3. a stand-alone that you wish was part of a series, 24. a book on your nightstand, 44. your favourite fantasy novel, 53. a popular book/series that you hate, 71. your favourite LGBTQ+ fiction, 125. your favourite autumn read :3???
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3. a stand-alone that you wish was part of a series
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders! The ending is really wild, and while there is technically a short story that follows 2 of the characters after the novel, I'd love a sequel to explore things a bit more.
24. a book on your nightstand
Shockingly, my nightstand is free of books at the moment (more room for allergy meds and fans lol), but my current read, The Left Hand of Darkness, lives on the floor beside my bed at night
44. your favourite fantasy novel
oh man you had to, huh? the most difficult one......(jk jk)
Gideon the Ninth is really on the line between sci-fi and fantasy, but I'm counting it as my favourite fantasy novel haha. Also honourable mentions to Tamora Pierce (all...all her books lol I couldn't choose), His Dark Materials, and the Dragonlance series, which is not good but I love it anyway.
53. a popular book/series that you hate
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. it was SUCH a disappointment to me. The marketing led me to believe it was a dark academia contemporary fantasy with really in-depth worldbuilding and a cool magic system and mystery and murder and....it's very shallow. The characters are all bland stereotypes (like the author just pointed at them and went "you're the smart one, and you're the slut, and you're the rich boy, and you're the master criminal...") . Most of the male characters are interchangable. The interesting (imo) characters get ignored in favour of the most unmotivated rivals-to-lovers romance I've ever seen The magic is only described in past tense vaguely while one of that couple whines about the other. ANYWAY...yeah it's been over a year and I'm still mad I spent money on it. A pox upon Tor's marketing for that one.
71. your favourite LGBTQ+ fiction
aaaggghhhhh another tough one. tougher than the fantasy question actually, I'll list a few by genre:
The Locked Tomb series - Tamsyn Muir (sci-fi/fantasy, adult)
The Serpent Gates duology - A.K. Larkwood (fantasy, adult)
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh (sci-fi, adult)
Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh (fantasy, adult)
Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan (contemporary, YA)
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa (contemporary, YA)
Tripping Arcadia - Kit Mayquist (gothic horror, adult)
Loveless - Alice Oseman (contemporary, new adult (the first book i read that made me feel Seen, once i stopped being afraid it was going to dunk on me))
Even Greater Mistakes: Stories - Charlie Jane Anders (various genres, adult. extremely poignant, i think about it almost every day)
Witchmark - C. L. Polk (fantasy, adult)
Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour (contemporary, YA)
125. your favourite autumn read
This is actually difficult bc I don't think I have one yet?? I used to always crave That Series We Don't Talk About Anymore in the fall bc of the back-to-school/halloween vibes, but....yeah, haven't felt that for a few years now. I need to reread some of my other childhood favourites and choose another series to replace it. Maybe A Series of Unfortunate Events...
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common misconception i see about claudia is that she's a grown woman trapped inside a child's body. while this isn't technically incorrect, it leaves out a major aspect of her character that isn't often addressed and serves to make her all the more tragic. see claudia is less a woman who's been forced into a child's body and more a child who is and will always be a child no matter how long she lives. don't misunderstand, she's blindingly intelligent, she certainly has the intellect of a grown adult, but she does not and never will possess the wisdom and maturity of an actual adult. all of the vampires in the series, claudia included, essentially exist in a state of limbo as though frozen in time, their organs petrified and unable to grown or age. in claudia's case specifically her brain ceased to finish developing at 14. her frontal lobe will never come in, because its development got cut off while she was still a child. it's why she often makes choices that aren't always rational, or why she might be blind to the intentions of others, namely the parisian coven. its part of why she can't see that she's being toyed with, and why she has such a desire for community, a desire to fit in and be seen as mature. that's the thing that makes her so tragic to me, she wants nothing more than to be seen as an adult, even though, in the eyes of both mortals and her immortal peers, she is not and never will be one. if anything, her attempts to do so will always and forever be seen as childish, like a little girl trying on her mother's oversized high heels for the first time.
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Sbsnsnnss this is such a random thought but I need you guys to understand that Classic Sonic is 2 separate guys to me at any point in time.
Like if we talk about any Sonic timeline stuff or Classic in his own games, okay yeah that's. That's younger Sonic. He's younger Sonic so he's shorter and rounder.
But for some reason if you stick Classic in the modern era or beside modern Sonic my brain is like "No, that’s the same guy. Same age. Just short"
Now, this train of thought is a prerequisite to understanding that during all of those sonic x shadow generations art posts that depict them in third wheel memes or in a "live classic reaction" my brain immediately goes "Okay, but what if they were a polycu–
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Huh? Sorry, what? What was I saying? ...Oh I remember. Don't know what that was. Anyways.
Classic/Modern/Shadow polycule
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