#mudlark-s

[literary-illuminati]

For the book question game, 14 and 25?

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Book 3 of Cyteen! I have less than a hundred pages left, I've just been utterly terrible at...most things all month. Then if I have enough travel time to kill, the copy of The Works of Vermin I got as a friend's birthday present in early Feb and need to read myself before giving.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

60 over the year, 1 work in translation or from before 2000 a month, 1 nonfiction a month, 1 comic/graphic novel a month, 1 litfic a month (these can overlap). All the Hugo novel and novella finalists again. Want to set out some particular subject or question or theme to focus the nonfiction or literary reading on as an organizing project, but what it will be is a WIP.

Ideally also start a bookclub.

[st-just]

Renthe booktok/ice hockey post - there's a book on there thats been doing the rounds called icebreaker by Hannah grace and it's a romance between an ice hockey player and an ice skater. Obviously this is the only reason people are interested in ice hockey.

Oh no wait it was RPF fanfiction. This is so much worse.

Okay I give up on digging up the post this is about to link. But like, wow.

Incredible.

Though also like - okay, I don't really get RPF on a pretty fundamental level. But like, how do you get invested in writing fanfic about the imagined personal lives of these dudes in particular if you didn't even watch the sport beforehand?

[childotkw]

the scene in the ether w death is ybtm (ibty) - tbh that whole section with the going into hogsmeade, the fight, the ether. makes me scream every time i reread it

Ooohh yes, that chapter was so hard and yet so so fun to write! I don't often reread my own stuff, but that's definitely a chapter I actually like to read through!

I especially love going through the comments though on that one because the chaos and excitement is delicious. Watching everyone lose their minds was such a reward for me!

[stretfordender]

did you hear about juan?? surgery for a groin injury, out for the rest of the season potentially. it's on the mufc twitter so probably not fake, bit early for an april fool's.

I did and I’m really worried :/ The MUFC twitter hasn’t said anything about being out till the rest of the season so I have to be hopeful, but I think it might b e the case and that’s Super Not Good, especially with the fixture cloggage ://

[studyrose]

mudlark-s replied to your post “viphalo: this dude i was just on a date with said my transition from...”

sounds like a MAJOR douche......i'm assuming you're not planning on going on a second date w him??

i wouldn’t go as far to say douche as i would just...extremely boring like oml but no absolutely not, i knew that i wasn’t ten minutes in but i was hoping for like a friend thing maybe but he shot that right in the foot 

[smoketexture]

(Br) I've spent this evening watching Chinese film called 'call of heroes' and it's really good - making me debate watching more international films :) hope you're having a good evening!

hello lizzie, i’m glad you enjoyed the film! have an amazing day x

blog rate:

url: i don’t get it | nice | great! | amazing | flawless | perfectionicon: selfie | nice | great! | amazing! | fabdesktop theme: not for me | nice | great! | so pretty | utter perfectionoriginal content: couldn’t find any | nice | so pretty! | flawless | goals comment: your blog is lovely!  🌱

blog awards & blog rates

[literary-illuminati]

So fun fact, saw you posting about some desperate glory, thought it looked good, decided to order it in when I got to work this morning(I work in a bookshop). Lo and behold, we had a copy already! Excellent. Unfortunately, it came up on a return back to the warehouse :(

So obviously, I just had to buy it before the return got processed and will be taking it home w me today :)

How serendipitous!

But no, hope you enjoy it! Is one of my favorite reads of the year, I think. Which is to say I've been turning it over in my head and nitpicking it constantly since I finished.

[st-just]

54, for the spotify wrapped thing?

[Send a number between 1 and 150, get a song, you know the drill]

(I was/am, in fact, really into Arcane)