To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

Knowing all this has always made this bit of Beren’s song instantly reduce me to tears:

Tolkien straight up wrote a poem that said “the world could end, but it wouldn’t have all been pointless, because she was in this world, however briefly, and that justified all the rest.” Kills me.

Who can outdo Wife Guy Tolkien? Dude was writing elaborate AUs where his wife is an impossibly beautiful magic-wielding immortal elf princess who fights Satan and wins to rescue her human boyfriend from Satan’s doom fortress. Flawless.

Welcome to Faerie Land: A Guide to Holly Black’s Extended Faerie Universe

With Wicked King making the NYT Best Sellers list and more people reading The Cruel Prince/The Folk of the Air Series, I decided to make a quick guide to the other books in Holly Black’s Faerie universe. 

One of the things I love about Holly Black’s books is how they interrelate. They give you background information about the world and side characters in TCP. But it’s not necessary to read these books to understand TCP. Also, since Jude has been in Faerie for almost her entire life she sometimes brushes over certain faerie rules that new readers might not know (eg. the effects of cold iron and faerie true names). Holly Black’s earlier books lay out these rules much more effectively.

So if you’re a new reader of Holly Black’s books, welcome! I’ll try to stay away from spoilers, and I’ll add links to Goodreads for more in depth summaries. If you’re a veteran, here’s a quick review of the other books in the Faerie Universe and a little bit about how they relate to TCP.

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is it currently four in the morning? yes

am i currently fantasizing about kissing a boy while music plays in the background as we lounge together on my bed in the sunlight of the mid afternoon? yes

and what about it

me: *a nonbinary masc individual with short hair and a generally androgynous style*

also me: *desperately wants to look like elsa (or marry her idk)*

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I hope everyone's twentyBIteen was great 💖💜💙

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Wanna know what to call a good looking nb bean?

Stay loudly.

When you say “dress however you want. call yourself whatever you like” you’re still being transphobic. Being trans isn’t a fun game where we “dress and call ourselves what we like” because we fucking feel like it. It’s a fact of our existence and saying that you’re fine “with people doing what they want” means you don’t actually see us for who we are.

the ultimate joke is on J.K. Rowilng because while she might be a TERF and deny the very existence of trans people, the very characters she wrote wouldn’t agree with her. you cannot tell me that Harry, a boy abused for most of his childhood and then constantly ostracized for being different, or Luna, someone who found the quiet strength in being herself despite everyone telling her she shouldn’t be, would not be 100% accepting and loving of trans people. there absolutely are trans students at Hogwarts, students who are loved and appreciated and allowed to be themselves. the Sorting Hat believed the most important indication of where you should be sorted is where you WANT to be sorted. gender is your personal expression and identity of it, regardless of what society told you when you were born. to all my trans and nonbinary friends out there, it isn’t up to a sorting hat to pick your house or for J.K. Rowling to determine your gender; it is up to YOU. help will always be given to those who ask for it at Hogwarts.  

100 DAYS OF YURI: Day 88 - Kindred Spirits on the Roof

Kindred Spirits on the Roof is an adult Yuri visual novel by Liar-soft. Toomi Yuna is a timid girl living a quiet school life at Kokonotsuboshi Girls’ Academy of Commerce until one day she meets two spirits on the roof. These spirits, Sachi Enoki and Megumi Nagatani are long dead lovers, and Yuna is the only one who can see them. Realizing this, they enlist Yuna’s aid to help them pass on by experiencing their first time together and helping the girls around the school confess their love for each other. Thus Yuna sets out on an epic quest to create a Yuritopia!

The visual novel is mostly linear and explores several couples, all of whom have side stories and extra scenes that can be viewed at the player’s discretion via the in-game calendar. The game is partially voice acted, but the Full Chorus DLC adds full voice acting and additional benefits.

While the game is for adults and contains explicit sexual content, I do not consider it to be pornographic but rather an honest and thoughtful exploration of sexuality and relationships. The characters and pairings are engaging, well written, and adorable. My personal favorites are Hina and Yuna, but every couple feels unique, and players will love them! The amount of content is staggering and well worth the game’s price point.

The game is licensed by MangaGamer and can be purchased from their store or Steam in English. Additionally, four drama CDs were produced, all of which have been released with English subtitles by MangaGamer.

A two-volume spin-off manga series by Hachi Ito and Toi Rentsu featuring illustrations by Aya Fumio was released in Japanese by Hirari Comics. They continue the story after the events of the game, focusing on new characters with cameos by the game’s cast. Seven Seas Entertainment released the Kindred Spirits on the Roof manga in one omnibus volume in 2017. It is available for purchase digitally and in print.

It's simple, easy, and it's free!!

Respecting people's fucking pronouns.