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[draculism]

jon / uk / 28

they/them

evil fic writer / future booker prize winner

winterjan on ao3

fic masterpost

hermitcraft / life series

ethubs 4ever

i follow/like from @courtiers. inbox is open if you wanna say hi :)

[draculism]

what's more romantic

etho making a pocket watch for bdubs

bdubs gifting etho his all-season clock

Remaining time: 22 hours 9 minutes

[girltimeswithscar]

oyster themed ethoslab stimboard i saw in a prophetic dream 2 months ago

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[reddbug27]

this was fun

[cobblestone-butch]

failure to build walls / etho's wild life episode 2

[draculism]

What makes a good (book) title in your opinion?

i think good titles are normally very evocative and give you a good idea of what the story is about, and should intrigue you enough to make you want to pick it up and read the blurb. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a decent example: you immediately get the feeling for the comic book & stage magic elements of the story (it also helps that, having read the book, the title is constantly reconciled throughout, but you obviously don’t know that before reading it)

bad titles don’t really give you a good idea of the tone or contents of the book. i just read Alchemised and that’s a godawful title imo. all you get from it is that there’s alchemy (you could argue that it’s a metaphor for the war changing the main character but the book never really tries to make that connection and it is not a subtle book (whereas the title drop of the title from when it was a fanfiction was so goofy that it made me burst into laughter). i also tend to think that titles that are just names are normally bad. Magnolia Parks is a bad title. Edith Holler is a bad title. who are these people. why should i spend my time reading what this book is about.

there’s obviously nuance. imo A Court of Thorns and Roses is a great title. super evocative, perfect balance of romance and danger and setting, brilliant for a book that is a beauty and the beast retelling. but the next two books (A Court of Mist and Fury and A Court of Wings and Ruin) are dreadful. thorns and roses are related to one another and give the vibe of a setting that is both beautiful and deadly. what do mist and fury have to do with each other? what idea are they trying to evoke? a place that’s mysterious and… angry? what about wings and ruin? what relationship does a wing have to a ruin? what is this title ringing to tell me other than the fact that winged fairy people are going to war with each other? wings maybe symbolise freedom… except feyre is no freer in this book than the last. and the book has a (pretty) happy ending so what is the ruin a metaphor for? and even notwithstanding all that, the titles are so similar that outs easy to get them mixed up. which one was it where feyre meets the bone carver? umm. a court of something something

the thing is your title is your first line of marketing. it’s the hook before the first line or the blurb or event the cover. so why are you wasting your opportunity to market to me by using meaningless words

[jamtamart]

sometimes theres a shadow in the forest, darker than the rest, resembling a horse. and sometimes you'll find a man mumbling towards it

[ image text: im not very good at taking care of you guys, huh? ]

after climb10's ghost brought cleo from exile i liked the idea of bdubs horses, especially those that were exceptionally important/doted on, existing on in some sorta ghostly form . lulu actually was possessing that pig keralis gave him, mi amore stayed wandering around the horse head rock/church watching over the other horses, etc. climb 1 (shown here) follows behind every new climb, pitch black in shadow except for her mane, which flows like water and glistens ever so slightly when the sunlight hits it just right

[cocosdailyetho]

580 // bugs

[arieava]

literally beyond parody

[forrest13]

Cubfan….

[draculism]

Do we think Born Lucky Feinberg is also bad at sex?

i don't think any version of feinberg is good at sex

[jamtamart]

bdoubleo100. & climb1.

[risibledeer]

It kinda looked like bdubs was jerking eefo around by the head LOL

[draculism]

whats the e in easks

it literally doesn't mean anything. ages ago i chose 'eclips' as my clip tag because apparently stuff tagged just 'clips' was getting suppressed by tumblr and i thought it was cute that it looked like the word eclipse 🌒 . so when i chose an ask tag i just put an e at the front of the word asks to match

[draculism]

can't stop thinking abt ethubs randomly dropping a new series of a lets play w just the two of them.. ethubs forever world.. sigh a girl can dream

i think frequently about etho saying once that he’d like to do another CTM map and maybe post it as one giant video instead of in 20 minute parts like they used to and well who better to do a CTM map with

[draculism]

4 & 20!

fave section of a bookstore: i always gravitate towards the fantasy/sci fi section, especially the oldhead pre80s sci fi. i picked up a copy of rendezvous with rama recently from a random sci fi section in a secondhand store and it reminds me of everything i love and everything that's missing from modern sci fi imo

what i look for in a book: decent writing style, author ideally older than 30 and ideally relatively prolific, good title (rarely does a good book have a bad title), theme- & plot-lead rather than character/worldbuilding/magic system-lead. and obviously an interesting premise

[draculism]

10, 19

guilty fave: im sorry but i love acotar i don't care that it's bad, it being bad it part of the appeal. feyre is a terrible protagonist rhysand is the worst and sarah j maas needs to stop projecting her eating disorder into her fiction. but also cmon. there's fairies 🧚‍♂️

most disliked popular books: i read babel by rf kuang because it's a friend's favourite book and i thought it was so ass that it makes me think worse of everyone who reviewed it well