local bookworm tries videogames for the first time during major depressive episode at age 23, says sonic adventure 2 is "not as good as the odyssey, but pretty up there, i guess"

Used bookstores round TWO was a success

To say nothing of the dog (that's TWO Connie Willis books this week)

R&G are dead

Louise Gluck anthology of her corpus up to 2012

Gorgeous hardcover edition of the little prince

The bridge of San Luis Rey (yet another @im-not-the-one-youre-looking-for rec)

Rimbaud's Illuminations with the French & English text on facing pages (superior format for reading in translation, I have Loeb edition supremacy brainrot)

Selected prose&poetry of GM hopkins

to me the funniest thing about making a warrior cats ultrakill au is that you don't really have to change a lot to make the characters and story fit into the warrior cats universe. being able to enter cat hell without dying was literally a major plot point for one of the arcs, so having some random kitty go and fuck shit up over there is totally believable as far as im aware.

Since I found out steam does a year in review (I had no idea until this year) I have decided that I must play video games more and play every game in my steam library so that my year in review is 100% accurate next year and I don't get told that my top 2 games were Disco Elysium and Baldur's Gate 3 because I would Hyperfixate on one game for a whole month (or three) and play nothing else, and still have my genre graph have nothing to do with those two top games and instead have "cats" as a genre while calling me a fag

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 4: read the small story tidbit below the poll for more details, OR just vote based on initial impression

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

The winning option of yesterday's poll was that the adventurer should offer the Well Creature some bread and soup ….

"Completely unsure how to even begin to interact with the strange creature from the well, The Adventurer recalls reading in a book once that 'food is a universal language', or uh.. something like that.. thus, some hearty soup and bread would surely bridge any communication barriers... probably. He serves the little cannister of broth cold, straight from his bag just dumped into a wooden bowl, mostly because he's far too nervous to try and start a fire with someone watching.. hopefully they won't mind the food not being warmed..

After gently placing a single bread roll next to the soup, he steps back, gesturing towards the meal with an uncertain smile. The creature pauses, sniffs around, then promptly disappears back into the darkness. Just as The Adventurer begins to sulk over his apparent rejection, something stirs behind him... With a rush of creaking and plopping noises, the creature resurfaces, revealing it's massive serpent-like body as it hoists itself over the crumbled stone of the well's edge with it's many arms. It cracks open it's mighty jaw just far enough for a tiny blue tongue to slither out, then politely slurps at the soup, delicate enough not to spill any.

Stumbling backwards in shock, The Adventurer simply sits there staring the entire time whilst the creature happily (and rather quickly) enjoys their meal... Seemingly appreciative of his kind offerings, another strange slinking arm creeps up from the depths of the well, daintily opening a velvet sack with it's claws and laying out a small assortment of items onto the grass. Still a bit shaken, but also never one to turn down a free gift, The Adventurer senses that the creature intends for him to take any single item of his choosing... but, which one?"

its important to watch a new movie or read a new book sometimes. largely because 1) its nice to experience all the art this world has to offer but also 2) you might be able to find new scenarios to imagine your OCs in

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

didnt realize i didnt have all of my songs in the pool the first time i shuffled so ill put those results under a cut!

having a lot of thoughts about being queer in a rural town tonight. um yeah. anyways do yall wanna send in asks i got that heart wrenching ache of longing tonight 💪

HEAR ME OUT: Lilith and Steve in a queer platonic relationship in the future. Like they live in the same house and are super close and every time someone goes “Awe what a cute couple” they both start laughing hysterically

I had a gut-dropping tinge of a theory about the use of “puppet” when referring to Accord and now, knowing what we know about the Cage being the [redacted], and the implications from the game/anime/Pearl Harbor with N2 being a manipulator this whole time in regards to YoRHa…

Are the Watchers (or whoever is currently representing them - N2, perhaps?) manipulating Accord? 🤔

But then would she be omniscient (or omnipotent - I can never recall which one) enough to know, given she can see across all timelines?

Back to me having extremely frightening to experience, batshit wild dreams with major surreal and horror streaks

Person who follows the book spoiler tag instead of blocking it when a book comes out like "I'm going to learn so many forbidden facts"

my father brought us all nice lunch but unfortunately I got to The Part in a book that I forgot had really rather sickening necromancy in it and now I am feeling much less joyed by my chicken katsu

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I hope my cat knows how wildly loved he is

time to make a realistic set of goals for 2023 i guess