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[tinkaton]

If anyone's using Bluesky feel free to add me, I'm @bhujerba on there! Just let me know who you are so I can follow back. I mostly reblog art and make the occasional inane post, but it's definitely nicer than Twitter so I hope it sticks around.


Temporarily lost my mind and spent $145 on books!! It was the fastest I've ever tricked myself into spending a large amount of money lmao. I'm so excited for them though because they're gorgeous fan-design versions of The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske with custom dust jackets and printed edges.


via dazzling bookish shop
The design's by c-leadraw, and they posted the original artwork for the covers here on Tumblr. I never buy special editions of books (even though I'd like to) because they're so pricey, but I love this series so much I knew the regret would be strong if I waffled over this, waited too long, and then they ended up being sold out or something. So I decided to just make them a Christmas present to myself lmao. The only thing is that for that price I wish they were hardcovers and not paperbacks, but beggars can't be choosers, I suppose. I already own the regular set in hardback so this will just be my pretty display set haha.

(The end of the year is such a dangerous time for me, I'm constantly being like "but it's holiday time, you deserve to buy things" sjhdfksjhdfs on top of these books I already bought some novellas I'd had my eye on, and way too much stationery/journaling stuff, and I'm eyeballing the current sale at Fangamer and some notebooks on sale from Tiefossi too. Help!! After all that + Christmas presents for my family I have GOT to put a moratorium on buying things until after the holidays...)


Other than that, I've mostly been spending my free time just playing more Veilguard! I'm close-ish to the end, I just finished story chapter 10 and am doing all the character quests to make everyone Heroes of the Veilguard at the moment. I did end up locking in a Lucanis romance lmao but I'm having a lot of fun with everyone's stories. Once I actually beat the game I'll write up my full thoughts.

I also watched the Deadpool & Wolverine movie. It was not as good as either of the previous two Deadpools, but they got their damn X-men nostalgia hooks in me so I still had a good time sjhdfksfhs I loved all the cameos (Pyro!! my god I was shook), I loved seeing Jackman as Wolverine again, I loved how stupid it was that Wolverine and Deadpool just kept murdering each other. I'm easy to please, I guess! (Except I'm still not forgiving them for what they did with Shatterstar last movie, even if they did bring him back. 😑) Unfortunately it also made me want to rewatch the entire X-men franchise, which I don't have time for!!

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[peaked]

Added you on Bluesky! I'm ~boofhead

I wasn't the biggest fan of Deadpool & Wolverine, but I'm glad they gave us them killing each other. It would've felt like a major missed opportunity if they hadn't! I wasn't sure how I felt about Pyro's storyline, but I was glad to see him again. He was the X-Men I had a crush on LOL. Good luck ignoring your desire to rewatch those X-Men movies…

[straightforwardly]

Oh, I feel you; I have been really opening up my wallet for books lately, haha. It doesn't help that I subscribed to the Fairyloot adult subscription a few months ago... so that's already like 40 euros a month leaving my bank account every month for a single book, oof. Though outside of that, I've only bought one other special edition (also Fairyloot, specifically a pre-order of their version of Kiki's Delivery Service... I've never read the book, but I couldn't help it; it looked so pretty!); otherwise, most of the money has been flowing to "standard" books and manga.

[raven]

Oh, wow, they're beautiful editions!

[greghousesgf]

gorgeous books!

[tinkaton]

Awesome, added you back! :D

Yeah haha objectively the plot was pretty weak and Deadpool's humor is incredibly hit or miss with me, but I've always loved the X-men movies and Jackman's Wolverine, so damn them, they got me lmao. I went in knowing basically nothing about it or who else was in it besides Hugh Jackman so I was pleasantly surprised by all the pandering jshdfksjdfs

[tinkaton]

Ughh it's so unfair special editions are so expensive, we deserve to have pretty books. 😔 This is literally the first time I've ever given in, so I'm simultaneously like 'yaaaay' and 'oh god what have I done' but I mean, if you don't buy at least ONE set of overpriced artsy special editions are you really living jshkdfjhskfjs

It doesn't help that regular book prices seem to have seriously gone up too, or at least here they are :( Liiiike why are they trying to get us to spend 30 bucks on a single hardcover. And 20 dollars for a paperback??? Get the hell out.

[tinkaton]

Aren't they? I love the floral edges.

[tinkaton]

I'm so excited I keep looking at the picture lmao, I can't wait to see them in person.

[peaked]

The best thing about it was not going in spoiled! Twitter spoiled me for Laura, but I was pleasantly surprised by the other characters who popped up to serve fan service.

I feel like you and I are the same person when it comes to X-Men LOL. (I was hoping Jean would make an appearance… :/)

[tinkaton]

Yeah I really hadn't seen anything about it at all beforehand, most of my old MCU friends aren't into the movies anymore so I don't have spoilers popping up all over the place like they did back in the good ol' days haha.

I did weirdly like Pyro a lot in the movies shjdkfsjhdf I think Rogue and Kitty were probably my favorites when I originally saw the movies. OH and Mystique and Magneto obviously, but who doesn't love those two.

[straightforwardly]

I'm simultaneously like 'yaaaay' and 'oh god what have I done'

I feel this deeply 😂