Chaotic god Dick, trickery and luck au

Dick: thought you didn't believe in magic and gods?

Wally, offended as he builds an alter: I don't but I believe in you, you think this simp card was just handed to me??? No, so do you want the fuckin orange peel on your alter or not?

Dick: lemon as well, I like lemons

The great news is that Florence and @letters-of-fire 's Howard are in an RP right now that will absolutely and definitely not end in disaster for one of their emotional wellbeing

(painting referenced was Clarence F. Underwood's "The Last Waltz")

hate replaying tlou2 because you see how sweet and good Jessie & Dina are to ellie but the entire time you KNOW THE QUEST FOR REVENGE IS GONNA KILL HER ITS GONNA RUIN EVERYTHINGGGGG she gets so many chances for happy endings and none of it matters because trauma doesn't go away godddd

unused and majin are gay married and the unused & majin show is essentially their meetcute . in this essay i wi

for a fandom that thrives on whump i honestly i wish there was more fic in the mctna tag abt hwi dealing w chronic pain bc honestly the opportunities for both fuckery and tenderness are endless and honestly this is mostly @ myself to finish my wip abt abt seon-ho lying awake listening to hwis lungs rattle as he sleeps but like. as a consequences enjoyer i love it when these consequences get some spotlight

Just saw someone say “oh the northeast/upper Midwest of the us isn’t known for its conservative values+bigotry” and Stranger idk how to explain to you how what you personally know a place for is NOT a good indicator of what a place’s actual values are

Like have u seen how fucking segregated neighborhoods are over here? Like Currently. And how gerrymandering is directly done around these segregated neighborhoods to disenfranchise voters, primarily black voters? They were talking in the context of the fucking Catholic Churches out here too like come ON…

cannot express how ecstatic I was and still am to find that AMC’s Interview With The Vampire is basically just a vampiric, more explicitly gay version of NBC’s Hannibal <3

Also also happy to discover both fanbases heavily overlap (obviously) and are both equally unhinged

Fannibals and whatever the IWTV fans are called, I love you all dearly and I’m so glad we’re in this shit together

hi!! wanted to ask if you have any favorite books, either that you've read recently or of all time. Your prose is insane and I need to broaden my own vocabulary so if you have any book recs, fiction or nonfiction, I'd love to know :')

Hii :D ! ahaha, what a well-timed question; lately I've become the kind of guy who just really wants to talk about what people are reading, or are planning to read, and responding in kind, so thanks for giving me an opportunity to indulge that, haha. What a wicked invention the printing press was!!! (Also--thank you!! I'm glad my prose is to your taste. I'm happy !💕)

If you don't mind, I'll put a cut on this right away, because I know I'm very talkative, but let me put a TLDR above for all the novels/authors I mention here. Disclaimer also that I am kind of a dunce (I think you know this) so I like silly shit a lot of times . please be nice to me adfhbjkdg. :D

(No nonfiction also because I'm a frivolous and unworldly little sprite or something but if you want straight philosophy [which counts] come back and I'll do my Top Ten Epic Platonic Dialogues Compilation for you .)

TLDR: Read any UKLG you get your hands on, Cain by Jose Saramago, or any Saramago (though maybe not Skylight, which is not a good introduction to Saramago), very much enjoyed Sartre's The Age of Reason recently, Shadow & Claw or The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. If you feel like it, come off anon and tell me what you like, so I can give more tailored recommendations!!

Now if you're asking for favorites, like just the particular and arbitrary objects of my partiality, that stir my stupid little heart, the true answer is probably UKLG's The Farthest Shore, just because it is very special to me. I can't, of course, in good conscience, recommend the third novel of a six-novel fantasy series to someone (but of course read Le Guin, everyone should be reading Le Guin, it's dire for universal soteriology that we all read Le Guin; You'll probably get told to start with Left Hand of Darkness, and that's pretty solid. I liked The Lathe of Heaven as well. And if you read any Le Guin it doesn't hurt to pick up a copy of the Tao. I love the Tao man.)

Some friendlier recommendations, though:

José Saramago is someone I really consider peerless; There's no way to pick up a Saramago and not know who's written it. Cain is a bit drier, a bit more abrasive (almost accusatory, in that particular way you'll find in a Buddhist parable) and bleak than some other Saramagos, but it's one I like (perhaps for the trite reason that I like bucolic atmospheres and Classical antiquity as a setting) so it's the one I'll put forward.

Uhh, I've also been enjoying Sartre's Roads to Freedom lately, starting with The Age Of Reason. I'm partway through the second novel and umm... despite all the other things you could say about Sartre, lmfao, let it not be said that he is not a serious literary force. Serious is maybe the only word for it. Dire, too. I keep a commonplace book, so usually I take excerpts, but this was the first time in memory that I felt compelled to commit entire pages, ahah (I just took pictures though, fuck copying all that).

If you're itching for esoteric language, Shadow of the Torturer (as usually collected with Claw of the Conciliator in a single omnibus edition titled Shadow & Claw; the first of the give-or-take five volume Urth series) by Gene Wolfe will scratch you BLOODY. If you're particularly fussy, you might be irritated by your compulsion to Google, but I find it really makes the experience when you type in a word and the only results are "what the fuck did Gene Wolfe mean by this?" hahaha; Honestly, though, those kinds of complaints are borne from a lack of immersion, but you'll notice pretty quickly that the verbiage is a pretty crucial vehicle OF the immersion.

It may or may not become a commitment, though, if you like Urth enough to want to read through, so if you want Wolfe without the strings--though less of the exciting vocabulary, which is pretty necessarily constrained to Urth--I'd really highly recommend The Fifth Head of Cerberus (the novella OR the novel, I mean the former is volumized in the latter so just start it and if you feel like stopping then stop, haha). Mr. Terminal E is incredible but I scrape enough time out of my daily life to gush about his crazy literary density so I won't do it again here (you should ask my coworker, lmfao, who one time went "stop, hold on, hold on." because my face started getting really red while I was explaining to him some Wolfean gesture). If you read any Wolfe, and I mean ANY Wolfe, because his permatypes and his manipulations of them are endlessly interesting, feel free to come back and chat with me over it!!!

I guess I have to disclaim that my habit is mostly to pick through an author's corpus over a course of, usually, a couple years, and then sometimes I'll read things that will inform my understanding of the genre conventions or currents that the author is writing in (been enjoying Golden Age sci-fi recently)--it's not really as deliberate of a process as it sounds, but I think if you were to map my habits, that's the landscape of it. This means, though, that my reading is actually pretty narrow in scope, and I am not very well read or very knowledgeable in general (who is, in this economy) but it does mean that of the authors I do like, I can probably find the novel that'll work best for your taste.

If you want to come off anon, or I guess just leave another message, haha, (or if someone else wants to, idgaf, we're all friends here at tumblr user hazeism) describing the things you like or look for in a novel I can probably give you a more relevant recommendation. I've been dosing people up a lot lately tbh, it's like a parlor trick I've been doing; I have a conversation with someone and afterwards they'll have a PDF with a relevant Asimov story in their messages, hahaha. I can't help myself sometimes.

Come back anyway, though, if you read anything I talked about, okay? I want to hear about it 🥺

And alsooo (turning to face the audience) if anyone ever wants to put recs in my inbox (or my dms : ) slow replies though sorry I'm a hermit) I'd be happy to take 'em down. Can't guarantee I'll read them in a timely manner, or that you'll ever find out if/when I do, but it's good for me to leave my comfort zone.

also the favoritism thing is still making me so fucking mad and insane btw. im not jealous / resentful of my brother bc he deserves her love and is also burdened in his own ways by it and bc i think my drama w my mom has shaped my life in profound ways and given me friends i cherish and i would never trade any of that for the world but jesus fucking christ. why do i have to beg you to interact with me like a mother. why do i have to talk to me at all beyond asking me to do you 847439473 favors a day. why do i have to beg you to take an interest in my life and apologize when you hurt me and be nurturing and perceptive for once in your fucking life. like it hurts to hear her asking him about his classes and whatever bc she didn’t think i was stressed out w school but i had to talk to a ****** hotline last decemver when i couldn’t take it anymore and my mental health was crashing and burning and it doesn’t even fucking matter to her at all and she’s going to get him the nice gifts and throw him the nice parties and whatever because she hates me and my sister for… and let me get this straight… being complicated and anxious and depressed and also girls. lol!

i reread my own MiA fics constantly but i've actually been scared to reread the one single published LOGH fic because i'm absolutely convinced it's going to be, like, embarassingly bad on a second read and i will become Ashamed, especially because the person i gifted it to is very much what i would call a Very Good Writer, in both prose quality and the fic-specific parameter of understanding and building off of preexisting characterization and canon for the same exact characters i wrote

but hey i went ahead and finally reread it and it was, like, fine! it was fine! maybe not up to the standards i would like future LOGH efforts to be, but like, it’s fine! anyway i think i never mentioned it on tumblr so yeah my Elfriede x Dominique LOGH fic is here

Chrisantium meeting his baby sisters,,, he's only about 100 or so here so he's got plenty of time to adjust to not being an only child anymore lol

Bestie your excitement is making me excited and I made sokeefitz week. I really don't have anything to offer you, but please, take some close-ups of the stuffed animals:

ASEDRFGTHGFTDEGHJGFDSERGHJM MR. SNUGGLES' LITTLE T-REX ARMS THE PERFECTION OF THE SHIRT MRS. STINKBOTTOM'S SMILE AWSEDRTFYREWASDFGHJGFTDRESDFGHJNGFDRE THEY'RE P R E C I O U S ILYSM /p <333333333

like pirating is so normal 2 me i forget there r ppl who r like antipiracy which btw is stupid. obviously

I love this goddamn place

oh btw guys my gross roommate sent a text today about the bugs and how they’re totally not anyone’s fault according to their mom it just happens sometimes!! did i mention their parents are politicians

God if there's one thing i hate about making content whether it's writing or drawing or just imagining things in my head it's building layouts. i always have a layout of a characters house or whatever in my head but it's obviously shit and unsuitable in reality since i don't plan it. so then i go looking for ACTUAL layouts and get cranky when they don't match the goofy ass thing in my head. like I've been accidentally picturing one of my OC's houses without a front door/entry way area and with the living room (with a fireplace) being in the same spot as the kitchen ? like maybe if i ever wrote something down i would have figured that out sooner. sad</3