Lou Ise

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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[potoh]

Family trip!

[chongoblog]

Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”

[ampersketch-art]

Hey,

[chongoblog]

Don’t say anything

[viria]

A visit to Narcissa (Grimmauld Roommates AU)

[shovel-hooligan-frontera]

[bob-artist]

Crimetober 1-9

Because birds are criminals.

[adhd-alien]

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

[secondlina]

He's a real fall guy.

💛 STORE 🧡

🩷 READ CROW TIME ❤️

🩵 PATREON 💙

[olessan]

Critical Role cast + commenting on their Campaign 4 Characters

Source: "What's Your Character's Vibe?"

transcription:

ASHLEY: Shocker to no one, she is extremely tall. (laughs) And her weapon of choice is a whip. How about you? LUIS: I'm just going to describe his eyes. The bottom half of his iris is blue, like the ocean, and then the top half bursts out into the colors of the setting sun. SAM: I'm excited to watch Liam play his character because it incorporates a lot of things that are very important to Liam O'Brien in real life. Theater, performance, ex-spouses. That's not a real thing from his real life. LIAM: Family. SAM: Family. MATT: No one could kick open the door and be like, "Hey, ready to cry, motherfucker?" like Laura Bailey. LAURA: She's a rogue, she's a stone-cold killer. She's had a history. TALIESIN: I feel like you would start a bar fight. LAURA: Oh yeah. TALIESIN: Yeah. AABRIA: I also love Alex's character. MATT: Yes. ALEXANDER: I think he's more of a dweeb than I initially intended him to be. LAURA: Can't wait for more interactions with Whitney. SAM: She is a wild card. TRAVIS: I don't know what I was expecting from a devil, but you absolutely-- WHITNEY: She's a demon. People are going to get mad about that. TRAVIS: Excuse me. LIAM: I think you have, in the past, had a penchant for playing scamps, rascals. This character is a little more earnest. MATT: I'm going to corrupt the fuck out of Sam. AABRIA: Yeah! SAM: I'm going to stay true to myself and my beliefs. LIAM: Uh-huh. SAM: And there's nothing that you or Brennan can do to stop it. TRAVIS: Robbie came out and said very little, but the second he spoke, I got pregnant. ROBBIE: I wanted a mystery! A man of few words! BRENNAN: But I'm saying Robbie is a loquacious gentleman, possessed of eloquence, vocabulary, and a social debonair unlike any I've seen before. ROBBIE: I do good at stuff. TALIESIN: I will be playing curator of a museum of antiquities that are magical and dangerous. MATT: He's creepy. AABRIA: He's so screepy. TALIESIN: He is very social and bitchy is what I'll say. LAURA: He's a c--[bleeps]. TALIESIN: Yep. AABRIA: Travis wanted to play a furry and we had an intervention for him. TRAVIS: I am playing the giant lion man and also a paladin. MARISHA: She's like a good old rusted-out Chevy pickup truck that just won't quit. MARISHA: She's basically my mom. TALIESIN: Aabria is weirdly wholesome, but-- LAURA: As wholesome as Aabria can be. TALIESIN: Yeah. AABRIA: I was like, Thaisha's going to be so chill and so lovely, and everyone's going to think she's a really hippie granola mom. And then you walked in with your energy and I went: I'm going to kill one man. All right. MATT: (laughs) ALEXANDER: Matt was like: Oh, you love me for 10 years? Well, guess what? I'm going to be shitty. MATT: It's a complicated and very tangled persona. You knew he was trouble when he walked in. MATT and AABRIA: (laugh)

[earlymoderngothic]

Gothic Literature Recommendations

I read a lot of Gothic literature as part of my PhD research so I thought I’d put together a list of some of my favourite Gothic tales. These are mainly texts that I’ve worked on (which is why most of them are from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries) and I’ve tried to provide links to free versions of each text as well as to the print edition I use. 

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) [x] [x]

Sir Bertrand, a Fragment by John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1773) [x]

The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve (1777) [x] [x]

Vathek by William Beckford (1786) [x] [x]

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe (1790) [x] [x]

The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe (1791) [x] [x]

The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons (1793) [x]

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794) [x] [x]

The Monk by Matthew Lewis (1796) [x] [x]

The Mysterious Warning by Eliza Parsons (1796) [x]

The Italian by Ann Radcliffe (1797) [x]

The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom (1798) [x]

Tales of Superstition and Chivalry by Anne Bannerman (1802) [x]

Zofloya; or, the Moor by Charlotte Dacre (c.1806) [x]

Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1810) [x]

The Giaour by Lord Byron (1813) [x] [x]

The Devil’s Elixir by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1815) [x] [german]

Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816) [x] [x]

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817) [x] [x]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) [x] [x]

Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron (1819) [x]

The Vampyre by John Polidori (1819) [x] [x]

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin (1820) [x] [x]

The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats (1820) [x] [x]

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1824) [x] [x]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) [x] [x]

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning (1855) [x]

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) [x] [x]

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) [x] [x]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) [x] [x]

Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) [x] [x]

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) [x] [x]

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James (1904) [x]

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[coelasquid]

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

[have-you-read-this-webcomic]

Have you read Shaderunners by Alex Assan and Lin Darrow?

Yes, completely!

Yes, partially

No

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onAug 31, 2025

"Shaderunners is a webcomic set in an alternate 1920s where bootleggers steal shade to open a color speakeasy."

“A thousand years ago, the last colour in the world faded to grey. Now, after the great archaeological discovery of Queen Sorizahana’s shade-stocked tomb, it stands ready to enter the world again. Ironwell City will become the birthplace of the burgeoning colour industry, where colour is pumped out of factories, poured into perfumed bottles and sold at exorbitant prices to those wealthy enough to afford the luxury. At least, that’s the plan according to the Five Financiers of the Sorizahana excavation. One part Prohibition fantasy, one part Robin Hood, and a whole lot of epic heist, Shaderunners follows a group of ragtag bootleggers and bohemians who band together in an effort to steal colour from the wealthy echelons of Ironwell’s high society. Among them: a philosopher, a puppeteer, a gutter rat, an opera singer, a naval officer and a hopeless romantic. Together, they run The Glass Dial, former watch shop and future night club, where all the house drinks run red. Speak easy, pal, ‘cause the road to ruin is paved with good intentions.”

Propaganda:

"Beautiful art style, great concept, and fun world building."

Read it here!

[soshinee]

thinking about the japanese racehorse who was such a failgirl she became a folk hero for losers

[soshinee]

legitimately everything 2 me

[secondlina]

It's dangerous to go alone...

[catadromously]

reasons.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

a bad terrible foolish logics.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Wow this post is almost 6 years old?!

Not only does it continue to not be possible to do such a sneaking, but it’s getting less and less possible the older I get. High School me could pull the occasional all-nighter and be at least partly functional for most of the next day, but 30 year old me absolutely cannot.

[jeffreythompson]

Getting to destroy the Mystery Shack was some of the most fun I’ve had all season.  Art direction by the all powerful Ian Worrel. So humbled to be a part of the crew and contribute to this series.