Yasmine Reads

Occasional reviewer, frequent bubble tea drinker, constant reader, netflix binge-watcher, inconsistent blogger. I follow back with yasmilktea

[whisperbabe]

twilight vs midnight sun

[anachronic-cobra]

Bella: he's being so mysterious and romantic

Edward: what the hell is wrong with this girl

[cynicalkittycat]

fma quarantine au

alphonse bonus:

[aibidil]

Too often the fandom forgets HP is in the 90s, the glorious, glorious 90s

Here’s a peek at Theo, Blaise, Draco, and someone else:

Alternative preppy 90s Draco:

Second alternative preppy 90s Draco:

BOLD CHOICE, grunge Draco:

BONUS, 90s Harry is grunge don’t even argue, also he’s listening to Smashing Pumpkins:

@lol-zeitgeistic @shiftylinguini @writcraft @bixgirl1

[marauders70s]

yes yes this is exactly the content i’ve signed up for. to honor my url, let me add some 70s marauders gear

friendly reminder that under equally flamboyant robes, the massive flare dainty waist was THE peak mens fashion

Remus would try for a mustache around James’ wedding. The results would be hilarious.

Peter’s soul colors would be orange, mustard, and brown. He would thrive in sweaters, mutton chops, and feathered hair.

who could out sweater Peter? The answer is of course REMUS LUPIN who would live it up in chartreuse and oatmeal and burnt umber with not only a cardigan but a secret turtleneck.

Note the not successful porn stache. Don’t be afraid! James Potter is here in bright red, dark brown, and navy blue! 10/10 the wide legged lapel boy. He’s the Tommy Hilfiger of plunging necklines and high waisted (probably checked) pants.

And Sirius Black, the boy in punk. Wearing basic white, blacks, blue jeans, he’s the most “normal” but likely over studded, over plaid, and stick straight gelled hair. Forget these cresting bangs. It’s fohawk or death.

even Lily Evans is not exempt. She’s probably okay in bright orange, baby blues, and bright patterns of pink/purple. She’ll wear jumpers and tall socks and trailing headbands and too much eyeshadow.

yo any fan artists please jump in k love you my contribution for the world today is done bye

[annabetart]

I gave it a shot! It’s a bit of a tough look for Remus but… voila!

[aibidil]

REBLOGGING FOR THE ART WHICH INCLUDES SHAGGY!REMUS WHERE IS SCOOBY DOO

[za-ra-h]

My favorite Harry Potter character, Professor Remus Lupin. The way I pictured him while reading the books.

I painted his scars in gold after being inspired by Kintsugi.

[za-ra-h]

Since some people asked; PRINT

[drarryruinedme7]

AMAZING Lupin😱😍

[twilightrenaissance]

bella googling “cold one” and finding beer ads moodboard

[ketamie]

literally have been obsessed with this the past half year

[glossynympheteyes]

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

[dumpster-king]

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

[porcelainandgold]

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

[whatpunkin]

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

[hematite2]

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

[petrichormeraki]

[feyariel]

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

[neil-gaiman]

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

[volturialice]

your Irritating Twilight Fan name is your first name + your last name

[deepspacepirate]

Whenever someone says I’m kind and patient:

[bookaddict24-7]

We had our monthly book club last night and Starbucks was lovely enough to help us with these platters! Nothing like good snacks and book talk on a frosty Monday night! 📚🍪

[twilightbutokayer]

What do you think Emmett’s TikTok handle would be

Read more Twilight But Okayer!

[twilightrenaissance]

it’s so nice of them to lay out a carrot for edward even though they know he’s not coming

[bisexualemmettcullen]

can we just talk about how they put all their food DIRECTLY on the table??

[ruby-white-rabbit]

The banana is upside down and I’m pretty sure Rosalie has half a block of Gouda cheese in front of her

[thenaebyrd777]

[books-n-cleverness]

do you ever think about how the series of events that lead to Dumbledore’s death in HBP was literally set into motion by Oliver Wood’s passion for Quidditch

[books-n-cleverness]

okay but literally I can’t stop thinking about this -

it is of course possible that Draco would have gotten the Death Eaters into the school some other way if the Vanishing Cabinet hadn’t created the perfect opportunity, but it wasn’t looking likely.

so like, it’s reasonable enough to assume that Dumbledore’s death (at the hands of Snape specifically, obviously I know he was going to die soon enough from the curse, but the timing does make a difference so I’m still focused on this) occurred because of the Death Eaters getting into the school. the reason the Death Eaters were able to get into the school was because of the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement, which Draco repaired.

the Vanishing Cabinet ended up in the Room of Requirement over the summer of 1996, presumably (reasoning for this is in the next paragraph), and Draco discovered it there sometime in his 6th year. but the only reason he had even known what it was, and what it could do, was because he had spoken with….

Graham Montague, a Slytherin who was in 7th year in 1995-1996 (when Harry & co were in 5th year). Montague was shoved into the Vanishing Cabinet in that year by Fred and George Weasley, because he was a part of the Inquisitorial Squad and was presumably about to take points from the Weasley twins for doing something disruptive. and we know that Montague got stuck in a limbo between the two connected cabinets, due to one of them being broken - he could hear things being discussed in Borgin & Burkes, which is how he was able to let Malfoy know that the other “end of the tunnel”, or basically the other cabinet, was in Borgin & Burkes (which, Draco would already have seen as a 12-year-old, in the summer before his 2nd year, when he visited the shop with his father - fun fact, Harry hid in that exact cabinet while Lucius Malfoy was transacting with Borgin).

Montague would never have had this experience at all if the cabinet hadn’t been broken in the first place. but in fact, we know exactly how, when, why, and by whom the cabinet was broken.

it was in the fall of 1992, when Nearly Headless Nick observed that Harry had gotten in trouble with Filch, and prompted Peeves to drop that very same cabinet from a large height in order to cause a distraction for Filch, allowing Harry to get out of trouble.

why was Harry in trouble in the first place? because he was “tracking mud” in the corridors.

why was he tracking mud in the corridors? because Oliver Wood had had him out on the Quidditch pitch all day even though it had been literally storming outside. so Harry came into the castle drenched and splattered with mud.

Dumbledore literally died because of how obsessed Oliver Wood was with winning the Quidditch Cup.

thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[books-n-cleverness]

sorry, one more thing - people keep reblogging this with tags that imply they think that this is like a “headcanon” or just “plausible” and while I get why you would think that, I need you to really understand how canonical this is because it’s Very canonical which is Ridiculous

to clarify:

the bits about the Vanishing Cabinet being the only real way he had to get the Death Eaters in, having heard about it from Montague and how that made him realize he could use them as a passage, etc - that was all clearly laid out in HBP, chapter 27 (The Lightning-Struck Tower).

Montague being shoved into the cabinet takes place in OOTP, chapter 28 (Snape’s Worst Memory).

Draco seeing the cabinet and Harry being in the cabinet is all in CoS, chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts).

and the entire situation with the Quidditch practice and the mud and Harry getting in trouble and Nick getting Peeves to drop the cabinet is in CoS, chapter 8 (The Deathday Party).

it’s the lined-up-dominoes meme, and it’s ridiculous. and it’s all on the page.

[adeptarcanist]

It’s better than that.

Voldemort died because Harry was the master of the Elder Wand that Voldemort was trying to use.

Why was Harry the master? Because he overpowered its previous master, Draco, and won its allegiance.

Why was Draco master of the Elder Wand? Because he disarmed Dumbledore in the precise sequence being discussed, which relied on the vanishing cabinet.

Harry defeated Voldemort because of Oliver Wood’s passion for quidditch.

[rms-idiot]

Technically, Draco lead to Dumbledores death twice. Both by getting the death eaters into the castle but also because if it weren’t for him stealing Neville’s rememberall, Harry wouldnt have ended up on the team at all, and consequentially, getting mud through the corridors

[spiderjewel]

I like how JKR seeded plot points early to the extent that a cabinet had a backstory and cameos 5 years before it mattered and then she tells us that Voldemort’s big dumb snake was a Korean lady the whole time based on no evidence and expects us to believe she didn’t just make it up as she went along

[crimeronan]

blue 🤝 gansey longing for magic and meaning in a world that seems to have shut them out of magic and meaning, restless creativity, finding home in unexpected places

blue 🤝 adam understanding the stress of poverty and classism, also thinking themselves to be perfectly rational while making incredibly irrational decisions, blaming other people for their mistakes

blue 🤝 ronan loving very deeply and being very tactile and also being incredibly spiky and angry and often managing to blow up and hurt other people

blue 🤝 noah being tactile and energetic and also occasionally very sad and withdrawn and constantly longing for connection with other people

blue 🤝 henry wanting to change a world that doesn’t seem to care about you to make it better while also experiencing everything that world has to offer

[bluebeardswiife]

it’s just me and my four hundred unread books against the world i guess

[everyonehasamnesia]

This is going to be controversial in some circles, but books are not sacred objects unless you want them to be. Dog ear them. Write notes directly in the margins. Highlight, underline, put a sticker in the front. Dip the edges in your bath water, in your beach sand, in your tea. Live with it!

There are thousands of copies of the average book, and if you ever ruined yours you could buy another for $3 off ThriftBooks or something. Unless you are specifically working with rare first edition printings, it’s fine to just treat a book like something that you own. Take it with you everywhere and if you lose or forget it just shrug because it’s really, truly, not a big deal. Love books hard, they are just bundles of paper and the story that you adore is always safe even if you treat your paperback like a doorstop. It’s fine.

[acotars]

hear me out. twilight reboot tv series by netflix.

a more diverse cast of cullens, more time to delve into all the characters and scenes we missed in the movies, a chance to show how nuanced bella’s character actually is, the slow building mystery of a rainy small town and the weirdly perfect set of teens who live there culminating to the intense drama of a near-death experience in a mirror hall.

plus: bella in mom jeans. bella falling asleep reading in the sun. an actual full in-depth meadow scene. maybe a more elegant skin sparkle (like someone just slap some haloscope on and lets go). seeing all the cullens at prom. seeing esme for more than 14 seconds. someone with a brain larger than a pea rewriting jasper’s backstory to make him a goddamn union spy or having him fight the war of 1812. literally anything else.

rain. gorgeous special effects. so much more high school content. maybe even highkey present day and everyone tweets about the cullens being fucked up??? we could see everyone’s backstory, incl. rosalie saving emmett from the bear and rose beating r*pists to death and alice’s journey and the scene of her actually meeting jasper and esme,,,,,,,,,,,,, being gorgeous and sad and in love w her doctor and wolves !!!!! more wolves !!!! jacob could actually be played by a native actor !! and and and idk man. just more!!

[books-and-cookies]

According to a ya professor I had, its because fantasy and sci-fi are actually sub-genres of speculative fiction... since no one uses that terminology, publishers and marketers drop it in favor of the common titles and lump them together. Horror is also included under the speculative fiction umbrella too which means it should probably be included in that section, but since horror is less popular in YA publishing, it never is. Its messed up they separate them for adults and young adults though...

I completely agree with you!

My issue was: why does adult get separate horror, sci/fi and fantasy categories and YA doesn’t?

it’s unfair and it sucks and i hate it

[readaroundtherosie]

It actually has a lot to do with up until recently, the YA section just wasn’t as expansive as the entire Adult category. A lot of the larger bookstores do separate them if they carry enough stock though. It’s all dependent on the store 🤷‍♀️