Shadows Are Only Evidence Of Sunshine

30/Christian/writer/nerd/true neutral/ fan of superheroes, stargate, & shakespeare. also your local source for weird history stuff, memes, and baby yoda.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[fictionadventurer]

Magic system where magic is treated like work in 19th-century England. Magic is something that everyone is naturally able to do, and you can learn different skills and do certain tasks with it, but it's tiring and wears out the body.

Lower class people use magic all the time--it's necessary for survival--and they're hired to do magic for the upper classes, whether they're working the fields, hiring out their magic for factory work, or working as a maid in an upper class home. Gentlemen are allowed to use magic in a few specific "refined" occupations.

Upper-class ladies are allowed to do almost no magic, except for tiny decorative uses--magic is "low", and using it too much destroys your status in society. Upper-class ladies also regularly go insane from "magic hysteria". Some women are starting to notice this and are arguing for women to be allowed to do healthy amounts of magic. Other people find this idea coarse and unfeminine.

The world and story would be shaped by what the magic actually does (so there's a reason to write this as fantasy rather than pure historical fiction). I'm sure there have to be plenty of stories like this already, but it's still an interesting framework.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard

[lasrina]

oh this was about someone specific

[bretzkysbs]

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

happy 250 years of independence!

[lilaccatholic]

It’s Fourth of July Eve so make sure to leave some milk and cookies out for Captain America

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I fear reading the new six of crows novella because unfortunately no depicting of Kaz and Inej's future will ever be as true or canonical to me as of course they get married "she's religious and he wants tax benefits"

[anonsensicalgirl]

Started Emma M Lion and I *am* liking it! The first book was just so-so for me, but I can really feel myself getting invested now that I am in book two. Unfortunately, I am on the wait list for the physical copy at the library and so decided to listen to the audiobook on hoopla, and no one's voices sound like I imagine them. 😭

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

So much mercy inherent also in the narrative of Emma. You can fail time and time again you can be thoughtless and careless and selfish and blind you can be wrong you can be wrong you can be wrong and your wrongness can cast you down into a devastating self-awareness of your own railings and of the ways you have hurt people and yet! You may make amends and still be loved.

[supersoftly]

Capitalism this, fascist that, no wonder your brain is mush, no wonder you think all art is political, you don't seek out delight, you seek out justification for your misery

[despazito]

[mytardisisparked]

Look, all I’m saying is that they really just don’t make movies like National Treasure anymore. Like this movie is about two dudes in a van who beat a team of highly trained criminals to stealing a valuable document from a high-security museum, by sheer accident get an antiques expert to come along with them to keep the document safe, get involved in several major chase scenes, escape the FBI twice, find a massive treasure, get someone else arrested for their crimes, and then give the treasure back to museums before yeeting out to do it all over again in the sequel. No one was doing it like them. And the thing is, by all accounts, this plot is ridiculous and the dialogue is ridiculous but it works unbelievably well because the writers and actors committed to the bit. This movie is campy and absurd and it’s also one of the most fun and quotable movies of my early childhood because the creators embraced the camp and did it with such a sincerity that it’s a goshdarn delight to watch. Top all of that off with a soundtrack that went WAY harder than it really needed to, excellent atmosphere throughout the whole film, and visuals that were darn near perfect and National Treasure becomes a classic. I’ve been chasing the high I got the first time I watched it my whole life. What a movie.

[ahududulugazoz]

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[parakeet]

if you go looking for doom and gloom all you will see is doom and gloom. if you go looking for reduced items at the grocery store you may find a littol treat

[howard-ly]

i expected nothing less from nic cage

[bef0re-i-sleep]

What if I told you Dracula is absolutely a love story but not in the way its always been portrayed. It's about a love between two people strong enough that they'd follow each other to hell and back. A love between friends that survives rejection and some heartbreak. A love between a mentor and his mentee. Love is what drives them all to take the actions they do that lead to them defeating Dracula, and it's so much more than the dark romance that it's been marketed as for such a long time.

[hound-and-bear]

Dress made by me, end of 2025, photographed by Casey Kerr and Rory Casey, early 2026. Modelled by Jay Katherine Amusan.

(Thanks Jay (o: )