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bookworm; she/her the enola holmes girl pfp by THE AMAZING INCREDIBLE @corvus-corvidae!!! <33
formerly bookwormgirl123 (and i-used-to-be-a-bookworm, as well as etherealbookworm, for like a day each lmao)

[iwasonceabookworm]

“if i get bitten by a vampire, you have my permission to amputate. i don't wanna turn.”

-shelby shubble, vampires smp episode one

hello! you can call me ‘bookworm’, i use she/her pronouns, and this is my blog, it’s a pleasure to have you here! :D

FREE PALESTINE!!!!!

fandoms… the enola holmes mysteries ~ keeper of the lost cities ~ wicked ~ wings of fire ~ a treachery of swans/ab poranek books ~ epic the musical ~ superman (2025) ~ caesar the musical/the tragedy of julius caesar ~ the half of it ~ nimona ~ peanuts ~ my little pony (mostly g4 but i vibe with all of em!!!) ~ ever after high ~ pjo ~ the hunger games ~ the summer i turned pretty ~ kpop demon hunters ~ mcyt ~ bridgerton

links… my art blog ~ my writing blog ~ my (kinda-sorta) nonfandom blog ~ my linh song rp blog ~ my kenric fathdon rp blog ~ my ao3 ~ my quotev ~ dividers

my tags… #bookworm gets an ask: when i get an ask ~ #bookworm spews nonsense and #bookworm screams into the void: my og posts ~ #beloved moots <3 and #mutual chaos: all things mutuals (though the first is more my ‘general’ moot tag, while the second is when we get into mayhem) ~ there are a few others, but i'm sure you’ll figure ‘em out :D

im reading… the wonderful wizard of oz by l frank baum ~ the inheritance cycle: eragon by christopher paolini ~ the book of bill by alex hirsch

my tbr… the iron widow series by xiran jay zhao ~ the shadow and bone series by leigh bardugo ~ the song of achilles by madeleine miller ~ anne of green gables by l m montgomery ~ cece rios and the desert of souls by kaela rivera ~ south is the sea by emily rath ~ to all the boys: always & forever by jenny han ~ as good as dead by holly jackson ~ gwen & art are not in love by lex croucher ~ ik it seems like a lot but i’d LOVE to see your recommendations!

pfp by THE @corvus-corvidae!! <333 have a lovely day <33

[fluornesscence]

Don’t tell mama!

[inbetweenhours]

Was thinking about Shelby, both her sire and fledgling dead, and the sort of supernatural grief that comes with that as a vampire. The tragedy of these three makes me crazy, and especially how it all falls onto Shelby in the end. The idea that she alone has to bear grief for them both whilst also being angry at Pyro, his blood on her hands, and knowing how close she was was to dealing with Avid herself. The amount of conflicting thoughts and feelings in her, aough.

In my mind this piece was called "Missing Links", the idea that in this siring line Shelby was what bridged Avid and Pyro, and with both of them gone she links no one despite knowing she is meant to. Similarly, with Pyro gone she has lost her link to Scott in the siring line. I know this has no affect on anything but also I feel like in a supernatural sense it would hurt, to feel disconnected from your coven like she has been.

Edit putting my process under the cut for under the cut for fun <3

so initially I was going to include Scott to emphasis the gaps in the siring link but i felt it took too much focus away from Shelby so i cut him off. Then i planned where i wanted the blood spray to go and how the bg might look. You will also notice i remembered Pyro's stake as well. Then finally the lineart! Though I ended up reducing the scaring on Pyro's face, it largely remained! I'm really happy with it!

[transmasc-abolishregret]

[harvestmoth]

thing that would never ever ever happen

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

[roadkillcritter]

@cheesuschristman my fellow alchemist...

[televenus]

couples costume!!!

[televenus]

wait realizing ive just unintentionally put him in the same scrubs as the doc...... legundoception..

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

[roadkillcritter]

@cheesuschristman my fellow alchemist...

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[vsmp-sideship-tournament]

Round 1, Poll 8

Sunnymystery (Avid/Drift/Elle/Shelby) VS Pyro's Hitlist (Avid/Czeslaw/Pyro)

Sunnymystery

Pyro's Hitlist

Remaining time: 1 day 49 minutes

Propaganda:

Sunnymystery

shelby, drift, and elle are the most important people in avid’s story, why not make them kiss? :3

Pyro's Hitlist (this is all just one submission shoutout to whoever sent this in wow)

So obviously we have the parallels of both Avid and Pyro running away from murdering someone close to them when they get to Oakhurst. But there's so much to be said about this ship being about the cycle of bullying.

How Avid treats Pyro in the early episodes once he's revealed as a vamp is so reminiscent of Czeslaw's bullying, even if Avid is coming from a completely different place

He's still pushing them away from the town, from the possibility of being accepted and seen as not a monster for once, and he's also one of the most vocal in saying that Pyro is an evil vampire that can't be helped unlike Shelby

Pyro's already struggling with feeling like a monster now that he's been turned and having his fears validated, which is not helped by the voice of Czeslaw haunting him (either literally or metaphorically)

If Czeslaws a ghost watching this all happen, he is definitely alternating between commenting on how pathetic Avid's paranoia is and affirming Avid's violence and insults towards Pyro, just to torture them some more as payback for killing him, which definitely doesnt feed into Pyro's guilt complex

Once Avid is turned and accepted into the coven the dynamics shift since Avid can't really label Pyro as the big bad vampire now that he is one as well.

Czeslaw, seeing the chance to do the FUNNIEST thing, feeding Pyro's resentment towards Avid and urging him to take control of the situation for once which leads to him eventually killing Avid and being wracked with THAT guilt as well

So much of their relationship is Avid bullying Pyro, which reminds him of Czeslaw, but he has more power now that he's a vampire, but he still doesn't want to prove him right and be violent but Avid keeps pushing him to violence and for the first time he found people taking his side over his bully's in Scott and Owen hating Avid only to see Scott completely turn around and accept Avid once he's a vampire and that wounds them deeply

Theres so many different fun ways for them to interact too:

All of them in the afterlife bickering with one another and Avid meeting Czeslaw and realizing what Pyro was running from

Ghost!Czeslaw potentially haunting Pyro and possessing him to terrorize Avid (and the whole town (but also mostly Avid for shits and giggles))

BOTH ghost!czeslaw and ghost!Avid haunting Pyro and bickering with each other while he tries not to lose his mind even more

Anyways other things:

Czeslaw would have a FIELD day with Avid if they ever were to meet, like he's hazing the fuck out of Avid

Giving the most backhanded compliments ever for putting Pyro in his place, but he's still kind of lame and Avid definitely begins to realize how his actions actually hurt Pyro the person not just Pyro the vampire

Czeslaw also simultaneously taunting Pyro for just taking Avid's comments and feeding into every insecurity he's had decades to learn about Czeslaw for his part is just having fun needling at the other's just to see their reactions

Truly an "I can make him worse" situation where they're all hurting each other

[irialovesfitz]

happy pride to sophie foster who always has something to say about how pretty biana’s glossy lips are or how cute linh looks blushing or how cool marellas hair is #iknowhatyouare

[sakurabraches]

i probably could get behind a version of the "gelphie can never reunite" argument where it's like louis and prior's "i love you" "good. i love you" "i really do. but you can't come back. not ever" in angels in america. and the point with gelphie is that they'll love each other forever but glinda's irrevocably harmed elphie and as much as elphaba wants to recapture their relationship at shiz she has to keep moving forward. and you can kind of look at nessa holding on to her relationship with boq and elphaba almost returning to the wizard to be with glinda in wonderful as moments that show how clinging to the past and being unable to let go is unhealthy and ties into the wider conservative/fascist obsession with returning to a glorified past. but i can't fully get behind this reading because i absolutely hate the implication of "your important relationship with your female companion in your formative years is nice but you ultimately have to give that up and integrate into normative heterosexual social structures by running off with prince strawboy." like i don't think we get anything out of another story where the conclusion for the female protagonist is happily ever after with a boring man. and fundamentally, while louis and prior end separated, the ending of angels in america is a testament to the resilience of the queer community and the value of human life. and i think in some ways wicked ends up undercutting the value of glinda and elphaba's relationship because it can't imagine female relationships being permanent fixtures the way romantic het relationships are. if it wasn't obvious angels in america is a better play than wicked the musical. and this is why glinda and elphaba have to stay together

[cheezestr1ngstash]

Guess who I drew.......

Yeah it's v!Shelby, I tried drawing her in 50s styled winter clothes, she's so cool and awesome dude SHELBY SHEKBY SHELBY!!!! I didn't know what to do for the back round so random stuff go!!

Also over the pass few days I've had an awful head ache, but suddenly after drawing Shelby I feel a lot better so I guess a vsmp drawing a day really does keep the cure at bay!

[that-truant-heart]

And you know, it's not as if Shelby is never wronged by the town; Avid burning her house down and Martyn straight up burning her alive both come to mind. From her perspective, it's pretty reasonable to be afraid for her life, which leads to her doubling down on her construction of the coven as a family of outcasts who can only rely on each other, smoothing over her violent induction. The town doesn't have much animosity towards Shelby, yet she has very few positive interactions with the townsfolk after being exposed as a vampire. Not coincidentally, after that point she rarely interacts with the townsfolk outside of the company of Scott, Owen, or Pyro, who are undeniably hostile to the humans. Do you see the vicious cycle here? The more she judges the townsfolk unworthy of her trust, the more they prove her right.

And even to the extent that Shelby knows the town's hostility isn't directed at them specifically, it doesn't matter. Partially because they've gotten attached to the mass murderers, and partially because they perceive themself as vulnerable; the easiest target in the coven. Mr. Abolish "Good Vampires And Bad Vampires" Veylocke, in conceding that they aren't a threat and killing them anyway, does not prove them wrong.

[the-canary-wives]

“Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping, brother John?

Bells are ringing, bells are ringing, ding-ding-dong!”

-Counting Sheep by The Crane Wives

sketch :3

also the background is Safe Ship Harbored colored!! :D

[goldensunset]

per my last desperate howl at the heavens,

[theharvestingmoon]

Mayhaps a soft booklocke or a trustbites?

The cuties<3

I've never actually drawn Abolish before so I hope he looks ok