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soapcan18 · 7 months

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A KINDLING OF SORTS IS HELLA GOOD!!!

I LOVE the chaotic ending mashing a bunch of parts from the album’s songs together (fun fact you can hear the lapis lazuli yells in it 🤭) (also the entire song is that one torches motif)

anyway don’t mind me I’m just listening to all the interludes.

ALSO DON’T U DARE SLEEP ON SMOKE RISING OML THAT ONE IS SO BEAUTIFUL ❤️

#the oh hellos #oh hellos #boreas #a kindling of sorts #smoke rising like lifted hands #folk music #indie folk #indie music #indie rock #Song recs #music stuff

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unpretty · 1 month

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i really do my best with literary fiction but the problem is that they keep sneaking edutainment in there but there's not like, a blacklistable tag for that, that tells me i don't actually want to read this and would be better off reading nonfiction on the covered topics. i'm sure this seems like a specific complaint but it's happened like three times in the last year and i only managed to finish one of them.

like does this book actually have queer representation in a way that will make me feel seen, or will this book have a part where the main character seems to look at the straight person they're expecting to exist beyond the fourth wall in order to teach them about stonewall or whatever. are they going to start 'as you know bob'-ing actual history at me. why does this keep happening. do the writers actually want to do the fiction equivalent of those youtube channels that just read wikipedia articles, or can i blame bad editors to make myself feel better

#original #this probably explains a lot about my 'no middle sliders' stance on books #i guess blackouts SORT of did something like this but in that case it felt really natural and flowed with the core conceit #so i'm not including it in this complaint of mine #if they were all like that i would be fine with it #even though between you and me blackouts was REALLY hard to read on a kindle. read that one in print imho.

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keymintt · 2 months

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in warmth, in cold

#art #body horror #coyotes #digital #grimm #yarrow #ocs #honeybee #my art #did the grimm one first and than i realized how i do cool stuff for grimm but not always for yarrow like hey wait a minute #anyways these are both partially inspired by songs on their playlists #a kindling of sorts by the oh hellos for yarrow and slate by model/actriz for grimm hee hoo #doing those studies of the disco elysium art style in 2022 fucking rewrote my own style i swear

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mell0bee · 1 year

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the oh hellos weren’t kidding. when the cold wind rolls in from the north what am i to do fr fr

#my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline!!! setting fuel to the fire of that greco-roman dream!!!#purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams IT DONT BRING ME RELIEF #NO IT DONT BRING ME NOTHING‼️‼️BUT‼️#the oh hellos #this doesn’t mean anything i just love passerine #bee post #and then it ends so abruptly and then a kindling of sorts kicks in…… aaaaaaa

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darubyprincx · 4 days

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ok give me like two hours to write a oneshot about lag-induced chronic pain and its effects on players (specifically in minecraft)

#ray's tag #'ray how do you have such a good idea of what lag feels like' you see. In our headspace when our brain is going a billion miles an hour #i have to focus up here to move around and talk and things #so when our brain is going haywire i am sometimes physically unable to focus #and it affects my physical state pretty heavily. it manifests as me basically glitching the fuck out #it is NOT fun it is EXTREMELY exhausting and VERY painful. and also from what my headmates have told me pretty scary to watch.#so yeah lets just say that i have experience with this sort of thing #also i played mcpe on a kindle fire for almost ten years and my internet connection was TERRIBLE #rip my ping when i tried to play mineplex

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vashti-lives · 1 month

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I have finally conceded that gremlins have eaten my kindle voyage and I do, in fact, need to replace it. It's been more than year of waiting for it to "turn up" interspersed with frantic episodes of looking. It's not happening! It's in the negaverse now.

WHY IS THE EREADER MARKET SO FUCKING TERRIBLE??? ALL I WANT IS A REASONABLY PRICED SMALL-ISH EREADER WITH DEDICATED PAGE TURN BUTTONS.

That's all! I don't need to be able to write on it! I don't need it to play videos! I don't need a big screen! I don't want to pay $200+ dollars. I just want to be able to read long fanfic on an e-ink screen again.

#ugh #the options are #buy a used kindle that is either quite old and unsupported #or way too expensive for a secondhand device #or pay like $200+#i'll probably end up with a boox page or boox palma eventually #but jfc that's so much money and i don't *love* either design #for now... might just buy a used kindle voyage #i've been peaking in the ereader market now and then for the past four or five years #and it's just gotten worse and worse and worse #is there a third party ereader app that uses existing metadata?#it baffles me to this day that i can't sort and search my kindle library by genre #amazon has the metadata!!!#boox at least isn't restricted to one ebook ecosystem #but the boox palma and boox page are both weird shaped imo #and the boox page doesn't really have any good cover options #i've heard mixed reviews about the boox brand cover #and literally the only other cover is a weird aliexpress thing #boox palma #boox page #if you have one of these two devices what is it like reading fanfic on them?#can you download it directly from the site while on the device?#do you read via a browser or a third party reader app?

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bookwyrminspiration · 11 months

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Keefe made an offended noise. “I meant it! I’m trying to make you feel better about your sad life, because Foster keeps getting on my case about being nice to you and she’s so stubborn about it--and maybe I just like you, you ever thought about that?”

Send me an emoticon for a fic snippet :3

#submission #kotlc #kam #quil's queries #kindling-of-sorts #this line might get changed or reworked but it was silly so I wanted to share :)#thank you for the :] he looks very polite #i hope this snippet is adequate compensation :)#also fun fact this is the most recent line I've written so

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antisocialdork · 1 year

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Here it is, fellow KOTLC fans!! Our disastrous Council playing Monopoly. Hope you guys enjoy!

(And if you do, I may plan a sequel? Remember those Nerf guns mentioned at the end?)

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It was Oralie’s idea to begin a game night for the Council. There was reluctance at first, but eventually she managed to convince the entire body of twelve to meet in the lounge.

She had known it would be a disaster at the least; what she had not expected was the full-out war that was currently occurring.

Oralie sighed and pinched her nose. “Terik, you landed on Bronte’s property. Give him his money.”

Terik shook his head, giving Bronte a playful nudge. “Nope, he’s in jail. I’m not giving money to a criminal.”

“You have to,” Ramira chided him.

“He wouldn’t have to if Emery would bail me out,” Bronte announced, giving the spokesperson a sharp look.

“Look,” Emery tried to reason, “I would bail you out, but I’m going bankrupt from Zarina’s property.”

Zarina smirked, one hand idly playing playing with her long braid.

Bronte waved Emery off. “Believe what you want to believe. And it’s been your turn for ages— why don’t you pick up the dice and roll? Otherwise we’ll be here until I hit my six-thousandth birthday.”

Emery took his turn, resulting in losing nearly all of his money to Zarina again. He blew out a breath and eyed the twenty dollars he still had left.

“This is going swell,” he muttered. He pushed his chair back from the table. “I’m going to the bathroom— no cheating while I’m gone.”

“Of course!” Oralie smiled at Emery’s retreating back as Bronte snuck a handful of cash from the bank.

On Bronte’s turn, he drew a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card— and held it up triumphantly for all to see. “Now,” he announced. “Prepare to lose.”

“You don’t even have a property yet,” Alina pointed out haughtily, her eyes flitting to the several properties she owned.

Bronte ignored her, his stormy gray eyes inspecting the board. On his first roll, he landed on the most expensive lot— that also happened to turn in the most revenue. He bought it instantly, of course.

Clarette cursed and threw her figurine at Bronte. “You absolute donkey. You knew I wanted that one.”

He smirked and shrugged, leaning his elbows on the table with his hands clasped. “Maybe I did. However, at the pace you’re moving around the board, it’s entirely possible that you wouldn’t have made it one lap around, let alone land on the lot you want to.”

Terik grinned. “Easy, tiger. No need to bring out your rapier wit.”

“He never puts it away,” Emery muttered as he returned to his seat.

Two hours later, at 1 AM in the morning, they were still playing.

Emery had long since gone bankrupt and given up, so now he sat and watched. Alina had eventually tired of the game and left to “tidy herself up”. The other Councillors were spread out around the lounge.

Somehow, in some way Oralie couldn’t quite comprehend, Bronte had achieved a mountain of cash, which he kept stacked neatly in front of him.

Bronte was tired, Oralie could tell— his insomnia had been bothering him— but the sleepier he got, the more energetic he became, until Oralie could almost feel the energy radiating from him.

The pretty Councillor shared a look with Emery, and they both agreed: Bronte would be a holy terror to deal with the next day.

“Why don’t we quit for the night?” Oralie yawned, feeling tired herself. Ramira and Darek agreed, both stifling their own yawns.

“No way,” Bronte answered her. “Not until I win.”

“You might as well,” Emery told Oralie. “He won’t let you leave until you finish.”

At precisely 2:34 AM, Bronte won the game. There were annoyed huffs from the other Councillors (because they didn’t like it when Bronte won) but Bronte just smirked and helped Emery put the game away.

“I would have won if I was still playing,” Alina announced as she waltzed back in, tossing her caramel-colored hair.

“You couldn’t find your way out of a paper bag,” Bronte and Clarette snarked back simultaneously.

Alina put her hands on her hips. “Don’t get sassy with me.”

Emery pushed his way in before a fight could start. “Okay, okay, no need to argue. I think this is our cue that maybe we need to sleep.”

Oralie laughed. “Definitely. But really, guys,” she smiled around at the other Councillors, “That was fun. What should we play next time?”

“Aggravation,” Bronte muttered, his personality coming down from his energy high.

Terik laughed. “What a fitting title for you, Bronte. Funny how that works, huh?”

“It doesn’t have to be a board game, does it?” Bronte asked Oralie. “Suppose we do something else. I’m betting I can get something that the humans call a Nerf gun.”

“I’ll look into it.” Oralie smiled and raised her eyebrows. “Same time next week?

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ivymoonstudios · 7 months

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reading is better with (ghostly) friends

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givemebishies · 2 months

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I’ve never annotated a book before and ABM is one of the first books I’ve been obsessed with in a very long time so I thought I’d give annotation a try with it 🪽🌹🕊️🍷

Also I’m using a tail feather my little birdie just lost today as my bookmark and I wanted everyone to see what a good job she did with making it :> 🦜

#thank you lilo for the bookmark that even matches the color scheme!! she’s an artist truly!#chatterbun #angels before man #abm #I’m hoping to annotate #angels and man #AS I read it lol #I highlighted quite a lot in my kindle version of ABM #as I read it the first time #so that helped me get started w my physical copy without having to fully start over #but I am sort of rereading it again as I annotate it so I can highlight even more lol

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wingsandpetals · 10 months

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should start making 3x3 moodboards again

#our post comrade.#i used to have a folder of aesthetic pictures on my kindle fire and when i didn't have any internet i would use my collage app to rearrange #them in all sorts of ways. for my ocs and everything i could think of

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soapcan18 · 8 months

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NOT ONLY are there O Sleeper motifs throughout Torches, BUT they are further connected by these two lyrics:

“It’s got me lying there awake with a hand on a gun while turning shadows into shapes”

“While the weary nations weep awakening me from a dream I see the moonlight steal across my sheets”

DO U GET IT DO U UNDERSTAND AHHHH

#i LOVE torches and o sleeper is one of my all time fav songs so this??? them being connected??? AHHHH #kindling of sorts instrumental is there too in case you didn’t know!!#the oh hellos #oh hellos #o sleeper #torches #music stuff #folk music #indie music #song lyrics #the oh hellos lyrics #fav lyrics

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katya-goncharov · 7 months

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i wonder if it's an adhd thing that even though i read a massive amount of books, definitely more than the average person, i absolutely can't handle books with small font

#like i'll read 700 page stephen king books with no trouble at all if the font is big enough #but then i pick up a 180 page book where the font is really tiny and the paragraphs are super long and suddenly i can't concentrate and it'#this massive chore to get through #anyway society if they printed large font books for neurodivergent readers. i feel like that would be so helpful not just for people like m #but also for people who are dyslexic or reluctant readers for all sorts of other reasons #(i know in the past you did used to be able to get specifically large font books! but it doesn't seem to be a thing anymore which sucks.#sometimes if you're neurodivergent you still want a physical book that you can read and not to have to use kindle all the time)

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endykelopaedia · 2 years

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I love Akaza actually im obsessed he's my evil little meow meow i love my impulsive morally bankrupt tragic backstory incel moment son who looks like a girl so much. hes my everything and hes my babygirl. i need to devour him. buy him icecream. murder him in cold blood. he's my precious girlthing. my trophy wife. i love him in an extremely lesbicious way. <3333

#killing rengoku kyojuro was his incel moment #actually insane how bad he wanted kyo's kindle wood #akaza #kny #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer #onesided renkaza is so good and funny #mutual akaren tho i can appreciate it in a bitter exes sort of way #i will headcanon my way into making renkaza a butch4butch ship tbh #AKAZA TRANSMASC LESBIAN SO REAL

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mummer · 1 year

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that quote from the once and future king thats like. To go alone on an airplane for the first time used to be so exciting that it nearly choked you.

#i was thinking abt it on my trip this fall. when i suddenly realized that going on a plane was no longer very exciting and cool #but was just sort of an uncomfortable boring thing you want to get over with.#but going on planes DID used to be so exciting that it nearly choked me ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️#went to my kindle copy of the book and found like over a hundred highlighted passages. The man can write a sentence idk what to tell you

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fantastic-nonsense · 1 year

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it's 2am and my Kindle app is FINALLY usable again after sorting through my books and comics, which are now all in the same place (aka my Kindle app) after the disaster that was the Amazon/Comixology integration back in February. I kept putting this re-organization off because I knew it was going to be a ton of mindless, boring work, but after 2.5 hours it's finally done! I might sort my books out between fiction and non-fiction eventually, but for now...this is good enough

Sidenote: I still want to maim whichever Amazon thinkgroup decided to shut down the Comixology app and stick everything in Kindle. It sucks. There's no effective sorting techniques, single issues often show up out-of-order due to Kindle's incredibly limited alphabetization/numbering scheme, and the lack of collection and collation mechanisms for comic runs is immensely frustrating. That being said, at least they're all findable again now.

#personal #my books #also the kindle app sucks SO MUCH as a functional piece of software #the number of times it crashed on me while I was sorting through everything....smh

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