#how it all blew up

[therefugeofbooks]

some queer ya books i enjoyed last year ✨️

#booklr #books #book photography #ace of spades #ás de espadas #faridah àbíké íyímídé #loveless #sem amor #alice oseman #how it all blew up #foi assim que tudo explodiu #arvin ahmadi #like a love story #tipo uma história de amor #abdi nazemian #read in 2022 #books and flowers #the refuge of books

[jollofhome]

On the subject of LGBTQ2SIAA+

That is a beautiful thing to see; followed by the rainbow flag and a good book.

But it also is long, and that's why I personally use the word queer.

My reasons are mostly just because of my personal life, but I live in a queerphobic family of whom I follow to a queerphobic church every week. During this time there (which is a waste of 5+ good hours I could spend reading :/ ) I have heard people stagger over this abbreviation, call it too long, or just call us 'alphabet people' and stop there. Every single line in this full of disdain or a joke that's really just straight disrespectful.

I hate dealing with this and people have ruined the abbreviation that spoke to me once in 6th grade is just a way for face contorting vein bulging people to spit more hatred in every syllable. The blunt abbreviation that I swear queerphobes use at every turn because they can.

The word queer, in contrast, is used to describe the most interesting characters in Narnia and also us. Nobody can really infuse much hate into a Britishism as an abbreviation, too, which is a bonus. This is also, not coincidentally, the word that spoke to me in 6th grade. That word stand for all people who feel they don't quite fit in into the cisgender, heteronormative society we live in with rigid roles and stereotypes that lead to damaging encounters far too often. it's for the people who don't quite have the confidence to apply the label or those who just want to get it over with. Its the 'Joni Mitchell is the only woman for me' moment over the '*showers boyfriend in condoms*' moment, the subtle 'this is my community' moment that I personally love.

OK notes:

if you think I'm wrong please speak up. I'm still learning and I'm happy to take constructive criticism from other queers

Also the ones in quotes are book references, How it All Blew Up and What if It's Us and yes we can dork out about it

:)

#queer pride #lgbtqia #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq community #how it all blew up #what if its us #queer #queer community

[addie116]

So it’s pride month so I thought i’d share some of my favorite queer books in rainbow order.

#pride month #queer books #rainbow #cemetery boys #felix ever after #heres to us #i was born for this #heartstopper #perks of being a wallflower #the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue #ari and dante #last night at the telegraph club #autoboyography #one last stop #red white and royal blue #how it all blew up

[onebluebookworm]

30 Days of Literary Pride - June 17

How It All Blew Up - Arvin Ahmadi

#30 days of pride 2023 #30 days of pride #how it all blew up #arvin ahmadi

[josephconrads]

Title: How It All Blew Up

Author: Arvin Ahmadi

Rating: 4 out of 5

Review: I’ve had a digital copy of this book for two years and I’ve got to say after reading this, I’m upset at myself for not reading it sooner. I can’t say enough about this, it was a delight. Multiple POVs might not be for everyone but I’d say if you’re curious about that style of writing it’d be good to check this out. The POVs were easy to follow as the story is told through conversations between family members and airport security. Absolutely loved the LGBT+ rep in this, loved the characters and their relationships with one another. Fast-paced with chapters that ranged from one page to around 5 pages so a quick read if you need one. Recommended this to my mom right after and made her go out and buy a physical copy so I could read it again when I feel like it. It’s just so good.

#book review #how it all blew up

[ew-selfish-art]

DP x DC AU: Danny desperately wants to find the explosion guy. Tim is really good at covering his tracks... he didn't account for ghosts.

The explosions make it onto TV as purported terror activity and most people haven't heard of that part of the world much less ever given a second thought to care about it. The only real reason it gets reported on has something to do with the Justice League and... Danny knows too much.

He's been in training for Clockwork's court (which he's suspicious of- feels like kingly duty bullshit- but Danny is playing along out of curiosity for now) and he's learned a lot about how the living and non-living worlds collide. That means learning about CW's usual suspects- one of which just happened to have a ton of bases around the area Danny was seeing on the news.

It didn't take long for Danny to try to piece together that whoever blew up Nanda Parbat was trying to fuck with the League of Shadows, and was doing it successfully. Less green portals in the world the better, same goes for assassins. But it gets Danny thinking... Maybe he can employ similar tactics on the GIW Bases that keep spawning on the edges of Amity Park. It would at least set them back while he and his friends navigated the help line desk to request Justice League intervention. None of them can leave Amity Park, so outreach is going to have to be creative.

So Danny figures he'll just find the guy. Call up some ghosts who were there, or er, came from there and get a profile and track him down. But the ghosts keep saying it was The Detective. Annoying!

Danny goes full conspiracy theory, gets Tucker and Sam involved, and begrudgingly asks Wes Weston his thoughts.

He hadn't expected Wes to garble out a thirty minute presentation (that had 100 more slides left to go before he cut it off) about how Batman totally trained with a cult and so did his kids. Danny kind of rolled his eyes but... hey, new avenue of searching in the Infinite Realms at least.

The ghosts confirm that Bombs is for sure not Batman's MO- But maybe his second kid would know? The second kid was already brought back to life though, so no way to easily reach him... Danny starts to realize that this might be the work of a Robin now. Wasn't the red one known for solving cold cases? (Sam provides this information- its a social faux pas to not know hero gossip at Gotham Galas- everything she's learned is against her will).

It all comes to a head when Danny goes about the hard task of opening a portal for the guy to come through at just the right time, explain the infinite realms so he doesn't panic and then describe what the fuck was going on with the GIW. It takes months, just over a full year, of random (educated guesses) portal generating- Finally, Red Robin drops into the land of the dead.

"So, you're the guy I've got to talk to about explosions right?" Danny enthusiastically asks.

Tim thinks he's died and landed in the after life following 56 hours of being awake and plummeting off the side of a building into a Lazarus pool. Nothing makes sense about the kid in front of him.

"Yeah, I got a guy for munitions." Tim answers cooly.

"How do you feel about secretly sanctioned government operations that violate protected rights?"

"Gotta get rid of 'em some how. Need me to point you in the right direction?" This might as well be happening.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny phantom #long post #tim drake #red robin #tim and danny team up to blow up the GIW au #Tim being known as the explosion guy is my favorite and i will not let this part of his lore go ignored #Jason is the munitions guy obviously and the ghosts go crazy over the gossip it enlights when he helps in amity park #Danny one hundred percent is living for this working relationship- what a weirdo -danny hasn't met someone stranger than himself in a min #tim bartering his services for a few more years of life and danny just pikachu facing him #Tim wants to improve his relations in the afterlife be he still completely thinks hes dead #danny: dude ur still alive #Tim: yeah thats the goal but i'll help you meet your goals first and then we can negotiate #Danny decides to make the guy super ghost rich (thinking big Haunt real estate) and send him home #Tim blows up the GIW with no remorse and with all the data back up for proper justice to be served court side #tim returns from the dead and this is how the bats learn that he's the one who blew up nanda parbat all those years ago #it takes danny so long to find tim bc tim was spiralling and only after bruce got back did he get into a normal routine enough to get got

[spkyart]

I can't believe i FORGOT to post this Ranma HERE

#like how dare i #the ranma post blew up all together today and wondering to my own tag i noticed this one missing #its a couple of months old but its ranma and ranma is always good #i fuckin love ranma its a plague in my brain #ranma #ranma ½ #ranma saotome #ranma 1/2 #girl ranma #you know? i wanna cosplay him at the next comicon shsh i hope so #rumiko takahashi #rumic world #ranma drawings in this home always have a yellow bg

[zxal]

as long as i'm on the topic of death scenes that make me feel insane i might as well post the scene that has been making me ill nonstop since I watched 5ds

#yugioh 5ds #5ds #'how embarrassing. i don't feel satisfied.' AND WHAT IF WE ALL BLEW UP. #yuma saying 'i'll protect you' vs yusei saying 'i'll save you this time.' for the love of god hello #🏜️

[panharmonium]

Man, these past few days...so many thoughts. About my life then, my life now. What I missed. Thoughts about what I'll never have. And what I want to have.

#gilmore girls #this episode is another one where it's like #lorelai had this huge horrible thing happen #and instead of making it about her she turns the whole situation into an opportunity to do something great for rory #she takes rory to the college of her dreams and doesn't give away even the slightest hint of wistfulness #when it triggers all these thoughts about what she missed and what she gave up to be rory's mom #rory comes out of a college classroom so excited about 'college is gonna be amazing; i can't wait; i love college; i love harvard! #and lorelai just makes space for rory to be giddy #and tells her how amazing she is and how she blew everyone in the classroom away #without ever once letting on that she has painful emotions about her own missed opportunities #she makes this whole trip into an opportunity for rory to celebrate and revel in her upcoming future #even when lorelai's own intended future has just collapsed! #anyway i'm learning to make gg gifs myself so i don't have to put my bookends thoughts on other people's sets #but this one really is the most bookends vibes #vague bookends thoughts #*

[idolomantises]

Anyways speaking of being gay apparently teenagers on tiktok are mad at me because they found out I’m a lesbian who uses he/they pronouns

#txt #there’s something funny about telling a nb lesbian that their identity is ‘terminally online’ while regurgitating talking points #from 2015 transmed tumblr #like first it’s Pearl clutching over masculine women and feminine men and now it’s non-binary lesbians making people go berserk #honestly I wish I could find this funny (I mean in concept it is) but it’s irritating how tiktok incited so much online harassment and #bullying by just making shit up about queer identities and terminology to a point where we’re just back to acting like we have to fit into #our stereotypes. but only the accepted ones because god forbid your lesbian character is masculine lol #I remember a bunch of 15 year olds on twitter blew up at me because I pointed out that dyke is not a term exclusive to black lesbians #because guess where they got that insane ass assumption that ignores decades of lesbian history and queer activism #that’s right! another random ass teenager on tiktok with no sourcing #just gatekeeping a slur meant for all lesbians #I feel like if a tiktoker interacted with a real butch lesbian they’d explode and die

[therefugeofbooks]

Happy June 🌈

#booklr #books #book photography #the lady's guide to petticoats and piracy #less #heartstopper #the lucky list #how it all blew up #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #queer books #june #books and plants #alice oseman #mackenzi lee #rachel lippincott #arvin ahmadi #becky albertalli #andrew sean greer #rainbow books #rainbow book stack #the refuge of books

[edithdraws]

This is a Thanos Rising 2013 by Jason Aaron hate blog every day I'm fuming over the damage he did to Thanos' backstory but ESPECIALLY Sui-San. You don't understand her like I do... Anyway this is old art from 2021(?) that I never posted because uhhh idk why lol.

#Thanos is oozing mommy issues but not the kind that Jason Aaron thinks he has. #thanos #sui-san #eros of titan #mentor #a'lars #cosmic marvel #art #I'll probably draw Sui-San with long hair in the future but her Thanos Rising bisexual bobcut is cute #desperately grasping for anything good about that book lol it's just her hair and Thanos likes to draw :) that's it throw the rest away. #I think about them so much... Sui-San being the only one who might've forgiven Thanos if she didn't die when he blew up Titan... #Sui-San's love for Thanos and how her and Mentor still failed him... Thanos seeking solace in Death... it's all so AUGHHH #Also I don't know how to draw babies I struggled so much with Eros LOL I had to just give up at some point #enjoy<3 I need to draw more...

[dcppi]

Paradise Everlasting wallpapers and icons by Hoyoverse!

straight up shitting rn dude, look at them ;-; i would say hope you enjoy but who wouldn’t enjoy this art honestly, look at them; stunning

#HOW ARE WE FEELING HONKAI NATION?! #IM COUNTING DOWN THE SECONDS UNTIL APONIA COMES HOME #i think my lesbian is showing #THEY DO BE LOOKING SO GORGEOUS THO #honkai #honkai impact #honkai impact 3rd #honkai wallpaper #honkai icons #honkai elysia #honkai aponia #honkai mei #honkai pardofelis #this blew up hello all 😳

[asakura-sakura]

this was so funny i couldnt stop laughing

#lovely runner #XD #🪐 #he tried so many times to tell her how he felt but all of them blew up

[forestgreenlesbian]

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#feel like my relationship with my younger brother is changed completely forever not to be dramatic lol but i am sad #we used to b very close but he has kind of. found his faith again and gone full missionary christian which like. i knew meant the dynamic #was doomed lmao but actually acknowledging it makes me sad i feel like i'm grieving for the friendship we used to have even though #it is literally a me problem i think from his perspective he doesn't think anything has changed. but i feel weird about everything #also his new gf is nineteen and he is. almost 25 and i am the only one who feels weird about it like i know she's over 18 but! idk i can't #tell if i'm being overly cautious or if my gut instinct is right. my sister & her husband have a similar age gap but they met when they wer #both over 30 so like. it didn't feel weird. and i didn't feel comfortable actually seriously talking to him about it apart from the first #time he mentioned her over facetime (he went to another country to do mission stuff & met her there) so like an idiot i've just been #making jokes about the age gap becausee like. thats always been our thing lightly bullying each other lol but he blew up at me and said #i've had nothing positive to say about her since he's been back home and that he thinks i hate her and i'm out of line for constantly #implying he's creepy for dating someone younger. idk i felt like such a freak idiot horrible person about it. it completely blindsided me #bc yes the jokes were coming from a place of idk how i feel about this situation so i'm going to rely on the humour-based communication #we have always fallen back on as a safety thing but i guess i was wrong or the dynamic shifted or something anyway it's all fucked #& everyone is just telling me i feel weird out of some?? misplaced kind of jealousy thing?? because i'm 'losing' my brother to his gf lol #which does not feel right at all he has dated so many other girls and i have never had a problem it is literally the age gap like i haven't #even met this girl i'm sure she's very nice! i just worry about her being nineteen!! jesus. and yes maybe i do feel some resentment around #a brother younger than me who seems to be able to live his life with zero difficulty whilst i'm stuck being this unemployed loser who ruins #literally ever friendship & relationship ive ever had but i think thats ok right like i can't help feeling that. i don't fucking knowwww #am i just projecting all these sad feelings about our friendship dying onto his new relationship or like. am i right to be genuinely #concerned she's six years younger than him and still a fucking teenager!!!!!! i don't know

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

Uni is so weird because professors will be like "oh you guys have x assignment to do" and then...

proceed not to post the hand-in box until day-of

not post the assignment at all, even if they promised it would be posted yesterday

refuse to return your email inquiring how to improve in his class after following his previous advice and still getting a shit grade

pick on your argument for being repetitive of pre-existing arguments about the topic even after he told the class to absolutely under no circumstances look up other people's works

blow smoke up your ass about how grand your work is only to give you a B... in a class with a guaranteed B-... for writing...

I pay for this. Send me back to grade school at least then I don't have to worry I'm wasting my money.

#these are all separate profs #this excludes my Indian philosophy professor he rocks #vent #uni life #how's uni going ceo? #oh idk try killing me b/c my WRITING professor hates me for some reason #in an introductory writing class with a guaranteed B- I somehow manage to get a B #for two stories he blew smoke up my ass about being so good #and now refuses to answer my email requesting clarification on th grade #when all he picked on was the fact that i had 3 female characters and the 'pronouns got confusing'