I love watching Daniel Greene's bookshelf roasts and thought, why not submit? And then I thought: why not share them here!
I quickly realized I've got bookshelf ADHD.
Seafoam Shelf: a mix of my books and my partner's books. The cat is Richard, who is an asshole.
V Shelf: primarily series and my favorites like WOT, mistborn, the magicians, etc. Also my twitch background! Also Judy-dog.
Red Shelves: history-based books, Stephen King, variety.
Side Board Featuring Cat: newest addition because I needed more shelf space, featuring my big boy Sid.
Craft Room Shelf: entirely romance novels. I've collected the ones with over the top covers for years. Unfortunately it is in my craft room and my craft room is Problematic In General. Featuring my vintage Breyer horses that survived my childhood!
White Cube: graphic novels, comics, some DVDs and D&D minis, more series/authors I love.
Rainbow Shelf: I experimented sorting by color and I'm really happy with it. The ONLY shelf downstairs, surprisingly. It is killing plants though, alas.
Desk Shelf: my current TBR pile. And snacks!
???: I bought books on my birthday and haven't put them away. I kind of forgot they were there.
Office Wall Shelf: my partner's books, lots of sci-fi and nonfiction.
(Maybe a little wot, if you look really, really closely you can barely see some framed pien art on that white cube shelf.)
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Due to flare ups, I’ve been thinking more about my relationship with my disabilities and my relationship with God — any good resources/book you can recommend?
Hey there, sending love and solidarity as you go through flare ups and as you explore all this <3
You came to the right place — disability theology is one of my great passions! Here are my recs for you. If anyone has more resources to add on or insights for anon, please share!
For starters...
First, you might enjoy wandering through my #disability theology tag over on my other blog, which includes excerpts from various disability theologians.
Or reading through / praying with the disability text prayers I shared here last July for Disability Pride Month, which were written by a variety of disabled folks.
Since it's Lent, Unbound's Disabling Lent: An Anti-Ableist Lenten Devotional is timely!
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Memoirs Exploring Christian Faith & Chronic Pain / Illness
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires, Lyndsey Medford (2023)
This memoir connects faith, chronic illness (especially autoimmune disorders), and the sickness at the heart of Western Empire / the Protestant work ethic.
How can we learn to work with instead of against our bodies? How can we rebuild our world to treat all bodies with the love and gentleness they deserve?
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This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley (2022)
An incredibly beautiful book, poetic and searing...explores the goodness of embodied life and intersections between disability (particularly chronic illness), Blackness, queerness, womanhood, and more.
Each chapter focuses on a different emotion (anger, joy, lament, love...) to teach us how to honor and listen to what we feel in our bodies.
CW for accounts of sexual assault and other forms of and abuse and trauma, as well as accounts of antiblack racism.
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Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved, Kate Bowler (2018)
If you've been steeped in any kind of prosperity gospel, "if you pray hard enough you'll be healed" type Christianity, I highly recommend this book.
Bowler writes with gentle honesty about how her chronic pain and then cancer compelled her to move away from that kind of harmful Christianity into a faith with room for doubt, grief, and a God that holds her in her suffering.
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Disability Theology — Books, Podcasts, Videos
Disability: The Inclusive Church Resource edited by Bob Callighan (2014)
If you're interested in the perspectives of various disabled Christians, I love the range of voices they brought into this text! A great intro to how theology and church life impact disabled persons and how our churches must re-form themselves with disabled persons at the center.
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My Disabled AND Blessed YouTube series
I've got multiple YouTube videos that draw from various disability theologians!
I especially recommend my introduction to reading the Bible with a disability lens — stressing how different biblical authors hold different views around disability; so what's God's overall message? — and my video on Luke 14's parable of the banquet!
If you have questions about or struggle with the Gospels' healing narratives, I also recommend my livestream on that topic.
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My friend Laura's Autistic Liberation Theology Podcast (you can listen wherever you get podcasts)
Laura explores scripture through the lens of an autistic trans person who uses a wheelchair and has multiple chronic & mental illnesses.
I especially recommend their episode on "the Gethsemane of things," which takes an honest look at pain and where God is in our suffering. (Most of Laura's eps don't have transcripts, but I shared an abridged version of this ep on my podcast and it has a transcript)
"I am not your ornamental prophet" is also a great episode for thinking about what pressures are put on disabled persons and how to construct boundaries for yourself
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The Mad and Crip Theology Podcast
This podcast interviews the authors who are published in the Mad and Crip Theology journal, which is really cool! You can watch episodes with captions on YouTube, or listen wherever you get podcasts.
A good starter episode: this one "on Queer and Crip Sexuality and the Disabled Christ"
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Some eps of Blessed Are the Binary Breakers
While my own podcast largely centers trans perspectives, disability comes up frequently as well! Each ep has a transcript. These are the disability-focused ones:
"No End to Transphobia without Uprooting Ableism — exploring embedded forms of oppression"
"Our Pride Is Not a Sin — a Queer and Disabled Christian Lens"
"Goodness Embodied — an intersex, nonbinary first human and a disabled risen Christ"
"Marginalized Bodies as Spectacle and the good news in Jesus's disabling wounds"
"Eli and the prophet Elijah"
“Secular” books that helped shape my own theology
What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, Sara Hendren (2020)
Fantastic book digging into recent disability history, present, and future with focus on the “misfit” theory of disability where body and world interact with each other disharmoniously, and the creativity disabled people employ to make them more harmonious
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Exile and Pride, Eli Clare (1999)
One of my favorite books of all time. Connects disability, queerness, rural life, trauma, and more. Clare is one of the originators of the concept of the “bodymind” (though he talks about that more in one of his later books)
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Wanting even more resources? Here's my google doc with aaaaall the disability theology stuff — plus some helpful disability 101 stuff to share with loved ones!
Praying for comfort, wisdom, and community support for you as you journey! Please feel free to drop by again with any questions that come up or to share any insights you've gained any time <3
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order of the phoenix members & co as incorrect quotes
dumbledore: I’m telling you, my organization's members are all very intelligent and skilled.
tonks, rushing in: dumbledore! remus and sirius tried to make pasta in the coffee pot and now it's broken!
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sirius: Ask me anything. Go ahead, I'll give you a straight answer.
tonks: Why are we so fucking awesome?
sirius: That's the best goddamn question anybody's ever asked.
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molly: I am going to need you to swear-
sirius: Fuck.
molly:
molly: ...swear as in promise.
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molly : Are you drinking enough water?
severus: Sometimes my tears get in my mouth.
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tonks: So... what would you do if you were in bed with me?
remus: Depends. Is your bed comfortable?
tonks: Yes.
remus: I'd sleep. I wanna sleep.
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dumbledore: I'm going to ask you to be respectful to each other.
severus and sirius at the same time: I will respectfully decline.
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tonks: What happened?!
sirius: Do you want the long version or the short version?
tonks: Short??
sirius: Shit's fucked.
tonks: ...Okay, long.
sirius: Shit's very fucked.
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mad eye: So I have made the decision to trust you.
tonks: A horrible decision, really.
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harry: We have a problem.
severus, probably: No, you have a problem. We have an idiot who keeps making them.
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sirius: Hey I just got a pet snake. What should I name him?
remus: A pet WHAT?!
tonks: William Snakespeare.
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dumbledore: severus is forbidden from monologuing. at meetings, at least.
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sirius: Remus, old friend, would you take a killing curse for me?
remus: ...yes?
*snape angrily bursts into the room*
sirius: *running away* Great, thanks!
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dumbledore: If you get in trouble, I'm gonna be like... a lawyer to you. Ok?
harry: Okay.
*later*
ministry bro: Potter! Sit down on the chair, you're in trouble.
dumbledore, whispering: Deny everything.
harry, loudly: That isn't a chair.
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mundungus: stop forgiving my crimes, i worked so hard on those.
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mad-eye: We've got to find a way to cut down our expenses. What can we live without?
kingsley: dumbledore, probably. he bought six new purple robes just this week with the budget we were going to use to bribe mundungus.
dumbledore: hey! i'm the only one paying for our expenses!
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severus: Why aren’t you sleeping?
sirius: I’m too busy plotting your murder to sleep, severus.
severus:
sirius: …The nightmares.
severus:
severus: Don't look at me like that, I'm not giving you a hug.
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molly: my future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized.
arthur: *steps on a rubber duck and proceeds to drop to his knees and sob while apologizing profusely.*
molly: that one. i want that one.
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arthur: Define “dream” for kids.
severus: Dream - the first thing people abandon when they learn how the world works.
molly : That’s too dark!
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dumbledore: I can explain.
some obscure person like emmeline vance, maybe: Can you?
dumbledore: If you give me thirty seconds to think of a lie.
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dumbledore: You know you've made it when you see your picture everywhere you go.
mad-eye: Those are wanted posters!
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remus: I’m sad.
tonks: Don’t be sad, because sad backwards is das.
tonks: And das not good.
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fleur: Since we're in a relationship now, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is our shirt.
bill: Fine, but when I come strutting in with your fuzzy socks I don't want to hear shit.
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severus: Everything will be ok. You can not stop it.
mad-eye: Everything will be fine. You have no choice.
mundungus: What kind of pep talk is that?
severus: Ominous positivity.
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mad-eye: Someone will die.
tonks, sarcastically: Oh, fun!
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Harry, Ron and Hermione: *Kick the door down looking panicked.*
kingsley: What did you do?
harry: Nobody died.
ron: *nods*
molly: WHAT KIND OF AN ANSWER IS THAT?!
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so a non-welcome home related ask and i'm sorry if you already answered this before, but what got you into dragons? i'm slowly stalking through your tumblr and i can't help but admire how beautifully and effortlessly you draw the scaley fuckers (/pos) ✨
i've actually never gotten this question, so this is a delight! allow me to Overshare about this
i became interested in dragons at an early age - like, kindergarten / 1st grade age. i don't remember exactly how it started, but i think it was my fascination with dinosaurs, oddly enough? i've loved those guys since some of my earliest memories. it wasn't a big leap from "giant 'lizards' from our past" to 'even bigger mythological 'lizards' from always". the Hobbit and the first Temeraire (im trying to get my hands on the full series now actually) were read to me at this young age too, and the only parts i remember are the big dragon scenes lmao
i do know the ball Really got rolling with the first How To Train Your Dragon movie, which i saw in theaters in 2nd grade. INSTANT obsession with dragons. i'll never forget how it felt to see Toothless for the first time. but in general, i couldn't get enough of em. i made my own dragon manual, i got the Dragonology books, it was the whole enchilada!
then in 5th grade, i stumbled upon the newly released Wings Of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy book! immediately fell in love with it. and its what pushed me to start actively pursuing art! and also what pushed me into my first online space: ~Deviantart~. i saw all of the amazing art of my favorite dragons and wanted in on it. i can actually pinpoint the main person who's art i loved and found inspiration in: someone named Liighty! i don't remember their user, it's probably changed in the many years since. i loved their stuff and wanted nothing more than to be able to draw like them
long story short, i've been in love with dragons for the majority of my life. HTTYD and WOF have been my biggest inspirations and fuel to the fire, and my first delve into the internet pushed me to start drawing dragons (specifically wof) like my life depended on it. i haven't looked back since!
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Readers, I am on the verge of giving up on the romance genre. I need people to recommend books that I won't hate.
Please, I'm dying. I just wanna read cute stories about love without a bunch of regressive gender stereotypes or just straight-up abuse. Is that really so much to ask??? Anyway I'm gonna list things I love and hate about the genre and perhaps some of you kind people could make some suggestions based on that?
Romances I've liked: Emily Henry's Happy Place (I actually cried at this one!); Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown; Evie Dunmore's A League of Extraordinary Women series; Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material; Casey MacQuiston's Red White and Royal Blue (although the politics in this one really turned me off the first time I read it); Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries series (a classic); Sangu Mandanna's The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (I love a romance that has a lovable cast of supporting characters and some other elements going on beyond the love story!); Jen Wang's The Prince & the Dressmaker
Stuff I hate in romance: Most enemies to lovers (cause the most recent wave of this trope is primarily men abusing women in some way, but if you've got a suggestion that isn't that, please tell me), when Being Tall is treated as a entire personality for men, generally men being So Large and women being So Smol cause it almost always leans into weird gender shit that makes me uncomfortable, super innocent virginal girls who are almost childlike being "corrupted" by mean fuckboys, the entire dark romance genre (are you seeing the trend about things I hate... lol), Instalove (Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana was SO guilty of this)
Romances I disliked/DNF'd: Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World (the female lead was insufferable!); Jasmine Guillory's The Wedding Date (some of the character work was interesting but I just got bored with the story tbh); Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan's The Royal We (just SO boring but that's what I get for reading Will & Kate fanfiction); anything that started as R*ylo fic cause they, and Twilight before them, are basically the blueprint for what I find fundamentally un-romantic about a lot of romance (I might be willing to give something by Ali H*zlewood a try, as a few Booktubers I trust have said her writing has gotten better with each new book she's published BUT the word steminist is the most cringe thing I've ever heard so maybe not)
Romances that sound interesting but I've been burned so much I just don't know: Helen Hoang's the Kiss Quotient; Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare; Lyssa Kay Adams' The Bromance Book Club; Olivia Waite's The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, India Holton's Dangerous Damsels series, Nisha Sharma's Dating Dr. Dil
Heeeelp.
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giggling and kicking my feet reading this book??like hi? hello?? dude linguistics has always scratched my brain in such a!!! perfect way!! and ive found the time to read and got my hands on some second hand books and I've been getting through them like fuckkkk,,,,
i wish. i wish. id gotten the opportunity to study linguistics at a uni level. that'd be the dream..
in another life im an academic linguist. unfortunately in this life i like being able to afford food.
ANYWAY huge hype about Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. as soon as I finish reading this book I wanna check out her podcast @lingthusiasm
also!!! send me reccs of linguistics books (that are less than a few decades old if possible). as interesting as Pinker's thoughts are, it's kinda funny reading this guy say, in full confidence, that language is so complicated that computers will never be able to believably write anything resembling natural human communication. lol
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