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url music challenge
I was tagged by @katsigian !!
Rules: list one song for every letter in your url!
(me regretting having numbers in my url LMAO)
all of them besides the number songs are from my ship playlist for Den and Kerry 🥰
B - Boys by Hippo Campus
A - Adore by Amy Shark
L - lowercase by Landon Conrath
V - Valleyheart by Lostboycrow
E - EGO by little image
R - Roses by The Chainsmokers and ROZES
I - In your arms by ILLENIUM and X Ambassadors
N - Novocaine by The Band CAMINO
E - Effective Communication by JORDANN
2 - 2AM by Landon Conrath
0 - Zero by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (does this count LMFAO)
7 - 777 by Joji
7 - 7 Words by Deftones
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"#considering constable Garek pulled a gun on Steppenwolf in the middle of an Echidnapolis court room. the high court is in shambles." you said that like we would all understand but I'm so lost. What the fuck goes on in those comics and what does this have to do with Knuckles
Teehee.
So, this is relatively early on in the Archie run, and practically in the first throes of the echidna lore in the series. There's about.. Ten? Lore-filled sub-stories in the main comic and specials, three issues of a Knuckles-specific Mini-series, then this incident takes place in issue 2 of the Knuckles the Echidna series, so we've got over 200 pages of content to condense on the fly.. No biggie. (No, seriously - there are around 525 issues in total of this comic including specials, and we're about 70 issues in. No. Biggie.)
So, Steppenwolf and Counciler Garek's dispute takes place approximately 400 years before the main events of the current comic arc.
What lead UP to Councilor Garek pulling a gun on dear Steppenwolf here is a series of Echidna politcs and drama. To start from the bottom up, many years prior, the Floating Island (not yet named Angel Island, this moniker would come in much later in the series) was lifted to the sky using the power of twelve chaos emeralds, and the help of the fire ants, to avoid a large comet that was on course to hit the city of the Echidna (Echidnapolis) directly. Yes, that's twelve chaos emeralds - this story, STH #35 "A Sense of History", was published in 1996. This was before there was any concrete lore surrounding the total number of chaos emeralds, so the comics were in the right to play it fast and loose here.
(Putting a cut here for the sanity of my dear followers, but I'm nowhere near started. Let us just hope that I do not hit word limit)
So, the island is floating, Kayla-La the great echidna scientist was able to make it float! They avoid the comet, that's great! But... Echidna society is now stuck in the sky, isolated from a once great trading system, and cut off from communications. Worse than that, they've accidentally taken Dingoes hostage in the meantime - they didn't converse with them beforehand, nor were the Dingoes on the path of convergence. But that's not important right now. How does this take us to Steppenwolf and Garek in court?! Calm down, we're getting there! Slowly, slowly...
Kayla-La, see, is the great-great-great grandmother of Steppenwolf. So, in Steppenwolf's time, we've had a few decades of isolation from society, and things are really starting to reach boiling point.
BUT, we have to step back a little more once again. Why are things so dire?
This is intrinsically linked to Kayla-La, and the island floating. See, brothers Edmund and Dimitri, the Great-great grandsons of Kayla-La and Jordann, are both great scientists, following in the footsteps of their family. They've dedicated much of their life to finding a way to reunite the Floating Isle with the planet once more - after all, it was never meant to be a permanent solution, and isn't it their birthright to right what has been wronged? They propose to the council of Echidnapolis the Chaos Siphon - a device which would slowly redirect the power of the chaos emeralds, gently floating the island back into the ground, and hopefully back into the crater left in Downunda, where it used to rest. The council, however, refuse the concept, not willing to put the inhabitants of the island in danger - it would be too much of a risk.
This enrages Dimitri, who storms out, taking the siphon with him, pursued by his brother and half of the council. In the Chaos Chamber, Dimitri fires off the siphon, but it is accidentally set much too high. In an instant, he absorbs the full power of eleven of the twelve chaos emeralds, becoming a 'living chaos emerald' - tinged in green.
A few things happen here - but to sum it up, Dimitri ends up presumed dead as the tower he had constructed using this Chaos Energy, Mt. Fate, collapses in on itself and crushes him, due to the Fire Ants stepping in and destroying the foundation. Having just escaped the wreckage, Edmund consoles Dimitri's only son, Menniker, as Edmund's own son, Steppenwolf (!!!) is relieved to see his father is alive and well.
Edmund and the Chancellor, after witnessing the death of Dimitri at the hands of Technology, mutter something about 'hubris', and decide to renounce technology. Edmund, becoming the first Echidna Guardian, had himself and the two boys travel around the city, collecting up all of the technology, preserving it under the ruins of Mt. Fate. Echidna society is split - many of them are for this renouncement of technology, but many more would not wish to give it all up.
This escalates quickly - soon enough, civil war is due to break out, as a mysterious figure in the shadows is rallying up all of the Echidna who wish to keep technology in their lives, forming an underground organisation - the Dark Legion. Steppenwolf takes it upon himself to investigate, which worries his father to hear - Edmund tries to follow his son, only to get shot in the head by a Dark Legion footsoldier.
Steppenwolf finds his fathers' body, and inherets the Fire Ant stationed to guide him, Christopheles. (that's a whole other story. The Fire Ants are basically omniscent, story for another day, another anon.) Now fuelled with being 'The Guy Who Has To Sort This Out Now', and impassioned by the death of his father, Steppenwolf travels onwards, facing the Head Honcho of this Dark Legion.
This guy has PROBLEMS with Steppenwolf, PERSONAL problems.. Why ever would he- GASP.
IT WAS HIS COUSIN, MENNIKER! THE WHOLE TIME.
Menniker wants to see the end of the both of them, he wants revenge. He wants the 'guardians' to go away, it wasn't fair - he believed them to have betrayed his father, which lead to his death. Menniker has stirred up all of this trouble to get payback, and he won't stop until Steppenwolf is down.
So, HOW. DOES. THIS. RELATE. TO. GAREK. I hear you! Garek, and the rest of the council, know that the Dark Legion wants Steppenwolf dead. Councilor Garek, in a moment of haste, during a meeting in court to decide what is to be done to stop outright Civil War breaking in the streets, threaten Steppenwolf's life himself, stating plans to barter Steppenwolf's head to satiate the Dark Legion. Steppenwolf agrees that he'd give his life, causing my personal favourite panel, and having Garek step down.
And THAT is who, what, and why Councillor Garek pulled a gun on Steppenwolf.
"What does this have to do with Knuckles?!"
-- This is the start of the lineage of guardians, and why they guard the emerald, of course! That's what it has to do with Knuckles.
... Wow, that was actually shorter than I thought it'd be! Well, enjoy the curse of knowledge.
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Reyna
After moving to Compostela I began walking up the road to Buluang meeting new people and giving my dog Dexter some exercise and a chance to play with other dogs. As I passed Buluang Elementary School I was often greeted by a friendly little girl who I guessed was about 4 years old. She spoke no English and I spoke only a few words of Cebuano but we managed to communicate through facial expressions and gestures. She would sometimes invite me to sit with her on a bench by the roadside where we could ‘talk’.
One day my son Jordanne came to visit and we decided it would be fun to hike up the road with Dexter. I told him about the little girl and asked Jordanne to try and get her name. As we approached the school, sure enough, there she was across the road as usual. Jordanne asked her name and she said “Tina”. I repeated “Tina” and she answered “Lena”. I echoed “Lina” and her reply came back “Gina”. We went through a few more iterations of the ‘name game’ before we gave up and headed up the road. We didn’t see the girl on the way back home.
On another walk I encountered the mysterious little girl who was with her sister and her mother. Her mother spoke English so I took the opportunity to explain my difficulty figuring out her name. I told her about Jordanne asking for her name and the odd replies we got. The mother laughed and told me the letter ‘R’ was a problem for her daughter and her name was ‘Reyna’. I had a similar issue with my daughter Laurel who stumbled over the letter ‘L’ and had 2 of them in her name. For a long time Laurel pronounced her name as “Roro”.
A few weeks later I was taking my usual walk toward Q-Park when Reyna came running out to greet me. All she said was her name, taking care to proudly accentuate the first letter by rolling the ‘R’ like RRRReyna!
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Late Night Showers
The water is nice and warm
when it flows down my skin
like standing in a relaxing storm
the water is nice and warm
the peace it brings on my form
and the bliss I become wrapped in
the water is nice and warm
when it flows down my skin
#writing#My writing#poetry#poem#my beloved insanity#Jordann's words#late night#showers#triolet#triolet poem#poetic forms#rhyme scheme#rhyming poetry
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Hii Jordann I hope you are doing well :) I just wanted to say that your blog is amazing. It's not only a platform for us fans to interact with (scream at) you for a certain plot twist or new AU that was given birth the second we look away. It's also a great place to get fic/novel/comic reccs. Not just Tomarry, I'm looking up Alex Rider and the King Maker thanks to you! Thank you for being so active. Your blog is blessing for all of us
Ahhhhh! 😭😭😭 thank you so much omg! This blog wouldn’t be anything without the constant support of you guys! I’m just sitting here twiddling my thumbs and occasionally smacking my keyboard so words form on a doc somewhere. You guys are the ones that make this blog what it is! 💕💕💕💕
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hello my name is jordann and i am a simple gal that would love to be ra*led by elizabeth reaser and with that i am really only here for carlesme. if i'm not writing sweet soft fics i'm creating incredible colorized history photos/works (aaron voice in what is the proper word here for the end result aaron voice out)
who told you that i simp for elizabeth reaser that was a secret
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Can you please email these leaders for Rodney Reed?
Hello friends, this is Shaun King for the FreeRodneyReed.com team.
I am in Austin, Texas today preparing for our rally on behalf of Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed in just 10 days.
I want to thank each of you who’ve been working hard – and send you a quick update with some action steps.
Our pressure is working. More Texas legislators have come forward with pleas to Governor Greg Abbott to stop the execution of this innocent man – including Republicans who normally never speak up like this.
Now, Rodney needs you to email all of the following people one at a time. It’s best you write in your own words, but there’s a sample message if you scroll down. We are really running out of time, so let’s do this! I believe in you!
Governor’s Office
Luis Saenz, Governor’s Chief of Staff:
Governor’s Scheduler
Jordan Hale, Administration Director
Peggy Venable, Appointments Director
Walter Fisher, Legislative Director
Greg Davidson, Constituent Communications
Jeff Oldham, General Counsel
Michael Hull, Policy Advisor
Ron Lucey, Executive Director of the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities
Randi Turner, Accessibility and Disability Rights Coordinator
Nancy Van Loan. Executive Assistant
Bryan Daniel, Executive Director for Economic Development
Mary York, Deputy Director for Economic Development
Jordann Jezek, Child Sex Trafficking Team Program Coordinator
Terry Zrubek, Director of Department of Research & Economic Analysis
Nicole Ryf, Director of Economic Development Finance
Brad Smyth, Director of Texas Tourism
Lee Rector, Director of Texas Workforce Investment Council
Raul Ortix, Deputy Director of Texas Workforce Investment Council
Tim Fennell, Deputy Directory of Texas Tourism
Keith Graf, Director of Texas Military Preparedness Commission
Megan LaVoie, Office of Court Administration
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Chief of Staff
Adrienne McFarland, Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice
Steve Pier, Texas Attorney General Director of Intergovernmental Relations
Staff at the Board of Pardons and Paroles
General email
Emails for clemency:
Bettie Wells, General Counsel
Raymond Estrada, Director of Public Information
Barry Bertocki, Clemency Director
Texas House Republicans
Texas Republican Senators
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Sample message:
Hi {NAME}, I am writing on behalf of Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed on November 20th. Please don’t let Texas execute this innocent man. He was wrongfully convicted and wrongly sentenced to death. There is now overwhelming evidence showing that he is innocent.
Listen to the millions of people and Texas legislators who are speaking up. Do the right thing and do everything in your power to stop the execution of Rodney Reed.
Thank you,
{YOUR NAME}
FREE RODNEY REED
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Album Review - The Nasty Tape’ - Nasty Boi
Lil Bobby used to be a good boi. Together with his brother Nathan and girlfriend Jordanne Leigh, he earned thousands of views on YouTube as a film critic-cum-pop culture commentator as well as showing off his own original work. Hell, even I became a fan after watching his hilarious review of God’s Not Dead 2.
And then, something terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible happened.
With big city dreams in that scraggly lil head of his, Bobby decided to use his YouTuber Manipulation video as a playbook instead and headed to LA with his ~skwad~ (sans Nathan). He tried collaborating with YouTube OG Shane Dawson, ‘confronting’ him after Burns criticised Dawson in a video regarding conspiracy theories (which many saw as a stunt). Then Shane gave Bobby a car. Then the collabs suddenly stopped for reasons that still haven’t been fully addressed, though a lie detector test did confirm he was only using Shane for views. Bobby then reinvented himself as a vlogger, flexing harder than RiceGum at a Supreme 50% off sale as he smoked blunts, perfected his Marilyn Manson cosplay, partied, spent up big on designer clothes, got tattoos in tribute to XXXTentacion and smoked more blunts, as well as suffering a mental breakdown and coming out as bisexual. Disillusioned viewers unsubscribed in droves.
Adorkable Jordanne, meanwhile, did a total teen movie montage, taking off her glasses and undoing her ponytail to transform into… a part-time Instagram model? A vlogger? I’m not sure. She also likes telling everyone how much she loves weed. Loves it. Did you know Jordanne loves weed, guys? #420blazeitlol. Cue obligatory Smoke Weed Everyday memes…
And thus, Bobby Burns has now transformed into Bobby Burns 5.0: The Clout Monster, or the ‘personified version of his worst fears’ known as Nasty Boi (dance, dance, dance!) ‘cos you know what this world needs? Another jaded Soundcloud rapper/walking meme that sadgirls can claim ownership of in their Twitter bios as their ‘smol emo boi,’ that’s what (Or as Burns refers to himself in his YouTube bio, a ‘cute boy’ who’s also a ‘paradoxical enigma’ – though he quickly assures ‘no one needs that pretentious of a label’).
And yet, The Nasty Tape is as dull and transparent as any Bobby Burns 5.0 stunt. ‘The Slime’ oozes with contempt, opening with a warped spoken word before Middle Eastern rhythms give way to thudding trap bass as Burns brands himself a sellout in some half-hearted attempt to assure fans he’s not serious (but he totally is). ‘Welcome To Hell’ sees Burns pitch-correct his voice in an effort to sound ‘menacing,’ I Love You (x2)’ has no love for… well, anyone, backed by those fucking stuttering beats you hear in every fucking trap song as Burns ‘come[s] back with a gun on my hip,’ envisioning himself as a school shooter ‘cos Lil Bobby is nothing if not the edgiest of lords, while ‘LEMONADE!!!’ samples audio from the infamous Lemon Stealing Whores porno for extra meme-age.
‘Live From The Crypt (Nightmare),’ on the other hand, evokes lovely images of ‘midgets on a pogo stick’ and a bitch whose ‘ugly as fuck,’ ‘missing half her teeth’ and ‘piss[es] in her sleep,‘ like Eminem circa 2000 when rapping about midgets on pogo sticks and ugly as fuck bitches who piss in their sleep still meant something, dammit. It’s kinda like a horrorcore 12 Days of Christmas, except Christmas is dead and there’s six dick suckers sucking dick under the tree instead of that Nintendo Switch you wanted. At least Bobby admits he’s a fraud on this track, so there’s that.
As the shallowness of The Nasty Tape proves, Bobby is not an enigma. He’s not even a maze on the back of a fucking cereal box. From listening to SUICIDEBOY$ once to committing career suicide, I pray, being the movie buff he is (or was?), this is just Bobby pulling a Joaquin Phoenix a la’ I’m Still Here, trolling the YouTube world with his rap career until ‘lol j/k!’ a year from now before introducing us to Bobby Burns 6.0, 7.0, 8.0... The Nasty Tape marks the sad decline of a once-promising talent, nothing more than the tired, self-indulgent ‘rebellion’ of a sheltered small-town boy dying to be recognised by the cool kids. It’s the sound of selling out, and hard.
Above all else, Nasty Boi’s debut represents the kind of ugliness that permeates throughout YouTube, Instagram and the like, with many ‘influencers’ thinking they’re entitled to an unholy amount of fame, fortune and tacky merchandise just for churning out low-quality content. Nah, man. You’re not that special. We don’t owe you shit.
The thirst for clout isn’t worth this much embarrassment no matter how ‘fake’ your persona is...
- Bianca B.
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Happy 1st Birthday Jordann Marquis Dufour. I’m so happy honored & blessed to be your auntie & godmother & to have you in my life. When I’m w/you there’s always a smile on my face. I don’t think there’s enough words to describe how much I love you Moo Moo. You light up my life in ways I couldn’t imagine 💚😍👑☺️😘 #happybirthday #happyfirstbirthday #nephew #auntie #godmother #bond #live #love #life #goodtimes #myheart #mixedbabies #babymodels #fashion #style #alwaysonpoint #beatufiul #forevergrateful #mcm #boy #baby #toddler
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Trans Pride (content warning)
The 28th of December marked the 5th anniversary of Leelah Alcorn’s death.
Since it’s pride month I wanted to write a few words for Leelah, who if not for a transphobic world would still be here and living as she was always meant to be. When Leelah died, I wrote about her and how things needed to change.
If you’re unfamiliar, Leelah was a trans girl who lived with parents that harboured transphobic and regressive views. Her parents wouldn’t allow her to transition and instead sent her through the excruciating ordeal of conversion therapy. They made her life a living hell, merely because they couldn’t accept her true gender. Leelah felt desperately alone and struggled to see that things could get better for her. She knew exactly who she was and did find some love from her friends when she expressed to them who she was and when they respected her pronouns, but the rejection and hate from her family was so overwhelming that it no doubt would have been a tortuous existence to live every day.
Leelah would often post on trans subreddits on Reddit. The internet was like a sanctuary for her at a time when it must have felt there was no escape from her transphobic parents, but it wasn’t enough, she needed this love in her real life and it was sorely lacking. It could have been different if she was given the love she deserved.
Leelah had a tremendous talent and she loved to sketch. Her potential was plain to see in the detailed drawings she posted on Reddit. I am convinced that if we lived in a world full of love she would now be a successful artist.
Some of Leelah’s work:
I was deeply affected by Leelah’s story because I myself felt closeted and reading of how painful her life was, even after she embraced who she was, it was extremely demoralising. The sense of fear I had about being true to who I am had always been acute, but reading of how much Leelah suffered, it convinced me that it would be safer to keep how I felt private.
Leelah’s death sent me into a deep depression for the first few months of 2015. I became obsessed about trans issues, the scourge of prejudice we face and so angry about the injustice of being trans and living in a world where at best you were shown a few crumbs of acceptance and at worst you were abused, ignored, bullied and even killed. I felt so helpless and of course there was a part of me that doubted it would get better. When it’s dark, you desperately cling onto the hope that it can get better, but when you’re surrounded by the darkness each and every day, that voice gets a little weaker and weaker.
I will always feel a close connection to Leelah, because it was through remembering her that I found my first internet friend, who was at a vigil in London. We have remained very close since and she is super supportive of trans people. I love her so very much and wouldn’t have made it to this point without her.
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I want to pay tribute to the two black trans women, Riah Milton and Dominique Rem'mie Fells who were killed in the last two weeks. Riah was a home health aide and studied at the university of Cincinnati, she loved her family and the photos she shared of them. She had a love of traveling and wanted to see so many more places in the world. Dominique was very close to her mother and her close friend said of her ““She lived her truth so loud that you could hear her a mile away.” She had dreams of becoming a fashion designer and she loved to dance.
The black trans community have suffered to an extent few of us will ever know of. They need our love not tomorrow, but today. The LGBTQ movement needs to ensure that trans people of colour are being recognised and listened to.
My favourite trans author is Janet Mock, her impactful book Redefining Realness was incredibly meaningful to me during a time in my life when I was struggling to see many signs of hope. I read her book a few months after Leelah’s death and it was very therapeutic to read from an incredibly powerful trans woman who was telling her story to the world. It gave me cause to nurse the dream that things could be different.
Words and actions matter. Transphobia like any prejudice is sustained by silence, I have faith that most cis people will stand up to love trans people and non-binary people but there’s always been a tendency for people to avoid standing up for marginalised communities because for a lot of people, they’re just not a priority and other things often take precedence.
Anytime that I see a cis person show their vehement passion for trans rights it makes me warm, because it helps me to see a world where trans people are valued and cared for, and where any hate is drowned out by the stronger force of love. When you have people so open in their love for trans and non-binary people it makes you believe that you will be loved for who you are.
Since today, the 18th of June is autistic pride day I want to talk about my gender too. Over the last few months I have been working as hard as ever on my self-esteem in the hope that I can finally live as who I want to be. I have made mistakes, and there have been setbacks, but I have tried as hard as I can to get a little stronger every day. I have found the strength to write about my trauma, my mental illness and my pain and through that I feel as if I’ve emerged a much tougher and loving person.
When I was in school I got called names like “f**”, “bender”, “girly” and a “wimp”. I wouldn’t describe it as bullying because it was never persistent but anytime I was true to myself it would inevitably invite scrutiny and hurtful remarks. I have always been quite feminine but I became so ashamed of that side of me that I would conceal it.
I now feel enough love to say proudly that I am trans. I’ve known for a long time that I’m not a man. Part of the reason adolescence was so rough for me was because I was developing physical features that I didn’t want. I hated the powerlessness of it and being so lonely to have no one to tell. My BDD made me believe that I could never be my true self because how could I do makeup/hair and develop my own style if I hated to look at myself in the mirror. For a long time I became resigned to the idea that this would be life.
But in the last two years, something within in me has changed. I have found my love for life again and the love for myself, I’m starting to really believe in a way that I haven’t before. This pandemic has been a time of intense worry for me because it feels as if the three rocks in my life, my Mam, Dad & dog Jack are all running out of time. Mam & Dad are in the at risk group and Jack’s age is starting to show. I have used this time to try and make something positive come from something incredibly scary and I’m starting to really believe that I can make it happen.
I am a strong person but I am afraid and I also am extremely fragile. My trauma has made me feel like I’m broken at the worst of times. But I don’t want to be trapped by it anymore. I want to be true to who I am, so, so badly. What I have discovered is that trying to get my life back on track will not work unless I embrace every aspect of myself. I don’t know when quarantine will end, but when it does, I will be ready; there is no turning back now.
This was a big step for me, but I couldn’t have made it this far without the help of some very special people. I need to say a few words because I’m so thankful:
To Aisling: We have become so very close in the last year. You have helped me become more open and hopeful. Few things bring me more joy than seeing you and your bros together and happy.
To Ellie: You always know what to say. I am one hundred percent sure that I couldn’t have gotten this far without your kindness and compassion. You know how things were so you’ll understand why our friendship means everything. Could talk about anything anytime.
To Jordanne: Having an autistic friend that I can confide in about my worries and challenges means a lot. You are strong and your friendship makes me feel stronger. I will always be rooting for you.
To the precious two that have a splendid and ascendant radio show, thank you for making me see that I can be who I want to be. Love your style, sense of justice and how you’re both so strong & soft. Everything feels right when you’re together every Monday.
Somewhere out there, I hope Leelah is proud of me today. I hope someday we can make the world the place she wanted it to be. For trans people and non-binary everywhere.
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This is a post that first appeared on Bloodthristy Little Beasts as part of a collaboration with Jordanne. However, as Jordanne has recently made her blog private I figured I would repost this top 5 on my blog since I did enjoy writing it
I hope you guys enjoy it too. It’s exactly what it says on the tin, The 5 first mangas I remember reading. You should know that I read all of these in French so I can’t vouch for their English translations but I assume they’re EVEN BETTER!
5) Gunnm – Battle Angel Alita
This steampunk despotian high action adventure with heavy religious overtones and a badass female cyborg heroin was my first manga and my favorite for a long time. Yukito Kishiro has said in interviews to have been strongly inspired by Frank Miller’s work and it shows. There’s this sense of foreboding and classic “noir” aesthetic that seeps out of every page. I must say, as a dorky teenager with occasional goth tendencies, it really spoke to me.
The narrative can get suffocatingly bleak at times. Even in its brightest moments, the story aims for the lesser evil rather than anything close to good. You may see hints of Madoka or Yuki Yuna in there. I would call it a precursor to the magical girl narrative and Alita certainly fits the tragic heroin trope. This manga is a classic for a reason.
I must admit, that I did try to reread it recently and just couldn’t quite get into it like I use to. I’m not sure which one of us hasn’t aged well. It could also have been a question of timing. This said, I still smile whenever anyone mentions loving this manga and if you are interested in brutal dystopian sci fi, you will certainly find something to enjoy in this manga.
4) Blame
Blame was amazing. It’s another dystopian sci fi…I guess I have a type. I’m gonna recommend Evangelion next!
I still love Blame. Not necessarily for the story or characters, but for the presentation. Blame is brilliantly executed in manga form. You see, the story is somewhat nebulous. We are thrown in the middle of an ongoing quest (if you will) with no establishing narration or exposition. In fact, there is little to no exposition at all throughout the series. Most of the story has to be inferred through the images and dialogue. Also…there’s almost no dialogue! You can go through entire volumes with roughly 3 pages worth of text.
To top it off, the images look like this:
Dark line art, with fluid detailing and heavy emphasis on shadows….
Blame is an experience. There is absolutely no way to explain the impact of reading this manga to another person and no way to capture it through anime. It’s one of a kind. This series opened my eyes to the potential of the medium. I had never seen anything like it before and suddenly, possibilities seemed endless.
I enjoy comic books in general – and find that they allow for experimenting with narrative styles more readily than in conventional formats. However, even in comic books, I had not encountered anything quite like blame. Even the black and white (by necessity) images and smaller manga page size seem to add something to the narrative.
When I was recently asked to pick the manga that describes me best – this is the one I picked. I also have to be experienced first hand!
3) L’Homme qui Marche – The Walking Man
The Walking Man is a one shot manga that you should read… OK so what it really is, is a haiku in manga form. At least it is to me.
This is a simple story, almost a non story really, that follows a businessman as he goes for a walk through his neighbourhood and just contemplates on life and existence. It’s basically a simple plea to stop and smell the roses. A love letter to all the little miracles that we take for granted. Most of it is one again conveyed through images…
Look it’s not that I don’t like reading words or anything but if you’re going to have a manga, might as well take full advantage of the visual aspect, right? No listen…I said I can read!!!
Honestly, if you’re having one of *those* days at work, you should find this book. I was perhaps a bit too young to fully appreciate it at the time but I could still tell that it was something special. A little compact shard of serenity and peaceful contentment to carry around with you through those harsher times.
2) Naruto
Yup, one of the first manga I read was Naruto. And I still like never ending shonen with genki male protagonists. I have since moved on to other titles in the genre (HxH being my favourite) but Naruto is what opened my eyes to one of the most prolific and popular manga and anime types.
I loved it. It’s what you think about when you think stereotypical Japanese comic. Super powers with weird names that get shouted out in battles. Occasionally awkward translations. Huge casts of characters. Never ending story line. Ninjas!!! The straightforward format, happy go lucky mood and slapstick comedy felt light and easy to digest for my younger self. It was a much brighter and more lighter counterpart to those american superhero comics. And much funnier too.
Then things got real… Naruto mixes in some truly brutal scenes and unthinkable betrayals with it’s lighter moments, in a way that american comics hadn’t quite caught up with at the time. I remembered being floored and staring at pages in disbelief. By now, this is somewhat par for the course. HxH or FMA take it much further. However, back then it felt novel.
Sure you could probably pick up Fairy Tail or One Piece for a very similar experience nowadays. For me though, it was the young Hokage wannabe that started it all. In fact, as I’m writing this, I’ve convinced myself to go reread them. See you all in 6 months!
1) Akira
Akira was one of the very first animes I ever saw. This is probably a common experience for a lot of cough, older, cough fans. I did like it. I liked it quite a bit but also…I kinda felt like I had to like it. It was a bit odd and not that easy to follow, but I was afraid that admitting it had some serious plot holes would simply prove that I “didn’t get it”. And I desperately wanted to get it. At the time, in my neck of the woods, there weren’t really any alternatives. You had a handful of animes to choose from and Akira was the gold standard. If you didn’t like that, you just didn’t like anime. For some reason, little me had firmly decided to like anime.
It wasn’t until some time later that I stumbled across the full collection of large bound full colour volumes at the library and decided to give it another go.
It changed everything! Of course, trying to condense 6 very large volumes into a single movie was going to be difficult no matter what but the experience was simply not the same. The rich story (um…dystopian sci fi….) the layered and complex characters, the intricate political background and mesmerizing plot twists, all of it had completely been lost in my viewing of the movie. I had to go through these manga to finally get it but once I did… I never looked back.
Extra mention
Natsume’s book of Friends
I actually finished Natsume’s book of friends volume 21 yesterday – sigh…… so it’s hardly one of the first I’ve read. I just want to mention it because, well I love Natsume and mention it whenever I can. Please read Natsume – it’s beautiful. Also, it is NOT dystopian sci fi. It will give you a new appreciation of the little miracles all around us.
There you have it. These five series managed to capture my imagination and kept me reading manga for years to come. I don’t know that they are my favorites but I certainly did enjoy all of them. Maybe you will as well.
Actually, I also once found a hardcore eroge mange on a bus… It was clean (as in not soiled…) – don’t worry. I didn’t include it here. Maybe I will next time.
Irina’s First Five Mangas This is a post that first appeared on Bloodthristy Little Beasts as part of a collaboration with Jordanne.
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I am the Wolf
I’ll run and I’ll hide,
I’ll stalk and I’ll hunt
mysterious as the moon
in the dead and beauty of night
wherein the strength of my senses
is built for bravery
and the lengths for my pack
are bred from fear.
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Hii Jordann! How are you? I noticed that CS pioneered the Harry goes to another school trope I wonder how do you feel about? I, on the other hand, am so proud of you, to be able to start a new trend in HP fanfics. You're a genius
Hi there! I’m doing fine, thank you 😊
I hadn’t actually noticed! If that’s true, that’s so cool! I knew Durmstrang!Harry was a relatively popular trope, but I hadn’t seen many with him attending Beauxbatons, which is why I went for it. If CS inspired anyone to try their hand at the trope, then that’s good in my books!
But thank you for your words!! 💜💜💜
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So I’ve spent a lot of the night watching you’re so brave and I love it don’t get me wrong,but now I’m laying in bed rethinking everything. Like you know how you start over thinking yourself and identity because you’re a fraud (almost typed Freud tbh) and you’re not allowed to exist even if that is like the opposite of what they’re trying to do. But like now I can’t stop thinking that I’m not validating myself and gender because I allow myself to be misgendered because coming out is fucking terrifying because you never know what they’re going to do. I’d like to bring it up at work but idk how that’d go down because when I first came out to my friends the only friend I really had was Robbin. And like she didn’t use them at work because it’s inconvenient (note she never tried) and even though she knows I wear a binder and am nb she misgenders me all the time and everyone at work does so I figure what’s the point. And at home doesn’t do it because like I’m not out in any sense of the word to anyone in my family but my sister who lives with our grandma so I never see her, and she’s 14 and I love her to death but idk how she feels about it bc when I came out to her she seemed very either yeah okay Jordann I get it, or it was JFC this bullshit but I don’t want to ask her. Like I said the other night. I don’t want to come out, that’s too hard, like I just want to disappear and like come back queer af like where’s the pause all my family interactions for like the next three years button
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I’m just so pissed off rn
Like 1. I wish K would leave me alone just for a day???? Like 7 missed calls in 1 hour and a text from her mum is a little too much?? The social media stalking is a bit much too???When she’s not even on social media???? We literally just spoke last night? I have nothing to tell her??
2. Meeting Es mum outside Aldi yesterday was a little too much too???? Triggered all the bad memories??! I haven’t seen them in 2 n a half years?? I don’t want them to know me anymore thx.
3. Being back home is a little weird?? Everyone’s been asking if I’ve had a good two weeks but No???and I can’t lie and say that it was that brill??! I need my routine back?!!
4. I don’t feel well!?? And now I’m freezing cause the boiler broke!!!!(hugs please??!) p>
5. I’m so fucking scared/intimidated by this script learning shit??? I think it’s because I’m scared of messing up in front of M… Even tho I’ve convinced myself (really tho??!) that I don’t like her (really tho Kat?!!!) gays just make me nervous full stop omg
Side note but do I correct A and change the “boyfriends” line to girlfriend cause I’m gayyyy and the only person I can tell this to rn is M??? Like I could just ask her what she thinks cause she’d understand but I don’t want to talk to anyone about anything rn ugh ahhh
Another side note but related, do I come out to Laura the day of filming?? I might have to if we change the one word in the script omg
6. I’m so broody?! All I want rn is a baby n idefk whhhyhy
7. I’m annoying myself just writing this tbh
8. Going to reply to Jordanne because I need her.
k. good.
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