#monstrousgourmandizingcats

[marzipanandminutiae]

17, 28, 39

17: Someone you miss

a certain lady who lives far away. but I'll keep the details to myself, for now

28: A description of the person I dislike the most

Orange. Do I need to go on?

(in my own personal life...I don't know; I don't usually keep people I dislike around for long. I guess that weird guy who sometimes comes to events at my museum, who loves tr*mp and gets mad if local museums talk about "woke history" and also hates Boston's very reasonable plan to have preservatonists work with environmental engineers to retrofit our old buildings for eco-friendliness while still preserving their history, I guess? that guy sucks)

39: My favorite ice cream flavor

Mint chocolate, for sure. chip or otherwise

[liesmyth]

Load bearing Elle lore: economist

loadbearing lore: nerd😔🤓😊

[rebeccadumaurier]

Tell me about The Akhmatova School for Magical Art!

in her sophomore year of college, ari's older brother morgan helps her transfer to a reclusive art school on the coast, where the students have the magic ability to bring their art to life. although the students are welcoming, they're haunted by the fact their most brilliant peer, sasha, murdered three seniors the year before. ari begins to investigate why sasha killed those students, why morgan really wanted her to transfer here, and the secrets at the heart of the school.

this one is very close to my heart because it features a bunch of eccentric art students at a poorly-run LAC with dysfunctional admin, love triangle solved via polyamory, an antagonist who is Kind Of Right, and our collective responsibility to build ethical tools :-)

"Does it ever just not work for anyone?" Ari asked hopelessly. She was a lost cause. Magic had decided to make an outcast of her, just like everyone else had.

Sage hesitated, which she took to mean a yes. Great. She'd imbibed that horrible tea for nothing. Who even knew what havoc it had wreaked on her digestive system? "Look, Ari, I know when someone’s not going to make it, and you aren’t one of those people. You know what makes a great crafter?"

"The ability to draw hands that don't look like weird alien fingers?" she said miserably. She hated Jacob most when he forced her to draw hands. It was that and noses. She was never going to get noses right.

"No, don't be ridiculous. We all suck at those." Sage tapped their pencil against the apple. It was a gorgeous apple, its shadows smeared with daring hints of electric blue, its redness as tempting and luscious as the one in Eden. "It's not even about artistic ability, although that certainly helps. It's about unseeing reality. You have to believe with your mind and heart that this apple is real. You have to believe that if you bit into this piece of paper right now, you'd get a juicy crunch in response. This isn't a drawing of an apple. It's an apple." 

wip asks

[maryblackwood]

Happy Halloween! Merricat and Constance are gay.

happy halloween!! they are <333

[elizabeth-mitchells]

Absolutely Laura Lee got into her first serious fight/argument with someone because they called Nat a slut. She'd be lying if she said she was totally comfortable with all of Nat's behavior herself, but you don't call people that, especially people as kind as Nat is.

Laura Lee as Natalie's #1 defender is something that can actually be so personal <333

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

24, 65, 87?

Thanks for sending!

24: Do you have a collection of anything?

Oh gosh, I have... SO many collections of things! Most of it is hyperfixations. - Physical CDs from my very favorite bands, sometimes autographed! - Evanescence merch (including stuff from the 4 years they had an official fan club and I was, of course, a member!) - Many kinds of crow/raven/dove decorations - bird feathers, eggshells, and bones (My collection is compliant with the MBTA. ...mostly. The vast majority are from my own birds.) - All sorts of Misdreavus+Mismagius Pokemon things - stones and crystals (I have way more rocks than I have display space, so most of them are in boxes) - jewelry (mostly necklaces), but most of it is a sub-category of The Rocks Collection because most of my jewelry has stones involved. - Teen Titans franchise stuff, including but not limited to the 80's comics, Scholastic books, McDonald's toys, a tumblr glass, and any and every Raven thing I can get my hands on. - Books! I've never counted how many I have, but I've already filled up my largest bookcase and I'm not even 1/4 of the way done unpacking my books. --> Sub-categories of my book collection include: linguistics, travel, biology, spirituality, Neal Shusterman (since he's my favorite author), and of course TLT.

65: Give me your top 5 favourite blogs on Tumblr

H e c k . How do I even decide that? I have friends, RP partners, fandom speculations, hyperfixation fodder... But probably my closest friends. Mags and Siren are on here (not sure if they'd be comfortable with me blasting their blog URLs or not ^^';), probably Caleb and Robyn for being both longtime friends and RP partners, and lately I've been having a lot of fun in the Pokemon IRL rp community, of which my favorite blog is probably uncle-dusknoir (but I'm not @'ing it because how do I explain who my FAVORITE is and why???) Pix would be on this list too, but she's hardly active, and Rowan would too, but they're locked out of their account. <lD;;

87: What is your current desktop picture?

It's been the same for 7 years now: a screenshot of Raven meditating from Justice League vs. Teen Titans! I really like the colors, that movie instantly became my comfort movie, and meditation is something I do myself that has always been a comfort and respite. So it's just Nice to log in and see that picture. It makes me smile.

(I really need to clean up my desktop, heh.) You can't see it very well, but behind the 2nd/3rd row of icons, she has incense smoldering, and she's surrounded by trees and bushes. I think it's a very serene picture.

[caddyxjellyby]

Also, I'm choosing violence by asking this, but: Jo/Laurie and Amy/Laurie

Jo/Laurie:

Amy/Laurie:

I like them both. Sorry to sound all Switzerland instead of choosing violence but after nearly 20 years of being privy to a ship war you just want to be Switzerland and bake a cake full of rainbows and have everyone eat it. Jo/Laurie had some excellent writers producing fic for it, so I can't hate it. Amy/Laurie is to me just so romantic, I absolutely love Paris and rowboats and changing your mind about what you want and comforting each other over grief. Sometimes Amy/Laurie or Jo/Bhaer shippers are judgy of Jo/Laurie shippers and that annoys me.

[aredhels]

title: and he told me i was holy rating: gen characters: tar-míriel (pov), zigûr (sauron), ar-pharazôn warnings: drowning word count: 889 summary: of how the witch-king of angmar came to be.

read on ao3

for @monstrousgourmandizingcats, from your @officialtolkiensecretsanta 🌸