I finished The Kingfall Histories series by David Estes in less than two weeks.

Those were not short books but I was so hooked.

The stakes are pretty high through the entire series, so the end wasn't a big build up, but the expansive epilogues made up for that. It was a satisfying meandering through the peace most of the characters found after the brutal events of the series.

I am going to read the Fatemarked series at some point by the same author, but I am going to take a break from addictive fantasy series for a minute. lol

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

THE BROTHERS!!!!

❤️💙💛

TAILS FINALLY GOT SOME POPCORN!!! (Well for a minute there anyways lol) 🙌🍿

Kamome Shirahama’s Owl House illustration!

+ Dana’s reply!

phoenix wright: ace attorney trilogy is on sale for less than $10 this week. that's 3 games for basically $3.30 each. each of those games are 20+ hours long.

become a visual novel player. do it.

Do you like sci-fi and indie animation? Check out Monkey Wrench!

day 5: hands for holding ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

"... What I thought was that if you-- maybe just once a year-- if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-- because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world..." "Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Wherever I am in the world, I'll come back here--" "On Midsummer Day," she said. "At midday. As long as I live. As long as I live..."

(from Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass)

That's all that's left. Fifty-seven pages of research, two bottles of morphine and one ticket back to the Capital. The train departs at dusk.

An illustration for a Patho AU inspired by Bulgakov I'll probably never write properly but it's been worming in my brain for over two years now.

It’s back!

If you missed it the first time around, the “human are weird” anthology is back for a second printing. (There’s even a new story included: “Black Box” by Dara Brophy.)

Here’s the blurb:

In science fiction, humans are usually boring compared to other races: small, weak, with no claws or tentacles, and no special abilities to speak of. But what if we were the impressive ones, the unsettling ones, the ones talked about by all the other aliens? What if we're weird?

If you’d like a collection of excellent stories about humans inspiring awe, fear, and utter confusion, it’s available everywhere books are sold!

theres literally a show with 30+ seasons of beautiful autistic men in power armor beating the shit out of each other and developing the most insane codependent gayer-than-being-gay relationships but only like ~50 people on this website post about it

figuring out how to draw my favourite girlboy from harble mornets or whatever that thing's called

Series: Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Artist: Kamo Kamen Publication: Animage Magazine (05/2024) Source: Scanned from personal my collection

I'm gonna miss you when you go to heaven 'n I don't.

FRICK IT, i made this about a month ago and worked up some courage to post cuz i'm pretty proud of this ngl. i'm no longer content to simply sit upon this and show nary a soul.

SAD SACK, by the immensely skilled artistic duo comprised of @meanbossart and @barbatusart, has refused to leave the corners of my mind, yall. it lives here rent-free

i definitely have trouble pinning down which of the characters is my favorite, but Stone is easily the one that intrigues me the most. revisiting his chapter causes my art brain to spin around in my skull like a hurricane

guess i'm a fan art guy now. fine by me, man

Chester the luggage automaton friend.

From Etho's old series: TerraFirmaPunk (TerraFirmaCraft season 3)