Guys HEAR ME OUT!

We know that Lucifer is a chef/really good at cooking, and Beelzebub is the sin of gluttony.

If they collaborated to make a restaurant together, what would we get?

APPLEBEE’S!

Do with this information what you will.

"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

marcille is very protective (and jealous)

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

"Come now, I hear you called him a soft-spoken hypocrite. What did he call you to prompt that?"

Cliopher bit his lip. "A reasonable man."

Cliopher thought for a moment, turning so many half-articulated thoughts into words. "I know you are my favourite poet. I know you have a great mind for legal niceties, and an alarmingly loose grasp of what a triangle is. I know your eyes glaze over whenever I start to speak about budgets. I know you try your hardest at whatever you set your hand to, except for math and, apparently, other things involving precise directions. I know you love with your whole heart, and that your heart is as broad and deep and splendid as the Wide Seas. I know you have excellent taste in friends. I know you are immensely curious, and delighted with all things, big and small. I know you love the common and ordinary goods with an intensity greater than the sun." "That's... that's not one thing," Fitzroy said unsteadily. "One thing I have learned over the years, is that people are not islands, but archipelagoes." "Don't say it like that, Kip. Don't make it easy." "It is easy, as easy as a poem, and it is hard, hard as living in the world."

At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard

Just contemplating how Victoria Goddard skillfully used worldbuilding to not only pack, but credibly pack, just so. much. parent-based narrative drama/suffering into Jemis Greenwing

You got your “tragically orphaned scion” “major daddy issues” “mysterious maternal-line powers” AND “only son of a forbidden marriage” and that’s before she even gets to his stepparents 😳

you can fit sooooooo much angst in this bad boy

(I’m not going to slap Jemis’s ass, that’s Perry’s job to do or delegate)

if i said sloooowburn platonic to romantic bard emperor x asexual policy wonk forbidden touch romance with repression that goes so bonkers hard that you'll start chewing the book. then would you read it. must i tropeify everything. can't you just know that if i point to a book and all i can say is 'haha!' it'll blow your tits right off. please. trust me. take my hand. read the lays of the hearth fire duology today

surprised more people aren’t talking about the “kabru might be the child of an incubi” comic that also features “laios knows way too much about monster reproduction.” was that one just too easy or

He could not. He was not Aurelius, whose magic stirred the sky. He was not Elonoa'a, who could hear the winds whisper of far islands. He was not Fitzroy fucking Angursell, who had written the best poem of an age. He was Cliopher Mdang, and he was not good enough.

At the Feet of the Sun, by Victoria Goddard

My captaaaaain! I read Hands of the Emperor because of you and I am *obsessed*. It's so... there are books that try to keep you reading because Things Are Happening, but HotE is so quiet with it? It is all of my favorite older relatives telling me stories without all of the context and showing me what they love(d) about their lives and the people in them, and the regrets that they can't *really* bring themselves to regret and this book just loves people so goddamn much that I can't stand it. You start reading and it's so comfortable to pick up and put back down that even the hard emotional moments feel like lightly defined colors but clear brushstrokes and now I am three quarters of the way through the book and I am going to die if I can't get more of my uncle Clioper's slice of life in the government of fantasy 1800s. I shall never be the same.

You put it into words!!! Some fantasy books are really fast paced and chaotic, but HOTE will have you SCREAMING about middle aged men DARING to make small talk and look one another in the eye. It'll have you laughing hysterically about a career burecrat auditing a bank in his home town. And then something totally batshit will happen like a lord mage turning someone into a table and it's never mentioned again. This book makes so tender and happy and also feral. What a read!!

HOTE got rid of the empire, but thank God they didn't establish a proper democracy. Regardless of whether or not he was in the running, Cliopher Mdang would have won by a LANDSLIDE

new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

Luckily, I haven’t ever been a big blog. No one sent me nasty messages.

Luckily, I had 2-3 years of figuring out I was ace and enjoying the beautiful community my fellow aces and aros had built. Watching that community get attacked so quickly and viciously, you couldn’t block people fast enough.

Luckily, I was out of high school when this happened, because one of my high school best friends - who knew I was ace - started reblogging the “discourse” about how asexuality wasn’t queer.

Sadly, I no longer see pics of people with their new black rings on my dashboard.

Sadly, I no longer see blogs dedicated to telling young questioning people that no matter what label they end up using, at the end of the day consent should be respected. That it’s okay to have a messy experience. That it’s okay to use as many words as you need to describe what you want. That labels and people can change, but friends supported each other.

Sadly, asexual book club stopped. I really miss that.

I don't think younger/newer users fully grasp the shit show that ace discourse was around 2014-17

It was so hostile that, to this day, discussions that begin to derail just enough can make me physically nauseous, some specific mockery trigger crying sessions years later. We lost most accounts with any sort of ace positivity. There was no information, no support, and all this damage was done predominantly by other queer people.

All this to say that you, however you identify yourself, should be engaging with aphobic comments the same way you do any hate. We don't sugarcoat or try to be comprehensive with people who are blatantly racist, homophobic or terfs, so why give it a pass just because it's coming from a queer person? I see how this tolerance goes and it's done enough damage as it is.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THAT SURFS UP IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES it’s one of the very few movies that if it’s on, all my attention will be on it until it’s done. This is very impressive. I have tons of ADHD and took many many creative writing classes. Is it a perfect movie? No. But it’s one of the most enjoyable movies to rewatch, because there are so many tiny background details that you won’t catch the first few times you watch it. Honestly, the whole plot, set up, details, are all executed well in with the intent of FUN and LAUGHTER. That doesn’t mean it lacks heart and soul either. It’s got plenty of that too.

hands on the wall foaming at the mouth screaming and crying about how Surf's Up (2007) is the greatest movie ever . to think, i loved it as a kid, BUT WATCHING IT AT 19 YEARS OF AGE???? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THE MOVIE IS SO GOOD i know JOY

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.