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Memento Conari Ezra (They/She). ♿️🏳️‍🌈 20+ Tis I, that dude from the blood sword post. Feel free to say hi. My original works blog: https://tired-tales.tumblr.com/ My ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/kvothbloodless My quotes blog: https://quotes-from-the-bookery.tumblr.com Header: https://twitter.com/SereneNocturne

[kvothbloodless]

Alright, so Ive made some progress here and decides on my final goals.

1. I want to get at least half (78) marked off as at least tried. Currently at 40/78.

2. I want to get at least a quarter (39) fully read. Currently at 20/39.

3. I want to have at least one read from each year/category. Currently at 9/13.

4. (Bonus) try to get a bingo.

I do wish there was a way to differentiate between "read a few chapters before bouncing off" and "read 500k words before running out of steam".

[feminist-space]

[johanna-swann]

[everydayconman]

The ancient texts were true… They DO have a reaction image for everything…

[ankle-beez]

what the fuck is this tagline

[ankle-beez]

what do you mean "before he was scrooge, he was Ebenezer". Scrooge is his last name!!!! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

[totallynotgayforyou]

[noctilia]

Guts and Glory (2026)

[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[perl-in-my-head]

My contribution to the zine of tide and flesh! Go check it out, everyone did such cool art for it :)

@zineoftideandflesh

[claypigeonpottery]

I truly sacrificed to create this ridiculous mug. biting clay is a bad sensory experience 😔 who would have guessed

I’m tempted not to glaze the bite marks so it looks like it was bitten through the glaze lmao

[raychleadele]

I showed this to my husband and he said he wants four mugs like this in various states of eaten, so he can swap when no one’s looking and make it look like he’s actually eating it.

[ape-of-naples]

you could call the way people tend to ascribe power to pornography that it does not inherently possess the "pornography fetish" if you want to be really confusing and annoying

[galileosballs]

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

[bumblebeebats]

"Potassium cyanide. Arsenic trioxide. Polonium 210. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin," I say, smugly and with full confidence, before downing the glass of wine my political rival insisted on pouring for me. Seconds later, she watches with a smirk as I collapse writhing to the ground, in the knowledge that I never could hit that "R" in "pinot noir" quite right

[deeplunch]

WHY do people tell me "oh I had a crush on you for like five years" like bitch I would have let you hit it! What is your damage!!

[making-you-in-mtg]

[rhapsodyxvi]

how did u get the heartbeat thing in rpgmaker its so cool

so originally i had just re-positioned the portrait and health/mp bars so the portraits could be bigger, and then i went "well what can i put in this empty space..." and so after talking to claude i came up with the idea for a heart monitor! here's claude's explanation of how it works:

"the basic trick: each character's monitor keeps a list of numbers, one per pixel of width — basically "how high is the line at this column." Every frame it throws away the leftmost number and adds a new one on the right, then redraws the whole line. That shift-and-redraw is what makes it scroll. The line itself is literally just a bunch of tiny vertical rectangles connecting each column's height to the next one's.

the heartbeat is a little template — the classic bump-dip-SPIKE-dip-bump shape — that gets stamped into that list whenever a beat fires. It's stretched across a bunch of columns and smoothly interpolated, so you actually see the climb and the fall instead of one skinny blip.

how fast it beats: right now it's tied to HP. Full health = calm resting rate; the more hurt you are, the faster it goes. Beats-per-minute gets converted into "how many frames until the next beat," so the math just… works out to a real pulse.

the part I'm most pleased with — the two of them have different hearts. Konoko is tagged as steady: his line is flat, even, unbothered, basically a metronome. That's his whole character. Spierce isn't tagged that way, so her baseline drifts on a couple of layered sine waves — her line literally never settles. She's restless even at full health.

reactive stuff:

getting hit jolts an immediate beat, makes the spike taller, and opens a short "adrenaline" window where the whole line gets jumpier

when the rate climbs well above resting, the rhythm goes irregular — uneven spacing, occasional palpitations. a hurt character's heartbeat gets visibly ragged

dying plays one last beat and then flatlines. that one took some fiddling — I had to make an in-progress beat finish even after the heart rate hits zero, so you get the final spike instead of an abrupt cut

the box also glows like breathing — a slow swell in and out, faster when hurt, with a flare when they take damage

and the polish: older parts of the line fade out like an old CRT monitor, the color warms up as the rate climbs, there's a faint grid scrolling behind it, and the BPM number blinks when someone's critical.

The fun part is it's all hooked up so that later it won't be driven by HP at all — it'll be driven by emotional state. Which is very much the point of the game 🙂"

[xanaxfarts]

A tiny insect clinging to the head of a horned viper

[nattousan]

#ratatouille

[makrustic]

Whole Summer Solstice ☀️ 'Falling right there by the sunset, falling right there by you' Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon | Bluesky ⭐

[artbyblastweave]

Anyway. Worm undefeated as a long-term serialized indie superhero work that manages to maintain internal thematic coherency over the long haul and perfectly stick the landing, with a continuous escalation of stakes that benefits the narrative rather than undermining audience investment

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]