simi

we all die, my strange child friend

[mirefireflies]

sirens was so. devastating and beautiful and awful. like what if the story was wrong? what if all those sailors who crashed their ships into the cliffs did it just because they saw something beautiful and wanted to claim it. and when they couldn’t, they made the girls into monsters. you pushed me off a cliff, you broke my heart, you ruined my life you did this to me … and all they were really guilty of was not loving someone the way they wanted them to. not being the idealized blank doll they were supposed to be.

maybe the only way michaela could protect simone (from her husband? from being blamed for someone else’s guilt? from her own fate?) was by sending her away.

maybe the sirens are trapped on their island, forever sought after by men who refuse to admit that it was their hands on the wheel when the ship changed course. maybe the sailors have more power over their fate then they want to believe. maybe it’s just easier to blame someone else… to turn them into a monster.

maybe the sirens were singing just to sing.

[the-commonplace-book]

the way sirens starts by framing michaela as a sinister figure manipulating simone into ostensibly worshiping her, but gradually reveals that actually she's just a severely isolated and deeply lonely woman who resorted to hiring an assistant who could essentially be her best friend and yet her husband still finds a way to take that from her and use that against her to rip away what little scraps of independence he's allotted her over the years

[postmodern-speakeasy]

[dragons-in-spaceee]

Project hail mary is a story all about love and Grace being aroace is a key part of my interpretation of that. The man who cannot love as others do saves more than one world through his ability to form a deep connection with another being. And he is filled with a deep love for those around him, which he carries with him across lightyears.

[fangirlagainstmywill]

kudos to Ryland Grace for finally being the true “I am alone in space” representation we deserve by sobbing his eyes out every chapter. Relatable. I do that and I’m not even light years away from my bed

[dragons-in-spaceee]

Grace offhandedly mentioned that they’d discussed how their species reproduce so this is how I imagined that conversation went

[avichuella]

steve, jonathan and their six nuggets

[tim-alienguy]

Hey guys I think I figured oit how the christmas likes work.

For me what is shown seems to be linked to the time of day I like the post

6(?) am-12 pm- gloves

12 pm-5(?) pm- snowman

6pm- ???- aurora

[kassy-djomunson]

[aloveofclaritea]

not to be that woman who makes everything about the book she just read but a lot of the chatgpt takes i see really remind me of a central truth in Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy regarding mana vs malia. people say things like "oh you can't possibly avoid using chatgpt at least for SOME things, at least once in a while, at least in small ways!" and it's like the perspective that El runs into time and again that no-one can be strict mana ALL the time, you have to be using at least a Little malia (the life of that ant, the extra wood in your bedpost), everyone does it, everyone takes the shortcut sometimes, gets something for nothing and it's fine and no-one gets hurt except maybe a beetle or a plant, and who cares about that? except it's not fine and you can never really get something for nothing and every time you use something evil in pursuit of something good, every time you use the ends to justify the (basically harmless!) means it is a poison on your own soul and on the world.

not even to mention the fact that there are plenty of people who have never used generative ai and will Never willingly/knowingly use it and so it is a convenient fiction for everyone who is that there couldn't possibly be anyone who isn't, there couldn't possibly be anyone who is strict mana.

[eldritchwyrm]

very funny when people describe naomi novik's scholomance as dark academia because yes of course it's a critique and subversion of dark academia as a trend in fiction & as an aesthetic about desiring certain forms of power and prestige. so yeah i guess it's dark academia in that it's participating in the genre, except for the fact that the novels consist of the protagonist hitting the genre with a steel chair until the genre gives up and admits that colonialism is bad maybe.

but also like yeah it is dark academia in the sense that the light conditions in the scholomance are fucking terrible. broken lights constantly. also everything is grimy. no one is showering properly and nobody has brushed their teeth with toothpaste in 4 years. dark academia in the sense that the characters are barely visible under a layer of dirt. just try turning THAT into a pinterest board

[tanoraqui]

recent Scholomance graduates in the battle at the end of book 3 like, “Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say ‘the ten hells’ or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just saw El Higgins show up and start yelling at people to stop killing each other before she turns them all to stone. I gotta help her.”

[rylandsgrace]

That was the last sunrise I ever saw. Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. // It was the last time I saw my brother. It was the last time I saw the sun. It was the only time I ever felt free.

Interview with the Vampire (2022 - ) // Sinners (2025)

[distance-does-not-matter]

reading a deadly education and to my shock and surprise, that education sure is deadly

[chairspoon]

Arcane brainrot so bad gotta do matching icons with the bestie @sinkinnie

[sinkinnie]

timebomb we love you <3 on my way to loop ma meilleure ennemie

[catocomet]

teddy altman is an actual fucking emperor but the one thing that makes him truly happy is waking up next to his husband send tweet

[jenniferoksana]

I'm sorry, I just think it's unbearably funny sometimes that Agatha Harkness, MCU edition, gets custody of the Maximoff twins but also great? Because Billy will be like "so my aunt is Death's actual ex, I can 100% accept a Skull-Kree hybrid husband" but also I can hear Agatha's voice being like "My son-in-law, THE EMPEROR OF SPACE" in the "my father, the inventor of toaster strudel" tone and I crack up.