#James Monette

[welcometohelck]

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK: "People Medley: Everyday People + Fishers of Men + One for the Pastor” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/people-medley-everyday-people-fishers-of-men-one-for-the-pastor-2  ...I share this in advance of Juneteenth, falling this week on the 19th (if you don’t know about Juneteeth I encourage you to look it up). 

Sly Stone wrote “Everyday People” as a plea, proclaiming "I am everyday people" to mean that everyone (band member and audience) should consider themselves as parts of a whole, not of smaller, specialized factions. Rose Stone (Sly’s sister) sang the bridge sections using the cadence of a children's taunt, mocking the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat, skinny, white, black, red, yellow “…and so on and scooby dooby dooby.”

I recorded this in 2000 with a “funk/soul academy” of contributors, including drummer Jab’O Starks, best known for his years with James Brown. He was a prince to work with. I was honored to play 4 gigs with “dueling drummers” Jab’O + Clyde Stubblefield, billed as James Brown’s Funkmasters. During dinners with both men, I soaked up their “war stories” about music, the Chiltlin’ Circuit, and “making it” during the days of segregation. There are many more “back stories” behind this track... 

Personnel:

Pistol Allen: congas

JJB: bass, guitars, keyboards, percussion, lead & harmony vocals

Cassie Blair & Linda Wheatley: harmony vocals

Sir Henry Gibson: percussion

Frank Hakava: bass

Monette Newsuan: harmony vocals, rap, & lyrics on “One For The Pastor”

Jaim Rohm: guitar

Jab'O Starks: drums, shout outs Carl Stevens: saxophone

Pastor Sidney D. Wheatley: shout outs

Tim Breon & Bil Bryant: recording & mixing

#juneteenth #everydaypeople #slystone #slyandthefamilystone #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #racism #bigotry #funk #gospel #soulmusic #pistolallen #jamesbrown #jabostarks #monette #bilbryant #timbreon

[remembertheplunge]

Note: the “ I don’t come from the past, I come from Now” is a Paul Monette quote . He was a gay activist author who died of AIDS in 1995. He wrote about gay life and the devastating impact AIDS had on it.

The following quotes are included in the journal entries above:

4/4/2019 "I could lose my social identity, my physical configuration and my personal history, yet, something will remain the same, outlasting radical vicissitudes." Force of Charachter, by James Hillman

My responding December 18, 2019 margin note:

"My Mission Statement:

I am the family.

I am the government.

I am the employer.

I am the body.

I self define.

I don't come from the past, I come from now.

I self define, period."

[zipegs]

FFRMC Day 2: AU of My Heart

Three Winters, Four Springs by halotolerant fitzier, explicit, 49k, mating cycles/in heat, telepathic bond, dubious consent, slow burn

Nelson had a sister. It is noble when it is in broadsheets, when it is spoken of in metaphors, in bonds and leadership. Not in the close, stinking intimacy of it, not in a small and far from soundproof cabin with a tub of whale grease and two wolves circling each other.

This is a fusion with a piece of media I'm personally unfamiliar with—Bear and Monette's 'Iskryne' series. Obviously, knowledge of that universe is not necessary to read and enjoy this piece! This is a retelling of the canon series in a world where naval officers are all telepathically bonded to a wolf 'brother' or 'sister,' who accompanies them on their voyages and helps with 'pack' morale, among other things. Operates a lot like daemon AUs on the surface for those familiar with that particular flavor!

For those who have wolf sisters (like Francis), when that sister goes into heat, so does the officer, and both have to mate (in this case, Francis and his wolf sister must mate with Sir John and his wolf brother—until Sir John's death, at least!).

This is such a wonderfully written story with lots of angst and hurt/comfort!!! Even if animal-type a/b/o stories aren't usually your cup of tea (they aren't always mine), I highly recommend checking it out.

love, actually by @wildcard47 fitzier, goodsilna, bridglar, mature, 25k, modern au, fake dating, hurt/comfort

With three weeks to go until Christmas, James asks his fellow professor Francis for an unusual favor.

James has just broken up with his boyfriend, so he needs a companion for his and his friends' yearly holiday trip (which, this year, will be to a wintery cabin in Canada)! He ends up convincing Francis to come with him. From the get-go, everyone's convinced they're dating.

Lovely, heartwarming AU that uses a delightful cast of characters and features a VERY hot massage scene!

Rotten Work by @longstoryshortikilledhim fitzier, explicit, 26k, modern au, office au, james fitzjames in a dress, sick fic

James Fitzjames, COO of Erebus Voyages, has a tragic crush on his straight colleague, Francis Crozier. (Well. He thinks Francis is straight.) There’s no way his tender feelings will ever be returned, is there?

James and Francis are co-workers at a travel agency. They don't exactly get along, and they constantly get off on the wrong foot with each other. When James puts on a "Navy"-themed Pride party for the company, though, they're forced to face the false assumptions they've made about each other, and their relationship starts to change.

Another delightful, feel-good AU with some really lovely sickfic moments and a fantastic Fitzier first time!

[bachaboska]

Explore my bookshelf!

Tagged by @meadowlarkx 😘

An estimate of how many physical books I own: I have no idea and I will not count them so lets say 250.

Favorite author: I would say Jamie O'Neill but I also really enjoy books from Sarah Monette (Katherine Addison), Marlon James, Michael Nava, Colm Tóibín, Elizabeth Bear.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (when I want to suffer I just think about my financial situation - I don't need a book for that) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.

A popular book I thought was just meh: Everything I've read so far by TJ Klune, Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse.

Longest book I own: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara or the compiled editions of all of the Trilogy books by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Longest series I own all the books to: I can't really afford buying books for longer series - sometimes I get one of them from the used bookstore and then borrow the rest from the library or my friends. My bookshelves look like a battlefield - random tomes of different series scattered all over the place.

Prettiest book I own: I recently got Radical Love by Neil Blackmore and I think looks pretty good.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill (I need to reread this book), The Bone Key by Sarah Monette, Tall Bones by Anna Bailey, and Bel Dame Apocrypha series by Kameron Hurley.

Book I'm reading now: Seep by Chana Porter. It's really interesting so far.

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: I really need to get to Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: In Polish.

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook? Depends on what I'm in the mood for.

Tagging @stellasapiente - tell me about your books Alice!

[thedanwich]

Top 10 Books of 2023

10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk

9. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

8. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance - Abdurraqib Hanif

7. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green

6. The Dreamblood Duology - N.K. Jamison

5. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker

4. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond

3. The Song of Achilles/Circe - Madeline Miller 

2. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith

Stoner - John Williams

Honorable mentions:

All-Night Pharmacy - Ruth Madievsky

A Night in Terror Tower (Goosebumps #27) - R.L. Stine

A Shocker on Shock Street (Goosebumps #35) - R.L. Stine

A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf - John Muir

At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O’Neill

The Barking Ghost (Goosebumps #32) - R.L. Stine

Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story - Paul Monette

By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship - Florian Gadsby

Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii - James L. Haley

The City We Became - N.K. Jemison

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom (Goosebumps #28) - R.L. Stine 

The Doloriad - Missouri Williams

Extinction - Douglas Preston

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

The Headless Ghost (Goosebumps #37) - R.L. Stine 

The Haunted Mask II (Goosebumps #36) - R.L. Stine

The Horror at Camp Jellyjam (Goosebumps #33) - R.L. Stine

The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

It Came From Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps #30) - R.L. Stine

Just Above My Head - James Baldwin

Leaving Las Vegas - John O’Brien

The Lookback Window - Kyle Dillon Hertz

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli

Monster Blood III (Goosebumps #29) - R.L. Stine

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Nothing Like It in the World: The men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 - Stephen E. Ambrose

Night of the Living Dummy II (Goosebumps #31) - R.L. Stine

POST - Leo Herrera

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture - Jenny Odell

Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes (Goosebumps #34) - R.L. Stine

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse - Brontez Purnell

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Under a Rock: A Memoir - Chris Stein

Women Talking - Miriam Toews

You Are Not A Stranger Here: Stories - Adam Haslett

[peacemore-springs]

About That Motown Sound

This is a short Wikipedia quote with a few added words from myself. I found the info so interesting that I simply had to share it with you.

Among the studio musicians responsible for the 'Motown sound' were keyboardists Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith, and Joe Hunter; guitarists Ray Monette, Joe Messina, Robert White, and Eddie Willis; percussionists Eddie 'Bongo' Brown and Jack Ashford; drummers Benny Benjamin, Uriel Jones, and Richard 'Pistol' Allen; and bassists James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt. The band's career and work is chronicled in a 2002 documentary film Standing in the Shadow of Motown, which publicised the fact that these musicians "played on more number-one records than The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and The Beach Boys combined".

Interesting to acknowledge this as fact.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“UNEMPLOYED ASK PROPRIETORS' AID,” Montreal Star. August 27, 1931. Page 3. --- Circulating petitions in an effort to secure proprietors' signatures to protest against the use of steam shovels on public works in Montreal, several unemployed are planning to forward these protests to the Federal authorities.

Having organized, under the direction J. O. Perreault and Raoul Pichette, the unemployed are going through various districts to obtain the signature of Montreal proprietors in an effort to get them to oppose the use of steam shovels on public works.

An hour after Ernest Monette of 6569 Chateaubriand street and Albert Prevost, of no address, had broken into a Stop and Shop store at 5531 Western avenue the night of August 23 they were arrested by Constables Connelly and Gillan on St. James street west. This morning before Judge Couillard of Rimouski in the police court they were each given a month in prison.

[firstfullmoon]

sorry if you’ve answered a similar question to this but what were your most memorable reads of ‘21??

here we go! in no particular order:

fiction: milkman by anna burns, wolf hall by hilary mantel, de nos frères blessés by joseph andras, chavirer by lola lafon, swimming home by deborah levy, the friend by sigrid nunez, the group by mary mccarthy, commonwealth by ann patchett, mrs dalloway by virginia woolf, eileen by ottessa moshfegh

non fiction: trick mirror by jia tolentino, the liars’ club & cherry by mary karr, james baldwin’s collected essays, the copenhagen trilogy by tove ditlevsen, becoming a man: half a life story by paul monette, they can’t kill us until they kill us by hanif abdurraqib, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke, qui a tué mon père by édouard louis

poetry: a fortune for your disaster by hanif abdurraqib, calling a wolf a wolf by kaveh akbar, space struck by paige lewis, walking to martha’s vineyard by franz wright, kingdom animalia by aracelis girmay, love alone: eighteen elegies for rog by paul monette, the best poems of jane kenyon, grocery list poems by rhiannon mcgavin

[welcometohelck]

teehee

[singeratlarge]

SONG OF THE WEEK: "People Medley: Everyday People + Fishers of Men + One for the Pastor” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/people-medley-everyday-people-fishers-of-men-one-for-the-pastor-2  ...I share this in advance of Juneteenth, falling this weekend on Sunday the 19th (if you don’t know about Juneteeth I encourage you to look it up). Sly Stone wrote “Everyday People” as a plea, proclaiming "I am everyday people" to mean that everyone (band member and audience) should consider themselves as parts of a whole, not of smaller, specialized factions. Rose Stone (Sly’s sister) sings the bridge sections (using the cadence of a children's taunt) that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat, skinny, white, black, red, yellow “…and so on and scooby dooby dooby.”

I recorded this in 2000 with a “funk/soul academy” of contributors, including drummer Jab’O Starks, best known for his years with James Brown. He was a prince to work with. I was honored to play 4 gigs with “dueling drummers” Jab’O + Clyde Stubblefield, billed as James Brown’s Funkmasters. During dinners with both men, I soaked up their “war stories” about music, the Chiltlin’ Circuit, and “making it” during the days of segregation. There are many more “back stories” behind this track... 

Personnel:

Pistol Allen: congas

JJB: bass, guitars, keyboards, percussion, lead & harmony vocals

Cassie Blair & Linda Wheatley: harmony vocals

Sir Henry Gibson: percussion

Frank Hakava: bass

Monette Newsuan: harmony vocals, rap, & lyrics on “One For The Pastor”

Jaim Rohm: guitar

Jab'O Starks: drums, shout outs Carl Stevens: saxophone

Pastor Sidney D. Wheatley; shout outs

Tim Breon & Bil Bryant: recording & mixing

#juneteenth #everydaypeople #slystone #slyandthefamilystone #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #racism #bigotry #funk #gospel #soulmusic #pistolallen #jamesbrown #jabostarks #monette #bilbryant #timbreon

[backofthebookshelf]

Horror Recs for Magnus Fans, Part the Second

Last time I did this I was assuming that anyone who was listening to a horror podcast already knew some horror, but I have since learned that this is not the case, so there are a few more classics in here, as well as some more of my faves.

For anyone and everyone who listens to TMA: Sarah Monette's Kyle Murchison Booth stories, many (though not all) of which are collected in The Bone Key. Queer information professional would very much like for ghosts and monsters to leave him alone, does not get what he wants; can't resist the impulse to help out people who are more fucked over than him anyway. I love Booth so much, he deserves much better things than he gets.

For Web stans: Blindsight by Peter Watts, a sci-fi horror novel about free will and consciousness. Lydia Nicholas named this as one of her favorite books in the first Assistant's Round Table; I respect her for it, but I read this once and it gave me an existential crisis. Highly recommended, but make sure you've got a palate cleanser.

For jonelias fans and/or fans of the Corruption: Candyman (1992). With bonus folklore & urban legend meta! Kissing bees into your (potential) lover's mouth in order to convince them to become a murderous spirit of vengeance just like you! "All you have left is my desire for you"!!! It's extremely sexy, is what I'm saying, in all the best ways. (Trigger warnings for violence against children and a fair amount of gore, in addition to the aforementioned bees.)

If you love the no-holds-barred social commentary of season five: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. No, I will not shut up about this book until absolutely everyone in the world has read it. It's short! You could read it in an afternoon! This is Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" from the point of view of a black musician and hustler who's hired to help out with the ritual, and it's incredible. (If you're enjoying Lovecraft Country, absolutely do not miss this.)

If you miss the standalone statements of season one and two: the works of the early 20th century cosmic horror and ghost story writers: M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen. Machen has a tendency to get pretty eugenics-y, and they're all either misogynistic or don't have women in their stories at all, but goddamn do they do atmosphere. ("The Magnus Archives" is named after James's "Count Magnus," Jonny's favorite M.R. James story.)

For Stranger fans and those who love unexplained mysteries: The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, a Southern horror (not a Gothic) about a woman who goes to clean out her abusive grandmother's house to sell it only to find that there are things other than his wife that her grandfather was afraid of, and for good reason. Features hot competent neighbors, extremely practical reactions to terrible monsters, and a Very Good Dog (the dog does not die).

For Lonely bitches: "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, the story I use to describe my depression to people. That's a pretty good content warning, honestly.

If you loved the "Am I still human?" plotline: The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht, a grotesque little novella about monsters in (dysfunctional) love. I'm a bit iffy on the ending, but honestly landing the ending of horror is so tricky that I'll almost never discount something just because I'm iffy on the ending. The body horror and emotional repression throughout make up for it.

If you crave the supernatural adventure series starring Gerry Keay: The Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey - modern noir, so gritty you can feel it in your teeth, featuring all kinds of monsters, demons, curses, and narrowly-averted apocalypses. Not as misogynistic as noir can get, but it is noir so there's definitely a bit of that (but definitely not as misogynistic as Jim Butcher). Trigger warnings all over the place; this is B-movie horror in book form.

For Distortion fans: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Bears almost no resemblance to the Netflix series of the same name, or any of the movies based on it; this is a twisty psychological novel with a profoundly unreliable narrator and a lot of repressed queerness. Michael/Helen would be right at home in Hill House. (Content warning for suicidality.)

If you want your horror to make you cry: El Orfanado, directed by Guillermo del Toro; a family moves into a house that used to be an orphanage, that is, of course, haunted. This is a tremendous distillation of the way that horror movies are so often centered around women not being believed, so content warning for gaslighting (and for harm to children); I saw this movie once and entire scenes are embedded in my brain in full color. (Honestly you can't go wrong with any Guillermo del Toro movies; he's fantastic.)

If you want your horror to make you cry, but make it gay: In the Flesh, two seasons of a zombie TV show tragically cut short (yes, it ends on a cliffhanger, I’m sorry). Uses zombies as a metaphor for homophobia, but also includes actual queer people. Content warning for small-town-typical homophobia and tragic gays. Please come yell with me about Simon Monroe, I love him so much.

For Slaughter fans: The Shining by Stephen King - look, look, I know. He's not great. He needs an editor. The movie is all kinds of fucked up. But this book is one of the most raw, personal horror stories I've ever read, and it's got an excellent combination of supernatural influence and real-life mundane fear of addiction and personal weakness that really grabs you by the intestines. Again, an iffy ending, but it's worth it for the slow descent into paranoia and madness.

If you just want to try to find some authors to read: The Borderlands anthology series, paperbacks from the height of the 80s horror boom; there are so many different kinds of stories in here that I can pretty much guarantee you that you won't like some of them but you might well find something new to fall in love with. A lot of these writers are out of print but readily available at used bookstores or for pennies on Amazon.

As always, let me know if you liked any of these or if you have a specific need: it is no longer my job to recommend books and media to people but it is still my very favorite thing to do and I will be obnoxious about it forever

[kariachi]

So, saw somebody else doing a whole ‘what daemons do your OCs have and why’ sorta deal so, for shits and giggles, my major loves.

Marian- Torc, Aldabra Giant Tortoise

Look, sometimes a woman is a tortoise. Patient, sturdy, stubborn, reliable. An old soul who always plans ahead, with a mind that runs like clockwork. A rock in the chaos. And then, you get people who are tortoises, but more. She has a large presence, a matriarch at her heart who walks into a room and you feel it in the air, a quiet pride barely hidden under the stereotypical tortoise humbleness that requires a massive daemon to contain it. Add to that that, for giant tortoises, Aldabra’s are known to be relatively fast and acrobatic, which is a great reflection for the fact that she has the soul of an adventurer and prankster underneath it all. For all she’s reserved and hardworking, once you get her out of her shell she burns for excitement.

Monette- Cadyl, Gelada

Again, sometimes a woman is a monkey. An outgoing and communicative creature, small and unassuming, not as smart as some but enough so, with complex social networks and a tendency to keep groups of partners and associates. She trades in favors like a gelada trade in acts of grooming, thriving in a group and wasting when she’s alone, not afraid to let go of some of her power and control in exchange for a more overall favorable outcome. But like a gelada you can’t let the charm and peaceful exterior fool you, because with cause she’s more than willing to bare her teeth in warning or threat to defend what’s hers.

Allison- Donnie, Austroplebeia cassiae

Why yes, Donnie’s species doesn't even have a common name, just one of so many little-noted stingless honeybees. Allie is everything you would expect from such a creature. Hardworking, loyal, creative, more focused on the whole than on herself. She lives for her family and her community, organizing people, supporting those around her, and standing for what she believes in, no matter the cost to herself. But the stingless portion is important. She hates to lie, and more importantly isn’t made to fight. While she’ll take to it if need be, it’s not in her nature to be on the front lines, and her roles is more in taking care of and lending support to those who can dive into the fray herself.

Dr. Carel- Lana, Northern Flying Squirrel

Though he appears to be scatterbrained, our dear doctor is more intelligent that he first seems, simply hard to understand due to how he flits from project to project that others can’t understand with dogged determination. Not one to run, not one to fight, fine alone but happy in groups as well. His, unique, viewpoint is befitting someone with a gliding daemon, as is the way his mind and feet both wander.

Var/Valko- Tarav, Bluetick Hound

And sometimes a man is a hound dog. Loyal, social, highly active, loud. Or, well, he used to be. He’s nonverbal anymore but still once he opens up you better hope you can read sign at speed because he’s not slowing down or shutting up. He reliable, playful, outgoing, and true to his pack. Adventurous and intelligent, though not a leader in any way. He’s a follower, yes, and one of the best right hand’s you’re going to get.

Irene- James, Western Pebble Mound Mouse

Is pretty much exactly what you’d stereotypically expect from a mouse- shy, a mite timid, but intelligent. She’d working on regrowing the backbone her family stole from her, but she’s polite, respectful, playful, and empathetic. True to James’s species, she’s in her element in groups despite her shyness, a creator at heart, more resilient than she first appears, and without an aggressive bone in her body (or any bones, really, but that’s besides the point).

Jadie- Wira, Ring-Necked Pheasant

Somebody somewhere ordered a prince charming, though I don’t know who. Though not immediately impressive, they have an air of confidence and grace common to male gamefowl everywhere. They’re charming, dependable, affectionate, chatty, and a hardworker, ready to drop everything and dive directly into whatever mess they need to to look out for those around them. Poly as fuck, they spoil and defend their women against all comers without a second thought, taking a fierce pride in them in all their glory, and are also strongly family-oriented, for all that they’ve run off and done their own thing.

[frenchtwistresistance]

Top 10 Suzanne Sugarbaker Moments

10. (1.20 Seams from a Marriage)

9. (1.04 Julia’s Son)

Suzanne: Also it doesn’t help that Payne is a homosexual name. . . How can you guys be in the decorating business and not notice these things? Payne is most certainly a homosexual name. So are Darrel, Wade, Tommy, Peter, and Dennis.

Charlene: Oh. What are the heterosexual names?

Suzanne: …Chester… and… Ralph.

(If Suzanne were to revisit this topic today, I think the exchange would go something like:

Suzanne: Any name that usually has a nickname but he prefers to go by the full version. Robert, Richard, James, Michael, Joshua, Thomas instead of Bob, Dick, Jim, Mike, Josh, Tom.

Charlene: What about Anthony and Tony?

Suzanne, rolling her eyes: You can’t be serious. Anthony has been peak gay man/lesbian solidarity with me for Years.)

8. (4.29 La Place sans Souci)

*humming St. Louis Blues and manipulating an imaginary baton*

7. (2.18 High Rollers)

6. (5.09 A Class Act)

Ok, now listen. I know your type. I don’t know what you’re trying to do here, but Charlene’s a friend of ours, but if you ever lay a hand on her you are dog meat. Got it? Good. Now let’s eat.

5. (3.22 Julia Drives Over the First Amendment)

I give to the humane society, but that doesn’t make me a cat.

4. (3.01 Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula)

3. (2.08 Cruising)

[This diamond bracelet] would look better on you.

2. (1.14 Monette)

Look… We all have heroes who disappoint us. It’s just a fact of life. I mean, I used to be totally wild over Anita Bryant: I wanted to walk like her, talk like her; I even wanted to have her hair . . . But then she got off on that homosexual thing, and it just kinda turned me off, you know? She just got obsessed with it and stopped showing up at pageants, and for what? I mean, it wasn’t like she was some homely girl who had to worry about all the homosexuals stealing all the good-looking men or anything like that. And, you know, the last time I saw her, even her hair looked sort of deflated.

1. (3.15 Full Moon)

I am protecting my home and my pig.

[seaoflove]

📖✨

i decided to invent my own ask game because a) i was going to post this anyway and b) im just so incurably curious. SO im posting my 52-ish reading list of 2021 under the cut below, and i ask you to post your own reading list for the year (doesnt have to be 52! it could be one, ten, or a hundred!) however many books you want to read: please post your reading list (if u want too!!)❣️ i am nosy and always open for recs and i know myself too well so i probably wont be sticking to mine anyway. cant wait to read your lists :’-)

i tag: @engulfes @sheherazade @loveletter2you @firstfullmoon @ampiyas @nangua @steviefinch @juenereveuse @douceurs @essayisms @soracities @mossyshadows @duefoglie @iriseslonging @the2headedcalf @filmforwomen @varandra @libramoon @wolfishgirl @dakotajohnsongf @petitxchou @581d00 @heavenlyyshecomes @orienta1ism @hjarta @2ndsubstance + and anyone who sees this and wants to do it — post your list and tag me in it !

bolded = i so desperately want to read this i feel insane

ways of seeing - john berger

the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoyevsky

paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, youre so paranoid you probably think this essay is about you - eve kosofksy sedgwick

essayism - brian dillon

suppose a sentence - brian dillon

braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer

the notebooks of malte laurids brigge - rainer maria rilke

borrowed time: and AIDS memoir - paul monette

close to the knives - david wojnarowicz

when my brother was an aztec - natalie díaz

deaf republic - ilya kaminsky

flaneuse: women who walk the city - lauren walkin

wanderlust: a history of walking - rebecca solnit

dracula - bram stoker

art objects - jeanette winterson

so much longing in so little space: the art of edvard munch - karl ove knausgaard

the waves - virginia woolf

the house by the sea - may sarton

autobiography of red - anne carson

how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy - jenny odell

“why have there been no great women artists?” - linda nochlin 1972 essay

paradise lost – john milton

la comedia divinia - dante alighieri

nausea - jean-paul sartre

personal writings - albert camus

resistance, rebellion, and death: essays - albert camus

the fall - albert camus

the second sex - simone de beauvoir

the colour purple - alice walker

loves knowledge - martha nussbaum

selected poems of john keats

collected poems of arthur rimbaud

lunch poems - frank ohara

catalog of unabashed gratitude - ross gay

homie - deniz smith

to the river - olivia laing

the house in the cerulean sea - t.j klune

kris - karin boye

circe - madeline miller

on earth were briefly gorgeous - ocean vuong

colour: a natural history of the palette - victoria finley

the waste land - ts eliot

leaves of grass - walt whitman

steppenwolf - herman hesse

othello - shakespeare

the bhagavad gita

all about love: new visions - bell hooks

giovannis room - james baldwin

the origins of totalitarianism - hannah arendt

why i wake early - mary oliver

long life - mary oliver

fear and trembling - sören kierkegaard

sense and sensibility - jane austen

history of beauty - umberto eco

on being blue: a philosophical enquiry - william gass