#micamicster

so so so so so happy to hear you enjoyed it !!!! 🧡🧡

this is not going to make much sense but as I've said before the main points that truly made this novel so great to me are:

1) the excellent balance it keeps with its different tones, it is very much a comedy. Until it isn't. and there's a sense of care and respect there, to the characters, to the story itself, to the audience—the way Cyan Wings manages each shift, they always makes sense, it never feels jarring.

2) the characters, they're all so good all so distinct, no blurring at the edges, no boring filler to pad the cast. they're unhinged fucking clowns but they all have Something, and they all work with each other so brilliantly. the dynamics Cyan Wings chooses to explore are fun and deep and never on the page just for the hell of it, these people learn from each other—for better or for worse, depending on the point of view lmao

3) i think this is a refreshing take to the "what do you mean my life is a book?" type of story, wenren è is the perfect main character for it. his narration is delightful and his point of view is just so funny, he really does just want to know.

4) there's flipping of tropes and metanarrative and someone gifts wenren è the moon and women women women and a whole demonic sect coming together to grab a baili qingmiao by the shoulders to tell her "girl stand up!!!!" and metanarrative and true curiosity and a skeleton woman and the importance of having a strong support system no matter what shape it takes and oh the metanarrative and the shocking disbelief in being loved back and found family except it's not found so much as forcefully cut out of another story and oh the delicious metanarrative, have i mentioned the metanarrative elements?

i've said once that this book wants you to have fun while reading, wants you to have a good time, but it also very much tells a story and most importantly cares about the story it tells and the characters it needs to tell it.

Salt and Skin

Fandom: Bodies (TV 2023)

Relationship: Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe

Additional Tags: Intimacy, Facial Shaving, Henry's continuing aversion to clothing

Alfred’s world narrows to the planes of Henry’s face being revealed with each scrape of the blade; the clockwork rhythm of his breath and chink of the blade against the bowl when he dips it to clean it of the lather. When Henry leans his head back Alfred pauses, struck by the exposed line of neck beneath the chin he palms.

tamar-kali

the objex

special interest

bad skin

pleasure venom

meet me @ the altar

the tuts

secondlady

the 1865

nova twins

pinkshift

action/adventure

the muslims

big joanie

skinny girl diet

proper.

the linda lindas

le butcherettes

pulses

initiate

resistant culture

magnolia park

hiiiiiiiiiii mica <3 ella enchanted is literally the book of all TIME i reread it every year i actually have a folder of photos on my phone devoted to jewelry that makes me think of her mother's necklace and the tiara she wears to the balls... this is declan as ella (obedience curse) and jordan as prince char - she and hennessy are cursed to always be together (like the newlywed giant couple whose wedding ella crashes). right now i'm trying my hand at the epistolary section of the book bw ella and char when he's in the other kingdom, which is one of my most beloved parts (the inherent romance of a letter), but i am SUFFERING so have an excerpt from my agonies:

17: the wire by haim

23: so hot you’re hurting my feelings by caroline polachek