idk why but this part in the book got to meeee

i wanted to practice style diversity so i did the comic in the style of @caricatureofacorpse (please check them out their style is soooooo)

List of Book!Crowley things I think you should know:

Owns a collection of soul music (that he's very proud of)

Has snake skin boots that may or may not be his feet

Has a tendency to hiss when he forgets himself

Whispers commentary to Aziraphale while the Metatron and Beelzebub discuss if Armageddon should happen

Is an optimist who believes the Universe will take care of him

Reads novels

Loves naps, particularly after a large meal

Bought petrol just for the bullet hole decals

Doesn't make reservations because that's something that only happens to "other people"

Believes every car has a cassette player, so every car he drives does, even if it's not supposed to

Breathes life back into a dove Aziraphale accidentally smothered in his jacket

Likes classical music, but can't listen to it because the cassettes keep turning into "Best of Queen" albums

Thinks about putting his message box cassette into his car to turn Hastur into a "Best of Queen" album but decides he's not that evil

Thinks satanists are weird/disturbing

Can do weird things with his tongue

Also, highlight from the book you should see, because Crowley is fucking adorable:

The "Sansa reminds Sandor of his sister" motive that some people try to hitch to his character really just flies in the face of his actual attachments to her, doesn't it? Sansa reminds Sandor of himself. He sees the little boy who used to love knights in this girl who's been swept up by the same romanticism. He sees his abuser in her abusers, the much larger knight(s) beating on the helpless child. He sees how she is betrayed by every level of authority that should have saved her and remembers his father's neglect and Tywin and Robert's apathy for Gregor's crimes. He's protective of Sansa because he was Sansa.

And GRRM's design, that one of the strongest warriors in the series, a fearsome and cynical 6'8" guy who's "muscled like a bull" and has the face of death itself, sees himself in this soft and effeminate teen girl, and empathizes with her because he was an abuse victim too, is INFINITELY more compelling than "Oh yeah I bet she just reminds him of his sister," who he's never mentioned and who we know literally nothing about. Way to unnecessarily water down a character, you couldn't have ignored the black and white text more efficiently if you tried.

Eating pizza and watermelon & watching Scarborough

transgender embroidery hours

I love Xue Meng a normal amount (I would die for him).

Leader and deputy

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some first attempts at drawing lotr characters

i see ur slugcats with realistic cat markings and bring you:

warrior slugs

"Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has told both the Italian and Spanish publics that the advocates of gender will strip you of your sexed identity. And this stokes fear and outrage among those whose sexed identity is fundamental to the sense of who they are. One of the presuppositions of her argument is that sexed identity is fundamental and valuable and that no one should take it from you. It would be wrong if anyone tried to take that away. So, let's agree with her, without pursuing the question of what kind of fundament this is and what kind of value it bears. If we do say that as a matter of fact, people generally regard what is called their 'sexed identity' as valuable, that it should not be expropriated by others, then it follows that legislation that seeks either to prevent or pathologize or indeed criminalize trans sexed identity does precisely that. Meloni's argument performs an inversion. She exploits or manufactures the fear that sexed identity will be taken away precisely in order to deny rights that would guard against that very stripping of identity. She exploits that manufactured fear for the purposes of stripping trans people of their rights to self determination."

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender, public lecture at University of Cambridge 2023

Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons

I really need Gideon to know that Jeannemary said hi, please, the whole scene with teens death is so devastating, Gideon needs to know

People who write novellas must be absolutely going though it bc I've never read a novella that wasnt utterly devastating. These people really have Things to Say and whats more they do it in under 200 pages.

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

wip game!

rules: share a few lines or a snippet that sums up the main relationship(s) in your wip

i was tagged by @ash-and-starlight (thank you!) and you can see her version here~

ids in alt text. tagging @chitsangenthusiast @longhairsokka @yayee-prsp and @bisexuallsokka if they want to participate!