Deuterosapiens

"They passed down all the roads long ago..."

[deuterosapiens]

Look. Just because I watched The Show, had rather specific opinions on The Show, and screamed with the venom of an unrepentant velociraptor about The Show to anyone within eyeshot, this does not mean The Show is good or bad or worth or not worth watching. I am just an opinionated gargoyle with an internet connection.

[deuterosapiens]

Okay, so we have finally, finally, FINALLY, finished the big-ass dragon book.

The morally bad guys die, the morally good guys live, the dragon is slain with a sword created by via tulpa of the friends we lost along the way. We have a brief moment that echoes the ending of The Giver, but with less ambiguity (is The Giver's ending ambiguous? Perhaps so, if you ignore the presence of its three follow-up novels).

Main Girl Gwen nearly dies in much the same way that NOS4A2's Vic actually dies. Which reminds me, really, of what I find so intriguing about this novel: it feels like it exists in perfect conversation with each of Hill's other novels- we have the black-scribble eyes of the dead from Heart-Shaped Box; we have the Surrealist's Glass from the early Horns drafts; King Sorrow and NOS4A2 both heavily explore the idea that reality is malleable, broken through one's will. The Fireman especially is a massive novel about a fungus (called Dragonscale) that literally sets its afflicted ablaze. Man's had dragons on his mind for decades.

I feel like this book was formatted solely with a television adaptation in mind. Looking at its divisions, "The Briars" stand-out for being a fairly compelling story on its own. We have an introduction of premise, we have stakes that rise and characters that rise to meet them, we have a plan set in motion and that plan is enacted, and then we have a climax and resolution. That could have been the entire book and I would have considered it a fine afternoon read. Everything afterwards feels a little too isolated from itself, like a monster-of-the-week show.

I think the ending's fine. I don't think it's nailed quite as well as Heart-Shaped Box or Horns, but it doesn't infuriate me like The Fireman does. Dragon's killed, Gwen and surviving company learn to live and love.

We end with the realization that someone else has managed to bring King Sorrow out of the Long Dark and is using him for destruction, including more recently, setting La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris aflame. I guess we're blaming dragons for everything. But Gwen and Robin decide, fuck it, people can deal with their own dragons.

I kinda feel like most of the cast is so insufferably written, though, that I very much would have liked for the dragon to win. Well, we can keep Robin, we liked her.

(My desire to make a massive King Sorrow plush though, grows tremendously)

[foxes-in-love]

[voidark]

the neopets team released special "styles" that make your pets different pride flag colors

and this has created the funniest neocash chat board ever

happy pride

[8nin]

so done with tumblr. see u all in two minutes

[theblackparadeisdead]

Tumblr is such an awesome website. What if your diary had a pvp option

[phantom-threaded]

"The truth is… sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it." BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 2005, dir. Ang Lee

[mcsryaoihell]

my bonnies

[milquetoast-zeitgeist]

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[batty-02]

[voidpaws]

ok anyways. post this beast

[foxonrollerskates]

I HAVE THE OTHER PART TO THIS PHOTO

[aroace-ryland-grace]

I have finished making a rocky plushie!!!! (Slightly modified from ur pattern)

I ended up not making the hands because it was too hard for me 😭 but! I put some of his marking on his arms! I also put the arms at the corners of the carapace instead of the sides

I love him sm I'm taking him everywhere with me

OH MY GOD I'M IN LOVE HE LOOKS PHENOMENAL!!!!!!!

[sketchupnfries]

Finally finished crocheting a lil Rocky amigurumi! I used the pattern by ToyGurumi on YouTube. Took me a bit to finish since I kept putting off sewing each of Rocky’s legs haha

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are