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bonesblubs · 2 years

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Just some totally normal teenagers

#art tag #trc #the raven cycle #im just exploring how they look in my head!!#so many good books im reading right now #Im currently reading three different series #murderbot diaries being the third

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alphabetcompletionist · 4 months

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my abecedarians. my booboo bears. i beseech y'all for those scholarly article websites. my uni databases keep giving me results for articles that aren't available and, like a pirate with a helm on his crotch might say, it's driving me nuts

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#and per se and #i'm trying to write a bitsy baby undergrad paper #on the process of book challenging/banning and the differences between the current surge & the past #notably not being argumentative. obviously i have opinions but that's not the point of the paper #ala.org and court documents give me all i really need. hashtag based humanities.#but i need three Scholarly Sources (i.e. peer reviewed)

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leulahart · 3 months

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i would love love love if you drew katniss with short hair!!❤️

cut your hair they said, it will be easy to take care of they said, but she failed to consider the braid-ability of her short hair :/

bonus:

#cutie patootie #three different types of chibi style which i really never do but the idea was too cute #thanks!! hope you like it #request #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #sketch #everlark #thg #thg art #katniss everdeen art #thg books #my art #bellesimonetta

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mensmommymilkers · 4 months

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Had to draw the trio from from my fave book by @sarahreesbrennan as I reread for the millionth time 😮‍💨 They’re so fun

#in other lands #elliot schafer #luke sunborn #serene heart in the chaos of battle #trivia: the pose where Luke grabs his hair is from the unicorn scene (MY BELOVED UNICORN SCENE)#serene getting angry is in regards to her mom I love how she’s all cool and collected and then full on screams at her mother #I’m obsessed with how elliot gets tall and muscular but doesn’t process the latter #ofc had to draw the progression #then ouughhf um #the kisses #all three of them would go about it differently and it was a joy to portray #Serene and Elliot had to be aged down for their kiss bc no WAY that’d happen later lmfao #also uhm I used Laios dungeon meshi as obvious inspo for Luke #I stared at Luke’s face way too much after I drew him I feel like one of the masses 💀💀#sorry elliot I’m letting u down #I played fast and loose with serene and Elliot’s eye colors so those aren’t fully book accurate #I like dark eyes ok

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doyouknowthischaracter · 4 months

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DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

#dyktc polls #polls #heathcliff #wuthering heights #emily bronte #category: books #reposting because the first three polls used a different format 2/3

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evans4490 · 8 months

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Hhhhhng TWST has me in a chokehold.

Also sorry if the quality is bad its my first time making these lmao.

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mango-sideburns · 9 months

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My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes.#merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy)#he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game.#or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

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yasmeensh · 3 months

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I finished reading 4 books from Earth's Children series. The last three were really hard to read. After finishing Plains of Passage, I have come to really appreciate Clan of the Cave Bear as a standalone. I miss all the Neanderthals and Ayla's character arc. Gotta do some fanart!

PS. I MISS IZA! Best character in the series.

#clan of the cave bear #earth's children #after the first book it just goes downhill #REALLY DOWNHILL #Ayla becomes the biggest mary sue EVER #in the first book it was believable because it's established in the story the Neanderthals have different skills that Ayla must adapt to #and she wasn't doing anything over the top #She was just adapting #but later she starts doing insane things #like wtf?? NO human ever figured out they could strike iron pyrite to get sparks?#NO ONE ever figured out they could make a needle?#She invented the arrow too (or whatever that thin short spear things they did? not the spear thrower #I will not be surprised if she ends up inventing the wheel in the next two books #also domesticating animals #also there were so many traumatizing scenes #three different rape scenes in book 4 !!???#I was going to throw up #It just.. got very uncomfortable to read #it changed me #so I now I'm thinking about the first book #yes it has all these same elements from the later books but they were sparse and were actually part of the plot #part of the character development. in other books they were just things that happened. Like. the characters are not impacted by it at all.#you could read the end of the book and nothing about the characters change after witnessing these traumatic experiences #they are the same from beginning to end #uh um sorry for the rant O_O #anyways I miss izaaaa #bye

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redhoodinternaldialectical · 5 months

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"Murder is Werewolves" - Batman

I don't got the SPOONS to do this thought train justice, I have seriously been trying to write this thing for MONTHS so just, idk, have this half baked skeletal outline of the essay I guess:

I don't believe that Batman's no-kill rule is primarily about rehabilitation or second chances.

His refusal to believe that Cassandra could have killed someone when she was eight years old because "how could a killer understand my commitment not to kill" is absolute fucking MOON LOGIC from a rehabilitationist standpoint. No jury on the planet would think for even a second that she could reasonably be held accountable for her actions in that situation! Her past cannot condemn her to being incapable of valuing human life under a rehabilitation centering framework. However, Batman's reasoning makes perfect sense if he believes that killing is a spiritually/morally corrupting act which permanently and fundamentally changes a person, and that corruption can never be fully undone.

Dick Grayson killing the Joker is treated both narratively and by Batman as an unequivocally WIN for the Joker. The Joker won by turning Nightwing into a killer. Note that this is during a comic in which the Joker transforming people was a major theme! Batman didn't revive the Joker because the Joker deserved to live; he revived the Joker to lift the burden on Dick.

His appeal to Stephanie when she tried to kill her dad is that she shouldn't ruin her own life. He gives no defense of Cluemaster's actual life. Granted this is a rhetorical strategy moment and should be taken with a generous pinch of salt, but it fits in the pattern.

When Jason becomes a willful killer, he essentially disowns him, never treats him with full trust ever again, and... Well, we can stop here for Bruce's sake. Bottom line is that his actions towards Jason do not lead me to believe that he thinks Jason can become a better person without having his autonomy taken from him, either partially or fully.

The Joker is, for better or worse, the ultimate symbol and vessel of pure, irredeemable evil in DC comics now. He hasn't been just another crook in a long time. He will never get better, he will only get worse. If you take it to be true that the Joker will not or can not rehabilitate, then there's no rehabilitationist argument against killing him.

Batman does not seem to consider it a possibly that he'll rehabilitate. Batman at several points seems to think that the Joker dying in a manner no one could have prevented would be good. Yet Batman fully believes that if he killed the Joker, he himself would become irredeemable.

Batman's own form of justice (putting people into the hospital and then prison) is fucking brutal and clearly not rehabilitative. He disrespects the most basic human rights of all criminals on a regular basis. It is genuinely really, really weird from a rehabilitationist standpoint that his only uncrossable line is killing... But it makes perfect sense if he cares more about not corrupting himself with the act of killing than the actual ethical results of any individual decision to kill or not kill.

In the real world cops are all bastards because they are too violent to criminals, even when that violence doesn't lead to death. Prison is a wildly evil thing to do to another human being, and you don't use it to steal away massive portions of a person's life if your goal is to rehabilitate them. In the comic world, Batman is said to be necessary because the corrupt cops are too nice to criminals and keep letting them out of jail. I don't know how to write a connector sentence there so like I hope you can see why this bothers me so damn much! That's just not forgiveness vibes there Batman!!

I want to make special note here of the transformative aspect. You don't simply commit a single act when you kill, no, you become a killer, like you might become a werewolf.

The narrative supports this a lot!

Why did Supes go evil during Injustice? He killed the Joker. Why did Bruce become the Batman Who Laughs? Bruce killed the Joker. Why was Jason Todd close to becoming a new Joker during Three Jokers? Because he killed people, to include the Joker.

Even if these notions of redemption being impossible aren't the whole of his reasoning (people never have only one reason for doing what they do) it is a distinct through-line pattern in his actions and reasoning, and it is directly at odds with notions of rehabilitation, redemption, and second chances.

So why does he give so many killers second chances?

Firstly because this doesn't apply to all versions of Batman. Some writers explicitly incorporate rehabilitation and forgiveness into his actions. You will be able to provide me with examples of this other through-line pattern if you go looking for them. The nature of comics is to be inconsistent.

Secondly the existence of that other pattern does not negate the existence of this one. People and characters are complex, and perfectly capable of holding two patterns of belief within themselves, even when they conflict to this degree. You can absolutely synthesize these two ideas into a single messy Batman philosophical vibescape.

Finally and most importantly to this essay: he has mercy on killers the same way that werewolf hunters sometimes have mercy on someone who is clearly struggling against their monsterous nature, especially if they were turned in exceptional circumstances or against their will. They understand that they are sick, damned beasts, cursed to always be fighting against themselves and the evil they harbor within. It is vitally kind to help them fight themselves by curtailing their autonomy in helpful ways and providing them with chances to do some good to make up for their eternal moral deficiency.

I think in many comics Batman views killers as lost souls. Battered and tormented monsters who must be pitied and given mercy wherever possible. (The connections to mental health, addiction, and rampant, horrifying ableism towards people struggling with both is unavoidable, but addressing it is sadly outside of the scope of this essay.)

Above all, the greatest care possible must be taken to never, ever let yourself become one of them, because once you have transformed the beast will forever be within you growing stronger.

To Batman, it is the most noble burden, the highest mercy, the most important commandment: Thou shalt suffer the monsters to live.

#batman #batman negative #batsalt #okay hopefully that will let peeps who don't wanna see me rant against bats avoid this?#i could write several books on the moral and ethical philosophies at play in the Batfam tbh #I'm like kinda mostly happy with this #pretty good for being slammed out in three hours while baking brownies #inspired muchly by my friend's talk about Batman acting in accordance with Presbyterian predestination #and how he is one of the most carceral of all superheroes #all people merely revealing through their actions what sort of person they already are #punishing them in the hopes they can suffer enough penance on earth to escape hell #how that can look like rehabilitation or redemption at a glance #but functions in a fundamentally different way #anyway hope this mess was an interesting read!#damian's tomfoolery

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starl1tsky · 3 months

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the thing about natasha pulley is that she can write well but like. every book of hers, the plot is Man Complicit in Atrocities/Pathological Liar Lies To His Amnesiac/Deeply Confused Love Interest

#the half life of valery k #the kingdoms #the watchmaker of filigree street #havent read any of her other books but uh.#same central relationship in three different fonts lol

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misspickman · 4 months

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i love uu complicated ai relationships and unreliable narrators

#i love u breq and mb going well this is just how it is and its always like that. and being slowly proven wrong #i know the realization mb has about three is in the book before this first quote but i also think thats interesting. it kinda walks itself #back on it #im choosing to read that as mb being in denial/scared a bit of the possibility that even other constructs are so different from it #bc secunits liking other secunits is such a big change for its worldview #+ its having kind of a bad time in system collapse. cant fault it for being depressed #txt #murderbot #imperial radch

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diogenesprintco · 5 months

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A simple periwinkle outline miniprint inspired by an illustration in Culpeper's Colour Herbal.

#i've got loads of blocks inspired by things in this book bc i was supposed to print different types of tree leaves on fabric squares #so my partner could sew them into a quilt. and i have not done this. it's been three years.#linocut #relief print #blockprinting #printmaking #floral #periwinkle

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jamiethebeeart · 1 month

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Both linearts by @ecto-stone

I think it'd be funny if the Generation Zero one was them practicing posing in an empty classroom. (I love it when they get to be goobers.)

@green-with-envy-phandom-event i'm finally double posting pictures!

#greenwithenvy2024 #danny phantom #vlad masters #maddie fenton #jack fenton #honestly this was such a challenge? Hachi's style is so different from mine that doing my normal coloring didn't look right #so I tried a more comic book approach with hard shadows (though you can still see where i softened some lighting)#I did try to incorporate colors on all three of them! Maddie and Vlad have Fenton Green #with Jack having that definitely not Packer's yellow arm patch and Vlad gets both Maddie's blue and Jack's orange #and of course they have white accents!

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barbielore · 6 months

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Barbie and Friends Book Club was a promotion in the late 1990's to expand the Barbie brand into children's books. They had a wide variety of different concepts, from the day to day life of Barbie, to fantasy or science fiction, to mysteries.

Many of these referenced or expanded the lore of the doll line. For example, Three Cheers for Becky expands on the story of Barbie's friend Becky, the first doll in the Barbie doll line to be portrayed as a wheelchair user, and tells a story of her coaching the cheerleading squad.

D is for Different, for example, covers the story of Barbie teaching a girl who thinks the only thing that she is good at is playing the piano.

Some of the books went to some pretty weird places though. For example, Voyage to Rados is an outright sci-fi story.

I've never read Voyage to Rados but some of the pictures make me really wonder what this story is about. I am given to understand that Barbie and co are exploring an alien planet and possibly saving the galaxy.

And naturally of course, they are doing science on board the space craft.

I'm not sure but to me this picture looks an awful lot like Barbie about to perform brain surgery on a restrained alien. I assume this isn't what's happening, but I never want to read this book because the version that exists in my head is too entertaining.

#barbie #barbie and friends #barbie and friends book club #three cheers for becky #d is for different #voyage to rados #science fiction #childrens books #picture books

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owl68 · 8 months

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Petition for more Crowley hissing scenes

#also weird tongue scenes ig but that can be interpreted in many many different ways #Oo maybe Crowley just hissing at G-d or something idk #good omens #crowley #snake crowley #good omens book #good omens season three #gomens #I just started reading the book and this is so exciting eehehshisndjak

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iamdexter123 · 9 months

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In the deep silence of midnight, the universe revealed itself to its listeners as a vast desolation. What Ye disliked most was seeing the waves that slowly crawled across the display, a visual record of the meaningless noise Red Coast picked up from space. Ye felt this interminable wave was an abstract view of the universe: one end connected to the endless past, the other to the endless future, and in the middle only the ups and downs of random chance—without life, without pattern, the peaks and valleys at different heights like uneven grains of sand lined up in a row, lonely, desolate, so long that it was intolerable. You could go forward or backward as long as you liked, but you’d never find the end.

- Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

#quotes #liu cixin #cixin liu #the three body problem #three body problem #3 body problem #dexterreads #seriously looking forward to the Netflix adaption of this #just need to read the next two books in the series #also I love how the same imagery is used for the Trisolaran listener #but both interpret it so differently

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