live on Kick, start slurrin' it up, then come back.

Phil: [Laughs and hits his desk] You can't go live on Kick.

Tubbo: Philza Minecraft, you must do it on Twitch or Youtube. We onl– I may be- I may be real-life Cucurucho, but I only respect respectable streaming services."

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Tubbo: Now Phil, I'll give you the pass to say the F-slur.

Phil: PFTT—??? [Cracks up]

SunMin: THAT'S A TRAP! That's a trap! That's a trap!

Tubbo: No no no no no— Just say- just say like, "fat" and I'll finish it.

Phil: Oh my god, no! [Laughs]

Tubbo: Damn!

SunMin: Where's the log-out button?

Tubbo: "Where's the log-out button?"

SunMin: I don't want to be part of this!

[Later]

Tubbo: Phil, would you say the f-slur to save my life?

Phil: Oh man, this is– who the- who the fck is in charge of you and your life and asking me to say that sht? What situation is this, dude?

Tubbo: Well, imagine like, Cucurucho has me like, in real life–

Phil: [Overlapping with Tubbo] Some fcking like, cursed version of Saw?

Tubbo: Real-life Cucurucho has me like, dangling above like, a pit– a pit–

Phil: [Overlapping with Tubbo, using a deep voice like a horror-movie villain] You have- you have- you have two choices– [Laughs] Say the F-slur to save your friend, or Toby dies.

Tubbo: [Laughs] You have two choices: say the F-slur or Toby dies!

[They both crack up]

SunMin: Yeah, you want Cucurucho?

Tubbo: Huh? WHOA—

Phil: [Laughs] Nah, fck off.

Tubbo: WHOA!!! WAIT— NO! Wait, nah, please– send me the audio files, please?

Phil: Nah, nah you're foul for that.

SunMin: Bye!

Tubbo: No, imagine like, real-life equivalent of Cucurucho has me like, dangling over a pit of snakes that would kill me instantly and like is like– "Philza Minecraft, you must go live and say the f-slur, or- or Toby dies!" [Laughs]

Phil: [Cracking up] The "go live" part! [Laughs] It's fine, I'll just go live on Kick, they love that over there.

Tubbo: Yeah, go live on Kick, start slurrin' it up, then come back.

Phil: [Laughs and hits his desk, then does the same villain voice] You can't go live on Kick.

Tubbo: [Imitating the same villain voice] Philza Minecraft, you must do it on Twitch or Youtube. We onl– I may be- I may be real-life Cucurucho, but I only respect respectable streaming services."

Phil: [Laughs] Jesus Christ...

[little-pup-pip]

Cinnamoroll!!

for @milkshake99

[cringe-but-freee]

okay but book!paul was q funny tho

[softcodes]

moodboard by @softcodes

preview / code

single column theme with a sidebar featuring a moodboard! there are nine 125px images. i suggest using a website like unsplash (free to use) to find images and crop them into squares. you can upload images that aesthetically go together, or there is a "pale images" option which will take some of the saturation out of the photos and make them match a little bit more, aesthetically.

five post sizes, any google font for the body text and title text, five custom sidebar links. custom title and description. this theme uses the iconsax icon font, and you can find more icons for the sidebar links here.

some aspects of this theme might look wonky in the tumblr preview but will look fine on the actual blog! all sidebar images in preview via unsplash. (full list of credits here.)

pls let me know if you find any bugs! would appreciate a like/reblog if you use :)

[shittyjakeenglish]

Day 158

theyre watching avatar of course. this was actually the most peaceful moment of the vantas-egbert-english movie night, believe it or not

[goopdog]

Sure i'll release this into the wild

[fawnforevergone]

what absolutely floors me is the way "Unknown (Nth)" is the song for Treachery, and yet is more about betraying ourselves rather than being betrayed. hozier says that, when the break-up happened, it felt as though his lover was chewing on his heart while it still beats, but he can only blame himself because entering a relationship is acknowledging the chance it may fail and still going through with it. AND THEN HE SAYS "i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you" - meaning he would do it all again with the knowledge of failure because isn't that what he risked in the first place anyway? ,,,"Unknown (Nth)", the weapon that you are-

[sassypantsjaxon]

Remember back when I was freaking out about monoshin on the cover of volume 35?

well, I'm freaking out again

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[theokusgallery]

Can't believe I hadn't made that one yet