TowerofBooks

[towerofbooks]

After everything I was forced to endure, I believe I deserve to let my heart beat a steady peaceful rhythm.

At least, just for a short while.

[sophieeeikli]

-The Act of Carcinization, by Sophie E. Eikli

[ID by domesticatedanimals: 

a poem that goes:

No soft-shelled crab am I,

exo-skeleton petrified

around my spine like a funeral pyre.

All signs point toward crustacean

pink skin turned crisp and red,

hands curled into claws, half-hearts,

grains of sand lodged beneath each layer

of chitin, trying not to flinch

while white barnacles bury their mouths into inaccessible flesh.

You must use a knife

to open me.

End ID.]

[towerofbooks]

damn, this is good

[towerofbooks]

What I love so much about Blitz is that, before he called Stolad a rich pompous asshole. But know he's taking care of Stolas. Buying him clothes, asking what foods he eats, FULLFILLING THEIR CHILDHOOD OF HIRING HIM!

And he's doing this because he knows what it's like to loose everything in a single day. He gets what stolas is feeling and is helping him in very way he can

[towerofbooks]

Stolas' voice here...

I know he's gay and I'm straight but HOT DAMN HIS VOICE HERE WAS SO HOT IT SHOULD HAVE MELTED ALL THE ICE!

[deathandmysticism]

Humpty Dumpty, 1873

[towerofbooks]

Well, this definitely not terrifying at all.

[towerofbooks]

Sharp Objects Essay Links

-White Material: Ivory tiles, white womanhood, and white supremacy in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Sharp Objects (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/film.2023.0219)

-Sharp Objects' Adora Crellin: a Psychoanalytical Approach (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://repository.effatuniversity.edu.sa/bitstream/handle/20.500.14131/1464/Sharp_Objects_Adora_Crellin__a_Psychoanalytical_Approach.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)

-Inscribing Pain: Female Perversion and the Maternal Imago in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects

-The Devouring Mother in Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects

-The Dollhouse and Mobility of the Southern Gothic Legacy in Sharp Objects

-Hereditary and Sharp Objects

-Feminism in Gillian Flynn’s Novels: Violence, Malice and Amorality as the Basis of a Post-Feminist Agenda

-Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects and the Repression of Women’s Anger

-The Major Characters in Gillian Flynn's Novel “Sharp Objects” (A Psychoanalysis Freud)

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-The Ghost Dollhouse of DixieDead Places, Hauntology and the Uncannyin Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects

-Hidden Desires and Dark Secrets: Unraveling Amma’s Character in “Sharp Objects” UsingF reudian Psychoanalysis

[towerofbooks]

So, what poems or quotes would perfectly describe Stolas?

Please help me out on this, I want to cry some more.

It can be poems from published poets or poems from Tumblr. They can be rhyming, free-verse, prose, etc. Quotes are the dealer's choice Just make sure to make it heartbreaking, please.

[towerofbooks]

Okay, I'm just gonna say it. THIS. WAS. SOOO. C*NTYYY!

[towerofbooks]

White Oleander Essay Links

-What Happened to Mother?: Patriarchy, Oppression, and Reconciliation in Janet Fitch's White Oleander

-A Feminist Reading of White Oleander

-A Close Reading of 'White Oleander'

-White Oleander: Effects of a Mother’s Presence & Absence

[towerofbooks]

Politics of the Seven Kingdoms link

Politics of the Seven Kingdoms

Part I – The Longue Durée Part II – the North Part III – the Vale Part IV – the Riverlands Part V – the Iron Islands Part VI – the Westerlan

Love this

[towerofbooks]

Is no one gonna talk about this knife scene?

I mean, a knife goes flying at him and cuts him and he doesn't even flinch! No wonder Stolas has the hots for Blitz, this scene was pretty hot

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[sydaney-foxay]

Starcrastination

[towerofbooks]

This, this the perfect term

[towerofbooks]

Lucifer has various aspects of himself from different Mythologies.

(Reposting this from my Reddit Account, link below)

(This is inspired by the Maiden, Mother, and Crone from The Sandman, who have various aspects such as the Fates, the Hecate, the Elder Muses, the Furies. I understand most are from Greek myth but like I said this is inspired by.)

For me, it would be interesting to see if Lucifer could have different aspects of himself as ruler of the underworld from different mythologies such as Hades who rules with the underworld from Greek, Yan Wang who rules Diyu from Chinese, Arawn who rules Annwn in Welsh, Mictlantecuhtli who rules Mictlan in Aztec, etc.

IDK how this would work into the worldbuilding of the story. Maybe as time went on and these different fates came into creation, he just decided to adopt them into himself? But this is just a fun headcannon that I wanted to share.

[towerofbooks]

Please write a fic about this fanfic idea I have? It's about the turtles learning about Alchemy and Mysticism

I was asking around Reddit if there are any fics about them learning about these topics, I'll leave a link if anyone wants to check it out. Simply put, the boys would learn about these things since.

Like Leo can learn about Alchemic medicine, Mikey on the spiritual or psychological and art aspects of it, Donnie on the technical stuff, and Raph on protection-related mysticism maybe? They can learn it from Draxxum since their allies now after all.

Please let me know if you guys are making a fic about this and please send me the link to your fanfics via messaging!

Link to my Reddit post below:

[swordmaid]

morning light ☀️

to the lovely @jamlanlovedyou I’m your twin sword for @alittleislandoflight⚔️❤️‍🔥

i hope you’re having a good december katy! here’s jb being fluffy and spicy <3

full version of the piece here.

[towerofbooks]

Disappointed that we didn’t see Charles apologizing for his actions and didn’t see much of character growth that I was hoping for.

When I was reading the end of Chain of Iron, I was expecting Charles to like apologies to Alastair or something. But no we just got more of him being bad, I was really hoping Cassie was gonna give his character a little more but nope, just disappointment. Then I was hoping that by the end of Chain of Thorns, that was when he would apologies and even go as far as to say that he was happy for Alastair and Thomas being together but no, more disappointment. 

That could’ve given him more character growth, sure he got some when he finally confessed and such, but I really, really, really, wished he had more. And also him apologizing to Matthew for being a crappy brother. 

Really wanted to see more of Charles’s character and more dialogue from him to give his character something more. I didn’t even need a POV from him, just more dialogue and nuance and complexity. I feel like this was such a wasted opportunity for his character.  

I though he was gonna be like Gabriel Lightwood or Kieran, characters we hated in the first book, started to like in the second and then end up loving in the third. 

Also I wanted to see the friendship between Charles and Ari, in my head that would’ve been such a sweet and adorable friendship. 

[towerofbooks]

Rather disappointed with CHoT

Anyone else disappointed with Chain of Thorns? I was because it was missing somethings that I was hoping for like:

-Grace and Christopher 

-When Christopher dies, we didn’t get to see reactions from his parents and from Henry

-Charles and Matthew sibling relationship developing and getting better. Sure Charles finally came out and when he went to Idris to assist the new Inquisitor, he would send letters to his brother, but I feel it wasn’t enough

-I had hoped for more character development on Charles since there was SO MUCH POTENTIAL for Cassie to write it. We know she’s good at doing that but I feel it was such a wasted opportunity.