#recommended releases

[spvcecult]

New Music You Should Listen To

#recommended releases #new music Friday #unbarrd #DMV music #DC music #best of DMV #September 2023 #AOTY #album of the year #billboard #top 5 #hiphop #airospace #Spotify

[wigglybunfish]

Some outfit exploration for my OC Chime, a Tibetan nomad! She's the best lil guy for me to play around with the concept of lengthy braids that can be wrapped around your neck. Technically a women's chuba (Tibetan robe) goes down to one's feet, but Chime only has access to the one from her childhood, so it's easily mistaken as men's :D (oh, and the gas mask? don't worry about it<3

#COUGH COUGH I HAVE. A FEVER #anyway #I drew this some weeks ago and I have nothing to do now so. I release this into the wild #watched so many documentaries on Tibet and fell through so many online article rabbit holes #it was fun #also if you haven't seen the Nepali movie Karma I highly recommend it #it has nunnery friendship and adorable old women #ily gramma with the fruit basket #posting oc art. embarrassing. #uuh lets see #bunfish ocs #sonam chime #wigglybunfish #nomad goatherd star

[boohoohideyhole]

why do you know that ...?

#releasing this dumb doodle from the files today #i remember watching this vid saying to myself laios would totally do this #do recommend the original vid if you like weird animal and bug facts but i do beg yall not to watch it while eating #fanart #shitpost #laios touden #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #jawz.art

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Can I, uh, also really recommend that folks download the show? Not that I would ever advocate such a thing, but also...y'know...if you were the sort of person who did that, that might be a good idea...

#ofmd #i don't know that a physical release is the off the table #i'd just really recommend it #without recommending it

[annabelle--cane]

I was barely even involved in the arg, I would duck my head into the server every week or so and have my brain melted with horrors beyond my comprehension and then I caught up on everything after it finished, but I feel like I'm possessed of arcane secret knowledge. these guys don't even know about klaus.xls. they don't even know about the 20k words of german forum posts on a ddr expat message board. they don't even know about chdb.xlsx. they don't even know about colin's first canonical appearances. they don't even know about BONZO.

#really if you are vibing with magprotocol so far and want something to do between ep releases and want to lose your mind #I recommend digging into the arg. there's unethical child psych experiments in there. #tmagp #marina marvels at life

[hymnsofheresy]

Do you pray for the hostages too?

Yes. I pray for the 110 or so israeli and immgrant hostages assumed to still be alive. And I also pray for the hundreds of Palestianian hostages arrested without charge in Israeli prisons assumed to be alive.

I pray for a ceasefire so that the Israeli hostages are released. I also pray for the end of Israeli apartheid government, so that Palestianians are liberated.

#i recommend reading some articles on the israeli hostages that were released #they each have individual perspectives but i notice online that people are refusing to hear many of their critiques of the israeli state #oftentimes dismissing the hostages of being ''irrationally traumatized'' or ''coerced'' into saying things #now i don't agree with all of them. especially since a lot are reformers. but i think it is important to hear their perspectives #also in general #the sheer number of palestians suffering compared to the israeli hostages is the reason why i think this ''whataboutism'' is ridiculous #you have 2 million people suffering and i am supposed to direct my primary attention to what like 100 of them specifically? #especially considering that there is one side that can end this whole thing: israel #hamas has already offered to release the hostages #in exchange for a ceasefire #and any attempt that the israeli military tried to ''liberate'' the hostages ended up in their deaths #what so far at least 3 israeli hostages were killed by israel (and there was probably more unconfirmed)

[notyourdaisybuchanan]

The Bear // on the fate of the tulip sultan, by Katrina Vandenberg

#hi I made this #I've been staring at this and fiddling with it for so long so here!! I release it into the wild!! #the bear #sydcarmy #sydney x carmy #sydcarmy edit #carmen berzatto #sydney adamu #this is just a snippet of the poem but I highly recommend the whole thing it's very very good

[blneobin]

I don't know how else to describe Pit Babe other than its the most accurate omegaverse fic ever and The Sign is the most AO3 fic you'll ever watch

#like thats just what it is #like the detail to attention from symbolism to accurate thai mythology references.. the tension the want the NEED you can feel in your vein #and pit babe literally gives me chills cause I swear i've read an abo fanfic like it before except its so rare for an alpha/alpha so its #even more great #going on my top 10 would recommend 2023 BL releases #pit babe the series #the sign

[nerdy-girlramblings]

I hate being stressed because of all the books I want to read.

#like there's rereads and new releases #and friend recommendations #and continuations of series #it can be overwhelming #but reading is not supposed to be stressful #I need to remember that #bookish #booklr #bookblr #books and reading #book lover #books #reading #nerdygirlramblings

[theinquisitxor]

Why You Should Read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Emily, a Cambridge professor of dryadology travels to a remote Scandinavian town to study a previously unstudied type of faerie, in order to complete the Encycopaedia she is working on

When her colleague and academic rival, Wendall Brambleby also shows up, getting in her way and infuriating her, Emily and Wendall must work together to uncover the secrets of the faeries.

This book is like if Howls Moving Castle and Spinning Silver had a child?

Emily and Wendall give major Howl and Sophie vibes. Wendall is a dramatic, over the top sliterer-outer (and may not be all that he seems). Emily is a bit of a curmudgeon, not a people person, and dedicated to her work.

This book is a journal format, and we are reading Emily's journal recounting the experience

Footnotes!

This is a winter read through and through

Cozy-fantasy that is set during the Edwardian era, although parts can get a little bit dark (that's just how faeries are though)

the Faerie in this book reminded me a lot of the the staryk from Spinning Silver, so if you like that type of faerie, this book is for you

This book is a love letter to fairy tales, faeries, and folklore

A lovable dog companion, lesbian side characters

Changelings, brownies, Winter Kings and Faerie Princes, enchantments

This book is just clever and neat, and really opens up a lot of potential for other books

All in all, I loved it, and I think you should read it too!

#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #Emily Wilde #Heather Fawcett #fantasy books #faeries #new releases #book recs #book recommendations #why you should read

[e-louise-bates]

Instead of "20 books to $50k" or "how to increase readership by writing and publishing a book every month that is exactly like every other popular book out there," I need the kind of marketing advice that goes along the lines of, "hey, here's how to get a modest fanbase and sell enough books to justify this as a side gig without having to go crazy and spend more than you earn on marketing." Because honestly, all the advice I find these days either a) requires me to put way more time and money into marketing than I am able to do, or b) requires me to write fast and sloppy in very specific sub-genres, and that's really not why I write stories.

And like Emily Starr, I would--and will--continue to write stories regardless of how many people read them, but it would be nice to be able to reach more than a dozen readers, and to be able to reasonably look on my writing as a part-time job rather than an expensive hobby.

(It doesn't help that there are so many articles out there claiming that self-publishing is dead! It's gotten too bloated and now only a handful can make a living off it! But wait--traditional publishing is also dead! It's gotten too greedy and now only a handful can make a living off it! Mid-level authors? Whether traditionally published or self-published, they apparently no longer exist)

#I try not to grumble too much about this sort of thing #because it always feels like it comes perilously close to whining #but as my school is wrapping up and I can start thinking more about writing again #and publishing and marketing #it's all feeling like A Lot #oh well #perhaps the new edition of mmd will slowly start to draw more readers into the series #and I know if I were able to release books a tad more quickly the series would gain more fans #without going so over-the-top as a lot of the advice recommends #all we can do is try

[taffywabbit]

i just woke up so i haven't actually watched the pokemon direct thingy yet, but i heard they mentioned they aren't pushing out another console release at all for 2024 and if that's true then frankly THAT news is way more hype than any actual game announcement could ever be. go girl let us wait!! this is genuinely what i've been begging for for years now

like, oh a new Legends game? that's neat i guess. oh wait it's being given literally ANY time to cook and they aren't crunching Game Freak to hell and back in order to pump out a bunch of half-baked annual releases for the first time in ages?? NOW we're fuckin talking. LOVE to see the torturous cycle broken

#buny text #pokemon #granted they may have just delayed their plans simply because nintendo still isn't releasing a new console til pretty late in the year #and they cannot feasibly keep trying to squeeze things down into a format the switch can (barely) handle without losing goodwill #but i'd like to hope that this also proves they don't need to be pumping out 3 console titles and multiple DLCs in such short spans of time #i'd love to see what might happen if the pokemon devs were ever given the kind of long thorough dev cycles that the zelda team gets #like let gamefreak cook for as long as they need and release when they actually feel it's ready. please. #as frustrated as i am with how SV turned out the majority of my frustration was that you can still FEEL the devs' passion in there #but it's massively overshadowed by jank and lack of polish and design decisions that would only ever be made under intense time pressure #the last chunk of that game's story is cool as hell but getting there was such a depressing experience that it's very hard to recommend #these are clearly artists who still have good ideas and interesting experiences to create! give them the time they need to do it properly!

[noots-scans-official]

Chapter 128.5 is live on MangaDex!! In this short chapter the daycare room has a fun swimming class lead by Umi-chan! Have fun reading!

next scheduled chapter: chapter 125

𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗫

#gakuen babysitters #school babysitters #gakubaby #kashima kotarou #kumatsuka kirin #kamitani taka #mamizuka kazuma #mamizuka takuma #manga #manga release #manga recommendation

[cut-me-and-call-me-yours]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)

This movie was so fucking good. The casting, the sets, the costumes, everything was absolutely flawless. I admittedly was a little bit hesitant when I realized Cole Sprouse was one of the leads but props to him he did a fantastic job. He took this hunched up mute corpse that's full of worms and gave him so much character through expression and gestures. The portrayal couldn't have been better even if he was allowed to talk. And Kathryn Newton also absolutely nailed Lisa. She's fucking nuts and I love her. Together, their chemistry was beautiful. The humor and execution of the jokes had me laughing out loud, and seeing "beloved wife" written on the gravestone made me cry. This film has everything in it, and I am not gonna be surprised at all when it eventually becomes a cult classic. Everyone needs someone who treats them like the creature did Lisa and should never settle for anything else. Also the creature said Trans rights so terfs be fucked

#horror #horrormovies #bunnytalks #movie recommendation #slasher fandom #slasher movies #new horror release #2020s horror #lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #lisa x creature #horror comedy #the creature #the creature is trans because i said so #trans rights #goth #kathryn newton #cole sprouse

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

Great news -

Kathleen Folbigg, who was convicted of murdering her four young children, had her conviction quashed today. The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal found that new scientific evidence showing the children died of natural causes - genetic abnormalities, which two of the four children had - meant her guilt was no longer 'beyond reasonable doubt.'

Folbigg's ex-husband handed her diary to police to facilitate her original conviction; in her diary, she wrote about her difficult childhood and her struggles to cope with motherhood. Her ex-husband remains convinced that she murdered the children (but refuses to provide any genetic information to test if the other two children also had life-threatening genetic abnormalities).

Folbigg would likely still be imprisoned if not for the relentless campaigning of her friends, in particular of Tracy Chapman.

#she never should have been convicted but i'm glad she lived to see justice #i'd recommend anyone interested in the story go and read the diary entries bc she clearly had post-partum depression #thankfully her friends kept campaigning for her release #auspol #radblr

[mortalfortaxpurposes]

you cannot imagine the peace of mind i'm experiencing rn

#i made this exact post the last time she released something but i can't find it so i'm making it again #10/10 would recommend