Cozy Moments Cannot Be Muzzled

Catholic. Female. A fangirl of many, many things. I'm bad at being concise, but I do like talking to people (especially about Nerd Stuff). Main exports: Fic, headcanons/meta, and other medium-to-long textposts, with a side business in niche memes.

[incomingalbatross]

SPOILERS for Shattered World book 5:

Jasper is so bad at this still <3

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HEARTBREAKING: The Guy Who Murdered Your Parents Is Now Better At Apologizing Than You Are

[creating-by-starlight]

Soft (as City Between gets) City Between Post-Kings headcanons

Ruth is frustrated trying to braid her own hair with one hand, so JinYeong and Zero both learn to do it to help her, since she likes her hair kept back. They do this independently of each other, and Ruth ends up having to set up a schedule for what days they do her hair while Zero's still living with her and JinYeong, because they fight over the rights. (After Athelas is Forgiven he also learns, and is better at it than JinYeong, much to JinYeong's annoyance. You can tell whose day it is by level of complexity. Harrow also learns, but for Camellia, who thinks that it's absolutely darling).

(Inspired by Auralia's post the other day) Ruth is still the main cook, but it's another thing complicated by Being Down A Limb, so her two remaining psychos actually start learning to cook to assist her. JinYeong is on permanent dish duty. Ruth got him pretty armbands to help hold up his sleeves so they don't get in the water. He was pleased by this.

Ruth buys a few ties to give Tie Frog a family

Ruth starts calling Palomena "Aunt Palomena" before she and Zero are even dating to try to get Zero to move faster than literal molasses.

Morgana and Daniel actually end up married earlier than Ruth and JinYeong; Daniel tries to send the Pack away for the day when he's planning on proposing, and they crash it anyways. Morgana is thrilled either way.

Les regularly visits them (very little to no warning, crazy old bloke that he is) when he needs to not be in charge for a bit.

[astercontrol]

whoever bought the domain spidersge.org and had it go to a simple html page with nothing except the text of the famous spiders georg post:

Thank you. You are doing good work. Hope you have a wonderful day

[incomingalbatross]

OH NO NEW SHATTERED WORLDS CONCERN

(spoilers for book 5)

from the end of book 3:

...IS THIS A MEMORY OF LUCA'S DAD

I DON'T LIKE THAT

THOMAS LYNNE STAY AWAY FROM VIV. CREEP. WHAT DID YOU DO

[incomingalbatross]

you really can't judge a book by its cover. or title. or blurb. or context in which you saw it recommended (at least, not fully).

you just gotta be willing to open it and see.

[decompose1]

people are soooo mean to the color yellow and it hurts my heart like u mean the color of the sun!?!? daffodils and buttercups and dandelions!? canary feathers and fresh butter and the warm glow of light and the trees in autumn???? for shame. joyless.

[incomingalbatross]

sometimes you have to reread your own fic. because it's good.

[incomingalbatross]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New chapter!

[in-echoes-forever]

Anyway I think Luca is the first male main character (or maybe male character at all...?) in the entire City Between universe to actually wash dishes 😂 and he did that of his own free will even. Also seems to be one of the first/only ones who can cook by himself, if we're talking about the metaphor/symbolism that goes with that theme in this series

[hallwaysss]

Genuinely I think this might be the most important scene in the book

[hallwaysss]

@carlyraejepsans how does it feel to be the most correct person ever. You're so right

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Brave Adventurer I must now send you on your most difficult quest yet, I task thee- Go To Bed.

[incomingalbatross]

sort of spoilers for Shattered World book 5

Betweenverse Relationships

Male lead: You can point me at people like a weapon if you want <3 Female lead: I Will Not Be Doing That Male lead: <3 That's even BETTER <3

[filmopen]

re-reading the explosion and the aftermath for personal reasons and oh my god i'm going insane. eva stratt i'm in your head i'm in your walls.

there's an explosion nine days before the launch and he's the first thing she's worried about.

you know she immediately is freaking out over how she let this happen. it's her fault. they shouldn't have been there and she didn't spot it.

and who can she rely on to find the answer she needs?

but immediately once she knows the stakes she cuts him off.

doesn't speak to him for four whole days. the person she has involved for everything. and then when she does!!!!

she says the first of very many mean things to him. and I know she doesn't mean it because it's one of the first things she says about him to the others!! all the way back in chapter 5 before they even knew he had the coma gene!!

i'm going insane.

[incomingalbatross]

Finally got access to a copy of Project Hail Mary from the library!

Enjoying all the things the movie couldn't manage, but probably my favorite detail no one had told me about so far is:

I flagged down a passing sailor and showed him the note. He nodded and gestured for me to follow. He led me through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, until we arrived back at the room I'd been in the previous day.

NERRRRRRD (@ both Ryland Grace and Andy Weir). Delightful.

(For those who don't know, this is a quote from the text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure, which is, in the words of Wikipedia, "the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake.")

[incomingalbatross]

"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a Taumoeba out of a hat!"

And THIS ^ is a Rocky & Bullwinkle reference.

Good taste.

[incomingalbatross]

@peeta-mellarks-smile Oh I am DELIGHTED to know the audiobook narrator did a Voice for it!

This is the bit (in all its several variations :P), btw:

[incomingalbatross]

Luca and Viv have Mulder and Scully vibes to a degree

(Sensible Professional Woman is trying so hard to remain sensible and do her job in a normal fashion but unfortunately the bouncy wide-eyed crazy man she was assigned to partner/handicap keeps being right about things and also keeps Gazing Adoringly at her is a kindred spirit)

[incomingalbatross]

Finally got access to a copy of Project Hail Mary from the library!

Enjoying all the things the movie couldn't manage, but probably my favorite detail no one had told me about so far is:

I flagged down a passing sailor and showed him the note. He nodded and gestured for me to follow. He led me through a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, until we arrived back at the room I'd been in the previous day.

NERRRRRRD (@ both Ryland Grace and Andy Weir). Delightful.

(For those who don't know, this is a quote from the text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure, which is, in the words of Wikipedia, "the first well-known example of interactive fiction, as well as the first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake.")

[incomingalbatross]

"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a Taumoeba out of a hat!"

And THIS ^ is a Rocky & Bullwinkle reference.

Good taste.

[prokopetz]

Web series where the principal characters are constantly having long, emotionally open conversations about their needs and traumas, except it quickly becomes clear that one of them is wildly mistaken about their own motivations, one perfectly understands themselves but is lying on purpose, and one is just kind of saying shit.