Noel, local lizard man

call me Noel or Lizard; 23 yo; he/they/it, transmasc, ace and aro-spec; auDHD; mostly just reposting and doing polls; general interests: works by Andrew Joseph White, trans and queer horror, RotTMNT, Malevolent, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Akatsuki no Yona, TMA, Riordanverse, books by Cornelia Funke, SVSSS, MDZS, Ninjago (I'm not caught up tho), LMK and Trollhunters/ToA, Tomura Shigaraki from MHA specifically

[mybedismytruelove]

Tiny YNB update

Tiny info for those who haven't heard, but the release of Andrew Joseph White's next book You're No Better will be delayed slightly from October 20th to October 27th 2026 because the US first printing had some issues with the sprayed edges and other details, so they'll be shipped out to stores and warehouses a bit later than planned, so the extra week is just to make sure the books are everywhere they need to be on release day. I don't really mind, a week doesn't make a difference to me.

Also AJW said in the same Newsletter article that you should keep your pre-order receipt for the first printing if you're in the US. He doesn't say why, but you'll probably be able to use it to get special pins like you were able to with HFWU, TSBIT and CF. (Only if you're in the US though, so no pins for me. Boo.) So keep that in mind if you're a US resident who's preordered YNB!

Also also, the narrator for the YNB audiobook got announced! It's Lachlan Watson, who AJW is a big fan of. AJW himself also recorded the author's note and acknowledgements if that's relevant to you. I personally don't really listen to audiobooks much (I need to hold a book in my grubby little paws and sound the words out myself to really savour it, y'know), but for those that are considering getting the audiobook, both of that sounds really promising!

(I know there are SO MANY other AJW news - new YWMTBH art, soo much more info on Gunwyn Byrne, TWO new short stories that finally got announced, one of which has a lot of info about it, a new AJW interview that I could find - and some of them are pretty old news by now. I'm so sorry for not getting to them sooner, and I can't promise exactly when I will talk about it, but each of these points will get its own post because I do think they're super interesting. I won't talk about some other stuff like paperback releases or vague allusions AJW's made recently because it's just not super interesting - though the sprayed edges of the CF paperback special edition do look super cool - or we have no info to go off of yet. Sorry for the impromptu "coming soon" section at the end here lol.)

[liache]

ok kids repeat after me

vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic

ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic

rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic

hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive

be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok

[gutsygills]

why it so dangerous to be clean

[catholic-aviator-deactivated201]

As someone who’s job is to handle chemicals like this, I need to state that this information is IMPORTANT. Plenty of people have accidentally injured or killed themselves at home because they didn’t know what kind of reaction certain substances have with one another. Play it safe and don’t mix chemicals.

[thegoodfoothousehold]

Also don’t use bleach to clean up urine it’ll create chloramine bc of the ammonia in it and you can give yourself chemical pnemonia that way

[theraphos]

Every time I see “helpful” posts telling people to mix these things while cleaning I cringe with my entire body.

[cumaeansibyl]

reblogging in this time of heightened interest in disinfectants. please don’t get fancy

[aeliad]

Pick one. Stick with that one. 

[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[dinosauriaawesome]

I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them

[thesaltofcarthage]

I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic. 

[wholesome-dragon-lady]

If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.

[skulkiee]

Made an attempt at drawing the Hell Followed With Us ALC characters. I have no idea how accurate they are to the book but when i draw book characters theyre never that accurate anyways soo

Erins my favourite

[mybedismytruelove]

All the sillies!!!!

I think Alex's design is my personal favorite

[skulkiee]

They intrigue me

[mybedismytruelove]

I love characters with sun and moon symbolism

Also the details of the Angel whites on Theo are super cool!!!

[slashedance]

Silas Bell -- Homesick

Because I'm so Normal..

Homesick by Dr. Carmilla

[mybedismytruelove]

This is so sick, I LOVE it

[decaf-molotov]

Not enough ywmtbh content on this site. Whats with that. Anyway here's a doodle of crane i did on my phone

[mybedismytruelove]

You have to watch a movie with the following characters, what movie are you picking

Crane

Miles

Benji

Morgan

Levi

Stagger

Nick

Daphne

Noah

Cooper

Silas

Theo

Oh boy

Just as a warning, I don't actually watch that many movies lol, and recency bias will probably be strong here

If it's with all of them at the same time, I'd pick Batman Returns because it's so campy and hilarious that you lowkey can't go wrong with it. Unironically one of my favorite movies ever. Plus, I think the likes of Theo, Noah and Levi would hate it and think it's stupid.

I'm doing what I'd watch with just the individual characters now:

Crane: I'd pick Iron Lung because I think he'd like that and his reaction to Simon's boobs would be funny

Miles: probably Spider Verse, especially the second one, because he would think Hobie is the coolest character ever and I want to share that with him

Benji: Star Wars Revenge of The Sith with no context

Morgan: Legally Blonde, I think it would be too positive for him to admit to liking it, but he'd secretly like it anyways

Levi: An experimental movie that I watched with my father once in German, the title roughly translates to "A Date With Nothing". It's just a guy talking to you in the role of the concept of nothing, who you're on a date with, over random nature scenes. Nothing is obnoxious and a horrible date, and this is the most boring experience of my life (I'm so sorry if you know and like this incredibly niche movie, I'm happy for you, but my ADHD brain could never). So Levi is the only person I would ever inflict this on lol, and seeing him losing his mind waiting for something to actually happen would make the movie worthwhile to sit through again

Stagger: K-Pop Demon Hunters, for the meme

Nick: Princess Mononoke, I think he'd like it a lot

Daphne: The entire Lord of The Rings trilogy extended edition, I think she'd love how poetic it gets. She'd read all the books including the Silmarillion (which I personally can't get through) immediately after and love them even more

Dallas (I know you didn't include them, but I wanted to do them anyways): either Ginger Snaps because I think they'd like it or Fire of Love (a documentary about a volcanologist couple) because I think they're secretly a romantic, or at least like weird romances like this

Noah: The Trollhunters Rise of the Titans movie (it's very bad)

Cooper: I Saw The TV Glow, so maybe he'll get at least a tiny bit of what his trans friends are dealing with (and maybe also to crack her egg)

Silas: Either Nimona or the 2007 Ninja Turtles movie, I can't decide. He'd really like theorising about how Ballister might have treated his amputation on his own while on the run or how the Ninja Turtles would biologically work I feel, and also relate to Nimona of course

Theo: Conclave, the reason is probably self-explanatory

I'm sorry for taking so long to answer, and that some of these are barely thought out

[mybedismytruelove]

i need to know, is that pin in your pfp official?

Kinda! You can't get it anywhere anymore though, I don't even own one, I took the picture from a promo post.

It was part of a special edition release of TSBIT, I think the B&N exclusive paperback edition (which doesn't deliver to my country, and the pin was only included in early orders), though I'm not quite sure about that now and can't find the original promo post.

It's actually an altered version of another promotional pin that was either sent with very early hardback copies of TSBIT or just sent to AJW with his first official copy, I'm once again not quite sure. This is what the original version looked like:

Neither of these pins can be bought as official merch or easily aquired anywhere now, which I'm very sad about, because I would absolutely love to own either one of them. Maybe you can find one on ebay or somewhere similar, but that would probably be very expensive.

So to answer your question, yes, it is official, but I don't have one and they're almost impossible to find now. Thank you for the question!

[vigaishere]

REBLOG if you have amazing talented artist friends!

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[c4ndyc41n]

thinking about a previously foul-mouthed grace having to completely overwrite his vocab once he started teaching

[mybedismytruelove]

guggzvfgzkrstvkhjjljjvddrhtuihbojbnvfsuvojnökm

YES

THIS IS CANON TO ME NOW

[luckenbell]

My Daphne designs from the spirit bares its teeth!! Some modern aus #thespiritbaresitsteeth #daphneluckenbill #mygfandsilas'wife #tsbit

[mybedismytruelove]

She's so pretty, I love these so much!!!

Her modern AU design especially

[potato-lord-but-not]

nothing quite like confessing your feelings in the middle of a makeout session WAHOO

[mybedismytruelove]

SOBBINGGGG

[your-local-fluie]

Before Pride month ends, I wanna give a special thanks to aplatonic people.

Aplatonic activism and instances changed me and affect me positively to an enormous degree, as an alloplatonic neurodivergent and mentally ill aroace.

They empowered me to enjoy my own company, knowing I don't need friends either to be happy; I can be content with myself. They made me see the value in loneliness. Considering socializing drains me fast, so I tend to stay alone in my room a lot, this is very relevant to me.

They made me look inward, noticing my internal narration is actually possibly the best company I could ask for 90% of the time (when depression doesn't turn it into literal hell). No other person on the planet would understand me better than myself. Nobody shares 100% of my values. No one person shares all of my interests. When I have a healthy dose of self-confidence, I actually laugh at my own wittiness and think that no single friend's humour caters to my taste nearly as well. It would feel frustrating and self-absorbed if aplatonism existing didn't make me realize it's okay to not place friends above yourself.

They taught me to be independent. That's still a work in progress but if I hadn't learned about aplatonism, I'd probably obsess over my best friends way worse than I already do.

It also taught me another level of consent. I have yet to meet an aplatonic person irl (at least as far as I know), but the idea that even placing a label like "friend" on someone without consent could be wrong makes me feel both safer myself (I've gotten a taste of it when my ex QPP broke up with me and asked if we could still be best friends. Wtf we were never best friends dude, just friends, that felt almost dirty), and probably makes people around me feel safer too. Since I'm friendship favourable it actually makes me experience my friendships more respectfully and thoughtfully so they come out healthier.

I don't mean to make it all about myself here—aplatonic people already get the shortest end of the stick when it comes to a-spec visibility and general attitudes towards them, so it's not in such good taste to bring the focus on me and my alloplatonism—but maybe some other alloplatonic people can come across this and be inspired to deconstruct their own platonormativity.

Aplatonic advocacy helps literally everyone I swear. Aro advocacy falls short in some places by too often shifting the focus on platonic bonds as a "replacement" for the "missing" romance. Understanding aplatonism directly contributed to actually *fully* deconstructing amatonormativity without just recycling the same rhetoric.

I've already posted a similar appreciation post about loveless people so I'm not gonna repeat it this year but yeah, shout out to loveless folks as well, y'all rock.

[nittlebrittle]

Warning for drawing of a fetus. And lots of worms

You Weren't Meant to be Human

A more experimental piece that revolves around the fact Crane consistently thinks of the thing growing inside him as worms.

[crowdrinkingcoffee]

Just in case y’all didn’t know, you can check if your password or email have been detected in any data breaches using this website:

Pwned Passwords is a huge corpus of previously breached passwords made freely available to help services block them from being used again.

Have I Been Pwned allows you to check whether your email address has been exposed in a data breach.

And this is the website that FreeMediaHeckYeah recommends, in case you were curious where I got this information.

Also if this is common knowledge, I had no idea, because I never see people talk about this.

[crowdrinkingcoffee]

tagging my moots because i want you to stay safe :)

@zephyrofkindness @greeen-bean @sydthecalmearthling @winter-depressed-belle  @assignedchaosatbirth @thelocalidiot @ivanhoe1820 @tasty-cilantro @verylonedad @thegayfoxboy @justanotherbookwyrm @yourlocaltboy @poirolivia @here-for-the-vibe @iobsesswaytoomuch @mybedismytruelove @dysphoria-things @radiobeetle @looneytoonsboi @princess-milky-quartz @adora-your-trans-fox-goddess @rocket-amongst-the-stars @00venator @witchy-shortcake @silly-boi-adventures

[pierrotdoesnteat]

positivity train!

if you see this or are tagged in it, tag a couple of your favorite mutuals/blogs and let them know you appreciate seeing them on your dash!

@h0neysugarfree @blueberrylovv @bequiteanddriveeeeeee @cherri-bomb-bomb @eg0mechan1c @fatrexicisback

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

@star-cluster-nyx @a-sociopath-do-your-research @enlighten3d @little-red-insomniac @lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks @jackson-imbecille @mysoulusesumbrellasinthesun @tomboy014

[star-cluster-nyx]

@tallassredwood @a-sociopath-do-your-research (im tagging u again ehehehe) @one-chaotic-neautral @koreanbibliophilegirl @asterisk0s

<3

[koreanbibliophilegirl]

@artistichermit @charles-simmons @dreamshaxd @grimmijaggers @greenbeany @kadextra @colormints-art @pepper-mintzyy @thesummerrtriangle @tristicorde @randomideas666 @amastelaire @tang0w0tek @digoload

Tagged all my moots/followers/fave artists I could think of haha

[tristicorde]

To the amazing people who tagged me <333: @dreamshaxd @thesummerrtriangle @koreanbibliophilegirl

The amazing people who like a reblog my nonsense <333: @demoniccrowz @quotidian-oblivion @unknown-guesses @fr-likes-chocolate @foursixtwonineoh-pizzas-of-lego @igotthisaccountunderduress @brb-on-a-quest @behold-a-cat

[foursixtwonineoh-pizzas-of-lego]

Awwwwwww thx for thr tag Tristi!!!!

I’m retagging because there’s a bit of overlap here hehe)

@crow-aeris @igotthisaccountunderduress @quotidian-oblivion @gremmyroeroe @brb-on-a-quest @myfairkatiecat @thehummingbirdsmatter @informedimagining @junojojo @marithefriendlyghost @themundanemudperson I love you allllllllll

[iggy-gotthisaccountunderduress]

@tristicorde @foursixtwonineoh-pizzas-of-lego thank youuuu <333

spreading positivity to @hiddenvioletsgrow @jae-birde @kvr0ii @rubiatinctorum @brb-on-a-quest

@walkthruthewords @quotidian-oblivion @a-resplendent-mushroom @cygnusdoesthings @pics-and-fanfics

@brokenstar28 @eternalapogee and all my lovely moots!!

[brb-on-a-quest]

@tristicorde @walkthruthewords @igotthisaccountunderduress @hiddenvioletsgrow @quotidian-oblivion @a-resplendent-mushroom

@rosiefinches @robindrake13 @cygnusdoesthings @ladyartichokie @ramblings-of-lola @afaroffsong @informedimagining

Edit adding more bc I'm an idiot and forgot ppl 😭😭

@onewingedsparrow @annotated-catastrophe @alchemicalwerewolf @123letsgobestie @evilmusicnote and other ppl who haunt my notifs

Too many other moots that I'm probs forgetting ilyyyyyyy

[paradiddlediddlediddle]

@mocharoni @peaces-of-magic @inexpressiblybeatiful @diary-of-a-wimpy-kid @weepingprincesssoul @helloliriels

<3333333

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

Thaaaaaaaanks!!!!!!

@ejacutastic @headspace-hotel @jehovas-unreliable-witness @kalgalen @queen-of-meows @andy-skull @ghostpaynes @leesbian42 @dxtrromano @sexually-confused-goblin @evilmusicnote

[sexually-confused-goblin]

Thank you for tagging me @inexpressiblybeautiful , that's sweet of you <3

@no-cinnamon-for-synonym @hoothalcyon @yurayuramiharin @beautifulterriblequeen @zuppizup @that-disabled-princess

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Aaah my heart!

@thedizzydinosaur @stuck-in-jelly @thechocochick @rayllurn @dragonnguard @sunstone-nerding @ladyandherbooks @cosmicpoutine @argonblue

[rayllurn]

🥺❤️❤️

@mandaloriandragontrainer @konmaao3 @a-very-sparkly-nerd @m4rs-ex3 @arcadianmoonshadowjedi @wolfwarrior142

[m4rs-ex3]

AWWWWW

@angsty-worm @wolfwarrior142 @chocolatecake47 @tategaminu @a-very-sparkly-nerd

@raylasgf @otiksimr @moondustgleam @sagegreenfrogs @stuck-in-jelly

@wneella @ripple-rapple @poffim @numptypylon @mo-nmage

@winterstorm032802 @lowpolyanimals @catfindr @mandaloriandragontrainer @ethereal-maia

@raayllum and @bisexualenbyblueberry i guess perhaps

[raylasgf]

TYSM MARSS AWWW

theres literally so many accounts i love seeing on my feed (and a lot of you are my mutuals!!!! which is crazy!!!!!! like wdym this person wrote the greatest piece of literature the world has seen and they’re my mutual anyways)

@mo-nmage @m4rs-ex3 @ripple-rapple @a-very-sparkly-nerd @wneella @bisexualenbyblueberry @blutopaz15 @thatartiststudios @tategaminu @rayllurn @raayllum @mandaloriandragontrainer @sagegreenfrogs @wolfwarrior142 @chocolatecake47 @ghost-hearth @rianekochou @thrandilf @dragonprinceofficial @winterstorm032802 @taeraemisuu @hiccupshypotheticalleftsock @jeonalexx

(i’m sure i’ve forgotten people but. you for now 💗)

[sagegreenfrogs]

AWWWW <333

@a-very-sparkly-nerd @adamswretchedthing @klspacecadet @ashippingpotato @sorenssword @chaoticgoodthiefling @honeii-puff @youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal @philosophershroomie @zaphand @moondustgleam @that-one-satanic-tree

and others bc there are a lot of you lol <33

[armayes]

AWH

@sorinethemastermind @lilisouless @19burstraat @stuck-in-jelly @barrel-crow-n @jezlorz @gergthecat

[natureforlife]

Love you all🫶🏻 It makes me so happy seeings y'all on my feed!☺️

@confused-reading-ink-rat @hereforthegays-wholesomefandom @ray3646 @inleashlessconfusion @cloudcreates @ogvioletjedisylveon @averylovesgirls

[cloudcreates]

Aww thanks!

@shipperofthenineseas @fawnblooms @toxictoad @irunaki @maximumqueer @please-be-nice-im-sensitivee @witless-winion1 @cloudycapes @thhouseofblack @ulises-aithon @echo-loves-flowerboy @masterofthewarcry <33

[ulises-aithon]

Wait, really? Thanks so much! 🩵

@laiapolypharmakos, @ironspdr6700, @venomspecs, @jamescartoon, @holy-mother-of-whumpers, @midnightlighthowlite, @miles-crow, @katerinaaqu, @dolihannah, @fullyconsumedbywhatlovesme, @maximumqueer, @arkimessa@post-troy-stress-disorder, @myblacknightworld, , @dinofanx, @perroulisses, @simugeuge, @smokey07, @arkimessa, @atar-a-ifigenia, @v4mp1rism, @cauliflawava, @shipperofthenineseas, @discordant-tongues@jamescartoon, @herb-on-a-stick, @tunguszka20, @thhouseofblack, @when-the-pawnn@most-sane-classicist

[fullyconsumedbywhatlovesme]

@tied-to-the-mast @v4mp1rism @spid-the-spider @shipperofthenineseas @spineless-lobster @post-troy-stress-disorder @seasonsofmedea @herb-on-a-stick @subtletwilighteternity @fawnblooms @when-the-pawnn @please-be-nice-im-sensitivee @mybedismytruelove @galusandmalus @authoriala @avatarofthetired @myosotis-elinora

🫶

[mybedismytruelove]

Thank you for the mention! I won't tag you here again, but you're one of my favorite moots too!!!

I'll mostly just tag my favorite moots, because a lot of my other favorite blogs are pretty big and the thought of them noticing me scares me haha. Or honestly the thought of any blog noticing me that I don't already know knows (and remembers, which means they must have interacted with me more than once/on seperate occasions) I exist. Social anxiety go brrrrr T-T. Love all you guys!!!!

@witchy-shortcake; @raccon-king; @a-tear-in-space; @lordielordez; @that-weird-bee; @literally-black-jesus; @francistheterrible; @zkwoodz; @i-bite-a-shit-ton-of-people; @snailsrawesomeashell; @slashedance; @fukuona-b0y; @gay-shark13; @jacksfandomrandom; @jacksdinonuggets; @johnlennonpancake; @metal-autistic-coven