merc

this is no longer book blogging i'm evil now this is my villain origin story

[sweetestmercutio]

hi i'm merc i use he/they i try to keep my reading tastes diverse but i do love books about men kissing so remember that. if you were here for when this was a grishaverse blog no you weren't (i still think about her every day)

current read: empire of the damned

[mimaimoo-art]

if this movie has no fans, the fbi finally got me

[coltercowpoke]

bolivia job moment

[cykelops]

I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars

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i remember reading eotv being like "ah gabriel isn't queer but that's fine all the other vampires are" and now i'm starting eotd and he and jean are in the midst of the most toxic yaoi i've seen since they interviewed that vampire. no the other one

[sweetestmercutio]

the reviews are in

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

I’m not into pet play (I don’t think) but the desire to write a deep dive into the dichotomy of Hua Cheng - being a very aggressive guard dog/ devoted stray loving the hand that feeds it/ extremely spoilt pet - is a physical need that makes me go insane and start howling I need to write a fic where I just put a collar on him.

[sweetestmercutio]

i remember reading eotv being like "ah gabriel isn't queer but that's fine all the other vampires are" and now i'm starting eotd and he and jean are in the midst of the most toxic yaoi i've seen since they interviewed that vampire. no the other one

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i read a good chunk of tgcf before seven seas picked it up and i forgot how crazy the dice scene was

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were nanao and suzuki supposed to be like that or was it an accident

[kimabutch]

One of my favourite questions for figuring out a character’s motivations is which qualities they most fear being assigned to them. Are they afraid (consciously or unconsciously) of being seen as stupid? Ungrateful? Weak? Incompetent? Lazy? Cowardly? Intimidating? Like they actually care? etc.

It’s such a fun way to explore into who they are, why they do what they do, what they don’t do out of fear, and how they might be affected by the events of the story. And I love when characters have negative motivations—trying to avoid something (in this case, being seen a particular way) as much as they’re trying to achieve a goal.

[temporary-gentleman]

is there a stitch in your heart as there is in mine?

questionably competent blonde spy and his fabulous paramour who is definitely not madly in love with him (I am normal about them)

+ original 5min doodle in my sketchbook

[babygirltangerine]

the people crave bullet train (2022)

[sweetestmercutio]

just got past the prince stealing the suitcase and it's so tragic to me that nanao is like 20 something and a huge bitch but the movie cut his dick off. he's walking around in a jean jacket and cargo pants looking like the 90s that god forgot beating the shit out of the wolf for annoying him but no. at least we have the master baiter shirt

[parched-chaos]

God's angel

[strawberry-crocodile]

would you love me if my bestial form had no remnant of human expression? if my face was unreadable, stoic, if the signifiers of personhood were gone? if i crawled on all fours, if my spine was hunched, if i didn't just bark and purr but chuff, snort, snarl? is monstrosity good when it isn't palatable? how much inhumanity can you tolerate?

[glitradora]

No but truly Jainan is a better person than me. If I had to fight a fucking dinosaur looking 6 legged reptile monster thing WITH A STICK that people had the fucking nerve to call a BEAR I would have take up the shady offer of leaving the alliance from the space inquisition. Fuck the planet version of Australia and their fucked up wildlife.