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@unrelentingreader
one day you're watching full metal alchemist and cheering for Roy Mustang
then in college you learn chemistry and THIS FUCKER WAS DOING COMPLEX CONTINOUS UNPRESSURED EXOTHERMIC IONIC REACTIONS TO BURN THINGS
IT IS A WONDER THAT HE SURVIVED ALL THESE FUCKING YEARS FOR FUCKS SAKE, FLAME ALCHEMIST INDEED
one day you're watching full metal alchemist and cheering for Roy Mustang
then in college you learn chemistry and THIS FUCKER WAS DOING COMPLEX CONTINOUS UNPRESSURED EXOTHERMIC IONIC REACTIONS TO BURN THINGS
IT IS A WONDER THAT HE SURVIVED ALL THESE FUCKING YEARS FOR FUCKS SAKE, FLAME ALCHEMIST INDEED
I can’t with the expressions Edward pulls when he has particularly diabolical ideas, even one that includes his little brother, much to his annoyance. Poor Alphonse. 🤣
The last one is my absolute favorite. That scene sends me everytime. 💀
The 4th one isn’t an idea. Just Ed being giddy about his new lightweight automail. Loved it enough to include it. 🤣
Unironically, I can’t stop losing my mind over the way Harikawa decided to explain away how Al’s body isn’t decayed.
Like, I remember in the 2003 anime how much Ed ate, but I’m reading through the manga and am in love with using how much food Ed eats, how much he sleeps, and how short he is to say “oh, their souls crossed. Ed’s basically sustaining two bodies now.”
Like… HELLO!?!? That’s hype as hell!?!?
That’s such a cool choice. Al’s life is LITERALLY in Edward’s hands. Shows not only how close they are, but how they really are relying on each other.
Plus, it’s just cool to think about.
Arakawa never let the fma characters process how weird Al and Ed being half Xerxian actually was.
The real like equivalent would be if you grew up in Italy with your Italian Mother and you grow up thinking of yourself as Italian.
But then it turns out your Dad is Aeneas and you're half Trojan.
“Deliberate error was unthinkable. Even the concealment of truth filled him with a sense of imperfection, of wrongness–of what, in a human being, would have been called guilt. For like his makers, Hal had been created innocent; but, all too soon, a snake had entered his electronic Eden.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
@unrelentingreader
If this post get to 200,000 notes by my 18th birthday (November 3rd 2020) I'll get my profile pic tattoo...
I'll get that little guy tattoo
Edit: at people wondering if I really do want this tattoo...I do it's cute and has good memories and I'll probably get it anyway
Not to break my blog purpose but please I’m begging you,,,, Bee tattoo
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
— George Orwell, 1984
@unrelentingreader
How to get cheaper or free books!
Here’s a quick list of places to get books for cheaper and free. If anyone has tried any of these options or has other suggestions send me a message!
1. Library- Of course, this is top of the list. Books can be expensive and not everyone can afford to buy them or at least buy them every time they want a new read. The great thing about borrowing books from the library is that if you don’t end up liking the book or don’t want to purchase it after all, you don’t waste money on something you don’t like.
-Libby and Overdrive- These two apps give you the ability to hook up your library card and access ebooks and audiobooks from your local library as well as the library's in surrounding areas! Audiobooks can be really expensive, so I use these apps for them.
2. Used bookstores- can have some great used books, some can look new while others have a little bit more character to them! If you don’t have access to a physical store near you but have the ability to order things online there’s some great online used bookstores.
-Better World Books (betterworldbooks.com) is a great place to find books some as low as $3. Some of these books come from libraries, schools, or just people who passes there books to the next person. You can also look at the quality of those books to pick for your liking. I typically go for “new practically used, or used very good”.
-Thrift books (thriftbooks.com). I personally haven’t bought books from this website yet however I’ve watched tons of videos and read reviews on the site and it seems to be a good option for books. Someday, I’ll order some books to have my own personal experience. Side note: you can also find textbooks for school on these super cheap. I bought one from Better World Books recently and it looks practically new apart from the library stamp on the side of it, but I got it for around 6 dollars so who can beat it!
-Amazon used books section. (If you need help finding it let me know!)
-Goodwill
3. Book sales-This can be kind of a mashup of the two first options. I know my local libraries do a book sale. Tons of people along with the libraries themselves bring books and have really cheap sales on the books. I recently went to my local library’s book sale and on the last day of the sale they have $5 bags. On this day, we were given giant paper bags (like you’d get from the grocery store) and you feel it full of books, divides, audibles, and whatever else was on sale. The cool thing was that you could get as many items as you could fit in the bag and it was only 5 dollars?!?!! Plus, you could get as many bags as you wanted
4. E-books & audibles- Ebooks are often cheaper and sometimes even free. If you don’t have the ability to take a physical book with you, or you forget it but you have a phone that can access your digital library it’s pretty convenient. I tend to see audibles more expensive but I did want to put it on the list. 1. Because sometimes you can get them on sale or get a free credit on audible so you can listen. Libby/ Overdrive gives you the option to listen to ebooks as well. 2. I wanted to hook these two types of books on the list because sometimes I think they can get overlooked or seen as being “not real book” but they most definitely are. A book is a book whether you own it, have a physical copy, or listen to it.
5. Barnes and Noble (and other bookstores)-B&N has a membership, you pay $25 a year and get 10% off your purchase but the really great thing is that you often get sent coupons (that you can stack with the membership). Plus, when they do a book hauls you get early access! Also free shipping (book depository offer that as well worldwide).B&N also has a bargain section/outlet were you can find books for as cheap as $5 or 2 books for under $10.
6. Book depository -Free shipping internationally.
7. Bookbub- let you know when books you may like go on sale.
8.Target- often has there books on sale for 20% off.
9. Amazon- also tends to be cheaper than some bookstores and they have used section.
10. Books a million.- great book deals!
11. Entering giveaways -Sometimes authors or other people in the world of book social media will do giveaways that you can enter. Goodreads does this and they usually send you notifications when a book you have marked that you want to read gets added for a giveaway. Obviously, just like with any of these options you want to make sure you’re being safe with any information you’re giving out over the internet.
12. Authors-Not only will authors do giveaways from time to time of their own books. They will also give free books from other authors they may be friends with or just books they enjoyed. If you follow them on social media you’ll see them post about it. Some authors have weekly or monthly news articles that they send through emails were they have attachments for an ebook download. BB Easton, is an author who does this and she sends out two free ebooks a month, there adult novels.
Through the cluster of noise and the sounds of people moving within the cells, Edge clearly picked out one distinctive voice. He could have picked it out of any crowd, that well-abused, whisky-sweet voice.
"A Little Diplomacy”, By Any Other Name series by Keelywolfe / @keelywolfe
When I was nine, possibly ten, an author came to our school to talk about writing. His name was Hugh Scott, and I doubt he’s known outside of Scotland. And even then I haven’t seen him on many shelves in recent years in Scotland either. But he wrote wonderfully creepy children’s stories, where the supernatural was scary, but it was the mundane that was truly terrifying. At least to little ten year old me. It was Scooby Doo meets Paranormal Activity with a bonny braw Scottish-ness to it that I’d never experienced before.
I remember him as a gangling man with a wiry beard that made him look older than he probably was, and he carried a leather bag filled with paper. He had a pen too that was shaped like a carrot, and he used it to scribble down notes between answering our (frankly disinterested) questions. We had no idea who he was you see, no one had made an effort to introduce us to his books. We were simply told one morning, ‘class 1b, there is an author here to talk to you about writing’, and this you see was our introduction to creative writing. We’d surpassed finger painting and macaroni collages. It was time to attempt Words That Were Untrue.
You could tell from the look on Mrs M’s face she thought it was a waste of time. I remember her sitting off to one side marking papers while this tall man sat down on our ridiculously short chairs, and tried to talk to us about what it meant to tell a story. She wasn’t big on telling stories, Mrs M. She was also one of the teachers who used to take my books away from me because they were “too complicated” for me, despite the fact that I was reading them with both interest and ease. When dad found out he hit the roof. It’s the one and only time he ever showed up to the school when it wasn’t parents night or the school play. After that she just left me alone, but she made it clear to my parents that she resented the fact that a ten year old used words like ‘ubiquitous’ in their essays. Presumably because she had to look it up.
Anyway, Mr Scott, was doing his best to talk to us while Mrs M made scoffing noises from her corner every so often, and you could just tell he was deflating faster than a bouncy castle at a knife sharpening party, so when he asked if any of us had any further questions and no one put their hand up I felt awful. I knew this was not only insulting but also humiliating, even if we were only little children. So I did the only thing I could think of, put my hand up and said “Why do you write?”
I’d always read about characters blinking owlishly, but I’d never actually seen it before. But that’s what he did, peering down at me from behind his wire rim spectacles and dragging tired fingers through his curly beard. I don’t think he expected anyone to ask why he wrote stories. What he wrote about, and where he got his ideas from maybe, and certainly why he wrote about ghosts and other creepy things, but probably not why do you write. And I think he thought perhaps he could have got away with “because it’s fun, and learning is fun, right kids?!”, but part of me will always remember the way the world shifted ever so slightly as it does when something important is about to happen, and this tall streak of a man looked down at me, narrowed his eyes in an assessing manner and said, “Because people told me not to, and words are important.”
I nodded, very seriously in the way children do, and knew this to be a truth. In my limited experience at that point, I knew certain people (with a sidelong glance to Mrs M who was in turn looking at me as though she’d just known it’d be me that type of question) didn’t like fiction. At least certain types of fiction. I knew for instance that Mrs M liked to read Pride and Prejudice on her lunch break but only because it was sensible fiction, about people that could conceivably be real. The idea that one could not relate to a character simply because they had pointy ears or a jet pack had never occurred to me, and the fact that it’s now twenty years later and people are still arguing about the validity of genre fiction is beyond me, but right there in that little moment, I knew something important had just transpired, with my teacher glaring at me, and this man who told stories to live beginning to smile. After that the audience turned into a two person conversation, with gradually more and more of my classmates joining in because suddenly it was fun. Mrs M was pissed and this bedraggled looking man who might have been Santa after some serious dieting, was starting to enjoy himself. As it turned out we had all of his books in our tiny corner library, and in the words of my friend Andrew “hey there’s a giant spider fighting a ghost on this cover! neat!” and the presentation devolved into chaos as we all began reading different books at once and asking questions about each one. “Does she live?”— “What about the talking trees” —“is the ghost evil?” —“can I go to the bathroom, Miss?” —“Wow neat, more spiders!”
After that we were supposed to sit down, quietly (glare glare) and write a short story to show what we had learned from listening to Mr Scott. I wont pretend I wrote anything remotely good, I was ten and all I could come up with was a story about a magic carrot that made you see words in the dark, but Mr Scott seemed to like it. In fact he seemed to like all of them, probably because they were done with such vibrant enthusiasm in defiance of the people who didn’t want us to.
The following year, when I’d moved into Mrs H’s class—the kind of woman that didn’t take away books from children who loved to read and let them write nonsense in the back of their journals provided they got all their work done—a letter arrived to the school, carefully wedged between several copies of a book which was unheard of at the time, by a new author known as J.K. Rowling. Mrs H remarked that it was strange that an author would send copies of books that weren’t even his to a school, but I knew why he’d done it. I knew before Mrs H even read the letter.
Because words are important. Words are magical. They’re powerful. And that power ought to be shared. There’s no petty rivalry between story tellers, although there’s plenty who try to insinuate it. There’s plenty who try to say some words are more valuable than others, that somehow their meaning is more important because of when it was written and by whom. Those are the same people who laud Shakespeare from the heavens but refuse to acknowledge that the quote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them“ is a dick joke.
And although Mr Scott seems to have faded from public literary consumption, I still think about him. I think about his stories, I think about how he recommended another author and sent copies of her books because he knew our school was a puritan shithole that fought against the Wrong Type of Wordes and would never buy them into the library otherwise. But mostly I think about how he looked at a ten year old like an equal and told her words and important, and people will try to keep you from writing them—so write them anyway.
*sobs for like the umpteenth time this day and reblogs the fuck out of this*
this is it:
“Because people told me not to, and words are important.”
Please please please read this all the way through. I promise you it’s worth it. If you have ever aspired to write, or you have a love of stories and storytelling, this is important.
http://scottishbooktrust.com/profile-author/969
Here he is.
Books are linked within the page.
@hecallsmehischild
Not a prompt my dears, but an important read all the same.
Gonna buy all this mfs books for my friends kids 💓
Oh wow, I think I actually read this man’s book called The Gargoyle as a kid! It looks really familiar.
@erakin
since you’re going into writing
I think you should see this
“there is nothing i could see in those clouds that would be better than seeing through your eye lights.”
“On Cloud Nine”, By Any Other Name series by Keelywolfe / @keelywolfe
You don’t have a soul…You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (via books-n-quotes)
There were times when he looked at Stretch that his rib cage felt too small for his soul. It felt as if his soul would come bursting forth, and as sorrowfully red and scarred as it was, it would be overfilled with his love. The thought was nothing less than pure sentiment and once, he would have scoffed at such emotion and fanciful thought.
Now he wanted to saturate himself in it until it overflowed. Stars, he loved him. — “Sharing”, By Any Other Name series by Keelywolfe / @keelywolfe
First admit that you are unhappy. Then admit why. Then understand you need to let go. Allow yourself a moment. Breathe in the moment deeply. Then the healing will begin.
Nikita Gill, How to Start Healing (via books-n-quotes)
There was something about swinging that he’d always loved, that second when it felt like gravity loosed its grip and for the briefest of moment, it was like flying. Even a shortcut couldn’t compare.
“Swingers”, By Any Other Name series by Keelywolfe / @keelywolfe
To Saphira, he said, If only everyone could see what we have seen, perhaps there would be less fighting in the world.
You cannot expect wolves to become sheep.
No, but neither do the wolves have to be cruel to the sheep.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
