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fish's art/lit curatorium

[georgecuntanza]

love books. because it’s like what if something happened

[idlelizard]

unusual ungulate

[door]

Leif Engström (b. 1992), PÅ OMVÄGAR, 2024

Oil on canvas, 191× 150 cm

[polkadotmotmot]

Salvo - Strada con lampioni, 2001

[glavilio]

*describing some learned fellow i'm acquainted with* he's very articulate *remembers when he crossed me* i mean verbose

[loveridden1999]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[m3atbuff3t]

i coul dnever be the captain of a ship. everyday id be like third lieutenant ..... do a backflip lol

[zivot-ne-zna-da-ga-volim-ja]

[notgreengardens]

[jetix]

“Sky Box” by Parker Parrella, 2025 8x8 Acrylic on canvas

[vintagehomecollection]

The doors to the bedroom, with silver niello knobs. Thai stands flank the doorway, holding Burmese temples and tassles.

Dawnridge estate of Tony Duquette.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[o-fantasma]

by the time u’ve finished reading this sentence twenty seven innocent words will have been absorbed, suffocated, and killed by the warm embrace of ur Understanding

[cosmonautroger]

[xxxprosp3r0neilxxx]

Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it's finally done you're just like "nvm. it's trash" and go to bed

[sillylotrpolls]

In The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980) movies by Rankin/Bass, Thranduil and Legolas look quite different from each other despite being father and son. Why?

Legolas took after his mother

Recessive genes

Legolas is adopted

Legolas is actually short and green, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

Thranduil is actually tall and blonde, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

That Thranduil was actually a decoy, in case the dwarves tried assassination

Legolas is still in the larval stage of his species

All that heavy drinking eventually affected Thranduil's looks

Legolas' dad is a different Thranduil; two elves can have the same name, geez

Okay, so, do you know the canonical backstory for Smurfette…?

Something something Silmarillion

I don't engage in Watsonian theorizing when Doylist explanations are obvious

Voting ended onDec 24, 2025

[tgtbata]

terror christmas stuff!

[alliluyevas]

do you ever read goodreads reviews and realize that there are people out there approaching fiction is a diametrically different way than you

[alliluyevas]

you could not pay me to read a book whose fans describe it like this

[bookself]

I'm not sure where to begin so I'm going to bullet my responses:

--The Hands of the Emperor is one of the horniest books I've read over the last few years. The titular character is unable to touch or be touched by other people, but gradually builds an emotionally intimate relationship with his advisor.

--The "talking things out" is the vehicle/stand-in for intimacy given the above point.

--"Nothing happens" is an insane thing to say about a thousand-page doorstop of a book about alien politics and government.

--Setting aside the acespec romance arc, I'm amazed that the reviewer managed to avoid any mention of the rich cultural tapestry the author of Hands weaves for the characters, because it's arguably the star of the series.

I think the most useful takeaway here is, as always, writing a popular Goodreads review doesn't require great media literacy.