Kelpie

People read these??? 21+

[kosmogrl]

zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell

[dreamingofseastars]

library genesis is still up (very similar site) and r/freemediaheckyeah and r/piracy have lots of other alternatives. zlib was the GOAT though. fuck tiktok

(originally commented. putting as a reblog as its important)

[kosmogrl]

for anyone that wants to know about other sites, I also didn't know so this is a big help!!! thank you!

[ichornyra]

some sites i use to read online: - https://libgen.li/ - https://www.pdfdrive.com/ - https://libretexts.org/ - https://openlibrary.org/ - https://novel80.com/ - https://www.allfreenovel.com/ - https://bookreadfree.com/ - https://allbookshub.com/ - http://thefreeonlinenovel.com/ - https://www.epub.pub/ - https://www.readingsanctuary.com/ - https://yes-pdf.com/ - https://www.booksfree.org/ if none of the links work if you just search up "(book title) read online free" there's almost always gonna be a pdf link and those are always good to read from too

[lokiinmediasideblog]

This is even more important with the internet archive losing the lawsuit and being forced to remove so many books. Consider donating to the Internet Archive.

[luciferins-deactivated20260406]

also oceanofpdf.com it has nearly every novel ive wanted to read

[egophiliac]

got my eye on you, birdman

[egophiliac]

you should totally put grim in Meleanor cosplay btw. also Mel in a grim onesie. for science

oh, well, if it's for science...

[egophiliac]

okay ONE more (promise) (🤞) because I wanted to do full-bodies. :U ...and also I realized that Skully actually needed the coat arms wrapping around him. it was an extremely necessary correction.

[egophiliac]

What's your favorite character trope?

hold on, I'm looking over all of my favorite idiots and realizing that there is something of a common thread between them...

huge sucker for this particular kind of weirdo. gets me every time.

oh and also, of course we can't forget

[egophiliac]

Still no blazing jewel Grim for eng.... I wanna set someone's eyebrows on fire

you guys just had your fourth anniversary, right? Blazing Jewel was the fifth anniversary, so you should be getting him next year!

meanwhile I'm obsessed with what sixth anniversary Grim could be...personally, my hopes are for his clubwear.

[egophiliac]

Sorry to bother, but I really need to tell this to someone...

I love the Malleus OB backgrounds, but why the hell does the Malleus' Crib one does NOT have it's own music???

Like, I put it on today and that silly Ramshackle song started playing... I did NOT expect that. I cannot take the background seriously now lol.

(Also, sorry if this is a bit out of nowhere :^)

NO NO I 1000% GET IT. I've gotten too used to event backgrounds having fun special bgm that when I switch to one that doesn't it's like a frikkin relaxing audio jumpscare. for some it works but then you get the big epic backgrounds like the dragon cradle and it's still just cute fun background music like they put on a 10 hour study music video for baby Malleus to incubate to. I really wish we could choose separate bgm like we can in the guest room...there's a couple I'd love to mix and match but, alas. :(

also it would help cut down on the, uhhh, tonal whiplash between the ambience and some of the home screen lines, like

(I did get your follow-up ask btw -- the first one came in fine as you can see, and it would've been totally fine to fix if it hadn't, so no worries! ❤️)

[egophiliac]

I've decided that I just like the idea of their dynamic being very inconvenient.

[egophiliac]

this probably won’t happen but my biggest fear is if they do like. “what if a different character overblotted” cards. it wouldn’t make sense but would i sell my kidneys to get a kalim overblot card? yes, next question!! but if they ever did do “alternate overblots”, which character(s) would you wanna see?

she probably doesn't 100% count as an alternate, but I'm always gonna be a little salty that Meleanor was in dragon form the whole time she was ob'd. I want to see her in all her beautiful inky glory!!!! 😤

(this was very fast sorry)

I also think a Che'nya overblot would be SICK just design-wise, there's SO much cool thematic stuff you could do. like I'm picturing him just...literally unraveling in places. and just IMAGINE the PHANTOM...

[egophiliac]

Grim is so adorable in his little pyjamas I'm just-

BUT I also can't stop thinking that it looks like prison uniform...

What crimes did you commit, little fuzzball??

[egophiliac]

POMEFIORE BASEMENT HAS BEEN SHOWN

FINALLY, IT EXISTS!!

...with bonus lore that Epel sneaks down there in the middle of the night to swear where Vil can't hear him. or at least he thinks Vil can't hear him. has he checked where those vents lead to.

(anyway then it got immediately overshadowed by Idia getting eaten by a roomba, because canon Twst has yet again outdone me in terms of being funnier than I could ever hope to be.)

[egophiliac]

something about how you drew HatBoy's grin reminds me of how you draw Rook, so until we get contradictory information I'm going to assume HatBoy is Rook in a larger hat that usual

it wouldn't even be the weirdest thing he's done, to be honest.

[egophiliac]

Wait ego...what do u mean by idia getting attacked by a roomba😭

doing my part to make sure everyone gets to see this new addition to the list of Things Idia Has Gotten Into a Fight With (and Lost)

("Robot vacuums are pretty neat. It does whatever I tell it to!" boss are you saying this was intentional. the implications are...shall we say...grim.)

[egophiliac]

"this started as a reply to someone and spiraled wildly out of control" part eight billion (sorry) (or am I)

anyway the bug has done nothing wrong in its life and it deserves all the kisses, thank you very much 💋

[egophiliac]

this might be a little weird idk but im super impressed by how u write dialogue & i was wondering if u had any tips on how to make a character speak ‘fancier’ or more eloquently…. like malleus

anything would be appreciated 🥺 i struggle w/ this greatly

aw! thank you! :> it's (ironically) hard for me to put into words, so I apologize if this doesn't help much, but the two things I try to keep in mind is

-> general avoidance of contractions/colloquialisms

-> so many words. why use few words when you can simply enumerate endlessly, at length, using as many syllables as possible, as though you were struggling to make wordcount on an essay assignment two hours before it is due. speak as though every conversation is actually a series of small but inspiring speeches that will later be quoted in history books when they record your life.

-> Mal in particular is always half-talking to himself as much as anyone else, I think. probably because he didn't have anyone else to talk to for a long time and so he's not in the habit. he'll start randomly musing out loud to himself in the middle of a conversation and everyone else just has to go along for the ride. (he also has a very high opinion of himself. granted it's mostly deserved, but, y'know, he doesn't exactly hide it. very much a "royal guy who prides himself on being magnanimous and benevolent but still sees most people as a little bit beneath him" kind of air.)

so you put all that together and instead of, say, something like, "there's a snake in my boot!", you get:

or, alternatively, just think of the most pretentious thing you've ever heard someone say in real life, and it probably fits.

(bringing this very old art back again purely to harass my sister about her pretentious architectural opinions, don't mind me)

[egophiliac]

Did you ever think that youd end up drawing ikemen gremlins when you started playing twst?

March 2020: okay I've been following the pre-release stuff on this game for a while and it looks SO weird, I might as well try it out. just see what it's like and then drop it after a couple of days. sheesh these Diasomnia guys especially seem like they're gonna really annoy me.

March 2026:

[egophiliac]

here's to six years and countin'! 🥂

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