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Emerald Mew

@emeraldmew / emeraldmew.tumblr.com

Em. Thirty-something. Aroace. Feel free to play with my pronouns because how am I supposed to know if I like something other than she/her if I don't hear it? Expect mostly reblogs but I sometimes make original content. I also have a writing sideblog now! shardkeeperwip.tumblr.com

Just a reminder that I do have a writing sideblog! Itโ€™s @shardkeeperwip

Mostly about Shardkeeper (a sci-fi adventure), but I have been known to also post stuff for a currently untitled fantasy WIP.

I also recently (as of the end of March 2024) made a sideblog tracking my progress learning RPG Maker MZ. Itโ€™s @emeraldcatears for the curious.

so I started playing stardew valley, and now it's the only thing I want to do with my life

I had to trick myself by drawing stardew things, namely krobus my beloved

throwback to when I was working at my desk with Cu Rรนa on my shoulder and suddenly heard a loud and abrupt fartโ€ฆ I genuinely was so startled at the volume of it and thought it was my dog but she was nowhere to be found. I turned my head and there he was, tail pointed down near my earโ€ฆ next to a large pile of shit

โ€œwhat was he doing on your shoulderโ€ all of the animals that Iโ€™ve ever owned have had an affinity for my neck and shoulders. the perfect perching spot

"what was he doing on your shoulder?"

Shitting, next question

Hey OP, I read this post to a friend, and now she feels like she cannot know peace until she can hear the sound of a scorpion fart. She's literally angrily ranting right now that she can't find any recordings. "All I want for my birthday is audio of a scorpion pooping!" she just said. Please if you can.

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Animorphs Book Club- The Predator

  • Letโ€™s all take a moment to remember how much shit Marco gave Rachel for using her power to fight off a rapist. And now here we have Marco turning into a gorilla to save an old man. It was only a matter of time.
  • I think this is about the time during my original read through where I started getting bored by the introductions. I get that theyโ€™re supposed to be able to bring people up to speed if they are reading out of order. But eventually it just got tiring.
  • It is so funny that from here on out, Ax often has simple alien solutions to their problems. โ€œItโ€™s not like we can call them.โ€ โ€œYes, we can do that.โ€ โ€œWhat?โ€ โ€œWe can call them.โ€
  • Also love the ongoing joke of everyone being a little gay for Ax from now on.
  • $2.95 for a Starbucks Double Latte??? Iโ€™m sobbing.
  • The famous lobster incident! Oh man, this is hilarious. These kids are so dumb. I love them.
  • Not the ants?? This book has the lobster incident AND the ant incident?? I need to lie down.
  • I love how Marco uses his motherโ€™s death to keep himself out of the mission. But all that does is convince him to go along with it anyway. Especially considering the others probably would have let him sit out if he stuck to it.
  • I just know KAA had a field day with these ant mind descriptions Cuz young me had a field day learning about it.
  • Casually dropping that Visser 1 has a human body. Is this a form of irony? I guess not, but we Know.ย 
  • Really gotta love the story pacing from KAA. We have gotten to see each of the othersโ€™ motivations to join the war. We know about Tom, we see Rachel look at her friends (cue โ€œA Girl Worth Fighting Forโ€), we know about Tobiasโ€™s home life and his journey after becoming a nothlit, and we see Cassieโ€™s future journey from a nature loving kid to protector of Earth. But Marco has always been reluctant. Heโ€™s reached his breaking point, and itโ€™s fully understandable. Sheโ€™s given away very little in the way of hints, but anyone whoโ€™s been paying attention knows that weโ€™re about to get something world shattering thatโ€™ll raise the stakes and change his mind.

And boom there it is. We get Marcoโ€™s mom reveal, and also the fun of Yeerk political drama.

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Animorphs #5: The Predator thoughts (pt. 2):

  • It's over half the book before someone first mentions Eva, and it's in the context of Marco and Peter talking about why Marco might be having nightmares. The way that little piece of exposition sneaks up on you is excellent, because it's not obviously nailing a gun to the wall to be taken down later. It seems like it's just a character moment.
  • "I was cool. I was fine. I slept okay. There were dreams, but I just put them out of my mind" (p. 93). And the award for least reliable narrator goes to...
  • "One of these days, I thought, one of us is going to go crazy. Totally, lock-me-up-in-a-rubber-room nutso. It was too much. This wasn't how life was supposed to be. One of us would snap. One of us would lose it. It could happen, even to strong people. I knew. It had happened to my father" (p. 94). Marco reminds us, over and over, that he lives with realities that Jake especially can't even conceive of.
  • "Yesterday . . . last night โ€ฆ it got to me," she said... "You grind my nerves sometimes, Marco, always joking the way you do. But keep it up, okay? We need a sense of humor." (p. 98) Marco and Rachel bromance! Marco and Rachel bromance! I love him covering for her getting into some pointless fight by claiming she and Jessica are both in love with him, and I love Rachel smiling in spite of herself at his ridiculous cover story. Also: Chapman being shocked that Rachel of all people got in a physical fight. Buckle up, Iniss; just you wait.
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Animorphs book club book 5:

My friends and I speedran the first 4 books to get to the fifth one and catch up with the book club. We finally finished book 5 today.

Finally we're all caught up and on schedule and so at last we can deliver our thoughts and opinions. The most important one being our PowerPoint essay titled "Why giving a pink glittery cabriolet and a hazelnut cappuccino to Visser 3 would solve everything", in this essay we will-

Anyway. Back to book 5. The ant event was...intense. Intense and brutal. Especially the scene in the bathroom. I find it really cool how it's becoming more and more apparent that the only semi-objective source on the kids' traits and behaviour are each of them themselves. I mean, Marco nor Cassie have a good grasp on Rachel. Nobody but Rachel has a good grasp on Rachel. Neither Jake nor Cassie understand Marco. Only Marco understands Marco. So on and so forth.

The books try to hammer down the fact that the kids are one way, but that the perceptions of them are that way and then another way and then yet another way. Even more interestingly, the books (so far) make it so the perceptions of others don't shape each of the kids but go against their "true nature". I mean, sure, Marco does say that he makes jokes so often partly because someone has to lighten the mood, but he sees it as something that doesn't become a part of him but as a...performance? Obviously it is also his coping mechanism, but he plays it up (very deliberately). That's interesting, because to me, so far, it seems that where other stories would assert that you are nothing but others' perceptions of you and that there really isn't a real or important line between your perception of yourself and others' perception of you, Animorphs draws that line and the perceptions are something that's unreliable and decidedly "not you". If that makes sense.

I actually had another thought about the ants but ngl now I think it's stupid so whatever.

Notable harrowing moments:

"If I don't talk about it, it won't become real" - oh ok I see the pattern and how this can lead to choosing jokes as a coping mechanism.

"When I lost my mom, I also lost my dad." Jesus fucking Christ. Jesus Christ. Jesus fucking Christ. I mean it do be like that but still.

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alice actually knows she's in an urban fantasy drama but has mistaken the subgenre for supernatural occult instead of transhumanist cosmic horror, and thus she is trying to speedrun getting to what she believes to be the inevitable final season arc of defeating the devil

it's an easy mistake to make, they are dealing with a lot of alchemy and vaguely witchy rituals, but unfortunately I don't think alice has realized that she isn't in a visual medium and so any gothicy vibes from all of that don't really transmit. she hasn't considered the tonal effect of the 90s low tech framing device. classic blunder.

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