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marnz · 4 months

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2023 book post

I read 63 books this year (i do count short stories & novellas) and there were epic highs (everyone read the school for good mothers) and epic lows (y'all read this shit? for real?).

here are my top ten, in no particular order, followed by thoughts on the rest. it's so long lol okay let's get into it

top ten.

the school for good mothers by jessamine chan - a perfect commentary on the prison industrial complex and how poor, single, and mothers of color are treated set in a chilling near future. loved it. i read this book in june and think about it daily.

edinburgh by alexander chee - this book is a modern classic for good reason. gay tragedy lovers this book is for YOU. the prose is so beautiful, so dream like, that i couldn't stop reading. i read this book in one sitting, very nearly a year ago, and i was completely devastated by it.

in the woods by tana french - love this for: unreliable narrator who sucks but is compelling; prose about the woods and the 1980s mystery; cassie; a police procedure that starts off by being like 'crucially you must understand that the police lie.' i have a weakness for atmospheric books and this has that in spades.

homegoing by yaa gyasi - this book is SO good and the prose and character voices are excellent. it's extremely epic but somehow only 300 pages?!? each character only gets 1 chapter but gyasi does SO much with each chapter 😭 i read this in one day because i could not stop reading. i also read gyasi's other book, transcendent kingdom, which was also very good.

some desperate glory by emily tesh - this book is a mindfuck and is one of the few times i've seen [spoiler] done well. there are a lot of things this book talks about--imperialism; artificial intelligence; fascism; white supremacy and how it intersects with gender; queerness; eugenics. i posted about it early when i had only read like 49% and i was soooo wrong to do so. read this and just trust me.

x by davey davis - okay are you ready for this? X is queer/trans bdsm neo noir mystery set in a dystopian near future. it is dark, it is consuming, it is surprising, it is a book i turn over obsessively whenever i can't sleep. i need to reread and i only read it a few months ago.

baru cormorant series/the masquerade by seth dickinson - this is 3 books but let's count it as one book. much has been said about baru as a cringefail autistic marxist lesbian icon (affectionate) but what i really appreciate about these books, other than how fucking gay they are, is the specificity of the world building. i have a theory that modern readers are in search of detail (and cruelly denied by much of publishing rn). seth dickinson loves details. seth dickinson is going to take semi familiar narratives and tell them in a brand new way using details; math; hyper specific words. god i love it

poverty by america by matthew desmond - relatively short book, read it in a day. i also read desmond's first book, evicted, and it is also SO good but what's sexy about this book is that modern american society and esp. politicians frequently likes to be like 'oh no, poverty is so tragic but it can't be solved' and desmond is like 'watch me.' for people who enjoy reading andrea long chu take downs reviews and want concrete solutions for how to build a better world.

station eleven by emily st. john mandel - many people told me this was the best book they've ever read and i was like 'whatever. i'll get to it when i get to it.' DO NOT BE ME!! read this!! i wouldn't say this is a happy book but it was a beautiful book. i loved it. i cried for about 90 minutes afterwards. for art lovers, weird theatre kids, people unafraid of plague books, non linear timeline lovers, people who have been divorced.

piranesi by susanna clarke - okay i read this on my flight to frankfurt earlier this year and it totally bowled me over with how lovely it was and how emotional i got. just a beautiful, delicate, haunting, eerie book. for fans of mysteries, people who love oceans, gothic houses, people who earnestly believed magic was real as kids and hope it's real today, people who love academic drama they aren't involved in.

okay damn honorable mentions: in the dream house by carmen maria machado (SO good, maybe deserves my rec more than piranesi), normal people by sally rooney (mainly because it did make me insane), under the banner of heaven by jon krakauer (thorough, horrifying), honey & spice by bolu babalola (SO fun), sula by toni morrison (stunning!!), severance by ling ma (millennial alienation during a plague, amirite?), trust exercise by susan choi (who knows what really happened? you'll understand).

okay now the worst books i read this year, aka books i did not vibe with:

broken harbor & the trespasser by tana french; did not enjoy broken harbor due to the themes and did not enjoy the trespasser due to how cringefail the ending was. you can't depict ongoing harassment a woman of color is experiencing in her workplace, make her decide to leave after two years of this harassment, and then back track it in the last chapter? please. this is a problem tana french runs into a lot, but that is a different post

the witch elm by tana french; parts of this book were absolutely delicious. but a lot of it felt very tedious and in need of a stern editor. so many books these days need more thorough editing and the result is that a potentially amazing book is just like, okay. i understand the power fantasy that this book is designed to be, but i'm not the right audience for it (disabled). also, generally i need a character to root for.

amateur by thomas page mcbee; SO sorry thomas. i didn't vibe with this book mainly because i don't think i'm the target audience for it. i'm not cis and i'm not straight?? i also am not interested in narratives about trans men wanting to prove their masculinity by taking up a violent sport. i think this tension is addressed in the book but it wasn't addressed to my satisfaction. violence is often all the world gives to men as a source of power and thus serves as a solace for everything patriarchy takes from them, so i suppose i understand wanting to be able to get a piece of that...logically that makes sense. but also. why.

the late americans by brandon taylor; the thing is, i fucking love real life by brandon taylor and i enjoy brandon's criticism and read his substack (although i disagree with almost every aesthetic opinion he has). so possibly my expectations were too high, but i read this and i guess i was just...wanted to know what the point is. gay people suffering in the midwest? as a genre, it slaps. as a book, i feel frustrated. it felt loose, pointless, in great need of editing. brandon talks about this book by talking about the importance of moral fiction, and this book lacks moral urgency for many of its stories. i've read a lot of moral fiction and this isn't it? anyway I read this in July and looking back all I remember is Seamus' journey and the way brandon dragged workshopping.

the angel of the crows by katherine addison; look. if you're going to write sherlock wingfic, put it on ao3. if you're going to file off the serial numbers, please work harder so i can't tell what it originally was. and absolutely nix the author's note saying it was sherlock fanfic, because that makes me very unhappy! personally!

99% mine by sally thorne; classic second book syndrome. except the third one is also not very good. too bad!

touched out by amanda montei; okay obligatory disclaimer that i'm not a mother or parent but rather an adult who loves my friends' kids! this book really frustrated me and i think i would have enjoyed it considerably more if it was all cultural criticism instead of a memoir (other than the dworkin parts????). a memoir is an art form, a set narrative, but criticizing it feels weird because i am criticizing the author's life decisions as presented to me, in a flattened context, in a controlled narrative. if the memoir parts were instead part of a fictional book i would not hold back lol. this book is marketed as the most important work of feminist scholarship in the last 30 years and...it ain't. i also felt the focus was incredibly narrow. while montei does attempt to cite a broad range of theorists i just kept finding myself wondering, what about people from other cultures? what about disabled mothers? what about queer mothers or parents? what about this? WHERE'S YOUR RESEARCH? WHERE ARE YOUR INTERVIEWS? there is a specific kind of feminism where white women act like their specific experience is the pinnacle of all suffering and tbh it isn't. this book reminded me of that very strongly. like, if you're telling me you won't have an epidural because it was invented by a man then you are not a useful person to engage with, thanks.

books that would have been amazing if not for that one part

he who drowned the world by shelley parker chan - man i have mixed thoughts on this book. look away my beloved swbts mutuals. okay the epic highs (ouyang & zhu!! ma!!) were set off by baoxiang lmao. i'm mainly interested in queer masculinity and femininity and a femme straight guy is like. well, good for him, but i don't really care? bring me back to my loveds zhu and ouyang. but my main gripe...tbh i think baoxiang is a hugely unreliable narrator that protests about a lot of things too much. being straight for one thing; not having a thing for esen is another. AND MORE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THIS? like i honestly wish the implied incest thing, which was brought up at least twice, was more present. taking a step back, if you're like well i'm straight and i don't have a thing for my dead brother i helped kill but i absolutely will be seducing the spitting image of him while i fuck my way to the top of the throne? that should make me insane. possibly it would have in a book that didn't already have ouyang. who can tell. so i wish SPC had leaned into that a lot more, i wish baoxiang hadn't felt like such a plot instrument, i wish there was more Ma, i wish spoilery completely unbelievable storyline was better, etc.

in memorial by alice winn - damn, this book. it was so good but it fell apart at the end. i respect winn's decision to not have it be perfectly easy after living through the untold horrors of the trenches of wwi but the idea of two brits running away to brazil to live out a life of colonial bliss because being gay wasn't explicitly illegal in brazil at a time is like. what? i guess. anyway, it was good, i just have some notes.

romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld - here's the thing, i love curtis sittenfeld and i knew going in that this is a book by the author that wrote rodham but man, this is a book by the author that wrote rodham. this is the most Online book i've ever read (derogatory) and it's very specific in its liberal i'm an Online author on twitter type of deal. the point of the book is that Not Tina Fey falls for Male Taylor Swift on Not Saturday Night Live and it was good, it was fun, i wasn't expecting [spoiler] ummm but it worked. i had a good time.

this is very long, sorry.

#currently #read in 2023 #long post tag #SO long #look away my beloved swbts mutuals...

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regal-bones · 1 year

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Hi guys I’ve said this before but I see literally all of ur tags and comments and you guys are just. So kind and funny and nice and generous and sweet and lovely and brilliant and this little community is something I’ve dreamed of for so so many years,,,, if u told little baby Lucy who spent all of secondary school nervous and drawing silly little swords from my silly little fantasy world that in the future so many lovely people would support my art and say such lovely things I think she would explode.

I really really love you guys - and sorry I’ve been a little quiet in regards to posting new art as of late. I have been soooo so so busy, busy with some boring real world things, but mostly incredibly busy with,,, well I’m sure u know ;) I can’t wait to share, and I want u all to know how much u mean to me. Lov u .

#u fuel me

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vacillatingcreator · 2 years

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I lov your show SHOS

But I also love your au about MeBakery!:D

soooo~

*throwing into you all my love and art of MePhone with cookies*

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

I LOVE THIS!! Thank you so much!! :D

I am saving this image onto my phone (big honor)

#ii mebakery au #not my art #inanimate insanity #ii mephone4 #object show community #object show #vc replies

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pixolatedolm · 8 months

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Oh brother. Here's a my oc Drift I made a few months ago. I've drawn him soooo so so so much!!! He is a driver not a rider ❤️

They died in a fiery crash and became some thing that's now always on fire. He's so stupid and silly and I lov e heem and and.. Maybe I'll post his biker croc friend some time. Oh yeah there's a couple Barbie doodles in there lol

If you wanna know more and see more art here's their character profile :333

MASKED DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME THING ON HERE lemme remove that tag rq

#my art #oc #oc art #original character #my oc #character #cartoon #digital art #doodle #sketch #racer #helmet

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sunflowerseraph · 1 year

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hi i haven't watched moon knight but i've watched video essays on it so i know a bit, who's ur favorite character and what are ur headcanons for them?

Ok apologies in advance bc im super dizzy writing this :D but Ohhh my god absolutely its Jake Lockley. Comics and show. Ok well in the show he doesnt have much screentime BUT it doesn't mean theres not subtle jake moments and like teases to him existing. I have assloads of jake hcs (he likes cats, hes fond of sharks, and astronomy, and he wears gloves all the time to help with his sensory issues) but i think he has soooo many roles in the MK sys! Hes a gatekeeper, a memory/trauma holder, a physical protector (occasionally dabbles in emotional protecting, like a romantic/sexual protector!) I think he frequently goes nonverbal (autism creature♡)!! I think hes a Guardian too, but in the case of rangling Khonshu (or any other "persecutor type") ! I have so many hcs abt what roles he fills and the extent of them 🧍 i love intersys relations♡♡ he has little rituals that he takes on when he gets time to front. He enjoys a nice cup of coffee at Genas diner, and he will occasionally smoke a cigarette or two despite stevens protests.(Genas been trying to get him to quit, started giving him lollipops and hard candies cause the smoking is probably from some oral fixation.)

Hes really social! But hes still got the anxiety that comes with being social. He has to be for his taxi driving anyways! I feel like hes got a social mask to interact with people he drives around n stuff, when he needs info, etc. But he doesnt like to meet new people? Like, he has friends already, and the idea of making connections is nerve wracking (thats Stevens job, hes good at external connections! Esp comic steven, since he literally makes all their friends for the most part. Like he and jake make the friends and marc is stubborn♡)

[Tw for trauma ment, abuse, etc! Skip to the next colored line for not that :D]

Jake insys looks different than the body out of sys sometimes too! He holds a physical manifestation of previous injuries/trauma. He and Marc share certain scars or marks from their merc/military days, and in the case of the show, from physical trauma growing up with their mom. Steven tends not to have those marks/scars! Marc definitely has some, but not to the extent as Jake. Since jake is a gatekeeper/memory holder, he would have more scars or marks representing certain memories or traumas that they experienced, even if Marc doesnt, bc Marc doesnt get all the memories. Steven gets like None at all, so he wouldnt really have those markings. Jake might carry some chronic pain stuff (symptom holder) too? Speaking from experience, abuse like that can lead to nerve damage/chronic pain, so it would make sense he would experience it.

[ Ok, end of tw section]

I think Jakes music taste varies too! He usually just listens to the radio in his cab, so he doesnt have a Set Big Preference. He does love Luis Miguel tho. Steven likes reading ,but im sure he enjoys music! Probably nothing too Hardcore, softer music, or maybe even oldies. I think Marc would like music like Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, def leppard, acdc, hozier, Imagine dragons, Muse idk i have lists and playlists but thats not the point here. Jake likes Doja Cat.

He also loves cats just in general, black cats especially. Marc prefers dogs, and Steven (obviously) likes his fish!

Hes the shortest insys! God theres this funny art thing of the mk boys going Jake why are u so small, and jake replies with some shit about being like Wolverine. I think by @bicatperson ?? AS I WAS WRITING THIS I FOUND IT. Here.

EDIT: link didnt work here it is again hopefully?

Im trying to think of more things uhm. He ALWAYS tips Gena extra at the diner (They are sweet, theyre like two highschool sweethearts to me. She cares about his well being and he loves her boys like his own. ) speaking of, jake is So good with kids. Btw. I feel like hed definitely be a little caretaker !! He also loves Diatrice and calls her Dia or dee,or didi :) i also hate all the shit abt her not being "his kid" which just isnt fucking true. Sorry im not a fan of marlene for that shit.

Anyways. Jake is crucial to the mk sys in any universe in anyway possible in my brain ok. Hes kind and strong and doesnt shy from a fight. Hes wreckless at times but hes good at figuring things out. Hes got those streetsmarts. Hes also in love with his lawyer Matt Murdock.

#also will say be careful with certain video essays on Youtube bc they use ableist language at times and #are particularly fond of labeling the mk sys as 'crazy' or 'psycho' especially jake #mk #mk hcs #hiiii <-autisticly #seraph.txt #ask.txt #long post #sorry :(#super dizzy and just threw words out i hope this is coherent

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hoppinkiss · 1 year

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that j.aal art I reblogged yesterday is still popping up on my dash from following the tag and I will not be removing it he is so cute I lov him soooo much

#harper has spoken #r: wonder of the universe

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yuyu-finale · 1 year

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Screaming and crying i just came across your art and ive never hit follow so fast <3333 thank you for sharing your works theyre so lovely and vibrant!!!!! I also LOVE how u draw lwj beefy he deserves it!!! Just wanted to share :-)

BEEFY MEATY LWJ RIGHTS!!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH IM LOV U...

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mettywiththenotes · 2 years

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Chapter 290.

There is so much I love about that chapter. Every opportunity I get to talk about it, I take. I seriously cannot put it into words (but I’ll try)

The whole Dabi reveal was so amazing! And how we got to see Dabi’s true personality and not his cold uncaring facade we’ve seen up until that point! The art? The look of pure HORROR on Enji and Shouto? “The past never dies!”! THE ART!! “Come dance with your son in hell!!”shdjdnfbjdsk

I ramble here so, I’m sorry:

Metty, I think so much about MHA is great. The character dynamics and how they bounce off of each other is really good. The music from the anime! Tiki Hayashi is from another WORLD! The fact that there is such a big cast and everyone doesn’t have the same connections makes the world seem bigger.

Like, you have Midoriya who’s friends with Bakugou, Iida, Ochako, Todoroki, Tsuyu, Shinso but they don’t revolve around him. Bakugou has his own group, Ochako is really close with Tsuyu and the other 1A girls, Iida is super connected with his brother, Todoroki and Bakugou have friends from Shiketsu and their families. The whole Todoroki family, how Natsuo has a girlfriend, Fuyumi is a teacher, Endeavor has his coworkers, the Hero Commission, and from the hero commission, you have Hawks, Lady Nagant, Mera (💕) and etc. Don’t get me started on the LOV and how they parallel to 1A and how they show that even the “bad guys” need help too. How they are just as much human as everyone else.

The fact that these characters have different relationships with more than one character allows people to build off of them and explore different scenarios. I love the little tidbits about characters too. What they like, how tall they are, birthdays, how they seem to have their own styles, it’s just so aaah.

BNHA is also a way for people to connect. Especially with characters. I became really close with my (ex?) best friend over Bakugou and his development. How we used to share headcanons, theories, art, etc. It brings out peoples talents and that can create even more connections. There’s a reason the series is so popular. BNHA is a good feel good series and when it hits, it really hits.

There are negative aspects/downsides but I think you just have to love MHA for making such a big expansive world.

YES! Dabi's Dance was just so fucking immaculate and amazing, like this big burst of energy. Ngl I'm still living off the high of that chapter

THE ART AND THE REVEAL AND THE EXPRESSIONS! It was just soooo *chefs kiss x100* amazing

I love the character dynamics too! And Yuki Hayashi MAKES the anime imo, like there's the story and everything, but no matter how many times I hear it, his soundtracks get me so hyped! Yuki really brings his 100% to the soundtrack fr. He's one of the reasons I'm so looking forward to the rest of the anime. Can you imagine it? War Arc, Hawks' betrayal, Dabi's Dance, chapter 305 and 306, the Rogue Arc plus everything else?? Can you IMAGINE the music during the S&S battle??

I remember that, in Two Heroes (1st movie), when young All Might was introduced to us in that first battle, the music kind of had a western vibe to it, and like. All I can imagine is S&S having either touches of that soundtrack in hers or having the same western vibe. Perhaps even more intense - the intense western vibe to young All Might's carefree western vibe in his ost

And I'd totally love to see if TomurAFO's ost is a mix of Tomura's from MVA and AFO's creepy ost. That'd be so cool to listen too

I mean, all I can do is speculate lol. I always get super excited about the music. I LOVE Yuki Hayashi's work and I can't wait to see what he does with the rest of the anime!!

And yep, you're right about that whole "doesn't have the same connections" thing. It's one of the reasons I go on about the characters having their own minds, personalities etc - they aren't connected to everyone, and not always the mc either, but they have their own lives and connections. Each character is just allowed to exist, and allowed to have their own relationships away from the plot!

(aaaaaaaaaaaa Brainrot. You put Mera with the hc... you mentioned him... with a heart!! Thank you thank you 💕)

YES with the League paralleling the kids, that whole togetherness and the thing about "grouping together for a cause and ending up finding family and connections at the same time", and even about not having the same connections, with Shouto and Dabi, Ocha and Toga and Izu and Shiggy. I love them all sm

And the humanity! Like, the Heroes are "supposed" to not cry or just be tough, but they are in fact also human! And I think you see that well in the Rogue Arc (you can see it throughout the series anyway, but it's brought to attention in this arc), with Izuku, Death Arms flashback about why he quit, All Might, Lady Nagant unable to handle the emotional stress of what she'd been told to do, and arguably, I would say even Endeavor finally relenting and giving the gps to the kids, making it out like he had it all under control or didn't need additional help, was an example of that too. And then of course, Ochako in UA yelling into the megaphone, Izuku being taken care of, all of that showing that actually, Heroes are human too! They have their jobs, their obligations, but they are also people who need help, who need to be saved themselves. As Ochako puts it "Who protects the Heroes who need protecting?"

And then you have the League, who are made out by the Heroes to be cold-hearted monsters who just do the things they do for fun. Like they are just emotionless opponents in a video game or something. But as we see throughout the series, that's totally not the case! The League are human! They have feelings and thoughts, their own mindsets just like any of the other characters, and the trauma they've been through has hit a breaking point within them where they can't just stand by and do nothing for themselves. They want to be heard, they want to be seen, and they want to be understood

I'd say we probably see that as early as... Overhaul arc? That's when I began to realize it anyway. Like, I knew they were human, but the fact that the story showed proof of it in gestures such as Tomura removing his hand mask and exacting revenge on Chisaki because of what he did to Magne, Twice literally saying "We're human!", Toga being so sad about Magne and sympathetic to Twice, and the rest having their own bickering and interactions, it just showed me that the story could actually cover this side of them. Like, show us even more of the human side the Heroes never talk about

I love the little facts about all the characters. It's fun to go through the character pages and read what Hori gives us about them! And the fashion styles always feel so fitting. For that reason, I feel like Hori has such a good handle on his characters, even with little stuff like that

You're so right about bnha's feel-good stuff! It really does hit so hard when the time is right

Of course the downsides exist, but I think you're right when you say that you just have to love bnha for it's expansive world. All these things and inclusions of humanity in BOTH sides, in mindsets and such too, just makes it worth the read imo

#sorry this was a whole rant lol #and also a little messy #i just love what you said #also brainrot i need you to know that i am once again listening to the bnha soundtrack and it is a BOP #as usual #brainrot you're spitting straight facts #thank you for the ask!😊#asks with metty #bnha asks #bnha positivity

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stewy-hosseini · 2 years

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your tags on my shoulder holster stewy post made me full-on chuckle. honored to see someone enjoy my very niche brainrot kenstew content as much as i do <3

i love love lov e lofelvoe it soooo much and everything else you’ve posted tbh !! not kidding about the fainting btw i fail to find an adequate response to ur art every time other than a euphoric WHAT. sth about ur interpretation of them esp stewy just fries my brain and ur style is chef’s kiss exquisite !!!!

shoulder holster stewy you will always be famous

#asks #ainosgarden #<33

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cabbagegunk · 2 years

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🍓 !!

ila ceo of lemonblr!!! hello!!! i lov ur art style soooo much puts it in my mouf liek ur style and the way u line it’s !!!! also we haven’t rlly talked much but u seem very sweet !!

#cabbagetalk

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bakedcrispss · 4 years

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in your opinion, who are the best daryl writers on here? i’m new to tumblr and would love some recommendations🥺

I HAVE A LOT SO HEAR ME OUT DJSNSN

@twdeadlysins : you want some cute ass amazing ass detailed ass twd writing?? uh?? honeY COME CHECK HER OUT SHE GOT YA FOOD 😭

@pastanest : she not only have daryl food SHE GOT A WHOLE BUFFET OF IT. IN FACT, THEY HAVE AN ADORABLE ASS SERIES ONGOING RN!! SO IF U A DARYL SIMP CHECK HER BLOG OUT LOV 💖💞

@puppypopcornpizza : honestly this writer is so underrated like they stories are literal art and they can take my imagination soooo far pls appreciate them they be so talented and don get much recognition 😔💖💞

@rockforthedead : speAKING OF UNDERRATED? their drabbles/imagines are so goddamn immaculate they make a bitch cry and squeal at the same time ✋😳

@crossbowking : my god i can write a WHOLE ASS ESSAY on why i love this blog but i shall refrain from doing so?? this blog has so much daryl content u don even know?? get drowned with crossbow man stories with this blog u deserve it 😔💖

@ladylibby : yet another blog i can write a whole essay to bcs I LIVE FOR THEY ONESHOTS/DRABBLES/IMAGINES EVERYTHING LOV I FINK IVE READ ALL THE STORIES IN THIS BLOG IM JUST DJSHSH IM JUST A SIMP LIKE THA 😭😭

@twdsexual : lichrally pulled me straight in the fandom with they stories GOD PLEASE IM EMOTIONAL WRITING IMMACULATE

@twdeadfanfic : yo if you want to binge daryl x reader series then they're the right blog for u! their stories are the first ive read before joining tumblr actually! and i have never recovered since 💖💞

i GOT A LOT MORE SO LMK IF U WANNA KNOW THE OTHERS JSJS I COULD GO ON FOREEVVERR

edit: ORR U CAN PUT BLOGS THAT UD ALSO LIKE TO RECOMMEND DOWN BELOW <33

#pretend i posted this complete haha💔💔#bakedcrispss

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shozaii · 3 years

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remember when i asked u what it meant to be part of a fandom? also ehehe i lov ur theme :3 - TONK ✨

hewwwoo toNK!!✨ ehehe thank you soooo much!!🥺🤍🤍 now, moving on to your question! (i just typed a beautiful description of it and here i am, losing all of it- but here we goooo!)

okieee so let’s take bnha for example. i am in said fandom. now from my point of view, here’s my process of successfully being part of a fandom. it first starts when you familiarize yourself with the show and characters, to which you then start liking most of them ehehe :3

and when you are finally certain that this show has changed your life (by a) thinking about it a whole lot, and b) wanting to see more of the said show), you tend to follow the updates of it, enjoying the side content they put out too!

basically i can say this is when you are fully in the fandom! and there are wonderful things you could do too; creating content (art, cosplaying, writing, etc.), group chats galore!, and even new moots🥺!! i can say that’s how i got to be friends with wonderful people here on tumblr ehehe🥰

so, dear tonk, i think it’s safe to say you are part of the bsd fandom?? and bnha too?? ahhh well, i hope this explains most of being part of a fandom. take care and ilysm!! <333💕💕💕

#TONK✨#mitra rambles #hopefully well #but yeee this is just my opinion uwu #love love love!!

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tfw-no-tennis · 3 years

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mtmte liveblog issue 33

[sees rewind cover] time to be emo

swerve giving us a nice lil recap of the wild events of slaughterhouse thus far

and then the roll call page...I love how the last one is ‘rewind?!?’

OUGHGHGGHGHGH REWIND TINYYYYYYYYYYYY

I adore that nautica has a list of in-jokes to check off

ohhhh man I forgot that alt-lost light rewind doesn't really know skids?? bc the alt lost light never picked him up....

POOR REWIND he wakes up all elder scrolls style and then immediately autobot megatron is just There without explanation lmao this poor lil guy

love the casual gender stuff honestly

nightbeat: ayyyy rewind!! sup? what horrific slaughter happened here? spill the tea!

hvakjdfbskdf poor rewind is going thru it jesus

nautica and riptide hvbhkjasdsfasdfn ‘are jokes not funny where you come from?’ immmmm

nautica is so cute I love her

ohhhhh I love the panel of the two lost lights going off in separate directions with the title right below

‘I remember it well. kind of’ that's a really funny line actually hbvkdjfnasdfl

I really like how on the alt lost light, rodimus’s risky stunt with the sparkeater actually kills him - I mean I'm glad that didn't happen in the main story but that's such a cool jarring discrepancy

ok but its inherently VERY funny that the djd like, murdered the entire lost light, but later in the story the lost lighters are obviously still around and not dead...that's so fucking funny, the djd were probably like ????????????????? what the fuck didn't we kill these guys?????? but also they were tripping so they cant be sure

isn't it brainstorm who called the djd on the alt lost light??? oof

LOVE the continuity of the alt lost light being the place that the djd went at the end of the scavengers 2 parter wayyyy back in the beginning of s1

more horrific slaughter, as one would expect from an arc called ‘slaughterhouse’

jeeeesus I forgot how completely fucked up all the shit was for poor rewind 2. christ

also the like, thematic irony of alt-chromedome refusing to erase rewind from his memory and choosing to die horribly instead....SCREAMS I cant handle it

ITS SO HORRIBLE I'm so sad. poor rewind

‘silly string’ I love riptide

nautica is so smart I lov her

oooh skids going off on megatron is really good. I find the whole ‘cons are super anti-organic/alien life’ angle interesting, bc it like, Makes Sense that a race of robot aliens who live for millions of years wouldn't consider shorter-lived organic life to be on the same level as them, but its also like, not morally right, so the autobots are correct w/the whole ‘freedom is the right of all sentient beings’ thing...its LAYERED

rewind: ‘I'm tiny’

me, crying: yeah...

honestly I really really love the quantum duplication plot in this arc. its like, peak sci fi nonsense but it also like, Makes Sense, and is presented in a very understandable manner...plus its like, super entertaining and fun, so I just love it

love how they're perusing brainstorms lab and just stumble across a dead body. classic

aaaand the plot thickens, with the reveal that brainstorm is a decepticon????? whoaaaa

I love that twist too oh man. I cannot WAIT for the time travel arc yessss

oof nautica being in denial about brainstorm being a con :(

I find it kinda funny that getaway is IMMEDIATELY like, punching walls and going full that-one-wack-storm-trooper-from-that-star-wars-movie abt brainstorm being a con lmao, like what's even ur beef dude

when nightbeat is all like, wait there's a Type™ for decepticon double agents? and megatron says ‘hm. have you never been approached?’ bvhjaskdfbaksfd

mannn tho, I love all the character stuff this issue...I love the panels of megatron where he looks mad and crushes brainstorms mask, bc like, he’s gotta be thinking abt the fact that the djd, his personal squad of bloodthirsty attack dogs, were the ones responsible for all of this, as well as overlords presence, and brainstorm secretly being a con....

ok rewind and megatrons interactions are fantastic

like, rewind IS the nice one, but the definition of ‘nice’ is probably a little different than it used to be due to Big Ole War

how are they propelling themselves in space????

NOOOOOOO I'm so fucking sad, rewind 2 is literally like ‘I'm fine with being deleted from existence bc my husband and everything I knew is gone’ aughhhh

and then megatron lies and tells him that he and chromedome, on the og lost light, are ‘inseparable’ 😭😭😭 I mean I guess that's not a lie if you count cd rewatching rewinds goodbye video on loop...AUGHHH

‘let’s not drag out the goodbyes’ but rewind, what about one of the story’s themes, ‘how to say goodbye and mean it’?

and we cut off right there for maximum suspense...

omg I love swerve like, fistbumping cyclonus in the chest, and cyclonus is just like ?

skids,,,,,maybe surprising chromedome with his not-so-dead alternate-version husband isn't the best idea...like, this isn't exactly a zero-explanation-necessary kinda situation...

I adore rewinds massive shoulder pads tbh

oh god. GODDDDD. the panels of rewind and chromedome sitting next to each other, not saying anything, and just slowly moving closer to each other while looking out at the stars....literally these gay robots invented romance, thank you very much

I'm so fucking tender guhhhhhhh

like,,,,the fact that both of them separately watched the other die horribly and could do nothing to stop it, and now they're reunited here, and they don't even need to say anything...AUGH.....

OUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm sorry I can’t. SO tender

and MANNNN I'm so so glad that rewind is back. I don't always love when characters don't stay dead but I'm completely happy w/it here for multiple reasons, like the fact that I really like rewind and chromedome’s story after this arc - like, I LOVE that they addressed the fact that rewind 2 is different from OG rewind, despite being fundamentally the same person, so he and cd cant just immediately get back together and pretend everything's fine, but also there's really only an 18 month (?i think) disparity between the 2 rewinds which is nothing compared to literal millions of years, soooo

ALSO I literally never considered this until this reread but it would've been kind of an L for rewind to die and stay dead considering that rewind and cd were The First transformers gay couple, and that's a really big deal! and I don't really consider it bury your gays bc like, rewind doesn't stay dead that long and also there are soooo many other gays, but STILL

plus rewind and cd ended up having a lot of story left to get thru, which is awesome

also I just love rewind so I'm glad he’s back :)

ok the fact that the suspense over brainstorm being a con still isn't resolved bc not everyone knows....spectacular tbh

don't knock the power of love, nightbeat!

the briefcaseeeeeee

ok but I really don't remember jros explanation as to why rewind 2 and the briefcase didn't get deleted hvbhjsdkhfk I gotta go look that up again

OHHHHHHHHHH I FORGOT THE EPILOGUE IS THIS. OHHHHH MANNNNNN THIS IS ONE OF MY FAV PARTS

BRAINSTORMMMMMMMMM ILYYYYYYYYY

I fucking love this scene bc this is basically the culmination of brainstorm being Completely Ominous for the entire story thus far, like, it really hit me this readthru that brainstorm was so totally sinister for like most of his screentime up until this arc...and this scene is the pinnacle, I love how everything brainstorm says is overlaid with so much tension for the reader bc of what we know now about him

like brainstorm saying ‘yes - here’s to fixing things’ is so fucking sinister even though out of context that sentence is just normal

and when atomizer basically voices what the entire audience is thinking as brainstorm opens the briefcase - ‘brainstorm, you can’t do that.’ bc yeah, what the hell, he’s opening THE briefcase, Oh Shit

AND THEN THE FINAL SHOT....brainstorm front and center looking SCARY AS HELL.... ‘I can do whatever the hell I like.’....everyone suddenly collapsed around him...the fantastic shadowy lighting...the ominously open briefcase...the clear segue Directly into the next high-concept arc....[chefs kiss] ART

seriously I love this issue so much. SO many good things. such good character stuff, really great interactions, some fantastic plot development, super creative sci-fi fun times...all around just an extremely solid and enjoyable issue, 10 outta 10

and MAN OH MAN I cannot wait to get into the elegant chaos arc, it fucking SLAPS, that arc and remain in light have always been my favs, I'm so excited to revisit it

AND ruth bought the physical comic TPB for like issues 34-38 or something and I'm so so glad I can read that instead of braving the many split-up double page spreads on the online comic

so yeah, cant wait!

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