Our Resident Bibliomaniac

"ZOHRAN" is in a custom font called Zohran (2025). It doesn't seem to be officially available for download anywhere, but the file has a Creative Commons license on it.

"FOR" is in Coffee Service (2008) [Fonts In Use]:

"NEW YORK CITY" is in Union Gothic (2023), which you can download here.

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

It’s okay

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES | THE CASE OF THE TWO DEAD DRAGONS

half the wishes, double the trouble: a pop idol vanessa mystery, ch. 2 [link]

Written by @tumblerislovetumblerislife (with illustrations by @edmcmayonnaise)

“Well, well, well,” said a familiar voice, and the streetlight fell across golden cat eyes. “What’s rocking?”

Those meddling kids and that stupid medium!

here is a semi-transparent version of the boys + the lineart so you can see the details

Didn't think I could ever again feel anything near to what this article made me feel. I thought I'd never be able to watch the movie musical 1776 on July 4th as I had for years on end, as all it could bring me was despair. Yeah, everything is fucking terrible, but the article points out that nobody wants to get up every day and fight for something not worth saving.

Yeah, it still sucks. Yeah, the U.S. under TFG is doing horrible things - even to some of the people who were coming here from other countries to play, or to coach. It's atrocious. It really is. That cannot be ignored or waved away. But at the same time, the feeling that I get from watching all of the YouTube videos of people from all over the world enjoying things in the U.S. they didn't know about - or things they'd only seen in movies and not believed were real - is joyous. Crowds of people from multiple nations singing together, dancing together, partying together, laughing together, and simply being together - with us - is doing something to my brain chemistry.