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[emeraldwhale]

do you think wizards have spelling bees

[emeraldwhale]

blowjob? #sex

blowjob? more like nojob! #unemployed

[chernobog13]

ME ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND VIEWING LIST

All the films I've assembled to watch through the weekend and the high holy day. It may take me until mid-week to finish them all, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

In no particular order (although I ALWAYS watch Gorgo first, and The Barrytown Trilogy must be viewed in sequence):

GORGO (1961)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

THE QUIET MAN (1952)

THE BARRYTOWN TRILOGY

(all starring me man, Colm Fookin' Meaney)

The Commitments (1991)

The Snapper (1993)

The Van (1996)

THE SECRET OF KELLS (2009)

WAKING NED DEVINE (1998)

HEAR MY SONG (1991)

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2018)

THE GUARD (2011)

There's plenty more I could add to the list, but there's only so much time. And there's always next year.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[elenadoeslife]

Bananas. Ingredients: 100% bananas 🍌

[bitegore]

I misplaced my credit card.

It's prbably not stolen, but, out of an abundance of caution, because it hasn't turned up in four days and the last time I saw it was a day I wasn't doing super hot for a number of reasons and then got sick as a dog after, I'm going to operate under the assumption that it's somewhere out in the public and I have to concern myself with the idea that someone might pick it up and use it. Before that happens, I'm going to order a new one in the mail and cancel that number.

This normally wouldn't be a big deal, because I have a debit card, and I try not to spend money I don't have. That is not true right now, because I get the money in my actual bank account (mostly) from my dad, who has been saying he'll get it to me for about a month now and not doing it. His bank account was hooked up to my credit card (which we did last month so he could pay my bill for me). This also normally wouldn't be a big deal beacuse I have cash. My college is cashless. Sometimes I have to spend money here. So you see what the actual problem is, right?

Anyway point is I suddenly have about $70 to split over everything I'll need to pay for for the next (estimated) two weeks, during what is probably the single two week period I'm going to spend the most money on takeout. (Midterms).

Normally again this wouldn't be a huge problem! I'd take on some art commissions and finish them off later. I don't love doing it but I can do it. Normally. I have a lot of outstanding commissions from this summer that I owe people, though. So I can't in good conscience do that.

Anyway, all that to say: I'm selling nudes. Hit me up. I'll do whatever. Particularly good at taking pictures outdoors but I can do it wherever. I'll fill requests. Send me a message and I'll see what I can do for you.

"teaser" under the cut :3

[tokopng]

(rolling her around like a katamari)

[guentzel]

[stars-of-kyber]

Well, well, well. 2024 is here, and so am I (as if I had left at any point, but still!). We're off to out first fic of the year and it's... family fluff! Yay (I can't control myself, I swear)

Motherhood

"She didn't even know the type of love she felt for her children even existed before she felt Edmund twist inside her for the first time and by the time she held her tiny squirming son in her arms, she knew there was nothing in the world that could match the love she felt right at that moment. That said, there were times she didn't particularly like her children."

______________________________________________________________ Kate loves being a mother, she really, really does. She's just tired and needs a little break. Is that too much to ask?

Just some stressed-out, tired, Stay-at-home mum Kate with her little gremlins. Cute and Fluffy, I swear!

A million thanks to @harnitbee, who is my friend, my beta, my ear to bother when I'm inspired and one of the most amazing people I know. You're a queen <3

Don't forget to let me know what you think!

Love,

Cee

[noahsbookhoard]

📚August 2024 Book Review (Part 2/4)📚

This batch is all over the place theme-wise but I faced some of my most terrible ennemies: romantasy, contemporary literature, saw-the-film-before-reading-the-book-and-now-I'm-biaised and the all or nothing Time Travel. This was eventful.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

From the early 20th century in Vancouver to the 24th century on a moon colony, the same phenomenon occurs: a sudden earth shattering hallucination of violins played in an airport terminal echoing in the middle of a forest. What is it? Where does it come from? The detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is sent to investigate.

Did I already say that I love time travel stories? Because I love time travel stories. But I'm picky as hell, if it doesn't make sense you will lose me immediately and never get me back.

That said, this book had me hooded from the beginning (passed the wonder as to why this sci-fi novel starts in 1912) and never let go.

The pacing is relatively slow but it works out well with the eery atmosphere and the feeling of déjà vu I couldn't scraper off. And there IS an element of déjà vu, something that comes back through different times with different characters so great job bringing this so deeply in the reading experience!

It also deals with the question of pandemic too but I liked how reminiscent of Covid it was without being specifically about covid. It didn't felt forced "hot typical you need to include to be relevant". It felt lived through (which it was) but always at the level of the character rather than an bigger perspective.

The story does a great work of binding together the different timelines in one chronological order and wraps nicely at the end, it was so satisfying! If is one of my favorite SciFi read of this year.

It's Kind of a Funy Story by Ned Vizzini

Craig Gilner must succeed in life, it is the only way to be happy. He needs to get to the best high-school to get into the best college to get the best job or he will be a total failure. But once he gets into an elite high school program the pression gets to high, Craig nearly tries to kill himself. He is admitted in a mental hospital and there he will meet a cast of diverse people who aren't so different from him deep down and face his anxiety.

TW for suicide ideation and a near suicide attempt

This was a wierd reading experience for me, I picked this book because I liked the Be More Chill Musical, which I admit is a wierd reason to pick a book but here we are! I did not read anything other than the back cover before diving in. I was aware that it dealt with mental health and suicide but that was about it.

The first part was a punch in the guts, just like Craig I went through an elite program (mine was after HS) and it did not go so well. I saw a kinda uncomfortable amount of myself in Craig: the overachieving mindset, the "you can do it, so you have to" mentality, the fear of not being enough, the feeling that however loving and caring my parents could be they just couldn't understand what was going on. The loneliness even when there's a crowd around... it did not go as bad for me as it did for Craig but it was painful to remember it could have. Some quotes hits right were I was 5 years ago and I wasn't prepared for it.

Thankfully Craig gets help before it goes too far and so he ends up in the mental hospital for a few days. The characters he meets there are touching, sometimes funny. One downside note for me is the transgender character (I can't remember for sure but I think it was a trans women) referred to with the wrong pronouns - which I don't think was malicious, might be early 2000's prejudice, might be the author not knowing better but as a trans person myself, but it rubbed me the wrong way.

It was also heartbreaking to read a bit more about the author and realise that there is probably a (not so) little bit of himself in this: he also spent some time is a mental hospital, and he killed himself in more or less the way Craig almost did. That made me really emotional and I wasn't bracing for that at all.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #1) by C S Lewis

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to the country to escape the Blitz, but there's not much too do in an old house with a severe housekeeper for the four siblings. Then one day while playing, Lucy discovers a wardrobe which opens on a fantastic land trapped in perpetual winter. The inhabitants see in the children a new hope: they will help Aslan the lion to defeat the terrible White Witch who took over Narnia.

The Chronicles of Narnia are such a classic young reader novel that I'm surprised I never read them before! Turns out now I might be a little to grown up for it but nonetheless it was nice.

The Christian parallels are more obvious than in the film but the style is nice and it adds details that make the characters' actions, especially Edmund's sounds a little more logical.

Some elements are also really nice and funny with the knowledge of Lewis' friendship with Tolkien. I wouldn't have had it as a kid so for that it's good to read them as an adult.

I will probably read it all at some point but peppered through the TBR, they are nice when you have a sick day that you need to occupy or just want to chill for an afternoon. Easy, nostalgia inducing, that's perfect.

Magie et Sentiments (Les secrets de Longdawn) by Ariel Holzl

After years of war and centuries of uncertain peace, the Earth and the Moon are set to create a new alliance. This would be symbolically marked by the marriage of Nathaniel, the son of a Moon noble family and Rebecca, the daughter of an Earth Duke. Conveniently for the England Crown, Luke, Rebecca's brother, is a spy and will accompagny the affianced couple and secretly make sure of the Moon embassadors good intentions. This is without counting on Sheva, Nathaniel's beautiful but cold sister.

The title is not really subtle, "Magic and Feelings, the secrets of [pun on a city name]" is pretty much what it says on the tin: a romantasy set in a fictional England. I was very invested in the fantasy but the romance I gotta admit, was fun. This is not my favorite read of 2024 but I was not huffing loudly every few pages so that's a win for romance novels in my book! The couples are kinda cute, the pacing isn't too slow and there is enough action to keep me entertained through the romance bits.

There is also a really cool setting in the Moon Empire, with it's own culture, laws and ritual which was nice to discover. The magic system both of Earth and on the Moon are also interesting, even though the elemental one isn't super original it works well in the setting.

The earth is an uchronia, which I love, it is always fun, set in a fantastical England whose city name have been changed (see Long Dawn -> London). Sometimes it was done in a rather elegant way, but at several times the book spells out the pun in a very artificial manner ("look ah ah, the working class have SUCH a funny accent, they say Loooon-doooon, did you see what I did there??" *author winking with both eyes through the pages*) and that threw me out of the story.

This is a late Middle Grade/early Young Adult book: I think a highschooler might be bored and it's a bit hefty for an elementary schooler but middle school kid would like it qi think. No shade to the author, I was just too old for this book but maybe that's why I could appreciate it: at the very least no explicit sex scene.

[emeraldwhale]

a number drain for when the numbers get too big

[allweknewisdead]

White Lightning (1973) - Joseph Sargent

Hello, Mama. I would have written more, Mama, but I didn't know what to say.

[chernobog13]

ST. PADDY'S DAY MOVIE LIST

What I'll be tossin' in the ole BluRay player to watch tonight and tomorrow (I've got the day off, to make up for today), in no particular order:

Gorgo (1961)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

The Quiet Man (1952)

The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (1991), The Snapper (1993), and The Van (1996), all featuring our man Colm Meaney

Hear My Song (1991)

The Guard (2011)

Waking Ned Devine (1998)

Agnes Brown (1999)

[bugmistake]

idk if any of yall are vanderpump enjoyers but ariana in season 11 reminds me of my mom SO bad its CRAZYYY

[oceanlandworld]

complaninggggggg [vague sayer s5 spoilers on the offchance anyone reading this cares]

it feels so fucking childish to get so sad about a goofy sci fi podcast in 2024 but god poisoning the well still feels like such a kick in the teeth and i know adam has no way of knowing and no reason to care how bad it made and continues to make me feel but goddamn. he privated the reddit so i dont think theres any way to get at the AMA where he talked about how he considered putting a syoung + future dialogue scene in it but cut it in favor of. giving sayer more monologue time. lol

it feels so whiny and embarrassing to be like "i didnt like this plot development so im going to criticize it narratively and/or try to justify it out of existence" but also in my defense. the reaction to that episode when it came out was. well. i remember someone wrote an alternate version and i think maybe even put it on ao3 but i dont feel like looking rn.... just. man. i cannot explain how fucking bad being the howard young guy and having Been the howard young guy for like a year and a half was when it came out and i kind of wish i could just stop caring at this point but the combination of sunk cost fallacy and [REDACTED] makes it very difficult

also it just makes me sad that the only frame of reference we the audience are given for how syoung feels about future is when hes begging sayer to kill him and everybody just kind of agrees that he at no point actually cared about future and adam had the opportunity to do Something more there and just, didnt. i appreciate when other people try to make minor characters deeper than their canon treatment but it feels so pointless and humiliating for me to even try

[jonathanbyersphd]

I am v curious about Argyle; did Jonathan tell him that he's Spidey, did he find out on his own, were they friends before that?

Hi anon!

So I'm hoping to answer this in fic but just in case I can't work it in.

Argyle and Jonathan are very much newer friends but they made fast friends so right now, they're closer than Steve and Jonathan.

As far as how Argyle figured out the whole Spiderman thing. Six-ish months ago, Jonathan (so tired so sleepy) after a night of patrol realized he forgot his keys and locked himself out of the dorm instead of calling someone (like a normal person) he used his powers to sneak in through the window (mostly costumed except the mask) and Argyle (our beloved boy) was very much awake and smoking out their window.

A LOT of screaming ensued

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1919 – The first assassination authorised by Michael Collins – Detective Sergeant the Dog Smyth was shot by The Squad.

“Our only way to carry on the fight was by organised and bold guerilla warfare. But this in itself was not enough. England could always reinforce her army. To paralyse the British machine it was necessary to strike at individuals outside the ranks of the military. Without her Secret Service working at the top of its efficiency England was helpless; robbed of the network of this organisation…