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romangoldendreams · 9 months

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Cleopatra 2024

#cleopatra 2024 #gal gadot #cleopatra vii #cleopatra thea filopator #ancient egypt #ancient rome #queen of queens

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hkartincolor · 8 days

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Caesar and Cleopatra on the cover of Volume 3 of Shueisha's 100th Anniversary Educational Manga World History drawn by Horikoshi

#horikoshi kohei #volume cover #not bnha #ceasar and cleopatra #historical #2024

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kimtiny · 3 months

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GHOSTS AU EXPLAINED!!!!!!

#clone high #clone high au #clone high ghosts #clone high reboot #clone high season 2 #clone high season 3 #clone high 2023 #clone high 2024 #clone high topher bus #clone high joan of arc #clone high abe lincoln #clone high harriet tubman #clone high confucius #clone high frida kahlo #clone high jfk #clone high cleopatra

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laurynimani33 · 2 months

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Cheers to #24 and becoming my own muse💜🍀

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mind1997 · 20 hours

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I’ve become more aware of myself. Because of the situation. Now that I know I’m leaving, I see things differently. I’ve been aware of little things that I would have missed before. “Like what?” Like seeing the sun shine off the roof of our old barn. I saw that this morning and stood there, looking at it. I found it moving. It was beautiful—it really was. I don’t usually think about if a landscape is beautiful or not, but I couldn’t control this feeling. I saw it and recognized that it was beautiful. But you know what? It made me sad. “Sad?” I can hear him typing. He’s trying to do it quietly, but I can hear. “Why?” I don’t know. I have no idea. “Because beauty is fleeting, maybe?” No, I say. It’s the opposite. Beauty isn’t fleeting. Beauty is eternal. But . . . I’m not. I’m fleeting. That’s more the point. His typing stops abruptly. “That’s quite profound. You do seem more self-aware and introspective than when I first arrived. It makes me think of Baudelaire: ‘I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.’ ”

Foe -- Iain Reid

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burlveneer-music · 2 months

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The teaser track for Cleopatra Records' forthcoming remake of King Crimson's first album: Todd Rundgren, Arthur Brown, Mel Collings (KC ringer), Chris Poland (Megadeth), and Ian Paice (Deep Purple) play "21st Century Schizoid Man"

#king crimson #covers #todd rundgren #mel collins #rock #prog prock #2024 #cleopatra records #Youtube

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fridaypacific · 2 months

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Cleopatra on Letterboxd

#Cleopatra #february #movie #letterboxd #film school drop outs weeklly challenge 2024

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vrbanograndier · 4 months

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Cleo wishes you a happy new year

#fanart #cleopatra #cleo de nile #clone high #new year #newyearseve #happy new year #new year 2024 #egypt #egyptian

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cheonstapes · 7 months

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a two-part miguel o’hara fanfic by @cheonstapes - 2023 - 2024

miguel’s never been good at love. with the multiverse at stake, he had make a choice - the love of his life, or the world. maybe he realised a little too late that he could have both.

pairings; miguel o’hara x reader

cw; angst!!, smut!!, lovers-to-exes-to-?, breeding kink, break up and make up, body worship, switch! miguel, switch! reader, p in v, oral, heartbreak, cryin, no cheating ❌, miscommunication, relationship neglect, fluff

[a fic inspired by pyramids by frank ocean, original idea from @ilovespiderman15]

part 1 - 0:00 - 03:50

- he has killed cleopatra (tba)

how much neglect can one person take? well, now you know - and you think you’ve had just enough.

*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

part 2 - 03:50 - 09:50

- she’s working at the pyramid tonight (tba)

you and miguel meet a year later. he still loves you, how could not. he just hopes you still love him too.

taglist; @chshiresins @eddiemxnsonlvr @syd-vixious

a/n ~ shakin, i’m very excited to work on this!!! i love this song so much- and i love miguel- and i love this idea- and i-

#miguel o'hara headcanons #miguel spiderverse #miguel x reader #sub miguel o'hara #miguel x you #atsv miguel #miguel smut #miguel o’hara x reader #miguel o’hara smut #miguel o'hara #cheonstapes #cheonstapes films!🪷

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cityof2morrow · 2 months

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Gallery Collection 001

Published: 2-21-2024 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY This is the first in a series of upcoming investment objects for Sims 2 – things your sims can use to generate income over time. From 1975-2000, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. commissioned 30 paintings of African kings and queens for an extended outreach and marketing campaign. This set of paintings features artwork from this amazing series. Celebrate Black History Month 2024! #co2bhm #bhm2024 #sims2bhm. *No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images.

DETAILS Requires Sims 2. Requires Apartment Life for shiftability. §1K-15K | Buy > Deco > Wall Hangings Paintings are centered on 1-tile but cover more tiles than that. They come in various gallery sizes and images have been edited to fit the mesh. After purchase, their value increases by approximately 2% daily – watch out for burglars! Files with “MESH” in their name are REQUIRED. Frame recolors include EA/Maxis and yeti textures. Frame and painting recolors are merged into two files so you’ll have to take them or leave them. ITEMS Great Kings & Queens of Africa: Paintings 001-006 (92-764 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) from SFS | from MEGA

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Akhenaton Pharaoh of Egypt (1375-1358 BC) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Alfonso I King of the Kongo (circa 1486-1543) by Carl Owens (1929-2002)

Askia Muhammaed Toure King of Songhay (1493-1529) by Leo Dillon

Benhanzin Hossu Bowelle—The King Shark (1841-1906) by Thomas Blackshear II

Cleopatra VII Queen of Egypt (69-30 BC) by Ann Marshall

Hannibal Ruler of Carthage (247-183 BC) by Charles Lilly

Hatshepsut The Ablest Queen of Far Antiquity (1503-1482 BC) by Dean Mitchell

Idris Alooma Sultan of Bornu (1580-1617) by Charles Lilly (1949-)

Ja Ja King of the Opobo (1821-1891) by Jonathan Knight

Khama III The Good King of Bechuanaland (1819-1923) by Carl Owens

Makeda Queen of Sheba (960 BC) by Debra Edgerton

Mansa Kankan Musa King of Mali (1306-1337) by Barbara Higgins Bond

Menelek II King of Kings of Abyssinia (1844-1913) by Dow Miller

Moshoeshoe King of Batsutoland (circa 1786-1870) by Jerry Pinkney

Mwana Ngana Ndumba Tembo—Ruler of the Angolan Tchokwe (1840-1880 circa) by Kenneth Calvert

Nandi Queen of Zululand (1778-1826 AD) by HM Rahsaan Fort II

Nefertari Nubian Queen of Egypt (192-1225 BC) by Steve Clay

Nehanda of Zimbabwe (1862-1898) by Lydia Thompson

Nzingha—Amazon Queen of Matambo (1582-1663) by Dorothy Carter

Osei Tutu King of Asante (circa 1650-1717) by Alfred Smith

Queen Amina of Zaria (1588-1589) by Floyd Cooper

Samory Toure The Black Napoleon of the Sudan (1830-1900) by Ezra Tucker

Shaka-King of the Zulus (1787-1828) by Paul Collins

Shamba Bolongongo African King of Peace (1600-1620) by Roy LaGrone

Sunni Ali Beer King of Songhay (circa 1442-1492) by Leo Dillon

Taharqa King of Nubia (710-664 BC) by John Thomas Biggers

Tenkamenin King of Ghana (1037-1075 AD) by Alexander Bostic

Thutmose III Pharaoh of Egypt (753-712 BC) by Antonio Wade

Tiye The Nubian Queen of Egypt (circa 1415-1340 BC) by Leonard Jenkins

Yaa Asantewa Queen of Ghana (1863-1923) by Barbara Higgins Bond CREDITS No copyright infringement intended – I own no rights to these images. Artwork and trademarks are the property of their respective creators and/or owners. If this exceeds fair use, please contact me via private message. Thanks: Simming and Sketchfab Communities. Sources: Any Color You Like (CuriousB, 2010), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), Console Certificates (d_dgjdhh, 2019; 2011), EA/Maxis, Gyeongbokgung Sajeongjeon Painting (National Heritage Administration, 2024 via CCA; Sketchfab), Great Kings and Queens of Africa Series (Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 1975-2000; Kentake, 2016), Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski (Sosnowski, 2018 via CCA), Yeti Metals (Shastakiss, 2017).

#ts2downloads #sims2cc #ts2cc #bhm2024 #co2bhm2024 #sims2bhm

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chloegong · 3 months

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The king's games are over, now the palace games begin.

PRESENTING THE SEQUEL TO IMMORTAL LONGINGS, AND BOOK 2 IN THE FLESH AND FALSE GODS TRILOGY... ✨VILEST THINGS✨ coming September 10, 2024.

it's filled with angst, it's off the walls insane, and it's driven by toxic love and power-hungry politics... all the juicy stuff necessary for something inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, of course, and I'm so excited for you to read it RAHHHHHHH

Brace yourself for both US and UK covers to be revealed (truly out of this world gorgeous) and preorder links are slowly making their way out but you can add to Goodreads in the meanwhile to prepare for the drama to come <3

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION:

Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She serves now as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne.

Only Calla knows it isn’t really August.

Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla’s betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August’s body to survive, and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love, the beautiful, explosive Otta Avia, awakens from a years-long coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy’s authority over Talin, chaos erupts. As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton must set their conflicts aside and head to the kingdom’s far reaches to prevent anarchy… even if their empire might be better off burning.

#immortal longings #vilest things #chloe gong #weirdest part about tumblr is tagging my own name so yall can find it

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revengemode · 6 months

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The end of 2024:

Euphoria S3 vs Cleopatra vs Spiderman S4

Zendaya

Darnell

Noon

Tom

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ducktoonsfanart · 4 months

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My artworks during 2023.

Until I find a template for a set of my drawings that I did in the course of a year, I will post like this, so it will be a long post and I apologize to everyone for that, but here's a little retrospective from last year. I also wish everyone a happy holiday!

Although I already have my retrospective from my post here: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/738256253962403840/2023-tumblr-top-10

Also here I will respect my drawings that I did during the last year, because after all this is my art blog, while my main blog is here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/

Like every year, here I will make a retrospective of my drawings that I did during the previous year as well as my best drawings from last year. Unfortunately, unlike in 2022, I was not forced to post every month because of the jobs I was doing, and I was absent a lot until the end of the year. I still managed to somehow make a Mickey Mouse 100th anniversary jubilee as well as make my own new ideas as well as some gifts for my friends as well as some crossovers. Unbelievable, but I turned to Ducktales 2017 and drew them. However, I stuck to drawing related to Three Caballeros, Darkwing Duck, Duck comics, Duck Avenger, OG Ducktales, Quack Pack, classic shorts, some Looney Tunes stuff and more. Yes, I have changed my drawing style a bit as opposed to 2022 and yes, in addition to Donald Duck and Duckverse, I have also turned to Mickey Mouse and Mouseverse and his friends and I hope to do more in the future during the new year 2024. Also, today is Julian New Year, so once again I wish you a Happy New Year!

As for my main blog, I managed to get over 900 followers, while on this art blog of mine 75 and I hope that I will manage to get over 1000, i.e. over 100 and I hope that in addition to my beloved ducks, I will also turn to others to my favorite things from cartoons, comics, video games, literature, movies and more. All in all, thank you for your support and continue to support me in the future. Thank you all!

And now the results of my drawings, that is, an overview through the year 2023:

January 2023 - Donald Duck with his family and his best friends - Happy New Year and Happy Holidays! - Modern Three Caballeros and Quack Pack - 32 notes (likes, reblogs and comments)

February 2023 - Unfortunately, I didn't publish anything at the time, but I drew Angel Duck (Donald's conscience) from Donald's Better Self related to the tragedy that happened in Syria and Turkey during the earthquake, but I didn't publish until the beginning of November and that on the occasion of the unfortunately bad events in Israel and Palestine, as and tragedy in my country. And I posted it here: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/733191514056966144/donald-duck-and-his-nephews-as-angels-mourn-the

Angel Duck pleads for the victims - 18 notes

March 2023 - Same unfortunately, but I drew Magica de Spell as Cleopatra, as well as Scrooge as Caesar and Gladstone Gander as Mark Antony and published it only in December, after a few months, related to Duckmber and related to history. Part of my Duckverse in history.

Cleopatra in Duckverse - Magica De Spell as Cleopatra - History in Duckverse - 20 notes

April 2023 - Happy birthday Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck plus Phooey Duck! - Tripletsmania - 32 notes

Admittedly, drawings from 2022, but I still posted about the 85th birthday of Donald's nephews, one of my favorite characters.

Also, April 2023 - Duckverse and Looney Tiny Toons - Huey, Dewey and Louie and Daffy Duck Birthday Easter Party - 23 notes (crossover)

May 2023 - Huey Dewey and Louie Duck - Happy Late Easter!- Disneyland - 23 notes

True, this post was more popular than that one, but it's still a drawing from 2022, while that one was as a gift for my friend, which I didn't post until May. Also see: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/717339649404747776/happy-mothers-day-duck-family-grandma-duck

June 2023 - I didn't publish anything at the time, but I drew Donald Duck and his friends with his family, mostly their faces and it was related to Donald's birthday. Post in July.

Donald Duck and his family and friends - sketch (Duckverse) - 35 notes

July 2023 - Duck Teenagers - Quack Pack - Six Fanarts - Ducktales-Duckverse characters - 35 notes

August 2023 - Unfortunately I didn't post anything, but that month I drew Donald Duck and Gyro Gearloose with my nephews celebrating Donald's birthday and didn't post until November. See: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/735189018680115200/donald-duck-celebrates-his-birthday-with-his

Donald Duck celebrates his birthday with his partner Gyro (Donro) and his nephews - 23 notes

September 2023 - Same, except I then drew the Three Caballeros (Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Panchito Pistoles, also one of my favorite characters) and didn't post until the next month.

The Three Caballeros Together Again! - The Legend of The Three Caballeros - 36 notes

October 2023 - Ducktales Adults in spacesuits on the Moon in space - Ducktales Kids and Teenagers in spacesuits on the Moon in space - Ducktales in Space (AU) - 40 notes

November 2023 - Happy 95th Birthday to Mickey and Minnie Mouse! - Tribute to sci-fi movies and comics (cosplay) - Star Wars and Star Trek - 39 notes

Also, November 2023 - Duckvember - Mother Duck (Ducks) - Duck Family in Quack Pack AU - 37 notes - and related to the 80th birthday of Grandma Duck, one of my favorite characters.

December 2023 - The Quest for Kalevala - Kalevala - Scrooge as Väinämöinen VS Magica as Louhi - Tribute to Don Rosa (Duckverse) - 37 notes

Also December 2023 - The Donald Duck Chronicles - Donald Duck and Goofy in Kingdom Hearts - Crossover Duckverse - The Secret Life of Donald Duck - My Version - 45 notes

And finally my most viewed drawing is:

Once Upon A Studio - Mickey Mouse and Friends - HAPPY 100TH ANNIVERSARY DISNEY STUDIO! - 54 notes

Some things were challenging for me, and some will be yet to come, and yes, what I did not succeed in last year, I will do in this year with even more good challenges and even more good surprises. And indeed in some things I have succeeded, while in others I am just a beginner. I thank everyone for following me and keep following me and there will be more surprises. And thank you all for supporting me! And it won't just be about Disney and Warner Bros.

Once again, happy holidays to everyone and a happy new year 2024!

If you have any impression of what you liked the most and what you didn't like about these drawings, feel free to say so.

Feel free to like and reblog this! And keep following me! :D

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astoundingbeyondbelief · 10 months

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Kaiju Week in Review (July 9-15, 2023)

It was hectic, but I think I enjoyed this year's G-Fest more than the last. My friend Alana and I went all-out with our costumes (to the point of a rare costume parade skit with the lovely Battra on the left). Dad debuted his unbelievable Oxygen Destroyer replica in the model contest, which became part of my Dr. Serizawa costume on the last day. I met up with @kyodaikino, @bog-o-bones, @zagorudan, @spankzilla85—and The Boy Who Cried Godzilla on Saturday, in what I believe is the first time two Wikizilla staff members have been in the same room. The Pickwick selections got me to visit twice for the first time in ages; truly, a visible projection of Godzilla (2014) is unmissable. I missed half of Kiyotaka Taguchi's new Daikaiju Bugon short while getting an autograph from TJ Storm, but I did pick up a Blu-ray of his Female Weapon 701 (and took copious notes during his Q&A... no, he wasn't announced as a guest, he just showed up). Flight complications foiled Yumiko Shaku's first panel, but it was standing room only for her second, which was one of the best guest interviews I can remember from the con in a while. Oh, and @bog-o-bones miraculously snagged me her last autograph ticket.

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The teaser for the next Toho Godzilla film, Godzilla Minus One, was released in such close proximity to the con that it didn't get a panel. As with Shin Godzilla, Toho isn't playing coy with the monster's design, but is leaving it (and another famous director, Takashi Yamazaki) to shoulder much of the weight of promoting the film. We don't even know the cast yet! Minus One takes place during the Allied occupation of Japan; uncharted and quite provocative territory for a Godzilla film. Toho International President Koji Ueda explained the title thusly: "Japan, which had already been devastated by the war, faces a new threat with Godzilla, bringing the country into the 'minus.'" Toho International will distribute the film in the United States on December 1, a record turnaround time for a G-film. Going off the major theater chains posting about it, Minus One might actually receive a wide release, which hasn't happened to a Toho entry since Godzilla 2000.

Cleopatra Entertainment has announced corrections to the numerous subtitling issues in its Shin Ultraman Blu-ray and DVD releases which should be rolling out more-or-less now. They're also shipping replacement discs (by request) to folks who wound up with the original versions.

Toho International will be launching an online American store for Godzilla merch, which will hopefully make this stuff a bit easier to collect, both in terms of cost and ordering. They're promising "a mix of items from the Japanese Godzilla Store as well as international exclusives."

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Keizo Murase's Brush of the God has again been delayed, this time to an unspecified date in 2024, but they softened the blow with another great-looking teaser.

#godzilla #gfest #godzilla minus one #kaiju week in review #kaiju #shin ultraman #brush of the god

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hyperromanticisation · 24 days

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A little summary of my 2024 reading, including my current read 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein' by Coco Mellors 💔 and featuring my reading journal 📚✍️:

😨 'Dark Entries' by Robert Aickman 25 Jan 24 - 01 Feb 24

🧙‍♂️ 'Earthsea: The First Four Books' by Ursula K. Le Guin, 29 Dec 23 - 09 March 24

😈 'Hell Bent' by Leigh Bardugo, 10 Feb 24 - 09 March 24

🕵‍♂️ 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' by John le Carré, 26 Feb 24 - 11 March 24

🏫 'Dead Poets Society' by N. H. Kleinbaum, 11 March 24 - 15 March 24

🎾 'Carrie Soto is Back' by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 15 March 24 - 20 March 24

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 'O Caledonia' by Elspeth Barker, 23 March 24 - 28 March 24

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goosemixtapes · 4 months

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max's top books of 2023 :3c

as usual, these rankings are based on some arcane mix of objective quality + my personal enjoyment (previous year's lists)

it was another weird reading year! i did a lot of reading for school, more so than in the past; some of it was really good and some of it was, uh. well, some of it was william wordsworth. nothing i absolutely loathed, though (most of the reads i disliked were books i could at least appreciate on an art/history level), which is cool. so i'm bringing back the runner-up category. did not make it onto my top ten list but were really good anyway: beartown by fredrik backman (books that no joke made me understand why people are insane about sports) and the GORGEOUS re-release of my dear @yvesdot 's debut, something's not right, which i have read before but will always gladly revisit again.

my top anticipated release for 2024 is alecto the ninth again.

(but shoutout also to just happy to be here, king cheer, and henry henry. trans people! shakespeare, even!)

and the list! in increasing order of enjoyment, with pictures this year!

10. The Common Liar by Janet Adelman

no, i can't believe i'm doing this either. i can't believe i did all that preamble and the first book on my list is an academic thesis analyzing shakespeare's antony and cleopatra. but also? it's the only book anyone ever needs to write about shakespeare's antony and cleopatra. janet adelman said it all. which is cool, because i have a fixation on that play, but also sucks, because i was also trying to write an essay on it and mine wasn't nearly as good. btw if anyone wants to buy this for me, somehow, for the $120 it costs on amazon because academia is awful, i will send you my address,

9. Robert Icke's Oresteia

i don't need to say anything about this play, because it's the source of "this was always going to happen. she's been dead since the beginning." that should be enough. but after becoming deranged about the oresteia last year, i finally read this, and holy shit, this adaptation of the story is so fucking genius and icke's writing is so fucking good. it's antiwar! it's about mental illness! there's gender! the fucking ENDING! (i have a pdf if anyone would like it. anything to plug this play bark bark bark rufrufruf grrrrrr)

8. Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

this is a little bit cheating, because i haven't finished this book yet, so maybe in the final chapters manne will say something like "what if we blew up every orphan" and i'll have to retract this. but right now it's fucking excellent! i've been making an effort to read more nonfiction lately, and this one shines; manne sets out to analyze misogyny not as a personal hatred of women that some men harbor, but as an intricate and structural system forcing women into the role of Giving (attention, affection, power, etc; sometimes their lives). and it's sooooo smart. some of it is stuff i already know (and some of it is Academic Philosophy TM that goes right over my head), but manne articulates her point excellently and i can feel it rearranging my brain, so it's going on the list for longevity and skill!

7. Dictator by Robert Harris

does this book objectively deserve to be on this list? you know what, yeah. i'll say it with my whole chest. i don't like how harris writes women and there are plenty of things to pick at in his cicero trilogy, but i had so much goddamn fun reading it that i can't not put it on the list. this was my year of being really really into cicero, and this was fun to read alongside e-pistulae. harris is sooooo good at making ancient roman politics gripping. the last scenes of this book. augh. ack. ough!

6. Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

there are a lot of valid critiques of this one (a lot of bad critiqus, too, but such is writing literally anything about transness), but i fucking adored it. i LOVE dual timelines, i LOVE unlikable characters, and i FUCKING LOVE TRANSSEXUALITY! moreover, i love that peters isn't afraid to Go There, to poke at the messy ugly sides of transness (and queerness in general) that i think a lot of us don't like acknowledging, especially to cishet people whose view of the community is already skewed. i don’t think this is the One Great Trans Novel; i think there are a lot of great trans novels, and we need more. but this one did hit me RIGHT in the chest, and i couldn't put it down.

5. Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

the iliad but achilles is a trans woman and she's fighting the war on both mortal and divine levels and she and helen have an insane homoerotic half-god rivalry and everybody is fucking crazy. pitched as "for fans of TSOA" but as i said in my review if TSOA is a pleasant but watery iced tea then this book is gasoline laced with crack. there is a bisexual transgender threesome. i fucking love women. book of the fucking summer

4. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

i probably enjoyed wrath goddess sing more, but i can't not rank this book highly on this list. this book is such a fucking masterpiece. it's tolstoy for the modern age. it's a sprawling multi-familial multi-cultural multi-generational epic about race and gender and religion and science and humanity and britishness. smith's prose is fucking amazing; her character work is even better; this book has no plot but it uses its length sooooooo well. the first zadie smith i've read, but by god there will be more. she wrote this at TWENTY-FIVE. that's fucking CRAZY. do you know how much control over your craft you have to have to write this at twenty-five. bonkers. it is also the only enjoyable book i read in my modern literature class, so shoutout to white teeth for keeping me sane,

3. The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

this book is ostensibly about bechdel's relationship with exercise. it is actually about bechdel's relationship with her own body, her own soul, her desire for individualism in the style of the transcendentalists, transcendentalism in general, mortality, and aging. i can't really tell you more than that because i didn't actually "read" this so much as i absorbed it through my skin like a frog while trying not to tremble like a little purse dog. i am not gonna lie man i did not have a very good. um. august. or september. or october november december. so this book really could not have come at a better time. alison bechdel i am obsessed with you

2. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

ALISON BECHDEL I AM OBSESSED WITH YOU!!!! this one narrowly edges out secret to superhuman strength because... well, i'm sort of rating the entire comic strip's run, and dude. holy shit. i love lesbians so much. this strip is such an important piece of lesbian history; it reminded me that a lot of the things lesbians (and LGBT people in general) argue about and deal with today are... the same things we've always argued about and dealt with, from intracommunity label discourse to global politics to hitting on women badly. but history aside--it's also just really fucking good! it's really funny! if you are a neurotic leftist, as so many of us are, it's hysterical! it's smart! it's hot! it's heartwarming! i read it over the first half of the year, in little bits and pieces, and by the end i felt like i really had gone decades with these characters. really just. so good. the power she has the range she has

1. the suzanne collins reread

okay. this one is definitely cheating. because i usually like to keep this list to books i'm reading for the first time, and i HAVE read the hunger games and the underland chronicles. but i read them, like, almost ten years ago, and i was not prepared to be so thoroughly fucking bodied by them this time around, now that i have critical thinking and analysis skills. we all know the hunger games is a fucking banger, so let me pitch the gregor the overlander series: something of a modern alice in wonderland setup, where the eleven-year-old main character falls into an underground world full of strangeness, except this world isn't whimsical, it's dangerous and stuffed with giant talking animals like bats and rats and cockroaches. there's a war on. there are plagues. there are war crimes. there is a plotline that is extremely explicitly about ethnic cleansing. there is some of the most heartbreaking fucking shit you've ever read in your goddamn life. there is also a rat who quotes macbeth and the underlanders revere a guy named bartholomew of sandwich. this series is for middle schoolers. i cried. not when i was a middle schooler reading it the first time; i mean now. so i'm breaking my no-rereads rule, because it really would be a lie to say that my best reading experience wasn't revisiting all of collins' work with my friends (yes, i read TBSOS; i think it's fine but not great). sorry to give publicity to an author who definitely doesn't need my help, but a few years ago my #1 spot went to shakespeare, so.

if you've read this far: thank you! please tell me your thoughts! tell me your favorite books of 2023! tell me which books you're excited for in 2024! and have a very lovely new year :)

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