Top 10 Roles Of Megumi Ogata: INPO

im going through that phase, yknow the one, where im super into various mythologies and literally have shelves just full of myths and legends

Update: I respect cookie cutter sharks but theyre on thin ice

Sharks I respect

All of them

Sharks I don't respect

None of them

Here, have some ACTUALLY queer books to read if you too were disappointed by the supernatural finale

(links will take you to Bookshop, which supports independent bookstores instead of am*zon!)

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: scifi novella about time agents on the opposite side of a war who discover free will through love

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune: domestic dads and their found family of monster kids (including the literal antichrist), with a side of rebelling against an oppressive government

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater: if you’re on book tumblr at all you know this one, but this has the deeply Catholic repressed gay and traumatized bisexual you’ve been waiting for

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan: chaotic bisexual who ends up in a magical world and won’t stop being snarky about it, with a YEARS long friends to lovers slowburn

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland: zombie killing Black girls in post Civil War America; author is a spn fan and this book definitely has the Feel, but with 500% more women, characters of colors, and queer people

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell: chosen one who falls in love with his evil vampire roommate; more drarry than destiel, but its sequel Wayward Son (I know) has that Americana feel

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas: trans boy who’s trying to prove that he’s a brujo accidentally summons a ghost and they solve a murder while falling in love

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum: soft scifi with two girls listening for radio signals from space, found family rights, a love story that feels appropriately epic

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden: graphic novel about two women road tripping across Texas and healing from trauma, with some fabulism and a cat

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian: I’m just gonna leave this one here for everyone who’s still hurting from Twist and Shout

I read a post about Alex a few months ago that basically said Riordan's portrayal of genderfluid people was problematic because of the way Alex explained being genderfluid to Magnus. I beleive they said it was unnatural and that no one would explain it that way.

I think they may be forgetting that Magnus Chase is for young kids who probably have never heard of the term before. Alex explains genderfluidity in a similar way other characters explain mythology. The characters aren't just explaining the subjects to each other, but also the audience. Who are meant to be children.

Of course you may think that its a rather patronizing way of explaining it to kids, which is fair.

That being said, Riordan definitely made many mistakes in portraying his minority characters accurately/respectfully, and he didn't respond to criticism well, but I don't think this particular criticism is fair. If anything it should be a criticism of his writing style.

Of course this is just my opinion, and I couldn't find the original post so I may have misinterpreted it (apologies if I did, feel free to set me straight💙)

WIP Wednesday

I was tagged by @princessfbi

Buck is hurt, again. But it’s not his fault. 

It’s not like any of the other times he’s been hurt on the job were his fault, but he still feels the need to defend himself. A change from how he’s felt in the past. His therapist would probably be proud of him. 

Loopy off pain meds and slurring all his words, Buck had told anyone who would listen that it wasn’t his fault. He hadn’t been trying to get hurt, he hadn’t even been doing anything reckless. 

Bobby had given Buck a sad smile, gently pushing him back against the hospital bed as he said, “I know, Buck. I know.” 

Other people had been there. Hen and Chimney had been the ones to bring him into the hospital. Buck remembers their tense faces in the back of the ambulance as he tried to keep himself from screaming — the cool drip of morphine in his veins not enough to dull the roaring fire of pain surging through his body. 

In his hospital room, after the fire simmering in Buck’s veins had been doused by heavy pain medications, Hen and Chimney still looked tense, but less so. Fine lines of worry still gathering around the corners of their eyes, pulling the lines of their smiles too tight. But that’s normal any time one of them ends up in the hospital. 

Buck is familiar with all their worried faces and these ones mean he’s hurt, but not dying. 

Between the pain, the drugs, and being whisked away to surgery — Buck can’t remember everyone that saw him in the hospital. It’s all become a blur. He thinks that after Hen and Chimney… Bobby had been there, maybe Athena too. Buck thinks he remembers the smell of Maddie’s shampoo, the feeling of her soft hand holding his much larger one, thumb rubbing over the tape keeping his IV line in the back of his hand. 

Eddie had been there too, in the ambulance, the emergency room… his face had been the last thing Buck saw before going into surgery — feeling his heart beating in his throat as memories of a doctor telling him he might lose his leg choked all the breath from his lungs. And Eddie’s face was the first thing he saw when he woke up, feeling lost and scooped out, his body feeling disconnected due to the anesthesia. 

The soft rumble of Eddie’s voice had kept Buck grounded when he felt like he was spinning out into the stratosphere. His warm, brown eyes kept Buck tied down to earth. Eddie’s hand had been so warm where it curled around Buck’s arm. It had been like he was carrying the heat of the sun in his palm and pressing it into Buck’s skin. Through the haze of pain, drugs, and old buried fear brought back to the surface, the heat of Eddie — alive and whole, it had been the only thing to keep Buck from ripping out all of his lines and leaving the hospital against medical advice. 

Now, discharged from the hospital, still sore and aching, Buck feels bereft and alone. 

Eddie won’t touch him. 

Bundled in too many blankets in the middle of their shared bed, Buck feels more alone than he did lying in the sterile and cramped hospital bed. 

Every time Eddie comes close to him, he treats him like spun glass, like one wrong move and Buck will shatter apart. 

I'm going to tag @lesbianbuck, @honestlydarkprincess, @sainteddie, @lesbiandiaz, @morganofthefairies, and @cowboydiaz (there is no pressure to do this i just tagged y'all cause i luv y'all)

Our 20's may not be roaring but they're certainly doing something huh

going to bold the ones you’ve probably never heard of!

Romance

Devils line, My little monster, Kamisama kiss, Brothers conflict, Hitorijime My Hero, Say I love you, And you thought there is never a girl online?, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Wolf girl and black prince, Nijiiro Days, Uta no Prince-sama ,Diabolik lovers, Net juu no Susume

Action

Mob Psycho 100, Code Breaker, Noragami, Dororo, Shingeki no Kyojin, Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Claymore, Btooom

Mystery

Monster, King of Thorn, Psychic Detective Yakumo, Ajin, Death note, Another, Death parade, Zankyou no Terror, No 6

Drama

Kiseijuu Sei no Kakuritsu, 91 days, Gangsta, Banana fish, Nana, Inuyashiki, Inuyasha, In This Corner of the World, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Slice of life/Comedy

Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Blood lad, Masamune-kun’s Revenge, Beck, Nanbaka

honorable mention

Ghost hunt

thought I should recommend a spooky anime since its October👻

☆ what to read next if you loved the house in the cerulean sea! ☆

if you... loved the magical setting

• magyk (septimus heap #1) by angie sage. the better, funnier, unproblematic-er harry potter, with an amazing setting and amazing and SO lovable characters

• inkheart (inkworld #1) by cornelia funke. one of my favorite magical settings of all times. also the plot is basically THE dream of all readers aka: what happens when the real world and the world of a book collide? but make it BAD

if you... loved the vibes

• the starless sea by erin morgenstern. do you love ghibli vibes?? do you wish you could permanently live in a bakery next to the ocean??? then fear no more, because this book is the one for you!

if you... are aching for more soft and yearning gays

• novae by kaiju. it's a comic but its so. it's so. GOOD. also sun and moon and star dynamics + amazing art + fantastic historical settings... what more do we need!

• check, please! by ngozi uzaku. YES this is another comic YES I am biased bc mr jack laurent zimmermann is my favorite hockey bro ever. and what about it.

if you... want to meet more weird children

• the emerald atlas by john stephens. vibes similar to a series of unfortunate events but with an actual happy ending!!! and caring adults!!!!! we love to see it

that's all I can think about rn!!! happy reading friends!

What's the difference

you can literally always tell if an artist is/was a furry or not by asking them to draw a dog

This blog is solely to help me remember funny things I encountered but wtf does this mean

My brothers just had an argument over if our mum is a vegatable