Nyx

I’m not an alcoholic, I’m just Chinese

[andwiththatileave]

To all the bookworms and bibliophiles

To all of those unable to purchase books in this time

To all who craves literary works and words etches on paper

I created a google drive full of books in ePub, PDF, and AZW3 format, free of charge. I understand that this technically counts as piracy (whoops) but I feel as though times are tough and not all of us have access to books because of either financial reasons or maybe because of shipping issues. Hard times still lie ahead but I hope that these books can be gateways and escapes for you as they have for me. If you enjoy it, I beg of you to purchase an official/legal copy to help and support the authors.

In the folder I have also attached a google form for books requests, if you have any books you want and isn’t available in the folder, don’t hesitate to fill in as many as you want and I’ll get to your request as soon as possible.

Love,

The Law Student Who Loves Breaking the Rules

[littlespoonevan]

when hozier said "do you think i'd give up? that this might've shook the love from me" and "if someone asked me at the end i'd tell the put me back in it" and "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and "so someone with your eyes might come and hold me like water or christ, hold me like a knife" and "the memory hurts but does me no harm, your hand in my pocket to keep us both warm" and "i will not be great but i'm grateful to get through, the feeling came late, i'm still glad i met you" and "i remember the view, streetlights in the dark blue, the moment i knew i'd no choice but to love you" and "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right" and "i don't need to know where we begin and end, i'd still know you, not being shown you, i only need the workin' of my hands" and-

[wondersmith-and-sons]

also i’m sorry to tell everyone that waymond’s “laundry and taxes” line that everyone is going feral over is actually slightly mistranslated in the english/north american release subtitles. what he actually says in mandarin is “if we had another life, i would still choose to do taxes and open a laundromat with you” (如果有来生我还会选择和你一起报税，开洗衣店）which…i actually like more than the official subtitle translation

because he’s not just yearning for another life where he and evelyn are married into domesticity. this is an ultra-successful super-rich businessman presumably at the top of his game, who made his fortune and won the american dream, yearning for the ghost of lost chances – confessing that if he had to choose between money & luxury or a profession considered “lesser” by his countrymen, he would still yearn for the latter if he got to choose evelyn. out of all the universes, out of all the lifetimes, if he had the chance to give up the wealth and power, he would. that’s truly inventing romance.

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Phase 4 of the MCU in a Nutshell

(Spoilers for Love and Thunder)

MCU: Ho! Ho! Ho! Children-grams!

MCU: Stephen Strange? Two for you!

MCU: Clint Barton? One for you!

MCU: Wong? Three for you Wong! You go Wong!

MCU: And uh- Thor Odin Son? Do we have a Thor Odin Son?

Thor: It’s ‘Odinson’

MCU: Oh Thor Odinson, here you go, one for you!

MCU: And none for Wanda Maximoff, bye

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Thor Love and Thunder No-Context Spoilers

Bonus: MCU Phase Four In a Nutshell

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I’m gonna say the one thing that I feel like everyone will agree on: season 3’s soundtrack is considerably weaker than season 1 and season 2.

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I swear I know more about the Sparrows through their social media page than the actual show

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The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Ep 1: Meet the Family

The Umbrella Academy S3 Ep 10: Oblivion

This season literally started and ended with Ben

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1. His death was what fractured the original Umbrella Academy - spurring the events of what happened afterwards.

2. There’s absolutely no reason for the writers to build up the cause/story behind his death for THIS long unless it’s a main plot point. We get teasers and hints here and there but it’s been increasingly apparent that ‘the Jennifer Incident’ is something that’ll be huge.

3. Following point 2, the ‘Jennifer Incident’ happened in both timelines - Umbrella and Sparrow. Obviously in the Umbrella timeline, it was the incident that killed Umbrella!Ben. In the Sparrow timeline, it was hinted that something happened that made Ben’s attempt to claim the ‘Number One’ position a total failure. We saw sketches of ‘Jennifer’ in Sparrow!Ben’s room, which confirms that she was someone who had a connection to him.

4. Every major reveal in all the season finales has something to do with him. Season 1 it was revealed that he’s been a ghost this whole time (it’s still not clear on why he aged with them) and he saved everyone. Season 2 had the huge Sparrow!Ben reveal. Season 3 ended with him on a train in Korea.

5. We started S3 with Ben’s mom giving birth to him on a train and we ended S3 with Ben on a similar train.

If that doesn’t scream main character energy then I don’t know what does.

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HE’S. READING. A. BOOK. WITH. UMBRELLAS. ON. THE. COVER.

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MAJOR TUA S3 EP10 SPOILERS

THAT POST CREDIT SCENE.

HOW IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THAT POST CREDIT SCENE.

They hinted at Doppelgängers early in the season, so does that mean the Ben on the train (I’m calling him Glasses!Ben) is another Ben and not Sparrow!Ben??? But at the same time, could it possibly be another version of Ben that isn’t Umbrella!Ben?

Because I genuinely believe that it isn’t Sparrow!Ben. I’m 99999.9% sure it’s not Sparrow!Ben. He blends into the background so well, incredibly muted compared to his Sparrow self. He seems so much more calm, so I genuinely don’t believe it’s Sparrow!Ben finding his birth fam because Sparrow!Ben left us looking like an angry little meow meow. But I don’t think it’s Umbrella!Ben either because he should’ve showed up with the rest of the Brellies right? And I feel like Umbrella!Ben got such a nice and satisfying send off in S2 (I’m still emo) so it might make his passing a bit redundant.

What’s the point of discussing about Doppelgängers if they’re just leaving it like that? Because this isn’t a Paradox Psychosis situation. It’s a completely different timeline, not them meeting a version of themselves from the same timeline. I feel like it’s Chekov’s Gun, which could very interesting since Umbrella!Ben was seen reading a book by Anton Chekov in a flashback in S1.

I’m starting to believe that the key to the entire series is Ben and his death because S1 ended with him saving everyone as a ghost. S2 ended with his iconic “dad who are these assholes?” and S3 ended with this huge Ben in Korea reveal??? Every season finale involved some kind of reveal surrounding him and this is the THIRD version of Ben we got.

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No Context TUA S3 Spoiler

“You, me, centre stage”

I was half expecting Ben to start a very HSM “I Want It All” musical montage with Fei.

[queenstylinsxn]

Reblog if you’re bisexual, support bisexual people or are actually a bunch of tiny velociraptors in a human suit

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Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long

- Seven, Taylor Swift

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I made a subtle-ish Romajuliette lockscreen bc I’m obsessed, and I thought I’d share it with you guys who wants something lowkey.

I’m obsessed with the theory that the ones who died in the ending of OVE were the Scarlet Gang-White Flower heirs ‘Roman Montagov’ and ‘Cai Junli’ and NOT Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai who are very much alive tyvm.

Also ‘seven’ in the ultimate Romajuliette Taylor Swift song, not ‘Love Story’

[chloegong]

that semi-AU romajuliette + benmars fic

i need a permanent place to store this after dumping a random google doc on twitter so here it is, the author writing fic for her own book because people gave me headcanons and they were too good not to make use of

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the one where juliette and marshall go out for a night out on the town and roma and ben have to go along to supervise because one time they accidentally committed arson —headcanon from twitter user @leonidasvaldz

a semi AU where Benedikt and Marshall were hanging out with Roma and Juliette in those happy months R&J had together in 1922 before everything went wrong (aka you can take this as canon because it will fit the timeline but the characters won’t have memory of this in the actual published books)

Disclaimer: i wrote this in one go inside a starbucks please expect ao3 user chloegong and not Author Chloe Gong who does multiple rounds of edits on her books

Second Disclaimer: nobody go putting this on goodreads before someone on my publishing team kicks my ass (rightfully so, i’m on deadline rn and i’m writing fanfic instead of my real contracted manuscript)

Mandatory reminder that Our Violent Ends is available for preorder with all links here :)

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It wasn’t supposed to happen again. And yet, somehow, Benedikt was watching fire curl around the side of the building, the roof beams giving a loud groan before shuddering and caving in on itself.

He turned a look onto Roma. “Your girlfriend is a maniac.”

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Five hours earlier…

Keep reading

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The Ambiguity of the OVE Finale (Spoiler Alert)

Although a tad lacklustre compared to the first book of the duology, Our Violent Ends came at me with full force. It’s a book that made a mark on me in a way I haven’t felt in years - and it left a wound in my heart that I’m still trying to patch up.

Let’s discuss that ending.

It’s rare for an author to leave the readers hanging on the fate of the main characters. Whether Roma and Juliette are dead or alive is still unknown and left to the readers to perceive. I’m still struggling on which side am I on because the arguments presented from both sides are equally strong.

The message of how hope is a dangerous thing was prevalent in These Violent Delights. It carried on to the second book until a quote by Benedikt that basically viewed hope in a positive light. That quote was then used by Chloe Gong when asked about the fate of Roma and Juliette after that ambiguous ending. And we’re not left to live in that ambiguity forever because there’s a possibility that their fates will be revealed in the future.

Whatever happens, we have to be ready. Even though I’m terrified for the most likely possibility that I’ve been denying for days.