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goryhorroor · 1 year

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horror + final shots

#horror #horror movies #invasion of the body snatchers #the thing #in the mouth of madness #the texas chain saw massacre #the witch #it follows #halloween #the wicker man #rec #the conjuring #moviesedit #horroredit #filmedit #cinema

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frownyalfred · 18 days

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the number of times I’ve followed a tiktok fic rec link only to find out the account has me blocked on tumblr is…higher than I thought it would be, that’s for sure.

#I totally get wanting to block accounts don’t get me wrong #but also!! I wanna read the fic recs too 😭😭😭#tumblr #tiktok #I’m sure I’m on several block chains at this point but still :/#let me SEE the Batfamily fic recs

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whilereadingandwalking · 4 months

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As always, my favorites of the year list was beset by last minute changes, doubts, and decisions, especially because this year I forced myself into a top 10!

Second photo is my honorable mentions...I literally already have regrets! Ask me anything about these top choices—I'm happy to share my reviews, thoughts, and more!

My Top Ten of 2023:

Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu tr. Seidensticker

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Ace by Angela Chen

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez tr. McDowell

Honorable mentions:

Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli by Karl Thomas Smith

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami tr. Gabriel

The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care by Tracey Lindeman

Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz

The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

Sons of Darkness (Jan ’24) by Gourav Mohanty

The End of August by Yū Miri tr. Giles

(Unpictured): Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

(Unpictured): The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

#book stack #chain gang all stars #book recs #book recommendations #great books #favorite books #2023 wrap up

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overlyenthusiasticfictionreader · 4 months

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Fanbinding of Gilded Chain by Sroloc_Elbisivni

Gilded Chain by Sroloc_Elbisivni

The throne of Iacon's Primes is draped in golden chains. The glitter hides how strong they are--and how impossible to escape.

Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Megaton/Optimus Prime Characters: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Soundwave, Ravage Words: 3,710

I typeset Gilded Chain for the 2023 Renegade Tiny Book Bang, way back in August. Another member claimed the typeset and bound me a fabulous tiny book. However, while all of that was going on, I was also struck with a vision of a book in gold chains. It took me a while to puzzle out how to make this happen, but here we are now. This is now the second copy of Gilded Chain I have sitting on my shelf!

Here are some exterior shots. I embedded the eyepins in layers of thin cardboard, so they were sunk down into the covers instead of above/below/beside:

The endbands match up well with the chains despite being thread:

With a name like "Gilded Chain", I had to go ham with gold every place I could fit it in, which also includes the endpapers, the frontispiece, and the interior title:

On the inside I wanted to continue the them of ostentatious luxury, so the dropcaps are very elaborate. And the textbreaks are thematically appropriate chains:

So, this is a tiny book, letter-octavo sized. I have a terrible time telling how big are books in photos, so I'm experimenting with some comparisons:

Obviously the ruler is most accurate, but the shell is aesthetically appealing :)

I'm thrilled to have pulled of this cover! There was a lot of fucking around and finding out. @sroloc--elbisivni has their copy and has graciously allowed me to share with everyone online. Thank you wonderful author! I greatly enjoy this story, hopefully a bit of fanart tells you how much!

Also located on A03 here.

#book binding #my books #Cat's Paw Bindery #Gilded Chain #sroloc--elbisivni #transformers #fic rec

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twig-tea · 4 months

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Top 5 moments of yearning in 2023 bl (no cheating you can only pick 5)

WOW. wowowowowowow. Wow. It's almost as though you saw my other answers before asking this (which I know you didn't because this came in first and I am Slow). Rude.

First, I need to establish a very important distinction: Pining (my beloved) is when you think or are determined that it will never happen; yearning (also my beloved) is when you think it could and are really struggling to hold yourself back from just going for it right now for Reasons. The possibility of fulfillment is the main difference.

Second distinction: Yearning is not necessarily sexual tension. It can be an element of it, but yearning is about wanting something, whether that's sex, closeness, acceptance, or something else. It's about wanting existing barriers to drop that are preventing you from having the thing you want most in that moment, whether they're internal or external, physical or metaphysical.

Finally, as much as I would love to talk about only my favourite shows exclusively forever, you did ask for my top five moments rather than top 5 shows that contain yearning, so I stuck to the rules. All that is to say, there are a couple of series on this list that I don't actually recommend lol

With that out of the way:

Top [For Real Only] 5 Moments of Yearning in 2023 BLs Because Shan Hates Me

1. Jae Won yanking and then patting down Ji Hyun before putting him in a cab, The Eighth Sense

Basically this whole show is yearning (except for the brief interlude for pining). I chose this moment because this was the first moment I was certain they both actually knew what was going on and it was clear to them both that they could have this, at least in theory; the tension felt palpable, and I really wasn't sure whether they were going to hold back or not. Jae Won is supposed to be saying goodbye, but he can't keep it in to the point where he just can't stop touching Ji Hyun (that backpack pull that happens immediately before this, guh), and Ji Hyun is also so clearly soaking it up. When the cab pulls up and they just keep staring, there was a real question in my mind about whether they were going to break and just go for it or not. For these two it's not just about sex; they yearn for version of one another they are when they're together, and they don't want the spell to end.

2. Khun Lu and Ken almost kiss while naked in bed, Chains of Heart

I'm still not entirely sure I know what happened in that show, but the yearning between these two was palpable the whole time. In this particular scene, Ken has just seen a hint the previous night that Lu is in fact Din, his missing-presumed-dead lover, and he's already previously rejected Lu on the premise that Din is still alive and is the only man he'll ever love, even though he feels drawn to Lu. Up until then, his yearning was for Din, though he also felt something for Lu. Now suddenly he's presented with the possibility that he's already reunited with his lover, which is all he wants, though he's unsure that's what's happening. On the other side of this equation, Lu has been wanting as much of Ken as he can charm, trick, or beg for. He just wants him now, here, under the pretense of this new body, because he knows Ken will never be safe if Din is thought to still be alive. At the same time, he is torn between wanting to be near Ken to keep him safe and wanting to stay away to keep him safe. Yearning barely covers it.

3. The post-sex breakdown of Yai and Jom in I Feel You Linger In The Air

This scene was particularly painful because the yearning only hits harder after his orgasm, rather than the catharsis Jom was probably expecting. In this scene they weren't just yearning for one another physically like in earlier parts of the show; they are yearning for a future they can't have together but both want and in this moment feels like it should be possible. Yai really looks like he wants to meld into Jom's skin. The way that sex does not break the yearning is quietly devastating. Is there anything worse than having everything you want in your arms but knowing you can't keep it?

4. Patts desperate to get through to Saengai on the other side of the door, La Pluie

@liyazaki the tumblr gif search is not crediting you properly so adding a tag to you here!

Listen, Patts has been yearning for reciprocation from his soulmate for years before he meets Saengtai, and it did not at all stop once they met, it just changed in quality. He's always yearned rather than pined because with soulmates comes the expectation that it will work, because of 'destiny'. We saw him say in a flashback that he thought his soulmate could be platonic, and I do believe him when he says to Nara that he'd be fine with that, because what he really yearns for is to be understood and wanted for himself (hence the heartbreaking line "is it that hard to choose me?" that comes before this). The fact that someone had a "destined" connection to him and rejected him for years took a real toll on this man. The way he claws at the door in this scene will stay with me into 2024.

5. Minato and Shin at the Onsen, Minato's Laundromat s2

As much as I dislike where this season went, a yearning list would not be complete without Shin and Minato. We spend a lot of time with Shin's yearning in this show, but we get glimpses that Minato is actually yearning too throughout the season and especially at the onsen. In this scene, he tries to get drunk to get past his own insecurities, but it doesn't work as well as he wanted. This scene was all about Minato articulating all the ways he also yearns, and how it's overwhelming for him--and how that overwhelm is frustrating. I love this outpouring of Minato's frustration around his own internal blockers to what he wants. Also Shin swallowing in this gif makes it perfectly clear he is also Suffering. Perfection.

Bonus and it doesn't count as cheating because it's not a BL SO THERE:

Sam and Mon comforting one another after Sam's grandmother found out about their relationship, GAP

This show was such a mess but my god these two women wanted one another so badly, and I appreciated the hell out of that. It felt like yearning rather than pining until near the end, because all through their getting together phase they insisted on such an intense level of denial that they didn't even seem to worry about what they wanted being impossible, they just knew they didn't have it yet. So they did things like bite one another and pretend it was platonic and wonder why they weren't satisfied. I was thinking about going with an early scene where they barely resist the urge to make out, but instead I went with this one because I think it's a double-whammy. in this scene, Sam is trying to get Mon to tell her what's wrong, and Mon confesses that Sam's grandmother saw her at her house and asked her to leave Sam. Instead of pulling away, Mon clings to Sam, and Sam apologizes to her for not being there for her. Sam thinks she can talk her around to accepting Mon. "Don't worry; I'll talk to her. We'll get through this". The yearning here is for them to be together and safe; accepted by their families and happy, and not feeling this pain. I don't recommend this show, but there is something to be said for the way it showed the impact of intergenerational trauma and the very real yearning so many of us feel to just be accepted as we are.

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blinkpen · 4 months

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just another cross post

also a random completely tonal whiplash topic wise of 'well now that i'm thinking about where the phrase Pay It Forward comes from-

#sporadic warbling #discussion of hollywood being bad wrt racism casting predators and erasure #i barely remember the movie itself only the positive impact it had on me and how i want to be as a person #so i dont know if i'd rec watching it?#but the gyst is: make it your mission to do surprisingly big favors for three strangers but ask that instead of ever repaying -you-#when they are able/to the best of their ability they also do big favors for 3 total strangers and ask -them- to Pay It Forward as well #and this kind of ripple effect could spread and do so much good and cause miracles to happen to people just out of the blue #even thousands of miles away from the first person to do this in any given chain #u can see how a concept such would inform the largest most influential alter being an almost naively tenderhearted hippie type

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wildfangz · 4 months

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My project zomboid character Emmett Martinez!

Once Rosewood, Kentucky's local heartthrob and playboy. Amateur mechanic. Hates being told what to do and likes things on his terms. Before the outbreak he was a burglar that did some manual labor and landscaping on the side to help pay the bills. When things started he figured it was some stupid hoax or at worst the result of some weird drug. Figured it'd blow over. Now he puts his burgling skills to use sneaking past hordes and looting whatever is left

#ts4 #sims 4 #project zomboid #??? does this count enough to share in that tag #sim: emmett #i actually forgot he wears a dog tag and not a chain which is so silly bc i had backstory reasons for it #if anyone has any recs for some baggier similarly colored jeans for men let me know #all the ones i had thatd look best actually are female frame only :/

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itsanidiom · 9 days

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SAME VIBE BL RECOMMENDATIONS

Gay Gangsters

#If you liked blank you'll love blank #lol #kinnporsche #history 3: trapped #chains of heart the series #kinnporche the series #bl drama #same vibe bl recs #bl recommendation

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gryphonlover · 1 month

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A Little to the Left by cerame

Words: 10,591 Chapters: 1/1 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Summary: Their smithy is a little strange, a little mischievous, a little feral, but it’s fine, because he’s their brother. After all, he's a hero, and every hero was strange in their own way. These are all perfectly normal consequences of an adventure or three... right?

Thoughts: This is one of my personal favorites. I don't want to spoil it, but if you're a Four fan this is a must-read. It's very chill, just some shenanigans, so don't worry about the lack of warnings.

#gryphon reads #fanfiction #fic rec friday #linked universe #lu four #lu shadow #lu chain #found family #fluff #bonding #emotional hurt/comfort #lu four-centric

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firenati0n · 3 months

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y'all it is 5:10am, but stay with me for a second, okay?

apologies and bear with me for being embarrassing and effusive and gushy on main yet fucking again (i cannot be helped!) but I had just the most utterly garbage day connected to a particulary shitty week [insert "lemon, it's wednesday" gif here] and I was just feeling very out of sorts for a myriad of personal reasons and decided to read (and subsequently reread) a fic by the lovely @myheartalivewrites called Paper Chains.

I had been saving this specific fic for a day I was feeling low and needed some real pining longing yearning slow burn (yeehaw!). That day arrived. Here I am.

When I tell you...my ass has been thinking about this fic on loop. I need all 25k words tattooed behind my eyelids. I reread it about half an hour ago with ugly anime-worthy tears streaming down my face. I felt a bruise and crack very deep in my heart start to heal over. I cannot tell you why, for I do not understand it myself. All I know is that when I started reading, my chest hurt in the worst way possible, and now it hurts in the best way possible. So now I'm the town crier, here to tell you to go read it if you haven't. And if you have, go reread it.

Everyone go read Paper Chains right the fuck now. Go!!! And then report back to me for screaming purposes. I'll be here. 💛

p.s. the fic also features and links some truly wonderful art by @lizzie-bennetdarcy (that you can find here and here, for starters...I won't spoil the fic one!!). A delightful addition to the experience. Big fan of your work always!! ❤️❤️❤️

I will always be in awe of artists and writers and creators—you pour SO MUCH of yourselves, hearts and souls and all, into your work. When I consume it, my cup fills yet again. Thank you! A privilege, as always.

#when i tell you #i am verklempt #apologies for being fucking embarrassing but like #holy fuck #myheartalivewrites #my post #paper chains #rwrb fic #rwrb #roop recs

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spectralsleuth · 10 months

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TOP FIVE FIC CHAIN

RULES:

Link your top 5 fics you've read.

They don't have to be for any particular fandom.

Ping at least 3 other people to give their recs.

if you get pinged again, just link the next five favorite you have.

Include title/link/fandom/rating(if available).

The Dragon Kings Temple-Stargate/Avatar the Last Airbender crossover where Zuko and Toph end up on Earth in Stargate Command under Cheyenne Mountain Washington. Lots of language lore and smart science. Rated T.

Presque Vu- The titular Inception fic. Arthur-centric backstory to the movie that is totally believable, and written by one of the greats. Rated M.

Underdark- TMNT2003. Leo and Mikey are lost underground. Rated G.

Now What I'm Gonna Say May Sound Indelicate- It Chapter2. Eddie Kaspbrak lives. Medical romantic drama. Rated E.

The Whispering Forest and Other Tales- Going to cheat and rec a series. Feudal era ROTTMNT/TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo. Incredibly written and historical drama and romance. Rated T-E.

@thisonesforturtles @olliethescribe @asummersday @radishhqueen @plothooksinc @dangerous-advantage @teainthesnow

#fic rec #fanfiction #tmnt #inception #stargate #reblog chain

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mightbeart · 1 year

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Some HDB doodles! Art is hard, party all night!

The Cowboy Du Bois doodles are fanart of the wonderful fic, 1866: Martinez, Navada (by iblankedonmyname on AO3, but idk if they have a tumblr lol)

And then a stand alone Ratty Du Bois! Which is fanart of a fic ( The Pied Piper of Martinaise by Folle on AO3) which is based on fan art by @pterygoidwalk which is based on a dream from @empurrortiberius

I gotta draw more rats, and more Ratty Du Bois, because god. them peets are fun

oh and also there's a terrier du bois thrown in there for good measure lol

#disco elysium #disco elysium fan art #fic recs #disco elysium fic recs #1866: Martinez Navada #The Pied Piper of Martinaise #Ratty Du Bois #Harry Du Bois #Harrier Du Bois #HDB #fan art of fan fic of fan art of a dream #lets keep that chain going folks lmfao

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aldrendaux · 5 months

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Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Time (Linked Universe) & Everyone Characters: Time (Linked Universe), Legend (Linked Universe), Sky (Linked Universe), Warriors (Linked Universe), Wind (Linked Universe), Wild (Linked Universe), Twilight (Linked Universe), Hyrule (Linked Universe), Four (Linked Universe) Additional Tags: Time (Linked Universe)-centric, Fluff and Angst, Panic Attacks, Nightmares, Regret, Phobias, Brotherly Love, Brothers, Friendship, Platonic Cuddling, Alcohol, Minor Link/Malon (Legend of Zelda), Minor Link/Ravio (Legend of Zelda), Minor Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Eight times Time unintentionally proves why he is their 'old man'.

One where they return the favour.

#linked universe #fic rec #legend of zelda #lu time #lu legend #lu sky #lu warriors #lu wind #lu wild #lu twilight #lu hyrule #lu four #lu the chain

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sauljudgeman · 4 months

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Music Recommendations Part 5

1. Carry the Zero - Built to Spill