beauty is terror

creator shoutouts: week 3 (november 8 - 14, 2020)

here are a few creations that caught my eye this week! for more information on this series, click here. in no particular order:

@augustsjanes‘ the song of achilles alternate cover

kalli never fails to impress me with her creativity and her edits, but this one really made me stop and stare for a moment. i always love alternate covers, and i loved the drawings that kalli used in here. the colors, the florals, the hands… chef’s kiss.

@daywing‘s percy jackson edit

can we just take a moment to appreciate grace’s talent? i really had to pick between so many edits of hers this week but ultimately went with this percy jackson edit. it looks so clean and professional. i love the outlines and the splotches of grey and i’m in awe of how nicely the circle text looks!

@venka’s warcross edit

one day i will read warcross, but until then, i’ll just sit here and stare at this absolutely stunning, vibrant edit of aashna’s. it just looks so much like a video game, and the textures, coloring and text just go together so nicely.

@rhsand‘s daisy jones and the six alternate cover

mansi’s djats alternate cover is simply so stunning. the bright orange and the floral texture gives off the perfect daisy jones vibe, and this cover is something i can so easily picture seeing at a bookstore! i loved how mansi arranged “daisy jones & the six” as well! 

@xsavages‘s vicious edit

i still haven’t read vicious, but i am absolutely obsessed with this edit! the cut out texts, the textures, the red, the eyes – it all comes together so nicely and perfectly fits the vibes (or at least, what i know of vicious)! 

@aropippin‘s eurydice drawing

i am perpetually in awe of andrew’s talent. this drawing is gorgeous, and i love the colors that he used! there’s so much detail in this - the ring, the tears on the coat, the feather in her hair - it’s just mesmerizing. 

@pujishrine‘s percy jackson edit 

this edit looks like it’s something out of a magazine. it’s so clean and so pretty. the black & white, the overlapping ‘SEA’, the lines – it’s literally just stunning. 

@rxvns‘ allison reynolds edit

the whites and the soft pinks of this edit are so pretty and match allison so nicely. i could so easily see this edit being in a sports magazine, focusing on allison reynolds! 

@peruvianparrish‘s jordan hennessy edit

 this edit gives off this 3D effect. i loved the colors joss used in this, the sliding text,  the shadows and the block lines. it’s so creative! 

@warstorm‘s crazy rich asians edit

@fandomaestheticnet pride event: the song of achilles

dark: black coffees and teas, silver signet rings, worn paperbacks, ink smudged hands, eyes in starlight, frayed sweaters, cashmere, wine colored lips, dark lashes, the smell of liquor and cigars, broken glass, humming softly down corridors, stacks of books all around your room, oak and vanilla, the perfect mix of sugar and poison, speaking in ancient languages, rain fogging your glasses, old clocks ticking, vinyl static, searching for meaning, lines of poetry written down your arms, obscured by an air of ambiguity, morally grey... murder?

cryptid: journal full of research and hand drawn sketches of cryptids, shelves full of sci-fi novels, binoculars and a chunky camera from the thrift shop shoved in your backpack, maps with red string and mysterious newspaper clippings pinned on the wall, looking for clues, hundreds of travel plans but none follow a coherent itinerary, you swear that was a ufo in the sky last night, dreaming to make a discovery bigger than life

goth: dark lipstick, abandoned buildings, velvet dresses, lace trimming, feathers around your feet, piano notes stretching through empty halls, the sand of an hourglass falling quicker, fishnet socks, ornate mirrors and candelabras, kerosene lamps, first edition copies of books, smudged eyeliner, a silhouette behind a moonlit window, stoppered bottles of mysterious liquids, melancholy and roses, living in legend

witchy: old grimoires gathering dust, clippings of your favorite spells pinned up, diagrams of plants inked in black in your book of shadows, teacups with already read tea leaves, tracing the lines on your friend/lover’s palm and secretly interpreting the meanings, incantations of the stars and planets, whispering to the plants on your windowsill before bed, piercings and stacked silver rings that catch the moonlight just right, lipstick the color of coagulated blood, smudged sigils up and down your arms under long sleeves

@novelsnet​ event 01: get to know the members — if we were villains

This is what was going on

This is what was going on in Poland this night. This is what is going to repeat tomorrow. Polish people got out into the streets to protest against the ban on abortion. Many has been hurt e.g. with pepper spray and many arrested.

A shitload of police protected the house of our DICTATOR Jarosław Kaczyński who single-handedly for years has been controling 235 memebers of the parliament from his ruling party PIS. Noone could get near the house for hundreds of meters.

Poland is being destroyed but these protesting people give us hope. But what IS hope when a bunch of old unhappy people in power hate you, hate women, hate liberals, hate LGBT people, hate intelligent people? When they want to create a country full of their uneducated supporters that won't ever protest? Some people say the elections in three years won't be held as PIS won't allow it. Or that the results will not be the real results. I for sure would not be surprised. None of my friends plan to be in Poland in three years.