My Brain: Addled

Book fandom, reading content, tbr

[wegottagetouttahere]

Pyrrha, outside the bar: *lighting a cigarette* when I graduated high school your entire civilization didn’t exist yet isnt that weird

Palamedes, stone cold sober: can yuo put that out on me

[only-alter-idem]

ladies is it gay

[only-alter-idem]

gideon: camilla understands me because her necromancer is overbearing too

camilla: i owe palamedes five bucks, these bitches ARE in love

[gaysie]

i love fiction so much can we never be real again

[g0ddamnb0x]

This little scene really highlights why im so insane over the way tlt is written. It is brilliant mix of beautiful prose and stupid stuff. There especially is just Something about how nona feels envious for... not having a mother for Pyrrha to punch of an airlock. Like yeah, not an emotion I have had, but yeahhh girl I understand what you mean. Ough.

[b34uforte]

i can’t stop drawing these two blonde bitches

[nepenthean-sleep]

first few months of alectopause: damn can't wait until atn comes out

2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write

2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals

2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that

2026 alectopause: what is everyone's blood pressure headcanons for the characters. i think harrow is orthostatic and gets a regular 90/50

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[grynwood]

God's merry band of misfits

[finderheart]

I can't believe it took me this long to post these I finished this like nine months ago

An idea I had for Blood of Eden propaganda/recruitment posters featuring some of our favorite guys - combo of digital-print cyberpunk graphic design style with oldschool Saturday Morning Post covers like you'd see Leyendecker paintings on

I was gonna post these ahead of tabling at a small con and selling prints of them but ended up not tabling because turns out grad school is hard

maybe next year... figured tumblr would like though

[caprart1]

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

[amyrosedefensesquad]

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

[ficsinhistory]

Best advice ever!

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[novenarius]

re-reading harrow the ninth and understanding what is actually happening is so funny cuz harrow will be fighting for her life and gideon is just like "yeah so that part of the sword is called the pommel by the way. in case you were curious. you keep getting that wrong"

[vee-dmsr]

alectopause so bad it's got dumbasses making callout posts on the subreddit about pyrrha LMAOO????

[vee-dmsr]

we gotta kill this guy

[echo-has-queries]

via @chaos-has-theories

I wish I could incorporate "bestie he ate her" into my every day vocabulary. Fr, accusing tasmuir of not having thought through the implications is WILD. Like "What do you mean there are violations of consent in the Violations of Consent book?!?" Smack my gobs, good sir, it's almost like it's a THEME or something. There are definitely fascinating discussions to be had here, I suppose on that we can agree.

[cindfourth]

I see you suggesting Harrow should be the saint of devotion but consider:

Right before Gideon dives onto the fence Harrow says to her "Have you really forgiven me?"

Harrowhark the First, Saint of Forgiveness

Delicious because she will never ever forgive herself

[vividciggy]

First read of HtN : devestating tragedy

Second read of HtN : probably the funniest fucking book I've ever read

[milkteamoon]

I think one of Gideon's funniest moments is when she learns that Pal and Dulcie have a Thing and she's so distraught about it because she feels like a complete homewrecker. Like she just made one of her first ever friends, this weird little man whom she diagnosed as Bitchless upon first sight, and then she learns he actually does have A Single Bitch but it's the woman she's been flirting with nonstop since she got there. So naturally her reaction is to start mourning for him because literally, how was her new bestie The Most Bitchless Man Alive ever supposed to compete with her