#i loved it!!

[prixiesblog]

✨✨ Done ✨✨

I've finished this beautiful drawing that I really liked.

As always, this Danny Phantom AU belongs to: @aislep

I also drew Prixie, which took me a little while to figure out how she would look in this real ghost AU.

(In the picture, Prixie and Danny are arguing XD ajdhajhsja)

Prixie would have four eyes and arms because she is a mix of her and her sister Stella, her dirty gloves are from fighting and dirt. The purple spots with freckles are where she was hurt or those areas were torn out; she would have the same fiery hair, but the hair in the back would look a little longer.

✨✨Bonus✨✨:

Yes...I ship Danielle with Prixie, so what!

I really enjoyed making this drawing of Sam and Danny, with my OCxcanon of Prixie and Danielle sjsjs

[illbeanisland]

Also the fact that I was sitting at my own breakfast table while the others were also sitting at the breakfast table, eating breakfast made me feel part of the flatshare!

Especially since it’s filmed like the viewer is the forth person at the table

[interplanetary-redacted]

How I picture Qin Zheng and Wu Zetian once it sets in about the melians on the trade centre

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2026: PORTRAIT OF A THIEF by Grace D. Li.

I've been so stoked for this book since it came out (in...2022.....), but I was saving it as writing-project related and then just. hadn't. gotten back around to the particular writing project in mind. However!! Since I did just do a blitz through my recent-ish writing projects, I figured the time was upon us!!

I really enjoyed this one. The chapters were thriller-short, especially at the beginning, but the writing was much more literary than the chapter size would suggest. Not unapproachably literary--I thought it was very readable!--just. more contemplative and reflective than I was expecting, given how small the chapters were. Lots of meditations on diaspora and belonging and straddling cultures. For instance: I appreciated how Li used Chinese characters instead of pinyin in the main text (and there was a very sweet paragraph at the end of her Acknowledgements in Chinese, too!)(I was also pleased how many characters I still remembered from my two (2) trimesters of high school Mandarin haha).

The story is about five Chinese American college students who are offered ten million dollars apiece to steal Chinese artwork from Western museums and return it to Beijing. The five students, while brilliant and driven, are also very much college students, and (mostly) not thieves by the start of the book, but their skill sets do lend themselves toward becoming a Heist Crew.

It was a slow build toward the first heist, page-count wise, and then the heist itself was more like what I'd expect non-professional college students to pull off than, say, the Leverage crew. If you're looking for a book about the intricacies of planning a competence-porn heist, this is probably not the story for you, but I did still really enjoy it, and I liked the variations in the five perspectives we got (which rotated pretty evenly across the story). I also really liked that Li references Ocean's Eleven and Leverage and Fast & Furious in her acknowledgements, and I feel like her soft spot for F&F is very obvious (which I loved).

Overall, I had a great time! It was more character-oriented than heist plot-oriented, but after my initial adjustment period I was hooked. I'll definitely be acquiring her 2027 release ASAP!

[the13thh0ur]

So like does The Secret in Vault 13 have a sequel-?

[vampwan]

[ceeyoutea]

idk guys but im feeling quite fed thanks to that fight! sauron enjoyed the heck out fighting with his queen galadriel, toyed with her throughout - including by changing forms (so unnecessary! just to prolong his enjoyment!) - and brought up them being together at every possible turn. add to that quite a sprinkling of pain and torture (someone has an interesting relationship with it) and speaking into her mind... intruding into her flesh both physically and mentally (who said that)...

so well fed. gosh.