That's like a lily

Finished reading:

On the Beach by Nevil Shute - which has its flaws as a book (it's certainly not scientifically rigorous and the prose is often clumsy), but I was emotionally overcome by the ending. I think even more so because it's such a slow burner, so much about incredibly ordinary people with no real effect on the world living out their last days. You don't get the point of view of politicians or geniuses or movers and shakers, and the one guy from CSIRO you only get his point of view toward the end when he's thinking about how he'll spend his remaining days. Just normal people living in denial, or numbing themselves with alcohol, or deciding to do things they never got to before, or finding ways to fill out their days and trying not to think of all the things they'll never get to do.

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Thank you for creating for me! As you'll see in my other letters, I try to be very careful to pick canons where I'll be equally thrilled to get something, so if I say more about one canon than another it's just because I was particularly rambly about it that day. I am going to be putting prompts below the cut today (I swear!) but they are very much just starting points, ignore them at will.

Art treats are welcome! I love them but I'm very bad at prompting for them.

Under the Cut: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, The Untamed, Weiss Kreuz

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