#one of my fav books of the year

[icedflames]

Has anybody read How Does It Feel by Jeneane O’Riley because I’m completely obsessed

#one of my fav books of the year #with an unhinged psychotic love interest

[llovelymoonn]

on july

allie ray holler \\ charlotte brontë jane eyre \\ charlotte eriksson \\ eileen miles hot night \\ barbara kingsolver barbara kingsolver \\ franz kafka diaries of franz kafka, 1914-1923: “july 16, 1912″ \\ gurpiar sidhu \\ czesław miłosz new and collected poems: 1931-2001: “a magic mountain” (tr. czesław miłosz) (via @soracities​) \\ rick bass the wild marsh: four seasons at home in montana

buy my chai latte because i spent way too much money on them this week x

#on july #july #on months #on the months #barbara kingsolver #mine #demon copperhead #demon copperhead is one of my fav books so far this year #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #web #webs #ww #parallel #parallels #parallelism #compilation #compilations #intertext #intertextuality #comparative #comparatives #allie ray #holler #i'm in winter atm #so jealous of all of you in the northern hemisphere with summer rn #>:(

[kyurochurro]

patchy patchy who has stars in her eyes!!!

#churro art #my art #illustration #touhou #2hu #patchouli knowledge #touhou patchouli #digital art #illustrations #fanart #I FINALLY DREW MY FAV TOUHOU GAL AFTER SOOOO LONG #i resuscitated a sketch from a year ago when I was experimenting w styles and I was getting more into 2hu again #I was going thru all my procreated files in order to free up space on my iPad and found a bunch of patchy sketches #I liked the old one sm cus I was playing w the idea of giving her lil moon and star pendants / chains in her hair!! #after fully realizing it I’m IN LOVE W HOW SHE LOOKS OML #IM SO happy w how far my style has come I truly love how this lil gouache style drawing looks 🥲🥲🥲 #also cus like . working w. purples is SM FUN #I got so nostalgic drawing this idk like I remembered cartoons and children’s books from my childhood doing this style 😭😭😭😭 #ANYWAYS I LOVEEE PATCHY PATCHY PATCHY PATCHYYYY MY FAVE PATCHY I love her

[strawberri-draws]

Finished this giant sketchbook finally after about a year - here’s the cover (sticker collage >:D)

Fun fact like at least a third of these were stolen (gifted) from bunny/ @stick-by-me (who runs a really swag stickerblog and is epic fr)

#my art #strawberridraws #sketchbook #debating if I’ll make a sketchbook tour vid #cause I LOVE those videos #but my sketch book is hella messy fr #and my filming is… let’s say out of practice lmao #my iPhone is kinda crusty #also haven’t posted anything to my YouTube in a few years rip #welp either way I’ll prob make a short vid / post of my fav sketches #but then again that might be hard because it really is hella messy lmaoo #anyways go check out bunny her stuff is very swag and it always makes me smile to see a silly little sticker on my dash Yipee #she is the one who I have the grogsdonalds universe with 🤝

[hyakunana]

Surfing the vibes of my most recent work to participate in my first @D2ArtEvents Solar Embrace Vol3 zine!! Because they still deserve some good time of quality

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny art #bungie #ana bray #anastasia bray #elisabeth bray #elsie bray #exo stranger #banshee 44 #fanart #solar embrace #GUESS WHO FORGOT TO SCHEDULE MY ART TO POST HERE TOO? YOURS TRULY #did this art in about 24 hours im still a lil stressed but happy and relieved i managed to do it in time #the only valid members of the bray family having some vacation from pain and suffering #hoping this art redeems me from that one dark future angst art i did last year kjxcvbcxvn #ana and elsie deserve the world - i say as i still have df as my fav lore book

[wangmiao]

Zhang Luyi for GQ (2023/09/15)

#zhang luyi #edward zhang #three body #三体 #cdrama #cdramasource #cdramaedit #dailyasiandramas #chineseartistsinc #asiandramanet #usersource #mencandykings #mensource #dailymenedit #mocedit #cactor #flawlessgentlemen #flawlesscelebs #glamoroussource #posts* #you have no idea how happy i am now #he's such shy and nervous weirdo i love him #gq said they tried to book him for this for 4 years lol #also maybe it's the hair but he gives off so much edward norton vibe in this photoshoot #like i'm getting both american history x and 25th hour vibes from some of the photos #ok maybe i do have a type because ed norton has always been one of my fav actors #and i'm not the only one who thought zly kinda resembles ed norton (there's even a fan video of him & norton on bilibili) #and sometimes i wonder if zly picked edward as his english name because of mr norton

[markantonys]

it is pretty funny that my gut reaction to the nynaeve Accepted Testing Introduction scene was "oh, good scene but not that exciting to me since it's just what i've already read in the book" and then i went online and all the readers are going "this is my favorite scene so far because it's taken straight from the book!!!!" haha it really goes to show the different things we all want and are getting out of the adaptation!

#if i'd had the books in my life for years and years i'm sure my reaction would have been the second one! #but since i started with the show and then went into the books with the mindset of 'i wonder what they'll change for the show?' #i tend to be more excited about the scenes that are new or different from what's in the books #tho of course i do have my particular fav book scenes that i'd be excited to see adapted very closely! #wot

[llovelymoonn]

lisa allen-agostini the bread the devil kneads

kofi

#the bread the devil kneads #one of my fav books i read last year <3 #quotes #on self #on life on identity #lisa allen-agostini

[shotofstress]

choose 5 authors you would invite for dinner (they have to be alive)

tagged by @holmesandwhatson :D!

Sussana Clerk Tracy Chevalier Alice Hoffman Guillermo del Toro (he have books) Robert Kurvitz

tagging: @f--e-u-e-r-t-r-u-n-k-e--n @pompeiianbollockr @lvpercalia @dog-nova @dailykafka @teethingpains

#take sometime coz couldnt remember alive authors that i read #i need to read more non western contemporary #the ones i read are dead lol #bc suicide or illness in the last like 20 years #i dont read ppl from my country coz the nice ones are dead or too poor to publish #and the alive ones are snobs and can publish bc nepotism and contacts with friends coz culture here is made by rich ppl #one of my fav books it hasnt be published bc no one want to publish the author bc he is not part of the upper class and is contactless

[serotinals]

Idk if anyone’s read a little life but I just reread it and I have so many thoughts okay… I’m gonna spoil the fuck out of it and just say what I gotta say!!

Ok for starters it definitely isn’t for everyone, and if it’s too much for someone to read and it would send them spiraling that is so deeply understandable! and like yeah pls PLS don’t read it if it’ll ruin your mental health like you are so much more important than a lesson on a page!!! But like the argument that it’s suffering simply for sufferings sake is simply untrue to me bc there’s so much to unpack in that book, and so many lessons,,,, 4 starters I think the reason it’s so descriptive is that we’re supposed to be transported into a mindset of someone deeply traumatized, and whether it’s to the same extent as Jude or not, the point is that some people are traumatized to the point it’s unspeakable, and what does that inability to speak on such a huge part of your life and your psyche DO to a person?? And I think we as the reader are taking on what Jude (standing in the place of many traumatized ppl) is terrified of people thinking of him - that he’s a burden, that his pain is too much blablabla, and it IS. And we’re meant to care for him and to sit and witness that pain anyway bc it’s through that witnessing process that people heal. I think a major part of why Jude ultimately doesn’t fully heal is bc he is so fixed in his self image, and so unshakably reluctant to disclose his past that he just constantly has to sit with himself and hear the echo of his own opinions of himself, and they’re awful fucking horrific feelings. And I don’t think it would have the same effect without his suffering being so relentless, as in I don’t think it was for no reason. Like it’s so bad you eventually feel numb to it, and we go through what Jude goes through, and we bury it and we can’t even comprehend it anymore, and that’s why it’s just so fucking ingrained and impossible to speak of and consequently let go of. Sigh anyways idk if this is making sense 😹😹 I’m going through a little life phase as u can see and I really disagree when people say it’s so much pain for no reason or “trauma porn” like yes it’s ABSOLUTELY not for everyone and it’s a violently disturbing read… but not for no reason. there’s so much to learn from witnessing Jude’s suffering, and I don’t think yanigahara was just torturing him for fun or for the sole purpose of upsetting or disturbing the reader … BASICALLY … my key takeaway is that we all need each other. We need to bear witness to each other’s pain, and the same way that not everyone’s gonna be able to read this book, not everyone’s gonna be able to bear witness to your pain, but SOMEONE will, and someone will love you behind all of it, and letting someone witness what you’ve buried is never pointless, or for nothing, in fact it’s necessary

#if anyone hard disagrees I would love to hear ur thoughts bc I get it’s a brutal book and even the author herself has said things about it #that I don’t agree with LOL #but few books get me fired up like this so I had to SPEAK ON ITTT #also the fact that I first read this book 2 years ago and I still think about Jude so frequently #one of my fav fictional characters

[ameliathefatcat]

Question when was the first time you had a teacher with a disability? And were they open about it?

#teacher #teachers #teaching #education #disability #disabilities #like I know I’ll be open to my students about having ADHD and Dyslexia and about my sensory issues and speech impediment #like first day I’ll tell them I have trouble speaking clearly and please ask me to repeat what I said if needed or slow down #also about my sensory issues and hopefully they would try and keep their voices down #to answer my own question in sixth grade my history teacher had Parkinson’s but she had to leave halfway through the year due to it #also in 6th grade my resource room teacher was so passionate when it came to the book ‘Out of my mind’ because of her son #I still remember her passion 6 years later #also probably not until 10/11 grade when I had a teacher who was open about her disability #my history teacher she’s a type one diabetic #she’s one of my fav teachers I hope my sister gets to have her one year

[ufonaut]

You know, I never really noticed how many open flames there are in Manhattan.

You Are Here (1998) #1

(Kyle Baker)

#you are here #you are here 1998 #kyle baker #vertigo #vertigo comics #dc #dc comics #dcedit #comicedit #comicsedit #u can reblog #NO ONE I MEAN LITERALLY NOBODY IN THE WORLD DOES IT LIKE MR BAKER #goddamn one of my fav books ive read this year i just know this'll make my end of the year list

[monzabee]

game time!!

rules: go to pinterest, your first celebrity, outfit, quote and aesthetic pic is your vibe

thank you for tagging me, @rose-tinted-juls, @vinvantae, @sainzcaleruega, @softtdaisy, @poetsblvd, @goldsainz, @jojojoy1, @oconso, @lorarri !!

tagging: @sebscore, @holllandtrash, @diorleclerc, @scuderiasundays, @forteafy, @goldsainz, @userlando, @formulaforza, @strawberrysainz @f1version, @fernandoswarcrimes, @thebearchives, @schuvries (please ignore if you've already done it!)

#xoxobee #beeplays #reminded of the fact that it took me three whole years to finish the secret history #absolutely fried my brain #but it's one of my fav books ever

[sunkentowers]

So I have a Young Wizards (Diane Duane) reread scheduled as... soon, since I know details have been escaping me. Not to mention that there are parts of newer books that just... Don't Exist in memory due to tired binge reading periods.

But I do know that there was a time when I was conflating parts of A Wizard's Dilemma with Diana Wynne Jone's Deep Secret.

#books #(not tagging fandoms because it's such a small thing) #(also in one the topic at hand was a much smaller plot point) #(while in the other it was an essential backbone element) #(awd is an odd one because I do enjoy it) #(it is one of the best in the series) #(and I can call it a fav) #(but heck if I could ever recommend it to people) #(I did do a reread of DS not too long ago...) #(wait that was maybe a year ago) #(so a while back) #(me and time are not getting on too well these days) #(also look up the chrestomanci series order) #(because the collection book version is making me question if I ever knew the order in the first place) #(I do know i read them out of order?) #(the lives of Christopher chant was my first)

[nozoroomie]

I've challenged myself to try and read 100 novels this year and I'm already two down. I'm prioritizing sapphic stories, and I'm doing my best to try and get them from my local library. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! I've read a lot of the really popular ones, but my library also only has a slightly generous handful of some of the best novels out there, so any that are recommended to me that the library doesn't have I'll try to buy from a small bookstore or secondhand and then donate them to my library :)

#Sapphic books #LGBTQ+ books #roomie speaks #there's some of the really popular ones I want to get for myself though #Like the Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of my favs and I have yet to own the book #anyway yes! lots of recs welcome and unlike on twitter where I'd lose them easily #I have a list and a spreadsheet for the year so I can write my onions on them and refer to it at the end of this year #it'll be neat to see what books end up at the top an the others at the bottom #the two books I've read this year were a solid 6/10 #above average but not my favourites #anyway

[itmightrain]

@fahye was right Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo fucking slaps

#one of my fav books ive read this year i loved it sooooo much #excellent excellent book rec #summer sons