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107, Eliot/Parker/Hardison

[idk who u are anon but i’m so happy rn b/c this ot3 is So Real.]

“Get out of here!” Hardison hissed at Parker. “This is my hiding spot!”

Parker gave him an unimpressed look. “Scoot over,” she whispered. “We can share.”

“We can’t–Parker, we cannot share,” Hardison said, even as Parker crawled into the cart. “Parker,” Hardison said, but Parker was too busy crawling on top of him and pressing against his chest to pay attention. 

“Shhh,” she said. “They’ll hear us.”

Which didn’t really matter, because there’s no way two entire people would go unnoticed hiding under a food cart with only a thin cloth obscuring them, noise or not. They were so dead.

“The ducts are like, three feet away!” Hardison whispered into her hair, because she was splayed entirely on top of him, and her head was nestled on his chest. Well. Not nestled. That implied sort of enjoyable, mutual, romantic activity. It did not imply awkward, low-level groping before eminent death. Hardison had no idea what a good word for that might be. Clinging maybe? Clinging felt right.

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#leverage #been watching this show lately and it's lovely #also this fic is lovely

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Stay Close To Me

✨ Get it as a print here! ✨ 

#lovely #yuri on ice

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So many new good things to try! Can’t help but add a few more here. There are of course lots more with some LGBTQ rep, but these are ones where the main characters are.

Artifice is a good sci-fi story with very good NA-comic-y art and gay robots.

Avialae is sort of bio sci-fi with a normal gay guy just growing out some wings and freaking out about it. Some good friend-y romance bits, some nsfw sections.

Buying Time is actually like slightly animated sci-fi in a future where social interactions cost money, and is amazing - good diversity, good cyborg-y designs, sweet gay romance, some nsfw bits.

ChaosLife is a cool bio comic about an nb person and their wife and cats, and is very cute overall.

Eth’s Skin is (to quote them) “ a queer (and genderqueer) fantasy full of monsters and low tides, cool non-binary individuals, queer relationships, and a pet pygmy harbour seal named Goblin.”

Robot Hugs is another bio comic with a lot of explainer-y pieces, as well.

ShootAround is a zombie apocalypse story, but about a girls’ basketball team and their coach and how they band together and survive, and it’s about as diverse and queer as they come, and surprisingly funny, too.

recommend me queer webcomics pls im dying

#comics

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Book Review: Fearful Hunter

Sometimes, you back a project on Kickstarter, because it's pointed out to you by someone you respect, and you support that kind of thing overall. I like gay-centered comics, I heard about this from Alex Woolfson, it looked interesting, and so I went for it. And... well, it's not like it's bad exactly, but... yeah. So this is a contemporary story, set near a small town, where our first main character, Oisin, is apprenticed to a local druid, and nearing the completion of his training. That'll involve binding himself to a god of nature, and yet he finds his attention drawn at a party to a werewolf, Byron. And that's dangerous, because werewolves, once they bond, mate for life. So the story proceeds as you might expect - Oisin is encouraged to complete his training and fulfill the goals of the druids, but Byron seems like a good partner for him. There are some twists in the story, but the overall strokes of it aren't surprising. You know what you're going to get. The art is often really good, but variable - the more complex, druidic vision stuff is often really interesting, and creepy, and the nature scenes are also well executed. But the character work is spottier, and it wasn't always easy to tell what character it was I was looking at. The bigger thing is all the sexual content. There's a lot of sex in this - between men, and between men and gods, which can get very overwrought. But the scenes are for the most part not relevant to the plot or to the furthering of the characters, and that doesn't really make me that happy. There's also a decent amount of half-naked guys and such in unrealistic ways, which adds to this air. Nothing wrong with drawing guys in different states of undress, but if it's as part of a story, I want it to connect up better. So... there are some things to commend the book - the art really can be beautiful and imaginative. But the story is average, and there are enough issues that I'd more recommend this just if you really want a new gay comic to read, and you ran across this one. No need to hunt this down too hard.

#book review #jon macy #fearful hunter #i really wanted to like this #but it just didn't grab me enough #very pretty hardcover book though

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Book Review: Escape from Camp 14

There's a definite draw to reading books about North Korea, if only because trying to understand the scope of the horrors that people can manage to perpetrate on each other is inherently interesting and valuable. And possibly more than anywhere on the planet over the past few decades, that's been the role of North Korea: to show how badly a society can misshape itself in hard, uncaring, terrible ways. I've read a few books about the place over the past few years, fiction and non-fiction, and I doubt I'm done with this one. This wasn't the best, but it's an interesting addition.

Escape from Camp 14 gives you exactly what it says on the cover: it's the story of Shin Dong-Hyuk, who was born to parents in a prison camp for political prisoners. You see, the policy is that you punish political prisoners for generations, so people are born, grow up, live their whole lives, and then die in these camps. Camp 14 is a particularly bad one. The book details Shin's life growing up there, his weak relationships with his parents, his attitude towards the authorities and other prisoners, the brutalities and torture he suffered, and then eventually, his escape from the camp, his circuitous route to South Korea and then to the US, and his struggles to adjust to life outside.

My feeling when going through the book (and I listened to the audiobook here, read by Blaine Harden, the author) was that Harden decided for the most part to leave the prose unadorned and journalistic, and let the power and brutality of Shin's biography just carry the reader through. But I don't really think this was the most effective choice; the horror of the situation is perhaps unchanged by it, but it does feel like you're at more of a remove from Shin's tale than I'd have expected. Some parts are just glossed by, which may be just the amount of detail Harden could get, but I feel like the story could have been more affecting, given the core material.

That said, like, it is still really powerful as is. Some of it is the terrible stuff that, somehow, I end up expecting - the lack of food, the killing of one of his fellow students by a teacher for a trivial offense, the generalized amorality among the prisoners at the camp, who are trained to basically value none of their relationships and confess everything immediately. But much of it is still surprising, too - what ends up happening to Shin's mother and brother, for instance. Or why he wants to escape the camp; he's not motivated by a desire for freedom. Or the nature of some of the working conditions in the camp. Or how once Shin is out and in South Korea, he's different from the other North Koreans and tries to avoid them. He's not been indoctrinated to the Kim family mystique, because why bother? And his attitude towards life and personal relationships and how hard it's been to change was also really enlightening.

I do really feel like this is an important book, and I hope many people hear about his story. It's horrifying how widespread this is in the country, and how little we are doing to change it, even if I don't have a great suggestion about what we could do to bring about change. I think it could have been somewhat better presented, but Shin's life story is gripping enough that it doesn't lose too much. Just don't come to this one with happy thoughts. They won't last too long.

#book review #escape from camp 14 #north korea #blaine harden #shin dong-hyuk #enough north korea books for a while though #at least a few months

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Book Review: Uprooted

This is the kind of book that I come into, and I feel like it's more or less being made for me. It's playing with fairy tale tropes, but it's not retelling any particular fairy tale. And it's written by an author that I've wanted to read for a long time, but I was reticent about getting into her series. So finally she writes a standalone one, and I'm like super onboard! And I'm slightly prepared to be let down, but nope, Novik delivers exactly the sort of book that I'd expected she would write, with magic and believable characters and important themes and a strong, crucial friendship between women. It is glorious.

Our story: Agnieszka and her best friend Kasia have grown up in the same village in a very Polish-inflected fantasy kingdom. Kasia is very powerful and determined, smart and beautiful, and Agnieszka is less so. She may be smart and stubborn, and she may have her own set of talents, like being able to find anything out in the Wood they live near, and a budding propensity for magic, but she's also clumsy and messy and less the classic woman than Kasia. And because of that, she's viewed as being less likely to be taken by the Dragon.

Oh, yes, there's a Dragon that also comes down to the village once every ten years to take one of the young women from the town. But this Dragon is less full of scales, and more full of wizardry: a magician who lives in a tower at the end of their valley, and carries the responsibility for protecting it. The women he chooses stay in the tower with him for ten years, and then are free to go... but none of them ever decide to come home again afterwards. So needless to say, getting chosen isn't seen as a wonderful thing. Everyone assumes Kasia, apparently being the cream of the village's crop, will get selected, but instead, it's Agnieszka. And so the whole story begins.

I don't want to go through the plot too much, but it spreads out naturally and wonderfully, from the mechanics of living in the old tower with a powerful magician, to dealing with the valley and the Wood, to matters of country and crown, moving from stage to stage in a way that feels natural, without losing track of the characters. And the main set of characters are really well-realized: Agnieszka, Kasia, the Dragon, and then the most beloved prince of the country and the Dragon's main rival magician. The world is vibrant and real, and the Polish feel to the story is strong, from the names to the architecture to the magic background (let's just say that Baba Jaga is very much name-checked as a historical character in this Polnya).

I really enjoyed the relationship between Agnieszka and Kasia - how it changes, how devoted they are to each other, and the place Kasia comes to hold in the world Agnieszka moves into. And the magic is superb; it's really shades of Diana Wynne Jones, which is quite the compliment from me. Different people have different kinds of magic (and the mysterious Wood has still another), and working out how your magic can work, and how you can intertwine your power with others, is very important. Like in many DWJ books, viewing yourself through the wrong lens keeps you from your power. And here, Agnieszka's realizations and growth, and how that bounces off the Dragon and changes their relationship, makes the book feel even more real and magical on top of the literal magic being tossed around. Her time around politics also really works - her character's got a coherent core that carries through the story.

This isn't quite the perfect book for me, but it's close, and it was very enjoyable. If you're interested in fantasy, and you want a magical world that will seem familiar and yet enticingly different, this is definitely a book for you, too. You won't get uprooted while you're reading it, that's for sure.

#book review #naomi novik #uprooted #I feel like maybe I am underselling this book still somehow #it really was great and will probably be somewhere on my best of 2016 list #also maybe now it is time to try temeraire

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Book Review: Pocket Apocalypse

So here we are at book 4 in the InCryptid series! I read Discount Armageddon, the first book in this set, a while back, and was fine with it, but not enough to continue on, I guess? But then I thought about it more, and I wanted to read more of McGuire's stuff, and so now I'm through another one. And it was enjoyable, although I doubt I've liked any of the books in this series as much as the Toby Daye books. In this one, Alex Price (the brother of the main character of the first two books) is taken back to Australia by his girlfriend to help manage werewolves making their way to the continent. And in InCryptid-land, lycanthropy is even worse than you'd normally think, because any mammal can be turned into a werewolf, so the potential pool of wolves is much larger. Also, being an island ecosystem, having a whole new set of predators around could be really devastating. (This in a continent that has like a million feral camels because someone thought camels were a good idea.) But of course, things get to be more complicated, and y'know. Werewolf shenanigans of a creative and clever variety. Even though it's a different set of characters from the first Alex book, I think I enjoyed this one a bit more than the previous one. The setting was well thought through, with a good cast of characters among the Australian crypto-zoologist crew, and the writing is, as usual, a lot of fun - good character beats and humor, a different enough voice from Verity (or Toby), top notch use of talking mice. Lots of creative non-humans, both sentient and not, really. Those relationships are always interesting to see here. And the plot had some good twists, which I will not divulge. It's also more horror-y than a lot of McGuire's stories are; I'm not really a huge fan of that generally, but it wasn't enough to put me off. A couple of points, though: there's always so much more people talking about how proficient they are at escaping or hurting each other in this series, a lot of posturing, and... I guess maybe it's not unrealistic, given the character set, but there always comes a point in these where I've had enough of it, and it's never when the book has run out, it seems. And some of the stuff around the werewolf plot and Alex's attitude towards it seemed... again, maybe not unrealistic for the character, but I did want to shake him a couple of times, and was happy when essentially one of the other characters finally did. So yeah, I mean... these are still fun reads, and I'm not stopping with them. I already have #5 on my nightstand. We'll see how long it takes to get to that one. I wouldn't read this one first (definitely at least read Half-Off Ragnarok before this), but if you're enjoying the series, this'll be good for you, too.

#book review #pocket apocalypse #seanan mcguire #too bad the feral camels didn't make it in the book #camels are weird enough #they'd have fit in fine

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Book Review: Between the World and Me

Even though I'd heard about Coates for a long time before reading this book, I don't think I'd read more than an article or two of his. But this just showed up too many times in a short period, and I'd read Paul Beatty's book The Sellout at the end of last year, and this looked to be short and powerful and perhaps related to that. And anyway, Between the World and Me comes to be called Required Reading, so I went for it.

The book is in the form of a long letter to Coates's teenage son, though it focuses on a large timeline across Coates's life, and also across a swath of his family, as well. There's a strong sense of Coates grappling with what to tell his son in the wake of police violence that isn't being punished, and what that means for his son's life, along what it meant for his own life. On the one hand, you have all the evidence of the antipathy towards people of color in the US, and the reminders that if you get out of line, the state - society at large - sees your body as forfeit; on the other hand, there's a frank discussion of what having to live with this knowledge leads to in the psyches of the black people that Coates has known. Nothing positive, as you may expect.

These messages are delivered powerfully and elegantly, with strong prose and thematic arcs that aren't immediately obvious, but become clear over the first section. It's hard not to think about what it means to be unsure about yourself all of the time, to watch your actions that way. How that might influence how you carry yourself, know yourself. And the format, trying to work out how best to deal with passing this kind of information on to the next generation, lends more power to Coates's approach. I'm not sure there's a good answer to the question.

It's a discomfiting book, but an important one. And it's not a long read, but it's one that will probably stick with you. It's worth the investment.

#book review #between the world and me #ta-nehisi coates #I wish I'd read this loser to the sellout in retrospect #but no fixing that now

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Book Review: Sparrow Hill Road

I've been a big fan of Seanan McGuire for a few years now, but I wasn't immediately interested in picking this one up. Short story collections tend to have a higher bar to cross for me than novels, and the fact that they're all based around the same character's adventures actually made it a bit less appealing. But then our main character Rose has a cameo in one of her other series, and that was that - I didn't have any other of her stuff left to read, and I was curious enough to try. So our story: Rose Marshall was forced into an accident on Sparrow Hill in her small hometown of Buckley, Michigan, by Bobby Cross, a man who made a bargain for immortality at the crossroads, and now can keep it only through taking in the souls of others who die on the road. But Rose, forever sweet 16 now, doesn't go away. She stays around as a hitchhiking ghost, and gains over the years a reputation - the Phantom Prom Date to humans, a knowledgeable road spirit in the ghost realm - and a greater knowledge of her powers and how the ghost roads work. Among those powers are the ability to become immaterial if she doesn't have a freely given jacket, and to sense upcoming death, and the scent of what kind it is - sometimes, she can stop it before it happens, and she takes it on herself to do so. Much of the action is driven by her working her way around accidents, or around tense situations; usually, they involve one or the other of those abilities. The stories span decades, and often will jump back and forth time-wise in a given story itself. But mainly, the book hits that sweet spot of ghost stories: a sense of fear and occasional horror, yes, since they're supposed to be scary, at least some of the time. But often, it's the wistfulness of time changing: the differences across time of the people she meets, and of herself, as well; her connections to the people she once loved, her family and the boy she loved; the feel of an America that's just left a bit behind, off the beaten track, shading into the spirit world. That sense of not quite being right and being there is pretty ghostly. And it's McGuire, so there's some good creativity on display in the stories, too. Some is in the locations: wandering down the Atlantic highway to meet a witch named Apple was very atmospheric, but my personal favorite was the Last Dance diner, the final place for a soul to stop before heading off into the darkness, and how it felt in contrast to the diners I've ended up in over the past few years. And some was in the scenarios: playing with ghost mythology, both for what you expect going in and then what gets et up by her over the course of the book, works well. The collection does rather have the problems short story collections often have, though: the stories do vary in strength, there are kind of diminishing returns on a couple close to the end, the repetition of the setup and who she is feels like it came from the stories being anthologized, and the ending to it all wasn't as strong as what I'd normally expect from her work. But overall, I'm glad I came around on Rose - enough that I already bough a Last Dance t-shirt. Hopefully, though, this won't be the last dance we have with the character or this view on America.

#book reviews #seanan mcguire #sparrow hill road #rose marshall #also #are malted and milkshakes the same? #something to check for the future

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Book Review: A Little Life

This book is just hard to talk about, really. I mean, I read the People in the Trees, Yanagihara's previous book, and that one (with its super misogynist paradise-despoiling child-molesting narrator) was hard, too. I found it thorny and beautifully written and unpleasant and it stuck with me for years. I recommended it to no one, but talked about it with many people. Which'd be about how I feel about A Little Life. I passed up my hold from the library twice before taking it out, and the wait was wise; and then I read it, and I mean, it was a singular experience. It was one of the most powerful reading experiences I've ever had. I'm still not sure I'd recommend it.

So the basic story, if you don't already know it: the book focuses on the lives of four friends at the outset who meet at a small northeastern US university, and then move to New York, all around the same time: a biracial, fairly affluent guy who doesn't know his place with anything yet (Malcolm); a driven Haitian-American artist who really wants to establish a name for himself but has complex issues with his race at the outset (JB); a white struggling actor whose ranch-hand family out west has all recently died around the outset of the book (Willem); and a disabled, ambiguously racial, secretive aspiring lawyer with huge, huge backstory trauma issues (Jude). It's basically their lives from around 20 through their early 50s.

Now then: you can level a lot of criticisms at this book that I will grant you. The story devolves away from really focusing on all of them to focusing more on Jude and Willem, and Jude most of all. It loses track of JB and particularly Malcolm for long stretches, after it sells you the quartet at the outset. It'd be better if it kept a broader focus - I will grant this. Everyone ends up being ridiculously successful to frankly ludicrous degrees - I will not argue. Jude's friends stick through some of his behaviour that simply should have been alienating at least some of them, perhaps particularly his doctor friend, Andy, who should have cut Jude off or tried to get him committed or something - I will accept it. The terrible, horrible backstory for Jude and the depictions of his abuse and his adult responses to that abuse are fairly extreme and hard to read - yes, I will say, they definitely are. Somehow, the New York portrayed in the book is stuck in a perpetual 2007 - I will nod my head to you in sympathy for your urban frustration. And on and on - you think Yanagihara's prose gets too purple sometimes? Sure. You dislike the message Yanagihara says she was trying to convey with the book? Yeah, it's pretty reprehensible.

But despite all that. Despite everything the book missteps on. To me, this is still one of the most important books that I have ever read. Why? Because Jude is basically me. I don't have his baroque tortured backstory, and I am fervently thankful for that. And I never did any cutting, which Jude loves to the bits he carves himself into. But the portrayal of Jude, and of the effects he has on the people around him, is just astounding. He would say or think things or behave in ways that were shockingly familiar. And shocking is the right word, because that kind of character identification has never once happened to me ever, for this part of me. She nailed the internal psyche of an adult who overcame significant childhood trauma and is trying to live with it as an adult. Just nailed it cold, with the secrets and the strategies and the compartmentalization and the constant nagging surety that people see you the exact unrealistic way you see yourself and everything. It is a fantastic writing achievement.

And if that is not enough: for all his difficulties, for all that Jude struggles with himself and tests repeatedly all the bonds he makes with his friends and eventual family, he gets to build a life. A realistic life in many ways, too, considering where he starts as an adult - he doesn't leave his past behind, because he can't. It's still there. But he builds a career he takes pride in and is ferociously good at, and he makes friends who care for him unfathomably deeply, and he finds a place he loves to live in, and he gets a sizable amount of wealth. He even finds love, both from adoptive parents, and eventually from a romantic partner. And with all this, he gets to a place where a late section titled the Happy Years actually seems possible.

This, too, is staggering: it is a message of hope and of beauty, and indeed of love of various kinds, delivered in a way that is effective for feeling so true. And that takes really grappling with so much ugliness and knowing the depths that he traversed to get himself to a spot where it could happen. No one writes characters like Jude - you don't know their stories and you don't get their lives wrought in this much detail, with this much love. There is a care here that cannot be dismissed. It is a painful and difficult book to read, and I can't recommend that you do. But if this book will resonate with you, then it has the potential to reshape your worldview and make you feel less alone. Like I said, it's singular. It's one little life, portrayed in detail. But it's also a whole lot more.

#book reviews #hanya yanagihara #a little life #i could say thousands of words more #but i already have elsewhere #so let's just call this enough?

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Book Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

So maybe it's not fair, but when I hear “vampires” around the realm of YA fiction, my initial reaction is not to jump in and give it a try. Like, I know it's not fair – my favorite TV series ever is Buffy, and that wasn't light on the vampires or the YA – but it happens. And so I put off reading this book, even though I'd heard some pretty positive things about it, because, well, vampires. But then I got through the Darkest Part of the Forest, and the Curse Workers Trilogy, and I wanted some more Holly Black, and, well. Here we are!

And I'm really glad I tried it, because man, this book actually worked really well for me. So here we have a world where there are vampires, and very publicly so: from within the government-established vampire/vampire-hangers-on safe zones called Coldtowns, media-savvy and internet-enabled vampires send out alluring images into the rest of the world of all the parties and debauchery taking place within. It can seem glamorous to a lot of people.

But not so much to our main character, Tana - she's not really enamored with vampires, particularly when she wakes up in the bathroom in the morning following a house party that turned into a blood-sucking massacre. All that's left alive in the house are her ex-boyfriend Aidan, and a vampire chained to the bed, Gavriel. And the vampires who did this? They're probably still in the house. AND Aidan isn't actually okay; he's been bitten, and left to go cold.

Yes, of course the vampires here don't have to work the same way as vampires elsewhere, so here's how they do: if you get bitten, then you have the vampire virus in your veins; after a short incubation period, you start craving blood, but you're not a vampire yet. No, you have to actually taste some blood for that. If you do, congratulations, you get to die and become a vampire for real! if you don't, your bloodlust will get worse and worse, but after months of waiting with it, you will pass it from your system and return to normal. A mechanism with much potential for tension, and it works well for the book.

So Tana ends up having to try getting everyone to safety, and she takes the vampire, too - and here, safety means to Coldtown, where at least if they have vampires about, they won't hurt any more random people. First they have to get there, though.

I don't want to go into more plot details here, but I will say I was generally quite satisfied with it - there are some pretty horrifying turns, but they're earned, and the story's really quite well thought and written out. I definitely churned through the book quickly, which is a real testament, because there were parts that were uncomfortably gory to read, too.

But it's not just the plot that really works - there are some very real, complex characters in this book, that play off each other well. Tana's view of herself, and Aidan and other people's views of her, have a real tension to them - Tana makes herself do things she might not otherwise want to or feel comfortable with because she doesn't want people to define her boundaries, almost defensively. And other people view this (particularly Aidan) as bravery. And there's similar sorts of character points, too. I also liked Aidan a bunch - the cockiness, the degrees of caring and daring, the shading over into hunger and impatience. And Gavriel and other characters (like a pair of twins who really, probably, likely want to be vampires, maybe) also come through well.

Beyond which... I love the way Black handles representation. I love that it's so little remarked upon when various racial or LGBTQ people saunter through the story just being people. Aidan is actually probably the best-realized bisexual character I've ever read in anything, and there's a trans character who really works and where again, it's just treated as part of a personal story.

Minuses? Well, I do feel like the main villain could have used a bit more time and build-up as an actual character than they got. Gavriel is probably not quite as solid to me as the other characters, which may be slightly on purpose? And there's some world-building stuff I'd have loved to see more of, but it was full enough and long enough that I can't really ding it much for that.

All told, this is a really good book that does a lot of things with a fairly high degree of difficulty well, and even if I wouldn't start with this book if you haven't read any Black (*cough Darkest Part of the Forest *cough*), it's also a good standalone story, and I give it quite the high recommendation.

#book reviews #holly black #coldest girl in coldtown #going to try daily book reviews until I catch my backlog #let's see how that goes

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As a big thanks to everyone who has read and shared Check, Please!–It’s a Check, Please! giveaway! Thanks!

One winner  will receive a signed Check, Please: Year One hardcover book; signed Huddles Vol. 1 & 2., a full set of character magnets, a set of Samwell hockey stickers, and misc. postcards!

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What’s Check, Please! about? Check, Please! follows Eric Bittle, a former figure skater who joins his college’s ice hockey team. When he’s not trying to avoid checks–that is, hits–on the ice, he’s baking pies and getting to know his very bro-y teammates.

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#I've been talking about this series all day #no reason to stop now

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I’m getting all heated up for this one! ^_^

Convection starts at midnight, aahhhhhhhh!

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I mean, I definitely feel this was worth it, beyond just supporting the game. That’s a cute Ken. ^_^

Sketches done for people who pledged to Indivisible! :D

#persona 3 #amada ken

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A much appreciated reply.

On the cusp of the mid-point of my fourth decade on the planet, I plead entry to the Birthday Unending. It is a point where trying to tell whether I have come where I wanted or not is almost as dizzying as working out where I should venture next. For now, then, I seek respite among those gathered. I bring a devilish cat that has mellowed in her older age, a penchant for acquiring new tongues, and a large collection of pins and buttons.

WELCOME TO YOU, OH BIRTHDAY CHILD.  COME IN, COME IN, AND REST A WHILE.

REST.

HERE IS YOUR SEAT AT THE TABLE.  HERE IS YOUR CONICAL HAT.  HERE IS A LARGE TIN FOR YOUR BUTTONS, AND A BUTTON FOR YOUR TIN.  HOW IT RATTLES!  LIKE A BONE.  SO VERY LIKE A BONE.

WELCOME TO THE BIRTHDAY.  WELCOME TO THE BIRTHDAY.  WELCOME TO THE BIRTHDAY UNENDING.

#birthday unending

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It’s been ages since I did this kind of thing

Not exactly tagged by krisrix, but...

HAVE YOU EVER?

•Snuck out?: Stormed out, yes. Snuck out, no. •Broken a bone?: Do teeth count? I did break a tooth once. •Cried yourself to sleep?: Not that I can remember. •Self harmed?: Not physically. •Been depressed?: For probably 13 years in total, I’d guess? •Been lonely?: A number of times, sometimes for months at a stretch.

WHAT’S YOUR?

•Birth date: July 12 •Biggest fear?: This was dogs... maybe hurting the people I care about? •Relationship status: Married! Four years this September. •Dream job?: Linguist / professional Japan person •Dream car?: None - I sort of never want to drive ever if I can get away with it •Dream house?: A nice, light apartment with maybe a couple more rooms than the current one, with a library space and a guest room.

DO YOU:

•Like someone?: Lots of people! Do you mean romantically? Just one, then. •Love someone?: A good handful of people! Do you mean romantically? Just one, then. •Have a bf/gf: Yep. •Want a bf/gf?: Would I have one if I didn’t want one? •Have tattoos?: Nope. •Have piercings?: Nope. •Party?: Hanging out with people is fun! I like hanging out parties. I don’t really like drinking or anything, though.

FAVORITE -

•Band?: Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Shiina Ringo / Tokyo Jihen. •Movie?: It’s still probably Memento. •Book?: Sentimentally, it’s probably the Innkeeper’s Song by Peter S. Beagle, but from how I act, it’s The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. •Color?: I guess maybe orange, but I like a bunch of different colors. •Animal?: Cats and foxes. Or foxes and cats.

THIS OR THAT?

•Twitter or Facebook?: Twitter, although I don’t really get it still, I think. I just really don’t like Facebook. •Twitter or Instagram?: Twitter, because I don’t use Instagram. •Instagram or Facebook: Instagram, even though I don’t use it. •Coke or Pepsi?: Coke Zero is sort of my favorite. •Coffee or tea?: Tea. Lots of tea. •Tacos or pizza?: The main reason I am not a vegan is because of pizza. •Summer or Winter?: Winter. I miss the cold already.

WOULD YOU EVER???:

•Get married?: Done that already, so yes. •Have kids?: It doesn’t seem particularly likely I would do this, but I guess it’s not impossible. •Swim with sharks?: Swimming sounds like something you do during the summer, right? If I had it my way, I’d be away from summer forever. •Share a banana?: I suppose. Is this a euphemism? •Eat rotten food?: Does natto count? I think it does, so yes, although probably not willingly. •Marry a foreigner: All but one of the relationships I’ve been in, I’ve been the foreigner, so...

#about me #meme #I wonder how much this has changed since I was 20