tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

man with excellent self restraint dismayed to realize that not wanting anything is more likely a depression symptom than a carefully honed skill that atones for other aspects of his character

rotates vimes in my head at superturbospeed

Homophobic police in New Orleans when there’s two men and only one bed, but there’s also a daughter and the blond one slept with your wife

Day 20 - HUNT🐭

Ew.

You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

Every time I see this post I'm always reminded of this scene at the beginning of Making Money:

The statement "the offence, if such it be, is largely self-inflicted" is almost always true in these cases lmao

A lil practice in perspective with this piece mostly, so here's Howl and Sophie, who I designed based 50/50 on their book and movie counterparts! I actually would love to revisit this piece and paring in the future, since the book is one of my all time favs

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

I've been looking for this post for a veeeeerrrryyyy long time

Are you in an Age Of Sail fandom like The Terror, Black Sails, or Master and Commander? Are you in a fantasy/time travel fandom like Dr. Who, The Librarians, or The Magicians?

Are you in a period piece fandom like Pride & Prejudice, Bridgerton, or Persuasion?

Are you looking for a new hyperfixation or special interest to absolutely lose your mind over? Well then, step right up! Have I got the fandom for you!

It's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell!

This book and series have everything, folks! True love! Intrigue! Magic! Ships! Politics! Sly, subtle jokes! The sweetest cinnamon rolls! The most dastardly villains!

And it comes in two flavors! You can either watch the well done and chock-full-of-hotties 2015 TV series, or! you can read Susanna Clarke's deceptively addictive 800 page book full of footnotes! Both are guaranteed to pull the soul from your body and keep you enslaved in an enchanted fairy kingdom for the rest of your earthly days!

The series is now available for the low, low price of $5 on Amazon! You can buy the book at affordable rates on many platforms where books are sold, and the audiobook is great too!

And if That doesn't sell you on this fandom, then just wait until you lay your peepers on this boy:

So, drop everything! Run to your local internet source or bookseller, and start an adventure of a lifetime that will leave your heart buried in a dark wood beneath the snow where you can still feel its ache!

Invest now, and we'll even throw in this grumpy autistic guy for free!

I have two book recommendations for people who recently finished the first season of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire and may find themselves in withdrawal for media about fucked-up queer vampires!

The first is A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, which is a novella about Dracula’s first bride, Constanta, told in the form of a letter addressing her late husband after she murdered him. It’s both a haunting tale of abuse and a lush gothic story, using vampirism as a vehicle to explore an obsessive, controlling romantic relationship. It’s also very queer, as Constanta is bisexual and the relationship between Dracula and his spouses is a M/F/F/M polyamorous relationship. Gibson’s prose is deliciously gothic and I really enjoyed the way that the story plays with the epistolary form, such as Constanta refusing to grant her husband the privilege of a name in her narrative. (Originally released by a small publishing house in 2021, it was picked up by a larger publisher and rereleased with the new cover pictured above.)

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson just came out a few weeks ago and is another deliciously dark gothic fantasy. It follows Marion, a poor girl from the slums who answers a newspaper add seeking a “bloodmaid” and ends up in the service of Lisavet, a countess who feeds on human blood. In the service of her new mistress, Marion is drawn into both an obsessive, passionate relationship and a tangle of dark intrigue and secrets that threatens to destroy her new life. Henderson’s writing is both atmospheric and gory while the relationship between Marion and Lisavet is tense, sexy, and vicious. Marion is also a Black lesbian and the novel is steeped in commentary on vampires as members of the upper class who exploit and literally feed off of the lower class.

They’re both excellent books and I think if you’re looking to scratch an itch for gothic horror and queer vampire romance they might do the job! (Edit: they are also both adult novels, not YA, and have a fair amount of violence, sexual content, and gore.)

I’ve been working my way through vampire novels of the African diaspora and posting mini reviews on twitter. I wanted to read more diverse representations of vampires after watching AMC’s Interview With The Vampire and what really stands out is how few I can find- while 2 of these have been published just this year 1 was first published in 1819 and as you can see there’s only a handful. Of the ones I’ve read so far my favorites are Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma and House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson, but I will be updating.

Previously I made a list of vampire books across the Mexican diaspora here

This is so blatant I thought it was an edit as a joke. But nope, it's 100% real, and it gets even worse:

Nintendo just straight up said "yeah we're the bad guy here".

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. I read all 41+ discworld novels on company time