ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

Tonight in “opinions I didn’t expect to read ever”, Cornelia shares her feelings on graphic sex scenes

It continues

in these trying times of ~spicy~ tik tok trend books, i find myself thinking of these tweets constantly. thank you cornelia for your correct opinions always

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he's afraid of death. he wants to die sometimes. he's good with animals; not his own. he's good with kids; not his own. he makes nonviolence a flaw. he's a judgmental bitch. his sense of danger is on a ten second delay. he's a coward. he loves his wife so much his legs give out when he sees her. he cheated on her. he hates the powerful. he'll sell his morals for community. he's gullible. he won't gatekeep magic, even from his enemies. he "doesn't do magic." he's nosy as hell. he swears constantly. he will always get into fights with children. he will always lose. he hates cages in all forms. he has never verbalized a thought correctly.

If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

a commission for @kennabeth 💫

Brianna as a detail from A fair by Fedor Ivanovich Rerberg

Palazzo Cavagnis, VENEZIA, Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹 by Cannaregio 1569

More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.

Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?

Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.

Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.

remember when larian put all the data together from the most popular character creator picks in bg3. and they thought there was a mistake, so they ran the numbers again, and no - the result was just authentically, in a world where you can be pink, and have glowing eyes, and horns, and a tail, the result was the most generic looking human white guy with brown hair

"it's me, John Baldur"

"it's always baldest before the gate"

i love when he said it's balding time and just balded all over

Thief Lord News

i'm still away from my laptop/slightly shellshocked after meeting cornelia BUT during the interview portion she said that she'd been determined not to work on any long stories this year, but when she went to Venice, an idea ambushed her and she can't shake it off. A bit later she confirmed (predictably) that it's something related to The Thief Lord 👀

update, during today's instagram Q&A she said the title is "The Thief and the Murderer" (Der Dieb und der Mörder) and it's explicitly not a direct continuation