Smiles, Monsters & Magic

Jamila. she/her. 30s. Australia.

[wylanvaneckz]

can't stop thinking about wylan putting his bag over his head and jesper reaching over and untwisting the strap without thinking in what might be one of the most beautiful moments of subtle intimacy in literary fiction ever.........

[cloevr]

when i take my phone case off i feel concern and fear knowing that some people just rawdog their phone like that like its so slippery girl you are carrying around a little fish

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Handle a naked smartphone and you can just feel the eagerness of this device to lemming itself onto the pavement

[dearmrsawyer]

jamilla i just wanted to let you know i made a delicious potato and leek soup on the weekend that I'm gonna be having for lunches all week and I'm sitting at my desk like 🤤 thinking of soup in my future. have you had any nice soups this winter?

LE I WAS JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 THINKING ABOUT YOU. LITERALLY today. Manifestation wow ✨ I am so happy that you decided to share the news of this delicious potato and leek soup with me. That honestly sounds soo good. As you know i have Le's famous chilli in my recipe book, and winter favourite that i am so excited to whip out in the coming months. Would you do me the honour of sharing your soup recipe, that i may perhaps have 2 famous Le recipes in my book 👀

i actually had a really fantastic soup for my lunches last week! I tried this Curry Chicken Noodle Soup and it was so so so yum. I used green curry paste rather than yellow curry powder because i had some on hand 10/10! In the grand scheme of things, i actually don't eat a tonne of soup, but the ones i love i really love 💗

[parkchanwoohoo]

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

[raine-of-auroria]

Me watching this:

[cowboybarbaryn]

I’m not letting this rot in the tags

[dasiesanddarkness]

actually i think Inej is the first person Wylan tells about his father trying to kill him. i think in the weeks after ck before Inej leaves there’s an evening when Jesper is gone and it’s just Wylan and Inej, and they sit and talk. and i think Inej tells him about Van Eck almost breaking her legs and confesses that she wasn’t sure Kaz would save her if he had. i think Wylan tells her that she didn’t see what Kaz was like, and that even if he hadn’t wanted to save her Jesper and Nina and Matthias and him would’ve come up with something to get her out. i think Inej tells Wylan his father is awful and he apologizes and she tells him to never apologize for something someone else did. i think she tells him the Suli phrase for sorry and reminds him that he can’t promise an action he isn’t responsible for will have no echo. i think she says she can’t imagine growing up with someone like that and Wylan admits, with tears in his eyes, that Van Eck tried to kill him. i think Inej hugs him and tells him he deserved better and Wylan cries and he thanks her. i think they talk about Inej’s plan to sail and kill slavers and Wylan swears that he’ll help her however she needs. i think they talk and talk and talk and talk, and Jesper comes home to them curled up on the couch together, fast asleep.

[dailyniallhoran]

Niall via TikTok: TOMORROW

[stars-bean]

Fantasia (1940) dir. David D. Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

[worldsandemanations]

Bowl with Fish design , Iran, probably Kashan, late 13th–mid-14th century, stonepaste; black decoration under a transparent turquoise glaze

[teathattast]

[patterns-pets]

When cats put their whole body into making a sound. Only to be squeak.

[vonlipwig]

developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

[fandomsandfairytales]

This post is the spiritual successor to that post about David Corenswet:

[palatialrosegardens]

I really like how Wylan came out

Now I just have one more to go (plus maybe Kuwei if I feel like it)

[nsevens]

LOST (2004 - 2010) 3.15 — Left Behind

[ullathynell]

ART BOOK NEWS 🌼

A Kickstarter campaign for an expanded edition of my book Woodlands is coming this summer! Make sure to click the "Notify me" button so you don't miss the campaign when it launches.

Woodlands is a hardcover art book featuring my ink paintings and color pencil drawings. I originally self-published it in 2018, and all copies sold out a few years ago. But now I have teamed up with the indie press Atthis Arts and we're running a crowdfunding campaign to bring Woodlands back to life. 🌟

This new, expanded edition of Woodlands will contain all the book's original art and poetry, along with my later works in the same style (including some brand new drawings and paintings that you haven't seen yet). All Kickstarter backers will also receive digital bonus rewards.

You can support the project by following Woodlands on Kickstarter! Sharing this post makes a huge difference too. Thank you so much. ❤️

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[ohtaintedlove]

February Ship Challenge 5/28

Orphydice ↠ Hadestown (2016- )

Orpheus and Eurydice

"Say that you'll hold me forever, say that the wind won't change on us, say that we'll stay with each other, and it'll always be like this."

📹@mttztrading

[ohjessmarie]

new desktop wallpaper digital download for spring 🌼🐦🌱 on etsy!

[modernshxmxn]

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via childrenofthetao)