Andsilvered - Yet Another Of Devotion's Casualties

201 souls worth of survivor’s guilt

still not over chapter 13. dorian killing the one person who loved him as something more than just a pretty face because that’s all dorian saw himself as. basil seeing the torture dorian’s soul has endured but still believing he is not yet lost. and the action of killing basil being the point of no return for dorian. only the artist could have helped his art, but the death of the artist leaves his work finished, no matter what.

imagine the picture of dorian gray (1891) but dorian is jude law in wilde (1997) and lord henry is hugh grant in maurice (1987)

they are done!

nona cow theory

before i read nona the ninth, i saw spoilers that convinced me nona was the soul of the cows john killed. reading the book only further confirmed this

I extended. I struggled. I bit through the sun first. It's human nature.

credits: Valeria Aksakova (stock photography) Dan Witz (mosh pit painting, detail) dee railer at flicker (car submerged) Katsuhiro Ōtomo (Akira)

I couldn't find proper attribution for some of them, if you know of any artist not mentioned lmk

Gideon Nav: a woman who, surrounded by the most repressed elderly nuns ever, independently invented being a masc lesbian

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

One does not play memories of music; one plays music itself. And lifetimes, from beginning to end, are as sheets of music, ready to be played.

Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

realizing i actually only absorbed like 60% of tlt due to reading it over the course of a week at various times (mostly 12am-5am because my sleep schedule was fucked). anyway that's fun