Books and Art

Books, sketches, Fanart and whatever i'm obsessed with at the moment! Instagram: www.instagram.com/ellis_sketchbook

[ma-ar]

this is the ritual to lead you on

[theurbanspaceboi]

some of you need to make your bed and have a shower with a soap that smells nice, and then sit in a chair near the window and have tea with milk and read a hardcover book and see how your creative block is after that tbh.

[theurbanspaceboi]

i'm not saying creative block isn't a real or difficult phenomenon. i'm saying creatives have a tendency to neglect themselves physically and emotionally in favor of manic bursts of productivity. a little softness and clean sheets and a bagel will go a long way. make a playlist and light the fancy candle you've been saving for a special occasion. life is a special occasion.

[lady-lunaaa]

Productivity doesn't determine your worth. Be kind to yourselves 💙

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[nanalineni]

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

No Profit on Pandemic! Sign now!

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

[nanalineni]

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

[queerqueerspawn]

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

[leosuncancervenus]

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

237,730  /  1,000,000  signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

Spread this.

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

[aces-to-apples]

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

[zohbugg]

[solitarelee]

[iamthespineofmybook]

One of the things that struck me, listening to the video, is that you cannot distinguish the original vocals from the crowd, and sometimes you can barely hear the music. And the POV is on the stage the speakers are playing the song from!

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

(And how albums left lying about in cars will eventually metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.)

[prismatic-bell]

Something else that’s rather incredible about this is, Bohemian Rhapsody is a very difficult song from a technical standpoint. Like–humor me, okay, go flip it on and try to sing the whole thing at the top of your voice without falling off-key, out of breath, or cracking at least once. Then come back.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Do you know how insane that is?

[pendragyn]

[headspace-hotel]

We are worth saving.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[fatsexybitch]

This is the most effective book advertisement i think ive ever seen

[heywetotheotherworld]

1. The look on the author's face

2. The hilarious plot framing

3. Dumpling earrings

4. The look on the author's face

[i-am-the-third-heat-deactivated]

This was the video that convinced me to buy a copy tbh

[shaenlir]

If you aren't following them on YouTube you should because their channel is a GEM! Their rant about Mulan 2020 is pure gold

[somepeoplejugglegeese]

The Fool: Beloved, of all the people that exist in the world, I’m both indescribably happy and unendingly sorry that it is you who must be my Catalyst

Fitz: Fool, I can’t talk to you when you’re like this

The Fool: *signs* Then just hold my hand?

Fitz: *looks away* Yeah, alright

[autumn-dreamin]

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Ok friends, listen up. We all do it. Every year we wait 9 months for fall. We daydream of long walks in crunching leaves, hot chocolate, warm sweaters and orange sunsets bringing a chill to the air. And every year the season flies by and we miss it. By reposting this, you promise to take the time to treat yourself to the magic that is autumn. Make it happen. Because life is short.

🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

🍁autumn-dreamin🍁

[ashstfu]

girls don’t have a dream job, they just want a coffee shop which is also a flower shop and a bookshop combined

[miggylol]

pumpkin spice candles soon

pumpkin lattes soon

pumpkin everything

[achievement-hunter]

#ITS STILL JULY YOU ANIMALS

[billandtedsexcellentgaymarriage]

cannae even put into words how much i love the 9th doctor. he really was just out there loving humanity that son of a bitch

[billandtedsexcellentgaymarriage]

the ninth doctor really be out here like “in nine hundred years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before” and “i could save the world but lose you” and “you were fantastic! and you know what? so was i!” and “i’m so glad i met you” and “just this once, everybody lives!” and “you’re amazing, the lot of you” and “and if you wanna remember me there’s one thing you can do: have a good life” and i’m supposed to just watch that and not cry? how

[booksandlimes-deactivated202501]

And who can forget, “Coward, any day.”

[candlewinds]

Rest now. I’ll join you soon.

[broskepol-deactivated20221009]

sylki fans: it’s a great pairing you antis are just mean lokius fans: noo marvel did it only because they’d rather put a selfcest hetero pairing in their movie than literally anything else me, who only wants to get some pure friendship representation in media rather than seeing film companies making everything a romance:

[silverbastardgoldenfool]

wishing all Fool haters a very please stay over on reddit

[sassymccoy]

i mean pineapple on pizza is already so delicious all by itself but then you add in how many people get so angry about something as arbitrary as the taste preferences of people who are not them and it's like You Mean I Get To Eat Great Food AND In Doing So Passive Aggressively Tell Someone To Die Mad About It and that's really what elevates pineapple on pizza to the chef's kiss level

[somepeoplejugglegeese]

When trying to describe the Fool…

Child Fitz: Picture the goofiest, palest human you’ve ever met. Now make then 100% goofier and paler. Now add motley. 

Adult Fitz: It’s impossible to adequately describe the Fool in text, but I will try my best in the next ten pages. His skin is inhumanly, but not unattractively, golden. His features are so finely sculpted that his cheek bones look almost surreal by firelight. He’s stronger than his trim figure suggests, and there’s something in his movements that’s almost feline in its grace and power. His long, deft fingers are better suited to wielding a carving tool than a weapon. Though his eyes used to be colorless…

[shaenlir]

So... I read the Daevabad trilogy last year. I have a ton of books in my TBR.... so ... do i reread the Daevabad trilogy? It's a yes right?

[justanotherbookortwo]

Happy Eurovision day everyone