bookworms and crawling things

- huge fan of moths and mold - fandom enjoyer - gothic literature aficionado - bad music enthusiast

[festeringmoons]

about

he/him & they/them & e/em & it/its pronouns most of the time, although my gender isn’t stagnant & wobbles on occasion. if I ever state I’m going by different pronouns, switch it back to these after a day or so unless this post itself changes

queer & use a lot of different labels, so don’t be surprised if I’m sometimes contradictory. my gender is usually some flavor of genderqueer fellow. my sexuality? take a damn guess pal

DMs+askbox are open & encouraged! I don’t often start conversations but I will respond to pretty much anything, so long as it isn’t invasive

I try to avoid discourse/infighting, but this isn’t a given. often I reblog stuff about issues that don’t affect me directly so don’t assume anything I don’t explicitly state :)

main fandoms (or at least the ones I post/reblog on here): the locked tomb, the magnus archives, the raven cycle (not the dreamer trilogy, though), vicious (V. E. Schwab), interview with the vampire (show), the mechanisms, the amazing digital circus, dracula (1897), & various musicals

I tag stuff I make with “#my post” lovely/funny things with “#wondrous” stuff that’s important to me with “#important” resources for art/writing with “#creation” & important things I am currently unable to read/don’t fit in the above categories with “#read later”

I tag all my posts but don’t really tag reblogs, so I encourage you to ask me if you want me to tag something in particular. my content warnings follow the format “#cw word” (ex: “#cw flashing lights”) or “#word mention” (ex: “#insects mention”), all lowercase. I try to include image descriptions on my own posts, but I do reblog posts that don’t include them. again, ask if you want me to tag

if you make a post that threatens people to reblog it (ex: “If you scroll past this you’re a bad person”) then I’m not going to reblog it I don’t care what it’s about

[mygothicheroine]

lmao armand apologized to two people and then said "that's enough activism for this century"

[queenoftheimps]

I do feel bad for poor Louis, genuinely cheering on Daniel when he finds out he's dating someone, not realizing this is foreshadowing The Events of That One Week In 1973 Will Never Stop Having Consequences for You, Personally, Louis de Pointe du Lac

[creepycrag]

If you remember being a teenager you're a creep because you straight up saw yourself naked back then. The only way to be righteous is to obliterate your mind with drugs until you can't remember anything

[maja-paja]

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[griffineatsbread]

i don't consider myself much of a shipper but everytime i am reminded of armand and Daniel i just. it's so funny. i am 500+ years old. you are a terminally ill 70 y/o human journalist who i psychologically tortured and kept in my flat for a week in the seventies. i might be your wife. i define myself exclusively on others. will you be my nepo fledgling. ignore the fact that i said i would never make one. i'm making people walk into traffic. let's make a vlog together

[only-alter-idem]

get yourself a gang who’ll help you bury the body of the creature that came out of your dreams, representing your internalised homophobia, and tried to kill you

[only-alter-idem]

gideon: i hate harrow because she doesn’t treat me like a human being

gideon when harrow tries to treat her like a human being: woah woah woah, stop this! you’re going to make the readers think we’re gay for each other. do you have brain damage.

[beemovieerotica]

you put a dog on a diet and he'll start begging for plain ass vinegar like he's christ on the cross

[beemovieerotica]

ok my apologies, apparently it was a big deal that jesus did NOT beg for vinegar while on the cross. and this was like, religiously important.

anyway my dog is suffering more than christ

[maythray]

[ID: A digital doodle of two figures. One figure, shaped like a human, has a hand on their hip and says, “haha well at least you’re not like THAT”. The other figure is a creature with two antennas. They have a smug expression on their face. The text underneath reads in parentheses, “(is exactly like that)” / END ID]

[talontarget]

jkr is literally posting upskirt photos to her social media. when will it finally get through to harry potter fans that their support makes her feel confident and correct enough to do things like this

[dodykeahedron]

If the holocaust denialism SOMEHOW wasn't enough for you to shut up about your favourite kids book as an adult; JK Rowling just committed a sex crime IRL against a transgender woman.

When do we start to care.

[thebluewizardsaregay]

apparently i’m a millennial woman

[alatariel-galadriel]

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

[great-and-small]

[draquus]

I just want to add, it’s not just that The Lord of the Rings rejects grimdark and gritty fantasy - The Lord of the Rings is the original. Grimdark is what you get when you reject the bright half of the eucatastrophe.

[tigersharks]

[glewmie]

[lastoneout]

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

[lastoneout]

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

[confusedbeing3]

The Call of the Hunt

[lutesial]

I remember a while back when I was listening to the grifters bone episode I had the idea of 'pfft imagine that was just The Mechanisms'

ngl that would be funny.

'lol yeah I remember that. Fun times!'