#*thin air

[tendernxss]

thin air // citizen

[sophietite]

Feelin’ pretty small up here.

[angels-heap]

Despite my best efforts to avoid the main HL tags lately, I’ve still noticed a recent uptick in posts where people are like “it’s so tragic that Valve gets rid of beloved characters after spending so many games developing their close, special relationships with the protagonist” about Barney Fucking Calhoun and I just have to ask... did we play the same games???

He has less than 8 minutes of voice lines! He’s in like 3.5 scenes! He and Gordon have maybe 3 sentences of lore, and it’s fairly basic and boring lore!

Looking for a character with close, special relationship with the protagonist? Alyx Vance is right there!

[eirinstiva]

This feels very holmesian...

Raffles went from tricking a moneylender on chapter 4 to becoming a detective and investigating the dissapearance of Teddy on chapter 5.

This feels refreshing and a bit holmesian, with one making the biggest part of the investigation and the other one at his side as biographer. Infinite love to this pair!

[left-the-room]

One of the ways gender identity defenders paint gc feminists as fascist is calling our pointing out male violence "fearmongering" and comparing it to the way conservatives talk about gay people and poc. So "male crime statistics" is taken as a call for police violence against minorities. And calling out male pedophiles is taken as "the perverted gays" rhetoric. In this framing, women are "the oppressive class", "white woman legitimizing racial violence", "straight woman hating gay and gnc people", or more complexly, being misguided/not fully aware of injustices in our activism and ending up reinforcing other structures of power - this is somewhat in the vein of "white feminism" accusations. There might be a level of acknowledgement of a fight against oppression, with the critique of that movement reproducing other forms of oppression.

Comparing us to conservatives is the leftist way of delegitimizing women's fight. If we talk about prostitution we're framed as privileged rich women who hate the working class. If we talk about kink as violence, we're Christian prudes. If we criticize beauty culture, we're racist bc racist feminists also criticized beauty culture.

And once we're The Oppressor, misogyny is fair game.

[words-and-coffee]

I am saving up my breaths to breathe later. I will breathe them later. I will breathe them later when I have survived

Freya Daly Sadgrove, Head Girl: Thin Air

[blogthefiresidechats]

Ordered....

I ordered some books off Amazon a few days ago for my birthday and they showed up in the mail yesterday. I ordered them off Amazon because I’ve been unable to find them at my local book store. I’ve read a series by this specific author before known as the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness…..it’s a good read if you haven’t tried it yet.

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 1/5

 Book Blurb: Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman. Seventeen-year-old boarding school student Emily Walters is selected for an opportunity of a lifetime—she’ll compete abroad for a cash prize that will cover not only tuition to the college of her choice, but will lift her mother and her out of poverty. But almost from the moment she and 11 other contestants board a private jet to Europe, Emily realizes somebody is willing to do anything to win. Between keeping an eye on her best friend’s flirty boyfriend and hiding her own dark secrets, she’s not sure how she’ll survive the contest, much less the flight. Especially when people start dying… As loyalties shift and secrets are revealed, Emily must figure out who to trust, and who’s trying to kill them all, before she becomes the next victim.

Review:

When twelve contestants get on a flight to enter into a competition to win a scholarship that would set them up for life, what they didn’t plan for was to for all their deepest darkest secrets to be revealed and one of them to be a killer killing off the other contestants. Emily Walters is a seventeen year old boarding school student who has been keeping some dark secrets: she’s in love with her best friend’s boyfriend, she cheated her way into this competition, and she is currently living in a car with her mom. Emily knows she isn’t suppose to be in this competition but she’ll do whatever it takes to win because she desperately needs the money... but when the stakes get higher and dead bodies start appearing and all their secrets are being revealed, Emily begins to realize that everyone on this plane has something to hide and someone is willing to kill for it. Now she has to figure out who she can trust and how far she is willing to go to win. This is a locked door mystery with a bit of romance. Let me first start off by saying I adore locked room mysteries, but this one really missed the mark for me. Emily was a very unlikable protagonist, and yes i know she’s a teen going through a rough time and is meant to come off unlikable so that when she has a “growth” moment later on in the story we are rooting for her, but if I’m being honest I definitely wasn’t rooting for her. Then there’s the killer reveal which was completely odd because it came out of nowhere, like the motive and the actual reasoning behind why they did what they did was not great at all. The romance was unnecessary and I didn’t really believe it. Sadly this one was a miss for me but if you enjoy locked room mysteries maybe give this one a go, maybe you’ll like it and have a better time than I did.

*Thanks Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group, Razorbill for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[good-books-to-read]

Cool Cover Monday

Title & Author: Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker

Summary: Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[hokkabazgibi]

"Air is too thin we are dying."

[the-worlds-between-pages]

Thin Air by: Kellie M. Parker

Published by: Penguin Publication Date: October 17 2023 This book started so strong. I was so excited only to be let down at the end. First things first there are a ton of characters. I think fifteen? 12 of them are the students that are competing and the other 3 are the stewardesses. Our main character is a 17 year old who is on some seriously hard times. I felt so bad for her. Even after…

[tinnedmarlin]

helmetless gabriel

gabriel got his “artsy side” from gianni. it runs in the family

[words-and-coffee]

amid a great stillness I am thinking my thoughts . no the barb protruding from my stomach does not worry me . no my dispersing parts do not worry me. I simply clench my other parts. I may be unlooked-for . I may be filled with blood. I may grasp a piece of ice if I can find it . I can be amid a stillness but I cannot count myself among it alone in Room 3 I am papier-mâchéing every surface . I have been papier-mâchéing every surface in Room 3 for twenty-one years . the walls and floor and all the tables and chairs have been thickening . the walls and floor and all the tables and chairs have become thickened and inflamed like an asthmatic airway . I am saving up my breaths to breathe later. I will breathe them later. I will breathe them later when I have survived

Freya Daly Sadgrove, Head Girl: Thin Air

[big-low-t]

Dirtnap - Thin Air