#Mahtem Shiferraw

[geryone]

Fuchsia, Mahtem Shiferraw

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It's quiet, and then it's over.

another one i redid in an attempt to make it more visually cohesive. though maybe i should have left it be. thats the nature of death, huh?

Just Take My Wallet, Jack Stauber | Tomcat Disposables, Will Wood | O'Death, Frances Molina | Crush, Richard Siken | Drinking Song, Haley Heynderickx | Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas | The Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg | In Our Bedroom After The War, Stars | Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost | My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task, Jon Pineda | Leaves From The Vine (Little Soldier Boy), Mako Iwamatsu | Poem, Langston Hughes | Vanitas – Still Life, Pieter Claesz | I Know The End, Phoebe Bridgers | | We, Made of Bone, Mahtem Shiferraw | Nine, Sleeping At Last

[majestativa]

Who saved you? God was always there.

— Mahtem Shiferraw, Fuchsia, (2016)

[litbowl]

From Mahtem Shiferraw's book, Nomenclatures of Invisibility. (BOA Editions, 2023).

[juregim]

Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Take me to Church - Hozier // Heather Havrilesky // Nightfall - Penelope Douglas // Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain // Judas’ Gift - Adam Phillips // Daddy’s L’il Girl - Bikini Kill // Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod - Traci Brimhall // Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene - Hozier // Fuchsia - Mahtem Shiferraw // Sue Zhao // Dear Forgiveness, Again - Sam M. //

[recursive-exchange-burner]

Yves Olade, Bloodsport // Mahtem Shiferraw, Your Body Is War // Bernhard Rode, "King Attalus and the Sacrifice" // Maggie Smith, "What I Carried" // Franz Wright, "Out of Delusion" // Jess Riva Cooper, "Viral Series" // May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[dancingintheruins]

a demon amongst demons devilman, go nagai (1972)

the cleaving, li-young lee // on anger, sophia lornie // the monster, mahtem shiferraw

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It's quiet, and then it's over.

Just Take My Wallet, Jack Stauber | Tomcat Disposables, Will Wood | O'Death, Frances Molina | Crush, Richard Siken | Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas | In Our Bedroom After The War, Stars | Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost | My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task, Jon Pineda | Leaves From The Vine (Little Soldier Boy), Mako Iwamatsu | Poem, Langston Hughes | I Know The End, Phoebe Bridgers | | We, Made of Bone, Mahtem Shiferraw | Nine, Sleeping At Last

i dont know what to say about this other than its how grieving feels after youve reached 'acceptance'

[pokemastoshi]

SATOSHI  AKIYOSHI  +  THE  JOURNEY.

red choral diamond spray, the mountain goats   //   endless summer, nate pritts   //   rain shadows, andy goldsworthy   //   the greek tragedy i’ll never write, elisabeth hewer, elisabethhewer   //   little fires everywhere, celeste ng   //   journey with dante, mahtem shiferraw   //    colorful orange magenta storm clouds at sunset, keith webber jr.   //   such a loser, garfunkel & oates   //   a game of thrones, george r. r. martin   //   road to hell ii, hadestown.

[doctordonovan]

❝ the beauty of a momentary silence. ❞ - mahtem shiferraw

[lavampira]

10, 12, 15 for lon!

[oc questions]

ty chrissy !!

10. what piece of moody poetry or novel quote best encompasses your character?

“everywhere you look, everywhere you are, a sense of loss follows you slowly, slowly.” —mahtem shiferraw

12. what is their character theme song and why? If it has lyrics, which line best fits them?

I don’t have my playlist for lon fully sorted out yet, but this song is on it from an artist who composes cthulhu-related pieces and the eerie ambience and museum title suit him, I think!

15. what is a common misconception about your OC? (alternatively, what do people assume about them which is either incorrect or misconstrued?)

people might often assume that he’s an imposing, grumpy person given as tall as he is and his resting face looks rather stern, but likely only long enough for the initial intimidating look to come across simply awkward.

[geryone]

Fuchsia, Mahtem Shiferraw

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Reading Around the World

So I'm attempting to read a book from every country, and this is where I'm currently up to. I'll try and update it as I go along, and maybe write a few reviews. Would love any recommendations too, as you can see I have a very long way to go!

(Note: I'm aiming for a book written by someone who was born in each country, but where that proves difficult - suspect Vatican City might cause issues! - I'll go with books about a country. Similarly, if borders have changed, so far I've generally been going with the country that the town or city where the person was born is currently in. I'm aware that's very arbitrary, but it's just so I have some parameters to follow really. I might not always get it right or be super strict.)

(Also, if some of the choices seem a bit odd, it's because I'm kinda cheating and including a couple of books I read before starting the challenge, going back way too many years to uni, various book clubs etc.)

Afghanistan: 40 Names, by Parwana Fayyaz (poetry)

Albania:

Algeria: The Stranger, by Albert Camus (fiction)

Andorra:

Angola:

Antigua and Barbuda: A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid (non-fiction)

Argentina: Mouthful of Birds, by Samanta Schweblin; Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (both fiction)

Armenia:

Australia: Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan (fiction)

Austria: Franz Kafka and Prague, by Harald Salfellner (non-fiction)

Azerbaijan:

Bahamas:

Bahrain:

Bangladesh:

Barbados: Rituals for Life, by Isla Macleod (non-fiction); The Island of Forgetting, by Jasmine Sealy (fiction)

Belarus:

Belgium:

Belize:

Benin:

Bhutan: Bhutanese Tales of the Yeti, by Künzang Choden (folk tales)

Bolivia:

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Botswana: The Careless Seamstress, by Tjawangwa Dema (poetry)

Brazil: Multitudinous Heart by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (poetry)

Brunei: I Am Not Your Eve, by Devika Ponnambalam (fiction)

Bulgaria: Everything Happens As It Does, by Albena Stambolova (fiction)

Burkina Faso:

Burundi:

Cabo Verde:

Cambodia:

Cameroon:

Canada: Lady Oracle, by Margaret Atwood (fiction)

Central African Republic:

Chad:

Chile: Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Robert Bolaño (fiction)

China: Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian (fiction)

Colombia: Strange Pilgrims, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez (fiction)

Comoros:

Congo (Cong-Brazzaville): Broken Glass, by Alain Mabanckou (fiction)

Costa Rica:

Côte d'Ivoire:

Croatia: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, by Dubravka Ugrešić (fiction)

Cuba:

Cyprus: The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides (fiction)

Czechia (Czech Republic): The Castle, by Franz Kafka (fiction)

Democratic Republic of Congo:

Denmark: Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow, by Peter Hoeg (fiction)

Djibouti:

Dominica: Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys (fiction)

Dominican Republic:

Ecuador: Jawbone, by Mónica Ojeda (fiction)

Eygpt:

El Salvador:

Equatorial Guinea:

Eritrea: Nomenclatures of Invisibility, by Mahtem Shiferraw (poetry)

Estonia: Walker on Water, by Kristiina Ehim (fiction)

Eswatini:

Ethiopia:

Fiji:

Finland: Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson (fiction)

France: The Practice of Everyday Life, by Michel de Certeau (non-fiction), Bonjour Tristesse, by François Sagan (fiction)

Gabon:

Gambia: Reading the Ceiling, by Dayo Forster (fiction)

Georgia:

Germany: Vertigo, by W. G. Sebald (fiction)

Ghana:

Greece:

Grenada:

Guatemala: A Mayan Life, by Gaspar Pedro González (fiction)

Guinea:

Guinea-Bissau:

Guyana: My Bones and My Flute, by Edgar Mittelholzer (fiction)

Haiti:

Holy See:

Honduras:

Hungary:

Iceland: I Remember You, by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (fiction)

India: Capitalism: A Ghost Story, by Arundhati Roy (non-fiction)

Indonesia: Apple and Knife, by Intan Paramaditha (fiction)

Iran: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel / memoir)

Iraq:

Ireland: Dubliners, by James Joyce; The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (both fiction)

Israel: Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World, by Iddo Landau (non-fiction)

Italy: Adam, One Afternoon, by Italo Calvino (fiction)

Jamaica: Skin Folk, by Nalo Hopkinson (fiction)

Japan: The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa (fiction)

Jordan:

Kazakhstan: Amanat - Women's Writing from Kazakhstan, editors Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega (mostly fiction)

Kenya: We Are the Water People, by Troy Onyango (fiction)

Kiribati:

Kuwait:

Kyrgyzstan: The Railway, by Hamid Ismailov (fiction)

Laos: Mother's Beloved, by Outhine Bounyavong (fiction)

Latvia: Insomnia, by Alberts Bels (fiction)

Lebanon: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (fiction)

Lesotho:

Liberia:

Libya:

Liechtenstein:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

Madagascar:

Malawi:

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Mali:

Malta:

Marshall Islands: Iep Jāltok - Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (poetry)

Mauritania:

Mauritius: Riambel, by Priya Hein (fiction)

Mexico:

Micronesia:

Moldova: Set in Stone, by Stela Brinzeanu (fiction)

Monaco:

Mongolia:

Montenegro: The Red Cockerel, by Miodrag Bulatovia (fiction)

Morrocco:

Mozambique:

Myanmar (former Burma):

Namibia:

Nauru:

Nepal: Mad Country, by Samrat Upadhyay (fiction)

Netherlands:

New Zealand: Potiki, by Patricia Grace (fiction)

Nicaragua:

Niger:

Nigeria: The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (fiction)

North Korea:

North Macedonia:

Norway: The Christmas Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder (fiction)

Oman: Bitter Orange Tree, by Jokha Alharthi (fiction)

Pakistan: Best of Friends, by Kamila Shamsie (fiction)

Palau:

Palastine:

Panama:

Papau New Guinea: Cultural Refugees, by Julie Mota (poetry)

Paraguay:

Peru: Death in the Andes, by Mario Vargas Llosa (fiction)

Phillippines:

Poland:

Portugal: I Have More Souls Than One, Fernando Pessoa (poetry)

Qatar:

Romania:

Russia: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (fiction)

Rwanda: Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga (fiction)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:

Saint Lucia:

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:

Samoa:

San Marino:

Sao Tome and Principe:

Saudi Arabia:

Senegal:

Serbia: The Cyclist Conspiracy, by Svetislav Basara (fiction)

Seychelles:

Sierra Leone:

Singapore: Ponti, by Sharlene Tao (fiction)

Slovakia: The Equestrienne, by Ursula Kovalyk (fiction)

Slovenia: Violence, by Slavoj Žižek (non fiction)

Solomon Islands:

Somalia:

South Africa: The Good Doctor, by Damon Galgut (fiction)

South Korea: Flowers of Mold & Other Stories, by Seong-nan Ha (fiction)

South Sudan:

Spain: Nada, by Carmen Laforet (fiction)

Sri Lanka: Chinaman, by Shehan Karuntilaka (fiction)

Sudan: Seasons of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih (fiction)

Suriname:

Sweden: Swedish Christmas, by Ewert Cagner et al (mostly non fiction)

Switzerland: The Undiscovered Self, by Carl Jung (non-fiction)

Syria:

Tajikistan:

Tanzania:

Thailand:

Timor-Leste:

Togo:

Tonga:

Trinidad and Tobago:

Tunisia:

Turkey: Snow, by Orhan Pamuk (fiction)

Turkmenistan:

Tuvalu:

Uganda: Manchester Happened, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (fiction)

Ukraine: The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol; Daydreams and Drunkeness of a Young Lady, Clarice Lispector (both fiction)

United Arab Emirates:

United Kingdom: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (fiction)

United States of America: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson (fiction)

Uruguay: The Decapitated Chicken, by Horacio Quiroga (fiction)

Uzbekistan:

Vanuatu:

Venezuela:

Vietnam: Reconciliation, by Thich Nhat Hanh (non-fiction)

Yemen:

Zambia: Will Williams, by Namwali Serpell (fiction)

Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga (fiction)

[majestativa]

Tell me about your daughters […] they do not bend they do not run away they do not hide they do not surrender.

— Mahtem Shiferraw, Fuchsia, (2016)

[sfsucw]

The 2024 Plentitudes Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry is now open for submissions! 

Deadline: December 31, 2023

Entry Fee: $20

Cash Prize: $1,000

From November 1 to December 31, 2023, submit short stories and essays between 1,000 to 5,000 words, or a set of 1-3 poems of no more than 65 lines each. Winners in each genre will receive $1,000; second-place winners will receive $300; and third-place winners will receive $200.

Mahtem Shiferraw will judge in poetry, Joss Lake will judge in fiction, and Daniel Allen Cox will judge in nonfiction. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than 65 lines each or a story or essay of 1,000 to 5,000 words with a $20 entry fee by December 31. All entries will be considered for publication.

For more info and guidelines: https://www.theplentitudes.com/

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Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Nathaniel Orion G. K. // John Green, David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson // Prayer for the Newly Damned - Ocean Vuong // My Life So Far - Jane Fonda // The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi // Your body is War - Mahtem Shiferraw // Cut - Caitlyn Siehl // Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky // Hunger Makes Me - Jess Zimmerman //